Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 10/08

20080263129 - Aggregating service processors as a cluster: Service processors within a system are self-clustered. The system can also include an operating system or other software code, a management console, or both. The operating system communicates with the cluster of service processors, where the service processors are self-clustered or otherwise, such as through a memory shared by at... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080263127 - Information distribution system, information processing server, distribution server, communication apparatus, program and information distribution method: There is provided a communication apparatus including an identification data generation portion to generate identification data, an identification data storage portion to store the identification data generated by the identification data generation portion, a basic data reception portion to receive basic data from an information processing server through a given... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080263128 - Information processing system and information processing device: The load condition of all of the servers participating in a system can be centrally managed. A load information filing function in each of servers collects basic information such as CPU usage rates, access requests (IOPS), etc and saves the information in a local LU. The load information filing function... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080263126 - Internet bridge for applications and web servers: The disclosure describes a method for enabling internet access to resource hosted on CSDs without a real or static IP by creating a global URL and a local pathway for a locally accessible CSDs hosted resource using an internet bridge program residing on a CSD. A master server registers the... Agent: Anand Keshav Soman

20080263124 - Method and apparatus for making devices on a local network remotely-accessible: The present invention relates to method and apparatus for enabling to request querying and/or controlling operations remotely to a device on a home network via Internet. In a method in accordance with the present invention, a device search message is transmitted to a plurality of devices connected to a local... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080263125 - Mobile store product locator: An embodiment of the present invention involves a location based service, method, and/or system. The service, method, and/or system may involve accessing an internet using a mobile communication facility; assessing a location of the mobile communication facility; requesting product information; and delivering the product information to the mobile communication facility,... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080263130 - Apparatus, system and method of digital content distribution: A system and apparatus for content delivery to storage. Delivery may be performed according to content types, which may be, for example, content object identifier, a flow of content objects, and store channel levels. Delivery may be performed according to a virtual network defined over a physical network infrastructure and... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080263131 - Self-organizing hive of computing engines: A self-organizing hive of computing engines is used to process information. A network communicatively couples multiple of hive engines together. These hive engines are configured to self-organize into a cooperative hive for performing computing of client jobs, with the cooperative hive including a multiple processing regions and a request region.... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20080263132 - Apparatus and method for efficient real time web language translations: An apparatus comprising a first set of a plurality of client computers, a plurality of node computers in a first branch, and a first set of a plurality of translation service providers is disclosed. Each of the plurality of node computers in the first branch is programmed to route a... Agent: Walter J. Tencza Jr.

20080263136 - Apparatus and method for selective engagement in software distribution: Apparatus, methods and program products by which the user of a computer system may initiate an interval during which the user leaves the system idle to permit the system to become engaged in peer to peer software distribution.... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080263146 - Data communication system, cradle apparatus, server apparatus, data communication method and data communication program: A data communication system includes a portable electronic apparatus, a server apparatus, a cradle apparatus, and a home apparatus. The portable electronic apparatus includes a communication section, a reception control section, a storage section, and a utilization control section. The cradle apparatus includes a first communication section, a second communication... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080263143 - Data transmission method, system, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium storing program thereof: Upon receiving a request from a personal computer for obtaining data of an advertisement image, an advertisement server reads data of an advertisement image stored in a storage. A superimposition image DB stores data of superimposition images to be superimposed on part of advertisement images and data of superimposition areas... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080263149 - Direct file transfer between subscribers of a communications system: Systems and techniques for transferring a file from a first client associated with a first subscriber to a communications system to a second client associated with a second subscriber to the communications system by connecting from the first client to a communications system host; sending, through the communications system host,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080263153 - Dynamic integration of web sites: A method for displaying information includes identifying computer-readable service code at a service site, which code, when read by a client computer via a network, causes the computer to display at least one service page containing service information. At least a portion of the service code is selected for inclusion... Agent: Hoffman, Wasson & Gitler, P.C. Crystal Center 2-suite 522

20080263133 - Host-terminal device communication system: A virtual device residing on a terminal in a host terminal environment is provided. The terminal is in communication with a device. The virtual device comprises a processing module operable to execute at least one action and to process information returned from at the least one executed action, a transformation... Agent: Altera Law Group, LLC

20080263134 - Information-processing system, method, computer-readable medium, and computer data signal for controlling provision of information or processing service: There is provided an information processing system. The system has a first notice transmission unit that sends to a user first notice information made in correspondence to information or processing service provided by a processing device, a second transmission unit that sends to the user, when receiving from the user... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080263142 - Meta data driven user interface system and method: A method comprises receiving a request for a webpage and retrieving metadata from a database. The metadata may be translated into one or more webparts. The method further comprises loading the one or more webparts onto the webpage and displaying the webpage.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080263138 - Method and system for managing specimen data: An innovative system and method for laboratories, hospitals and others to manage stored specimens is described and claimed. One problem commonly encountered by medical researchers is the inability to effectively and efficiently track the large number of specimens generated in the course of their research. In an environment comprised of... Agent: Anthony W. Hong

20080263139 - Method for providing content to a mobile device, gateway for providing content and mobile device: The present invention relates to a method for providing content to a mobile device (2) within a communication network comprising a network server (4), at least one gateway (3) for a thin client application, at least one management unit (5) comprised by the gateway (3) and at least one mobile... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20080263147 - Method of reservation: A method for reserving a service from inside a vehicle (A) at one of several facilities providing such service. The vehicle (A) having a navigation apparatus (1) which is equipped for data communication with a reservation server (3). Each service-providing facility has a reading mechanism (11, 12). The navigation apparatus... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080263150 - Methods for displaying physical network topology and environmental status by location, organization, or responsible party: The invention is directed to a system for remote monitoring of a space and equipment. The space and equipment may, for example, be a sever room and associated network equipment. The system has network appliances, a server, and a client machine. The server receives data from a network appliance. The... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP A2000

20080263140 - Network system, server, client, program and web browsing function enabling method: A network system is provided which can ensure that the user's operability will not decrease even when the number of functions increases and that a display screen will be as intended by the creator of the content. In the network system, a main server receives a request for a web... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080263137 - Platform for interoperability: Systems and methods for interoperability are disclosed which allow for a user of one network to communicate seamlessly with a user of another network. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a network bridge is provided. The network bridge may comprise a number of gateways and adapters for... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080263144 - Pre-filling order forms for transactions over a communications network: Communications between participants over a communications link are proxied by an intermediary, such as an Integrated Order Mechanism (IOM). Participants interact with each other through the IOM. The IOM may be transparent to the participants such that they are not aware that the IOM is involved in processing communications. For... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080263151 - Service providing method and system: In a service provider system, a service provider provides service information dependent on location information of a mobile terminal to the mobile terminal in response to a service request with the location information sent by the mobile terminal. A communication control unit controls communication between the mobile terminal and the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080263148 - Symmetrical bi-directional communication: Network nodes engage in an asymmetric transactional session. The nodes negotiate transactional role reversal and further communication under a reversed asymmetric transactional session.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080263135 - System and method for selecting and displaying webpages: A computer-implemented method of dynamically selecting and presenting a webpage includes: receiving a request, at a server, from a client device to display a webpage; determining, at the server, a homepage defined by a user of the client device; accessing, at the server, a list of one or more webpages... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080263145 - System and methods for generating pro-forma based upon input provided via a communications network: A system and related methods and procedures are provided for gauging the financial and operational implications of various types of investment decisions. Among the various applications of the invention, the invention can be used to conveniently and efficiently assess employment decisions, including, for example, the hiring of a new physician... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080263141 - Systems and methods to generate web server files from generic view definitions: Some embodiments include reception of a Uniform Resource Locator, determination to convert a markup-language file associated with the Uniform Resource Locator to a Web format, conversion of the markup-language file to the Web format, storage of the converted file in a Web server file system, and provision of the converted... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080263152 - Vertical enterprise system: Vertical enterprise systems and methods for integrating applications from one or more enterprises into a single interface for presentation to a user are disclosed. A vertical enterprise system in accordance with an illustrative embodiment of the present invention may include one or more client enterprises, one or more partner enterprises,... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20080263155 - Collaborative email with delegable authorities: Writing a collaborative email document with hierarchical authorities including establishing a collaborative email document on an administrator's computer, identifying one or more signatories for the document, identifying one or more collaborators who are authorized to view and edit the document, providing to the collaborators copies of the document for viewing... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080263154 - Dynamic bandwidth control: Data transfer over a computer network relating to a data object of a multiple user network application, from a network user who owns the data object to an updating user, is achieved by transfer of a subset of data fields that define the data object, such that the subset of... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080263163 - Demand-driven, collaborative systems and processes for collecting structured information: A demand driven process of collecting and collaborating around reviews including the steps of: receiving a request for a review from a requestor, associating one or more potential responders with the request for a review, providing the request for a review to one or more potential responders, receiving and organizing... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20080263168 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer readable information recording medium: An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a predetermined part of an electronic mail item, and a determination unit configured to determine whether another portion of the electronic mail item should be received based on the predetermined part of the electronic mail item. The predetermined part... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080263165 - Instant message method to provide a delayed alarm/reminder: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for providing instant messaging users with an alarm to remind users of an event or to re-join an instant messaging chat. An instant message that includes a request for a user to currently participate in an event is received... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080263166 - Method and apparatus for improving data transfers in peer-to-peer networks: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for improving data transfers in peer-to-peer networks includes receiving a search request message from a requesting node, where the search request message requests specific data. A responding node then sends a response message to the requesting node including a referral message comprising... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263167 - Method and apparatus for inferring read status of instant messages: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for inferring the read status of instant messages. One embodiment of the inventive method involves displaying the instant message on the receiver's computing device and sending a message to the sender indicating a probability with which the receiver has... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263158 - Method and apparatus for instant messaging: A method and apparatus for instant messaging capable of an automatic response mode with enhanced reply options. In the automatic response mode, upon receiving a message from a sender, a terminal selects a reply message from a plurality of messages in accordance with at least one predetermined criterion, and responds... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080263157 - Method and system for ordering instant messages: A computer implemented method and a computer usable program product for ordering a plurality of instant messages are provided. A data processing system receives at least one incoming instant message. Responsive to identifying the at least one incoming instant message as a response to at least one outgoing instant message... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080263160 - Method for displaying content information and video apparatus thereof: A method for displaying content information and a video apparatus thereof are provided. The video apparatus includes an interface unit which receives a mail message from a mail server; and a content information generator which generates content information using a mail body of the received mail message, if URL information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080263164 - Method of sending motion control content in a message, message transmitting device abnd message rendering device: The invention describes a method of sending a message (M) from a sender to a recipient in which a record content (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7) of the message (M) is recorded and supplemented with motion control content (T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7). The message (M)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080263162 - Modeling user-initiated requests and status updates within an email message: The embodiments described herein generally relate to systems and methods for modeling a user-initiated request to a business process application as an email form. It is often necessary for individuals to communicate, or exchange information, with a business application. Inefficiencies and delays arise where individuals are required to work within... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080263156 - Secure transactional communication: Systems for providing sign-up email addresses are disclosed herein. A user may set up a sign-up email address for receiving emails from a trusted, Internet-based enterprise. The user may set up a dedicated mailbox folder associated with the sign-up email address or enterprise. The email server may automatically direct emails... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080263159 - System and method for filtering message: A system and method for message filtering are disclosed. A conversion target letter table is generated which stores information on letters that may be used to elude filtering, the table storing the hex code information of each letter that may be used for eluding filtering and the conversion letter information... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080263169 - Systems and methods for messaging to multiple gateways: Systems and methods for providing message communication among multiple communication gateways. In particular, systems and methods for providing non-voice message delivery to intended recipients with increased speed and reliability to multiple users on multiple platforms. The systems and methods relate to non-voice messaging to multiple messaging gateways. In at least... Agent: King & Spalding, LLP

20080263161 - Terminal and method for distinguishing between email recipients using specific identifier: Provided are a terminal and method for distinguishing between email recipients using a specific identifier. According to the inventive terminal and method, when email is desired to be sent to several recipients, it is possible to set an individual transmission configuration for each recipient and transmit the email in different... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080263170 - Method and system for communicating message notifications to mobile devices: There is disclosed a system and method for choosing between different Communication Initiation Request (CIR) channels in a mobile communications system when there are multiple CIR channels amongst which to choose. Additionally, there is disclosed a system and method for exploiting a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection usage pattern that... Agent: Coats & Bennett/oz

20080263171 - Peripheral device that dmas the same data to different locations in a computer: A method is disclosed comprising: receiving,.by a network interface, data and a corresponding header; storing, by the network interface, the data in a first memory buffer of a computer that is coupled to the network interface; and storing, by the network interface, the data in a second memory buffer of... Agent: Mark A Lauer

20080263172 - Distributed services for multi-entity collaboration: Method for communication of service requests and service results between remotely located users and service providers. Connectivity is established between service providers and a request handler, and also between users and the request handler. Service requests are received at the request handler, a service provider ID is identified from each... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080263177 - Method and computer system for selecting an edge server computer: Media Distribution within the Internet is done with the help of Application-Servers, Content-Servers and distributed Edge-Servers where the clients are connected to Media Distribution Services. A computer system is provided comprising client 1, having a Web browser with a media player 2, Web application server 3, content server, edge servers... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20080263174 - Method and system for implementing a gis data collection network: Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for implementing a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) network. In one embodiment, configuration data comprising a unique identification of a mobile electronic device and an assigned membership of the mobile electronic device to a workgroup is received. The method further comprises... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080263173 - Method for transmitting data in a network of distributed stations, and network station: The invention relates to the technical field of home networks. A home network based on the present UPnP standard (Universal Plug and Play) allows data to be interchanged between network subscriber stations. A UPnP standard may have one or more control point devices. To allow profile information such as user... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080263176 - Remote copy with path selection and prioritization: A method for handling a remote copy request in a distributed storage includes providing a plurality of primary volumes within a primary storage system that is coupled to a primary host via a first network, the primary storage system being coupled to a secondary storage system via a second network.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080263175 - System, server, information terminal operating system, middleware, information communication device, certification method, and system and application software: A system having a server and an information terminal of A which records A's personal information Pa and B's personal information Pb′, an information terminal of B which records A's personal information Pa and B's personal information Pb′. B's information terminal generates a calculation result F(Pa′,Pb) via the calculation of... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080263178 - Cell phone remote access to personal computer applications: A compact, handheld, portable communication device, and associated method, the device including a display that reproduces a display of an application installed on a personal computer, a means of remotely communicating with the personal computer through a communication network, and a means of executing a command for the application installed... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080263179 - System and method for dynamically updating web pages using messaging-oriented middleware: System, computer implemented method and computer program product for dynamically updating a Web page using browser-based messaging. A system for dynamically updating a Web page using browser-based messaging includes a Web page that includes a plurality of Web messaging tags, and a selected data model that can be bound to... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080263180 - Apparatus, system, and method for resilient content acquisition: An apparatus includes a directive handling module configured to implement a directive, wherein the directive defines requirements for locating, establishing, and maintaining a network connection with a remote host, and a content acquisition module configured to acquire content over a network according to the directive. A system includes a client... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080263181 - Multimedia system and navigation unit terminal: A multimedia system includes a master unit terminal and slave unit terminals. The master unit terminal functions as an interface for communications with an external server, in which status a program updating process is executed between the server and the slave unit terminal. In the multimedia system, property information on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080263182 - Remote loading system and method for network equipment: A remote loading system for network equipment is provided, which includes a loading server configured to send a loading command and an equipment prepared for loading connected to the loading server through a network. The loading server sends a command for validating a loaded content to the equipment prepared for... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080263185 - Automatic configuration of the network devices via connection to specific switch ports: A method and system for automatically configuring devices in a network is disclosed. A network management software application is provided that enables a user to associate policy settings with physical locations in the network. During an operational mode of the network management application, the application automatically detects when a network... Agent: Ibm Rp-rps Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080263183 - Management of kernel configurations for nodes in a clustered system: Various approaches for managing kernel configuration files in a cluster computing arrangement are disclosed. In one approach, a first set of kernel configuration files are installed networked storage, and a first node is booted using the first set of kernel configuration files. A copy of the first set of kernel... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263184 - Tv-pc architecture: An apparatus includes at least a first hardware part (AP1) and a second hardware part (AP2). Each of the first and second part include a respective processing element (CPU-1, CPU-2) and a respective signal connection to a respective memory element (MEM-1, MEM-2) for providing program code to the processing element... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080263186 - Storage system, management server, system reconfiguration support method for a storage system, and system reconfiguration support method for a management server: In order to provide support for a system to operate in a manner appropriate for system requests desired by a user, a management server acquires functions corresponding to system requests acquired using a user interface using a second table for storing a correspondence relationship of functions provided by one or... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher

20080263187 - Interoperability of network applications in a communications environment: An interoperability system abstracts the protocols used by multiple network applications into an interoperability framework, thereby allowing the network applications to interoperate with each other and/or with modules for providing enhanced functionalities. The interoperability framework includes a number of adapters that modularize the components needed for interoperation and abstracts content... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080263192 - Method and apparatus for maintaining a computer system: In various embodiments of the invention, a server monitors a network for a startup message from a client computer as appropriate. The server may include a computer application that generates configuration instructions in response to commands from an administrator and/or information obtained from a client computer. The instructions may be... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080263191 - Method and system for handling packet filtering information: A portion of management traffic, carried via network traffic, and received and/or transmitted via a network controller, may be processed externally to the network controller, wherein management messaging may be carried via network packets, and one or more headers may added to enable transmission and/or reception via the network controller.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080263188 - Method and system for monitoring and analyzing of routing in ip networks: Exemplary embodiments include methods and systems for monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting of control plane dynamics of a network including collect data associated with the one or more probe modules associated with a network, store the data associated with the one or more probe modules, analyze the data associated with the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080263189 - Secure identification of intranet network: A method is provided for network identification based on high entropy data on a network which are not easily guessed or obtained outside the network, which can prevent an attacker from “spoofing” the network. A component in a client computer connected to a network may obtain over the network a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080263190 - Storage system: A host I/F unit has a management table for managing an MPPK which is in-charge of the control of input/output processing for a storage area of an LDEV, and if a host computer transmits an input/output request for the LDEV, the host I/F unit transfers the input/output request to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080263198 - Device and method using non-cycle accurate measurements for discovering emulated clients: A method for discovering emulated clients. A verifier sends a cryptographic challenge C to a client and preferably starts a timer. The client uses a deterministic key search algorithm to find the correct key and returns the result as a number of tries needed. The verifier then stops the timer... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080263203 - Method and apparatus for delegating responses to conditions in computing systems: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELEGATING RESPONSES TO CONDITIONS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS ABSTRACT One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for delegating responses to conditions in computing systems includes acknowledging (e.g., at a systems management component in the computing system) a condition, and delegating responsibility for a strategy for a... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263202 - Method and apparatus for reducing spam on peer-to-peer networks: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for reducing spam in peer-to-peer networks includes forming a search message including at least one decoy word and sending the search request message, including the decoy word(s), to one or more nodes in the network. Embodiments of the present invention make it... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263194 - Method and system for optimal binding selection for service oriented architectures: A method for selecting a best performing binding for a server and a client in a service-oriented architecture includes: discovering configuration information about the service and the operating environment of the server and the client; selecting the best performing binding between the client and the server based on the discovered... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080263201 - Method for real-time monitoring a remote control process by a third party and system thereof: The invention relates to a remote monitor technique. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for real-time monitoring a remote control process by a third party and a system thereof, which are able to third-party monitor a control terminal and a controlled terminal in the remote control process.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080263200 - Network resource monitoring and measurement system and method: A method and system for analysing and measuring multiple sources of data over a communications network (18) so as to ascertain information or usage of one or more resources, such as resource servers (2). A data collection and processing means (20) collects and processes the data sources which are forwarded... Agent: Dreier LLP Susan Formicola

20080263197 - Passively attributing anonymous network events to their associated users: Systems, methods, and computer program products for passively attributing anonymous network events to their associated users are provided herein. Embodiments include filtering network events over a pre-determined time interval to generate a filtered event list. In an embodiment, event attribution includes attributing an anonymous network event to a user associated... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080263195 - Performance monitoring: Real-time data is extracted from a log file for at least one monitored process on each of a plurality of servers. For each monitored process, extracted real-time data is inserted into object variables of an object. The object variable data is processed to generate performance statistics for the monitored processes... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263196 - Programming techniques for distributed multi-party networks: Architecture for programming in a distributed computing environment where different components of a system are owned or controlled by different entities and heterogeneous in terms of resource availability and a willingness to share. Multiple devices can be programmed when a task requires human intervention. Method are described for using a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080263193 - System and method for automatically providing a web resource for a broken web link: A system and method for automatically providing a Web site resource for a broken Web link are provided. Mechanisms are provided for locating Web site resources that have been moved to a new location in a Web site structure in response to receiving a request directed to an old location... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080263199 - System for searching device on network: There is disclosed a network system in which the position, attribute, and status of a desired device on a network can visually comprehensibly be grasped. A server manages location information indicating information on the device position in a hierarchical manner and attribute information from the device. Each device holds a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080263204 - Method and apparatus for user moderation of online chat rooms: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for user-moderation of an online chat room in which a plurality of users are exchanging messages includes providing the chat room and controlling a manner in which the users send and receive the messages in the chat room in accordance with user... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263207 - Method and apparatus for providing dynamic group management for distributed interactive applications: A method, computer readable media, and apparatus of hierarchical-based communication session and data distribution management that indexes client's communication preferences and network attribute information. Indexing is used to generate dynamic group membership lists that map into communication groups. Indexing is replicated at control nodes in the network overlay to allow... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263208 - Method and system for identifying available resources in a peer-to-peer network: A method for a peer of a peer-to-peer network to search for an available resource is provided. The method initiates with representing a request for the available resource as a request bit string. The method includes transmitting the request to a parent of the peer. Then, an aggregate availability bit... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080263206 - Method for reducing variability and oscillations in load balancing recommendations using historical values and workload metrics: The present invention provides a method of preventing harmful variability and oscillation in weight based, dynamic load balancing environments. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods to effectively determine the magnitude of weight changes in dynamic load balancing environments based on the workload magnitude and server farm capacity. This... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080263205 - Virtual server recirculation: In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) classifying a packet in a server load balancer (SLB) for determining if the packet is destined for a virtual Internet protocol (VIP) address hosted on the SLB; (ii) selecting a server from a group of servers representing the VIP address; (iii) changing... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080263209 - Active-active operation for a cluster of ssl virtual private network (vpn) devices with load distribution: A method of load distribution for a cluster of two or more nodes. The method comprises receiving an initial request packet on a network device having a virtual IP address; forwarding the request packet from the network device to a cluster of at least two nodes, wherein each of the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080263210 - Method and system for notifying updating of terminal capability information for combination service: A method and system for notifying updating of terminal capability information for a combination service for simultaneously performing two or more services between first and second users are disclosed. Each terminal recognizes whether or not its terminal capability information has been updated to inform the other terminal accordingly when the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080263211 - System and article of manufacture for controlling client access: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein in certain embodiments a request is received to initiate a session. A determination is made whether the session should be initiated with addressing information provided by a client. The session is initiated with trusted addressing information corresponding to the client,... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080263213 - Communication device and client device: Relaying devices to share workload among them are disposed in the carrier equipment network. The relaying devices respectively relay an HTTP message between the mobile phone and the web server and store an upload data from the mobile phone. The relaying devices respectively transmit to the mobile phone, before or... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080263212 - Method and system of interaction between entities on a communication network: A method and system of interaction between a requesting entity and a responding entity on a communication network based on the session initiation protocol (SIP). A machine-readable service description includes specifications of interaction between the requesting entity invoking a service at the responding entity and the responding entity offering the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080263217 - Connection control in thin client system: In a first exemplary aspect of the present invention, a thin client server system includes thin client servers, which comprises clients which are grouped into client groups based on client data; thin client terminals which are allocated with terminal data and are grouped into terminal groups based on the terminal... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080263216 - Remote portlet consumer with enhanced resource url processing: The present invention is directed to a method and system to be performed by a WSRP consumer portal server for accessing a remote network resource addressed by a respective resource URL in a web portal infrastructure comprising at least a WSRP Consumer Portal connectable to a client Browser requesting the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080263214 - Systems and methods for rapid integration of data storage subsystems: A computer system includes a computer processor and logic instructions for rapid integration of data storage subsystems. An adapter factory is instantiated in response to a request from a client computer. The adapter factory is configured to provide a generic persistent data storage (Pds) adapter interface to the client computer.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263215 - Transparent secure socket layer: Various systems, apparatus, and methods include an apparatus comprising a transparent proxy coupled to a plurality of non-configured clients and coupled to one or more servers, the transparent proxy operable to intercept a request for a secured connection to a first server of the one or more servers, the request... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080263218 - Method, device and system for predicting a data session time: A method of predicting a session time of a service between a source and a destination in a communications network (1) comprises the steps of sending a series of data packets from the source to the destination with a substantially increasing data rate, measuring the time delay of at least... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20080263220 - Image processing system, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing system including a plurality of servers and an image processing apparatus for integrally displaying images sent from the plurality of servers in streaming mode, wherein each of the plurality of servers includes: input means; area information receiving means; encoding means; and delivery means. The image processing apparatus... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080263219 - Method and system to minimize the switching delay between two rtp multimedia streaming sessions: A method and system that minimizes a switching delay when switching between a first Real-Time Streaming Protocol RTSP streaming session to a second RTSP streaming session are provided. The sending of the second multimedia streaming contents is sent to a multimedia player in parallel to processing a switching request message.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080263221 - System and method for store-and-forward for highly available message production: The present invention enables a store-and-forward service that provides higher availability for application residing or connecting to a server to reliably deliver messages and allows an application to send messages to a destination on another server even when the destination is not available at the moment the messages are sent... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080263222 - Computer system, root node, and log management method for access path conversion: A computer system including a storage system, a host computer system, a path configuration unit that associates a local path with a global path, an access path conversion unit that converts a global path into a local path associated, by the path configuration unit, with the global path used in... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080263223 - Cooperative routing between traffic control device and multi-server application: A method, apparatus and programmed storage device for routing data through a communications network. More specifically, a programmable traffic manager is programmed with at least one application level directive and the data is routed through the network to one of the network nodes using the programmable traffic manager, which is... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080263225 - Context-sensitive confidentiality within federated environments: Techniques are disclosed for achieving context-sensitive confidentiality within a federated environment for which content is aggregated in a distributed Web portal (or similar aggregation framework), ensuring that message portions that should be confidential are confidential to all entities in the federated environment except those entities to which the message portions... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080263224 - System and method for pushing encrypted information between a host system and a mobile data communication device: A redirector scheme operable to redirect messages from a plurality of messaging hosts disposed in a wide-area data network, wherein each messaging host is operable to receive messages for a set of users. In one embodiment, a redirector system comprises, inter alia: a plurality of receive agents and a corresponding... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080263226 - Dynamic packet training: A packet control mechanism for a computer data system that dynamically adjusts packet training depending on the utilization load on the processor. The dynamic adjustment of packet training can be to enable and disable packet training, or adjust the number of packets in the packet train. In preferred embodiments, the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080263227 - Background synchronization: Systems, methods and computer program products for determining a schedule for synchronizing a server and a client are described herein. The method operates by tracking user usage of the client to develop usage patterns. A sync schedule is generated using the usage patterns, where the sync schedule enhances at least... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080263129 - Aggregating service processors as a cluster: Service processors within a system are self-clustered. The system can also include an operating system or other software code, a management console, or both. The operating system communicates with the cluster of service processors, where the service processors are self-clustered or otherwise, such as through a memory shared by at... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080263127 - Information distribution system, information processing server, distribution server, communication apparatus, program and information distribution method: There is provided a communication apparatus including an identification data generation portion to generate identification data, an identification data storage portion to store the identification data generated by the identification data generation portion, a basic data reception portion to receive basic data from an information processing server through a given... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080263128 - Information processing system and information processing device: The load condition of all of the servers participating in a system can be centrally managed. A load information filing function in each of servers collects basic information such as CPU usage rates, access requests (IOPS), etc and saves the information in a local LU. The load information filing function... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080263126 - Internet bridge for applications and web servers: The disclosure describes a method for enabling internet access to resource hosted on CSDs without a real or static IP by creating a global URL and a local pathway for a locally accessible CSDs hosted resource using an internet bridge program residing on a CSD. A master server registers the... Agent: Anand Keshav Soman

20080263124 - Method and apparatus for making devices on a local network remotely-accessible: The present invention relates to method and apparatus for enabling to request querying and/or controlling operations remotely to a device on a home network via Internet. In a method in accordance with the present invention, a device search message is transmitted to a plurality of devices connected to a local... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080263125 - Mobile store product locator: An embodiment of the present invention involves a location based service, method, and/or system. The service, method, and/or system may involve accessing an internet using a mobile communication facility; assessing a location of the mobile communication facility; requesting product information; and delivering the product information to the mobile communication facility,... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080263130 - Apparatus, system and method of digital content distribution: A system and apparatus for content delivery to storage. Delivery may be performed according to content types, which may be, for example, content object identifier, a flow of content objects, and store channel levels. Delivery may be performed according to a virtual network defined over a physical network infrastructure and... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080263131 - Self-organizing hive of computing engines: A self-organizing hive of computing engines is used to process information. A network communicatively couples multiple of hive engines together. These hive engines are configured to self-organize into a cooperative hive for performing computing of client jobs, with the cooperative hive including a multiple processing regions and a request region.... Agent: The Law Office Of Kirk D. Williams

20080263132 - Apparatus and method for efficient real time web language translations: An apparatus comprising a first set of a plurality of client computers, a plurality of node computers in a first branch, and a first set of a plurality of translation service providers is disclosed. Each of the plurality of node computers in the first branch is programmed to route a... Agent: Walter J. Tencza Jr.

20080263136 - Apparatus and method for selective engagement in software distribution: Apparatus, methods and program products by which the user of a computer system may initiate an interval during which the user leaves the system idle to permit the system to become engaged in peer to peer software distribution.... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080263146 - Data communication system, cradle apparatus, server apparatus, data communication method and data communication program: A data communication system includes a portable electronic apparatus, a server apparatus, a cradle apparatus, and a home apparatus. The portable electronic apparatus includes a communication section, a reception control section, a storage section, and a utilization control section. The cradle apparatus includes a first communication section, a second communication... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080263143 - Data transmission method, system, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium storing program thereof: Upon receiving a request from a personal computer for obtaining data of an advertisement image, an advertisement server reads data of an advertisement image stored in a storage. A superimposition image DB stores data of superimposition images to be superimposed on part of advertisement images and data of superimposition areas... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080263149 - Direct file transfer between subscribers of a communications system: Systems and techniques for transferring a file from a first client associated with a first subscriber to a communications system to a second client associated with a second subscriber to the communications system by connecting from the first client to a communications system host; sending, through the communications system host,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080263153 - Dynamic integration of web sites: A method for displaying information includes identifying computer-readable service code at a service site, which code, when read by a client computer via a network, causes the computer to display at least one service page containing service information. At least a portion of the service code is selected for inclusion... Agent: Hoffman, Wasson & Gitler, P.C. Crystal Center 2-suite 522

20080263133 - Host-terminal device communication system: A virtual device residing on a terminal in a host terminal environment is provided. The terminal is in communication with a device. The virtual device comprises a processing module operable to execute at least one action and to process information returned from at the least one executed action, a transformation... Agent: Altera Law Group, LLC

20080263134 - Information-processing system, method, computer-readable medium, and computer data signal for controlling provision of information or processing service: There is provided an information processing system. The system has a first notice transmission unit that sends to a user first notice information made in correspondence to information or processing service provided by a processing device, a second transmission unit that sends to the user, when receiving from the user... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080263142 - Meta data driven user interface system and method: A method comprises receiving a request for a webpage and retrieving metadata from a database. The metadata may be translated into one or more webparts. The method further comprises loading the one or more webparts onto the webpage and displaying the webpage.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080263138 - Method and system for managing specimen data: An innovative system and method for laboratories, hospitals and others to manage stored specimens is described and claimed. One problem commonly encountered by medical researchers is the inability to effectively and efficiently track the large number of specimens generated in the course of their research. In an environment comprised of... Agent: Anthony W. Hong

20080263139 - Method for providing content to a mobile device, gateway for providing content and mobile device: The present invention relates to a method for providing content to a mobile device (2) within a communication network comprising a network server (4), at least one gateway (3) for a thin client application, at least one management unit (5) comprised by the gateway (3) and at least one mobile... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20080263147 - Method of reservation: A method for reserving a service from inside a vehicle (A) at one of several facilities providing such service. The vehicle (A) having a navigation apparatus (1) which is equipped for data communication with a reservation server (3). Each service-providing facility has a reading mechanism (11, 12). The navigation apparatus... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20080263150 - Methods for displaying physical network topology and environmental status by location, organization, or responsible party: The invention is directed to a system for remote monitoring of a space and equipment. The space and equipment may, for example, be a sever room and associated network equipment. The system has network appliances, a server, and a client machine. The server receives data from a network appliance. The... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP A2000

20080263140 - Network system, server, client, program and web browsing function enabling method: A network system is provided which can ensure that the user's operability will not decrease even when the number of functions increases and that a display screen will be as intended by the creator of the content. In the network system, a main server receives a request for a web... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080263137 - Platform for interoperability: Systems and methods for interoperability are disclosed which allow for a user of one network to communicate seamlessly with a user of another network. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a network bridge is provided. The network bridge may comprise a number of gateways and adapters for... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080263144 - Pre-filling order forms for transactions over a communications network: Communications between participants over a communications link are proxied by an intermediary, such as an Integrated Order Mechanism (IOM). Participants interact with each other through the IOM. The IOM may be transparent to the participants such that they are not aware that the IOM is involved in processing communications. For... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080263151 - Service providing method and system: In a service provider system, a service provider provides service information dependent on location information of a mobile terminal to the mobile terminal in response to a service request with the location information sent by the mobile terminal. A communication control unit controls communication between the mobile terminal and the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080263148 - Symmetrical bi-directional communication: Network nodes engage in an asymmetric transactional session. The nodes negotiate transactional role reversal and further communication under a reversed asymmetric transactional session.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080263135 - System and method for selecting and displaying webpages: A computer-implemented method of dynamically selecting and presenting a webpage includes: receiving a request, at a server, from a client device to display a webpage; determining, at the server, a homepage defined by a user of the client device; accessing, at the server, a list of one or more webpages... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080263145 - System and methods for generating pro-forma based upon input provided via a communications network: A system and related methods and procedures are provided for gauging the financial and operational implications of various types of investment decisions. Among the various applications of the invention, the invention can be used to conveniently and efficiently assess employment decisions, including, for example, the hiring of a new physician... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080263141 - Systems and methods to generate web server files from generic view definitions: Some embodiments include reception of a Uniform Resource Locator, determination to convert a markup-language file associated with the Uniform Resource Locator to a Web format, conversion of the markup-language file to the Web format, storage of the converted file in a Web server file system, and provision of the converted... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080263152 - Vertical enterprise system: Vertical enterprise systems and methods for integrating applications from one or more enterprises into a single interface for presentation to a user are disclosed. A vertical enterprise system in accordance with an illustrative embodiment of the present invention may include one or more client enterprises, one or more partner enterprises,... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20080263155 - Collaborative email with delegable authorities: Writing a collaborative email document with hierarchical authorities including establishing a collaborative email document on an administrator's computer, identifying one or more signatories for the document, identifying one or more collaborators who are authorized to view and edit the document, providing to the collaborators copies of the document for viewing... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080263154 - Dynamic bandwidth control: Data transfer over a computer network relating to a data object of a multiple user network application, from a network user who owns the data object to an updating user, is achieved by transfer of a subset of data fields that define the data object, such that the subset of... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080263163 - Demand-driven, collaborative systems and processes for collecting structured information: A demand driven process of collecting and collaborating around reviews including the steps of: receiving a request for a review from a requestor, associating one or more potential responders with the request for a review, providing the request for a review to one or more potential responders, receiving and organizing... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20080263168 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer readable information recording medium: An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a predetermined part of an electronic mail item, and a determination unit configured to determine whether another portion of the electronic mail item should be received based on the predetermined part of the electronic mail item. The predetermined part... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080263165 - Instant message method to provide a delayed alarm/reminder: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for providing instant messaging users with an alarm to remind users of an event or to re-join an instant messaging chat. An instant message that includes a request for a user to currently participate in an event is received... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080263166 - Method and apparatus for improving data transfers in peer-to-peer networks: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for improving data transfers in peer-to-peer networks includes receiving a search request message from a requesting node, where the search request message requests specific data. A responding node then sends a response message to the requesting node including a referral message comprising... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263167 - Method and apparatus for inferring read status of instant messages: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for inferring the read status of instant messages. One embodiment of the inventive method involves displaying the instant message on the receiver's computing device and sending a message to the sender indicating a probability with which the receiver has... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263158 - Method and apparatus for instant messaging: A method and apparatus for instant messaging capable of an automatic response mode with enhanced reply options. In the automatic response mode, upon receiving a message from a sender, a terminal selects a reply message from a plurality of messages in accordance with at least one predetermined criterion, and responds... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080263157 - Method and system for ordering instant messages: A computer implemented method and a computer usable program product for ordering a plurality of instant messages are provided. A data processing system receives at least one incoming instant message. Responsive to identifying the at least one incoming instant message as a response to at least one outgoing instant message... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080263160 - Method for displaying content information and video apparatus thereof: A method for displaying content information and a video apparatus thereof are provided. The video apparatus includes an interface unit which receives a mail message from a mail server; and a content information generator which generates content information using a mail body of the received mail message, if URL information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080263164 - Method of sending motion control content in a message, message transmitting device abnd message rendering device: The invention describes a method of sending a message (M) from a sender to a recipient in which a record content (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7) of the message (M) is recorded and supplemented with motion control content (T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7). The message (M)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080263162 - Modeling user-initiated requests and status updates within an email message: The embodiments described herein generally relate to systems and methods for modeling a user-initiated request to a business process application as an email form. It is often necessary for individuals to communicate, or exchange information, with a business application. Inefficiencies and delays arise where individuals are required to work within... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080263156 - Secure transactional communication: Systems for providing sign-up email addresses are disclosed herein. A user may set up a sign-up email address for receiving emails from a trusted, Internet-based enterprise. The user may set up a dedicated mailbox folder associated with the sign-up email address or enterprise. The email server may automatically direct emails... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080263159 - System and method for filtering message: A system and method for message filtering are disclosed. A conversion target letter table is generated which stores information on letters that may be used to elude filtering, the table storing the hex code information of each letter that may be used for eluding filtering and the conversion letter information... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080263169 - Systems and methods for messaging to multiple gateways: Systems and methods for providing message communication among multiple communication gateways. In particular, systems and methods for providing non-voice message delivery to intended recipients with increased speed and reliability to multiple users on multiple platforms. The systems and methods relate to non-voice messaging to multiple messaging gateways. In at least... Agent: King & Spalding, LLP

20080263161 - Terminal and method for distinguishing between email recipients using specific identifier: Provided are a terminal and method for distinguishing between email recipients using a specific identifier. According to the inventive terminal and method, when email is desired to be sent to several recipients, it is possible to set an individual transmission configuration for each recipient and transmit the email in different... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080263170 - Method and system for communicating message notifications to mobile devices: There is disclosed a system and method for choosing between different Communication Initiation Request (CIR) channels in a mobile communications system when there are multiple CIR channels amongst which to choose. Additionally, there is disclosed a system and method for exploiting a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection usage pattern that... Agent: Coats & Bennett/oz

20080263171 - Peripheral device that dmas the same data to different locations in a computer: A method is disclosed comprising: receiving,.by a network interface, data and a corresponding header; storing, by the network interface, the data in a first memory buffer of a computer that is coupled to the network interface; and storing, by the network interface, the data in a second memory buffer of... Agent: Mark A Lauer

20080263172 - Distributed services for multi-entity collaboration: Method for communication of service requests and service results between remotely located users and service providers. Connectivity is established between service providers and a request handler, and also between users and the request handler. Service requests are received at the request handler, a service provider ID is identified from each... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080263177 - Method and computer system for selecting an edge server computer: Media Distribution within the Internet is done with the help of Application-Servers, Content-Servers and distributed Edge-Servers where the clients are connected to Media Distribution Services. A computer system is provided comprising client 1, having a Web browser with a media player 2, Web application server 3, content server, edge servers... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20080263174 - Method and system for implementing a gis data collection network: Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for implementing a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) network. In one embodiment, configuration data comprising a unique identification of a mobile electronic device and an assigned membership of the mobile electronic device to a workgroup is received. The method further comprises... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080263173 - Method for transmitting data in a network of distributed stations, and network station: The invention relates to the technical field of home networks. A home network based on the present UPnP standard (Universal Plug and Play) allows data to be interchanged between network subscriber stations. A UPnP standard may have one or more control point devices. To allow profile information such as user... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080263176 - Remote copy with path selection and prioritization: A method for handling a remote copy request in a distributed storage includes providing a plurality of primary volumes within a primary storage system that is coupled to a primary host via a first network, the primary storage system being coupled to a secondary storage system via a second network.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080263175 - System, server, information terminal operating system, middleware, information communication device, certification method, and system and application software: A system having a server and an information terminal of A which records A's personal information Pa and B's personal information Pb′, an information terminal of B which records A's personal information Pa and B's personal information Pb′. B's information terminal generates a calculation result F(Pa′,Pb) via the calculation of... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080263178 - Cell phone remote access to personal computer applications: A compact, handheld, portable communication device, and associated method, the device including a display that reproduces a display of an application installed on a personal computer, a means of remotely communicating with the personal computer through a communication network, and a means of executing a command for the application installed... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080263179 - System and method for dynamically updating web pages using messaging-oriented middleware: System, computer implemented method and computer program product for dynamically updating a Web page using browser-based messaging. A system for dynamically updating a Web page using browser-based messaging includes a Web page that includes a plurality of Web messaging tags, and a selected data model that can be bound to... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080263180 - Apparatus, system, and method for resilient content acquisition: An apparatus includes a directive handling module configured to implement a directive, wherein the directive defines requirements for locating, establishing, and maintaining a network connection with a remote host, and a content acquisition module configured to acquire content over a network according to the directive. A system includes a client... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080263181 - Multimedia system and navigation unit terminal: A multimedia system includes a master unit terminal and slave unit terminals. The master unit terminal functions as an interface for communications with an external server, in which status a program updating process is executed between the server and the slave unit terminal. In the multimedia system, property information on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080263182 - Remote loading system and method for network equipment: A remote loading system for network equipment is provided, which includes a loading server configured to send a loading command and an equipment prepared for loading connected to the loading server through a network. The loading server sends a command for validating a loaded content to the equipment prepared for... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080263185 - Automatic configuration of the network devices via connection to specific switch ports: A method and system for automatically configuring devices in a network is disclosed. A network management software application is provided that enables a user to associate policy settings with physical locations in the network. During an operational mode of the network management application, the application automatically detects when a network... Agent: Ibm Rp-rps Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080263183 - Management of kernel configurations for nodes in a clustered system: Various approaches for managing kernel configuration files in a cluster computing arrangement are disclosed. In one approach, a first set of kernel configuration files are installed networked storage, and a first node is booted using the first set of kernel configuration files. A copy of the first set of kernel... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263184 - Tv-pc architecture: An apparatus includes at least a first hardware part (AP1) and a second hardware part (AP2). Each of the first and second part include a respective processing element (CPU-1, CPU-2) and a respective signal connection to a respective memory element (MEM-1, MEM-2) for providing program code to the processing element... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080263186 - Storage system, management server, system reconfiguration support method for a storage system, and system reconfiguration support method for a management server: In order to provide support for a system to operate in a manner appropriate for system requests desired by a user, a management server acquires functions corresponding to system requests acquired using a user interface using a second table for storing a correspondence relationship of functions provided by one or... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher

20080263187 - Interoperability of network applications in a communications environment: An interoperability system abstracts the protocols used by multiple network applications into an interoperability framework, thereby allowing the network applications to interoperate with each other and/or with modules for providing enhanced functionalities. The interoperability framework includes a number of adapters that modularize the components needed for interoperation and abstracts content... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080263192 - Method and apparatus for maintaining a computer system: In various embodiments of the invention, a server monitors a network for a startup message from a client computer as appropriate. The server may include a computer application that generates configuration instructions in response to commands from an administrator and/or information obtained from a client computer. The instructions may be... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080263191 - Method and system for handling packet filtering information: A portion of management traffic, carried via network traffic, and received and/or transmitted via a network controller, may be processed externally to the network controller, wherein management messaging may be carried via network packets, and one or more headers may added to enable transmission and/or reception via the network controller.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080263188 - Method and system for monitoring and analyzing of routing in ip networks: Exemplary embodiments include methods and systems for monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting of control plane dynamics of a network including collect data associated with the one or more probe modules associated with a network, store the data associated with the one or more probe modules, analyze the data associated with the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080263189 - Secure identification of intranet network: A method is provided for network identification based on high entropy data on a network which are not easily guessed or obtained outside the network, which can prevent an attacker from “spoofing” the network. A component in a client computer connected to a network may obtain over the network a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080263190 - Storage system: A host I/F unit has a management table for managing an MPPK which is in-charge of the control of input/output processing for a storage area of an LDEV, and if a host computer transmits an input/output request for the LDEV, the host I/F unit transfers the input/output request to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080263198 - Device and method using non-cycle accurate measurements for discovering emulated clients: A method for discovering emulated clients. A verifier sends a cryptographic challenge C to a client and preferably starts a timer. The client uses a deterministic key search algorithm to find the correct key and returns the result as a number of tries needed. The verifier then stops the timer... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080263203 - Method and apparatus for delegating responses to conditions in computing systems: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELEGATING RESPONSES TO CONDITIONS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS ABSTRACT One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for delegating responses to conditions in computing systems includes acknowledging (e.g., at a systems management component in the computing system) a condition, and delegating responsibility for a strategy for a... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263202 - Method and apparatus for reducing spam on peer-to-peer networks: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for reducing spam in peer-to-peer networks includes forming a search message including at least one decoy word and sending the search request message, including the decoy word(s), to one or more nodes in the network. Embodiments of the present invention make it... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263194 - Method and system for optimal binding selection for service oriented architectures: A method for selecting a best performing binding for a server and a client in a service-oriented architecture includes: discovering configuration information about the service and the operating environment of the server and the client; selecting the best performing binding between the client and the server based on the discovered... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080263201 - Method for real-time monitoring a remote control process by a third party and system thereof: The invention relates to a remote monitor technique. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for real-time monitoring a remote control process by a third party and a system thereof, which are able to third-party monitor a control terminal and a controlled terminal in the remote control process.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080263200 - Network resource monitoring and measurement system and method: A method and system for analysing and measuring multiple sources of data over a communications network (18) so as to ascertain information or usage of one or more resources, such as resource servers (2). A data collection and processing means (20) collects and processes the data sources which are forwarded... Agent: Dreier LLP Susan Formicola

20080263197 - Passively attributing anonymous network events to their associated users: Systems, methods, and computer program products for passively attributing anonymous network events to their associated users are provided herein. Embodiments include filtering network events over a pre-determined time interval to generate a filtered event list. In an embodiment, event attribution includes attributing an anonymous network event to a user associated... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080263195 - Performance monitoring: Real-time data is extracted from a log file for at least one monitored process on each of a plurality of servers. For each monitored process, extracted real-time data is inserted into object variables of an object. The object variable data is processed to generate performance statistics for the monitored processes... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263196 - Programming techniques for distributed multi-party networks: Architecture for programming in a distributed computing environment where different components of a system are owned or controlled by different entities and heterogeneous in terms of resource availability and a willingness to share. Multiple devices can be programmed when a task requires human intervention. Method are described for using a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080263193 - System and method for automatically providing a web resource for a broken web link: A system and method for automatically providing a Web site resource for a broken Web link are provided. Mechanisms are provided for locating Web site resources that have been moved to a new location in a Web site structure in response to receiving a request directed to an old location... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080263199 - System for searching device on network: There is disclosed a network system in which the position, attribute, and status of a desired device on a network can visually comprehensibly be grasped. A server manages location information indicating information on the device position in a hierarchical manner and attribute information from the device. Each device holds a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080263204 - Method and apparatus for user moderation of online chat rooms: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for user-moderation of an online chat room in which a plurality of users are exchanging messages includes providing the chat room and controlling a manner in which the users send and receive the messages in the chat room in accordance with user... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263207 - Method and apparatus for providing dynamic group management for distributed interactive applications: A method, computer readable media, and apparatus of hierarchical-based communication session and data distribution management that indexes client's communication preferences and network attribute information. Indexing is used to generate dynamic group membership lists that map into communication groups. Indexing is replicated at control nodes in the network overlay to allow... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263208 - Method and system for identifying available resources in a peer-to-peer network: A method for a peer of a peer-to-peer network to search for an available resource is provided. The method initiates with representing a request for the available resource as a request bit string. The method includes transmitting the request to a parent of the peer. Then, an aggregate availability bit... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080263206 - Method for reducing variability and oscillations in load balancing recommendations using historical values and workload metrics: The present invention provides a method of preventing harmful variability and oscillation in weight based, dynamic load balancing environments. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods to effectively determine the magnitude of weight changes in dynamic load balancing environments based on the workload magnitude and server farm capacity. This... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080263205 - Virtual server recirculation: In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) classifying a packet in a server load balancer (SLB) for determining if the packet is destined for a virtual Internet protocol (VIP) address hosted on the SLB; (ii) selecting a server from a group of servers representing the VIP address; (iii) changing... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080263209 - Active-active operation for a cluster of ssl virtual private network (vpn) devices with load distribution: A method of load distribution for a cluster of two or more nodes. The method comprises receiving an initial request packet on a network device having a virtual IP address; forwarding the request packet from the network device to a cluster of at least two nodes, wherein each of the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080263210 - Method and system for notifying updating of terminal capability information for combination service: A method and system for notifying updating of terminal capability information for a combination service for simultaneously performing two or more services between first and second users are disclosed. Each terminal recognizes whether or not its terminal capability information has been updated to inform the other terminal accordingly when the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080263211 - System and article of manufacture for controlling client access: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein in certain embodiments a request is received to initiate a session. A determination is made whether the session should be initiated with addressing information provided by a client. The session is initiated with trusted addressing information corresponding to the client,... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080263213 - Communication device and client device: Relaying devices to share workload among them are disposed in the carrier equipment network. The relaying devices respectively relay an HTTP message between the mobile phone and the web server and store an upload data from the mobile phone. The relaying devices respectively transmit to the mobile phone, before or... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080263212 - Method and system of interaction between entities on a communication network: A method and system of interaction between a requesting entity and a responding entity on a communication network based on the session initiation protocol (SIP). A machine-readable service description includes specifications of interaction between the requesting entity invoking a service at the responding entity and the responding entity offering the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080263217 - Connection control in thin client system: In a first exemplary aspect of the present invention, a thin client server system includes thin client servers, which comprises clients which are grouped into client groups based on client data; thin client terminals which are allocated with terminal data and are grouped into terminal groups based on the terminal... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080263216 - Remote portlet consumer with enhanced resource url processing: The present invention is directed to a method and system to be performed by a WSRP consumer portal server for accessing a remote network resource addressed by a respective resource URL in a web portal infrastructure comprising at least a WSRP Consumer Portal connectable to a client Browser requesting the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080263214 - Systems and methods for rapid integration of data storage subsystems: A computer system includes a computer processor and logic instructions for rapid integration of data storage subsystems. An adapter factory is instantiated in response to a request from a client computer. The adapter factory is configured to provide a generic persistent data storage (Pds) adapter interface to the client computer.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263215 - Transparent secure socket layer: Various systems, apparatus, and methods include an apparatus comprising a transparent proxy coupled to a plurality of non-configured clients and coupled to one or more servers, the transparent proxy operable to intercept a request for a secured connection to a first server of the one or more servers, the request... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080263218 - Method, device and system for predicting a data session time: A method of predicting a session time of a service between a source and a destination in a communications network (1) comprises the steps of sending a series of data packets from the source to the destination with a substantially increasing data rate, measuring the time delay of at least... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20080263220 - Image processing system, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program: An image processing system including a plurality of servers and an image processing apparatus for integrally displaying images sent from the plurality of servers in streaming mode, wherein each of the plurality of servers includes: input means; area information receiving means; encoding means; and delivery means. The image processing apparatus... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080263219 - Method and system to minimize the switching delay between two rtp multimedia streaming sessions: A method and system that minimizes a switching delay when switching between a first Real-Time Streaming Protocol RTSP streaming session to a second RTSP streaming session are provided. The sending of the second multimedia streaming contents is sent to a multimedia player in parallel to processing a switching request message.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080263221 - System and method for store-and-forward for highly available message production: The present invention enables a store-and-forward service that provides higher availability for application residing or connecting to a server to reliably deliver messages and allows an application to send messages to a destination on another server even when the destination is not available at the moment the messages are sent... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080263222 - Computer system, root node, and log management method for access path conversion: A computer system including a storage system, a host computer system, a path configuration unit that associates a local path with a global path, an access path conversion unit that converts a global path into a local path associated, by the path configuration unit, with the global path used in... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080263223 - Cooperative routing between traffic control device and multi-server application: A method, apparatus and programmed storage device for routing data through a communications network. More specifically, a programmable traffic manager is programmed with at least one application level directive and the data is routed through the network to one of the network nodes using the programmable traffic manager, which is... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080263225 - Context-sensitive confidentiality within federated environments: Techniques are disclosed for achieving context-sensitive confidentiality within a federated environment for which content is aggregated in a distributed Web portal (or similar aggregation framework), ensuring that message portions that should be confidential are confidential to all entities in the federated environment except those entities to which the message portions... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080263224 - System and method for pushing encrypted information between a host system and a mobile data communication device: A redirector scheme operable to redirect messages from a plurality of messaging hosts disposed in a wide-area data network, wherein each messaging host is operable to receive messages for a set of users. In one embodiment, a redirector system comprises, inter alia: a plurality of receive agents and a corresponding... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080263226 - Dynamic packet training: A packet control mechanism for a computer data system that dynamically adjusts packet training depending on the utilization load on the processor. The dynamic adjustment of packet training can be to enable and disable packet training, or adjust the number of packets in the packet train. In preferred embodiments, the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080263227 - Background synchronization: Systems, methods and computer program products for determining a schedule for synchronizing a server and a client are described herein. The method operates by tracking user usage of the client to develop usage patterns. A sync schedule is generated using the usage patterns, where the sync schedule enhances at least... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080256169 - Graphics for limited resolution display devices: A method for providing graphical content to be displayed on different kinds of display devices is disclosed. Each kind of display devices is associated with different graphical characteristics. The method includes generating a scene of desired graphical content and formatting, for each kind of the display devices, the scene into... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080256167 - Mechanism for execution of multi-site jobs in a data stream processing system: A cooperative data stream processing system is provided that utilizes a plurality of independent, autonomous and possibly heterogeneous sites in a cooperative arrangement to process user-defined job requests over dynamic, continuous streams of data. A mechanism is provided for orchestrating the execution of distributed jobs across the plurality of distributed... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080256166 - Method for inter-site data stream transfer in a cooperative data stream processing: A cooperative data stream processing system is provided that utilizes a plurality of independent, autonomous and potentially heterogeneous sites in a cooperative arrangement to process user-defined inquiries over dynamic, continuous streams of data. The system derives jobs from the inquiries and these jobs are executed on the various distributed sites... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080256170 - Social networking for mobile devices: A mobile device, system, and method are directed towards enabling an integrated display of live views. The integrated live views are generated by employing social networking information, including moods of a person, avatars, status of a member's activities including whether they are in an IM session, or the like. Integrated... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080256171 - System and method for history driven optimization of web services communication: A system, method and computer program product for communicating Web-Services (WS) messages. First there is allocated an identical amount of a cache history storage at each sender and receiver device for storing a history of communicated WS message strings. At the sender, there is generated an intermediate data representations of... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080256168 - Target class addressing of updates in ambient databases: The present invention relates to a method and system of distributing data (108) to a target node (107) in a network (100), said target node being arranged to be disconnectable from the network, A basic idea of the invention is to transfer data to a network target node, which is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080256173 - Pipeline systems and method for transferring data in a network environment: A communications system having a data transfer pipeline apparatus for transferring data in a sequence of N stages from an origination device to a destination device. The apparatus comprises dedicated memory having buffers dedicated for carrying data and a master control for registering and controlling processes associated with the apparatus... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080256172 - Tracing of collaborative workflows: Embodiments include a system for tracing a collaborative workflow. The system includes an event collector and a transition engine. The event collector may be configured to receive data that represents an event of the collaborative workflow. The collaborative workflow has a local workflow part and a global workflow part. The... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080256179 - Direct access electronic mail (email) distribution and synchronization system with provision for pre-configured service offerings: A communications system includes a network engine that communicates with a plurality of unsubscribed mobile wireless communications devices using a communications network for sending and receiving emails therefrom. A direct access server is operative with the network engine for polling electronic mailboxes of users and retrieving email from the electronic... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080256174 - Exchanging data via a virtual field device: A system for synchronizing data between a host client and a field device comprises a computer system with a virtual field device resident on the computer system. The virtual field device comprises a virtualized instantiation of a portion of a field device. A synchronization manager is also resident on the... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080256176 - Internet radio system and the broadcasting method thereof: An Internet radio system includes: several network radio receivers connecting to the Internet, and they transmitting service requests and user's information, then receiving audio data corresponding the service requests, wherein each network radio receivers has its own identification; and a server connecting to the Internet to identify the identification of... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080256177 - Method and apparatus for maintaining information at an ims client: A method, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) client terminal, and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) application server for synchronizing data stored at the IMS client terminal with data stored at the SIP application server. When the IMS client terminal sends a request to the SIP application server, the server determines whether the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080256178 - Method and apparatus for providing software by functional units in a software streaming system: A method and apparatus for providing software by function units are provided. In the method, at the streaming client, a functional unit identification is created for identifying a function requested from a user by intercepting a request of a predetermined function in application software from a user. Then, it determines... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080256175 - Method and apparatus for transmitting data in a peer-to-peer network: An apparatus for transmitting data which includes a management unit that manages network-topology information of clients participating in the P2P service, and an interface unit that provides to a first client a peer list including information of a client having the minimum network distance to the first client, based on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080256180 - Use of hardware to manage dependencies between groups of network data packets: A task obtained by a communications processor is decomposed into one or more requests that form a request group. The requests of the request group are sent to main memory and responses to those requests are expected. There may be requests for a plurality of request groups being processed concurrently.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080256183 - Apparatus, system, and method for a front-end, distributed raid: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for a front-end, distributed redundant array of independent drives (“RAID”). A storage request receiver module receives a storage request to store object or file data in a set of autonomous storage devices forming a RAID group. The storage devices independently receive storage requests... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080256182 - Emulation of room lock and lobby feature in distributed conferencing system: Architecture for a session lock and lobby feature in a distributed conferencing framework for a conferencing session. Under a lock scenario, once a user enters the session, the session can be locked to prevent other individuals from entering, even if the individuals were invited to the session. Locking can be... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080256181 - Systems and methods for asynchronous collaboration and annotation of patient information: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for improved collaboration. Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for electronic medical record collaboration and annotation. Certain embodiments provide an electronic medical record collaboration system. The system includes a workstation having a user interface and access to electronic clinical data.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080256186 - Collaboration system: A computer-based design collaboration system and method of collaborative computer-based design which allows a plurality of computers to concurrently generate a plurality of derivatives of a continuously updated design model each derivative design model delivered to one or more of the plurality of computers based on ownership of the design... Agent: Cr Miles, P.C. Craig R. Miles

20080256185 - Scalable web hosting network and methods for building and operating same: The present invention provides a network comprised of a storage and a plurality of servers. Each server is individually in communication with the storage, and each server individually is operating on a pre-selected operating system. There is a plurality of encoded programs provided, with each program individually performing a single... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080256184 - Systems and methods of contracting with multiple parties: Systems and methods for contracting with multiple parties, by which the multiple parties agree to a single contracting instrument, are presented. The systems generally comprise one or more computing devices connected to a data source, each of which are controlled by one or more entities interested in initiating a project.... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper US LLP

20080256205 - Apparatus and method for a portable hand held device into a media controller: A portable handheld electronic device, such as a cellular telephone, PDA, or gaming console, is disclosed that can be configured to initiate and control a media presentation at a display terminal. The media presentation originates from a media server. The handheld device provides functionality similar to a typical television remote... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP Patent Department

20080256206 - Apparatus and method for pushing e-mail to portable terminal in e-mail system: Provided is an apparatus and method for pushing an e-mail to a portable terminal in an e-mail system. In an e-mail system for pushing an e-mail, an e-mail agent checks reception of a new e-mail, receives and stores the new e-mail, and generates a mail notification message, a message server... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080256212 - Apparatus for managing email messages: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing email messages. Outgoing packets are monitored. The outgoing packets are parsed for outgoing email messages. An identification of recipients in packets for outgoing email messages is made. A list of email addresses is updated with email addresses for the identified recipients, wherein... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080256199 - Attaching files from the attachments available in a user's mail box: Techniques are provided to a user for attaching files that are available in the user's mail box. Previous email messages are saved, along with any file attachments, in the mail box. When composing a new message and the user intends to attach files to the new message, the files that... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080256200 - Computer application text messaging input and output: The subject matter herein relates to computer application input and output and, more particularly, computer application text messaging input and output. Various embodiments provide systems, methods, and software to enable interaction with computer applications utilizing virtually any text-client, such as an instant messaging or text messaging client application or device.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080256202 - Direct access electronic mail (email) distribution and synchronization system with external smtp server support: A communications system includes a network engine that communicates with a plurality of user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices via a communications network for sending and receiving emails therefrom. A direct access server is operative with the network engine for polling electronic mailboxes of the user belonging to an email... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080256203 - Direct access electronic mail (email) distribution and synchronization system with imap-idle implementation: The communications system includes a network engine that communicates with the plurality of a user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices via a communications network for sending and receiving emails. A direct access server is operative with the network engine for polling electronic mailboxes of users from an email source and... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080256204 - Direct access electronic mail (email) distribution and synchronization system with out-of-coverage notification: A communications system includes a network engine that communicates with a plurality of user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices and operative for determining when a mobile wireless communications device is out-of-coverage or turned off and unable to communicate with the network engine. A direct access server is operative with the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080256211 - Electronic mail viewing device and electronic mail editing device: An object of the present invention is to provide an e-mail editing device having excellent operability, in particular, an e-mail editing device capable of switching and displaying related e-mails. A display processor (27) simultaneously displays a message editing screen (32) for displaying an edition mail (24) and a mail reference... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080256194 - Email bookmark with automatic archiving: An email message content management method, system and program are provided for bookmarking subsets of electronic mail (email) message content for subsequent searching and retrieval. Subsets of email message content are designated and then identified to be bookmarked for subsequent searching and retrieval. Identification information such as file pointers and... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Austin

20080256198 - Email system including an email aggregation server providing distributed polling and related methods: An email system may include at least one email server having mailboxes for storing email messages therein, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices. The system may further include at least one email aggregation server for polling the mailboxes for email messages, and forwarding the email messages to respective... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080256193 - Email system including an email aggregation server providing polling time gap compacting and related methods: An electronic mail (email) system may include at least one email server having mailboxes for storing email messages, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices. The system may further include at least one email aggregation server for repetitively polling the mailboxes for email messages, and forwarding the email messages... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080256197 - Email system including email aggregation server providing security parameter determination features and related methods: An email system may include at least one email server having mailboxes for storing email messages therein, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices. The system may also include at least one email aggregation server comprising a configuration module cooperating with the at least one email server for determining... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080256195 - Email system including email aggregation server providing staggered initial fallback polling and related methods: An email system may include at least one subscribed mailbox server having a plurality of subscribed mailboxes and sending a new mail indication upon receiving a new email message, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices. The system may further include at least one email aggregation server for polling... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080256196 - Email system including email aggregation server providing staggering of overlapped polling and related methods: An electronic mail (email) system may include at least one email server having mailboxes for storing email messages, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices. The system may further include at least one email aggregation server for repetitively polling the mailboxes for email messages, and forwarding the email messages... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080256210 - Filtering email messages corresponding to undesirable domains: An email message is filtered to determine whether or not it is an undesired email message (e.g., “spam,” “junk mail,” etc.) that originates from an undesirable domain, such as, for example, a domain designated as originating from an undesirable geographic location. In some embodiments, upon determining that the email message... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080256207 - Information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing apparatus, program for control method, and recording medium for program: In a case where session management information is created from request information concerning a Web-based e-mail transmitted as HTTP data, if the request information coincides with a previously defined session start event for each Web-based e-mail service, a relay server adds a new entry to the session management information. On... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080256208 - Managing on-demand email storage: A method, system, and program for managing on-demand email storage are provided. An email service provider allocates a predetermined amount of storage space to an intended recipient. When an email is received for the intended recipient at the email service provider, the email service provider determines whether the predetermined storage... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080256192 - Method and system for assisted presence: A method and system for capturing and managing an indication of availability of a user to make and receive media communications is disclosed. The user availability indication is suitable for use by a user having a plurality of communications devices operable over a variety of media at least some of... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080256189 - Method and system for controlling the display of sensitive information and for managing visual clutter in a live session display area system: A system for clearing content displayed in the live session display area of an instant messaging system. The system enables a session participant to clear the content currently visible to each other participant in the session, either immediately, or in response to a criteria such as elapsed time or elapsed... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080256190 - Method and system for controlling the logging of session transcripts to log files in an instant messaging system: A mechanism for controlling the saving of an instant messaging session transcript to a log file. The system includes a session locking feature that allows a participant (e.g. the session initiator) to lock the entire contents of a session transcript saved into a log file. The system further includes a... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080256187 - Method and system for filtering electronic messages: In comparison to known methods, which either modify the links blindly or which perform analysis of the data to which the link is connected, embodiments of the invention selectively modify the link on the basis of various tests relating to attributes intrinsic to the email. This means that only those... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080256188 - Method of removing metadata from email attachments: A method and system for removing metadata from email attachments sent from mobile devices includes receiving an email with an attached document. The attached document has metadata removed to create a cleansed version of the attached document. The attached document is replaced by the cleansed version of the attached document,... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20080256209 - Method, system and program product for verifying an attachment file within an e-mail: System, method and program product for managing a file attached to an e-mail. The attached file's file name is obtained. A voice message file address is received and encoded into a modified address to comply with file naming rules of a recipient computer. A composite file name results from inserting... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080256191 - Session management system and method for use with stateless messaging services: The present system uses dynamic assignment of key codes to select options of response content in request messages prior to transmission from an application server to a communication device. Dynamic assignment of key codes to selection options can occur according to a list of key codes having a predefined order... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080256201 - System and method for communicating messages using alias addressing: A method and system for routing email messages to a recipient across disparate communication networks, by addressing the recipient using a pre-assigned alias. The alias may be an alphanumeric identifier that is associated with the recipient device, or a nickname that is associated with an alphanumeric identifier that is associated... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080256213 - Method and apparatus for syndicating interactions between a client and a web service: The Syndicated Web Services Client (SWSC) uses RSS/ATOM feeds, to facilitate asynchronous interactions between a computerized client and a web service, without requiring a duplicate copy of the web service application on the computerized client. The web service packages a form, such as an XForm containing interactive fields used by... Agent: Ibm Corp. (raleigh Software Group) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080256214 - Subscription-based priority interactive help services on the internet: The present invention includes a method and apparatus for providing an e-help service over a network. The e-help service provides one or more action sequences, i.e., recommended courses of action, for specialized circumstances over a network, such as an Internet Protocol network. Subscribers subscribe to specific application areas, such as... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080256215 - Method for tourist guiding and showing information of tourist spots using mobile device: The present invention provides a method for tourist guiding and showing information of tourist spots using a mobile device. The method comprises: an information center picking up information of a tourist spot from a database according to a request of a user and transmitting the information to a car electronic... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080256216 - Method of supplying advertising content: A method of supplying advertising content, a method comprising the steps of receiving content data, the data comprising metadata identifying an advertisement service, transmitting a data request to the advertisement service in accordance with the metadata, transmitting an authentication request to an authentication server, receiving an authentication response, the authentication... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080256217 - Mobile communication device having web alarm function and operating method of the mobile communication device: A method of operating a mobile communication device. The method includes receiving a website address, receiving an alarm time, accessing a website corresponding to the website address upon arrival of the alarm time, and outputting an alarm signal in combination with accessing the website.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080256218 - Network system, controller, recording device, service server, method of acquiring resource status of recording device, and computer program: A network system including: a terminal unit; one or more recording devices; a service server; and a controller is disclosed. The controller includes: a resource status acquiring unit that, upon receiving a resource status acquisition request to request acquisition of information on resource status of the one or more recording... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080256220 - Enabling simultaneous use of home network and foreign network by a multihomed mobile node: The invention relates to a method performed by a home agent serving a mobile node in a home network of the mobile node upon attachment of a mobile node to the home network as well as to the home agent. Further, the invention also relates to a method for enabling... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080256221 - Method and apparatus for a secure network install: A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for a secure network install. One aspect of the present invention provides a proxy server within the same subnet of the client for performing a lookup of the boot image file and downloading the boot image file from a boot file... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080256222 - Structure for a flexibly configurable multi central processing unit (cpu) supported hypertransport switching: A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design for addressing deficiencies of the art in respect to hypertransport-based switching for multi-CPU systems and for flexibly configurable multi-CPU supported hypertransport switching is provided. The design structure can include a hypertransport switching data... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080256219 - System and method for deployment of a software image to a plurality of target devices: A system and method for deployment of a software image to a plurality of target devices are disclosed. A method may include communicatively coupling a root node device to a plurality of internal node devices, and communicatively coupling a plurality of leaf node devices to the root node devices and... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20080256224 - Data communication system and session management server: A data communication system is provided that is capable of increasing or decreasing the number of session management servers flexibly, and is further capable of implementing data communication while distributing the message processing load in the session management server. The data communication system includes multiple communication devices which perform data... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080256227 - Method and product for controlling laboratory equipment: Method, apparatus and product for controlling an automated storage system for laboratory objects. The storage system includes a plurality of storage locations for receiving the laboratory objects. The method includes defining users having access to the storage system and storing the users in a database, defining partitions, with each partition... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080256228 - Minimizing complex decisions to allocate additional resources to a job submitted to a grid environment: A method, system, and program for minimizing complex decisions to allocate additional resources to a job submitted to a grid environment are provided. First, at least one decision to allocate additional resources to at least one previously submitted job is stored in a decision cache, wherein said the least one... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080256225 - Osgi-based dynamic service management method for context-aware systems: An OSGi-based dynamic service management method for context-aware system is provided. By adding a service bundle for service implementation to an OSGi framework, a service lifecycle is separately managed. For this purpose, the service bundle has several service implementations, and a service factory object is generated as many as the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080256223 - Scale across in a grid computing environment: A method, grid computing environment, and computer readable medium for managing available resources in a grid computing environment are disclosed. The method includes determining, when a new job is submitted, if a first of the computing clusters has sufficient available resources to run the new job. If the first computing... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080256226 - Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus data acquisition apparatus and semiconductor manufacturing system: According to the present invention, there is proved a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus data acquisition apparatus, having: a production management system interface unit which may communicate with the production management system; an apparatus interface unit which communicates with the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus; and a production management system substitution unit which may... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080256234 - Data flow control: A system and method for managing content data in a gaming environment to control the flow of information is provided wherein the method includes initiating a game configured to receive content data from at least one of a plurality of content servers, identifying at least one preferred content server from... Agent: The Law Offices Of Steven Mchugh, LLC

20080256229 - Detecting machine utilization activity: Detecting machine utilization activity may be provided. Client machine activity within a computer network may be monitored to determine if the client machine is available for use, or if the computer is already engaged in one or more activities. During a predetermined receive period, machine activity information for a given... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080256230 - Method and system for detecting an anomalous networked device: Methods and systems for detecting one or more anomalous devices are disclosed. For each of a plurality of devices, semi-structured data may be received from the device. For each pair of devices, of the plurality of devices, a similarity measurement may be determined between semi-structured data from a first device... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080256231 - Method for maintaining state consistency among multiple state-driven file system entities when entities become disconnected: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for maintaining state consistency among multiple state-driven file system entities when the file system entities become disconnected. Responsive to a distributed file system server being disconnected from a distributed file system client, a monitor is registered with the configuration... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080256235 - Network resource monitoring and measurement system and method: A method and system for analysing and measuring multiple sources of data over a communications network (18) so as to ascertain information or usage of one or more resources, such as resource servers (2). A data collection and processing means (20) collects and processes the data sources which are forwarded... Agent: Dreier LLP Susan Formicola

20080256232 - Service discovery aggregation method in a local area network and device implementing the method: The invention enables a standard client according to the DVB-IPI phase 1 standard and connected within a local area network interconnected with a service delivery network via a non-transparent gateway to discover all the services offered to it both by the external delivery network an d by the servers in... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080256233 - System and method for tracking the network viral spread of a digital media content item: Systems and methods are provided to track viral marketing. The resulting user interfaces can include a map that tracks propagation via a node tree or a geographic map that shows where media was viewed. The information may also be displayed as a cumulative or absolute tracking graph, which is based... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20080256236 - System, method and computer program product for monitoring and controlling network connections from a supervisory operating system: A system, method and computer program product that is designed to support high-availability, rapid fault recovery, out of band condition signaling and/or other quality of service assurances and security in a networked environment. In one aspect, a method of the invention includes the step of providing a processing system with... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080256240 - Data processing method, data processing apparatus, and recording medium: The present invention has enabled computing resources existing in domestic network systems to be utilized with a maximum efficiency. Actual condition of the connection of client apparatuses to a domestic network and overall computing resources of the domestic network are integrally controlled by a personal computer functioning itself as a... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080256243 - Method and system for identifying available resources in a peer-to-peer network: A method for a peer of a peer-to-peer network to search for an available resource is provided. The method initiates with representing a request for the available resource as a request bit string. The method includes transmitting the request to a parent of the peer. Then, an aggregate availability bit... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080256239 - Method and system for optimizing a network by independently scaling control segments and data flow: A server array controller that includes a Data Flow Segment (DFS) and at least one Control Segment (CS). The DFS includes the hardware-optimized portion of the controller, while the CS includes the software-optimized portions. The DFS performs most of the repetitive chores including statistics gathering and per-packet policy enforcement (e.g.... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP (f5 Patents) Gunnar G. Leinberg

20080256238 - Method and system for utilizing a resource conductor to optimize resource management in a distributed computing environment: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method and system for optimizing resource management in a distributed computing environment through the use of a resource conductor. An application managed by an application manager requires resources managed by a resource manager. A resource conductor in communication with both the application manager and... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080256237 - Method for implementing resources reservation in a proxy-requested mode in next generation network: A method for implementing resources reservation in a proxy-requested mode in an NGN, includes: an AF entity sending a resources request message carrying resources requirement parameters information on behalf of a user to a resources mediation PDF; the resources mediation PDF making an admission decision according to network operation policy... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080256242 - Novel media file access and storage solution for multi-workstation/multi-platform non-linear video editing systems: A novel system, method and computer program product for storing and enabling access to certain digital media files of pre-determined formats stored in a centralized media storage device. The system stores digital audio and video media files in a centralized fashion and enables access to one or more independent users... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080256241 - System and method for automatically managing it-resources in a heterogeneous environment: n

20080256244 - Method, apparatus, computer program product and network node for providing remote client deactivation: An apparatus for providing remote client deactivation includes a processing element. The processing element may be configured to receive a message associated with a service related to a communication session with a client, determine whether the client is associated with an indication to deactivate the client and communicate a signaling... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper US LLP

20080256246 - Method and apparatus for file sharing between a group of user devices with crucial portions sent via satellite and non-crucial portions sent using a peer-to-peer network: A communication system 100 includes a group of user devices 110, a satellite 106 and a content delivery network 120 in communication with the group of user devices 110. The content delivery network 120 selects a plurality of user devices 110 from the group of user devices 110, divides content... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080256245 - Method and system for information exchange utilizing an asynchronous persistent store protocol: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method and system for facilitating the exchange of information between interconnected processorsin environments requiring high performance and high reliability. In an exemplary embodiment, the source sends input to the target and expects output from the target in return. A manager in communication with both... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080256247 - Protection of data transmission network systems against buffer oversizing: A method of managing the allocation to TCP connections of memory blocks of a TCP re-assembly buffer in a TCP network device including a TCP Processing unit, comprises computing a function r(t) on a per connection basis, that measures the occupancy rate of the re-assembly buffer for the relevant TCP... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080256248 - Single server access in a multiple tcp/ip instance environment: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided that access a single server application executing on a processing system having multiple TCP/IP instances. The single server application may be accessed by establishing a registration repository containing information sufficient to identify to both the single server application and a client application... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080256249 - Client agents for obtaining attributes from unavailable clients: A computer system and methods for creating an agency relationship among clients of a computer system with respect to personal privileged, or otherwise sensitive permissions and/or attributes, is described. The system and methods allow a querying client to obtain permission and/or attributes from a queried client, even if the queried... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080256251 - Mechanism for executing server discovery: A mechanism to ensure that the same server/proxy is selected by different server/proxy discovery mechanisms executed in a network control element and a terminal equipment, respectively. A first selection of a server/proxy is executed by a network control element on the basis of a first discovery procedure. Then, a second... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080256250 - Sub-tree access control in network architectures: A logical network directory database compliant with the X.500 standard for a directory data system is disclosed. The network directory database provides a source of subscriber and service data accessible by various control and management processes that require subscriber information. The network directory database may be extensible across various communications... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080256252 - Server apparatus, content processing method therefor, content processing program therefor, server system and recording medium: The present invention relates to a server apparatus that provides content to Web sites, and is directed to dynamically disperse accesses. A server apparatus that receives accesses from a plurality of client apparatuses and responds to the accesses, configured to include a processing unit that monitors accesses of the client... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080256254 - Communication method and apparatus using hypertext transfer protocol: A communication method for implementing a real-time streaming using hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) in a network is provided. Chunked encoding of HTTP is applied so that information can be exchanged between a server and a client while an HTTP request is being progressed. Therefore, bidirectional communication between the client and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080256253 - Method and apparatus for cooperative data stream processing: A cooperative data stream processing system is provided that utilizes a plurality of independent, autonomous and possibly heterogeneous sites in a cooperative arrangement to process user-defined job requests over dynamic, continuous streams of data. The sites negotiate peering relationships to share data and processing resources to handle the submitted job... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080256255 - Process for streaming media data in a peer-to-peer network: The process for streaming media data in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network includes the step of submitting a request through the P2P network to play a time segment of a media file. A local computer is connected through the P2P network to a streaming computer having the desired time segment. Thereafter,... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20080256258 - Business-to-business internet infrastructure: A system and method is disclosed for integrating a trading partner into an XML based Internet. The system is operable to access the Internet to register a business name with one or more XML naming systems and register a business name with one or more XML naming systems. The system... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20080256256 - Method and apparatus for autonomically regulating ratio of stateful to stateless transaction processing for increasing scalability in a network of sip servers: Systems and methods are provided for maximizing call throughput in a server network by optimizing the balance of stateful to stateless handling or transactions at each server within the network. The identification of transaction messages to be handled statelessly or statefully is made at each proxy server within the network... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080256257 - Systems and methods for reflecting messages associated with a target protocol within a network: A protocol management system is capable of detecting certain message protocols and applying policy rules to the detected message protocols that prevent intrusion, or abuse, of a network's resources. In one aspect, a protocol message gateway is configured to apply policy rules to high level message protocols, such as those... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080256259 - Techniques for providing a virtual workspace comprised of a multiplicity of electronic devices: A virtual workspace is provided for a user with a number of electronic devices, in which information can be exchanged among the electronic devices through a number of connections between the electronic devices. The virtual workspace is provided by determining where services are located and the type of the services,... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP,

20080256260 - Lightweight mrrm with radio agnostic access selection in the core network: A method and arrangement for making a handover decision in a multi-access communication network is disclosed. A first set of criteria is determined for when a handover between at least two access paths should be performed and a report is sent when at least one criterion of a first set... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080256261 - Proximity detection method: The invention relates to a method of determining a proximity between a root node (301) and a leaf node (303) in a network. The method comprises computing a link proximity value between any two mutually connected nodes in the network, at an initial node, sending a proximity computation request message... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080256262 - Clock signal synchronization among computers in a network: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for clock signal synchronization among computers in a network, including designating, as a primary clock signal for all the computers in a network, a clock signal from one of the computers in the network; providing the primary clock signal, simultaneously and in... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20080256263 - Incorporating a mobile device into a peer-to-peer network: A system and a method enabling a mobile user-terminal (16) to participate as a peer in a peer-to-peer network (10) The system containing a mobile user-terminal (16) and a network device The network device containing a peer-communication module operative to communicate as a peer in a peer-to-peer network (10), a... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20080250095 - Content distributing system and content receiving and reproducing device: A technology that makes a program line-up related to contents distributed to a user side, depending on various conditions, preferences, and communication environments of the user side that views and listens to the content is disclosed. According to the technology, an on-board device (content receiving and reproducing device) 1 receives,... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20080250096 - Data management apparatus, control method of data management apparatus, and computer-readable storage: A service providing unit adapted to provide a first service which transmits image data to the external apparatus under the control of the external apparatus on the network; a service retrieval unit adapted to retrieve the external apparatus, on the network, capable of providing a second service which processes the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080250098 - Communication system and e-mail check method: A communication device which accesses a mail server includes an acquisition unit and a judgment unit. The acquisition unit periodically accesses the mail server and acquires a total number of mails at each access. The judgment unit compares a total number of mails currently acquired with a total number of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080250097 - Method and system for extending the services provided by an enterprise service bus: In a middleware implementing an enterprise service bus (ESB) for interconnecting disparate software applications a method and a system of extending services provided by the ESB are disclosed. All incoming service requests reaching ESB from end-clients are not only forwarded to a primary server but are all, or an adjustable... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080250104 - Apparatus, system and method for secure information dissemination: An apparatus transfers the title of content to an ID-assigning unit which assigns an ID to the content and transmits the content ID to a broadcasting unit via a tagging unit. A broadcasting apparatus then broadcasts the content ID and a receiver extracts the content ID from a received signal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080250100 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer program: An information processing apparatus, that obtains pieces of content information relating to content recorded in an information recording medium, includes a content identifier generation unit configured to read a content certificate which is recorded in the recording medium and which corresponds to the content stored in the information recording medium,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080250102 - Information processing system: The present invention provides a technique capable of generating and providing information in which various elements are associated with one another in accordance with situations. An information processing system has a server and a plurality of terminals. Each of the terminals obtains element associated information obtained by associating elements belonging... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080250105 - Method for enabling a user to vote for a document stored within a database: The present invention relates to a method and computer readable recording medium of enabling voting for a document stored within a database over a data network, comprising: (a) receiving user's search query; (b) providing a search results list, according to said search query, wherein said search results list comprises at... Agent: Dan Grois

20080250101 - Multimedia data transmitting apparatus and multimedia data receiving apparatus: To provide, in a multimedia content server which stores multimedia data and transmits the stored multimedia data to a terminal, a technique which allows the terminal to implement a data broadcast even when random access for trick play, and the like, is performed. Upon receiving a data transmission request from... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080250099 - On-demand propagation of routing information in distributed computing system: An apparatus, program product and method utilize on-demand propagation of routing information to reduce the overhead associated with distributing routing information throughout a distributed computing system. The staleness of the routing information utilized in routing client requests for a particular client is gauged based upon the number and/or frequency of... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080250103 - System and a method for accelerating communication of tcp/ip based content: A technique for downloading multiple objects from at least one server in an accelerated manner. Typically, in a TCP/IP environment, a client is limited in the number of sockets that can be opened for a single server. A spoofer (410) is utilized to intercept traffic between the server and the... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080250113 - Individually specifying message output attributes in a messaging system: A method, system and program for specifying message outputs in a messaging session are provided. A message entry is received in association with a particular topic from among multiple available topics from a particular user from among multiple users participating in a messaging session. Output attributes are assigned to the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080250107 - Instant message archive viewing: Techniques for traversing a conversation history between a first user and a second user are provided. A window is displayed that is used to send messages from the second user to the first user. The window includes a conversation history window. The second user scrolls through the conversation history (associated... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080250112 - Method and apparatus for determining whether an email message is ready for transmission: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to analyze an email message using a policy to form a result in response to detecting a request to send an email message. A determination is made as to whether the result indicates that the email message is complete. An... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080250109 - Method and system for tracking time over instant messenger: A method and apparatus for allowing the tracking the starting, ending and duration of instant messenger (“IM”) interactions, are disclosed. An IM application, running on an electronic device, may provide functionality to capture the duration and history of an interaction between users over an IM infrastructure. The IM application may... Agent: Petnote LLC Attn: Steven Rueben

20080250114 - Mitigating address book weaknesses that permit the sending of e-mail to wrong addresses: A computer-implemented method for mitigating address book weaknesses that permit sending of e-mail to wrong addresses includes determining prior to sending an e-mail message whether one of a plurality of recipients of an e-mail message should receive the e-mail message, the determining prior to sending the e-mail message including analyzing... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080250110 - Peer-to-peer messaging system: In one embodiment, a distributed environment for supporting on-line collaborative meetings among a plurality of users includes a plurality of applications executing on different client machines. A sequence of messages is transmitted from a first application of the distributed environment to a second application of the distributed environment, using a... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080250111 - Remote operation of instant messaging systems: A method for allowing remote operation of an instant messaging session is provided. A remote instant messaging client is selected from a list of remote instant messaging clients. User input, indicating an instant messaging command to be executed on the selected remote instant messaging client, is received. A request that... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080250106 - Use of acceptance methods for accepting email and messages: An email and message management system invention that rejects all emails and messages unless the messages pass acceptance filter criteria. Without any filtering this invention will refuse to accept all incoming email and messages, whereas current systems accept all email messages without filtering aids. The invention uses several acceptance filtering... Agent: George L. Rugg

20080250108 - Web and telephony interaction system and method: Apparatus for location at a website comprising: a media input for receiving a media signal, typically video; a chat room host configured to host chat rooms, each chat room configured to display media from said media input in association with text from chat users as a chat room display; a... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080250115 - Enterprise notification system: A system for notifying an end-user of the occurrence of an event is disclosed. The inventive concept comprises a front-end system that is accessible by the end-user, and a back-end system that is remotely accessible through the front-end system. The front-end system contains one or more mini-applications associated with various... Agent: Muskin & Cusick LLC

20080250116 - Method and apparatus for reducing pool starvation in a shared memory switch: Reducing pool starvation in a switch is disclosed. The switch includes a plurality of egress ports, and a reserved pool of buffers in a shared memory. The reserved pool of buffers is one of a number of reserved pools of buffers, and the reserved pool of buffers is reserved for... Agent: Mosaid Technologies Incorporated

20080250117 - Context providing method, system, and apparatus: A context providing method includes the collection step of collecting context information representing a situation of a target via a network, the generation step of applying a predetermined rule to the collected context information and information associated with a context entity which generates/utilizes the context information, thereby generating new context... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080250119 - Data transfer scheme using caching and differential compression techniques 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.

20080250120 - Method and apparatus for distributing a multimedia file to a public kiosk across a network: A video network includes public kiosks having digital storage capacity. Centralized inventory control manages the video files stored at individual kiosks or network LANs. A user requests a multimedia file for download, and selects various ancillary files and control features, such as languages, subtitles, control of nudity, etc. The requested... Agent: Law Office Of Ronald Shea

20080250118 - Systems, methods, and apparatus of a space communication file transfer system: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments a CFDP protocol state machine and state table is implemented on each of a number of entities in a space communication system. Some embodiments of the state table specify at least one action to specific events for each of... Agent: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

20080250121 - Facilitating configuration of multiple instances of an application on a server cluster: Facilitating configuration of multiple instances of an application executing in a server cluster. A centralized storage is provided at which configuration data for multiple application instances potentially executing on different servers (of a server cluster) is stored. The application instances may retrieve the configuration data from the centralized storage and... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080250122 - Methods and systems for network configuration: Network and device configuration systems and methods are described. In an embodiment, a first user interface configured to receive from a user configuration information regarding a first network provided. Program code stored in computer accessible memory is configured to generate a barcode that includes information related to the first network... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080250123 - Network switch and method of preventing ip address collision: A network switch and a method of preventing an IP address collision is provided. When a new node tries to use an IP address, which is being used in one broadcast domain, it is possible to detect and prevent an IP address collision in real-time, disconnect only the new node... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080250124 - Redundancy-protocol configuration in a ring network: In a network having a plurality of nodes each with at least two ports and lines or links connecting the ports in a ring. The improvement wherein one of the nodes is configured as a ring manager capable of configuring the other nodes via the links. Thus starting from a... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080250125 - Supervisor partitioning of client resources: A system for supervisor partitioning of client resources in a subnet communications environment includes a plurality of client nodes, each receiving an allocated set of resources determined by a central authority, which assigns resources to a supervisor key associated with each supervisor of the plurality of client nodes. At each... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080250126 - Method and apparatus for updating firmware for interface unit connecting portable audio/video player with another audio/video player: A method and apparatus updates software data for an interface unit that interfaces a portable audio/video player with another audio/video system. When the portable audio/video players are updated by adding new features, etc., the method and apparatus enables the users to obtain the corresponding update file for the interface unit... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20080250127 - Network management program, network management device, and network management method: When a new service is implemented by adding a server, a network management device detects a network device requiring setting modification. Next, the network management device presents to an administrator a plurality of samples corresponding to the detected network device requiring setting modification and selects a sample selected by the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080250129 - system and method for binding a subscription-based computing system to an internet service provider: A system for binding a subscription-based computer to an internet service provider (ISP) may include a binding module and a security module residing on the computer. The binding module may identify and authenticate configuration data from peripheral devices that attempt to connect to the computer, encrypt any requests for data... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080250134 - Architecture for a centralized management system: An example of a solution provided here comprises: providing a logical design, including at least one hub containing central management tools, and a plurality of lower tiers containing local management tools; placing components according to the design; and providing, from the hub, one or more management functions. The lower tiers... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080250128 - Automated time zone based grouping: Time zone data is obtained from clients, such as web browsers, which interact with a server, and used to classify metrics of the clients such as response times. This classification technique does not require that a mapping of IP addresses to geographic location is available. Metrics from the clients are... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080250133 - Probing network nodes for optimization: A method is disclosed for optimizing a network that is formed from a plurality of nodes. The NC node of the network compiles an order that the plurality of nodes perform a probing operation. The order is typically round robin. The NC node receives a request from a client that... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC Entropic Communications

20080250131 - Server and related method for inserting data into streaming data for a network system: A server of a network system for inserting data into a streaming data displayed by a user comprises a first store unit, a statistic unit, a selecting unit, a displaying control unit and an output unit. The first store unit is sued for storing a plurality of data contents. The... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080250132 - System for controlling and managing network apparatus and method thereof: Disclosed is a network device control and managing system and method. The network device control and managing system receives network device information and subscriber information from a database server of the network device control and managing system according to the manager's client information request and realizes hierarchical combined information. The... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080250130 - System, method and engine for playing smil based multimedia contents: A system for playing SMIL based multimedia contents, comprising: a plurality of SMIL engines for analyzing and interpreting SMIL documents, as well as communicating with and controlling SMIL sub engines, remote media proxies, or local media playing devices; a plurality of remote media proxies for receiving instructions from the upper... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080250136 - Accelerated and reproducible domain visitor targeting: A device, system, and method are directed towards managing and tracking of cross-domain user activities through use of a beacon. As a user of a client device requests content from different domain services managed by a common entity, they may receive a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to a beacon in... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080250139 - Facilitating monitoring and simultaneously analyzing of network events of multiple hosts via a single network interface: The substantially simultaneous tracing/monitoring of a plurality of sets of events via a single network interface. The plurality of events can be traced and/or monitored for one host or for a plurality of hosts coupled via the same network interface. The sets of events to be traced/monitored for a host... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080250135 - Methods and computer program products for managing application performance on a network: Managing application performance on a network. A network graph is generated from a set of application endpoints on the network. The network graph is annotated by associating one or more of the application endpoints with at least one of a corresponding latency annotation or a corresponding available bandwidth annotation. An... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080250140 - Monitoring apparatus, processing method, program for implementing the processing method, and management apparatus, management method, and program for implementing the management method: There is provided a monitoring apparatus which is capable of efficiently notifying an external host of completion of installation of the monitoring apparatus for image forming apparatuses, and completion of operations carried out for the image forming apparatuses. The monitoring apparatus is connected to a management apparatus for communication therewith.... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080250141 - Monitoring service with inter-enterprise contextual analysis: Methods and apparatuses for receiving data associated with one or more system metrics, contextually analyzing that data in view of prior received data of other computer systems of different subscriber enterprises, determining, based at least in part on the results of the contextual analysis, if an alert needs to be... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080250138 - Multiple displays of large dynamic alarm windows: A GUI for a Network Management System client is provided. The GUI presents network alarms in more than one alarm window. Each alarm window includes a drop-down menu for selecting an alarm filter and a pause button for halting display of new alarms. Alarm filters may be retrieved from a... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080250137 - System and method for intrusion prevention high availability fail over: A system and method for intrusion prevention high availability fail over. The system includes a network infrastructure which comprises a first sensor and at least one back-up sensor. The first sensor and the at least one back-up sensor are in line with a network path. The first sensor and the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080250142 - Access node selection in a network: The invention is directed towards determining an access node (14, 16) for a terminal (18) in a network (10) having one or more access nodes capable of providing access to the terminal based on one or more access technologies. Access node is selected through determining whether at least one network... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080250143 - Grid accounting method and system: A method is provided for accounting the usage of networked resources and/or services available for invocation in a grid computing architecture, said grid computing architecture including a grid middleware for invoking said services and/or resources, said method comprising the act of receiving at least one resource and/or one service available... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080250145 - Apparatus and computer-readable media for recoverable workflow: Improved methods for providing recoverable workflow of complex and/or risk-prone workflows in a computer system or computer network include segmenting such workflows into sub-processes, associating a checkpoint with the end of each sub-process, and determining whether processing of each sub-process was successful. If so, a set of parameters is stored... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080250146 - Method and apparatus for application or protocol version negotiation: A method for version negotiation between two entities is provided. Described in the context of communication protocol negotiation, an initiating entity proposes an initial communication protocol version to a receiving entity. In response, the receiving entity accepts the protocol version if it is within the range of its supported versions... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080250144 - Method and apparatus for controlling transmission of content data: Provided are a method and apparatus for controlling transmission of content data. In the method, a communication channel is initially established to transmit the content data, the content data is transmitted through the established communication channel, verification is performed a plurality of times to determine whether the content data is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080250148 - Member activation: A method and system are herein disclosed for registering a member at a targeted web-based information management system using a reduced amount of member and system interaction to confirm and establish the member's contact information. Generally, the method may communicate permission to solicit a potential member to the information management... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080250149 - Methods and system for providing concurrent access to a resource in a communication session: Methods and a system are described for providing concurrent access to a resource in a communication session. For example, a method includes receiving a message including a request for a communication session between first and second participants represented in a presence service by first and second participant tuples. The request... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080250151 - Network system, network connecting device, and network connecting method: A network system that performs network connection between devices conforming to a predetermined communication standard is disclosed. The system includes client devices including first network starting units that present first identification information including an identifier decided in advance and designating a first network and start the first network and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080250150 - Networked display device: A networked display device includes a memory, a network transmission module, a processing unit, an operational interface and a screen. The memory is to store a plurality of websites. The processing unit is to connect with one of the websites through the network transmission module to download at least a... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080250147 - Proximity check server: This invention provides a method, proximity check server (203), system (200), and computer program product (207, 208) for determining the level of allowed communication between devices (201, 202) in e.g. a home network. By addition of one or more tamper-resistant devices, so-called proximity check server(s) (203,204), round-trip time measurements to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080250152 - Communication method having firewall network tunnel and location transparency: A communication method allowing data to be exchanged over different networks and having a firewall network tunnel and location transparency includes a first web application program, a first web server, a first cache, a first transport layer communication program, a plurality of second web application programs, a plurality of second... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd.

20080250153 - Streaming of templates and data records in individual streams using a multistream protocol: In one embodiment, a method includes determining a first template defining a data format for one or more first data records and a second template defining a data format for one or more second data records. The template may be needed to decode the information included in an associated data... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080250154 - Self-adaptive multicast file transfer protocol: Self-adaptive multicast and reliable transfer of digital files from a server device to one or more client devices including an active client device, one or more passive client devices and one or more smart client devices.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080250156 - Method and apparatus for overload control and audit in a resource control and management system: A system and method for resource control management implementing Diameter protocol is disclosed. The system includes a border gateway which is configured to send an overload message and a controller that is acting as a Diameter protocol server which is configured to receive the overload message and block a number... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080250155 - Server side tftp flow control: Methods and apparatuses for server side flow control. Receive a request from a first client device to multicast a file as a plurality of packets of data from a server device to multiple client device; transmit the plurality of packets of data from a server to the multiple client devices... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080250157 - System for financial documentation conversion: A method to prepare an Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) document in a web-hosted server includes authenticating a user, uploading financial information from a spreadsheet, storing the information, and processing the data into an XBRL compliant document for transmittal to a financial regulatory agency. The process takes an input from... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080250158 - Methods and systems for disseminating information to ensure recipient retention: The present invention relates to methods, systems and apparatus of disseminating information about a topic to more than one recipient. The information includes a plurality of informational segments (e.g., ticklers), wherein an informational segment has one or more pieces of media, an image, text, or any combination thereof. The methods... Agent: Antoinette G. Giugliano, P.C. Dba Agg Intellectual Property Law

20080250159 - Cybersquatter patrol: An exemplary method includes providing a typographically erroneous domain name, tracing the domain name where tracing includes entering the domain name as part of a URL and recording one or more subsequent URLs, identifying a domain parking service for the domain name based at least in part on information in... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080243987 - Active control of collaborative devices: Control of collaborative devices, including providing at least two collaborative devices, wherein each collaborative device comprises a client device and an embedded Java server, providing a registry service to which the collaborative devices are coupled for data communications, and providing at least one registry table, wherein the registry table includes... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080243986 - Information processing device, network system, and computer readable medium therefor: An information processing device, which is connectable with a data storage device and data management device, includes a data dividing unit configured to divide a first data file into a plurality of second data files, a management information creating unit configured to create management information regarding the plurality of second... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080243989 - Large-scale network management using distributed autonomous agents: In a computer network including a plurality of network elements, a network management architecture including a plurality of agents, each of the agents corresponding to a different one of the network elements, and a plurality of device components, each of the device components modeling at least one aspect of one... Agent: Daniel J. Swirsky Alphapatent Associates Ltd.

20080243988 - Recipe-and-component control module and methods thereof: A recipe-and component control module (RACCM) is provided. The RACCM is a server for performing data management in a plasma processing system with a plurality of components. The RACCM includes a plurality of intelligent agents. Each intelligent agent of the intelligent agents is configured to interact with each component of... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20080244002 - system including a server and at least a client: A system includes a server and at least a client. The sever transfers a code data to the client. The client receives the code data from the server and decodes the code data. The client includes a requesting unit configured to request a code data stored in the server, a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080244000 - Communication system: A client terminal is capable of communicating with an address server. The client terminal includes a displaying unit, a language determining unit, a language information transmitting unit, a service information acquiring unit, and a display controlling unit. The displaying unit displays a page. The language determining unit determines a language... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080243991 - Content purchase and transfer management for reader device: A technique in which content is supplied to an electronic reader device from a server is described. The reader device establishes a connection with the server and then automatically transmits its identification information to the server. In response, the server provides the electronic reader device with a representation corresponding to... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080243997 - Distributed content item recommendation system and method of operation therefor: A distributed content item recommendation system comprises a central recommendation server (101) and a plurality of remote recommendation devices (103) coupled to the central recommendation server (101) via a communication network (105). The central recommendation server (101) stores content item set correlation data for sets of content items. The correlation... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080244004 - Launching a web site using a personal device: A method of displaying a web page to a user. A triggering device (2500) is provided having a unique code associated therewith, the unique code associated with a remote location on a network of the source of the web page. The unique code is transmitted from the triggering device (2500)... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080243999 - Method and system for management of an application ensemble: A method and a communication system having an Application Ensemble Service server is provided that manage an application ensemble having multiple applications running on one or more user terminals. The communication system allows a user to collectively transfer the ensemble from a source terminal or terminals to a target terminal... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080243996 - Method of simultaneously providing data to two or more devices on the same network: A method of providing data to two client devices on a first network having a shared cache from a server device on a second network. An instance of substantially simultaneous requests for data being made to a server from two client devices on a same network is identified. In response... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080243994 - Method, apparatus, system, and medium for supporting multiple-party communications: Systems, apparatus and methods related to multiple-party communications conducted between client computers in a computer network. For example, a system for supporting multiple-party communications between a plurality of client computers in communication with a server in a computer network is disclosed. The system includes a client processor circuit operably configured... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080244003 - Methods and apparatus for creating enhanced receptivity for material in learning, problem-solving and life-style improvement: A system for acquisition and presentation of audio or audio/visual media has a peripheral computing device including an audio speaker system, a visual display screen and a memory for storing the media, the device having connection access to a computer connected to a network and output connection access to one... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080243990 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for continuous availability of non-persistence messages in a distributed platform: A method, system, and computer program product for continuous availability of non-persistence messages in a distributed platform are provided. The method includes providing a first client application independently in operative communication with at least two servers via a first client abstraction layer, generating a critical message by the first client... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Endicott

20080243995 - Multimedia client/server system with adjustable data link rate and range and methods for use therewith: A circuit for use in a multimedia server module that is coupleable to a plurality of multimedia sources that produce at least one multimedia signal and that can transmit over a wireless communication path to at least one client module, the circuit includes an encoder module that encodes the at... Agent: Bruce Stuckman, Ph.d.

20080243998 - Remote control apparatus and method: A remote control apparatus and method are provided. The remote control apparatus includes a user interface (UI) server which transmits a UI having a multimedia data format, and a UI client which displays the UI, receives a user command and controls the UI server according to the received user command.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080243992 - System and method for bandwidth optimization in a network storage environment: According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, a network cache intercepts data requested by a client from a remote server interconnected with the cache through one or more wide area network (WAN) links (e.g., for Wide Area File Services, or “WAFS”). The network cache stores the data... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080243993 - System for generic service management in a distributed and dynamic resource environment, providing constant service access to users: A service controller for providing centralized service management, control and placement, as well as guaranteed failover, in a dynamic and distributed computing environment. The service controller works in conjunction with a computing resource supply manager, which supplies the required resources so that the service controller can run the service on... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080244001 - Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products for providing packet-level fec with higher throughput using user datagram protocol (udp): A method and system for data delivery from a server to a client is provided. The server maintains a session counter and transmits data to a client at a transmission speed. The server receives a message from the client indicating a percentage of packets lost in a current session and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080244005 - Enhanced user information for messaging applications: Techniques involving messaging applications are disclosed. For example, an apparatus may include a presence determination module and a publication module. The presence determination module may infer one or more presence indicators regarding a user. These inference(s) may be based on sensor data. In addition, these inference(s) may be based on... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20080244006 - Method and apparatus for a digital leg history: A personalized way to digitally record a person's physical activities over time serves web searching, business advertising, nostalgia, security and object tracing purposes. The chronological digital history of the person's physical presence over a time includes (i) digital network entries from other members who hold their portable wireless short range... Agent: Steven Horowitz, Esq.

20080244007 - Electronic conference system, information processing apparatus, and program: According to one embodiment, a client computer of an electronic conference system comprises a unit which determines whether or not the client computer is equipped with the image pickup device, a unit which notifying a server computer of the electronic conference system of the determination, a unit which receives the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080244008 - Method and system for data exchange among data sources: Systems and methods for joining results in loosely collaborative data exchanges which include a plurality of nodes in communication with each other wherein a node is constrained from sharing payload data regarding a first subject, is allowed to share matching data regarding the first subject, and is further constrained to... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080244015 - Apparatus, system, and method for automated dialog driven up-selling: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automated dialog driven up-selling. A conversion module may convert a service dialog into service dialog text. A search module searches the service dialog text from the service dialog between a customer and a customer service agent for at least one specified key... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080244025 - Continuous feedback-controlled deployment of message transforms in a distributed messaging system: The present invention solves the disadvantages of the prior art and provides a distributed messaging system supporting stateful subscriptions. A stateful publish-subscribe system extends the functionality of the content-based approach to include more general state-valued expressions. A plurality of broker machines is provided to deliver messages sent by publishing clients... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080244022 - Email templates for person to person communications: Systems and methods are described for customizing electronic communications and systems. In particular, methods for generating and using templates are described. Email is typically customized according to a scheme or format selected by the user and in accordance with an affinity of the user with an organization, sports team or... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080244017 - Filtering application messages in a high speed, low latency data communications environment: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for filtering application messages in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include: receiving an application message in a transport engine of a message receiving device from a message transmitting device, the application message having a message contents label and a collision... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080244012 - Instant messaging with reduced message overhead: A messaging system with reduced overhead, the system including a messaging server operative to receive a typing message sent from the first computer and destined for a second computer, and a message filter operative to determine a level of unused resources of the server, and instruct the server to forward... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080244024 - Interactive communications system: An interactive system and method for controlling access to a plurality of communications sessions involving a plurality of users including controlling access to a plurality of communications sessions, each of said communications sessions being for access by a plurality of users, wherein data identifying said plurality of communications sessions have... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080244016 - Method and system for processing a message by a message provider: A method for processing a message by a message provider that includes receiving, for a topic, a mutual exclusion function from each application instance of a plurality of application instances, receiving the message for the topic, and sending the message to one application instance of the plurality of application instances... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080244009 - Method and system for regulating electronic mail: A method and system are disclosed which regulate the electronic mail received by a subscriber or user by forcing the sender to pay a small amount for sending e-mail, making it uneconomic to send very large volumes of spam indiscriminately. The resulting permit or stamp can be reused by the... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20080244013 - Method, apparatus, system, medium, and signals for publishing content created during a communication: Systems, apparatus and methods related to multiple-party communications conducted between client computers in a computer network. For example, a method and apparatus for publishing content created during a previous communication hosted by a server are disclosed. The content is represented by a first plurality of saved messages saved in a... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080244023 - Methods and systems for performing server-based mobile chat: A method of conserving client resources associated with a mobile device may include receiving a data message for an intended subscriber of a mobile solution provider, storing the data message in a computer readable storage medium, and, in response to receiving the data message, determining whether a TCP socket can... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080244018 - Personal communication gateway: Disclosed is a method in a personal communication gateway. The method includes communicating with a user terminal through a personal area network interface, accessing multimedia services through a communication network interface, and operating as a proxy to provide for the user terminal access to the multimedia services through the personal... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080244014 - Product, method and system for managing multiple user ids in instant messaging or email computer software applications: An invention is disclosed for enhancing communication with instant messaging (IM)/chat or email computer software applications by allowing a user to manage multiple user IDs by linking each different ID associated with that user thus allowing others to access that user regardless of the particular IM/chat or email system or... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20080244010 - Providing message content to a user for composing messages for mailing at a hand-held portable electronic device: A method and an apparatus are provided for providing message content to a user at a hand-held, portable electronic device for composing an electronic message. The user may use at least a portion of the message content for composing the electronic message for mailing over a network to a recipient.... Agent: Sanjeev Kumar Singh

20080244026 - Real-time notification of presence changes: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for providing presence and availability status information of a first user to a second user. The system includes a presence availability server for storing presence and availability status information of the first user. The presence availability server is configured to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080244021 - Spam resistant e-mail system: A spam resistant e-mail system employs communication via authenticated communication channels while providing a mechanism for rapidly growing a list of authenticated individuals and managing that list on a personal and collaborative basis to prevent spammers from joining the network.... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080244019 - System and method for plug and play video-conferencing: The present invention is a system and method for simply and intuitively establishing and using a communication link with another user. Various embodiments of the present invention allow one or more non-technically oriented users to also easily set up for, and engage easily in a video call. In an embodiment,... Agent: The Law Office Of Deepti Panchawagh - Jain

20080244011 - System and method for providing instant messaging session backups: A system, method, and program product are provided that receives an instant messaging request from a sender over a network, such as the Internet. The instant messaging request is directed to requesting an instant messaging session with a primary recipient. The system determines whether the primary recipient is available. If... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080244020 - System and method of user definition of and participation in communities and management of individual and community information and communication: A set of systems and methods that improve the means by which its users can define and participate in communities and by which users can manage their individual information and communication as well as that of their communities.... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080244027 - System and method related to generating and tracking an email campaign: A method and system for generating and tracking an email campaign is described. An email campaign generator generates an email campaign template from an email target database. The email target database comprises at least one email target. An email campaign engine generates a custom email corresponding to each of the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080244028 - Synchronization and customization of a clone computer: A computer implemented method for maintaining synchronization between a master computer disk and a clone disk that includes cloning the clone disk from the master computer disk, the clone disk having a customization portion; and customizing the customization portion with information relevant to a clone computer that uses the clone... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20080244029 - Data processing system: A transmission cancellation section is provided on a bus connecting a master and a slave. During a reset of the master, the transmission cancellation section blocks the bus so that an invalid command flowing on the bus does not reach the slave and executes, instead of the master stopped by... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080244030 - Methods and apparatus to perform file transfers in distributed file systems: Methods and apparatus to send and receive files are disclosed. An example method for sending a file includes sending a list of data nodes storing a first portion of the file and a second portion of the file to a master node of a destination distributed file system, computing a... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080244031 - On-demand memory sharing: A method for sharing memory resources in a data network is provided. The method comprises monitoring first memory space available to a first system; transferring data to a second system, in response to determining that the first memory space has fallen below a first threshold level; and transferring instructions to... Agent: CenturyIPGroup, Inc. [ibm Us]

20080244032 - Techniques for host to host transfer of sequential media and use of persistent reservation to protect media during host to host transfer: Techniques for host to host transfer of media and the use of persistent reservation to protect media during host to host transfer is disclosed. Exemplary embodiments may be realized as methods and systems for transferring a sequential media loaded in a drive from a first host to a second host... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP / Symantec Corporation Intellectual Property Dept.

20080244037 - Information distribution system, information processing apparatus and method, and information distribution apparatus and method: Disclosed herein is an information processing system, including: a plurality of information processing apparatus configured to issue a request for transmission of a content; and an information distribution apparatus configured to distribute the content to the information processing apparatus; each of the information processing apparatus having an inputting control section,... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080244033 - Managing content remotely on a device: An on-line service manages downloads of digital content in response to user requests. User requests to download digital content include parameters defining conditions for downloads. Parameters may define the device to which the requested content is to be downloaded and the time that the download is to take place. The... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080244036 - Regulation compliance method for user-posted video files: In a method of posting a video subject to a regulation on a website, the video being submitted to the website by a user, the user accesses a website that allows the user to post videos thereon. When it is determined that the video to posted on the website includes... Agent: Michael M. Gerardi

20080244035 - Remote copy system and remote copy method: In a remote copy method, a delay in data update processing in a primary volume is eliminated. The method employs at least one of a synchronous method in which the data of a primary volume is updated after being confirmed that the data has been copied into a secondary volume... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080244034 - System and method for providing remote forensics capability: A system and method for performing a forensic analysis of a subject computer having a non-volatile memory with a second computer is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes executing on the subject computer a first code segment configured to provide communications via a non-proprietary communication protocol such as the... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20080244038 - Point of presence distribution mechanism for digital content objects: Particular embodiments of the present invention are related to a point-of-presence distribution system mechanism facilitating distribution and use of digital content, ad content and revenue generation opportunities.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080244040 - Method and apparatus for dynamically pushing content over wireless networks: The invention includes a method and apparatus for dynamically pushing content over a wireless network A method includes obtaining network-level state information and user-level state information for a user in response to an indication that content is available for the user, determining whether a network-level condition is satisfied using the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080244039 - Method of virtual online storage of documents with a user friendly interface: This invention relates to a method for providing a superior file storage system which utilizes the Internet and which has security as well as a superior user experience as foremost goals. The invention is ideal for the secure storage of critical documents, combining the security of a safe deposit box... Agent: Charles C.h. Wu

20080244042 - Method and system for communicating media over a computer network: Media is partitioned into k recurring frames or packets. Recurring frames of the same position 1 to k collectively define k media substreams which may be communicated from sending computers to a receiving computer over a computer network pursuant to a substream mask. The substream mask is defined by the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080244041 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically generating best practices for configuring a networked system: A method, system, and computer program product for automatically generating best practices for configuring a networked system of entities are provided. The method includes identifying a networked system configuration problem and determining a set of problematic entities. The set of problematic entities includes the entities reporting the networked system configuration... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20080244043 - Network system and network device: There is provided a network system including a server and a printer connected to a network, where the server collects and stores configuration data describing operating conditions from respective printers, the server stores the respective collected configuration data associated with a registered ID. If a user enters a predetermined registered... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080244044 - Substation automation system with increased availability: In automation systems, such as Substation Automation systems, the mean time to repair is reduced by remote reconfiguration and start-up of a replacement or spare Intelligent Electronic Device (IED), leaving some more hours for the maintenance personnel to repair an inactive or faulty IED. The time for the actual repair... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080244047 - Method for implementing management software, hardware with pre-configured software and implementing method thereof: A method for implementing management software, hardware with pre-configured management software and an implementing method thereof are provided. In the present method, a management system is established first at a service end for installing the management software. The management software is installed in a management host and pre-configured with application... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080244048 - Method of assigning network addresses in an in-flight entertainment system: In an in-flight entertainment system implementing a wireless link between a network server S and wireless processing units SDBi,j which each serve the individual devices of a plurality of seats GSi,j of one and the same row, an identification i of the column in which a wireless processing unit SDBi,j... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080244046 - System and method for associating a geographic location with an internet protocol address: Systems and methods for associating a geographic location with an IP address are disclosed. Generally, an IP address from which each of a plurality of users accesses a network is recorded. A geo tag is associated with each of the plurality of users and a subset of the plurality of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080244045 - System and method for managing images using parent-child relationship: A system and method is disclosed for managing disk images used to manufacture information handling machines. In various embodiments of the invention, a disk image is initially created using an image builder server. A “definition,” also known as a “manifest,” of the image is stored on the image builder server... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080244054 - Abstract representation of subnet utilization in an address block: In one embodiment, a method to display a visual representation of subblock utilization in an address block is provided. A plurality of subblock sizes in the address block are determined. A subblock may be referred to as a subnet or subblock but is a portion of the addresses in the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080244052 - Adapter blade with interposer for expanded capability of a blade server chassis system: A system chassis includes multiple chassis bays configured for receiving either of a single, conventional server blade or an adapter blade. The adapter blade can selectively secure a plurality of compact blades, such as a blade PC. The adapter blade includes an interposer disposed for electronically communicating each compact blade... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/nc) C/o Streets & Steele

20080244055 - Computer that manages devices: A computer is provided with: a device related value acquisition unit that acquires a device related value (for example a LUN), which is a value relating to a device; a calculation formula including a first variable in which the device related value is substituted; a device identification value calculation unit... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080244053 - Geographic reader display data: A client device, system, and method are directed towards determining data on network site visits, and providing the data based on a geographical relationship of visitors to the network sites. A tracker tracks visits to, and outbound link click activity on a network site. If the click is associated with... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080244059 - Managing application interactions using distributed modality components: A method for managing multimodal interactions can include the step of registering a multitude of modality components with a modality component server, wherein each modality component handles an interface modality for an application. The modality component can be connected to a device. A user interaction can be conveyed from the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080244049 - Method and system for device management: The device management is performed by managing objects in devices of a device management system in a mobile network infrastructure. The system has a first server with a first device management application using a first protocol, a second server with a second device management application using a second protocol, an... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20080244051 - Method and system for managing dynamic associations between folksonomic data and resources: Methods and systems are described for managing dynamic associations between folksonomic data and resources. One method includes receiving from a subscriber a subscription request to establish at least one of a first subscription to tag/resource association data associated with a resource and a second subscription to tag/resource association data associated... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080244056 - Method, device, and computer product for managing communication situation: An action acquiring unit acquires action information corresponding to operation information from a first storage unit for a first user, and stores acquired action information in a third storage unit. A receiving unit receives, via a network, action information of a second user from an external device. A situation acquiring... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080244058 - Program: Provided is a program for causing a computer to execute the steps of: sending a request including execution environment identification information for identifying its program execution environment to a predetermined server through a network; receiving a list including installation candidates which can be installed under the program execution environment identified... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080244057 - Program management apparatus and method: A management server 201 transmits information representing a list of additional applications installable on an image forming apparatus 202 to the image forming apparatus 202 (S410). When an application is selected from the list and an instruction to execute the application is issued, a request for installation is issued to... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080244050 - System and method for sharing resources and interfaces amongst connected computing devices: A computing device is provided that includes a plurality of user-interactive mechanisms. The computing device may also include a universal communication port that is capable of receiving a connection from a device that belongs to any one of a plurality of device classes or types. The device may be equipped... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080244063 - Automatically detecting managed servers in a network: A group of managed servers may be monitored by initially querying the network to determine which servers are present. The present servers may be identified by a universal unique identifier and their Internet Protocol address. A table may be maintained to correlate the Internet Protocol address and the universal unique... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080244065 - Chronology display and feature for online presentations and web pages: A chronology display is generated for use with a web presentation or other form of network presentation. The chronology display may include a plurality of intervals, with each interval representative of a period of time. In an embodiment, some of the intervals may indicate a number of content items provided... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080244068 - Computer product, operation management method, and operation management apparatus: A resource coordinator manager automatically sets a LAN and a SAN for a server to be add according to an increase in load. An ASCC satellite executes a boot script to boot up a user application on the server. The ASCC satellite executes a stop script to stop a user... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080244067 - Contents distribution system and information processing method thereof, as well as contents management apparatus and recording medium on which program thereof is recorded: A contents distribution system, configured of a plurality of terminal apparatus disposed in a network, which carries out a transmission and reception of contents data among the terminal apparatus, includes a terminal apparatus number detection unit, which detects a number of the terminal apparatus configuring the contents distribution system, a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080244060 - Electronic device profile migration: A network comprising a first electronic device associated with a first profile that uniquely identifies the first electronic device on the network. The network also comprises a second electronic device coupled to the first electronic device. The first profile is migrated to the second electronic device such that the first... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080244069 - Method and apparatus for dormant mode support with paging: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed herein for implementing dormant mode with paging in a WLAN. Power savings in the computing device and reduction in traffic across the network are achieved by requiring a computing device to inform the WLAN of its location only when it crosses a paging area boundary... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080244061 - Method for managing resources: The present disclosure provides a method for managing resources. According to one exemplary embodiment, the method may include establishing a resources threshold, the resources threshold indicative of a maximum level of recommended resource consumption for a particular client. The method may further include monitoring a level of activity at the... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244066 - Network control apparatus, network control method, storage medium: A network control apparatus forming a network with a plurality of image-processing apparatuses acquires attribute information about images stored in each image-processing apparatus from the plurality of image-processing apparatuses, arranges a display order of the images based on the attribute information, detects a change in the configuration of the image-processing... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080244062 - Scenario based performance testing: A framework for simulating user scenarios is provided in which actions defined by a script are automated and sent to a remote application in a terminal services environment. The scenarios may be created, modified, reused, or extended to a particular use case (i.e., a description of events used to achieve... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080244064 - Verifying method for implementing management software: A verifying method for implementing management software at a client end is provided herein. The management software works for collecting, managing, and analyzing data of a plurality of peripheral hosts. In the verifying method, a management system fitting the requirements of the management software is established at a service end... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080244070 - System, method and program for network management: A network management system transmits/receives an email via a network; saves, in a database, first history information including the address of at least one of the destination and the source of the email written in the email; receives transmission information in which access information for accessing a web page via... Agent: Warner-lambert Company

20080244072 - Distributed resource allocation in stream processing systems: A system and method for resource allocation includes, in a network having nodes and links, injecting units of flow for at least one commodity at a source corresponding to the at least one commodity. At each node, queue heights, associated with the at least one commodity, are balanced for queues... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080244073 - Method and system for storage-aware flow resource management: A method and structure for managing resources in a storage system that is based on server resource usage is disclosed. The method allocates a command window to each of the servers accessing the resources, achieves an equilibrium state that balances the size of each server's command window and the amount... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080244071 - Policy definition using a plurality of configuration items: Policy definition using a plurality of configuration items is described. In one or more implementations, a plurality of policies is defined, each having a different combination of a plurality of configuration items. The policies are then implemented such that each of the clients is provided a respective amount of access... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080244075 - High performance real-time data multiplexer: A method and system for enabling peer computers to communicate with each other is described. Data of varying data types from a plurality of data sources are multiplexed for delivery through at least one common peer connection.... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080244076 - Method and apparatus for tagging network traffic using extensible fields in message headers: Embodiments of a system and method of tagging network traffic with relevant user demographic and location information for facilitating the delivery of directed media are described. A tag processing module within a router device coupling a client computer to a destination site served by a server computer intercepts a request... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080244077 - Methods for auditing peer-to-peer communications in remote device monitoring system and systems thereof: A method, computer readable medium and system for auditing peer-to-peer communications in a remote device monitoring system includes establishing a peer-to-peer communication between at least two computing devices. An auditing system associated with the established peer-to-peer communication is identified and audit information about at least a portion of the established... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080244074 - Remedial action against malicious code at a client facility: Aspects of this invention may relate to a malicious application remedial action request application where a network site interaction may be requested from a client computing facility; the network site interaction from the client computing facility may be determined to be unacceptable based on an acceptance policy at a gateway... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080244078 - Web services intermediary: A proxy operates as an interface between application programs and web services. Each application uses an assigned ID key pair to interface with the proxy. The proxy itself uses a genuine ID/key pair for calling actual web services. Because only the proxy has the real web service key, that key... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080244079 - Computer patch management in \"road warrior\" contexts: Methods and arrangements for facilitating and streamlining patch management in “road warrior” and analogous contexts. Particularly, there are broadly contemplated herein, in accordance with at least one presently preferred embodiment of the present invention, methods and arrangements for facilitating determinations of suitable times for enabling system updates and/or downloads.... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080244081 - Automated testing of audio and multimedia over remote desktop protocol: A framework for automated testing of audio and/or multimedia rendering capabilities in a terminal services environment is provided in which a terminal server is arranged with a media player that is controllable by a client to playback one or more of a variety of pieces of media content over a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080244080 - Prefetching based on streaming hints: A processor includes non-volatile memory into which streamed application components may be pre-fetched from a slower storage medium in order to decrease stall times during execution of the application. Alternatively, the application components pre-fetched into the non-volatile memory may be from a traditionally-loaded application rather than a streamed application. The... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080244082 - Contents communication method for transmitting contents by using a predetermined communication protocol, and contents transmitting apparatus and contents receiving apparatus using the method: A player receives, via a network, contents transmitted by a targeted server. A network detection unit detects the number of servers and the number of other players in operation on the network. A receiving control unit selects, as a communication scheme used between the player and the targeted server, any... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080244083 - Method and system for throttling network transmissions using per-receiver bandwidth control at the application layer of the transmitting server: A method is presented for throttling data transmissions within a data processing system. Information about a data transfer from a server to a client is received within the application layer of a server, which stores the information about the data transfer along with information about a number of recent data... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080244084 - Method for improved network performance using smart maximum segment size: A method, system, and computer program product for negotiating a smart maximum segment size of a network connection for a data transfer. A client request to initiate a network connection, which includes a first maximum segment size, is received at a server. The server calculates a second maximum segment size,... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080244085 - System and method of delaying connection acceptance to support connection request processing at layer-7: Techniques for suspending a TCP three-way handshake, offering the partial connection to an L-7 application or module at a proxy to perform further processing, and then allowing the L-7 application or module to instruct the proxy's network kernel to perform various actions are described. In various embodiments these actions may... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080244087 - Data processing system with routing tables: A data processing system with routing tables comprising an operating system for supporting processes, such that the process are associated with one or more resources and the operating system being arranged to police the accessing by processes of resources so as to inhibit a process from accessing resources with which... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20080244086 - Identifying network path including network proxies: A method and system for identifying a network path between a source node and a destination node are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes generating a proxy trace message at the source node, transmitting the proxy trace message over the network path towards the destination node, and receiving the... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20080244088 - Method and system for routing data repository messages between computing devices: A message router for routing data repository messages between a plurality of computer systems, wherein the computer systems include data repositories having disparate syntaxes. The message router can include a conversion engine for translating content in a received message from a syntax corresponding to a data repository of an originating... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080244090 - Access device routing device and method thereof supporting stateless address configuration communication network: The present invention relates to an IPv6-based access device, edge router and method for stainless address configuration for IPv6 user equipment in an Ethernet access network, wherein, the access device adds the relay agent ID indicating the access device itself and the relevant port identifier indicating the user equipment to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080244089 - Interface for a delay-tolerant network: The present disclosure provides a method for delay tolerant networking. According to one exemplary embodiment, the method may include transmitting a file from a first node associated with a first network to at least one intermediate node via a file-system interface. The method may also include receiving the file at... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080244091 - Dynamic feed generation: Syndicated feeds are generated from enterprise data using an interface that dynamically adapts user requests to an enterprise system and dynamically conforms the responsively provided enterprise data to a format suitable for presentation in a syndicated data feed.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080244092 - Electronic file processor, electronic file processing program recording medium, and electronic file processing method: An electronic file processor includes an acquisition unit that acquires, through a communication network, a first electronic file having a first file format and a second electronic file having a second file format which differs from the first file format, by reference to a linkage relationship between the first electronic... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080244093 - Data transfer apparatus and data receiving apparatus, and data transfer system: When multimedia data made up of a plurality of related files is transferred to a data receiving apparatus, a single data object that includes the plurality of related files is generated in a format supported by the data receiving apparatus. This data object is then transferred to the data receiving... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080244094 - Method and apparatus for time synchronization in a network data processing system: A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for synchronizing time in a network data processing system. A request for time synchronization is received at a target data processing system. A current target time at the target data processing system is placed in a reply. The reply is sent to the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080244095 - System and method for selecting network access technology: Disclosed is an algorithm for selecting optimum network access technology. The algorithm includes collecting network quality measurement data for one or more available network access technologies. Then, calculating based on the collected network quality measurement data one or more normalized quality attributes for one or more available network access technologies.... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP