Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 11/08

20080294711 - System and method for centrally collecting real-time information regarding consumer click-through traffic: A method and system for providing the centralized collection of click-through traffic information. The method includes receiving a DNS query for a domain name at a third party auditing service from a requesting computing resource. The domain name is configured to include click-through information as a subdomain, and wherein a... Agent: Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP

20080294714 - High availability message transmission: A system, method, apparatus, and computer program product uses at least one of a plurality of message transmitters to achieve high availability message transmission. The plurality of message transmitters are each operable to transmit a message to a subscriber. In accordance with a determination, for example, of the value of... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080294713 - System and method for management of an automatic olap report broadcast system: A system, method and processor medium that manages automatic generation of output from an on-line analytical processing system. Scheduled services are processed in an on-line analytical processing system and output from the OLAP system is then automatically forwarded to one or more subscriber output devices specified for that service. The... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080294712 - System and method for web services gateway server: A computer enabled transaction service architecture gateway system and method for exposing distributed transaction services as web services comprises a transaction service gateway server including: a web service message engine to convert between web service messages and distributed transaction data structures and interface for allowing customized plug-in mechanism to expand... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080294716 - Ad-funded web services: Restricting a web page's access to web services that do not display advertisements endorsed by the web service or its owner is described herein. A web page includes an IFrame where an advertisement is presented. The web page provides the functionality of a web service by communicating requests to a... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080294717 - Information exchange method, information processor, information gathering system, communication method, communication system, intermediary device, and communication device: The present invention relates to, for transmitting information by a server from an information gathering device to a terminal device, an information exchange method, an information processor, a communication method, a communication system, an intermediary device, and a communication device. It is directed to provide an information exchange method, an... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080294718 - Information processing apparatus, client apparatus, information processing system and service connection method: An information processing apparatus includes a server function configured to provide one or more services to a client apparatus via a communication network. The information processing apparatus includes a service ID generation unit configured to generate service IDs for each of the services and to associate the service IDs with... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080294715 - Privacy safety manager system: A method is provided for accessing user personal information. In such method, personal information belonging to a particular user is stored at a user information processing system such as a user computer. A form may then be displayed on the user information processing system. A user-provided recall input can then... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Shcb/040-3

20080294719 - Timely update of information displayed within a portal: A function is added to a Web page that communicates with a refresh control helper. The Web page is associated with a session identifier. If an information update that affects the Web page occur, an update notification is associated with the session identifier. Periodically, the function in the Web page... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080294721 - Architecture for teleconferencing with virtual representation: A communications system includes a teleconferencing system for hosting teleconferences, and a server system for providing a virtual representation for the teleconferencing system. The virtual representation includes objects whose states can be commanded to transition gradually. The server system provides clients to client devices, and each client causes its client... Agent: Hugh P. Gortler

20080294720 - Enhanced online collaboration system: Where users of an online collaboration system are viewing a broadcast presentation having segments of non-local content interspersed with segments of localized content, the collaboration opportunities available to the users are enhanced by providing both a primary chat room available for use by all users of the system and two... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080294722 - Method and apparatus for providing touch and play (tap) - based service and system using the method and apparatus: Provided are a method, apparatus and system for providing a touch and play (TAP)-based service. The method includes setting respective device identifiers of a plurality of devices which can be connected to a device using an organism as a transmission channel and setting services to be provided to a user... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080294723 - Business process automation: System and methods are disclosed for generating a document in a collaborative manner. A user may create data elements and activity elements, and associate the appropriate elements with events. Subsequently, when events occur, messages are sent to designated users to focus their attention on performing particular tasks, such as the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080294725 - Method and system for supporting simulated-exercise in cyber space using message: Provided are a method and system for supporting a simulated-exercise in a cyber space using a message. The system for supporting a simulated-exercise using a massage includes a simulated-exercise manager system for training trainees in a remote location connected through a network by transmitting a situation message for informing critical... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080294724 - Method and tool for community-based physical location awareness: A solution for enhancing awareness of physical location within a community is provided. A method may include detecting a device affiliated with a member of the community, when the device is within a specified proximity to a user; and notifying the user of the detection of the member within the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080294731 - Communications system providing adaptive polling based upon user usage patterns and related methods: A communications system may include at least one data storage device for storing messages for respective users, and a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices each associated with a respective user for accessing the messages stored on the at least one data storage device. Moreover, the communications system may further... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080294732 - Determining the status of a device through use of a publisher/subscriber interface: A publish/subscribe interface is used to enable a non-publish/subscribe first system (such as an IP network device) to obtain status information about a publish/subscribe device that cannot be pinged by the first system. The first system sends a status request to a domain name server associated with a system known... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080294736 - Electronic mail identification system: The present invention relates to an electronic mail identification system and methods, in particular to a system and methods for sending information corresponding to a keyword to an e-mail address of a user having a telecommunications device, said user registering with the system to indicate that the user solicits receiving... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080294729 - Email object for open mobile alliance data synchronization usage: An email object is provided that fulfills requirements defined in the OMA MEM Enabler, where email messages are represented as extensible markup language documents. Filters created using XPath allow an email client to indicate what email messages are to be advertised as new and later downloaded. Table of content information... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080294740 - Event decomposition using rule-based directives and computed keys: Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating a common event format representation of information from a plurality of messages include parsing a rule associated with a current message to determine if a property of a common event format representation for the current message is to be populated with a... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080294735 - Messaging service: A messaging service is described which provides application agnostic and cross-platform messaging. Senders compile message content components and specify message preferences. The messaging service calculates a utility and cost of sending the message over different types of communication channel. A communication channel is selected using the cost and utility information... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080294741 - Method of dynamically evaluating the mood of an instant messaging user: A method of dynamically evaluating the mood of a user of an electronic messaging system who uses a terminal to send an electronic message addressed to another user, the sending user having an element representative of that user's mood that is visible to the addressee of the message, and in... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080294737 - Method of sending email from image forming apparatus, and image forming apparatus capable of sending email: A method of sending email in an image forming apparatus, and an image forming apparatus capable of sending email, the method including: receiving a user selection of a file that is to be transmitted via email, from among one or more files stored outside of the image forming apparatus; generating... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080294738 - Method, system and computer program for correcting e-mail messages with missing receivers: A solution is proposed for exchanging messages (such as e-mails) among a plurality of data processing entities, such as client computers (105). A corresponding method starts with the step of sending (403-412) an original message from a sender entity to a set of original receiver entities; the original message includes... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080294742 - Network availability status detection device and method: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a device configured to send and receive messages over a first network and a second network includes a network status detector unit and a network disabling unit. The network status detector unit is configured to detect the availability of the first network... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080294739 - Operation monitoring apparatus, operation monitoring method, and computer-readable recording medium storing operation monitoring program: An operation monitoring apparatus monitors statuses of plural monitoring target apparatus connected to a network, by sending a connection confirmation mail, via a notification server located on the network, receiving the connection confirmation mail and an operation confirmation mail sent from each monitoring target apparatus, storing a scheduled transmission time... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080294726 - Private electronic information exchange: Methods and apparatuses for private electronic information exchange are described herein. In one embodiment, when electronic information is received to be delivered to a recipient, the electronic information is transmitted over an electronic network with a private routing address. The private routing address is routable within a private domain, which... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080294733 - Remote services for thin client: In an embodiment, instead of a desktop operating system providing basic services, such as file storage and/or identity management, the services may be instead migrated onto a network. Applications running under this new platform use remote servers as a mechanism for providing basic services that were previously provided by the... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080294728 - Service discovery for electronic messaging clients: An autodiscovery service for clients in an electronic messaging system is disclosed. Client devices in the system request messaging system configuration settings from an autodiscover server. Clients may derive the address of the autodiscover server from user input, such as an email address, or the address may be obtained by... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080294734 - System and method for e-mail client with proactive indication unit: A system and method provide an enhanced e-mail (electronic mail) system with a proactive indication of recipient away message. The system and method provide an enhanced e-mail system with a proactive indication of away messages of individuals related to the recipient. The system and method also provides for enhanced e-mail... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080294730 - System and method for end-user management of e-mail threads using a single click: The present invention provides various simple and easy ways for each end user to manage the thread in a way that suits them. In some cases, the user experience requires only a single click. Additional embodiments allow user to manage inbox space, recover suppressed threads, be alerted on contextual changes... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080294727 - Unsubscribing from notification of future messages in a thread: The present invention relates to unsubscribing from notification of future messages in an existing message thread. A method for controlling user notification of future electronic mail (email) messages in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: receiving an email message addressed to a user; determining if the email... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080294743 - Information processing device, computer readable recording medium, and information processing method: An information processing device includes: a first acquiring unit that acquires user operation information with respect to information in a server, based on a history stored in the server; a second acquiring unit that acquires a user operation history in a user terminal; a first creating unit that creates user... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080294744 - Network system, terminal customization method, and customization service method: A first terminal notifies an LFC service functional unit of LFC package related information for customization of a second terminal, an address of the second terminal to be customized, and an account of the user of the first terminal to a contents provider. As a result, the LFC service functional... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080294745 - Method and system for community data caching: A cache module (26) at a client computer (12) controls a cache portion (28) on a storage device (24). The cache module communicates with other cache modules at other clients to form a cache community (15). The cache modules store World Wide Web or other content in the cache portions... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080294746 - Dynamic extension of network-accessible services: Services deployed in a network computing environment (such as a Web services implementation model) are transparently extended. Preferably, handler components in an engine that processes requests and responses provide the extensions. A handler for outgoing messages adds the extensions to a response message that is created responsive to receiving a... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080294747 - Property billboarding and financial revenue distribution to property owner in a geo-spatial environment: A method, apparatus and system of property billboarding and financial revenue distribution to property owner in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a community network of user profiles, each user profile of the user profiles associated with a specific geographic location, determining a first... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080294752 - Downloading of data in portable communicating objects present in a radio communication network during a campaign: A system downloads data made available in a campaign server to portable communicating objects across a radiocommunications network during a data downloading campaign. A campaign manager in the campaign server transmits campaign rules to a presence server connected to the radiocommunications network. A presence manager notifies the campaign server that... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080294751 - Enhanced widget architecture: An enhanced widget architecture, in which a subscription request is transmitted from a widget to a broadcasting information source, thereby establishing a session, the subscription request identifying the widget and content. A subscription is registered at the broadcasting information source based upon the subscription request, and a service call is... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080294750 - Method, system, apparatus, network entity and computer program product for providing a user with an editable webpage: In general, a method, system, apparatus, network entity and computer program product are provided for presenting to a user an editable webpage corresponding to virtually any non-editable webpage that is capable of being accessed by the user. The web browser operating on the user's device may be modified, either directly... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080294748 - Proxy between network file system version three and network file system version four protocol: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for transmitting data. Transmission of the data is requested from a first data processing system to a second data processing system. The first data processing system uses a first network file system version and the second data processing system uses... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080294753 - Read-only storage device having network interface, a system including the device, and a method of distributing files over a network: A Read-only storage device having network interface, a system including the device, and a method of distributing files over a network. The storage device comprises a processor communicably connected to a computer interface, a network interface, and a storage means. The processor communicates with a computer and a file server... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080294749 - System and method for globally sharing fms data or other files from aerial platforms or other sources anywhere in the world: A system for globally sharing data or files from aerial platforms or other sources located anywhere in the world may include a satellite modem to transfer data to a satellite system for globally sharing data or files. The system may also include a data flow controller to control a flow... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Boeing

20080294755 - Method and arrangement in an access system: An access node connected to end-users, routers, and a DHCP-server. The end-user defines desired services provided via the routers. A purpose is to automatically provide simultaneous access to services via two or more of the routers, although the end-user simultaneously handles only one router. The connections are secure. The end-user... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080294754 - System and method for configuration-driven deployment: A computer enabled method and system that can expose distributed transaction services as web services from a service architecture comprises steps of configuring the service architecture; receiving a invocation request through web services from a client; invoking a distributed transaction service from a distributed transaction application, wherein the distributed transaction... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080294758 - Methods and apparatuses for adjusting bandwidth allocation during a collaboration session: In one embodiment, the systems and methods determine an initial bandwidth at a client device; allocate an allocated bandwidth to the client device between a first server and a second server; monitor the allocated bandwidth; and adjust the allocated bandwidth based on a target bandwidth from the first server to... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080294756 - Resolution of conflicting network settings on a software paritition server: A method, system and computer-readable medium for resolving conflicting network settings on a software partition server. In one embodiment, the method clones a software partition of a data processing system to obtain a second software partition. The method detects a conflict between a network configuration of the second software partition... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080294757 - System and method for publication of distributed data processing service changes: Methods and systems to improve change description information dissemination are described. When an altered version of a distributed data processing service is deployed, information about the altered service is published in a service information registry. The published information includes a link to a natural-language description of the altered service.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080294759 - System and method for hosted network management: A hosted network management solution for communications over a computer network supports data communication across a network in accordance with a network message protocol such that communications are established between a network host and a node device. The and the node device performs a self-configuring operation in which the network... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080294761 - Activation of the content of welcome screens without losing availability: The present invention is directed to the activation of the content of anonymous welcome screens without losing availability. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: providing a wrapper application on a first set of application servers, configured for high performance and availability, with the goal... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080294765 - Device management program, communication device, and device management method: The present invention teaches and claims a communication device including a communication section that performs communication with respect to a peripheral device for exchanging information; a delay time measuring section that measures a delay time elapsed from when the peripheral device is inquired for information acquisition until the peripheral device... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080294763 - Display output setting method, information processing device, and information processing system: An information processing device which executes steps of transmitting a request of specification information of a display device connected to a terminal via a network, receiving the specification information of a display device connected to the terminal, determining display output set values suitable for the specifications of the display device... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080294762 - Distributed means of organizing an arbitrarily large number of computers: A technique for organizing a plurality of computers such that message broadcast, content searching, and computer identification of the entire collection or a subset of the entire collection may be performed quickly without the use of a controlling computer. The technique describes the creation, operation, and maintenance of a connection... Agent: George R. Schultz Schultz & Associates, P.C.

20080294760 - Hot with my readers: Embodiments of the invention are directed to identifying topics that are of interest to users belonging to a selected online community, across multiple online communities visited by the users. Online communities include blogs, websites, wikis, etc. For each online community, click activity or other client behaviors are tracked and analyzed... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080294764 - Storage medium bearing hba information provision program, hba information provision method and hba information provision apparatus: A storage medium bears a program which controls a plurality of HBA drivers for controlling operations of a plurality of HBAs connected to a few storage devices through a SAN, a plurality of specific libraries in an SNIA HBA API, each having a function of acquiring information on the corresponding... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080294766 - Wireless mesh point portable data terminal: A portable data terminal (PDT) adapted to participate in a wireless mesh network including a plurality of peer PDTs can comprise: a PDT module including an encoded information reading (EIR) device, and a mesh point (MP) module communicatively coupled to the PDT module. The MP module can include a microcontroller... Agent: Honeywell International, Inc. Patent Services Group Ab2

20080294771 - Asset monitor for fieldbus devices: A software product and method of monitoring a field device in an enterprise having an industrial process. A subscription to the OPC DA server for diagnostic data from the field device is made and a subscription to an OPC AE server for event notifications from the OPC AE server is... Agent: Abb Inc. Legal Department-4u6

20080294772 - Automatically infering and updating an availability status of user: A system, system, and program for automatically inferring and updating an availability status of a user are provided. At least one current activity of a user is detected, where the current activity includes at least one system level event within a computer environment accessible to the user. A current availability... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080294769 - Efficient synchronization of agents starting a task where the agents poll a server to learn the task start time: A server sets a task start time equal to a next polling time by a last agent that has most recently polled the server. In response to each of a number of agents, including the last agent, polling the server, the server provides the task start time. At each agent,... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080294768 - Hot within my communities: Embodiments of the invention are directed to identifying network resources or other topics that are of interest to members of multiple online communities to which a user belongs. Online communities include blogs, websites, games, e-commerce systems, messaging systems, wikis, etc. For each online community, click activity or other client behaviors... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080294770 - System and method for managing computer networks: A system and method are provided for monitoring traffic in an enterprise network. Similar hosts may be grouped using flow information. Network policy may then be created at the group level based on the signatures of the hosts and groups of hosts in the enterprise. Hosts may be arranged in... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080294767 - Ubiquitous wireless network system, node module, and operation method of the node module: A ubiquitous wireless network system, node module, and operation method of the node module are disclosed. The present invention allows a display unit to display detected information or received information when the information corresponds to its own node module as an arrival destination. Therefore, the present invention enables users to... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080294774 - Controlling access to digital images based on device proximity: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for controlling access to digital images based physical and temporal proximity to the image capture event. In one embodiment, an imaging device capturing a digital image broadcasts an invitation to wireless devices in the surrounding area. The wireless devices respond with an acceptance, including... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080294775 - Expanded media content access systems and methods: In one of many possible embodiments, a system includes a content provider subsystem providing media content over a closed media network and an open network. At least a subset of the media content provided over the closed media network is provided over the open network. The system further includes a... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080294773 - Method and apparatus for migrating access to block storage: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for providing access to block storage. A source virtual input/output server is retrieved, parameters are used by the source virtual input/output server to provide a client access to the block storage when the client is located on a first logical... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080294780 - Automated adjustment of ip address lease time based on usage: A method is provided for predicting and/or setting a lease time for packet-switched data communication network resources based on historical usage data of a network system provider subscriber. The packet-switched data communication network resources may include, but are not limited to, IP addresses and bandwidth. As a result, network resources... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.,

20080294779 - Connection management in peer-to-peer content distribution clouds: A topology management process is implemented which involves removing or “tearing down” connections between nodes in certain situations in order to try to replace those connections with more optimal ones. Idle connections are torn down unless those are in a “notify” state; a notify state being one in which a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080294777 - Method and apparatus for template-based provisioning in a service delivery environment: A method for automated provisioning of computing resources in a distributed computing network includes obtaining a data structure representing a resource dependency characterization of an application to be implemented over the distributed computing network, wherein the data structure indicates a set of resources to be deployed, obtaining a template that... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080294778 - Network connection manager: Described herein is technology for, among other things, facilitating network communications. It involves various techniques for facilitating network communications by creating virtual named channels which allow applications and thereby users to communicate over a wide variety of networks interfaces without requiring specific knowledge or programming corresponding to the underlying network.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080294776 - Supporting multiple service discovery protocols on a device: Techniques for supporting multiple service discovery protocols (SDPs) on a multi-functional peripheral (MFP) are provided. The MFP includes a plurality of SDP services, a plurality of SDP adapters, and a device service management system (DSMS). Each SDP service interfaces with one SDP adapter of the plurality of SDP adapters. Each... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080294782 - Clan based strategy sharing tool: A method for use with a computer simulation includes providing an ability to run a simulation in which a plurality of client devices communicate over a network to interact with the simulation, providing an ability to generate a first user interface on each of the plurality of client devices for... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080294781 - Method and system for global logoff from a web-based point of contact server: A method carried out at a point of contact (e.g., reverse proxy, a web server plug-in, or the like) that serves as an intermediary between a client browser and one or more back-end applications (or application component), wherein each back-end application has the capability to set its own server-side session... Agent: Ibm Corp. (dhj) C/o David H. Judson

20080294785 - Communication system, node device, node process program and a message transmitting and receiving method: wherein the means changes sending source network address information included in the message to network address information of an own node device and transmits the message to an addressed node device, and the means judges whether or not the message is a message to be sent to the first node... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080294783 - Grid identification for audio provider: Procedures for identifying audio clients in a media session are described. A gateway device may provide a unique identifier for identifying the audio client/user agent instance. In an example, a globally routable user agent universal resource indicator (GRUU) may be mapped to the gateway device servicing the audio client and... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080294784 - Method for synchronizing connection state in data communication, and communication node using the same: The present invention discloses a method for synchronizing connection state in data communication, which includes: a node requests connection state information from an opposite node connected with it; and the node updates the local connection state according to the connection state information returned by the opposite node. The invention further... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080294786 - Non-blocking of head end initiated revocation and delivery of entitlements in a non-addressable digital media network: A system, apparatus, and method are directed towards managing entitlement/right revocation and delivery to be performed within a non-addressable media network. Such networks may include for example a client device behind a network address translation (NAT) device, employs non-addressable satellite components, or so forth. A server notifies clients that entitlements,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080294787 - Creating a checkpoint for modules on a communications stream: A computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for creating a checkpoint of a stream. A stream checkpoint request to create the checkpoint of the stream is received, wherein the stream is used by a process as a communications path, and wherein the communications path is modified by a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080294791 - Media exchange network supporting varying media guide based on viewing filters: Systems having a user interface comprising a filtered view of media available for consumption are disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention may provide a first user with a view that enables consumption of only the available media that matches characteristics of a media filter. The characteristics of the media... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080294789 - Method and device for transmitting data: To transmit data between a server and at least one client in a communication network, this data having to comply with a first transmission latency, for a first processing to be carried out by a first client, and with a greater second latency, for a second processing to be carried... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080294790 - Method for service oriented data extraction transformation and load: The present invention relates to a method for the configurable real time transformation of dissimilar data sources, the method further consisting of the steps of acquiring real time information pertaining to at least one data source, wherein the information comprises reference information that is associated with the data source, data... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20080294788 - Systems and methods for p2p streaming: A system for receiving content comprises: a node in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, the node operable to receive information with regard to available media and to use the information to access streaming media content from a first source peer in the P2P network, the node further operable to use the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080294792 - Home adaptive transceiver for home networking communication system: A self calibrating network comprises a first node and a second node. The first node transmits a calibration data packet. The second node receives the calibration data packet and determines a calibration value for the second node to optimize the transfer of data from the first node to the second... Agent: Ip Legal Services

20080294793 - Reducing information reception delays: A technique for reducing information reception delays is provided. The technique reduces delays that may be caused by protocols that guarantee order and delivery, such as TCP/IP. The technique creates multiple connections between a sender and recipient computing devices and sends messages from the sender to the recipient on the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080294795 - Determining availability of a destination for computer network communications: Determining availability of a destination for computer network communications that include providing on a caching device a destination availability cache comprising at least one cache entry representing availability of a destination and providing, from the caching device to a source, through computer network communications, information indicating the availability of the... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080294794 - Network publish/subscribe system incorporating web services network routing architecture: Methods, apparatuses, and systems facilitating the deployment, configuration and maintenance of publication/subscription systems within the context of Web service networks. In one embodiment, the present invention provides Web services network system that presents a topic as a routing entity and includes functionality facilitating topic creation, subscription and publication in a... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080294796 - Native language internet address system: A native language Internet address system is provided. The native language Internet address system can accommodate data of various language and regions, be written in Unicode, and process various letters of the world unlike an existing hierarchical domain written in Letter, Digit, and Hyphen (LDH). Further, a single system is... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080294797 - Structure for configuring a device that has failed to obtain network address: A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for at least one of designing, manufacturing, and testing a design is provided. The design structure includes an apparatus for remotely configuring a device. The apparatus includes a mechanism operative to attempt to obtain a network address from a network... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080294798 - Portable electronic device management: Embodiments of methods, devices and/or systems for managing portable electronic devices are described.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080288573 - Method and apparatus for filtering virtual content: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that selects virtual content. The system starts by receiving or gathering a set of virtual content that includes context data. Next, the system assigns items of virtual content from the set of virtual content to one or more dimensions of context with... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080288574 - Methods and apparatus for selectively transferring data objects to a communication device: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for controlling the transfer of data objects to a communication device based on a comparison of one or more attributes of the data object to a delivery profile, which may reflect a device user's preferences. An exemplary method disclosed herein comprises detecting the occurrence of... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080288572 - Scalable presence server architecture: A presence server architecture includes a central presence information database to store presence information about a multiplicity of publishing entities, and at least two presence servers to separately access and update said presence information. The present invention also includes a presence server which includes a means to access a central... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080288575 - Xml-based symbolic language and interpreter: An XML-based symbolic computer language, interpreter, and corresponding execution environments are disclosed. The XML-based symbolic computer language, called “OLIN” (One Language Intelligent Network) enables a computer program to be written as an XML-compliant document. OLIN programs are interpreted by an interpreter by parsing the XML content to extract symbolic expressions... Agent: Law Office Of R. Alan Burnett

20080288576 - Method and system for sharing one or more graphics images between devices using profiles: The present invention provides a method and system for sharing one or more graphics images between devices using profiles. A request to establish a communications link is transmitted from a first device to a second device using a first profile. A response indicating acceptance of the first profile or a... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20080288577 - System and method to publish information from servers to remote monitor devices: To assist in monitoring the intelligent messaging network, a system and method for publishing logging and status information from the servers is provided. A list of available servers accessible for monitoring by persons, devices, and applications via a remote monitor device can be provided. The remote monitor device may forward... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080288585 - Apparatus and method for storing network parameter in mobile communication system: An apparatus and method capable of receiving network parameter information by using a Subscriber Identify Module (SIM) Application Toolkit (SAT) in a portable terminal is provided. The apparatus includes a portable terminal for selecting a menu for receiving the network parameter information required for network connection and for storing the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080288581 - Method and an apparatus to record web transactions using a proxy server: Some embodiments of a method and an apparatus to record web transactions in a proxy server have been presented. In one embodiment, responses and requests are routed between a web server and a client via a proxy server communicatively coupled between the web server and the client during a web... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080288583 - Method and system for generating auxiliary-server cache identifiers: A method, system, and computer program product, by which portions of the session information that page-content is dependent upon are “pushed” to the client from the origin server in a way such that auxiliary servers, e.g. other application servers and edge-servers, have access to the session information and fragment dependancy... Agent: (saul-rsw) Patent Docketing Clerk IBM Corporation (saul-rsw) C/o Saul Ewing LLP

20080288584 - Method and system for preparing execution of systems management tasks of endpoints: In a centralized embodiment all the steps of the method are executed on the systems management server. Other embodiments includes the use of a service server which computes for the systems management server either the endpoint classifications or the data for defining execution of systems management tasks for the systems... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080288578 - Method, a device, and a system for enabling data synchronization between multiple devices: A method, a device and a system either for user initiated or automatic data synchronization in case of multiple device ownership. Virtual devices (212, 214, 216, 218) corresponding to true physical devices (204, 206, 208, 210) are created and maintained on a server. Virtual devices can be used as data... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080288580 - Peer-to-peer collaboration system with edge routing: A peer-to-peer collaboration system in which changes to a shared space may be broadcast to all of the peers in a collaboration session using messages sent with a combination of addressing techniques. Messages may be addressed for direct peer-to-peer transmission, indirect transmission through another peer or indirect transmission through a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080288586 - Remote access and retrieval of electronic files: A system and methods for remotely accessing, retrieving, and transmitting data offering remote data management control and verification of data delivery is provided. In an illustrative implementation, the present invention comprises a computing application operating on at least one computer server that cooperates with at least one communications network to... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080288582 - Systems and methods for passing application pods between multiple social network service environments: The web application server can be configured to host an application pod importer engine. The application pod importer engine can be configured to allow the third-party developer to input a universal resource locator (URL) address that is representative of where the application pod is stored, the application pod being in... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080288579 - Ubiquitous content subscription and delivery via a smart electronic paper device: A portable electronic paper device can include a flexible display substrate for displaying dynamic content received from a content provider. The device can also include a CPU, memory storage and a wireless communication component for establishing a connection with the content provider. The memory of the device can be loaded... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080288589 - Method and system for scheduling of messages: Embodiments of the invention provide a scheduling process and apparatus which may include constraints which determine the amount of messaging events available in a particular category (e.g. sports, music, food content) in a particular time period, for example on a particular day (or perhaps even within smaller time periods, such... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080288587 - Method and system for scoring and ranking a plurality of relationships in components of socio-technical system: A method and system for scoring and ranking a plurality of component links in a social technical system having a plurality of components representing people and objects are provided. In one aspect, a degree of consistency relative to two or more people working on one or more objects and dependencies... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080288588 - Method and system for searching using image based tagging: A system and method are provided for searching networked electronic media. The method includes the operation of mapping a user selected keyword to a category identifier for search result generation in a search engine. A search result can be produced that contains alisting of URLs for the category identifier. Then... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080288590 - Online coaching system and method: A method of coaching through a computer system having at least two client devices, and a communication network operatively and electrically connecting the client devices to the at least one server. A user generates at a client device a sports diagram representing a playing surface with sports plays and transmits... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20080288592 - Method for transmitting file based on multiplex forwarder: Provided is a method for transmitting a file based on a multiplex forwarder using a session join time interval. The method includes the steps of: a) transmitting a session join request message to a source and joining to a corresponding session; b) when a member joins the session, transmitting a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080288591 - Relay server, relay communication system, and communication device: A relay server that is connected to a LAN and that can communicate with a relay server of a different LAN, includes: an account information registering unit that stores account information including information on client terminals connected to the LAN; a relay group information registering unit that stores relay group... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080288600 - Apparatus and method for providing access to associated data related to primary media data via email: Systems are described for distributing supplemental data to media recipients that are experiencing a primary media event, such as a television or radio program, a movie or a live event. One of the methods includes receiving a media data stream from a media data source, where the media data stream... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20080288599 - Apparatus, systems and methods for transformation services: A web services hub receives a request from a data source system, transforms the request, and transmits the transformed request to an external system. A secure service router is coupled to the web services hub. The secure service router authenticates the data source system and locates a transformation service to... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20080288594 - Electronic mailing system: The present invention relates to a method, a system and corresponding devices for electronic transmission of mail pieces such as post cards front a plurality of local input means (55, 56, 57, 58) at a first geographical location, where an electronic version of for instance a post card can be... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080288602 - Emission-monitoring system and method for transferring data: A system and a method for transferring data in an emission-monitoring system from a first computer to a second computer are provided. The method includes generating a first message containing a first software variable having a first site-specific value that is transmitted from the first computer to the second computer.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080288603 - Interceptor for non-subscribed bulk electronic messages: Bulk mail subscriptions by including a bulk mail class indicator and a sender identifier key value in the header portion of an electronic message. Messages which are properly identified as bulk class and include an approved sender identifier value are passed directly to the intended recipient. Messages which are properly... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20080288593 - Method and apparatus for creating merged mails: A method for creating merged mails (1a-1c) of a sender (4) to a number of predetermined addressees (5), in particular including information or advertising content (6), wherein, in each merged mail (1a-1c), a directions information (7) is inserted for finding the sender (4), wherein the directions information (7) is calculated... Agent: Jackie Jay Schwartz

20080288596 - Method and apparatus for joint analysis of social and content networks: A method and apparatus is provided to analyze social and content networks, to identify new relationships among users and content, and to more effectively link users to content. Embodiments of the invention also facilitate more relevant searches over both social and content data. One embodiment is directed to analyzing integrated... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080288597 - Method and program product for preventing distribution of an e-mail message: A method and program product for preventing distribution of an e-mail message. The method includes generating an e-mail message to one or more recipients using an e-mail application installed on a sender e-mail client and selecting a non-distribution option provided by a non-distribution plug-in installed on the sender e-mail client.... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20080288595 - Method and system for message-oriented semantic web service composition based on artificial intelligence planning: A method for modeling a web service operation, includes: defining an input message pattern that describes input requirements of a web service operation, wherein the input message pattern includes a set of variables representing data elements that must be contained in a message input to the web service operation, and... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080288598 - Method to manage disk usage based on user specified conditions: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for managing email disk usage based on user specified conditions. An incoming email for a user is scanned for email expressions. A determination is made as to whether one of the email expressions matches one of a number of listed expressions... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080288601 - System and method for conditioned delivery of electronic mail: A system and method for conditioned distribution of e-mail is provided. Delivery of an e-mail message to selected second recipients (equivalently addressees) may be conditioned on a set of preselected conditions, in particular to a set of conditions associated with the delivery of the e-mail to a set of first... Agent: Ibm Corp (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20080288606 - Information notification system and information notification method: A notification-purpose user state managing apparatus, a notification controlling apparatus, an information notification apparatus, an information notification system and an information notification method capable of reducing an unpleasant feeling and a burden and encouraging a user to recognize information are provided. The information notification system includes a notification-purpose user state... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080288604 - Notification system and method for a mobile data communication device: A message notification scheme operable at a mobile data communication device, comprising one or more of the following: receiving data items redirected from a computer system; determining if the data items include characterization information based on a characterization scheme; and if so, extracting the characterization information and comparing the characterization... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080288605 - Notification system and method for a mobile data communication device: A scheme for replicating data items from a computer system to a mobile data communication device. In one embodiment, a method comprises one or more of the following: automatically detecting arrival of the data items at the computer system; characterizing the data items based on a characterization scheme; and redirecting... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080288607 - Method and apparatus for exchanging heartbeat messages and configuration information between nodes operating in a master-slave configuration: A node (101, FIG. 1), within a networked computer system (100), is capable of supporting communications with other nodes relating to operating multiple application instances in a master-slave configuration. Each node periodically generates and sends (520, 526, FIG. 5) a Heartbeat message (FIG. 8) that indicates the operational status for... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080288608 - Method and system for correlating transactions and messages: A method is presented for correlating related transactions, such as a parent transaction that invokes a child transaction within a distributed data processing system, using a particular format for the correlation tokens. Each transaction is associated with a correlation token containing a hierarchical, three-layer identifier that includes a local transaction... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080288609 - Dynamic data access in a computer system via remote services: The present invention relates to the field of network computing. In particular, it relates to a method and respective system for providing access for an application program to remote resources located in an electronic computer network, wherein said application program is implemented on a computer residing in said network. A... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080288610 - Image control system and method: An image control system for allowing a user to freely access a Web server of a carrier other than the carrier providing a portable telephone service utilized by the user. The image control system comprises a plurality of portable telephones 11 each having an image display function in a different... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080288611 - Receiving apparatus and receiving system: A receiver apparatus capable of retaining the quality of video images received through complexity-reduced small-load processing without having to depend upon its associated transmitter device. In cases where an instruction is made for receiving streaming data in the process of performing the processing of download data, when the loss of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080288614 - Client addressing and roaming in a wireless network: A managed network receives client device requests for network addresses for communications over the managed network and computes a network address for a client device based on a hardware address of the client device, such as the MAC address of the client device, and returns the network address to the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080288613 - Method for operating an object-based configuration system for field devices of automation technology: A method for operating an object-based configuration system CS for field devices of automation technology, with a frame application FA, which serves for managing and instantiating a plurality of objects, wherein, to individual groups of device objects, field device types are assigned, which enable, as device managers, a configuration of... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080288612 - Online social network management system and method for simulating users to build various faces of relation: A system and method of managing a social network are disclosed. The method includes the step of recording the IDs and corresponding personal information of users who have subscribed to a service via a network, in a user DB; the step of recording corresponding relationships between the users and relationship... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080288615 - Radio frequency identification (rfid) network system and method: A bidirectional radio frequency identification (RFID) network system and method are presented. The system allows users to configure, monitor, and manage different sensor devices by using a graphical user interface real-time. The reconfiguration is done through a network management computer at the top system level that receives user input, generates... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080288616 - Apparatus and method for providing pdg information: Provided is an apparatus and method for providing and updating PDG information. In a method for updating PDG information in a terminal, an instruction indicating an update of PDG information is received from a network apparatus. PDG information is received from the network apparatus and the received PDG information is... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080288617 - Distributed discovery and network address assignment: The present invention provides a method for assigning network addresses comprising advertising a type of a device in a network towards neighboring devices, determining the type of at least one device in the network with said advertising, and defining, by the at least one device with the type determined, network... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080288624 - method and a system for the composition of services: Method for multiphase service composition in a distributed computing environment comprising at least one client and at least one server, and involving at least one service, which defines a specific format for composition messages associated with multiphase remote procedure calls. This format is different from the one of regular server... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080288626 - structure for resetting a hypertransport link in a blade server: A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design is described for resetting a HyperTransport link in a blade server, including reassigning, by a blade management module, a gate signal from enabling a transceiver to signaling a HyperTransport link reset; sending, by... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080288621 - Agent workflow system and method: A system and method is provided for defining, executing, and managing network workflow. One or more agents execute on one or more devices in the network. A set of instructions is capable of being evaluated and executed on one or more agents. A workflow manager is for selecting which agents... Agent: Chan Law Group Lc

20080288622 - Managing server farms: Manual management of server farms is expensive. Low-level tools and the sheer complexity of the task make it prone to human error. By providing a typed interface using service combinators for managing server farms it is possible to improve automated server farm management. Metadata about a server farm is obtained,... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080288619 - Method and apparatus for managing a network: A method and apparatus for managing a network is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network device having a controller element to modify a communication parameter of the network device based on a policy of the communication system, wherein the policy... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080288618 - Networked device control architecture: A networked device control system including a plurality of networked device controllers operative to implement a protocol of automatic device discovery and control, at least one non-protocol-compliant device connected to any of the controllers and not configured for use with the protocol prior to being connected to the controller, and... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20080288620 - Physical network interface selection to minimize contention with operating system critical storage operations: An apparatus, program product and method dynamically select a physical network interface for use by an application running on a networked computer in a manner that attempts to minimize bandwidth contention between application-related operations and any operating system critical storage operations that may be initiated by an operating system resident... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080288625 - Rfid device groups: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates configuring at least one radio frequency identification (RFID) device. An RFID network can include at least one device associated with a device group, wherein the device group corresponds to a characteristic. An organizational manager can uniformly configure the... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080288627 - Storage network and method for storage network device mapping: Structure, Structure, system, apparatus, method, and computer program for managing and configuring a computer storage system by mapping the topology and connectivity of all servers, storage devices, and storage device controllers within the storage subsystem, based on unique identifiers especially World Wide Number (WWN) identifiers. The method includes querying a... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080288623 - System and method for deployment of a wireless infrastructure: A method is used for deployment of a wireless infrastructure. The method comprises deploying a plurality of access ports in a facility based on a layout that depends on a type of the facility. The method comprises receiving at least one parameter from at least one of the plurality of... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080288630 - Device management: A device, such as a mobile phone, comprises a management tree store (101) which stores an Open Mobile Alliance Device Management (OMA DM) management tree. A tree processor (103) is arranged to detect a change associated with at least a first node of the management tree. A backup node processor... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080288632 - Method and system for understanding social organization in a design and development process: A method and system constructs a socio-technical network representing design and development processes. In one aspect, a network of inter-personal interactions comprising at least a plurality of nodes representing actors in design and development process is established; an artifacts network comprising at least a plurality of nodes representing a plurality... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080288629 - Methods, media, and systems for tracking content usage over a network: A content management system distributes items of media content to groups of users. The media is fingerprinted and tracked for reporting purposes. The system uses an algorithm to compensate for multiple content owners. The system can also be configured to provide content while still providing anonymity for actual use.... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080288628 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for monitoring communications and taking a responsive action: Exemplary embodiments include a device for monitoring communications and taking a responsive action including: a receiver operable for receiving an input signal from a user; a transmitter operable for transmitting an output signal to a communications network and a command signal to a secondary device; and a processor in operable... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - At&t

20080288633 - Network device tracking using a network device server: Systems and methods for tracking devices that are connected to physical communication ports of a network device server. In one example embodiment, a method includes detecting the connection of a device to a physical communication port of a device server; determining whether the device has been assigned an NCC; if... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080288634 - Real-time monitoring of operations support, business service management and network operations management systems: The invention relates to a system and method for monitoring the availability and performance of an organisation's Business/Operational Support System (B/OSS) and Business Service Management Systems (BSM) which are referred to as a target platform. The invention gathers data from that monitored OSS/BSS/BSM arising from a distinct knowledge of the... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20080288636 - Sensor network system and data retrieval method for sensing data: A sensor network system, including: a model list that stores preset model names; an event table that stores monitoring conditions of data transmitted from sensor nodes; an event generator that receives data corresponding to the model names from the sensor nodes, and notifies an occurrence of an event when receiving... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080288631 - Standard based detection and launch of client applications: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that detects, installs and launches applications on client machines. The disclosed system can include a component that receives a request to launch or install a client application. The component detects whether an application is present in a client machine by scrutinizing... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080288635 - System and method for associating a client identity between servers: A client identity is associated between servers by establishing an identity for the client at a first sever utilizing a cookie transmitted to the client by the first server and transmitting to the client by the first server a URL, wherein the URL includes the identity established at the first... Agent: Beh Investments LLC

20080288637 - Highly available central controller to store and enforce valid state transitions of distributed components: A highly available central controller to store and enforce valid state transitions of distributed components is provided for centrally controlling access to a service. Central control is provided by a database with an API according to a set of stored procedures, which provides a virtual view to requesters that seek... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080288638 - Method and system for managing network resources in audio/video bridging enabled networks: Aspects of a method and system for managing network resources in audio/video bridging enabled networks are provided. In this regard, network resources reserved via AVB may be allocated for administrative and/or control traffic. Additionally, administrative and/or control data may be assigned highest priority for routing in the network. In this... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080288639 - Udp brodcast for user interface in a download and configuration gaming method: A modified form of the UDP multicast protocol is disclosed to implement a one-way notification method between a server and one or more clients. The UDP multicast notification method enables UDP messages to be sent only to registered clients, not broadcasted to all clients. This architecture minimizes network traffic and... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20080288642 - Allocation system and method: A method of recording allocation of resources in response to a request for a data item to be transmitted to a device in the network where the request comprises data indicative of one or more requested items. The device is typically a mobile device and the requested items can be... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080288640 - Automated tagging of syndication data feeds: One aspect is a method of providing information relevant to a query. Syndication data feeds are processed, the syndication data feeds regarding the contents of publisher web pages. The processing of the syndication data feeds includes, for each syndication data feed, causing determination from that syndication data feed of at... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080288641 - Method and system for providing relevant information to a user of a device in a local network: A method and system for providing information to a user of a device on a local network is provided. This involves obtaining information about current user activity on the local network, obtaining contextual information about current user activity on the local network and obtaining additional information interrelated to the contextual... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080288645 - Computer program product using two different programs to determine state of a network node to eliminate message response delays in system processing: The determination of node and/or adapter liveness in a distributed network data processing system is carried out via one messaging protocol that can be assisted by a second messaging protocol which is significantly less susceptible to delay, especially memory blocking delays encountered by daemons running on other nodes. The switching... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080288643 - Session initiation protocol signalling: A method of delivering a copy of a Session Initiation Protocol, SIP, message to each of a plurality of terminals in a multimedia communication system. The method comprises receiving the message at a first SIP exploder, grouping destination addresses defined for the SIP message according to their network domains, and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080288644 - System and method for creating global sessions across converged protocol applications: A system and method for creating global sessions across different protocols and multiple converged protocol applications are provided. By creating a global session, state information for each of the individual protocol sessions may be communicated across protocols and utilized in performing operations across converged protocol applications. An edge server is... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080288647 - Application programming interface and generalized network address translator for translation of transport-layer sessions: An application programming interface for translation of transport-layer sessions is presented. The system includes kernel-mode support for application-controlled network address translation and user-mode implementation of the redirect API routines. An application process may request that a network gateway modify the source and/or destination of a given network session in a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080288646 - Data consistency within a federation infrastructure: In some embodiments, it is determined that a primary node has been elected from among a plurality of nodes in a replica set of nodes. The primary node accepts and processes client data access requests. The replica set includes the primary node and other secondary nodes. The primary node receives... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080288648 - Method and an apparatus to validate a web session in a proxy server: Some embodiments of a method and an apparatus to validate a web session in a proxy server have been presented. In one embodiment, service of predetermined content is offloaded from an application server to a proxy server communicatively coupled between the application server and a client. Using the proxy server,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080288651 - Consistent policy control of objects in a service oriented architecture: A method for the consistent control of policies assigned to objects of a service oriented architecture is disclosed. Each policy may include one or more assertions, and the method may include identifying one or more operational dependencies between at least two SOA objects, analyzing the assigned policies of the at... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel PC

20080288650 - Method for the energy-saving and timely transmission of event messages: A method and a system-on-a-chip for the guaranteed and energy-saving transmission of event messages is provided in a distributed computer system consisting of a plurality of node computers, which are interconnected by a time-controlled communications system. The node computers establish a common time base of known precision and periodically exchange... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080288652 - Network core access architecture: The proposed architecture is integrated in a generic System on Chip (SoC) and can include or consist of an expanded network interface and an infrastructure for accessing Intellectual Property (IP) cores in the system. The architecture enables the system on chip to communicate with a user workstation connected to a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080288649 - Using presence proxies to group presence notifications: The present invention discloses a method and a system for using presence proxies to group presence notifications. In the invention, a presence server can accept, manage, and distribute presence information. Multiple watchers can subscribe to the presence information managed by the presence server. A presence proxy can receive or intercept... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080288653 - Computerized, copy-detection and discrimination apparatus and method: An engine identifying segments or portions of one source material or source file common to or found in another source material or file. The engine may receive a first data stream in binary form as well as a second stream in binary form. The engine may include a data stream... Agent: Pate Pierce & Baird

20080288657 - Information delivery system, reregistration message sending method, node device, and recording medium recording node processing program:

20080288654 - Node and method to provide and keep real-time up-to-date data in a distributed hash table: A node and method are provided that create a finger table at the node, subscribe to changes in a network address of at least one other node included in the finger table, receive at least one notification including an identifier and a network address of the at least one other... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080288655 - Subscription propagation in a high performance highly available content based publish subscribe system: The present invention is directed to a publish/subscribe system containing a plurality of brokers, a plurality of subscribers and plurality of brokers including publisher connecting brokers, intermediate brokers and subscriber connecting brokers. Subscriptions are introduced into the system by the subscribers through associated subscription brokers. New subscriptions are aggregated, assigned... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080288656 - System, method and program product to route message packets: A system, method and computer program for routing a response packet in a session along a path similar to a request packet's outbound path that includes a firewall and a first router. The firewall receives the request packet and forwards the request packet to the first router. Upon receipt of... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080288658 - Systems and methods of network operation and information processing, including use of unique/anonymous identifiers throughout all stages of information processing and delivery: Systems and methods are disclosed for network operation and information processing involving engaging users of a network. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method of engaging users of a public-access network. Moreover, the method includes associating a processing component with the public-access network; transmitting a request for authorization... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080288659 - Maintaining consistency within a federation infrastructure: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for a joining node to join a ring of nodes within a rendezvous federation. Embodiments include detecting a neighborhood of nodes on the ring of nodes. The joining node indicates its intent to take id-space ownership for a portion... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080281899 - Method for managing commerce contexts: A method for managing commerce contexts, between a direct commerce context and a temporary commerce context in a client session. Commerce context parameters are associated with the direct and temporary commerce contexts. The commerce context associated with a client request is determined according to the commerce context parameters associated with... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20080281898 - Portlets in non-portal pages: A JSR 168 compliant portlet can expose a URL to allow the portlet to be inserted into an external page.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080281900 - Technique for sending tcp messages through http systems: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for facilitating end-user access to remote applications based on TCP (Transmission Control Protocol). TCP traffic is packaged into the body of HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) messages, enabling the TCP traffic to be transmitted through HTTP systems in an application-independent... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080281901 - Web-based task assistants for wireless personal devices: The present invention relates to a method for enhancing the use of a computer network which is accessed by use of wireless device. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention pertains to a method of using server-resident software assistants, programs to assist the wireless device user, to perform a significant... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20080281904 - Associating service listings with open source projects: Embodiments of a service listing system for open source software projects are described. A plurality of available open source projects are stored in a centralized or distributed database system. Each open source project comprises one or more software programs. Third party support and maintenance services may be provided by third... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080281908 - Hybrid segment-oriented file server and wan accelerator: In a network including WAN accelerators and segment-oriented file servers, a method comprises responding to a client request to manipulate a file via a network file protocol by receiving a first request at a first WAN accelerator, wherein the request is a request to open a file located at a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew/riverbed

20080281909 - Information issuing system, public media information issuing system and issuing method: An information issuing system, a public media information issuing system, and an information issuing method are provided, in which the information issuing method includes: collecting the user ID of every user who enters the service region of the public media information issuing system; acquiring the corresponding behavior character information of... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080281905 - Method and system for notifying an addressee of a communication session: Requests for communications and for establishing communication sessions with an intended addressee are detected and notifications regarding the pending communication request are provided to the intended addressee. If the addressee is operating on-line in an IP environment, the messages are delivered to the addressee via a real-time mechanism. However, if... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080281906 - Server device operating in response to received request: The present invention provides a server device operating in response to a request received from a client device. A request storage device in system memory space with a request storage region stores a request received from a client device in association with identification information. An identification information storage region contains... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080281911 - Synchronizing a client user interface with a server backend: A system coupled to at least one client system, a system for synchronizing a user interface (UI) presentation to be displayed to a user of the client system to a UI description maintained by the server system, the server system comprising a UI object converter adapted for converting the UI... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080281907 - System and method for globally issuing and validating assets: A system and method are provided for enabling two or more different entities to perform actions on assets including validating the assets and authorizing the assets. The assets may include financial instruments, real estate documents, bonds, share certificates, and/or traveler's cheques. Client terminals are coupled to a plurality of servers... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20080281902 - System and method for providing improved communication notification forwarding on a network: A system and method for improved communication notification forwarding on a network. An instant messaging (IM) server program receives at least one communication notification from a first client among a collection of clients on a network, wherein the at least one communication notification is targeted to a second client among... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080281903 - System and method for providing interactive multimedia content: A system for providing interactive multimedia content includes an electronic device having a unique identification and an personalized content profile associated therewith. The electronic device includes an input device that receives data input by the user, a transmitter that transmits data, including data input by the user, to a provider... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20080281910 - System and method to initiate a mobile data communication utilizing a trigger system: A system and method to enable a user to initiate a communication with an organization using a mobile communication device by means of a trigger system. A system and method to enable an organization to acquire a user mobile device address by means of a trigger system. A system and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080281915 - Collaboration portal (copo) a scaleable method, system, and apparatus for providing computer-accessible benefits to communities of users: The present invention, known as The Collaboration Portal (COPO), relates generally to the field of automated entity, data processing, system control, and data communications, and more specifically to an integrated method, system, and apparatus for providing computer-accessible benefits for communities of users. It provides a framework for provisioning computer-accessible benefits... Agent: Quantum Leap Research, Inc

20080281914 - Computer system: There is provided a computer system comprising a plurality of first computers operated by users and a second computer coupled to the plurality of first computers via a network. The second computer receives a group creation request from one of the plurality of first computers; creates a group to which... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080281913 - Live video broadcasting on distributed networks: The techniques related to providing a live program over the Internet are described. According to one aspect of the techniques, a data stream representing a live program is preprocessed to produce a plurality of substreams, each of the substreams comprising decimated samples of the data stream. The number of substreams... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080281912 - Management of enterprise systems and applications using three-dimensional visualization technology: An approach that manages enterprise systems and applications using three-dimensional visualization technology is described. In one embodiment, a system for streaming visual representations of an enterprise in near-real time. A multitude of geographically distributed enterprise datacenters are each configured to obtain event data from hardware and software elements in the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080281916 - Method and apparatus for implementing signaling proxy: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for implementing signaling proxy. The method includes: in a signaling proxy of a communication network, configuring identification information of a message which needs to be processed by the signaling proxy; after receiving the message, the SP determines whether the message needs to... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080281917 - Segmented media publishing system: A system and method of publishing digital media content works is provided in which an individual content work is divided into multiple segments, and when a subscriber initiates a subscription to the content work, each individual content work segment is published via email to the subscriber on a fixed periodic... Agent: Mr. Philip Howard Stevenson

20080281919 - System and method for sharing images: In one embodiment, a system and a method for sharing images relate to receiving images transmitted via the Internet and intended for viewing by a particular intended recipient, automatically storing the images in association with the intended recipient, detecting physical proximity of the intended recipient to a display device, and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080281918 - System and method for sharing information in networks: System and method for sharing information in a network is provided. The system creates and maintains relationships between data elements in a network using a first server configured to store a unique identity object for a first data element. The server distributes the unique identity object to other servers. A... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080281920 - Adaptive parsing and compression of soap messages: A method and system for optimizing SOAP messages combines mechanisms of accelerating the composition of SOAP messages, reducing SOAP parsing overheads, and reducing SOAP message sizes by leveraging elements of the previous two techniques and policies for configuring these mechanisms. A byte-level partial representation of a SOAP message may be... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080281934 - Assisting the response to an electronic mail message: A method, article of manufacture and apparatus for assisting an electronic mail (e-mail) response message by providing e-mail messages related to an open e-mail message. Specifically, the method determines whether an available e-mail message is related to the open e-mail message. Available e-mail messages may include unopened, previously opened, or... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080281922 - Automatic generation of email previews and summaries: An incoming electronic communication is broken down into message portions. Features of the message portions are extracted and the message portions are converted into sparse feature vectors. The probabilities of the message portions being of interest of the user are calculated and the message portions are converted back into text.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080281923 - Distribution list management via sms: The ability to manage and use a group distribution list by sending command codes in messages sent via a short messaging service is provided for. Management and usage may include receiving an SMS message having a command code, interpreting the message to retrieve the command code, and executing the command... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080281924 - End user transparent email attachment handling to overcome size and attachment policy barriers: Email server side or client side components either remove email attachments from the relevant email, or identify the attachment while the email is being composed and makes the attachment available from a secure website or file hosting site. The recipient then receives instructions in the email and links to access... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080281931 - Group management method and system in interworking system of imps system and simple im system: Provided is a group management method and system for group communication in an in-terworking system of an Instant Messaging and Presence Services (IMPS) system and a Session Initiation Protocol for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions Instant Messaging (SIMPLE IM) system. In the group management method, a client currently connected... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080281925 - Hybrid email method and system: A method and system for sending email. The method and system can include the drafting of an email on an interface and the sending of an email to an intended recipient via a server. If the recipient receives or opens the email, a delivered or read receipt may be transmitted... Agent: Maier & Maier, PLLC

20080281935 - Intelligent delayed broadcast method and apparatus: A method, system, and article of manufacture that improves the chance of getting an answer to a broadcast chat by sending the messages in subscribers in periodically delayed groups. If a group of subscribers does not produce enough suitable answers, the present invention will then rebroadcast the inquiry to another... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080281928 - Method for transmitting data to at least one communications end system and communications device for carrying out said method: The invention relates to a method for transmitting data to at least one communications end system, and to a communications device for carrying out said method. The inventive method comprises the following steps: providing a dataset that is meant to be transmitted to at least one communications end system (4);... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca + Quigg LLP

20080281930 - Method, system, and apparatus for providing self-destructing electronic mail messages: A method, system, and apparatus for providing a self-destructing e-mail messages are described. An e-mail client application provides a user interface through which the sender of an e-mail message can enter the message and a time period for destruction of the message. Once the sender has provided this information, the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080281932 - Methods, systems, and products for categorizing and converting attached objects: Methods, systems, and products systems are disclosed for categorizing and converting an attached object. An electronic message is received from a sender's address that is destined for a recipient's address and has the attached object associated with a sender legacy system. The sender's address and the recipient's address are associated... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080281933 - Session management enhancements for instant messaging applications: The invention comprises an improved demand-based messaging system that enables a user to effectively manage multiple messaging sessions. The messaging system comprises a messaging program operable on a plurality of electrical computers or data processing machines connected by one or more communications media. The messaging program comprises a conventional message... Agent: Ibm Corporation (aus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080281926 - Stb messaging system: There are provided a method, a system and a machine-readable medium for video terminal device messaging. In one embodiment, a method includes querying a user associated with a mobile device whether to receive one or more mobile messages destined for the mobile device at a video terminal device; and selectively... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080281927 - Summarization tool and method for a dialogue sequence: The application discloses embodiments of a summarization tool for a dialogue sequence or message thread. In the embodiments disclosed, the summarization tool utilizes a topic shift component to identify a topic start to define a topic group for the dialogue sequence or message thread. A summary component uses the topic... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080281929 - System and method of automatic multi-media mail: The present invention provides an automatic multi-media mail system which is (1) installed in a website that provides the Internet mail service, or (2) working in conjunction with an Internet mail server used by a user. In the first case, the present invention provides multi-media information recording functions through the... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080281921 - Systems and methods for inter-domain messaging: Methods and systems are disclosed herein for relaying a digital message from a first browser module to a second browser module. A webpage can be received from a first domain server. The webpage can have a link to a URI that references a web service on a second domain server.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080281937 - Routing instant messages using configurable, pluggable delivery managers: Configurable, pluggable delivery managers are responsible for routing instant messages to intended recipients. A delivery manager is selected for a particular message, and that delivery manager defines, at runtime, a delivery policy to be used to route the instant message to an intended recipient of the message. The delivery policy... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080281936 - System and method for pushing service: A system for pushing a service utilizing Instant Messaging includes: a service pushing subsystem, adapted to send a service stored in the service pushing subsystem to a client subsystem through instant messages; the client subsystem, adapted to receive the service sent by the service pushing subsystem and display the service;... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080281938 - Selecting a master node in a multi-node computer system: Selecting a master node in a multi-node computer system is described. Each node of the multi-node computer system selects a timeout value (e.g., randomly). Each node starts a timer, which is set to expire at the selected timeout value of its corresponding node. The node with the timer that expires... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080281939 - Decoupled logical and physical data storage within a database management system: The subject matter herein relates to database management systems and, more particularly, to decoupled logical and physical data storage within a database management system. Various embodiments provide systems, methods, and software that separate physical storage from logical storage of data. These embodiments include a mapping of logical storage to physical... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080281940 - Advertising on a portable communication device: A device and method of displaying advertisements on an electronic device. The method includes providing an advertisement to the electronic device, detecting at least one prescribed condition of the electronic device corresponding to display of the advertisement, and displaying the advertisement on a display of the electronic device when the... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080281941 - System and method of processing online advertisement selections: A method of processing online advertisement selections includes detecting an electronic selection of an online advertisement, where the electronic selection is issued from a user computing device. The method also includes identifying an online site with which the user computing device is communicating at a time of the electronic selection... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080281942 - Data processing device: The present invention makes it possible to use data that is held by a given terminal device in another terminal device, even after the given terminal device can no longer be accessed externally. If a terminal device 100a detects an event wherein one's own terminal will no longer be externally... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080281944 - Method and system for extending the capabilities of embedded devices through network clients: A method and system for extending the capabilities of resource-constrained embedded devices by leveraging the memory and processing resources of clients such as web browsers (“clients”) installed on host computational devices (“host computers”). The embedded device delegates computational tasks such as generation of content (e.g., user interfaces, reports, configuration files,... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20080281943 - System, method, and computer program product for remotely determining the configuration of a multi-media content user: A method for remotely determining the configuration of a computer of a multimedia content user includes sending a player detection code the user's computer and receiving configuration information regarding the user's computer. A method of determining a connection speed of a computer includes determining a size of a timing block... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080281946 - Automatic migration of data via a distributed computer network: A method and apparatus for the automatic migration of data via a distributed computer network allows a customer to select content files that are to be transferred to a group of edge servers. Origin sites store all of a customer's available content files. An edge server maintains a dynamic number... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080281945 - Distributed content system and method: A distributed content registry for unique content identification is provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20080281948 - Dynamic switching of a communication port in a storage system between target and initiator modes: A storage system includes a communication port, the mode of operation of which can be dynamically switched by a user between a target mode and an initiator mode. The port may be a Fibre Channel port. The storage system may be a unified storage system operable to provide file-level access... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080281947 - System and method for automatically deploying a network design: A system and method for automatically deploying a network design is provided. Design deployment may be automated by a system that receives a machine-readable network design as an input, validates design topology requirements, and automatically deploys the design over actual hardware elements without manual intervention. Thus, the system and method... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080281949 - Client location information: Location information for a client is determined prior to establishing a communication tunnel over which the client accesses network based services. The location information is passed over the communication tunnel, and the network based services are provided based on the location information.... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080281954 - Capability requirements for group membership: A method and apparatus for adding a node to a group of nodes is provided. Group capability data is stored in volatile memory of a group manager for a group. The group capability data identifies capability requirements for members of the group. The group manager provides notification services for members... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080281953 - Managing network components using usb keys: Devices and methods for managing a communications network include using USB keys to provision and management components in the network by having the network component establish a connection to a network administrator device, such as a laptop, PDA, or desktop workstation. A first USB key is used to provision a... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20080281950 - Method and device for peer to peer file sharing: A system and method for managing peer to peer traffic. The method includes: identifying a peer to peer request and in response providing at least one address of a peer to peer server within a cluster that is adapted to service peer to peer requests. The system includes a cluster... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080281955 - Method and system for operating redundant network elements in a communication network: An operation of redundant network elements in a communication network having a back-up-network element associated with each active-network element is provided. A back-up control unit is associated with each back-up-network element, and data sent to the active-network element is sent to the back-up network element. Data is processed separately by... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080281951 - Methods, devices, systems, and computer program products for managing and delivering media content: Methods, devices, systems, and computer program products for managing and delivering media content are provided. A device includes a media recording structure for capturing the media content, an input component, and a transmitter. The device further includes a processor in communication with the media recording structure, the input component, and... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - At&t

20080281956 - System and method for device management: A system for managing one or more wireless devices in a wireless network, the system comprising: a single generic device manager for implementing device management operations; and an interface layer for translating administration client-specific requests to the generic device manager.... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080281952 - System and method for managing connections for networks used by a communication device: The invention relates to a system and method for managing a profile list for connections to networks for a communication device is provided. The method comprises: upon detection of a connection for the device to a network, determining whether the connection is known to the device; if the connection is... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20080281957 - Deferred invocation of communication services: In one embodiment, a network device determines one or more conditions for invoking one or more real applications to the network device for a session. This determination may be made at the initiation of the session, such as when a SIP INVITE message is received. The one or more conditions... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080281963 - Distributed remote management (drmon) for networks: A method and apparatus for the distributed monitoring of network traffic deploys end system agents to collect traffic statistics at distributed points in the network. These statistics are forwarded to collectors which compile the statistics to create higher level pictures of network performance. A collector may act as a proxy... Agent: 3com Corporation

20080281962 - Information asset management system, log analysis server, log analysis program, and portable medium: An information asset management system in a network environment includes a monitoring program 11 that monitors operation events performed by users and creates terminal logs 12, a terminal log collection program 21 that stores an integrated log 22 created by collecting the terminal logs 12, and a correlation analysis program... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080281959 - Managing addition and removal of nodes in a network: Systems and methods for managing a networked computing environment. The method comprising determining a change in status of a first computing system in a network according to status information communicated from the first computing system to a monitor system over a dedicated connection formed between the first computing system and... Agent: CenturyIPGroup, Inc. [main]

20080281965 - Method and system for reporting device capability update information: A method and system for reporting device capability update information, which allows a client to selectively update and report their capabilities, thereby reducing the traffic between the client and a server as well as alleviating the burden on the server. In the present invention, the mechanism of subscription/notification is added... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080281961 - Network delay analysis including parallel delay effects: A multi-functional graphical user interface facilitates the analysis and assessment of application delays, including delays that occur on multiple paths. A trace file of an application's network events is processed to categorize the causes of delays incurred in the propagation and processing of these events. The system identifies the amount... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20080281964 - Server discovery, spawning collector threads to collect information from servers, and reporting information: Server discovery, spawning collector threads to collect information from servers, and reporting such information, is disclosed. A method of one embodiment determines a number of servers communicatively coupled to a network. For each server, a collector thread is spawned to collect information regarding the server by sending requests to the... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080281960 - Traffic supervision system: A method and a computer system for monitoring traffic, the computer system comprising an information handling server (7) arranged to receive through a communications network (5) location data transmitted from at least a first and a second reporting means (3) in at least a first (1) and a second (2)... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080281958 - Unified console for system and workload management: Disclosed are systems and methods for implementing a unified console for managing computing-based devices. Described is a unified management solution to efficiently manage one or more workloads or a plurality of tasks performed by a user for managing the resources of applications in a computer network that includes the computing-based... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080281966 - Method and system of network communication privacy between network devices: A method for network communication privacy between network devices includes communicating first and second network enabled devices with a network, the first and second network devices in communication via a main communication channel. Respective network addresses of the first and second network enabled devices are dynamically and automatically changed while... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080281967 - Method and apparatus for encapsulating a virtual filer on a filer: A method for operating a server first assigns a plurality of storage volumes to one or more storage devices. A plurality of sub-volumes is established within a namespace of each of the plurality of storage volumes. An instance of a virtual server is created, the virtual server having a plurality... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080281968 - Updating download options for unavailable media content: A method provides download options for purchasable recordable media (PRM). The method includes storing a download option associated with a PRM content instance, updating the option, and transmitting the option to a digital home communication terminal. The option includes a time at which the PRM content instance is downloadable from... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Dept.

20080281969 - Controlling access to versions of application software by a server, based on site id: A plurality of versions of software application programs can be handled by a single server serving multiple user-clients who each need access to specific ones of the plurality of versions. Thus such different versions can run simultaneously without requiring upgrading of early versions and no interference between versions. A particular... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20080281970 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for integrating heterogeneous systems: Disclosed are a method, computer program product and apparatus for integrating resource and coordinator components in a heterogeneous computer system. The technique disclosed involves the introduction of a negotiation phase into the resource enlistment or registration process wherein the resource component and coordinator component request and respond with indicators showing... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080281973 - Management method, device and system for session connection: A method for managing session connection, including: a session connection endpoint device perceiving a configuration management event of session connection and managing status of the session connection according to the configuration management event. The disclosure also provides a server device for session connection and a session communication system.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080281971 - Network multimedia communication using multiple devices: Various embodiments are described relating to multimedia communication using multiple devices in a network. In an example embodiment, a request for a communication session may be received at a first server. Parameters associated with the communication session may be negotiated. One or more of the devices included in a group... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080281972 - Secure sharing of lob bound information in client applications: Secure sharing of bound information is enabled in client applications associated with a backend LOB service. Bound item IDs are assigned to newly created bound items by a client, the items synchronized with the LOB system, a correlation ID received in response to the synchronization, and the two IDs mapped.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080281974 - Providing personalized resources on-demand over a broadband network to consumer device applications: A method and system for providing personalized information to applications executing on consumer devices by: building a consumer preferences profile on a consumer device using predefined associations between consumer preference attributes and application events (including user input); summarizing the consumer preferences profile into a profile summary when applications require a... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080281976 - Method to receive udp response messages across multiple incoming udp ports: An apparatus includes a plurality of UDP ports capable of receiving UDP messages and a message generator to generate a request message to be transmitted to remote endpoints connected over a network via a connectionless diagram protocol. The request message includes a header section having data identifying a plurality of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080281975 - Methods and apparatus to route a communication session in an internet protocol (ip) multimedia subsystem (ims) network: Methods and apparatus to route a communication session in an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network are disclosed. An example method comprises determining at a tElephone NUMber mapping (ENUM) query server if a called destination associated with an ENUM query request message is subject to re-direction, and determining at... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080281977 - Methods, devices, systems, and computer program products for managing and delivering a live media stream: Method, devices, systems, and computer program products for managing and delivering a live media stream associated with a network-enabled media recording device are provided. A method includes receiving a network address for transmitting the live media stream captured by the network-enabled media recording device. The method also includes assigning a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - At&t

20080281978 - Methods for utilizing multiple tunnels within a communication network: Various embodiments are described, some of which may be able to better support real-time services during mobility events in communication networks. In general in these embodiments, multiple tunnels are established via different network nodes within the communication network to support data transfer in both a forward direction to an access... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080281979 - System and method for providing application categorization and quality of service in a network with multiple users: Internet protocol (IP) data service providers may provide several services over a single communications channel and/or circuit. For example, the provider may deliver public services such as Wi-Fi, content, gaming, etc. as well as business-critical “back-office” services such as credit card processing, VoIP, streaming video, video conferencing, etc. Some applications... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080281980 - Pseudowire circuit emulation: A method includes establishing a first pseudowire between a first switching device and a second switching device. The method also includes receiving customer traffic that includes time division multiplexed data and formatting the time division multiplexed data as packets. The method further includes identifying a destination for the customer traffic,... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080281981 - Relay server and relay communication system: A relay server is capable of communicating with other relay servers through an external server arranged on a Wide Area Network. The relay server stores information about a registered terminal, information about the relay servers forming a relay group by permitting connection among each other, and information about a resource... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080281982 - Contents distribution system, node apparatus and information processing method thereof, as well as recording medium on which program thereof is recorded: To provide a contents distribution system, method and the like, wherein even a node apparatus with a small storage capacity, such as in the case of a set-top box, can function as a root node apparatus in a P2P type of contents distribution system having a plurality of node apparatus... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080281983 - Client side protection against drive-by pharming via referrer checking: HTTP requests initiated from a web browser of a client computer system are proxied prior to release to a router, such as a home router. HTTP requests identifying a referrer URL corresponding to routable, public IP address and a target URL corresponding to a non-routable, private IP address are determined... Agent: Gunnison, Mckay & Hodgson, L.L.P.

20080281984 - Hub and spoke compression: A method of compressing data traffic for transmission through a network, the method comprises computing, for each one of a plurality of contexts of data traffic within the network, a respective optimal dictionary for encoding data traffic; For each block of data to be transmitted through the network: identifying a... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080281985 - Service providing method and integrated circuit: An application program relating to a process of an integrated circuit 21 is stored in a virtual integrated circuit 21 storage area server apparatus 13. Following a mutual authentication between the IC 21 and the virtual IC storage area server apparatus 13 through a portable communication function unit 20, the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080281986 - Parameter adjusting device: A parameter adjusting device optimizes parameters using a genetic algorithm by using a plurality of processing devices. The plurality of processing devices is respectively configured to individually and simultaneously execute the genetic algorithm and to, a predetermined period prior each local search, be such that each processing device, in accordance... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080281987 - Facilitating automatic protection switching for provider backbone network: An existing protection mechanism is enhanced through the use of an automatic protection switching protocol data unit (APS PDU). In conjunction with transmitting Ethernet frames to a second bridge over a primary path, a first bridge transmits APS PDUs to the second bridge over a secondary path. The APS PDUs... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20080275933 - Systems and methods for storage area network design: Systems and methods for designing storage area network fabric. Preferably included are an arrangement for collecting user requirements on data flows to be supported by the fabric, an arrangement for grouping the data flows into flow groups according to at least one physical location parameter, an arrangement for designing components... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080275934 - Systems and methods for storage area network design: Systems and methods for designing storage area network fabric. Preferably included are an arrangement for collecting user requirements on data flows to be supported by the fabric, an arrangement for grouping the data flows into flow groups according to at least one physical location parameter, an arrangement for designing components... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080275936 - Apparatus and methods for processing mailpiece information by an identification code server: Apparatus and methods consistent with the present invention provide for processing delivery item information in an identification code sorting system by an identification code server. In one embodiment, a primary identification code server receives an identification file containing identification information uniquely corresponding to a delivery item. In this embodiment, the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080275935 - Method and apparatus for middleware assisted system integration in a federated environment: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided for instantiating a service on a network. A service infrastructure manager determines whether a service is available at a requested quality of service in response to receiving a request for the service that specifies the quality... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080275937 - Control device, method and program for providing information: A technology is provided to facilitate provision of information to a plurality of clients in a computer telephony integrated system. Plural user terminals are respectively connected to an information-providing server that provides requested information, a session control server, and a portal server. Sessions are established between each of the above... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080275938 - Virtual machine web browser: A system and method of browsing documents is provided that does not require a traditional document browsing application at a client device. In order to achieve browsing without a browsing application, the client device first transmits an information request to a host system. The host system retrieves the requested information... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20080275943 - Application load balancing for different domains: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a message associated with a device in a first domain. An identifier is determined for the device. The message is then sent to a load balancer where the message includes the identifier. The load balancer is then configured to send the message to... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080275939 - Demand provisioning of applications: A system and method for on demand provisioning of applications to clients, the system providing on demand access to applications by clients and their users over a computer communication system such as the Internet, thereby eliminating the need for clients to independently purchase, install, integrate and maintain the applications on... Agent: Jeffrey S. Sokol Cook & Franke

20080275948 - Efficient handling of mostly read data in a computer server: An apparatus and method is described for improving access to mostly read data on network servers. The preferred embodiments more efficiently utilize replicated data servers to minimize server response time for improved performance of data access to network servers by workload managing client requests across the primary server and all... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080275949 - Efficient handling of mostly read data in a computer server: An apparatus and method is described for improving access to mostly read data on network servers. The preferred embodiments more efficiently utilize replicated data servers to minimize server response time for improved performance of data access to network servers by workload managing client requests across the primary server and all... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080275947 - Lazy document and data validation: Client-side scripts are repackaged on the server side to be sent to the client with the corresponding data element. They are packaged to appear no earlier than the program location of a first corresponding data element. The document is rendered as it arrives at the client. In parallel, execution of... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080275945 - Relay server and relay communication system: In a relay communication system, when receiving an operation instruction of a resource from a client terminal stored in an account information registration unit, a relay server relays the operation instruction to a client terminal capable of operating the resource based on relay group information if the resource is operable... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080275940 - Server apparatus, client apparatus and network system: The network system comprises an original device description indicating a control point so as to register an address used for MAC address authentication. The server side acquires information from the device(s) connected to the network, and only the device(s) having the above mentioned description are listed and displayed. By responding... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080275941 - Service integration on a network: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for service integration on a network. Telecommunication services (e.g., calendar, television, phone, location) on a network are integrated using service codelets designed to interface with the services. A default codelet associated with the user (e.g., via a service plan) dynamically... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080275946 - Smart scheduler capable of reflecting change of situation: Disclosed is a smart scheduler reflecting change of situation. The smart scheduler reflecting change of situation includes an interface unit and an alarm time decision unit. The interface unit both sends and receives contextual information to/from an external service-providing source. The alarm time decision unit reflects the contextual information that... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080275944 - Transaction-initiated batch processing: A system and method is provided for initiating batch processing on a computer system from a terminal. The method generates a message from the terminal, where the message defines a transaction to be performed on a computer system. The transaction schedules and runs a program that extracts data from the... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20080275942 - User defined internet jukebox kiosks set top box: A system such as an Internet Juke Box, Kiosk, or Set Top Box connected to the network which is database driven and tied to an on line internet site where local artist and musicians can create a profile which will allow them to upload their media, being images, music and... Agent: Manuel Tijerino

20080275950 - Wireless device address book updates: A system for maintaining an address book, wherein the address book includes a plurality of entries with each entry containing contact information and wherein address book updates are transmitted over a wireless network. The system includes a gateway for storing the address book and transmitting the address book updates to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Intellecutal Property I, L.p.

20080275951 - Integrated logging for remote script execution: An integrated logging system includes a client-side logging component and a server-side logging component. The client-side logging component possesses the capability of logging client-side activity information, such as may relate to the execution of a script or other suitable client-side code that is controlled and executed independently of a remote... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20080275952 - Overlay network system and service providing method: In an overlay network system in which at least one node is mapped in a hash space by distributed hash table techniques, each node having a nods identifier obtained by hashing identification information of the own node, at least one service concerning all the nodes is provided. Each node includes... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080275954 - Communication method: According to the present invention, the step of requesting of an associated information provision server KS for associated information about contents broadcast in a broadcast program being received is provided. The step of acquiring the associated information corresponding to the request from the associated information provision server KS and storing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080275955 - Content delivery method and apparatus in teleconference: In order to appropriately deliver content data to users participating in a teleconference, following steps are executed: receiving a URI of the content data to be delivered to participating users participating in the teleconference from the user terminal of a specific participating user; obtaining the content data corresponding to the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080275953 - Relay server and relay communication system: A relay server stores registered terminal information and information about the relay servers that form a relay group permitting connection among each other, about a shared resource, about terminals sharing the resource, and about a message to be transmitted in association with the resource. When an operation instruction regarding the... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080275958 - Distributed and scalable instant multimedia communication system: A method for addressing an entity for an internet-based service other than electronic mailing includes selecting a prefix that is uniquely associated the internet-based service, providing an email address for the entity, where the email address includes a username and domain, and attaching the prefix to the domain to convert... Agent: Pinnacle Patent Law Group

20080275956 - Grouping event notifications in a database system: Techniques for grouping events in a computing system are provided. A registrant sends, to a database server, a request to register to receive a single notification based the occurrence of multiple events that satisfy certain criteria, referred to as grouping attributes. Such registrations are referred to as grouping registrations. An... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080275957 - Identifying and correlating electronic mail messages: Technologies are described herein for identifying and correlating e-mail messages. The contents of the subject and recipients fields of e-mail messages received at and sent from a computing system are hashed and stored in a database. When an incoming e-mail message is received at the computing system, the contents of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080275961 - Control apparatus and its method, and control program and storage medium holding it: A controller which exits between a client apparatus and an image processing apparatus and which controls access from the client apparatus such that the client apparatus can use a network server function of the image processing apparatus, its control method and control program and storage medium. To accomplish this, the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080275960 - Coordination and management of content distribution: Content items may be transmitted and synchronized between a receiving device and a content hosting service (e.g., a file sharing service) using a coordinating device. The coordinating device may be in and/or connected to a local network of the local device and may facilitate communications between the local device and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080275959 - Distributed search in a casual network of servers: Distributed searches in a casual server network may he provided. First it may be determined, at an originating server, that a first request cannot be fulfilled by informal on associated with the originating server. Then, from the originating server, the first request may be posted to a distributed request ring.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080275964 - Appliance metaphor for adding media function to a web page: A media appliance metaphor (111) for adding a media function to a Web page (34) downloaded at a processor platform (24) includes a software device of a graphic representation representing a real world counterpart for display in connection with the Web page (34). The metaphor (111) is formed by a... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20080275963 - Dynamically modifying a universal resource indicator: A logic module receives a navigation request that includes an address identifying a resource stored at a remote server. The logic module determines whether the address is valid based on predetermined criteria. If the address is valid, the logic modifies the address to include values that indicate a device configuration... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080275962 - Remote access providing computer system and method for managing same: A computer system for providing a remote access service includes a unit for acquiring information on a relation between a terminal and a user using the terminal, a unit for acquiring network information about the terminal, a unit for acquiring network information about a blade that the terminal will access,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080275967 - Link delivery for subsequent retrieval of networked information: A system and method for providing links to a browser program running on a computer connected to a network include receiving a request from the browser program to transfer a file representing a home page for display in the browser program, and determining a storage location on the computer for... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080275966 - Methods and apparatus for provider-managed content delivery: Methods and apparatus for the simple, managed delivery of content to communication devices over a wireless network. The interoperation of a client component and a server, either a gateway server or a hosted server, allows for the delivery of content to wireless communication devices in a “push” fashion, i.e., independent... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080275965 - Mobile communication terminal and download control method: During recovery from a state where a continuous download is impossible, if the mobile communication terminal issues a request for a continuous data download, to the server (S1), function information that indicates whether the server is available for the continuous data download is sent back (S2). In cases where it... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080275968 - Managing a master method and a child method defined by differing sets of required configurations: According to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a device is provided for managing a master method, defined by a first set of required configurations, and a child method, derived from the master method and being defined by a second set of required configurations, wherein each of the master method... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080275969 - System and method for managing a plurality of network clusters: Exemplary systems and methods for managing a plurality of network clusters are provided. In exemplary embodiments, a network cluster is established within a super cluster. Each network cluster comprises one or more groups/organizations having a common interest. Once established, the network cluster defines customized administrative components for the network cluster.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080275970 - Autonomically adjusting configuration parameters for a server when a different server fails: A load balancer detects a server failure, and sends a failure notification message to the remaining servers. In response, one or more of the remaining servers may autonomically adjust their configuration parameters, thereby allowing the remaining servers to better handle the increased load caused by the server failure. One or... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080275971 - Method for displaying data in an industrial control system: A method for distribute or share data provided by a server process of an industrial control system to a client process running on a first machine of a first user, with a client process running on a machine of a second user. The server session is logged by the server... Agent: Venable LLP

20080275975 - Blade server system with at least one rack-switch having multiple switches interconnected and configured for management and operation as a single virtual switch: Described is a rack-switch including a rack and a plurality of blade server chassis within the rack. Each blade server chassis has a plurality of server blades in communication with at least one switch. Each switch includes a plurality of external ports. At least two of the external ports of... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080275973 - Dynamic cli mapping for clustered software entities: Techniques for mapping availability management (AM) functions to software installation locations are described. An availability management function (AMF) can look-up a component type and determine software associated with that component. For a selected AMF node, the AMF software entity can then determine a pathname prefix associated with that software. The... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080275976 - Information gathering tool for systems administration: A method and program product for gathering information about a system. A user logs on to the system, and in response, computer programming automatically identifies application instances executing in the system, determines whether the system is configured for high availability, determines whether each of the identified application instances is configured... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080275977 - Method and system for managing information feed delivery to a communications device: A method and system for managing information feed delivery to communications devices is provided. In one aspect, the method involves initializing a user account in response to receiving a first communication identifying a communications device. In another aspect, the method involves associating a content object of an information publisher with... Agent: Nexus Law Group LLP

20080275978 - Method and systems for locating geographical locations of online users: A location tracking system for building a geographic location database of network nodes in a computer network includes a trace engine module configured to send trace Id commands to a plurality of user terminals. The user terminals are actively coupled to a server node so that the trace engine module... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080275979 - System and method for clustering of group-centric networks: Exemplary systems and methods for managing a plurality of group-centric networks are provided. In exemplary embodiments, a plurality of group-centric networks is established within a network cluster. Each group-centric network comprises one or more groups having a common interest. Once established, the group-centric network defines customized administrative components for the... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080275972 - System and method for providing improved packet traceability: A method and apparatus is described which enables location information associated with a client to easily be obtained by a service provider in a packet-based network. The location information may be the location of the client itself, or may be location information associated with devices in a communication facility established... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras LLP

20080275974 - System, method, and display for managing media content for use at multiple locations: In a system and method for managing user profiles and for managing, recording, and experiencing media content, a server may store a profile, content, and an association of the content with a profile, each of multiple devices may log into the profile by accessing the profile stored at the server,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080275981 - Client server system and method for executing an application utilizing distributed objects: A client connected to a communication network performs an access request to an object. An application server performs an application by an actual object according to the client request. An object pool connected to the client and the application server pools a proxy object corresponding to the actual object and... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080275988 - Method and system for lawful interception in next generation networks: A method and system for lawful interception by Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) in next generation networks. The system includes a Delivery Function 3 (DF3) entity, an interception information provision entity, and a Border Gateway Function (BGF) entity. The method includes a Border Gateway Function (BGF) entity in a next generation... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080275983 - Method and system for network management providing access to application bandwidth usage calculations: A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product is presented for management of a distributed data processing system. The network management framework is able to monitor multiple sources of network packets on various subnets within the distributed data processing system; distributed packet snoopers are deployed from a packet usage manager... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080275984 - Method and system for network management providing access to application bandwidth usage calculations: A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product is presented for management of a distributed data processing system. The network management framework is able to monitor multiple sources of network packets on various subnets within the distributed data processing system; distributed packet snoopers are deployed from a packet usage manager... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080275980 - Method and system for testing variations of website content: The invention is a method and system for testing variations of website content useful to optimize website visitor conversions. The invention includes integrating test variations of website content with web analytics platforms so that website variations can be tracking and analyzed within web analytics reporting systems. The invention helps website... Agent: Clock Tower Law Group

20080275986 - Method to update status on multiple voice and text systems from a single device: A method for updating a message on a plurality of devices from a single device comprising a Configuration Program (CP), an Audio Device Update Program (ADUP), and a Text Device Update Program (TDUP). Using the CP, the user may enable and disable the present invention, add or delete devices, create... Agent: Rudolf O. Siegesmund

20080275987 - Methods and apparatus for integrating services for accessing the world wide web: Web pages retrieved by a browser core are translated into user interface component definitions and page information. The definitions and page information are transmitted to a user device which recomposes the definitions and page information into a format for presentation to a user on a user device. Transmitting the definitions... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080275982 - System and program product for tracking web user sessions: The present invention provides a solution for efficiently tracking web user sessions. Specifically, under the present invention, web user sessions are tracked on an analytics system based upon a unique identifier assigned to a requested web page and a session cookie that identifies a particular web user session. By tracking... Agent: A. Bruce Clay IBM Corporation T81/503

20080275985 - Systems, methods and computer programs for monitoring distributed resources in a data processing environment: Methods, apparatus and computer programs are described for monitoring resources within a data processing network. Monitoring entities can be selected, and a set of active monitoring functions can be modified, based on the requirements of consumers of monitored data. A first method involves monitoring resources on behalf of consumer entities... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080275991 - Group formation/management system, group management device, and member device: A group management device provides with a content a device included in a group managed by the group management device. The group management device includes a storage unit that stores a total number of remote device that the group management device currently registers, a maximum number of remote devices that... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080275990 - Method and system for selecting, in a vehicle, an active preference group: An occupant of a vehicle is presented with discussion groups of interest to the occupant. The discussion groups are selected based on the degree to which interests of friends of the occupant coincide with the interests of the occupant. Once a discussion group is chosen, a telematics gateway connects the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20080275989 - Optimizing virtual interface architecture (via) on multiprocessor servers and physically independent consolidated nics: Optimization of the Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) on Multiprocessor Servers using Physically Independent Consolidated NICs (Network Interface Cards) allows for improved throughput, increased resiliency and transparent fail-over; and also by hiding the actual NICs involved in particular data transactions, enables operations with substantially unmodified applications software.... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20080275992 - System and method of managing connections between a computing system and an available network using a connection manager: In one aspect, a method of enabling an execution thread of an application running on a communication device to access a communication service is provided. The method includes selecting a connection profile that supports the communication service and attaching the execution thread to a data channel associated with the connection... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20080275994 - Metadata communication system: Techniques for communicating metadata are disclosed. According to one technique, a device comprises a configuration module. The configuration module contains and specifies a mapping table. For example, each mapping in the mapping table might indicate a standard, a retrieving protocol, and a packaging protocol. In the mapping table, a particular... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080275993 - Web service for user and subscription data storage: A data service that manages user and subscription data for multiple services. The data service maintains a database of the user and subscription data and provides an interface that allows the other services, that act as clients to the data service, to access that data. The data service avoids the... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080275995 - Application-independent service delivery: A service delivery platform that can support a number of different services is provided. A context regarding an application device is received by the service delivery platform. Applications executed on the service delivery platform use the context to optimize the delivery of information to application devices.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080275996 - Device in a system operating with can-protocol and in a control and/or supervision system: A control or supervision system incorporates a digital serial communication and modules which are mutually communicable to this and operate with CAN-protocol. A control desk can be wirelessly connected to one or more modules operating with a signal protocol which takes no account of arbitration and/or confirmation functions appearing in... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080275998 - Software downloading using a television broadcast channel: A software distribution architecture having a television broadcast system as its infrastructure. Software from a software repository (1600) is mixed into a television broadcast system and transmitted into one or more selected channels at prescribed dates and times. An at-home subscriber, capable of receiving with a receiver (1608) the one... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080275997 - System and method for flow control in web-based video editing system: A web-based video editing system includes a communication device configured to: generate information indicative of points of interest of a video, the points of interest being indicative of one or more active data or one or more inactive data during a selected time interval; determine an identity of each of... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080275999 - Information distribution system, terminal apparatus used in such system, recording medium on which program is recorded, and loop connection avoidance method: A terminal apparatus B which has received loop connection detection information from upstream determines whether or not a downstream terminal apparatus of a control path which is not a distribution route along which contents information is flowing, and a source of the loop connection detection information match and, in the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080276001 - Quality of experience indicator for network diagnosis: A method, system and computer program product for calculating a scaled quality indicator expressing a quality of experience for streaming media, includes calculating network characteristics of packet loss rate of the streaming media, calculating network characteristics of packet jitter of the streaming media, and calculating the scaled quality indicator based... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080276000 - System and method for distributing content via a shared network: Bandwidth use between an access provider system (14) and a user computer (10) is adapted to an amount of subscription quotum that has been used by a subscriber. Quotum use information is representative of an amount of data that has been exchanged between the user computer (10) and an access... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080276002 - Traffic routing based on client intelligence: Techniques are described for making the best connection between a client and a server. The best connection is determined based upon the proximity of the client to the server, and the load and availability of the server. Proximity is determined by connection racing in which response times to requests made... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080276003 - System and method for enhanced messaging intermediary: An intermediary infrastructure that facilitates the interconnection of multiple IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks. The interconnections may span one or more of the IMS logical planes Services Plane, Control Plane, and Network or Transport Plane. The intermediary offers among other things a process, routing, and switching complex that is able... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080276004 - Populating location wiremap databases: A method for populating location wiremap databases. In particular implementations, a method includes establishing a link layer connection with a client on a switch port, where the switch port is associated with a port identifier and is mapped to a location; identifying one or more connection attributes of the connection,... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080276005 - Method and apparatus for translating web addresses and using numerically entered web addresses: Use of existing Internet-based communications protocols and standards are used to implement a translation module that converts a scheme-specific name entered by a user into a Web browser into a second scheme-specific name either prior to or during transmission.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080276006 - Systems and methods for providing terminal configuration data: Communication nodes, systems and methods are described which provide mechanisms and techniques for providing terminal configuration data from, e.g., a CNG Configuration Function (CNGCF), to, e.g., a configuration function (CNG) in a user's equipment. The information needed by the CNGCF to provide this terminal configuration data file, e.g., an IP... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080276007 - Method and system for proxying telephony messages: A proxy computer of a network can receive incoming telephony messages from one or more computers outside of the network and proxy them to computers within the network. Similarly, the proxy computer can receive outgoing telephony messages from within the network and proxy them to computers outside of the network.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP