Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 12/08

20080320073 - Device for managing the insertion of complementary data into multimedia content streams: A device (D) is dedicated to managing multimedia content that is to be transmitted to communication terminals (T). This device (D) comprises management means (MM) tasked, when in the presence of a multimedia content stream to be transmitted, with determining in real time which complementary content should be inserted into... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080320072 - Information processing system and method, information processing apparatus and method, and program: A system includes first and second information processing apparatuses. The first apparatus: performs processing on each of a plurality of local area data using a processing scheme, the data being obtained by dividing an input signal, the processing scheme being selected from processing schemes, respectively; and outputs an output signal... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080320071 - Method, apparatus and program product for creating a test framework for testing operating system components in a cluster system: A method, apparatus and program product include an Automatic Testing System for creating a test framework for testing operating system components. The Automatic Testing System resides on a server and includes a master driver which assists in creating test cases and scenarios. The Automatic Testing System issues commands to distribute... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080320075 - Detecting data propagation in a distributed system: Embodiments gather historical information about data propagation by monitoring requests to and replies from a server. When a request is received from a client system to upload code onto a web site, a user identity associated with the client system is determined and a tag that uniquely identifies the uploaded... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080320074 - Method and apparatus for efficient peer network set-top box web-casting: A device and method for efficient set-top box web-casting utilizing a peer network protocol. The device is connected to data servers on the network and acts as a stand alone internet node. The device plays, receives, and distributes content. The device can insert one medium into another; it adheres to... Agent: Mchale & Slavin, P.A.

20080320077 - Method and electronic device for obtaining an evaluation of an electronic document: A method, an electronic device (110), a computer program product, and a computer readable medium for obtaining an evaluation of an electronic document that is referred to in an acquired electronic document. The electronic device (110) comprises an acquiring unit (111) adapted to acquire an electronic document including one or... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080320076 - Method and system for unit testing web framework applications: The lifetime of a data structure containing information for processing a client request is manipulated so that the information remains available to a review and/or testing process. After examination, the information may be discarded.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080320078 - Venue and event recommendations for a user of a portable media player device: A method and system for generating by a server, a recommendation for a venue or an event of interest proximally located to an inferred current location of a user of a portable media player device. In an embodiment, a server may determine one or more media preferences for a user... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080320079 - Customizing web 2.0 application behavior based on relationships between a content creator and a content requester: The present invention discloses a solution for developer customization of Web 2.0 applications based on relationships between a content creator and a content requester. In the solution, Web 2.0 content can be received from a content creator. One or more creator established customizations can also be received where the customizations... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080320080 - Linking recognized emotions to non-visual representations: A method of linking recognized emotions to non-visual representations includes receiving at a first location information corresponding to demonstrative behaviors of individuals. The behaviors of the individuals may be analyzed during a dynamic session, in which the information is used to determine emotional states of one or more of the... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080320083 - Methods and apparatus for push to talk type service: A method and apparatus for processing a floor request in a push to talk type service in which a floor is required for a first terminal to distribute media to a second terminal. The first terminal sends a floor request message to a PoC Server. The message relates to at... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080320082 - Reporting participant attention level to presenter during a web-based rich-media conference: In one embodiment, a method comprises establishing, by an IP-based meeting server via an IP network, a web-based media conference between an identified meeting presenter having a web-enabled presenter client device and identified meeting participants each having at least one corresponding participating client device; receiving, by the IP-based meeting server,... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20080320081 - Service componentization and composition architecture: An architecture for componentizing portions of a collaborative or software as a service (SaaS) environment is provided such that users and/or developers leveraging such environments need not initialize and load the entire environment. Rather services are discovered and selectable so applications can be implemented to utilize a portion of the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080320084 - System for providing information to users sharing a nomadic experience: The present invention relates to a system for providing information to one or more users sharing a nomadic experience. The system comprises client terminals (1071-1075) and a server platform (101). The server platform (101) consists of one or more first servers (103) for maintaining groups of users and one or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080320085 - Chat for television network: A chat system for a digital television network comprises a digital operator head end system (301) for broadcasting to subscriber decoders (309). The head end system comprises a chat room creation device (307) which communicates with a chat server (314) to create, cancel and/or join an event related chat room,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080320091 - Communication terminal apparatus: A communication terminal apparatus is provided that prevents registration of a wrong mail address and prevents transmission of useless mails. The communication terminal apparatus has a recipient information memory unit for memorizing recipient information specifying a recipient of a mail, a recipient information input unit for inputting the recipient information,... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080320093 - Controlling the sending of electronic mail: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for sending individual email messages in a batch, and monitoring the information returned from every receiving mail server to make sure that the failure rate for each server does not rise too high. Two running counts are maintained for every receiving... Agent: Philip Thorne

20080320088 - Helping valuable message content pass apparent message filtering: A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for obtaining an indication of one or more message filtering rules and accepting text-containing content after obtaining the indication of the one or more message filtering rules and after an acceptance of a delivery evaluation of the text-containing content; or... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080320092 - Methods and systems for providing an electronic account to a customer: An electronic account is provided to a customer to enable the customer to access electronic services, such as e-mail and electronic transactions. The electronic account links an electronic address of the customer to a physical address of the customer. Using the electronic account, electronic services can be provided to the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080320089 - Preliminary destination-dependent evaluation of message content: A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for causing message content to undergo an evaluation mode at least partly dependent upon one or more message content destinations and indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080320087 - Swarm sensing and actuating: Sensing information from a multitude of remote sources can provide a user with a vast amount of information as well as a better granularity of the information. A user can also actuate or move remote sources to obtain the desired information or more information and/or to expend energy in a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080320094 - System and method for effectively performing a streamlined photo distribution procedure: A system and method for effectively performing a streamlined photo distribution procedure may include a photo data source that provides photo data to a source device in an electronic network. A source photo manager of the source device may be utilized to designate one or more message targets for receiving... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20080320090 - System and method for review of discussion content: This invention is a content review system having a computer readable medium which can contain member information embodied in the computer readable medium representing individuals that wish to participate in online discussions where each member has an electronic address. Computer readable instructions provide for receiving initial discussion content generated by... Agent: Mcnair Law Firm, P.A.

20080320086 - System and method for updating instant message transcripts: The present invention provides a system and method for communications system, such as an instant messaging system, to allow encrypted conversations to be updated in real-time. The messages are encrypted with authentication keys or other security measures. The system and method provide the ability to modify an encrypted instant messaging... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080320096 - Associating multiple visibility profiles with a user of real-time communication system: Visibility profiles associated with a substantially real time messaging environment are disclosed. Additionally, techniques for managing visibility profiles are disclosed, which include automatically associating a first profile with a first situation, automatically associating a second profile with a second situation, and where the first and second profiles are associated with... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080320095 - Determination of participation in a malicious software campaign: Sources of spam, such as botnets, are detected by analyzing message traffic for behavioral patterns and indications of suspicious content. The content of a known malicious source is analyzed. Message traffic associated with the known malicious source is analyzed. Associated message traffic includes messages sent directly from the known malicious... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080320097 - Network distributed file system: A storage pool component is operable on a computing device including a storage medium having an otherwise free storage capacity for forming a portion of a storage capacity of a storage pool and being operably connected across a network to at least one other such component. The component comprises configuration... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20080320101 - Communication capability coupons: A system and method for establishing communications between first and second parties. In one embodiment, a request initiated by a first party is generated for establishing a communications channel over a first communications network between the first and second parties. An intermediary server device interrupts receipt of the request and... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080320099 - Connector and communication method thereof: A connector includes: a cable connecting unit that is connected with a cable via which a signal is transmitted from a first network apparatus; an apparatus connecting unit that is connected with a second network apparatus; a communicating unit that communicates with the first network apparatus and the second network... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080320100 - Determining playability of media files with minimal downloading: A method is provided through which information about media files embedded in web pages is obtained from a server and analyzed to determine if the media files are playable on a device. This information may be external to the media file or may be a portion of the media file... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/apple Inc.

20080320098 - Providing treatment-indicative feedback dependent on putative content treatment: A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for obtaining a content type indication locally of a remote system's apparent content treatment and causing provisional-update-responsive feedback to depend at least partly on the content type indication of the remote system's apparent content treatment.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080320102 - Information retrieval system: Method for extracting information from a first web based information network including at least one computer, the network containing user specific information, comprising the steps of accessing a user specific web page containing the user information, detecting specific user dependent information, and storing the information in a number of categories,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080320103 - Attachment server network for viewing attachments on a portable electronic device: An attachment server network including at least two attachment servers in communication with one another, each of the attachment servers for converting email attachments in response to view requests received from portable electronic devices, each of the attachment servers having a respective cache for storing data corresponding to previously converted... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20080320104 - Streaming network coding: In one embodiment, a method comprises supplying, by a network node to a peer network node, a randomization seed assigned to the network node for generating a prescribed sequence of pseudorandom numbers according to a prescribed pseudorandom number generation function; encoding each data block having a corresponding position in an... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20080320107 - System and method for contents upload using a mobile terminal: The present invention relates to a network system providing a wireless website and method for providing and connecting the wireless website using the same, the network system including a contents providing system using a mobile terminal including at least one terminal device receiving contents information for the wireless website through... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20080320105 - System, server and information terminal for detection of a black hat: A system includes an information terminal of a user B which stores information of users A and B; an information terminal of a user C which stores information of users A and B; and a server. The information terminal of the user B generates a first calculation result by an... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080320106 - Transaction accelerator for client-server communications systems: In a network having transaction acceleration, for an accelerated transaction, a client directs a request to a client-side transaction handler that forwards the request to a server-side transaction handler, which in turn provides the request, or a representation thereof, to a server for responding to the request. The server sends... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew/riverbed

20080320115 - Apparatus, method and system for acquiring ipv6 address: An apparatus, method and system for acquiring IPV6 address is described. The apparatus includes a request module (101) and an allocation module (102), the request module (101) is adapted to send an IPV6 address allocation request to the allocation module (102), and acquire an allocated IPV6 address from an IPV6... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080320114 - Client device configuration with configuration services providers: Configuring a client device, including receiving, from a manufacturer, a configuration bundle for a client device, receiving, from a vendor, vendor provided configuration parameters for the client device, receiving, from a user, user provided configuration parameters for the client device, and associating the vendor provided configuration parameters and the user... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080320109 - Complex software deployment: Systems and methods of deploying one or more software components to a target computer infrastructure are disclosed. A descriptor file that declares a desired state of one or more target computing devices of a target computer infrastructure is parsed. A live state of the one or more target computing devices... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320110 - Firmware rollback and configuration restoration for electronic devices: Techniques are described for managing one or more electronic devices connected on a network. A central management system may be configured to control firmware rollback activity for the devices. The central management system may in some embodiments also rollback configuration settings. In another embodiment, a central management system may perform... Agent: Law Offices Of Larry K. Roberts, Inc.

20080320112 - Highly scalable and highly available cluster system management scheme: A cluster system is treated as a set of resource groups, each resource group including a highly available application and the resources upon which it depends. A resource group may have between 2 and M data processing systems, where M is small relative to the cluster size N of the... Agent: Andrew J. Dillon Felsman, Bradley, Gunter & Dillon, LLP

20080320113 - Highly scalable and highly available cluster system management scheme: A cluster system is treated as a set of resource groups, each resource group including a highly available application and the resources upon which it depends. A resource group may have between 2 and M data processing systems, where M is small relative to the cluster size N of the... Agent: Andrew J. Dillon Felsman, Bradley, Gunter & Dillon, LLP

20080320108 - Management policies for dense wireless access point infrastructures in wireless local area networks: Techniques for enhancing the throughput capacity available to client devices connected to a wireless local area network (WLAN) are described. Specifically, existing WLAN resources are converted into wireless access points (APs) to create a dense infrastructure of wireless APs. To leverage this dense AP infrastructure, central management techniques are employed.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080320111 - Method for domain name configuration in ipv6 access network and the network device hereof: The present invention provides a method and device for hierarchical configuration of domain name in IPv6 network. Said method comprises: a) negotiating a unique user network's name between a user and a network SP; b) a client terminal device at the user network side obtaining prefix of IPv6 network address... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080320117 - Cluster system management: In a system having a cluster of system components interconnected by a cluster interconnect fabric, the system components include out-of-band management network interfaces to an out-of-band management network. The system is configured to use the cluster interconnect fabric and the out-of-band management network interfaces to determine the overall connectivity and... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080320118 - Computer system and method for configuring thereof: A computer system includes a plurality of domains and a service processor. The service processor sets and changes a configuration of the domain by setting and changing configuration information for determining to combine and separate a hardware resource. The service processor includes a configuration information storing unit registering the configuration... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080320116 - Identification of endpoint devices operably coupled to a network through a network address translation router: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for identifying an endpoint device from a network when the endpoint device is operably coupled to the network using an internal address on a network address translation (NAT) router. The methods include generating mapping information by associating each of a plurality of internal addresses... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20080320119 - Automatically identifying dynamic internet protocol addresses: Dynamic IP addresses may be automatically identified and their dynamics patterns may be analyzed. Multi-user IP address blocks are determined as candidates for further analysis. An entropy score is determined for each IP address in every candidate block to distinguish between a dynamic IP and a static IP shared by... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320120 - Apparatus and method for visualization of web services distributed management (wsdm) resources: An apparatus and method provides visualization of IT resources that are exposed as WSDM resources. A management system with a console provides visibility and functionality for WSDM resources by employing a visualization mechanism that processes standardized visualization metadata that is sent from a WSDM resource. The visualization mechanism uses standardized... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080320124 - Data-assisted content programming: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for data-assisted content programming are described. Link access data for a website is collected, such as numbers and times of views and clicks for links of the website, and link generated revenue information. The link access data is optionally stored. A link performance measure is generated... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20080320126 - Environment sensing for interactive entertainment: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate an enhanced entertainment experience based upon interactivity between entertainment medium or content and a content consumer's environment. In one aspect, based upon features or condition of a content consumer's environment, entertainment content can be interactively selected or modified. In... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080320122 - Method and apparatus for management of virtualized process collections: A management software approach to automatic and dynamic migration of applications running within virtualized process collections while retaining state during the migration operation. Performance metrics are received for a virtualized process collection running in a first logical partition. A threshold value is calculated for the performance metrics. A performance state... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080320135 - Method and system for establishing network connections: A method, computer readable medium and computer system for repairing a failed network connection between a client system and a network is disclosed. In a first aspect, the method preferably includes collecting real time connectivity information by the client system and utilizing the real time connectivity information by the client... Agent: Ibm Rp-rps Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080320132 - Method for communication with interception of control messages: m

20080320133 - Method for determining the dynamics of a logical network:

20080320129 - Method of specifying a monitoring criterion for a parameter of an object in an operational management system: The invention relates to a method of specifying a monitoring criterion for a parameter of an object in an operational management system. The method in accordance with the invention comprises the step of assigning first information to the parameter, wherein the first information is associated with a first priority. In... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080320131 - Method, apparatus or software for managing propagation of the performance of a node in a network: A method, apparatus and software are disclosed for managing a network of nodes in a manner that enables the effect of the performance of one node on its neighbouring nodes in the network to be controlled.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080320128 - Method, system and service for structured data filtering, aggregation, and dissemination: A system and method of processing data, including identifying a first data processing criteria, communicating the first data processing criteria from a data processing application to a network element, receiving sensor data from a plurality of sensors at the network element, operating on the sensor data at the network element... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080320134 - Methods and apparatus for implementing virtualization of storage within a storage area network: Methods and apparatus for implementing storage virtualization on a network device of a storage area network are disclosed. A frame or packet is received at a port of the network device. It is then determined that the frame or packet pertains to access of a virtual storage location of a... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080320125 - Pixel cluster transit monitoring for detecting click fraud: Detecting click fraud that includes a client device capable of accessing a server hosting a web page containing an advertisement. The client device includes a network interface allowing access to the server and code on the client device. The code accesses and displays a web page containing an advertisement, provides... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20080320123 - Process and methodology for generic analysis of metrics related to resource utilization and performance: A generic algorithm for analysis of resource metrics. A threshold is calculated in a stack tier policy for the performance state of a metric in a virtualized process collection (VPC). Responsive to determining that the metric is a critical metric, a weighted average of all metrics in the VPC is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080320127 - Secure publishing of data to dmz using virtual hard drives: A secure DMZ-resident computer that cannot connect to the internal network while allowing data to be transferred to and from the DMZ-resident computer is disclosed. The mechanism may include the transference of virtual hard disk files between the internal network and the DMZ host computer. The DMZ host computer may... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080320136 - System and method for consolidating, securing and automating out-of-band access to nodes in a data network: A system and method for out-of-band network management is provided wherein one or more different management interfaces are converted into a common format management data. The system may encrypt the common format management data. The system may also authenticate each user that attempts to access the management interfaces.... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080320121 - System, computer program product and method of dynamically adding best suited servers into clusters of application servers: A system, computer program product and computer-implemented method of dynamically adding a best suited application server to a cluster of application servers are provided. To do so, a history of quality of service (QoS) of a plurality of application servers is maintained. Using the history of QoS, an application server... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20080320130 - Visibility and control of wireless sensor networks: A computer implemented technique framework, prototype tool and associated methods that provide a high degree of visibility and control over the in-field execution of software in a minimally intrusive manner wherein developer-defined correctness tests and validation logic are embedded into the sensor node itself, making in-field software testing autonomous without... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC (necl)

20080320137 - Field device: Disclosed is a field device which constitutes a plurality of distributed systems to perform a data communication with another field device on a network. The field device includes: an application execution section to execute a distributed application based on each distributed system; a storage section to store setting information on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080320141 - Affiliate bandwidth management: Methods, systems, and machine readable media are disclosed for managing bandwidth usage of a content provider. According to one embodiment, a system for managing bandwidth usage of a content provider can comprise a content provider system adapted to maintain and provide content and a first affiliate system comprising an affiliate... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080320140 - Credit-based peer-to-peer storage: Distributed computing devices comprising a system for sharing computing resources can provide shared computing resources to users having sufficient resource credits. A user can earn resource credits by reliably offering a computing resource for sharing for a predetermined amount of time. The conversion rate between the amount of credits awarded,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320142 - Method and apparatus for offloading network processes in a computer storage system: A system and method for offloading network processes from main processors of a storage system and performing them on parallel processing modules. Embodiments of the present invention improve performance of a clustered storage system by performing certain network processes in an accelerator module of a storage system node. The accelerator... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080320143 - Method and apparatus for role-based access control: Methods and devices are provided for role-based access control of network devices. The network devices may constitute the fabric of a storage area network (“SAN”) that has been logically partitioned into virtual storage area networks (“VSANs”) that are allocated to various administrators. Roles assigned according to preferred aspects of the... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080320138 - Network system, management computer, cluster management method, and computer program: There is provided a network system capable of effectively executing a process of submitted jobs, the size, the type, and the number of which are expected to change every moment. A management computer manages connection enabled/disabled information indicating whether a computer under its control can be connected to another computer... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080320139 - Social mobilized content sharing: A mobile device, system, and method are directed towards identifying and employing social agents within a social network for distribution of multimedia content virally over mobile devices. The social agent may identify one or more multimedia content items for distribution. The social agent may also identify recipients of the viral... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080320144 - Systems and methods for providing quality assurance: A network includes a media server and a service activation device. The media server may receive a request for content from a subscriber device and transmit a message. The message may identify the subscriber device and include information relating to the content. The service activation device may receive the message... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20080320146 - Establishing interaction between a process and a server process: A method for establishing interaction between a process and a server process. In one implementation, a request may be sent to a server. The request may have a pointer and a registration for an object. The object may be designated to receive responses from the server. The object may receive... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320147 - Method and apparatus for policy-based packet classification: A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for processing a request in a data processing system. The request is received. In response to a first hash value being present within the request, the first hash value is compared to a second hash value that was computed locally, wherein the second... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080320145 - Methods and servers for displaying and activating disconnected sessions: A method for displaying and activating disconnected sessions includes the step of receiving information associated with a user. At least one disconnected session already associated with the user is identified in response to the information. A graphical representation of the at least one disconnected session associated with the user is... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080320148 - Session initiation protocol adaptor: A SIP adaptor modifies the format of a session initiation protocol (SIP) message. A SIP message in a first format is received by the SIP adaptor from a first SIP server that is based on the first message format. The SIP adaptor modifies the SIP message to a second format... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080320152 - Method and system for detecting a communication problem in a computer network: A computer in a network runs a verification procedure in which it sends data packets to another computer in the network. Some or all of the data packets contain, either individually or collectively, a secret piece of information, such as a secret code. The computer then makes a determination regarding... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080320149 - Service request device wireless access detach and bearer deactivation methods withou loss of internet protocol connectivity: A network device includes an Internet protocol (IP) connectivity generator that generates an IP connectivity indicator. The IP connectivity indicator indicates IP connectivity for a service request device (SRD). A transmit module transmits the IP connectivity indicator to a remote network device before at least one of detachment of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080320150 - System and program product for session sharing: The present invention provides a system and program product for session sharing that allows multiple authorized users (e.g., assistants) to access the same session and synchronize the browser views, when the current state changes. Through the use of use of session sharing, it is ensured that all users work on... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080320151 - Transaction accelerator for client-server communications systems: Self-discovering transaction accelerators improve communications between a client and a server. A client directs a message to a server. A client-side transaction accelerator intercepts the message, terminates the connection with the client, and accelerates the request by replacing segments of data with references. The accelerated request is forwarded to a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew/riverbed

20080320154 - Cooperative proxy auto-discovery and connection interception: In a network supporting transactions between clients and servers and proxies that are interposable in a network path between at least one client and at least one server, wherein a pair of proxies can modify a packet stream between a client and a server such that packet data from the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew/riverbed

20080320153 - Resource management device for a communications network with inter-node connections associated with shared resource preemption rights and resource access priority rights: A device (D) is dedicated to the management of resources in a communications network comprising nodes (LER, LCR) connected together via connections. This device (D) comprises management means (MG) designed to define the connections and associate the connections with resources so that these connections can be setup when necessary. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080320155 - Aggregation and re-ordering of input/output requests for better performance in remote file systems: A method and system for managing remote file system requests between client and server redirectors where a set of data request packets may be aggregated and/or ordered at a server based on hint information from a client.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080320156 - Multi-radio channel bonding: A number of embodiments concern a computer component for communicating data between a computer and a network. The computer component can include: (a) a dual band management component configured to receive first data from at least one of the computer and the network and configured to divide the first data... Agent: Bryan Cave LLP

20080320158 - Apparatus and method for providing multimedia content: A method of selectively providing multimedia content to a content receiving device comprises determining whether a first content stream provided to the content receiving device meets a predetermined criterion. Responsive to determining that the first content stream does not meet the predetermined criterion, at least one other content stream which... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080320160 - Method and system for enhancing live stream delivery quality using prebursting: The subject matter herein relates to a method to “accelerate” the delivery of a portion of a data stream across nodes of a stream transport network. A portion of a live stream is forwarded from a first node to a second node in a transport network at a high bitrate... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20080320159 - Source-based alert when streaming media of live event on computer network is of current interest and related feedback: A streaming video search engine may allow prospective viewers to locate at least one streaming video that is currently of interest from among several streaming videos. The engine may include a network interface configured to receive source alerts from real time streaming video capture, delivery, and alert systems, a memory... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080320157 - Virtual format for the storage of streaming data: Systems and methods for storing streaming data are provided. A system is disclosed that includes a computer program which, when executed on a computing device, is configured to store a data stream in memory of the computing device in a virtual file format. The virtual file format may include a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320161 - Method for transferring data from a source target to a destination target, and corresponding network interface: A method is for transferring data from a source target to a destination target in a network. The method includes sending at least one request packet for the destination target, with the request packet containing information relating to a first address where data are located and a second address where... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080320162 - Method and system for minimum frame size support for a communication protocol encapsulated over ethernet: Certain aspects of a method and system for minimum frame size support for a communication protocol encapsulated over Ethernet may include an encapsulated protocol over Ethernet (EPoE) frame comprising a start of padding (SP) field. In the EPoE frame, a size of an encapsulated protocol frame that is less than... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080320163 - Method for transmitting a message, network node and network: A method allows message transmission in a peer-to-peer network using chord topology, in which some of the nodes have access protection which allows reception of messages only from those network addresses to which a message has previously been sent. A network such as this is dependent on each node maintaining... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080320164 - Method and apparatus for routing of network addresses: Methods and apparatuses for a management console to configure a router and one or more servers to route and bind network addresses respectively are described herein. In various embodiments, the management console may configure one or more servers of one or more local area networks, each of the one or... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080320166 - Automatic prioritization of bgp next-hop in igp convergence: In one embodiment, an inter-domain routing protocol stores an inter-domain routing protocol route having an associated next-hop address. A routing table is searched for an for an intra-domain routing protocol route that may be used to reach the next-hop address of the inter-domain routing protocol route. Such route is marked... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080320165 - Method for supporting ipv6 neighbor discovery in point-to-point oriented broadband wireless network: Provided are a method and system for supporting IPv6 Neighbor Discovery in a point-to-point oriented broadband wireless network. The method includes: an access router in the broadband wireless network receiving a message from a first subscriber station in the broadband wireless network; the access router detecting a Neighbor Discovery message... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080320167 - Method and a device for recomposing an url: A method and a device for recomposing an URL having caused the generation of an error message. Said URL being scanned in order to detect among its characters a presence of one or more characters belonging to a list of predetermined characters. A substitution by an assigned substitute character being... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080320168 - Providing user customization of web 2.0 applications: The present invention discloses a solution for user customization of Web 2.0 applications. In the solution, a browser can establish a connection with a Web 2.0 server. The browser can convey user identification information to the Web 2.0 server and request a Web 2.0 application. Based on the conveyed identifying... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080320170 - Data communication apparatus and data communication method: The network cameral terminal which is the data communication apparatus includes a sensor unit that takes images or audio information, a compression unit that compression-codes the image or the audio signal and generates coded frames (I-frame, P-frame, B-frame and others), a frame control unit that controls types of the coded... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080320171 - Method and system for header compression: A compression context for a plurality of packets is established with a receiving device. Each of these packets is associated with one or more reliable multicast protocols, such as the Layered Coding Transform (LCT) protocol, the Asynchronous Layered Coding (ALC) protocol, the FLUTE protocol, the MUPPET protocol, and the NACK-Oriented... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080320169 - Systems, methods, and computer programs for enabling a computing apparatus to obtain data: process the request in order to determine a location of a particular node of a tree structure relative to at least one other node in the tree structure if the command corresponds to a first of a plurality of possible commands; and set a response, which is to be sent... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080320172 - Method and apparatus for synchronization of two computer systems: A method and system for synchronizing two computer systems supporting multiple synchronization techniques is described. In one example system, a portable computer system is loaded with synchronization transport modules. In application on the portable computer system is executed causing the application to automatically recognize the synchronization transport modules. The portable... Agent: Dag H. Johansen Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080313254 - Virtual fieldbus device: A virtual fieldbus device module is a software or firmware module that enables an otherwise ordinary fieldbus device to become a complex fieldbus device, capable of registering and maintaining multiple fieldbus network addresses for one or more “virtual” fieldbus devices. Each virtual fieldbus device has one or more sensor inputs... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20080313260 - Automated website generation: A system that automates the creation of websites for organizations that share similar organizational structure and for which publicly accessible information is available. The system automatically populates web pages with content derived from information gathered from public sources in addition to content that is developed for each type of organization.... Agent: Stephen Sweet Wildfireweb Inc.

20080313256 - Automatically sharing a user's personal message: Described techniques enable a particular user to automatically share a piece of content with a group of users. To share the content, the particular user navigates to a Website or the like to identify the desired piece of content. The particular user then chooses to share the piece of content... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080313262 - Community computing method and community management system: The present invention provides a community computing method and system comprising a step of community formation forming a community by defining a goal, policies, members, operations among the members, an operation situation of the community and an idle situation of the community, a step of community standby both waiting for... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20080313259 - In-flight entertainment and cabin integration service oriented software architecture and method: A software architecture for integrating an in-flight entertainment system and a vehicle cabin functions system. A first network serves the in-flight entertainment system, and a second network serves the vehicle cabin functions system. A first set of common functions is available via the first network, and a second set of... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080313257 - Method and apparatus for policy-based transfer of an application environment: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for transferring an application environment between a plurality of computing devices. The process retrieves a set of transfer policies in response to detecting a presence of a second computing device in the plurality of computing devices. The set of transfer policies... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080313263 - Method of employing a computer network to regulate contact between economic development officials and site selectors: Disclosed is a computerized network, such as the world wide web, wherein a method of facilitating contact between economic development officials and site selectors is employed. The method enables site selectors to access a community profile database to find community information for potential development sites. Economic development officials are notified... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP Attn: Stefan V. Stein/IPDept.

20080313255 - Methods and apparatus for machine-to-machine communications: Methods and apparatus for machine-to-machine communications are disclosed. A communications server provides a way for application servers on the Internet to communicate with a plurality of physically remote devices that do not have “traditional” Internet connections. Communications between an application server and its remote devices are normalized by the communications... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080313258 - Network system, server, data processing method and program: A front-end server for temporarily holding an operation request for a NAS server, which is sent from a predetermined client, is interposed between the NAS server and clients on a network. This front-end server holds information concerning a correlation among data files stored in the NAS server, optimizes the operation... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080313261 - Server, client apparatus, program and download method: A server connectable to a client apparatus over a network is disclosed. The server includes: means for generating a file containing an address of a download server that can distribute a download file to the client apparatus over the network and a first parameter that temporally regulates access from the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080313265 - Csip proxy for translating sip to multiple peer-to-peer through network resources: A method and apparatus turns a typical home telephone system into a platform for delivery of web based content and services. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a broadband enabled telephone system for the home and a series of web servers that collect, package, and deliver personalized content and... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080313264 - Domain management for digital media: In accordance with the domain management for digital media, a device accesses a domain administrator in order to obtain a domain membership license. The domain membership license indicates that the device is part of a domain that includes multiple devices associated with a user of the device. The device also... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313266 - Processing service requests in a distributed environment: A computer-implemented method for processing service requests in a distributed environment includes routing a type of service request to a first service provider in the distributed environment, the first service provider having a commitment level for handling the service request type, detecting a second service provider in the distributed environment... Agent: Ibm - Patents C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080313274 - Adaptive load balancing: Techniques for adaptive load balancing using behavior modification hints are disclosed, including, in at least one embodiment, monitoring a server's operating conditions; determining, based on the server's operating conditions, when to send a behavior modification hint to one or more clients that are being served by the server; generating the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080313271 - Automated reponse to computer users context: Techniques are described for providing information about a current state that is modeled with multiple state attributes. In some situations the providing includes receiving from a first client an indication of an interest in receiving values for an indicated one of the state attributes of the modeled current state, receiving... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080313270 - Decoupled mechanism for managed copy client applications and e-commerce servers to interoperate in a heterogeneous environment: Request data is generated at a client device having at least one managed copy client application. The request data includes an identifier (e.g., a uniform resource locator, class ID, etc.) for an integration control (e.g., an ActiveX control, Java applet, etc.) installable on the client device. The request data is... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080313272 - Method for cooperative description of media objects: q

20080313273 - Method, apparatus and system for service selection, and client application server: A service selection method, apparatus and system, as well as a client application server are provided. The method includes: obtaining meta information according to contents specified by a client; requesting to query services matched with the meta information to obtain a service list including service identifications of the services matched... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080313267 - Optimize web service interactions via a downloadable custom parser: A method, system and computer program product for optimizing web service interactions. A server receives a service request from a client, where the service request includes information that is used by the server to provide a customized parser to the client that allows optimal web service interactions. Upon the server... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20080313269 - Remoting of console operating in a multi-session environment: Apparatus and methods for remoting of a console operating in a multi-session environment are described. A server process creates one or more proxy processes associated with login sessions. The proxy processes are controlled and managed by a session manager. The server manager can be instrumented to process the graphical information.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080313268 - Sending content from multiple content servers to clients at time reference points: In an embodiment, a request is received from a client that includes a content identifier that identifies content. Content servers are determined that store the content, which is divided into frames. Time reference points and a time period are determined. The time period separates each of the time reference points.... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080313276 - Air emission avoidance and tracking through the use of online web conferencing: Participants and session leaders (i.e. users) are allowed to join online web conferences, online meetings, or online classes. The methods herein determine, among other variables, the total air emissions saved by being able to forego physical transportation of the users on account of being able to meet by an online... Agent: HoustonIPDepartment Jackson Walker L.L.P.

20080313280 - Heterogeneous evolutionary self-formatting internet protocols: A system, method and computer program product for virtual communities that enables the establishment of rules created by members of the society in accordance with the existing rule creation restrictions and, that provides a mechanism for validating and accepting of the rules established inside the society. The system, method and... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080313278 - Method and apparatus for sharing videos: A method and apparatus for sharing a multimedia stream between an initiator and one or more viewers. The initiator's platform transcodes the multimedia into a stream, based on parameters, indications and commands received from all viewers including the initiator. Thus, the multimedia stream is presented to all viewers without having... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20080313275 - Method and system for implementing ring service of instant messaging: The present invention discloses a method and system for implementing ring service of IM. The system comprises at least a ring server, a ring user database and a ring file server to realize ring service. The method comprises: configuring, by an IM client A, a ring relationship between messaging events... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080313277 - Systems and methods to provide communication references from different sources to connect people for real time communications: Methods and apparatuses to present communication references obtained from different sources to connect people for real time communications. One embodiment includes: receiving a search request from a user; searching a first data source according to the search request to obtain information about a first entity; assigning to the first entity... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20080313279 - Telecommunication service system control by means of peer-to-peer techniques: The application concerns a method for invoking a communication service that is realized by means of a peer of a peer-to-peer system, the method comprising the step of identifying a peer hosting the communication service and invoking the communication service by means of a distributed directory, where the distributed directory... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080313281 - Processing and exchanging data of collaborative tasks: Embodiments include a system for providing an identification of a collaborative task. The system may include a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit may be configured to receive a request of a user to create the collaborative task and send task metadata to a further system. The... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080313287 - E-mail publishing of photos to photo albums: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to publishing content via e-mail. In aspects, a user configures a publishing component to enable photos to be published to an album via e-mail. The user may indicate valid e-mail addresses from which e-mails may be sent to publish to the album.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313290 - Image forming apparatus and electronic mail proccessing method thereof: An image forming apparatus including: a data generator to generate image data; an email writing unit to write an email including the generated image data; a user interface unit to display a user interface, which enables a user to select email transmission options, if the image data exceeds a file... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080313295 - Messaging protocol for processing messages with attachments: A message that is to be processed according to an electronic messaging protocol is associated with a sender of the message. The message also includes an attachment from an attaching entity. The attachment is associated with a unique property of the attaching entity. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080313294 - Messaging system: A messaging system comprises a server which registers clients (users) and stores uploaded contact data in contacts databases. The contact databases have meta data including profile attributes indicating the subject matter profiles of the contacts. A content manager receives content items such as collateral parts and message text and stores... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20080313291 - Method and apparatus for encoding data: Methods and apparatuses for encoding data are described. In one embodiment, source data may be received. A control character may be inserted in the source data as a delimiter to create delimited data. The delimited data may be provided over a network.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080313283 - Method and system for automated population of message body and address fields based on email subject: A method for automatically populating fields included in an electronic mail (email) message, the method includes: receiving an email subject input from a composer of the email message; determining whether the received email subject input matches a previously entered subject; wherein the previously entered subject is linked with predefined data... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080313289 - Mobile terminal apparatus, server apparatus and mobile communication network system: In a mobile communication network system provided with a cellular telephone enabling use of mail service for mobile terminals using a mobile communication network and Web mail service, and a server apparatus that manages e-mail addresses assigned to the cellular telephone for both the mail service, already input information is... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080313285 - Post transit spam filtering: A system filters for electronic messages received from recently identified sources of unsolicited spam. A database comprises information regarding electronic messages that were previously received. The information may comprise an identification of the source of the electronic message. A server is programmed to identify sources of unsolicited electronic messages and... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080313296 - Scheduled electronic mail deletions: A method of managing electronic mail messages in an email account includes displaying an open email message to a user on a display screen of a device. While the open email message is displayed to the user, intent of the user to perform an action that will result in closing... Agent: Ibm Lotus & Rational Sw C/o Guerin & Rodriguez

20080313293 - System and method for exactly once message store communication: A system for managing a message store in a network includes an object acting as a message store. In one embodiment, the message store is for Java Message Service. A lead server is selected from several servers. The lead server uses a distributed consensus algorithm to select a host server.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP Sheldon R. Meyer, Esq.

20080313286 - System for providing presentation via network: A system for providing presentation via network includes a computer system at a first end having a presentation image retrieval module that retrieves and convents presentation contents into a presentation image and transmits the presentation image to a first instant messaging module on the first computer system, and the presentation... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080313292 - Threaded presentation of electronic mail: A threaded list of e-mail messages is provided by checking each received message against previous messages to determine whether the new message is associated with previous messages. If so, then a new thread is created. The new thread has an associated thread header, which stores metadata bout the messages in... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080313282 - User interface, operating system and architecture: Disclosed are a novel user interface, operating system, software language and architecture.... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080313288 - Web gateway multi-carrier support: The present invention provides multi-carrier support in a wireless Internet gateway (WIG) that allows the WIG to send messages to any number of ‘peer’ gateways on the Internet in a conveniently reconfigurable manner. The disclosed embodiments include a ‘Message Distribution Center’ (MDC), through which short messages can be routed to... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080313284 - Wireless device caching data proxy: A wireless device is provided to act as a caching data proxy for a first device, which may or may not be wireless. In particular, a cellular telephone is associated as a caching data proxy for a wireless portable computing device. The cellular telephone caches data as a proxy for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080313298 - Intelligent chat: A messaging session is established between a first user and a second user where messages are sent from a first user using a first device to a second user using a second device. During the messaging session, the second user may decide to use a third device. A presence update... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080313297 - User experience for multiple simultaneous connections on an instant messaging program: Exemplary methods, computer-readable storage media, and systems are described for establishing multiple simultaneous connections on an instant messaging program to enhance the user experience. The user receives notifications of request to communicate, an email, or an alert on communication devices. By choosing which communication device to respond on, that particular... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080313300 - Method and apparatus for providing system information: An approach is provided for distributing system information. A determination is made whether repetition rate associated with system information exceeds a predetermined threshold. The repetition rate specifies frequency of transmission of the system information to a terminal over a network. The scheduling information for the system information is transmitted to... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080313299 - System comprising at least a master unit and a plurality of slave units: System having at least one master unit and a plurality of slave units, the master unit and the slave unit including means for performing communication via radio frequency channels. The at least one master unit includes means for transmitting control signals to the slave units, the slave units each being... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080313301 - Network-based storage system capable of allocating storage partitions to hosts: A network-based storage system comprises one or more block-level storage servers that connect to, and provide disk storage for, one or more host computers. In one embodiment, the system is capable of subdividing the storage space of an array of disk drives into multiple storage partitions, and allocating the partitions... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080313304 - Communication system, communication apparatus, and control method thereof: A multiple control station (201) transmits a first broadcast frame including a first identifier for identifying a first host (202) and a second broadcast frame including a second identifier for identifying a second host (203) to a terminal station (52) over a wireless channel using time division. The multiple control... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080313303 - Device and method for the provisioning of personal service hosting: It is disclosed that a personal service box (1) comprising a housing, one or more connection interfaces for connecting peripheral equipment, a connection interface for connecting a communication link (7), and an electrical circuit (11) can be used for providing services to an end-user. The personal service box (1) is... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20080313302 - System and method of managing media content: A system and method of managing media content is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes sending a request for a media content item from a user computer to a server via an interface to an online site. The method also includes receiving the media content item at the user... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080313305 - Two-tier architecture for remote access service: Remote access service is provided between two or more computers on a network to facilitate a variety of activities, including desktop sharing, web-meetings, and web-conferences. A first computer sends its connection information to a server. The server stores the connection information for the first computer. A second computer may make... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080313306 - Methods and arrangements for caching static information for packet data applications in wireless communication systems: The present invention relates to the caching of static information relating to a communication application executed in an user equipment in a wireless communication systems. The method of the invention is applicable in the establishment of, or during, a communication session, between the user equipment and a service application, via... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080313307 - Url-based keyword advertising: Methods and apparatus are described for presenting advertising content on a user device in conjunction with requested content. The advertising content is selected with reference to advertising targeting information. The advertising targeting information is generated by processing the URL associated with the request for the requested content generated by the... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080313309 - Client-server data transfer control: Disclosed are a method, a client/server system and a computer program for controlling the data transfer from a server system to a client system that runs remotely an application on the server. The data transfer control is effected by defining a first trigger event and a second trigger event in... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080313310 - Method for distributing programs over a communication network: A method of distributing programs enables distribution of programs on demand to end devices in a communication network to enable communication between first and second end devices. A data object server stores programs that are needed for communication between first and second end devices. The programs are associated by the... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080313308 - Recasting a web page as a multimedia playlist: Computer-implemented methods, systems, and computer program products are described for recasting a web page as a multimedia playlist. Embodiments include receiving an identification of a web page to be recast; creating a plurality of multimedia files including content derived from the web page; and creating a playlist including the multimedia... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080313311 - Information service for subscribers who are not registered in enum: At the ENUM introductory phase, a problem occurs when a called subscriber is not registered in the ENUM directory listing. In such a situation, a calling subscriber can initiate the ENUM request but it receives an error message only since no inscription exists in the ENUM registration with respect to... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080313312 - Apparatus, system, and method for a reconfigurable baseboard management controller: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for a baseboard management controller (BMC) which includes an FPGA with a monitor module for monitoring the operations parameters of a host computer device. In addition, the BMC has a host connector that connects the BMC to the system bus of the host... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080313313 - Synchronizing information through profile management between a host system and a mobile device: A system for enabling control and managing the assets by synchronizing information between a host system server and a mobile client device is disclosed. Control of the mobile client devices from remote locations enables an administrator to provide specific profiles for the mobile devices. These profiles are consistent and ensure... Agent: Mchale & Slavin, P.A.

20080313314 - Method and apparatus for assigning packet addresses to a plurality of devices: Means for preventing a split brain scenario during high availability requests by providing a communication link between a switching control device operating on the application level and the module operating on the protocol level are provided. Quitting of the correct physical address is shifted to the application level via the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080313315 - Method and system for a networked self-configuring communication device utilizing user preference information: A first personal electronic (PE) device may enable generation, updating, and/or storage of user configuration information. The user configuration information may comprise information pertaining to device configuration and/or operational preferences specific to the device user and/or various use settings, connectivity, and/or use of available resources. The generation, updating, and/or storage... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080313316 - Internet control system communication protocol, method and computer program: A controller, method and computer medium are provided for controlling communications between a control area network and a data network. The method includes receiving user input at a controller coupled to the control area network from a node coupled to the data network, receiving user input at the controller from... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080313320 - Method and system for generating a space signature: A method and system implementing a process for generating a signature for a network space using existing resources in the space. The process for generating a signature for a space involves discovering the resources in the space and generating a signature for the space using the identification of the devices.... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080313317 - Network management using peer-to-peer protocol: A method operates a network management system comprising nodes which are used as manager and/or agent nodes. At least one node communicates with at least one other node using a peer-to-peer protocol. A network management system and a node in a management network system are used to carry out said... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080313318 - Providing enhanced data retrieval from remote locations: Techniques are described for providing client computing nodes with enhanced access to data from remote locations, such as by providing and using local capabilities specific to the remote locations. In at least some situations, the access of a client computing node to data from a remote location may be enhanced... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080313319 - System and method for providing multi-protocol access to remote computers: A remote administration system's ability to communicate with remote computers using in-band communications is contingent on many factors (e.g., the operability of the network over which the in-band communications is carried and, to some extent, the correct operation of the software on the remote computer). Accordingly, there may come a... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080313321 - System and method for using presence information: An improved system and method for communicating Presence Information. According to various embodiments, the sequence of actions undertaken in established Presence procedures are changed, and enhancements are also provided for Watcher information notifications. Upon the initiation of a Presence Service, the Presence Source starts publishing Presence Information about a Presentity... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080313322 - Asynchronous network stack operation in an operating system independent environment: Techniques for operation of an asynchronous stack in a pre-boot environment. A token-based stack design may be used to support communications between network stack layers.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080313327 - Collecting individualized network usage data: A method for collecting individualized network usage data includes routing Internet communications between a plurality of local clients and a plurality of remote servers over a common data link between a router device and the Internet. For each of the plurality of clients, characteristics of that client's communications routed over... Agent: Ormiston & Mckinney, PLLC

20080313325 - Computer network software and hardware asset configuration and discovery system and method: A method, system, and network for interfacing the work-flow monitoring and reporting of a host computer, a local network of information technology devices, a community of network users, and a global information technology community. This includes the processes and system features for initiating an inventory of a plurality of information... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20080313326 - Information processor and information processing system: The information processor includes a device communication performance management module. The device communication performance management module includes: a communication performance evaluation unit that measures and evaluates the communication performance with respect to a device to be used when it is used by a device-use application; a device naming rule management... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080313328 - Method and system for background replication of data objects: In an embodiment, a system and method may manage network resources to provide a near zero-cost background replication of data. Such a system may be inhibited from causing interference with foreground data flows. Such a system may also utilize a large fraction of spare network bandwidth. A system configured to... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080313323 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for monitoring transaction status with a presence tuple: Methods and systems are described for monitoring transaction status with a presence tuple. A transaction having a multi-stage life-cycle and having a transaction participant is detected. A presentity is provided for tracking a status associated with a stage of the life-cycle and for publishing the status to a presence tuple... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080313329 - Presence service access device, presence service system and method for publishing and acquiring presence information: A presence service access device is disclosed for a presentity to publish presence information and transmit said information to the presence server, the device comprising a presentity communication module and a service scheduling control module. Further disclosed is a presence service system using the presence service access device, comprising a... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080313324 - Redundant pile of inexpensive drivers (rpid): The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that manages storage media associated with a plurality of disparate devices. The disclosed system can include a network of disparate devices wherein each device in the network can be associated with storage media. Additionally, the disclosed system can also include a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080313330 - Hidden group membership in clustered computer system: An apparatus, program product and method utilize hidden group membership to facilitate the processing of originator requests to a group in a clustered computer system. With hidden group membership, a requesting originator is temporarily joined to a group in such a manner that the originator is both hidden and provided... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080313331 - Managing computer resources in a distributed computing system: Methods, apparatus, and products for managing computer resources in a distributed computing system are disclosed that include registering, in a configuration management database by a discovery module in response to a modification of a resource in a resource container, the resource in association with a configuration management database identifier, the... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080313332 - Methods and apparatus for resource management in a communication network: A method for resource management in a communication network may include monitoring whether a Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol (PMIP) tunnel between a network entity and another network entity is still needed. The method may also include detecting an event which indicates that the PMIP tunnel is no longer needed. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080313333 - Scalable method of continuous monitoring the remotely accessible resources against node failures for very large clusters: The notion of controlling, using and monitoring remote resources in a distributed data processing system through the use of proxy resource managers and agents is extended to provide failover capability so that resource coverage is preserved and maintained even in the event of either temporary or longer duration node failure.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080313335 - Communicator establishing aspects with context identifying: One aspect relates to attempting to establish a communication with at least one identifiable person and/or identifiable communication device based at least in part on an at least one context designated destination relating at least partially to at least one context of the at least one identifiable person and/or identifiable... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080313339 - Connection management method, system, and program product: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for managing a connection. In particular, the invention manages connection information in memory based on an expected usage of the corresponding connection. Connection information can be stored in faster memory, such as cache memory, when the connection is expected to have... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080313334 - Data exchange protocol enhancement to query object permissions: In responding to the GET request from an OBEX client, an OBEX server includes one or more permissions associated with an object specified in the GET request in a response, where the one or more associated permissions are included before actual body data. Therefore, the OBEX client may efficiently and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080313337 - Method and apparatus for creating dynamic phone pages due to triggering events from an external source: Methods and apparatus for sending a dynamically updated data object to a user of a communication device are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises receiving updated data from an external source at a first communication device and updating a stored data object with the updated data. Upon the occurrence of a... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080313336 - Method and apparatus for phone application state management mechanism: A phone application state management mechanism is described. The mechanism adopts the state storage format widely known as “Cookies” to store information in a cross-application standard format. Cookies for multiple users are stored on a single machine that retrieves phone applications using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). Suitable state information... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080313338 - 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

20080313340 - Method and apparatus for sending and receiving content with associated application as an object: Techniques for sending a data object to a user of a communication device are disclosed. The technique comprises the steps of: monitoring the occurrence of a trigger on a first communication device; and transferring, upon the occurrence of the trigger, a data object to a second communication device, wherein the... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080313343 - Communication apparatus, application communication executing method, and computer program product: A software communication unit executes a plurality of application communications executed in parallel in a network according to a TCP/IP control by a software. A hardware communication unit executes the application communications according to a TCP/IP control by a TCP/IP offload engine (TOE). A communication allocating unit executes an allocation... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080313341 - Data communications: Data communications, including issuing, by an application program to a high level data communications library, a request for initialization of a data communications service; issuing to a low level data communications library a request for registration of data communications functions; registering the data communications functions, including instantiating a factory object... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080313344 - Dual processing system capable of ensuring real-time processing in protocol conformance test: Disclosed herein is a dual processing system capable of ensuring real-time processing in a protocol conformance test. A protocol testing device performs a test on a layer under protocol test provided in a device under test. A communication device processes the protocol of a layer below the layer under protocol... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080313342 - Method for transmitting files based on network digital signage system: s

20080313345 - Adaptive polling: A distributed computing system manages execution of jobs and their associated tasks. A broker manages assignment of computing tasks from clients to available computing resources. Clients and available computing resources contact the broker by polling. To prevent “ringing,” the broker specifies wait times for the polling entities, and randomizes the... Agent: Goodwin Procter L.l.p Attn: Patent Administrator

20080313346 - Selectively ordered protocol for unreliable channels: A method for communicating in a distributed game system includes, at a server system, maintaining information associated with a plurality of entities in an environment; and maintaining communication sessions between the server system and a plurality of client systems for exchanging information associated with the entities between the server system... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080313347 - Optimizations for tcp connection setup and teardown: In one embodiment, a first network device receives a control message in a first protocol from a client, the control message in the first protocol being addressed to a second network device. The first network device identifies an existing connection in a second protocol that is associated with the second... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080313349 - Connecting a client to one of a plurality of servers: In a client/server network, a client may be able to use any of several servers in accomplishing a particular task but may still have preferences as to which server should, if available, be used. If the preferred server is not available, the client will be connected to an alternate server.... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080313348 - Techniques for port hopping: Techniques for port hopping are presented. A sender and a receiver engage in a communication session with one another and dynamically switch ports during that communication session. A decision to switch ports is based on a data length or packet count of a given transaction occurring during the communication session.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20080313350 - Method and system of cache discovery in a peer-to-peer environment: An approach is provided for cache discovery in a peer-to-peer system. A request is received from a peer node based on a network address assigned to a plurality of network caches, wherein the peer node is configured to operate in a peer-to-peer environment. In response to the request, a closest... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080313351 - Device for managing the receipt by terminals of multimedia content transmitted by infrastructures that implement different transmission techniques: A device (D) Is dedicated to managing the receipt of multimedia content, originating from at least two multimedia content transmission infrastructures (TI1-TI5) implementing different transmission techniques, by at least one communication terminal (T) capable of connecting to at least two of these infrastructures. This device (D) comprises management means (MG)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080313352 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for tokenized domain name resolution: A method, system, and computer program product for tokenized domain name resolution are provided. The method includes receiving a tokenized domain name, where the tokenized domain name includes a domain name with one or more embedded tokens. The method also includes parsing the tokenized domain name to identify the one... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080313354 - Communications system providing shared client-server communications interface and related methods: A communications system may include a plurality of communications devices connected together in a network and having a plurality of user accounts associated therewith. At least one of the communications devices may process requests using an HTTP client application associated therewith. The system may also include an application server for... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080313353 - Web console with xml/xsl interface: The invention provides methods and apparatus, for interfacing communicating between a plurality of portable devices and a warehouse management system, each of the devices being equipped with a web browser for displaying visual content, the warehouse management system comprising for each of the devices an XSL file associated therewith, the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080313355 - Data synchronization transparent to application: Synchronization of data accessible by an application program is performed transparent to the application program. After a data item is instantiated by the application program, the synchronization engine performs data synchronization without or with minimal intervention of the application program. The synchronization engine may be part of an operating system.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080307033 - Information delivery system, distributor's apparatus, recipient's apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium: A distributor's apparatus generates distribution information including basic distribution information and extended distribution information which sets the correspondence between a plurality of output modes and a plurality of operating states of a predetermined application program in a recipient's apparatus and transmits the distribution information to the recipient's apparatus via a... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080307034 - System and method of enterprise and on-line franchise models for e-commerce website: A computer system exchanges information between a central website and a plurality of electronic communication devices. Information is created on the central website. The information can be business reports, product information, or public service announcement. Bridging code is created which relates to the information. The bridging code is installed on... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080307036 - Central service allocation system: The disclosure relates to a service allocation system in which servers advertise services they offer to the system and clients ask for services to consume. Both the clients and the servers interact with the allocation system using database calls to at least one of a plurality of databases. Servers that... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080307037 - Client notification mechanism over http: A TCP connection is opened between a client and a server. An HTTP client request is transmitted from the client to the server over the open TCP connection. If client data is not pending at the server upon receipt of the HTTP client request at the server, the server waits... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20080307051 - Communications system providing enhanced client-server communications and related methods: A communications system may include an application server and at least one communications device for processing requests from one another. The communications device may process requests using an HTTP client application, for example. Furthermore, the system may also include an HTTP server for interfacing the HTTP client application with the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080307042 - Information processing system, information processing method, and program: A system comprising: a server for receiving operation information from a client, performing an information process in accordance with the received operation information, and transmitting the result of the information process; and a managing device. The managing device monitors whether communication is performed between the client and the server and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080307040 - Method and apparatus for providing content to a computing device: Methods and systems for providing content (e.g., such as web content) to a computing device are disclosed. An example method for providing web content includes receiving, from a first computing device, a request for the web content and determining a device type of the first computing device. The example method... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080307043 - Method and architecture supporting high performance web applications: A method for architecting computer web applications where logic supporting the application is primarily stored in an application server. The client machine stores the current look of the application. Information concerning user interface events and data changes is transmitted from the client to the application server. The application server interprets... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan L.L.P. Nj Office

20080307048 - Method and system for operating applications for remote terminal devices: Method for allowing a user of a mobile terminal device having predetermined computational resources to remotely develop and operate upgraded content delivery applications. A client-side application and a corresponding remote application are installed on the terminal device and on a server connected to the terminal device. The remote application dynamically... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080307046 - Method and system for providing additional information related to content of an e-mail: A method of providing additional information related to content of an e-mail is disclosed. The method includes receiving emails for a user: analyzing content of such a received email and identifying an information type of one or more strings in the content based, at least in part, upon predetermined information... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080307039 - Method of facilitating medical consultations: A method for a first healthcare provider to consult a second healthcare provider regarding at least one of diagnosis of a patient and treatment of a patient includes the first healthcare provider submitting a request for consultation on a machine, and the second healthcare provider submitting a consultation response on... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080307045 - Method, system and apparatus for managing directory information: In file management using directory information in a network system, a method of managing the directory information, a management system and a management apparatus are provided, in which other more important processes such as file transfer are not disturbed due to increase in traffic when making inquiries to other nodes... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080307050 - Non-invasive collection of data: Non-invasive collection of data is presented. A server segments a web page into regions and sends the segmented web page along with a data collector program to a client in response to receiving a client request. The client displays the web page and loads the data collector program which initiates... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080307038 - Reducing unsolicited instant messages by tracking communication threads: Processes and techniques for reducing spam over instant messaging (SPIM) are described. In one implementation, the number of open instant messaging threads (“chat threads”) that a specific user can have at a given time is limited to prevent a potential spimmer from flooding instant messaging users with SPIM. Another implementation... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080307047 - Supplying applications to mobile devices: Applications are supplied to mobile devices. An application template is developed as a hierarchy of nested elements and layout data for a plurality of types of element. An application is generated by applying content data to one or more of the elements to form objects. The objects are supplied to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080307041 - System and method for implementing mbms handover during downloaded delivery: An improved system and method for implementing Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) handover during download delivery. Various embodiments of the present invention involve the use of the HTTP/1.1 “chunked” mode to deliver updates of the file delivery table (FDT) of a session in a push-like mode. In order to allow for... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080307035 - System and method for off-loading online meeting updates using forward proxy: A system and method for batching individual content requests received from clients at a forward proxy, and sending a batch content request from the forward proxy to a collaboration server is presented. A forward proxy sends an authorization request to the collaboration server for authorization. In turn, the collaboration server... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080307044 - System and method for url compression: A computer-implemented method can be used to support Uniform Resource Locator (URL) compression. Such a method can comprises the steps of receiving a Web request associated with an original URL from a client by a Web component; saving the original URL in a database; generating a compression key in a... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080307049 - Systems for generating and registering enhanced domain names: Systems of the present inventions allow for generating and providing an enhanced domain name. An exemplary system may comprise a domain name stored in a network storage device, a web space associated with the domain name, at least one application associated with the domain name and stored on at least... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20080307052 - Selecting and displaying advertisement in a personal media space: The embodiments provide methods of selecting relevant advertisement to target users by utilizing the knowledge of friends or acquaintance of the target users. The target users and friends or acquaintances of the target users belong to the same on-line communities, groups, or circles. In an exemplary embodiment, a method for... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20080307053 - System and method for permitting geographically-pertinent information to be ranked by users according to users' geographic proximity to information and to each other for affecting the ranking of such information: A system and method for permitting geographically-pertinent information provided on the Internet to be ranked by users, while taking into account the users' geographic proximity to the information, the distance between each user who rates the information, the age of the information, and the age of the users' ratings to... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080307054 - Dynamic key management server discovery: Various systems and method are disclosed for automatically disseminating key server contact information in a network. For example, one method (e.g., performed by a discovery server) involves generating a discovery message that includes at least one list of one or more key servers and then sending that discovery message to... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080307059 - Image formation apparatus, image formation method, and image formation program embodied on computer readable medium: In order to print a required number of copies, MFP having an assigned email address includes an email reception portion to receive an email, a number of copies determination portion to determine, based on destination information of the received email, the number of copies of data included in the email... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080307058 - Message handling for user interfaces: Generally, systems and methods permit customized delivery of messages to a user depending on the specific requirements of a user interface. A processing layer between a business object and a user interface may determine, for a received message, an appropriate rule for the target user interface. The message rule may... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080307061 - Message notification in instant messaging: Methods, apparatus and systems for message notification in instant messaging are provided in which a message in an instant messaging session is received at a client application. The content of the received message is compared with a set of entries and the content is matched with an entry. Notification of... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080307057 - Method and system for providing a spam-free email environment: Spam-free electronic message system and method are described. A system and method for providing email or other electronic messages between users is described that comprises a centralized closed-loop communication network; a server(s) accessible through secured or encrypted connections for receiving and sending email between users; and a structured user protocol... Agent: Thomas J. Monahan Monahan & Costello, LLC

20080307062 - Method, system and device for sending ims instant messages: A method, a system and an apparatus for sending IMS instant messages are provided. The instant message includes at least one message body. The receiving terminal has a message receiving threshold. Under the situation that the size of the instant message is greater than the message receiving threshold, by replacing... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080307060 - Search system, management server, mobile communication device, search method, and program: When a mobile terminal device detects the existence of the feature information of an article whose position is requested to be searched, it notifies an article management server of the detected position information and the time information together with the feature information of the article, and the article management server... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080307063 - Selective multi-step email message marketing: Here is disclosed a selective multi-step email message method for propagating same. A user interface allows the use of email messages for mass-advertisement while respecting private profiles of a receiving party. The method for automatically filtering email messages and allowing a recipient to predetermine criteria according to interests for receiving... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080307055 - System and method for efficient indexing of messages in a law enforcement data network: A system and method for cataloging and indexing messages that utilizes a message reference number that may be translated among different formats for propagating through a standard network and for displaying at a terminal. The reference number may be permanently assigned for the life of the archive. In one embodiment,... Agent: James Richards

20080307056 - Web services reliable messaging: A method and system to communicate reliably using messages in a communications network is described. Using the described method, a service provider and a service consumer communication using web services messages can track messages using an instance of a reliable messaging protocol to track message receipt. Using a messaging system... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080307064 - System and method for obtainingn remote instant messages: A system and method for retrieving instant messages includes establishing a first instant message (IM) session an then, establishing a second instant message session using a same account as the first instant message session. The first IM session is rendered dormant such that active instant messages are received by the... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080307065 - Method for starting up file sharing system and file sharing device: The file sharing system of the present invention is capable of starting up a file sharing device and preventing the connection of an external storage medium to an erroneous host using information that is saved in the external storage medium. In cases where the maintenance exchange work for a NAS... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080307066 - Systems and methods of providing collaborative consumer-controlled advertising environments: Targeted or other advertising may comprise one or more advertisements presented to multiple users in a virtual world environment such that participating users can interact with one another and/or with executed advertisements. Groups of users may be invited to participate in collaborative virtual world environments based on consumer contact lists... Agent: Flashpoint Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20080307070 - Method and system for accessing web pages based on playback of recordings: Entertainment content complementary to a musical recording is delivered to a user's computer by a computer network link. The user employs a browser to access the computer network. A plug-in for the browser is able to control an audio CD or other device for playing the musical recording. A script... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080307068 - Mobile certificate distribution in a pki: A method of providing certificate issuance and revocation checks involving mobile devices in a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET). The wireless devices communicate with each other via Bluetooth wireless technology in the MANET, with an access point (AP) to provide connectivity to the Internet. A Certificate authority (CA) distributes certificates and... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080307067 - System connections and user interfaces: This description relates to methods and systems for providing a connection from a first system to another system using a server. In one embodiment, a method includes establishing at a first data processing system (DPS) a connection with a server providing a service to both the first DPS and a... Agent: James C. Scheller, Jr. Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080307069 - Use of a prefix hash table (pht) for locating services within a peer-to-peer communication network: The invention is characterized in that the hash table is organized so that the location information is associated with keys which contain at least one service identifier and which correspond to leaves on a PHT binary tree whose node labels are distributed within the hash table; and in that the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080307073 - Control apparatus and control method: In externally uploading data to a storage device in a network, the process for the storage device is controlled in accordance with the state in the network. This invention provides a control apparatus which controls a process for a storage device in externally uploading data to the storage device by... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080307074 - Customizable media player with online/offline capabilities: An information dissemination system comprises an Internet-connected server adapted for gathering information from plural sources, and sorting the information according to subscriber preferences. The sorted information is transmitted via the Internet to a subscriber's Internet Appliance (IA) as electronic documents, where the documents are downloaded to a connected playback device.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080307072 - Mesh networks for advanced search in lifeblogs: A method including creating a node that is associated with an event recorded by a user, storing metadata associated with the node and linking the node with other nodes that are associated with the event, wherein the other nodes comprise at least one of local nodes and remote nodes. The... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080307071 - Retrieving specific hierarchical information using web services: Retrieving specific hierarchical information using web services. In one embodiment, a user sends a request containing an operation to be performed and a data indicating the specific information of interest to a web service. The web service determines the specific hierarchical information from a result of performance of the operation.... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080307075 - Sensor-net system and sensor node: A sensor-Net system includes sensor nodes which are in intermittent operation so as to save power by repeating activated state and inactivated state at a regular interval. Synchronization of time in the system is executed by aligning to the intermittent operation of the sensor nodes. A management server issues a... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080307076 - Systems and methods for dynamically configuring node behavior in a sensor network: The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for controlling sensor networks. A sensor network has a plurality of sensor nodes, which have sensors for monitoring operational parameters of devices within an application-specific system. A wireless communication module is provided for each node to enable the node to wirelessly... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080307077 - Methods and systems for configuring an email account on an email client: A technique of configuring an email client application to set up a user's email account on the email client application. In one embodiment, the email client application requests the user to input an email address and a password and based on the email address, the email client application determines the... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080307078 - System and method for interfacing with a management system: Systems and methods that interface with a management system are provided. In one embodiment, a system and a method may provide a command protocol and format for communication between a network interface card (NIC) and a management device such as, for example, an intelligent management device (IMD). An interface may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080307079 - Apparatus and method for managing addresses of network elements: The present invention relates apparatus and method for managing addresses of network elements connected to a network. An IGD (Internet Gateway Device) of the present invention comprises a WAN device conducting gateway function of a home network or other network, and a LAN device that communicates with the WAN device... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20080307082 - Dynamically discovering a system topology: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for dynamically discovering a topology of a system having a plurality of point-to-point (PTP) links via a routine that communicates a link exchanged parameter with at least one component coupled to a system bootstrap processor (SBSP), sets a minimal set of... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080307085 - Enhanced domain name generation and registration: Methods of the present inventions allow for generating and providing an enhanced domain name. An exemplary method may comprise providing an enhanced domain to a second party. The enhanced domain may comprise a domain name, a web space automatically enabled and associated with the domain name, and at least one... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20080307083 - Gateway managed by specific domain name and method thereof: A method of managing a gateway by a specific domain name is provided. The method includes firstly setting a DNS to connect to the internet. Next, a specific domain name for the gateway is defined. Then, the specific domain name is stored in the DNS for connecting the gateway according... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080307080 - Network management method, a system and a device: A device manages a management database in the form of objects to be managed that are referenced according to a reference specification. Equipment exchanges management data in the form of data structures indicated by patterns each corresponding to a respective referenced object and being assigned a respective identifier. In order... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080307084 - Storage unit information control system for user terminal: The invention enables the control of the information in a storage unit in a user terminal, prevents data from leaking to unauthorized users and protects information in the user terminal. A management OS manages the input/output to/from a user work OS in the user terminal, identifies a control-triggering condition set... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080307081 - System and method for controlling non-compliant applications in an ip multimedia subsystem: A system and method that enables session-based and non-session-based application services to be controlled and managed within the IMS/NGN architecture. The IMS/NGN architecture includes a service layer and a transport layer. IMS service control functions are implemented within the service layer, and RACF and transport functions are implemented within the... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080307086 - Workflow anywhere: invocation of workflows from a remote device: A method and program for providing the ability for systems personnel to use a personal wireless device, such as a mobile phone, palm device, or blackberry device, to receive a system alert regarding a developing situation requiring action and to be notified of pre-selected workflows that can resolve the situation... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080307089 - Computer network software and hardware event monitoring and reporting system and method: A method, system, and network for providing a method, system, and network, for network and device event monitoring and reporting. The disclosed subject matter associates with a host computer, a local network of information technology devices, a community of network users, and a global information technology community. The present disclosure... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20080307088 - Performance monitoring web console for distributed transaction service: A computer-implemented system to support performance monitoring of distributed transaction service can comprise one or more distributive transaction monitoring infrastructures, wherein each distributive transaction monitoring infrastructure contains at least one local monitor server that receiving monitoring data from one or more distributive transaction monitoring processes; a central monitor server that... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080307087 - Protection of industrial equipment from network storms emanating from a network system: c

20080307091 - Information processing apparatus, website access permission method: According to an aspect of an embodiment, an information processing apparatus for restricting accesses of websites comprises: a storage unit for storing information of access restricted websites; and a processor for performing a process of access permission comprising the steps of: receiving a request of access to one of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080307092 - Method and apparatus for determining whether content is usable: Provided is a method of determining whether content provided from a first device is available to a second device in a network including the first and second devices. In the method, content domain information indicating a domain in which use of content provided from a first device is allowed is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080307090 - System and method for managing publications: A system and method of managing publications is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Address Book System (ABS) having a controller element to adjust publication privileges of a publisher of a portion of an address book stored in the ABS responsive... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080307094 - Association of peer-to-peer contribution credits with multiple devices: A first device is coupled to a peer-to-peer data processing network. Resources of the peer-to-peer data processing network are allocated based on credits, and the credits are earned based on contribution of resources to the peer-to-peer data processing network. An association is created between the first device and the second... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080307093 - Method and system for managing resource consumption by transport control protocol connections: A method and system for managing resource consumption by TCP connections. After establishing a TCP connection between two devices, such as a client and a server, the TCP connection is placed into a dormant mode when the server has no data to send to the client. Only when there is... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080307095 - Persistent group membership in a distributing computing system: A distributed system has a multiplicity of nodes. A group of the nodes subscribe to a group services process. The group is subject to dissolving. A list of persistent subscribers to the group is maintained. Subscriptions to members and states of the group that are persistent subscribers do not terminate... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080307097 - Method and apparatus for refactoring a graph in a graphical programming language: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that refactors a port of a node in a graph, wherein the node has one or more input ports and one or more output ports. During operation, the system identifies an input port of the node to be refactored. The system... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080307098 - Method for intelligent, self-managed, decentralized connection pool management pool: A server can be connected to a set of other servers using a connection pool of connections. When information is to be sent to one of the set of other servers, the server can obtain a connection from the connection pool.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080307096 - Using a remote handheld device as a local device: A data connection can be established between a handheld device (e.g., a mobile phone or smartphone) and a computerized second device. For example, an action associated with a keyboard scancode can be mapped to a key on the keypad of the handheld device. A key press on a keypad of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080307100 - Autonomic adjustment of connection keep-alives: A server computer system includes a keep-alive autonomic adjustment mechanism that monitors current operating conditions and dynamically adjusts the keep-alive specification to optimize the keep-alives for the current operating conditions. The keep-alive autonomic adjustment mechanism monitors the total number of clients, and the average number of requests per client. The... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080307099 - Storage system and priority control method: Provided is a priority control method for controlling a priority of data transmission in a computer system including a storage system that has a plurality of volumes, a host computer that uses the volumes, a management computer that sets a priority of data transmission between each volume and the host... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080307101 - Method and apparatus for executing web services through a high assurance guard: In accordance with an embodiment, a method of executing web services through a high assurance guard includes transmitting a target service request having routing information from the source security domain to a source one-way high assurance guard (HAG) service, inspecting the target service request in the source one-way HAG service... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20080307102 - Techniques for communicating data between a host device and an intermittently attached mobile device: A relatively simple protocol for transferring files and other data between endpoints. The endpoints are a host electronic device and a client electronic device. The connection between the end points can utilize a reliable stream transport connection. Communication is accomplished utilizing packets that have a header and a body with... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080307103 - Mediation for auxiliary content in an interactive environment: A client device configured to interact with an interactive environment, a computer implemented method for obtaining auxiliary content in such a device, a mediation server, a computer implemented method for managing distribution of auxiliary content with such a server, an auxiliary content distribution method and an auxiliary content distribution system... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20080307104 - Methods and apparatus for functional model-based data provenance in stream processing environments: Techniques for deriving a provenance of one or more of a plurality of output data elements generated from a given output port of a PC are provided. At least one dependency function is created that relates the one or more output data elements to a set of one or more... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080307107 - Peer-to-peer distributed storage for internet protocol television: A plurality of portions of a video content item is distributed to a plurality of peers, respectively, of a peer-to-peer network. Each of the plurality of portions encodes less than an entire portion of the video content item. A peer of the network retrieves at least a subset of the... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080307106 - Photo streaming to media device: Methods, systems, and apparatus for streaming images to a media device. In one aspect, a method includes receiving from a server an image listing comprising a database identifying one or more images stored on the server; presenting to a user a menu of albums, each album having one or more... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307105 - Streaming media archiver for live events: A system for recording media streams of live events, such as live meetings, is provided. The system acts as a passive client for one or more media streams of the live event but does not perform other functionality associated with the live event, such as presenting the media streams to... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080307108 - Streaming media network system, streaming media service realization method and streaming media service enabler: The present invention provides an IMS-based streaming media network system comprising: a streaming media service enabler configured to provide streaming media service description information to a user terminal; an application server configured to send a media resource request after the user terminal selects a streaming media service based on the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080307109 - File protocol for transaction based communication: File protocols for transaction based communication are described. In one embodiment, a method to provide a file transfer protocol includes receiving packets containing headers, the packets being received at a first network stack software through an interface, and extracting data from he packets and reconstructing a file from data in... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080307110 - Conditional bgp advertising for dynamic group vpn (dgvpn) clients: In a host within a group, a method for ensuring secure communications is provided. The method involves (a) determining if a group security policy is in place for secure communication between hosts within the group, (b) if the group security policy is in place, advertising routing information to another host... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080307111 - Most eligible server in a common work queue environment: A system and method for managing servers. The system comprises a plurality of servers for processing messages, at least one client for transmitting messages to and receiving messages from the servers, and processor means for maintaining a list indicating whether at least one of the servers is eligible to process... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy, & Presser, P.C.

20080307112 - Using personal data for advertisements: A device may receive personal data that is collected at a client device, obtain a network address of a media device from the client device, send the network address to an advertisement device, and send the personal data to the advertisement device. The advertisement device may retrieve advertisements based on... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20080307113 - Data processing system, data processing apparatus and server apparatus: A data processing system having a client apparatus for requesting target data to be processed and a server apparatus for performing a process on the target data transmitted from the client apparatus is disclosed that includes a client process request transmitting part provided in the client apparatus and configured to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080307114 - Network assignment method and apparatus: A network assignment apparatus receives a request of a client via the first network. The network assignment apparatus selects the second network to be assigned to the client, and assigns the second network to the client, in correspondence with one of a plurality of servers from which the client obtains... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080301214 - Isp-aware peer-to-peer content exchange: An Internet Service Provider (ISP)-aware peer-to-peer (P2P) content exchange system and method for exchanging content over a P2P network using the Internet. The system and method accounts for the type of relationship between peers and classifies and groups each peer according to these relationships. A peer overlay is constructed such... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080301215 - Nat (network address translation) traversal methods and systems: Network Address Translation (NAT) Traversal methods and systems. First, a web-based server is provided. The server comprises a database storing connection information corresponding to at least one application, wherein the connection information comprises a network address and a connection port corresponding to the application. A first host connects to the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080301216 - Method and apparatus for providing remote device with service of universal plug and play network: A universal plug and play remote access architecture is provided. A remote access server device can perform a service level access control with respect to a service request of a remote access client device by extending a device level filter used for a remote access discover agent Config service that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080301217 - Network attached storage snmp single system image: A method, system, and apparatus for a management station to manage a node cluster in a computer network. Regardless which node in the node cluster receives a management command from the management station to the master node, the management command is sent to the master node. The master node prepares... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (sjo)

20080301225 - Information processing apparatus and information processing system: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus where a first software including a first operating system and a first program group running on the first operating system, and a second software including a second operating system and a second program group running on the second operating system run concurrently,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080301226 - Low cost, highly accurate video server bit-rate compensation: A method, apparatus and system for adaptably distributing video server processes among processing elements within a video server such that video server operation may be adapted in a manner facilitating rigorous timing constraints.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Sedna Patent Services, LLC

20080301221 - Method and apparatus that enables a web-based client-server application to be used offline: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates using a web-based client-server application offline. During operation, the system receives a function call at an object within a browser that is executing on a client, wherein the function call is generated by the web-based client-server application and is... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080301223 - Mobile apparatus including template based flash image generation function and method for generating flash image using the same: The present invention relates to a mobile apparatus including a template based flash image generation function and method for generating flash image using the same, more particularly, to a technology capable of generating a flash image simply and conveniently on a mobile apparatus without using an exclusive program which uses... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080301222 - Mobile bookmarks: A method and apparatus for updating bookmarks is described. In one embodiment, a server has a bookmark database and a bookmark synchronizer. The bookmark synchronizer is configured to receive a communication from a web browser of a client of a user, to collect a list of bookmarks of the web... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301224 - On demand product placement: In at least one aspect, methods and corresponding systems are provided herewith for mixing media and advertising content on demand. The systems preferably include at least one computing device coupled over a communication network to a plurality of other devices. The at least one computing device is preferably operable at... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080301220 - Persisting forms data in a composite web application environment: Forms data is reusable in a first webpage after a user goes to a second webpage, and then returns to the first webpage. After providing access to a first webpage via a portal User Interface (UI) on a display on a client computer, a data entry input of forms data... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080301218 - Strategies for compressing information using bloom filters: A strategy is described for constructing bloom filter information and exception information. The bloom filter information is constructed to express a set of items in a lossy compressed form. The exception information reveals occasions in which the bloom filter information erroneously indicates that a candidate item is a member of... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080301219 - System and/or method for client-driven server load distribution: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to communication between a client and a server in a communications network. In one particular example, a server is selected from a plurality of servers to provide a resource and or service to a client.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20080301229 - Client device, communication method and computer readable medium: There is provided with a client device connected to a network, including: a first message sender configured to send a first request message for requesting assignment of an address to communicate in the network to one or more servers on the network; a waiting unit configured to wait for an... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080301227 - Hierarchical document publishing: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a hierarchical publication of at least one object. Embodiments of the present invention relate to hierarchy publication for creating an object, wherein the object contains a plurality of object parts. Embodiments of the present invention relate to hierarchy publication... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080301230 - Instant message (im) routing to a virtual user consisting of a group of possible sub-users associated with a common im identity: Disclosed are a method, apparatus and system for instant message routing. The method includes: receiving a communication request from a source client to a destination client; acquiring the context associated with the source client and the destination client; and selecting a sub-user of the destination client for communication using a... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080301231 - Method and system for maintaining and distributing wireless applications: Computer- and network-based methods and systems for maintaining and provisioning wireless applications are provided. Example embodiments provide a Mobile Application System (MAS), which is a collection of interoperating server components that work individually and together in a secure fashion to provide applications and resources to mobile subscriber devices, such as... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20080301228 - Shared state manager and system and method for collaboration: A shared state manager (SSM) for collaboration includes an updating module for updating a shared state of data based on a request to edit the data made by a client, and a notifying module for, upon the updating the shared state, notifying another client of the updated state.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080301232 - Enhanced online collaboration system for viewers of video presentations: An enhanced collaboration system makes it possible for viewers of post-original video presentations to collaborate online with others who are viewing the same video presentation at the same time. A collaborate room controller establishes and maintains sets of online collaboration sessions for the post-original video presentation with each collaboration session... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080301233 - P2p file transmission system and method: The present disclosure is related to a P2P file transmission system and method, the system according to the present disclosure may include a P2P node managing system managing users connected to the system, and managing P2P file transmissions between the users; and a relay server relaying the file transmitted to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080301247 - Automatic file sharing over a network: A system includes a server, a source client executable on a first electronic device configured to be in communication with the server. The source client is operable to automatically upload a file to the server in response to a user of the first electronic device placing the file in a... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080301234 - Communication apparatus, information processing method, program, and storage medium: This invention has as its object to avoid occurrence of garble even when an e-mail message to be created includes text information described in character codes of different kinds of language. To achieve this object, a communication apparatus according to this invention includes an input unit which inputs image information,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080301244 - Concurrent stack: A method and apparatus for processing message is described. In one embodiment, an application programming interface is configured for receiving and sending messages. A building block layer is coupled to the application programming interface. A channel layer is coupled to the building block layer. A transport protocol stack is coupled... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301236 - Contextual social language: Systems and methods that enrich interaction of users in a written communication environment by providing a contextual language component that points to a designated data source (e.g., an object) and pulls data from such designated source, to perform predetermined function(s) thereupon. Users who communicate in the written environment can type... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080301248 - Determining an applicable policy for an incoming message: Provides methods, apparatus and systems for determining an applicable policy for an incoming message having a service-level addressing element. A method includes the following steps: a) applying a potentially applicable policy (P1) on the incoming message to make the service-level addressing element of the incoming message visible, b) if the... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080301237 - Method and apparatus for improved referral to resources and a related social network: A method and apparatus are provided for a user to construct a payload comprising content, such as multimedia, or references to content. The payload may be provided with further elements, such as a title or initial comments. The payload may be sent to any immediate contact of the user. Upon... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080301238 - Method and system for controlling email address accounts: A business owner of controlled email addresses sells access to email addresses for a specific amount of time or number of messages. An approved sender transmits an email message. A server receives the incoming email message. A business ID framework matches approved sender to approved receiver and forwards results to... Agent: Irving M. Weiner Weiner & Burt, P.C.

20080301235 - Method, apparatus and system for detecting unwanted digital content delivered to a mail box: Email messages stored on a mail server are filtered to identify the email messages that contain unwanted content. The mail server receives incoming email messages over a network. A content filter performs an initial scan to identify the incoming email messages that contain unwanted content by determining whether signatures associated... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080301249 - Multiple device notification synchronization: A system for updating multiple copies of a software program on respective multiple devices includes a system for responding to a notification of a first copy of the software program in a first one of the devices; a system for sending a notification responded signal to a second one of... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080301246 - Peer-to-peer message format data structure: A wire protocol is described which implements connection management and other methods to give enhanced peer-to-peer content distribution. Connections between nodes can be placed in a “notify” state when they are idle but may soon yield useful content. This notify state is also used together with a content request/response cycle... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080301243 - Real time messaging framework hub: Methods and systems are provided for communicating an event from a server to a set of applications via a real time messaging framework hub, which communicates with the applications on individual channels and with the server on a single channel. A polling message is sent to the server and a... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080301239 - Remote administration of devices and resources using an instant messenger service: Various implementations are described herein for using instant messenger services to administer devices. Both devices and administrators have corresponding client instant messenger services that enable administrators to configure the devices, update firmware and/or software applications running on the devices, control the devices, facilitate communication between the devices and resources such... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080301240 - System and method for propagating a media item recommendation message comprising recommender presence information: A system and method for propagating media item recommendation messages on a media item recommendation system is disclosed. A first media item recommendation message comprising a media item identifier and presence information of a recommender is received from the recommender. The first media item recommendation message is sent to a... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20080301242 - System and method for protecting chat content: Provided is a method for ensuring the privacy of communication during a computer chat session. The claimed subject matter enables each participant of a chat session to choose whether or not to allow other participants to save, print or archive the text of the session. At the beginning of or... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20080301245 - System and method for sharing data: A method and computer program product for defining an activity. One or more members of the activity are defined. At least one piece of content is associated with the activity, thus defining at least one associated piece of content that is accessible by at least a portion of the members... Agent: Holland & Knight

20080301241 - System and method of generating a media item recommendation message with recommender presence information: A system and method of generating a media item recommendation message used to provide a recommendation for a media item by a recommender to a recipient on a media item recommendation system is disclosed. The media item recommendation is generated by including a media item identifier of a media item... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20080301251 - Debugging in a distributed system: A method and apparatus for recreating a system state in a non-deterministic distributed computing system. A message generated by a message producer is received during debugging. If the received message matches a stored message in a persistent message store, the received message is transmitted to a message consumer. If the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301252 - Method and system for notification of local action required to contents of electronic mail message: The present invention provides a method and system to alert the recipient of an electronic message of some action that is required from the recipient. The invention also provides a method to alert the sender of the electronic message of the completion of the action required in the original electronic... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20080301250 - Thread-based message prioritization: To perform thread-based message prioritization, metadata may be extracted from a received electronic message. Based on the extracted message metadata and accumulated metadata extracted from previously received messages, a message thread to which the received electronic message belongs may be identified. Based on a set of thread priority assessment criteria,... Agent: Smart And Biggar

20080301253 - Communication method, communication apparatus, integrated circuit and circuit module: A communication method in a communication system which includes a master apparatus and plural slave apparatuses including at least first, second and third slave apparatuses, that are connected to communication medium and are associated with plural cyclic slots including at least first and second slots for triggering data transmission after... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080301254 - Method and system for splicing remote direct memory access (rdma) transactions in an rdma-aware system: Aspects of a system for splicing RDMA transactions in an RDMA system may include a main processor within a main server that may receive read requests from a client device. The main processor may translate a data reference contained in each read request to generate a physical buffer list (PBL).... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080301255 - Dynamically matching data service capabilities to data service level objectives: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for matching a storage dependent device to a storage subsystem. Storage requirements are identified for a storage dependent device that is coupled to a network. Additionally, a set of storage subsystems that are coupled to the network are identified. A determination... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080301256 - System including a fine-grained memory and a less-fine-grained memory: A data processing system includes one or more nodes, each node including a memory sub-system. The sub-system includes a fine-grained, memory, and a less-fine-grained (e.g., page-based) memory. The fine-grained memory optionally serves as a cache and/or as a write buffer for the page-based memory. Software executing on the system uses... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080301258 - Referential integrity across a distributed directory: A system and method for autonomically maintaining group referential integrity across a distributed directory. When a server receives an operation request from a client regarding an entry in the distributed directory, the server sends a request to the particular server containing the entry to be modified that instructs the server... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080301257 - System and method for consumer entitlements in portal services: A system to support consumer entitlement that allows Producer web applications to decide which portlets to be offered to Consumer web applications can comprise: a role set which includes a plurality of roles; a Consumer web application adapted to interact with end users; and a Producer web application with a... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080301259 - Method and system for accessing a business object by using a service provider class: Disclosed is a method and system for receiving a request at an object, retrieving a node identification (ID) of a node of the object from the request and fetching an instance of a service provider class of the node from a service provider class factory based on the node ID,... Agent: Sap Ag

20080301261 - Data file edit system, storage medium, process server, and user client: A process server is included in a data file edit system together with a file storage unit that stores a data file to be shared so as to be accessed only from a client, a provider client and a user client, and comprises an edit request receiving unit that receives... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080301262 - Information processing system, information processing device, information processing method, and program: An information processing system includes: first and second information processing devices for performing communication through a network, which include a first transmission unit for, in the case of data to be downloaded being selected, transmitting a data download request to the second information processing device along with downloaded data identification... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080301264 - Method and system for providing personalized online services and advertisement in public spaces: A method and system for providing personalized and integrated online services for communications and commercial transactions both in private and public venues. The invention provides personalized information that is conveniently accessible through a network of public access stations (or terminals) which are enabled by a personal system access card (e.g.,... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080301260 - Method and user interface for accessing groups of media assets: Improved systems and methods to navigate, browse, search and/or playback digital media assets (e.g., media items) hosted on a media server are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention pertains to a user interface arrangement, such as a hierarchical menu system, that facilitates navigation, browsing and playing of media items remotely... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080301265 - Method for interfacing scanned product information with a source for the product over a global network: A method for interfacing scanned product information with a source for the product over a global network. A method is provided for obtaining information regarding the source of a product from a remote information source location on a global communication network utilizing a product code associated with the product and... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080301263 - Method of delivering difference map data: The present invention provides, in a car navigation system, a unit of notifying a user of the update contents of map data prior to the downloading of the map data. A vehicle-mounted terminal sets a difference update area in accordance with a selection made by a user and sends a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080301268 - Method and apparatus for configuring and modeling server information in an enterprise tooling environment: A computer implemented method, an apparatus, and a computer usable program product are provided for configuring and modeling server connection and deployment information in an enterprise tooling environment. A software model is provided that comprises a connections object, which includes a plurality of connection objects and deploy spec objects. Each... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080301267 - Method and system for network management with platform-independent protocol interface for discovery and monitoring processes: A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product is presented for management of a distributed data processing system. An action at a target device is requested, and the completion of the action depends upon communication protocol operations on a set of devices along a logical route through the distributed data... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080301266 - Method and system for wireless network configuration: Exemplary embodiments include methods and systems for identifying information associated with a remote user system and/or a wireless system, determining the compatibility of the remote user system and a wireless system, formulating one or more configuration plans for the remote user system and/or a wireless system and automatically implementing one... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080301269 - Method for binding an address of a user terminal in an access equipment: A method for binding an address of a user terminal in an access equipment includes the following steps. The user terminal requests a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server via the access equipment to assign an IP address, and the access equipment receives a response message from the DHCP server... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080301271 - Method of ip address de-aliasing: A method of internet protocol (IP) address de-aliasing that involves obtaining IP addresses from devices in a network, pinging pairs of the IP addresses by sending packets to pairs of the IP addresses, obtaining ping response orders for the packets, and determining whether the pairs of IP addresses are aliases... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20080301272 - Quorum-based power-down of unresponsive servers in a computer cluster: A quorum-based server power-down mechanism allows a manager in a computer cluster to power-down unresponsive servers in a manner that assures that an unresponsive server does not become responsive again. In order for a manager in a cluster to power down servers in the cluster, the cluster must have quorum,... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080301270 - System and method for directed provision and installation of device-specific functionalities, in particular for field devices: A method for directed provision and installation of device-specific functionalities and/or information for field devices which are arranged in a distributed system, in particular in a distributed automation system, wherein in a first step, a field device to be connected to the system is supplied with basic functionalities and/or basic... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080301274 - Block allocation times in a computer system: A method and apparatus improves the block allocation time in a parallel computer system. A pre-load controller pre-loads blocks of hardware in a supercomputer cluster in anticipation of demand from a user application. In the preferred embodiments the pre-load controller determines when to pre-load the compute nodes and the block... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080301273 - Centrally assigning branch specific network addresses: Provided is a method for centrally assigning branch specific network addresses in a domain host control protocol (DHCP) environment. A local router receives requests for IP address assignment from a computing device at one location and forwards the request to a centralized DHCP (CDHCP) server at a different location. The... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20080301275 - Managed racking system: An optimized racking system is disclosed for computer installation to communicate with a computer network. This system comprises a plurality of server modules, a plurality of switching modules and a central patching facility. Each of the server modules is adapted to receive at least one server computer, and each of... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080301276 - System and method for controlling and managing electronic communications over a network: A system and method to control and manage electronic communications transmitted over a network are described. An electronic communication is generated at a point of origin coupled to a sender user. Status of the electronic communication is further managed at the point of origin based on a predetermined number of... Agent: Florin Corie Stattler Johansen & Adeli LLP

20080301278 - Systems and methods for synchronizing data between communication devices in a networked environment: A source communication device comprises a cluster manager to group destination device connections into a plurality of performance clusters. The cluster manager then causes a synchronization mechanism to be generated for each performance cluster. Each synchronization cluster can then allow data to be optimally shared between the source device and... Agent: Michelle A. Zarinelli C/o West Corporation

20080301277 - Web system, communication control device, and storage medium: A disclosed Web system includes an image forming apparatus; a communication control device connected to the image forming apparatus and including a print server function; and an information processing apparatus connected via a network and the communication control device to the image forming apparatus and configured to obtain information on... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080301287 - Managing partitioning in a cluster of nodes: For managing partitioning in a cluster of nodes, each node is assigned a prime number for use in determining which partition should be activated following partitioning of the cluster. The cluster is monitored for partitioning. If partitioning is detected, a partition value is calculated from the product of the prime... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080301293 - Method and apparatus for discovering universal plug and play device using resource information: Provided are a method and apparatus for discovering a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) device by using resource information. The method includes: multicasting a search message including resource request information, which requests a resource to the device, to a network complying with the predetermined standard; receiving at least one response... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080301290 - Method and apparatus for management of common side information: The invention is directed at a method of managing side information, used during interactive compression, common to a server and one of multiple devices. In order to manage common side information, a global common side information table including entries for the side information is maintained. The entries store characteristics of... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080301294 - Method and apparatus for operating an open api network having a proxy: A telecommunication system, method, apparatus, and computer readable media that implements an open application program interface (API) system in which open API servers pass and receive API commands to applications through a novel proxy. The proxy assists implementing various management functions, such as assigning open API servers to application and... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080301289 - Method and apparatus for searching for upnp device: Provided is a method of searching for a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) device in a UPnP network. Accordingly, a control point inserts attribute information on a device designated by a user in addition to information on a device type, a service type, or the like into a search message... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080301288 - Method and device for monitoring a transaction: A device for detecting a timeout event during a transaction between a user and a host includes a memory storing a set of predetermined threshold values in association with corresponding operations. A timing control unit that is operative to provide timing information. A controller is operative to detect a timeout... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20080301285 - Methods, apparatus and systems for analyzing data carried by a plurality of data tributaries, wherein the analysis is based on a mapping of the data tributaries to one or more tributary sets: In one embodiment, data carried by a plurality of data tributaries is received. As the data is received, a stored mapping of data tributaries to one or more tributary sets is accessed, and common data tags are assigned to the data carried by ones of the data tributaries mapped to... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080301286 - Persistent message store: A method and apparatus for using a persistent message store in a distributed computing system having a service oriented architecture. A message is detected that is transmitted from a message producer to a message consumer in the distributed computing system having the service oriented architecture. A determination is made as... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301291 - Portable host-pluggable appliance tracking system: A recoverable data storage apparatus includes a hand-portable housing configured with an input/output (I/O) port presented outwardly therefrom, a data storage means retained within the housing and operatively coupled with the input/output port, and a client agent embodied as device-executable code residing on the data storage device and configured. When... Agent: Ater Wynne LLP

20080301292 - Power management of network attached device: Power management of one or more network-attached devices connected to a plurality of computer units is disclosed. In an exemplary arrangement, each computer unit as one computer unit, in response to a command for shutdown of the one computer unit, determines whether or not at least one remaining computer unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080301281 - Search ranger system and double-funnel model for search spam analyses and browser protection: An exemplary method for defeating server-side click-through cloaking includes retrieving a search results page to set a browser variable, inserting a link to a page into the search results page and clicking through to the page using the inserted link. An exemplary method for investigating client-side cloaking includes providing script... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080301279 - Specifying associations among attributes of entities in: Specifying associations among attributes of entities in a data center, the data center comprising a facility that houses computers and equipment supporting computer operations, the entities including the computers and the equipment, some attributes associated with a resource domain, the resource domain composed of a physical characteristic shared by some... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20080301295 - System and method for usage-based misinformation detection and response: Methods of detecting, and providing a notification of, the existence of misinformation using usage patterns of a network service enable an organization to respond to the misinformation. The method includes establishing common usage patterns of the network service, identifying an irregular usage pattern, determining that the irregular usage pattern was... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080301284 - Systems and methods for capture of electronic evidence: Systems and methods are provided for capturing electronic evidence. One or more agents are deployed to one or more sources of electronic evidence over a communications network, wherein the one or more deployed agents are undetectable by the one or more sources. One or more instructions are transmitted to the... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20080301282 - Systems and methods for storing interaction data: A method for storing customer center communications data includes receiving communications data at a host, wherein the communications data corresponds to a communication involving a customer center agent at a customer center located remotely from the host, storing the communications data at the host, and providing the communications data to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080301280 - Web media asset identification system and method: Methods of dynamically identifying a server provided media asset on a client device are provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group, PLLC / Realnetworks, Inc

20080301283 - Website-controllable warning message broadcasting system: A website-controllable warning message broadcasting system includes a first network linking apparatus and a plurality of second network linking apparatus linked to one another via a central server. When a first alarm unit connected to the first network linking apparatus is triggered, users at the second network linking apparatus may... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080301297 - Information management system: An information management system is described comprising one or more workstations running applications which allow a user of the workstation to connect to a network, such as the Internet. Each application has an analyzer, which monitors transmission data that the application is about to transmit to the network or has... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080301296 - System and method for creating, tracking and analyzing tasks: A system and method for creating, negotiating, tracking, and analyzing tasks, wherein the present invention provides for automated negotiation of tasks between task assignor and task assignee, and wherein the present invention provides for automated tracking and trending of task completion, performing statistical analysis of the task status and task... Agent: Myers & Kaplan Intellectual Property Law, L.L.C.

20080301299 - Automatically targeting and filtering shared network resources: Embodiments are provided to automatically target shared resources in a computer network which are pertinent to a query for information from a client and/or a server through the use of a shared resources portal. In one embodiment, a query is received in the shared resources portal from a requestor. The... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080301298 - Identifying a computing device: A computer architecture for enterprise device applications that provides a real-time, bi-directional communication layer for device communication. An identity-based communications layer provides for secure, end-to-end telemetry and control communications by enabling mutual authentication and encryption between the devices and the enterprise. A unique identity is assigned to each device, user... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC Oracle International Corporation

20080301302 - Communication control method, relaying method and relaying device: Method and device for heightening communications security. Gateway 3 receives packet P1 from caller terminal 1a, and creates and transmits to receiver terminal 1b packet P2, in which destination IP address, source IP address, destination port, source port, and session ID for packet P1 are rewritten. Gateway 3 also receives... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080301301 - Information sharing in a smart space: An apparatus and method for storing and maintaining in a smart space device connectivity information of devices of the smart space including a plurality of disparate radio access technologies. The connectivity information is propagated to at least one other device of the smart space and is used for selecting an... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080301300 - Predictive asynchronous web pre-fetch: A web server receives an asynchronous pre-request of data from a web browser resulting from the web browser predicting a user action based on the user's interaction with the web browser. The web server pre-fetches the pre-requested data based on the asynchronous pre-request of data.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080301303 - Virtual network connection apparatus, system, method for controlling connection of a virtual network and computer-readable storage medium: There is provided a virtual network connection apparatus having a unit that receives an instruction for forming a virtual network; an unit that assigns a unique virtual network identifier in response to the instruction; a unit that receives designation of an information processor; a unit that issues permission information for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080301306 - Fast session establishment method and system for mobile terminal: A fast session establishment method and system is provided for reducing time required to establish a multimedia communication session. The fast session establishment method includes registering a parameter set that had resulted in a successful session establishment with a counterpart terminal and establishing a session with the counterpart terminal using... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080301305 - Method and related system for building up a network connection between clients and servers through a stream fork by utilizing http protocol: A method for building up a network connection between a client and a server through a stream fork by utilizing HTTP protocol includes receiving a connection request of the client, transmitting the connection request to the server, building up a connection channel between the client and the server and setting... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080301304 - Multimedia spaces: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that detect watermarks incorporated within analog and/or digital signals associated with multimedia presentations. The disclosed system can include a component that receives analog and/or digital signals, ascertains the existence of a watermark associated with the received signals, and extracts metadata encapsulated... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080301307 - Rfid tag for ip address-based rfid service and rfid service method using the same: Provided are a RFID tag and a method for providing a RFID service using the same. The RFID tag includes: a code type data denoting a code type of the RFID tag; and a content server IP address code denoting an IP address of a content server that provides content... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080301308 - System, method and apparatus for establishing interactive media session based on ip multimedia subsystem: A method and system for establishing an interactive media session based on an IP Multimedia Subsystem, including: a terminal adapted to initiate an interactive media session request and receive a media session response; a serving-CSCF adapted to trigger the request to the application server according to a triggering rule and... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080301309 - Browser initiated reporting of fraud: A method and apparatus for providing safety feedback to web browsers. A web browser contacts a remote server that monitors web site safety and provides a universal resource locator (URL) for a web site the client is about to access. The web site safety or tracking server checks its database... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301310 - Systems and methods for advanced communications and control: Methods and systems for telecommunications operations and controls include (1) an enhanced text message process or methodology that allows a remote user who does not have, already installed, a specialized voice telephony program to nevertheless place and participate in a voice call, (2) call admission control using a “degrees of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080301313 - Method and apparatus for local ip address translation: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for requesting a page from a server across a network data processing system. The page is requested a first time from a client application in the data processing system in which the page is requested using a domain name. An Internet Protocol address for... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080301311 - Method and system for extended steering tags (stags) to minimize memory bandwidth for content delivery servers: Aspects of a method and system for extended steering tags (STags) to minimize memory bandwidth for content delivery servers are presented. Aspects of the system may include at least one processor that enables reception of at least a portion of a data stripe within a direct data placement (DDP) segment.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080301312 - Tunneling ipv6 packets: Methods, systems, and products are provided for tunneling IPv6 packets. Embodiments include receiving, by an origin IPv6 border router from an origin IPv6 host, an IPv6 packet having an IPv6 destination address; receiving, by an origin IPv6 border router from an origin IPv6 host, an IPv4 address for a destination... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080301314 - Auxiliary content handling over digital communication systems: A broadcaster prepares primary content session stream data, and auxiliary content files, such as subtitle text. The auxiliary data may be provided using a two-level structure. Here, the first level can be is a file having plural entries each with a control information item, e.g. a timestamp, and a reference... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080301317 - Method of multiple file streaming service through playlist in mobile environment and system thereof: A method and system of streaming content media files uses a Portable Terminal. In the event of streaming multiple content files in a mobile environment, the method combines multiple content files into one streaming file through the Playlist Generator provided for the Streaming Server and then streams the entire file... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080301316 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for discovering and prioritizing patterns of component usage in a virtual application container for enhancing prefetching: Disclosed is a method, computer program product and a server unit of a virtual execution environment having at least one client. The server unit includes a network interface for conducting bidirectional communications with the at least one client and a control unit configured to determine, for individual ones of positions... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080301318 - Segmentation and transmission of audio streams: A system, method and computer-readable code for segmenting an audio stream into a plurality of small digital audio files using gaps in the natural language of the audio stream is provided. The small digital audio files are transmitted, loaded, and played in a specific order, such that from the user's... Agent: Teitelbaum & Maclean

20080301315 - Transmitting digital media streams to devices: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products for transmitting digital media streams. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes identifying and transmitting a sequence of frames in a digital video transmission, the sequence of frames comprising an initial frame and subsequent frames corresponding to the initial frame, the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080301319 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing accidental stack join protection: The subject matter described herein includes methods and systems for providing accidental stack join protection. According to one embodiment, a method includes connecting stacking ports of a first switch that is a member of a first stack and a second switch that is a member of a second stack and... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080301321 - Method and system for communicating with a device attached to a computer using electronic mail messages: A method, system, and computer program product for communicating with machines connected to a network. Information sent to or from the machines is transmitted using electronic mail. The electronic mail may be transmitted over the Internet, but also may remain within a local or wide area network. When receiving electronic... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080301320 - Method and system for managing communication protocol data based on mime types: Methods and systems are described for managing communication protocol data in a communication stack of an electronic device. One method includes providing a MIME type communication layer in a communication stack that comprises a plurality of communication layers and is operatively coupled to a network interface for receiving and sending... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080301322 - Network controller, information processing apparatus and wake-up control method: According to one embodiment, a network controller includes a data register which stores first data indicative of a data pattern of an address resolution protocol request packet including a network address of an information processing apparatus, and second data indicative of a data pattern of a wake-up packet for waking... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080301323 - Synchronization of side information caches: In order to improve interactive compression using compression state information, the side information caches of communicating parties must be updated, or synchronized. The present invention is directed to a method of synchronizing side information databases within an interactive compression system comprising two communicating parties comprising the steps of transmitting, from... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman