Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 01/09

20090030965 - System and program product for using open mobile alliance (oma) alerts to send client commands/requests to an oma dm server: Under the present invention, there is provided a system and program product for using Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Device Management (DM) alerts to send client commands/requests to an OMA DM server to initiate management actions on the OMA server. An OMA DM alert is sent from a client device to... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20090030966 - Method and a network for communicating data via a computer network: A method and a computer network for two computers to communicate, where one computer generates an instruction set for the second computer to carry out, the instruction set including an instruction for reloading the instruction set, and at least one instruction set comprising an instruction for the second computer to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090030969 - Method and system for operating a rating server based on usage and download patterns within a peer-to-peer network: A method and a system is presented for pruning a peer-to-peer network such that a peer-to-peer search within the peer-to-peer network is initiated beginning with those nodes on which relevant content has previously been found for particular search keywords. For each completed search, a peer node gathers client rating results... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20090030967 - Personal wearable microserver: An integrated system includes comprising a microserver integrated with a movable platform and in communication with one or more data collection apparatus disposed about a living organism, one or more microserver subsystems integrated within the microserver, and means for enabling two-way communications with the server from a remote location. The... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.a.

20090030968 - Remote control in a wireless communication system: Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, a mobile wireless device is configured to access and control an application executable on a wireless server. In an embodiment, wireless server is configured to execute an application resident on... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090030970 - Method and apparatus for waking up a sleeping system: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that wakes up a sleeping target system located on a target LAN (Local Area Network) from a remote system located on a remote LAN. Because the sleeping target system is in a sleep state, it receives packets of a lower-layer protocol... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090030974 - Apparatus and methods for coordination of wireless systems: Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, data associated with information acquired in wireless entities is synced among the wireless entities based on a privacy status and verification of identities corresponding to the privacy status. The wireless... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090030975 - Application generation system and method: A method and system for generating an application for a client node is disclosed. Identification data is received from the client node and stored. A unique identifier is associated with the stored data and stored with a link to the stored data. An application is generated for the client node... Agent: Leason Ellis LLP

20090030973 - Job board/hris integration and selective sharing of interview responses: A system and method to collect, transmit and access user information from an information collection system. User information is received with is submitted by a user in response to a posting of an opportunity made at a host web site. In response to receiving the user information, the user is... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090030978 - Media content device and system: A device for obtaining media content from a source and storing the media content for subsequent playback. A response mechanism enables a listener to generate response information associated with particular media content that is being rendered by the device. This response information can be delivered to a third party system... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, Llc

20090030977 - Remote generation and distribution of command programs for programmable devices: A system for controlling a motion device. A motion control system comprises a motion control device, and a first user is associated with the motion control system. An output system is arranged to generate motion signals that may be perceived by the first user. A motion server system comprises a... Agent: Schacht Law Office, Inc. Roy-g-biv Corp.

20090030972 - System and method for delivering advertising signage remotely: A system for electronically displaying advertising images on remote display devices. The system includes a display content server for scheduling display content upon remote display devices, a plurality of remote display devices in electronic communication with the display content server to receive display content and schedule information from the display... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20090030971 - System and method for transferring data among computing environments: Systems and methods for transferring data among computing environments include a method for transferring data items among a portion of a remote computing environment and a portion of a local computing environment using a presentation layer protocol. Data items are transferred during transfer cycles and upon the release of data... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090030979 - Tunable engine and program product for resolving prerequisites for client devices in an open service gateway initiative (osgi) framework: Under the present invention, each client device will have a corresponding configuration that is accessible to the server. Each configuration sets forth various computer resources as well as corresponding normalization and importance factors for the associated client device. If a certain OSGi bundle is to be loaded and run on... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20090030976 - Variable fidelity media provision system and method: A variable fidelity media provision system and method are provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group, Pllc / Realnetworks, Inc

20090030985 - Family-based online social networking: According to embodiments of the disclosure, social networking families are established in an online social network. Each family has family members, a family profile, and a family policy, where the family profile provides information about the family to members of the social network, and the family policy defines the accessibility... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090030982 - Methods and systems for semantically managing offers and requests over a network: Among other disclosure, a knowledge network and semcards enabling intelligent matching of offers and requests, involving all types of information and knowledge, including information such as classified ads, data about products and services, or knowledge, expertise, ideas, suggestions, opinions, and other forms of tacit knowledge is described.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090030984 - System and method for automatically segmenting content from an instant messaging transcript and applying commands contained within the content segments: A system and method for automatically segmenting content from an instant messaging transcript and applying commands contained within the content segments is disclosed. The system includes a segment finding program, a command fording program, and a command list. The segment finding program identifies topic shifts in the IM conversation. The... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20090030981 - System and method for custom chat invitations: A method is presented for providing a Customer hosted chat invitation to a browsing user. A service provider provides a Customer with a set of interactive invitation input objects, and the Customer creates and stores a set of customized invitation setup data from interacting with the input objects. The service... Agent: Patrick M. Dwyer Pc

20090030983 - System and method for non-disruptive check of a mirror: A system and method for verifying the consistency of mirrored data sets between source and destination storage systems is provided. A destination verification module sends version information to the source storage system where the source verification module determines whether the source and destination storage systems are utilizing compatible versions of... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090030980 - Universal instant messaging system for the internet: Two or more users with PCs or similar devices to access the Internet may establish a connection between each other for instant messaging, even when the users are associated with different realms. For this purpose, the PCs are provided with an IM manager which oversees the instant messaging sessions. In... Agent: Peter K. Trzyna, Esq.

20090030987 - Method and system for monitoring server events in a node configuration by using direct communication between servers: In a method and system for monitoring events occurring at respective servers of a configuration of nodes, a first server located at a first node receives information from a messaging system pertaining to events at servers located at other nodes. The messaging system usefully comprises a highly available (HA) bulletin... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090030986 - System and method for remote asynchronous data replication: An asynchronous peer-to-peer data replication method implemented within a replication cluster comprising at least one master node and at least a first client node includes entering an update in a data volume of the master node and storing the update in a master node storage. Next, updating a first active... Agent: Akc Patents

20090030998 - Contact sidebar tile: Methods, systems, and computer program products for tracking real-time communication data within a single contact tracking application for diverse communication providers and applications. A global data store is synchronized with real-time communication data, such as presence, status, unread messages, and unread notifications, from each application/provider. Real-time communication data for contacts... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090030989 - Enterprise e-mail blocking and filtering system based on user input: Incoming e-mails having an incoming domain are received at an e-mail server. Incoming domains are compared to a list of blocked domains to determine whether the incoming e-mail is to be delivered. Incoming domain are further compared to at least one predefined category having a distribution list. If the intended... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20090030994 - Generating a fingerprint of a bit sequence: A method of generating a fingerprint of a bit sequence includes determining a relative occurrence frequency of each bit combination of a set of bit combinations in the bit sequence, wherein the set of bit combinations comprises all possible non-redundant sub-sequences of bits having at least one bit and at... Agent: Bond Schoeneck & King, Pllc

20090030997 - Method and apparatus for minimizing storage of common attachment files in an e-mail communications server: The present invention provides an e-mail communications system that minimizes the number of duplicate copies of common attachment files to e-mail communications that are stored in the mail store of an e-mail server. When the e-mail server receives an e-mail attachment file that is larger than a threshold size, the... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090030992 - Optimizing the expectation of a response in instant messaging with an automatic hierarchical instant message assistant: A method, system and computer-readable medium for enhanced instant messaging in a data processing system are disclosed. The instant messaging application detects a number of instant messaging sessions of a first messaging participant with a number of other messaging participants and detects a hierarchy class of each of the other... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090030988 - Rich-media instant messaging with selective rich media messaging broadcast: In one embodiment, a method for sending a video message and a text message in a communication session is provided. The method includes determining when a contextual trigger is detected in the communication session between a first user and a second user. For example, the contextual trigger may be when... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20090030993 - Simultaneous synchronous split-domain email routing with conflict resolution: An email address may be associated with more than one inbox on more than one server. An email sent to such an address may not be delivered automatically to all the inboxes because mail transfer agents follow a rule that each email address is uniquely associated with one inbox on... Agent: Matthew E. Burr

20090030991 - System and method for streaming videos inline with an e-mail: A method of facilitating the organization and presentation of video e-mails containing embedded video provides a repository for distinguishing video e-mails from regular e-mails, displays the contents of the repository (e.g., as a list of thumbnails, etc.), and, in response to their selection, streams embedded videos from within the e-mail... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20090030996 - Technique of relaying communications between client apparatus and server apparatus: A relay system for obtaining a program from a server and returning the program to a client by forwarding a message received from a client to the server.... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20090030990 - Tunneling artifacts through instant messengers: An interactive teleconference includes a text messaging session between a first user and second user. A collaborative pipe is attendant to, but invisible to, the text messaging session. The collaborative pipe allows artifacts, from a first application used by the first user, to be transmitted to a second application used... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090030995 - Wireless communication systems: Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, a system includes a wireless server communicatively operable with a set of mobile wireless clients, where the wireless server has a share agent configured to control dissemination of information from... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090030999 - Contact proximity notification: In one embodiment, a contact proximity notification application identifies a contact in a contact list of a user, determines a current proximity between the contact and the user and automatically generates a notification of the current proximity between the contact and the user for automatic communication to the user.... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20090031000 - Determining a manner in which user interface commands are processed in an instant messaging environment: Sharing an instant messaging environment is described. The instant messaging environment is selected from a set of stored instant messaging environments. An instant messaging environment identifier corresponding to the selected instant messaging environment is transmitted from a transmitting instant messaging application to a receiving instant messenger application. The instant messaging... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090031001 - Repeating direct memory access data transfer operations for compute nodes in a parallel computer: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for repeating DMA data transfer operations for nodes in a parallel computer that include: receiving, by a DMA engine on an origin node, a RGET data descriptor that specifies a DMA transfer operation data descriptor and a second RGET data descriptor, the second RGET... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090031002 - Self-pacing direct memory access data transfer operations for compute nodes in a parallel computer: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for self-pacing DMA data transfer operations for nodes in a parallel computer that include: transferring, by an origin DMA on an origin node, a RTS message to a target node, the RTS message specifying an message on the origin node for transfer to the... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090031003 - Color coding web site presentation: A method and apparatus are provided for customizing a web site and images therein based upon the color preference of a user accessing the web site. One or more images selected for presentation on a web site are categorized based upon a predominant color in the image. Similarly, a user... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, Llc

20090031005 - Portal com module: Included are embodiments for providing data. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving a request at a web browser configured to send data via a first socket and sending the request to a COM module that is configured to send data via a second socket, the second socket... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090031006 - System and method for alerting a first mobile data processing system nearby a second mobile data processing system: Provided is a fully automated web service with location based services generally involved in transmission of situational location dependent information to automatically located mobile receiving data processing systems. The web service communicates with a receiving data processing system in a manner by delivering information to the device when appropriate without... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20090031004 - Techniques for sharing content between portals: Techniques for sharing content between portals. A producer portal may identify content to be shared with one or more consumer portals. One or more of the shared content objects may then be copied to a consumer portal as remote delta link objects. Changes or modifications to the source object at... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20090031007 - System and method for distributing media data: A method and computer program product for receiving a plurality of media data file portions on a client electronic device from a remote distribution server computer. Each media data file portion is associated with a media data stream. A user is allowed to select a specific media data file portion... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090031009 - Method and device for communication: A communication method and a communication device that includes obtaining a network configuration in a user's operating system; loading a customized operating system and an application; and communicating, by the application, with other entities under the customized operating system according to the network configuration.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090031010 - Os independent device management methods and apparatuses: An apparatus adapted to facilitate remote configuration and/or management of a system, independent of its operating system, is disclosed. In various embodiments, the apparatus includes a first and a second interface coupled to an input device and a network interface of the system respectively, and a controller.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c.

20090031008 - System and method of configurating a network device: In a particular illustrative embodiment, a method of configuring a network device is disclosed that includes determining network device information at a network device using a boot strapping protocol during an initial set-up process of the network device. The method further includes automatically modifying a configuration profile of the network... Agent: Toler Law Group

20090031011 - Device management system and method for setting configuration-valve therein: The present invention discloses a DM system and a method for setting configuration values in the same. The DM system includes: a server for generating configuration values for a predetermined resource of a terminal, transmitting the configuration values and a reconfiguration parameter to the terminal through a DM session, and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090031012 - Automated cluster node configuration: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to cluster node configuration and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for automated cluster node configuration. In one embodiment of the invention, an automated cluster node configuration method can be provided. The method... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090031014 - Multi-tiered boot list: An aggregated server blade system includes a plurality of individual server blades and a management module which can be designated as a bootable device. A boot list maintained and executed in each server blade includes a management module entry in its list of bootable devices. In response to the management... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090031013 - System and method of enabling access to remote information handling systems: A system and method of enabling access to remote information handling systems is disclosed. In one form, a method of enabling an initialization of an information handling system is disclosed. The method can include receiving a request to initialize a remote information handling system, and determining an access information operable... Agent: Larson Newman Abel & Polansky, LLP

20090031016 - Interface apparatus, main apparatus and control method for use in the interface apparatus: According to one embodiment, an interface apparatus includes a register which registers each connection ID of the plurality of communication terminals registered in a registration table of the main apparatus in a registration server on the SIP network at a predetermined registration cycle, a connector which connects among the plurality... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090031015 - System and method for arranging and outputting data elements at a network site: A system and method for arranging and providing a plurality of display elements are provided. A plurality of users are prompted to enter element information related to a plurality of corresponding display elements. Element data for each display element is received from each of the corresponding plurality of users. A... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20090031017 - System, method, and computer program product for centralized management of an infiniband distributed system area network: A method, system, and product in a data processing system are disclosed for providing centralized management of an INFINIBAND distributed system-area network that includes multiple end nodes. A manager application is established in one of the end nodes. An agent application is established in one or more end nodes. Each... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20090031020 - Apparatus and method for monitoring use of resources by healthcare employees: A system that monitors use of resources by healthcare employees includes a plurality of resource identification devices located adjacent different resources, such as pieces of plumbing fixture, medical equipment, documents and hospital rooms. Each resource identification device emits a wireless signal containing a resource identifier. A plurality of healthcare employees... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090031023 - Digital file path tracker (dfpt) technology for tracking comsumption of digital content: Digital File Path Tracker (DF′PT) technology for tracking consumption of digital content for business information purposes, digital content distribution purposes, online multiplayer gaming environments, and the like. Tracking consumption of digital content is achieved by provisioning digital files with a so-called DF′PT for including consumption information regarding their Server consumption,... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090031025 - Load optimization: Methods, computer code, and means are described that can control load in a network. In some applications, the monetary cost of operating the network can be reduced. Utilization of links in the network can be monitored. A degree of suboptimality with respect to some criteria can be assessed. In some... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP Attn: Thomas B. Haverstock

20090031024 - Method and system for monitoring server events in a node configuration by using direct communication between servers: In a method and system for monitoring events occurring at respective servers of a configuration of nodes, a first server located at a first node receives information from a messaging system pertaining to events at servers located at other nodes. The messaging system usefully comprises a highly available (HA) bulletin... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090031022 - Multi-hierarchy latency measurement in data centers: A method for monitoring performance of a data center that includes: (a) a performance monitor analyzing packets that flow between a client and a web or application server; (b) assigning packets to contexts where a context is a request-reply entity; (c) determining one or more of application, network, and back-end... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090031019 - Technique for graphically displaying application processing time distributions in real-time: A technique for displaying application processing times includes monitoring incoming packets and outgoing packets as the incoming packets enter and the outgoing packets exit a time critical application. The incoming packets and the outgoing packets are correlated to determine application processing times for the time critical application. Finally, application processing... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090031021 - Transmitting/receiving method of svc file and apparatus thereof: In the conventional content, a minimum access unit of the random access information is one frame unit. In the case of SVC video content, one frame consists of a plurality of scalable layers. The SVC data can be used for each salable layer only when the data is accessible for... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090031018 - Web based fault detection architecture: A remote analysis system for equipment condition monitoring and the like, using a data acquisition device operable at the remote site of monitored equipment, a wide area network for communication of data to an analysis server, and an empirical model for analyzing operational performance based on data from the device.... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20090031026 - System and method for cross-authoritative configuration management: A system and method for cross-authoritative, user-based network configuration management is provided. Users log-in to a network using any device coupled to the network, and an identity manager may provide the user with a custom computing environment by verifying the user's identity and identifying content, assignments, and other configuration information... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090031031 - Method and system for maintaining a configuration state: A system for configuring configurable products includes a stateless configuration engine. A user and a server are coupled to a network for transmitting and receiving information. The user includes a web browser, memory and a display. The user receives web pages from the server and enters information into the fields... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090031030 - Peer-based networking environment: A solution for providing a networking environment is provided, in which data for a plurality of members is managed. Each member includes profile data and may include one or more peers. A peer can comprise another member that is a friend of the member. The member can provide invitee credentials,... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20090031027 - Relationship-centric portals for communication sessions: Relationship-centric resources are provided to users during a communication session. After establishing a communication session between a first communication device and a second communication device, content that meets a content descriptor is retrieved. This content descriptor describes a nature of a relationship between users of the first and second communication... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090031028 - Secure tunnel domain name management: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to establish a virtual private network (VPN) connection between a server in a private network and a client in a public network. Additional activities include intercepting a socket call from the client requesting resolution of a network address associated with a domain name in... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20090031029 - System and method for reestablishing, with a client device, a signaling session associated with a call in progress: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for re-establishing, with a client device, a signaling session associated with a call in progress. One method for reestablishing, with a client device, a signaling session associated with a call in progress includes monitoring an Internet protocol (IP)... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090031034 - Methods and systems for proofing ldentities using a certificate authority: A digital certificate is provided to a customer having an electronic account linked to the customer's physical address. Using the digital certificate, the customer performs electronic transactions with a third party. A proofing workstation receives a request from a third party to validate the digital certificate. The proofing workstation communicates... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090031032 - Register clustering in a sip-based network: In one embodiment, a method can include: receiving a request for service in a first edge proxy; applying a hash function to a source address of an endpoint; and forwarding the request to a second edge proxy in response to a first result of the hash function, or servicing the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, Pc

20090031033 - System and method for user to verify a network resource address is trusted: A system, method and computer program product for a user to verify that a network resource address is trusted. At least one entity registration is stored at a server. Each entity registration comprises an identity of an entity and entity addressing information associated with the identity of the entity. The... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090031035 - Wireless architecture for traditional wire based protocol: Aspects describe service discovery of wireless MDDI client-capable devices though interaction with an underlying bearer protocol. Service discovery can be performed when the underlying layer supports multicasting, when the underlying layer is wiMedia UWB MAC and/or UDP/IP. Service discovery can be initiated by a w-MDDI sender and/or a w-MDDI receiver.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090031038 - Adaptive variable fidelity media distribution system and method: An adaptive variable fidelity media provision system and method are provided herein.... Agent: Axios Law Group, Pllc / Realnetworks, Inc

20090031036 - Environment information providing method, video apparatus and video system using the same: An environment information providing method, a video apparatus and a video system using the same are provided. The environment information is generated and inserted in between packets of a video stream. Accordingly, a user can watch the video in an environment similar to the reproduced video.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090031037 - Method of streaming media and inserting additional content therein using buffering: A method and system of streaming media content is disclosed. The method and system includes a process step and structures for inputting the live feed into a first audio card having an output. Another process step and structures are provided for inputting the output of the first audio card into... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20090031039 - Image forming method, image forming apparatus, and host: An image forming method, an image forming apparatus, and a host include determining if a disorder is generated in a network set to perform an operation among networks between an image forming apparatus including at least two network interfaces and a host, and if a disorder is generated in the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090031040 - Distributed denial-of-service attack mitigation by selective black-holing in ip networks: In an IP network during a DDoS attack on a website or other internet entity having an IP address, selective black-holing of attack traffic is performed such that some of the traffic destined for the IP address under attack continues to go to the IP address under attack while other... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090031041 - Forwarding system with multiple logical sub-system functionality: Generation of a mapping for use by a data forwarding entity having communication interfaces and instantiating multiple logical forwarding sub-systems associated with respective mappings including a first mapping and a second mapping. The first mapping specifies a next hop interface for data elements received at the interfaces, at least one... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.c.

20090031043 - Method, communication system, and communication terminal for the transmission of data: Disclosed is a method, a communication system, and a communication device for transmitting data to a first subscriber, within the framework of a connection signaling from a first primary service communication device of the first subscriber to a second primary service communication device, a primary address information message associated with... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090031042 - Spread identity communications architecture: Real routable external addresses may be pooled rather than assigned to nodes and may be dynamically bound to connections by a proxy or gateway device in ways that spread apparent identity of individual nodes across multiple of the external addresses. In general, these spread identity techniques may be employed at... Agent: Zagorin O'brien Graham LLP

20090031044 - High-speed mac address search engine: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for storing and searching computer node addresses in a computer network system. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a frame forwarding device such as a switch. The switch includes two MAC address tables including a primary MAC address table and secondary MAC address table... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.l.p.

20090031045 - Information relay device, information relay method, information relay program and information recording medium: A network connection control device is provided that is capable of quickly and accurately executing the process for connection when connecting together networks that both comply to the IEEE 1394 standard. After networks that both comply to the IEEE 1394 standard are connected together and a bus reset occurs, as... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090031046 - Hardware control interface for ieee standard 802.11: A standardized 802.11 hardware control interface may be provided such that a driver may communicate with any one or more of a variety of network adapters.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20090024688 - Accessing memory and processor caches of nodes in multi-node configurations: A method for communicating between nodes of a plurality of nodes is disclosed. Each node includes a plurality of processors and an interconnect chipset. The method issues a request for data from a processor in a first node and passes the request for data to other nodes through an expansion... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090024687 - Method and system for formatting returned result from remote processing resource in wireless system: A result may be formatted after a task is performed in a remote processing resource in a wireless system. A wireless mobile communication (WMC) device may determine a task to be performed at a remote processing resource as part of a job the WMC device is requested to perform. Once... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090024686 - Wireless node auto-reset function: A method for wireless communication within a building automation system is disclosed. The method includes establishing a communications link between a first automation component and a second automation component, detecting a change in the communications link at the second automation component, and initiating a reset function on the second automation... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090024692 - Client-based message protocol translation: A system and method are presented in which a plurality of transport protocol objects (TPOs) are instantiated at an IM user agent. In one embodiment, each of the plurality of TPOs is adapted to provide a translation between a first IM protocol and a different IM protocol.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090024689 - Interface device for semiconductor equipment and monitoring system using it: An interface device for semiconductor equipment which converts messages of semiconductor equipment received and transmitted via different protocols to integral XML (extensible Markup Language) message format, and the monitoring system using same is capable of distributed or integral message monitoring of the semiconductor equipment. The monitoring system comprising an interface... Agent: Larson And Larson

20090024690 - Method and system for accessing on-line content according to simple code of off-line content: The present invention relates to a system for and method of matching off- and on-line media content. Users of off-line content are easily able to access on-line content with this content-matching system. The system includes: 1. A Content Provider Server, which is a device in which simple code information of... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.c.

20090024691 - Reporting processing method, origin server and user client for user agent profile information: The present invention discloses a reporting processing method for User Agent Profile (UAP) information including: issuing, by an origin server, a reporting policy to a user client to instruct the user client to report UAP information according to the reporting policy; and reporting, by the user client, the UAP information... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090024700 - Ad targeting using reference page information: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for sponsored content targeting. A request for providing sponsored content to be associated with source content provided by a page publisher is received. A source of a referral to the source content is evaluated. Sponsored content is selected based on the evaluation.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20090024699 - Integration of a medical workstation into a client-server system: In a method, a system and a computer program product for electronic data processing, communication and/or data retention in a computer-supported medical technology system to which multiple modules are connected that are involved in data exchange via a computer network, local workstations are thereby integrated or incorporated into a client-server... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090024696 - Integration of client and server development environments: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, related to integration of client and server development environments. A message may be caused to be sent to a server development environment engine where the message characterizes an action mapped from a client development environment to a function of the server development environment... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.c.

20090024693 - Method for distributing file content from a selected target depot server in response to multiple client requests: In a content delivery network comprising multiple depot servers positioned at different locations, and including clients respectively located closer to one of the depot servers than to others, a method distributes specified file content to respective clients. The method comprises initially uploading the specified content to a particular one of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20090024702 - Method for selection and display of at least one piece of additional information: The selection and display of a piece of information, in addition to other information which may be transmitted from a server (3) to a client (2), may be improved such that a reduction in the load on the communication network is possible, by means of automatic analysis of a profile... Agent: Dreiss, Fuhlendorf, Steimle & Becker

20090024695 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing search results based on selections in previously performed searches: Methods and systems are described for providing search results based on selections in previously performed searches. A search is performed based on a first search term. A result set from the performed search is provided. A selection of a member of the result set from the performed search is received.... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc

20090024698 - Mobile content service: Standard content created for use on non-mobile platforms, such as personal computers, is made available and useful to mobile devices. A request for content from a mobile device is sent to a mobile server using the DNS or a redirect from a standard content server. The mobile server obtains the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090024701 - Port type agnostic proxy support for web services intermediaries: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed in which port type agnostic proxy support for web services intermediaries is typically provided by receiving in a web services intermediary a request for execution of a web services operation, wherein the request includes parametric information from which an endpoint for a target service... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090024697 - System and method for dynamically changing the content of an internet web page: A host Web page includes an evolving interactive dialog box wherein an Internet user may enter user data to be processed. When the user completes entering user data in a first revolution of the interactive dialog box, the first revolution is replaced with a second revolution of the evolving interactive... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090024694 - Using an interactivity object to facilitate web-based aggregation: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that uses an interactivity object to facilitate interactivity during automated web site accesses. During operation, the system examines a web page on the web site to determine a data type for an interactivity request associated with the web page. Next, the... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090024703 - Communication system, communication apparatus, communication program, and computer-readable storage medium stored with the communication program: The client apparatus 1 is connected to a network and includes a communication packet reception unit 13 and a texture processing unit 18. The communication packet reception unit 13 receives image data, audio data, and image type information designating type of the image data, which are transmitted from another client... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.l.p.

20090024704 - Method and system for managing object circulation: A method for managing circulation of objects among a plurality of users who are connected to a management center through a network includes, on behalf of the management center, maintaining in an electronic database, for each object to be circulated, a static list of potential recipients; receiving and storing object-related... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090024711 - Data transmission system with enhancement data: A method of enhancing an electronic communication is disclosed, be it in the form of a message, file, or other type of transmission. The method includes the steps of transmitting and receiving a message or file with a content and, along with the message or file, transmitting and receiving enhancement... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090024707 - Electronic messaging system and method for a vehicle: A vehicle includes a body defining a passenger compartment and a messaging system having a user input device with a display. The input device receives an outgoing communication from an occupant and presents the outgoing communication on the display. The messaging system generates an outgoing e-mail message describing the outgoing... Agent: Quinn Law Group, Pllc

20090024706 - Granularly selecting a subset of recipients who can reply to a sender's e-mail: A method, system, and computer program product for assigning reply status to an outgoing electronic mail (e-mail) message. While creating an e-mail message, an interface is provided for granularly assigning or denying reply privileges to recipients of an outgoing e-mail message. Reply status is assigned by selecting a subset of... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090024708 - Instant messaging in a data processing system: Methods, systems, and computer program products for exchanging instant messages among a plurality of users of data processing client entities (such as personal computers) are disclosed. For each user, a corresponding method starts with associating a profile with the user. The profile defines a set of (one or more) events,... Agent: Ibm Corp. (austin Ip Law)

20090024705 - Messenger based system and method to access a service from a backend system: What is described is a system and method for accessing a backend service. The method includes receiving a message at a client; parsing the message into parts of the message using a natural language processor; interpreting the parts of the message; identifying a service and a backend system based on... Agent: Sap Ag

20090024709 - Method and system for monitoring the status of an online transaction: The invention includes methods and software for presenting a user with a set of interfaces that reveal what events are to occur, or are likely to occur, in a transaction, and provide the ability to program the automatic monitoring of these anticipated events with a customizable set of alerts. A... Agent: Ibm Corp. (dre)(lot, Cam) C/o Drier LLP

20090024710 - Systems and methods for interfacing with a user in instant messaging: Reducing the amount of input required by a user to enter an electronic message. When an electronic message is received, one or more language expressions associated with the electronic message are displayed to a user. The user may select one or more of the language expressions and have the full... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090024712 - Method and system for suggesting an edition of product software: In general, the invention relates to a method for facilitating usage of a product. The method includes obtaining a usage level of a first edition of the product by the user, determining an inactivity level of the user based on the usage level, suggesting a second edition of the product... Agent: Osha - Liang L.l.p. (intuit)

20090024713 - Maintaining availability of a data center: A method is used with a data center that includes services that are interdependent. The method includes experiencing an event in the data center and, in response to the event, using a rules-based expert system to determine a sequence in which the services are to be moved, where the sequence... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20090024714 - Method and computer system for providing remote direct memory access: A method for providing remote direct memory access (RDMA) between two computers, preferably between central processing units (CPUs) and a functional subsystem of a computer system as part of their network communication, e.g. using TCP/IP. Tasks of analyzing network protocol data and the actual RDMA operations can be offloaded to... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090024715 - Method, system, and apparatus for dynamic reconfiguration of resources: A dynamic reconfiguration to include on-line addition, deletion, and replacement of individual modules of to support dynamic partitioning of a system, interconnect (link) reconfiguration, memory RAS to allow migration and mirroring without OS intervention, dynamic memory reinterleaving, CPU and socket migration, and support for global shared memory across partitions is... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090024716 - Virtual storage of a user's duplicate personal mp3 audio/video file collection: A computer controlled implementation for selecting and accessing MP3 audio/video files on the World Wide Web, including a basic computer enabling a user to select and access MP3 files from a MP3 file source on a network, and storage apparatus for storing these accessed MP3 files as a user personal... Agent: J. B. Kraft

20090024718 - Just-in-time contextual advertising techniques: A system and method to facilitate real-time matching of content to advertising information in a network are described. A request for advertising information is received over a network, the advertising information to be displayed for a user entity in association with content information within a web page requested by the... Agent: Stattler - Suh Pc

20090024717 - Media file reproducing system and method thereof: Disclosed are a media file reproducing system and a method thereof capable of easily reproducing a media file inside a file server that does not provide a UPnP content directory service (CDS) through a UPnP media renderer connected to a UPnP-based network. The media file reproducing method comprises: receiving position... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090024721 - Image information sharing system: In an image information sharing system (6) including a portable terminal (1-1) and a portable terminal (1-2), wherein the portable terminal (1-1) and the portable terminal (1-2) are both provided on a network (3), capable of accessing an image database (4) storing a plurality of image files, the portable terminal... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090024719 - Methods and apparatus for enabling use of web content on various types of devices: A method system for interactive communication with a web site using a mobile communicator having the following functionalities: receiving, at a server, an http request from a mobile communicator being used by a user, the http request identifying a website and should the mobile communicator not support a client-side script... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20090024720 - Voice-enabled web portal system: A voice-enabled web portal system includes a web portal server and a call manager software module. The web portal server is operable to download data according to parameters of a web portal. The call manager software module is operable to accept a voice query from a user via telephone, to... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c.

20090024722 - Proxying availability indications in a failover configuration: Under high load conditions, an intermediate network, element can act as a proxy for a primary network element and transmit availability indications for a heavily loaded primary network element. When the primary network element fails to provide an availability indication to one or more backup network, elements, an intermediate network... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090024723 - Method and apparatus for centralization configuration of data processing systems: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for configuring a remote data processing system. A configuration is identified for the remote data processing system to form an identified configuration. The hardware for the remote data processing system is configured. An installation application is sent to the remote... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20090024728 - Advanced multi-network client device for wideband multimedia access to private and public wireless networks: A wireless device (e.g., a wireless smart phone) uses Global Positioning System (GPS) data, or other position-indicating data, to accurately determine its location in relation to multi-layered wireless networks that the device may see concurrently. If location information is available, the device employs a user-defined priority table to select the... Agent: Doster Greene, Llc

20090024732 - Apparatus for prefix control and apparatus for prefix choice: Disclosed is a technique which enables a communication node connected to a router made to advertise a plurality of prefixes to use an address including an appropriate prefix. According to this technique, an MR (Mobile Router) (10) multicasts, to a mobile PAN (31), a router advertisement message including a prefix... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090024724 - Computing system and system management architecture for assigning ip addresses to multiple management modules in different ip configuration: A system is provided to assign IP (Internet Protocol) addresses to plural management modules under different IP modes. The system management modules are configured in a computing system that is integrated in a single chassis. All the system management modules are connected through a first management network to be assigned... Agent: Apex Juris, Pllc

20090024726 - Device for network system and method of transmitting profile: The present invention relates to a device for a network system and a method of transmitting a profile in a network system. The method provides a user with convenience in remote control and monitoring operation of appliances. By this method, a user, for example, who is locating at home or... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090024731 - Method and apparatus for generating task in network and recording medium storing program for executing the method: A method and apparatus for generating a task having at least one action and/or at least one action based on previously agreed service standards to control a task-based device in a home network using universal plug and play (UPnP), and a recording medium storing a program for executing the method... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090024725 - Method and apparatus to integrate and manage an optical network terminal and a broadband home router: Common techniques for processing software updates have Optical Network Terminal (ONT) and Broadband Home Router (BHR) managers to manage the ONTs and BHRs respectively from separate remote locations in a network. In contrast, a system employing ‘an example’ embodiment of the invention may receive network traffic for an ONT and... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20090024729 - Method and central processing unit for managing peer-to-peer connections: The present invention relates to a method for managing a peer-to-peer connection via a communication network (3), comprising at least one central processing unit (4) for establishing a connection between peer devices (1, 1′, 2, 2′). The method is characterized in that the central processing unit (4) receives a request... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20090024730 - Method and device for processing media request in multimedia communication process: A method for processing a media request in a multimedia communication process is provided, including: adjusting, by a multimedia application server, a media request queue according to information contained in a media request message or a media request cancellation message received from a first client; determining all the media requests... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20090024727 - Network system management method: A network system management method is provided. According to the method, a user inside or outside home can control or monitor the operations of appliances such as refrigerator or laundry machine through a living network such as an RS-485 network, a small output RF network, and a power line network... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090024733 - Apparatus for mediation between measurement, biometric, and monitoring devices and a server: The present invention is a mediation apparatus between a server on a communication network and measurement, biometric, and monitoring devices, which, on their own, may or may not be capable to originate connections. Additionally, the mediation apparatus of the present invention can serve as an intermediate buffer for the data... Agent: White-welker & Welker, Llc

20090024734 - Automatically adjusting scheduled inventory of switched fabrics: A mechanism is provided in a storage management application that automatically reconfigures agents and scheduled probes of agents in cases where the agents do not automatically reconfigure themselves to manage a newly formed fabric after fragment segmentation. The solution does not burden the storage administrator to reconfigure agents or to... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20090024735 - Method and system of controlling communications delivery to a user: m

20090024736 - Network performance assessment apparatus, systems, and methods: Various embodiments of network performance assessment apparatus, systems and processes collect performance information pertaining to a current capacity utilization of a network, identify an occurrence of a capacity constraint on a portion of the network that is communicating the program to at least one presentation device, select one of a... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc

20090024738 - Remote radio spectrum information acquisition: A scanner system provides real-time remote acquisition of a scanner's audio signals and visual display, and real-time remote control of scanner operations, including settings and functions. The scanner system may be used to gather information in a regional market by listening to geographically distant broadcasts available on radio spectrum frequencies.... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090024737 - Website monitoring and cookie setting: A method and apparatus for setting cookies on client devices 6, in particular for allowing maintenance of cross domain session continuity. A server 5 is provided for extracting a session ID from a first party cookie in the domain of the server 5 which is included in a HTTP request... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090024739 - Endpoint discriminator in network transport protocol startup packets: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to communication between a client and a server or between peers in a communications network. In one particular example, only a desired server from a plurality of servers addressable through a socket address may respond to a client request to initiate a session.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20090024740 - Neighborhood block communication method and system: A method and system of neighborhood block communication is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of communication in a neighborhood block includes obtaining member data associated with a first member of the community network, determining a first location associated with the first member based on the member data, storing the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090024741 - System and method for electronic social networking: According to one embodiment, a system for controlling access to data on an electronic communication network is provided. The system includes at least one server connectable for communication on the network. The at least one server is configured for: receiving data from at least one user of a plurality of... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20090024742 - Distribution of multimedia files using a roving file server: Methods and apparatus for distributing multimedia files to wireless-equipped subscriber units are disclosed. In an exemplary method, a multimedia title is associated with a subscriber unit and a multimedia file corresponding to that multimedia title is downloaded to a roving file server using a broadband communications link. After the roving... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20090024743 - Media session data transmission control method, control relation negotiation method and control device and system: A media session data transmission control method, a control relation negotiation method and a control device and a system thereof. The data transmission control method includes: the server obtains the media transmission right request of the sender (S601); the server distributes the first media transmission right for the sender based... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20090024744 - System and method for determining a designated connection between components of computing devices: A system and method for identifying a single, designated connection from one or more connections (e.g. TCP connections) that may have been established between two components for data communications. Each component is associated with a component identifier that is generated by an identifier generating algorithm adapted to ensure that component... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20090024745 - System and method for establishing network connection: A portable router for enabling a data communication terminal to be location and device transparent includes: a first module for storing a digital communication address of a user; a second module for detecting a data communication network location to which the terminal is connected; a third module for detecting communication... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20090024749 - Adaptive file delivery with transparency capability system and method: An adaptive file delivery system and method transmits a data file, such as an audio-video file, over a network or collection of networks in segments, each segment transmitted during a different time period. Each time period has a transmission portion to transmit its associated file segment and a wait portion... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20090024746 - Method and apparatus for host controller operations over a network: A remote host controller includes USB ports and a network interface. A processing device in the remote host controller supports an IP stack in communication with a network and drivers in communication with a Universal Serial Bus attached to the USB ports. The remote host controller registers with hosts on... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP

20090024747 - System and method for visual representation of a social network connection quality: An apparatus, system, and method to generate a graphical representation of a social network. The computer program product includes a computer useable storage medium to store a computer readable program that, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perform operations related to generating a graphical representation of a... Agent: Holman Ip Law/ibm Rsw

20090024748 - Website monitoring and cookie setting: A method and apparatus for setting cookies on client devices 6, in particular for allowing maintenance of cross domain session continuity. A server 5 is provided for extracting a session ID from a first party cookie in the domain of the server 5 which is included in a HTTP request... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090024751 - Intermediary server, method for controlling intermediary server, and program for controlling intermediary server: The invention relates to an intermediary server that intermediates between at least one authentication server that performs authentication and a plurality of devices that performs various kinds of processing in accordance with the result of the authentication performed by the authentication server. The invention provides, as an aspect thereof, the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090024750 - Managing remote host visibility in a proxy server environment: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to the visibility of an IP address for a remote resource behind a proxy server and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for managing remote host visibility in a proxy server environment. In... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090024752 - Method and apparatus for storage-service-provider-aware storage system: A storage system includes a virtual volume configured on a storage controller and mapping to a physical storage capacity maintained at a remote location by a storage service provider (SSP). The storage controller receives an I/O command in a block-based protocol specifying a logical block address (LBA). The storage controller... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20090024754 - Assisted peer-to-peer media streaming: Assisted peer-to-peer media streaming. A first connection to at least one peer of a peer-to-peer network is initiated for receiving media content from the peer-to-peer network. Responsive to a disruption of delivery of the media content over the first connection from the peer, the media content is received over a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090024756 - Media converter and a system for mutually converting a packet-based data stream into a serial data stream: A media converter, a system and a method for converting packet based data into serial data and vice versa are provided. The media converter comprises a first interface configured to receive and provide a first type of data stream based on data packets, a second interface configured to receive and... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090024755 - Method and apparatus for transferring large quantities of data: A method and system for transferring data in a computing environment. In one embodiment the method comprises sending a request for the data to a web service, the request comprising web service information; the web service responding by fetching the data from a data storage; storing the data in at... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090024753 - Method of streaming size-constrained valid xml: Methods (100), systems (200), computer program products, and signal bearing mediums for streaming an eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-type document (210) over a communication network (240) are described. A sequence of commands are received and synchronously converted (112) into XML-type fragments (230) for assembling and streaming a single XML-type document for... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20090024757 - Automatic protocol determination for portable devices supporting multiple protocols: A removable storage device that automatically selects a communication protocol to exchange information with a host computer includes a physical layer interface, a protocol failure detection module, a connect and disconnect emulator, an insert and removal detector, and internal control logic. The internal control logic coordinates detecting an attachment of... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090024758 - Detecting neighbor discovery denial of service attacks against a router: In one embodiment, a method comprises initiating neighbor discovery in response to detecting an absence of an IP destination address of a received data packet within a neighbor cache, including outputting a neighbor solicitation message targeting the IP destination address into a network served by the router, generating a hash... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20090024759 - System and method for providing alerting services: A communications system for providing alerting services that includes a plurality of server devices distributed throughout a geographical area, a transmission network including a plurality of transmission routes, and an alerting component adapted to generate and transmit the alert information. The plurality of server devices are adapted to receive, store... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20090024760 - Method and system for managing communication-sessions in a network: A method for managing communication-sessions at a Communication Diversion Notification Server (CDNS) (108) in a network (100) is disclosed. The method includes receiving (404) a message. The method further includes sending (406) a communication-diversion-notification to the diverting user equipment (UE) (104) based on filter-criteria. The communication-diversion-notification is sent in response... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090024761 - Method, system and application for service addressing: A method, system and application for address-based service identification. The method includes the steps of: obtaining service information and service feature list information, wherein the service information includes at least an SP ID and a service ID; generating address fields complying with the address specifications according to each of the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20090024762 - Method and system for managing data transmission between devices behind network address translators (nats): Techniques for managing direct communication between two devices are disclosed. Each of the device is behind a network address translator. According to one embodiment, a server, in responding to a request from a requesting device for needed data, is configured to determine some of devices in service to be candidates... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20090024763 - Optimizing encrypted wide area network traffic: Optimization of encrypted traffic flowing over a WAN is provided by an arrangement in which WAN compression is distributed between endpoints (i.e., client machines or servers) in a subnet of a hub and branch network and a WAN compression server in the subnet. A client portion of the WAN compression... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090024764 - Tracking the physical location of a server in a data center: Tracking the physical location of a server in a data center including detecting, through a one-wire link between a connector in a cabinet slot and a management module, insertion of the server into a cabinet slot, the server connected upon insertion to a one-wire link through a connector in the... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090019103 - Method and system for processing a database query: A method and system for processing a database query is described. One embodiment is a scalable, reconfigurable database query processing system comprising one or more director, user, and performance modules in a configuration that includes shared-nothing behavior of the modules and the distributed processing of primitives for resolving a database... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090019105 - Methods and systems for java script parsing: The present invention relates to systems, apparatus, and methods of parsing a script within an HTML page. The method includes receiving a script object, where the script object includes text. The method further includes parsing the text of the script object for tokens and comparing the parsed tokens with a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090019104 - Remote management system and method for service objects: A remote management system is able to remotely manage service objects (311) in a bundle (301). The remote management system thereto contains a management platform (302) in a customer device where the bundle (301) is installed, a remote management server (304) somewhere in the network, and a management agent (303)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090019107 - Adding syndication feeds to calendar data exchange enabled programs: The present invention discloses a solution for adding syndication feeds to calendar data exchange enabled programs, such as programs conforming to the iCalendar (iCal) standard. Default syndication feed links can be established by a publisher of iCalendar data. Subscribers of iCalendar data can replace default syndication feeds with feeds from... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20090019111 - Interactive server side components: Server side internet applications are created by placing interactive server side components (ISSC's) on internet pages. ISSC's encapsulate dynamic page functions including processing of user responses on the server and thus can be reused, which drastically reduces programming effort. The ISSC technique remembers information (in form of an ISSC object)... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20090019106 - Method of redirecting client requests to web services: Method of redirecting a request for a web service in a data transmission network such a the Internet wherein, in response to a request forwarded by a host (10) of a client to a web service provider, this one provides a Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) file based upon a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090019110 - Method, system, and computer program product for content delivery system: A content delivery system has a browsing terminal and a content delivery apparatus. The browsing terminal includes a content storage device, an identification storage device, a content selection device, an identification selection device, and a request transmission device. The content storage device stores first contents, which are related to second... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090019108 - System and method for application server/operating system network/configuration management: The invention discloses a system and method for network application server/operating system management by packaging configuration function(s) into independently partitioned profiles (or “silos”) that can be dynamically invoked by an “administrative agent” server/program using a “proxy server”/program to distribute profile configuration changes to one or more administrative agents (each of... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20090019109 - System and method for providing a fine-grained response from a coarse-grained service object: A system and method for generating data at a fine level of detail based on a request to a service object that provides data at a coarse level of detail. The request to the service object includes a data request and a response template indicating the level of detail or... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20090019112 - Audio and video conferencing using multicasting: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for network-based conferencing are provided. A communication network includes a multicasting conferencing node and a plurality of computer systems. The computer systems have users that are participating in a network-based conference. The multicasting conferencing node is configured to receive a plurality of communication signals over a... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20090019113 - Method and apparatus for supporting group communications: Methods and apparatus supporting group communications in a peer to peer wireless network are described. Methods and apparatus are directed to implementations with closed groups, e.g., where the number of group members are fixed at a given time and known to one or more members of the group. Various embodiments... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090019114 - Management system, management method and control program: There is described a management system, which makes it possible to cope with a plurality of communication methods without complicating the system configuration. The system includes a first managed apparatus, a second managed apparatus and a management apparatus. The management apparatus includes: a first data processing section to conduct a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090019126 - Authorized email control system: An authorized email control system receives email destined for a particular user. Inclusive, temporary, and exclusive address books are provided for the user. The inclusive address book lists all the sender email addresses and domains names that the user wants to allow into his mailbox. If the received email message's... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090019115 - Communications server objects for configuration information access: Architecture comprising an application programming interface (API) for representing and accessing various configuration data related to an enterprise messaging communications system. The API includes three classes for accessing stored configuration data related to enterprise recipients that can receive messages (e.g., e-mail), one or more servers that facilitate messaging communications of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090019122 - Direct mailing in a geo-spatial environment: A method and system of direct mailing in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a community network of user profiles, each user profile associated with a specific geographic location and at least one contact address, associating a first user with a first user profile,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090019116 - Large distribution message handling: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for large distribution message handling. Data characterizing an intended distribution load of a message being greater than a threshold indicator may be received, a determination may be made to set a flag in response to the data; and an action may be performed... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20090019121 - Message processing: A message processing system 1 processes messages 5 such as emails being delivered across a network. A plurality of processing modules 10 are each operable to perform an action. A policy engine 11 causes the operation of processing modules 10 selectively in accordance with rules in a rules data store... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090019120 - Metadata-enhanced instant-messaging applications: Described herein is a metadata-enhanced instant-messaging application and device. The metadata-enhanced instant-messaging application can create and receive instant-messages that contain data and metadata. The metadata, for example, can contain a type that relates to the data. The metadata-enhanced instant-messaging application can analyze the metadata, such as by ascertaining the type... Agent: Ibm Raleigh Iplaw (dg) C/o Delizio Gilliam, PLLC

20090019127 - Method for determining user uniqueness in e-mail campaigns: A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for determining user uniqueness in e-mail campaigns. An instruction set is placed in an e-mail to form a modified e-mail. The modified e-mail is sent to a server for a distribution list, wherein the instruction set is executed in response to the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090019124 - Publish/subscribe messaging: The invention relates to a message brokering system for connecting a client in a local publish/subscribe messaging system to a remote message broker. The system comprises a message broker in said local publish/subscribe messaging system and a metabroker application means representing said remote message broker. The local message broker comprises... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090019125 - Reception notification control method and system: A reception notification control method is provided in which an information server that stores information addressed to reception terminals and performs reception notification, via a network apparatus, on each of the reception terminals to which the information stored in the information server is addressed. After receiving, via the network apparatus,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090019123 - Session management enhancements for instant messaging applications: An auditing system is disclosed comprising a Policy Validation Mechanism Program (PVMP) that operates in conjunction with a Workflow Engine (WE), and a Policy Validation Server Program (PVSP) that operates on a Policy Validation Server (PVS) connected to the WE by a secure communication link. The PVMP converts a workflow... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090019117 - Super-emoticons: Techniques are described for generating and displaying “super-emoticons”. Super-emoticons are similar to smileys in that they may be generated in response to a participant in a textual conversation entering a specific sequence of textual characters. However, super-emoticons differ from smileys in that super-emoticons are programmed to demonstrate more sophisticated behaviors,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090019119 - System and method for detecting one or more missing attachments or external references in collaboration programs: A system and method provide an enhancement to electronic mail programs, messaging and collaboration programs that scan the sender's message text and determines that the sender intended to attach one or more attachments or include one or more external references, but no attachment or reference has been included, and warns... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090019118 - System and method for verifying the identity of a chat partner during an instant messaging session: A system for verifying the identity of a chat partner during an instant messaging session. The identity of an instant messaging partner can be verified at any given moment during an instant messaging session. The status of the verification is displayed in the current session, and is contained into any... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20090019128 - Lifo radix coder for electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Embodiments described herein may include example embodiments of a method, article and/or apparatus for coding data which may be used for communicating between two or more components connected to an interconnection medium (e.g., a bus) within a single computer or digital data processing system, and/or for communication between computing platforms... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090019129 - Communication system, communication apparatus and communication method of communication system: A communication system in which a plurality of communication apparatuses and a communication control apparatus are daisy chained. The communication control apparatus transmits control data to the plurality of communication apparatuses, and receives data transmitted by the plurality of communication apparatuses. Each communication apparatus receives data from another communication apparatus... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090019130 - Network relay system and control method thereof: The network relay device of the invention makes a pair with at least a specific network device to relay data in a network. The network relay device includes: a control module that sends and receives a control frame signal to and from the specific network device, selects either of a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090019131 - Method and system for keeping personalized settings across network: Techniques for keeping personalized settings across network are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, personalized settings (e.g., parameters or table) are managed in a primary client device associated with a subscriber. A copy of the copy of personalized settings is maintained in a server. When it is... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20090019132 - Screen generating method, image forming apparatus, and computer program product: A screen generating method is implemented on a distribution managing system in which an image forming apparatus, a managing server, and a client device are connected. In the screen generating method, the client device receives input for designating an item for setting metadata on a generating screen; generates definition data... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090019134 - Remote access system and method for enabling a user to remotely access terminal equipment from a subscriber terminal: A method for enabling a subscriber terminal to remotely access terminal equipment, the terminal equipment storing identification data of the subscriber terminal, and the subscriber terminal being subscribed to a communication network and to a remote access service, wherein the method includes: receiving a request for authentication from the terminal... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090019133 - System, method and computer program for updating a web page in a web browser: A computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for updating a web page in a web browser of a networked PC performs operations comprising receiving a web page transmitted from a networked server, comparing the web page with a previous web page, the previous web page including data input by a user... Agent: Paul D. Bianco Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090019135 - Method, network and computer program for processing a content request: The embodiments described herein provide a method, program and computing network for processing a content request received via a computing network. The method comprises the steps of receiving an incoming request for content from a remote computing device, determining the content type requested by the incoming request and delivering the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090019137 - Method and remote system for creating a customized server infrastructure in real time: System and method enabling creating a server environment in real or near-real time. Major elements of the system include a provisioning engine that controls server chassis coupled to frontend network and backend network. The frontend network enable connection of any server to the Internet or Intranet through a firewall and... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090019136 - Method of discovery of a domestic network and device implementing the method: The invention relates to audio and video interoperability over networks based on network technologies other than the 1394 bus. The invention relates more particularly to a method of discovery, by a device connectable to a communication network, of the other devices connected to this network, which comprises a step of... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090019138 - Repository-independent system and method for asset management and reconciliation: A system and method for managing network device configurations is described. In one embodiment a device configuration is represented by configuration knowledge and configuration data, wherein the configuration knowledge may comprise one or more configuration knowledge instances, and the configuration data may comprise one or more configuration data instances. In... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090019139 - Repository-independent system and method for asset management and reconciliation: A system and method for managing network device configurations is described. In one embodiment a device configuration is represented by configuration knowledge and configuration data, wherein the configuration knowledge may comprise one or more configuration knowledge instances, and the configuration data may comprise one or more configuration data instances. In... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090019142 - Fibre channel intelligent target management system: In one embodiment, a network device receives a port login directed to a target from a first host. The network device determines whether at least one other host is currently logged in to the target. The network device may then send a port login to the target corresponding to whether... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20090019144 - Method and apparatus for scaling a user interface adaptively to an object discovery/display system with policy driven filtering: The present invention provides a method, apparatus and computer instructions for scaling a user interface adaptively to an object discovery or display system with policy driven filtering. A number of filters are defined by the user in an initial setup. The filter includes a target number of discovered objects and... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090019140 - Method for backup switching spatially separated switching systems: A 1:1 redundancy is provided. An identical clone being assigned to each switching system that is to be protected as a redundant partner comprising identical hardware, software, and database. The transfer is done in a fast, secure, and automatic manner by a superimposed, real-time capable monitor which establishes communication to... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20090019141 - Network management: A tool for managing a computer network includes a gateway service module that identifies a gateway for a network and a network information service module. The network information service module identifies devices in the network, determines at least one property for each of the identified devices, and creates a network... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20090019143 - Redirection techniques in a communication network: Systems and methods are provided for redirecting a client device to a network service in a communication network is described. In one implementation, the communication network includes at least a first and a second service provisioning environment each capable of providing the network service. The service provisioning environments are addressable... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090019152 - Apparatus and method for real-time monitoring and controlling of networked appliances using an intermediate server: A method and an apparatus for real-time monitoring and controlling of networked appliances over both a wide-area network (WAN) and a local-area network (LAN) using a Device State and Location Server (DSLS) as an intermediate server are disclosed. The DSLS is configured to either receive beacons from networked appliances periodically... Agent: Invent Capture, LLC

20090019146 - Associating and evaluating status information for a primary input parameter value from a profibus device: A method and system are disclosed for managing Profibus device information in a distributed control system. After receiving input parameter data originating from a Profibus device message, the I/O module assembly performs steps for processing, maintaining and providing the input parameter data to a requesting control processor. The processing step... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090019149 - Content distribution and tracking: A computer-implemented method for tracking multimedia content includes generating a first feature vector of a first multimedia object, extracting a second multimedia object from a transmission of digital traffic, generating a second feature vector of the second multimedia object, and determining a similarity of the second feature vector to the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090019154 - Enabling rent/buy redirection in invitation to an online service: A system and method are directed towards enabling a user to access a client service such as a client game program that interacts with an online service such as a multiplayer game. A client probe detects execution of the client service on a first client device, and sends an instant... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090019145 - Internet connection terminal apparatus and internet connection status determining method: In order to provide an Internet connection terminal apparatus which is capable of correctly determining the Internet connection status without the influences of a DNS cache or the like, an Internet printer (100) includes: a communication unit (102) which provides a communication interface with a network; a TCP/IP protocol stack... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090019148 - Method and apparatus for internet traffic monitoring by third parties using monitoring implements: Disclosed is an internet traffic monitoring method that includes a network service provider analyzing an HTTP transaction involving an internet user client. The network service provider responds to the HTTP transaction by forwarding, to the internet user client, an interstitial web page including a monitoring implement. After forwarding the interstitial... Agent: Robroy R Fawcett

20090019151 - Method for media discovery: A method including receiving a request for a web page; communicating with a content server by receiving content associated with the requested web page; determining whether the content includes particular content requiring plug-in support; initiating a native plug-in to handle the particular content; receiving a request for additional content from... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090019153 - Methods and systems for performing a prefetch abort operation: The present invention relates to systems, apparatus, and methods of determining whether to abort a prefetch operation. The method includes receiving a prefetched object downloaded from a content server, and checking the prefetched object to determine the prefetched object's size. The method further includes determining a probability of use of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090019147 - Network metric reporting system: A tool for monitoring the use of devices in an interconnected network. Desired network information, such as the use of browsers on the networked devices, the use of other applications hosted on the networked devices, and the speed and volume of data traffic to and within the network, may be... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20090019150 - Techniques for choosing and broadcasting receiver beamforming vectors in peer-to-peer (p2p) networks: One feature provides for establishing an ad hoc peer-to-peer network over an existing channel allocation for another network. To mitigate interference between multiple peer-to-peer devices, a plurality of receiver chains in a receiver device may be configured with beamforming coefficients so as to focus reception in the direction of an... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090019157 - Storage area network with target side recognition and routing table upload: A network of data processors for providing access to a resource, such as implemented a Storage Area Network that uses iSCSI and Microsoft MPIO-based network communication protocols. In preferred embodiments, the system or method uses (a) target-side consideration of MPIO disk structures, such as by having iSCSI initiators in from... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090019156 - System and method of providing services via a peer-to-peer-based next generation network: A peer-to-peer network comprises a plurality of intelligent terminal nodes, each intelligent terminal node being operable to establish, maintain, and tear-down communication sessions with another intelligent terminal node, a plurality of network service nodes coupled to the plurality of intelligent terminal nodes, the plurality of network service nodes comprise at... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090019155 - Token-based crediting of network usage: A method may include providing content or a service accessible via a network to a user, and issuing a usage token having a usage credit that corresponds to a usage restriction associated with the user's network access subscription.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090019162 - Dynamic partitioning of network resources: Methods and apparatuses allowing for dynamic partitioning of a network resource among a plurality of users. In one embodiment, the invention involves recognizing new users of a network resource; creating user partitions on demand for new users, wherein the user partition is operable to allocate a portion of a network... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090019158 - Engine near cache for reducing latency in a telecommunications environment: The SIP server can be comprised of an engine tier and a state tier distributed on a cluster network environment. The engine tier can send, receive and process various messages. The state tier can maintain in-memory state data associated with various SIP sessions. A near cache can be residing on... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090019161 - Hybrid epg server with service dispatcher to build a dispatcher redundancy chain in clustered iptv epg service: An EPG service architecture incorporates multiple EPG servers connected in a cluster with each EPG server having an EPG service module and a dispatcher. Each dispatcher has the capability for state determination as an active or standby dispatcher. A plurality of STBs interface with the EPG server cluster and issue... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc. C/o Laura Weiss, Paralegal

20090019160 - Method and system for workload management utilizing tcp/ip and operating system data: A method for monitoring and managing workloads and data exchange in computing environments, includes: obtaining a foreign address from a set of netstat information by a collecting system; utilizing the foreign address to find the corresponding netstat information for a foreign system; wherein the process of obtaining foreign addresses is... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20090019163 - Network management system & method: A network management method includes receiving network requirements of a network application/service of an entity. Thereafter, network resource capability is determined over a plurality of network providers to meet the received network requirements. Finally, network resources of at least one of the plurality of network providers are dynamically assigned to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090019159 - Transparently externalizing plug-in computation to cluster: External processing of a request directed to an external software program from an invocation source to a cluster of computing devices. A wrapper tool is provided for processing the request from the invocation source. The request includes operations to be performed by the external software program on the host computer.... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090019164 - Dynamically configuring a router to find the best dhcp server: Provided is a method for assigning a domain host configuration protocol (DHCP) server from a list of available DHCP servers based upon user selected criteria. When a network router receives a request for an IP address from a computer, or “client,” connected to a network, the request is analyzed for... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20090019165 - Methods for sending small packets in a peer-to-peer (p2p) network: An improved mechanism is provided that facilitates transmission of small packets within an ad hoc peer-to-peer network. A small packet is identified to a receiver within a control channel so that its lower power can be considered in an interference management protocol implemented among local peer devices. In a traffic... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090019168 - Apparatus and method of generating and maintaining hybrid connection identifications (ids) for peer-to-peer wireless networks: An apparatus and method are disclosed for generating a transmission connection identifier (CID) for a transmitter/receiver pair in a wireless network. The CID may be selected from or mapped to a hybrid CID space comprising a first set of orthogonal CIDs and a second set of non-orthogonal (random or pseudo-random)... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090019167 - Generic bootstrapping protocol (gbp): Embodiments of methods and apparatus for discovering a bootstrapping server by a mobile station, and bootstrapping the mobile station are disclosed. In some embodiments, a mobile station discovers a remotely disposed bootstrapping server; transmits wirelessly a bootstrap request to the bootstrapping server; and receive wirelessly a bootstrap response from the... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20090019169 - Methods and apparatus for communicating in a peer to peer system where device communications may partially interfere with one another: Methods and Apparatus for communicating information, e.g., control information, e.g., in the form of a control value, between communications devices, e.g., peer to peer communications devices, are described. Positional coding is used to encode a value to be communicated and the encoded value it then transmitted on a set of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090019166 - System and program product for managing multiple network application versions: Under the present invention, a session is established between a user system and an existing version of a network application. Once the session is established, session information corresponding to the session is determined and then communicated to the user system. The session information typically includes a version identifier that identifies... Agent: A. Bruce Clay IBM Corporation T81/503

20090019171 - Method, device and system for determining mail class: The present invention discloses a method, device and system for determining a mail class. The method for determining a mail class includes: reading a mail head of a mail with an unknown class; extracting a first field in compliance with a first preset condition from the mail head; vectorizing combinations... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090019170 - System and method for secure communication configuration: A communication system including a routing server and gateway server through which digital communication sessions are established along selected network routes based upon security requirements is disclosed. A digital communication request having a security level required is transmitted to a routing server. The routing server then determines a route, if... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20090019173 - Methods and apparatus for supporting broadcast communications in a peer to peer network: Methods and apparatus related to broadcasting data in a peer to peer wireless communications network are described. A timing structure is utilized employing slots of a first type which support broadcast traffic transmissions and unicast traffic transmissions and slots of a second type which support unicast traffic transmission but do... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090019172 - Web service simple object access protocol request response processing: Reduces time for processing a request Simple Object Access Protocol, SOAP, message in a request means such as mobile equipment or the like. Sequence definition means divides one parent SOAP message as one request concerning a Web Service into segments of a Simple Object Access Protocol header and a SOAP... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20090019176 - Live video collection and distribution system and method: A live video streaming unit and method for streaming live video through a network to a number of viewers are disclosed. The live video streaming unit is sized and adapted for being worn on a person, and is configured to capture, encode and stream audio and video in real time... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64046

20090019174 - Peer-to-peer streaming of media content: The invention relates to peer-to-peer streaming of media in a network for distribution of data. A handover function is configured to hand over the distribution of sub-streams to a client back and forth between two peers or between a peer and the central server, if at least one predefined condition... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20090019175 - Wireless multimedia system: A multimedia system includes one or more media terminals and a media hub. The media hub is configured to be detachably coupled with a media storage device and to be wirelessly coupled with the one or more media terminals. The media hub is further configured to wirelessly stream one or... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090019177 - Secure content casting network: A system and method for transmitting content on a peer-to-peer network. A content item a content provider and divided into a plurality of content segments. Each of the content segments is encrypted and dividing into at least one content segment stripe. Each of the content segment stripes are transmitted one... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090019178 - Adaptive bitrate management for streaming media over packet networks: A method including receiving a receiver report from a terminal; estimating one or more network conditions of a media network based at least in part on the receiver report; determining an optimal session bitrate based on the estimated one or more network conditions; and providing media data to the terminal... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090019180 - Communication control method, communication node, and mobile node: Disclosed is a technique which, when an MN (mobile node) has one or a plurality of HoAs (home addresses) and a packet is transmitted from a CN (correspondent node) through an HA (home agent) to the MN, reduces a delay stemming from registration processing on binding information or selection processing... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090019179 - Method of and system for determining connections between parties using private links: A system and method for determining a connection between a one or more “from” connections points and one or more “to” connections points, wherein connections between the connection points are determined as a function of intermediate connections in the path formed between the “from” and “to” connection endpoints.... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090019182 - Behavioral predictions based on network activity locations: A computer-implemented method for constructing network activity profiles is provided, which comprises the following: obtaining a plurality of records of network activities from an activity source, each record corresponding to an interaction with a network resource via the network from the activity source, wherein each record comprises at least a... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20090019181 - Method and system for preventing service disruption of internet protocol (ip) based services due to domain name resolution failures: A method for preventing service disruption for a device in a network is provided. The method includes populating a filter list with an IP address declared to be valid for a server in the network and populating a rainy day list with an IP address discovered to be valid for... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090019183 - Methods and apparatus for data exchange in peer to peer communications: An exemplary wireless communications device comprises a processor coupled to a memory and a wireless communications interface. The processor is configured to transmit a first transmission symbol at a first time index from a first set of time indices, and to transmit a second transmission symbol at a second time... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090013026 - Information distribution system, terminal apparatus used in same system, and recording medium on which information processing program is recorded so as to be computer readable, as well as information processing method: The information distribution system includes a routing table in which is correlated identification information of one portion of terminal apparatus among a plurality of terminal apparatus configuring the information distribution system, and location information of terminal apparatus corresponding to the identification information; a section which transmits an operating history of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090013024 - Methods and systems for providing targeted information using identity masking in a wireless communications device: Methods and systems for providing user information from a wireless access terminal (W-AT) to a remote apparatus without revealing a primary identity of the user of the W-AT include generating an alternate user identifier for the W-AT, and providing the alternate user identifier and first information related to targeted-content-message information... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090013025 - Model transmission apparatus and model transmission method: A model transmission apparatus used when producing a system model. In the model transmission apparatus, models are transmitted between first computers and a second computer. The second computer includes a second transmission device that transmits a system model to each of the first computers. When the system model is transmitted,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090013023 - Process management apparatus, computer systems, distributed processing method, and computer program: When performing distributed processing in processing devices connected to a network and a processing managing device for managing the processing devices, it is possible to eliminate the overhead of the processing management device. The processing management device (PU) (203) managing processing devices (SPU) (207) under its control lists the network... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20090013028 - Apparatus and method for monitoring and control of remotely located equipment: A remote data acquisition and transmission system for vending machines may be provided. The system may comprise a vending machine and at least one host device. The vending machine may comprise a vending machine controller; and an Internet Protocol (IP) network interface operable to communicate operation data to and from... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20090013032 - Configuration of ip telephony and other systems: A method for configuring a network device is provided comprising connecting the device to a local area network that is connected to a wide area network and detecting that the device has not been configured. The method also comprises accessing within the device a pre-defined address of a configuration server... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20090013027 - Content processing device, content processing method, and computer program: A content is transferred, depending upon a copyright management method in an information processing apparatus of a transfer destination, with a method ready for the method. A transfer mode detection section 616 for detecting a transfer mode of a connected content reproduction apparatus 20, a first transfer processing section 618... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090013029 - Device, system and method of operating a plurality of virtual logical sites: Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention include, for example, devices, systems and methods of operating one or more virtual logical sites. A method may include, for example, running on a server at least one first virtual machine implementing at least part of a first virtual logical site, and at least... Agent: Suzanne Erez IBM Corporation

20090013033 - Identifying excessively reciprocal links among web entities: A method for identifying reciprocal links is provided. At a particular host, the set of hosts which link to the particular host and the set of hosts to which the particular host links are determined. The intersection and union of the two sets of hosts are also determined, and the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090013031 - Inferring legitimacy of web-based resource requests: There are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for receiving web-based resource requests at a first computing system from a second computing system, the first computing system and a second computing system being in electronic communication through a network, each web-based resource request being defined by one or more... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090013036 - Method and system for sharing information on image data edited by editing applications: An editing method includes the steps of: providing a plurality of editing applications to a user terminal over a network, each of the editing applications allowing a user of the network to modify an image; in response to the user's request, performing at least one editing operation on the image... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090013039 - Method, device and system for delivery resume of dynamic content: The present invention discloses a method for delivery resume of dynamic content comprising: after detecting a delivery channel to a client that receives dynamic content is recovered to normal, or receiving a request for delivering resume of dynamic content from the client, the dynamic content delivery server determines a delivery... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090013034 - Method, server, client and system for controlling download and display of web pages: A method for controlling display of a web page on the client, the contents in said web page being assigned different priorities, includes sending an access request for the web page from the client to the server; in response to said access request, the server sending controllers for implementing prioritization... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20090013038 - Multidimensional approach to context-awareness: A context aware enterprise system includes a network, an enterprise service coupled to the network, and a plurality of information sources that include enterprise information related to one or more activities of the enterprise system. The enterprise system also includes a plurality of clients with user interfaces by which a... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090013040 - Support program for web application server and server: By using a support program for a web application server according to the present invention, it is possible to completely control an order of executing processes of a processing flow including a transition of a plurality of screens in a web application by a side of the server, and to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090013030 - System and method for connecting closed, secure production network: A system and method for providing connectivity to a closed, secure production network, and computer program products for executing the same and, more particularly, to a system and method for creating a virtual network to provide communication with remote tools. The system includes a server configured to create a virtual... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090013035 - System for factoring synchronization strategies from multimodal programming model runtimes: A factored multimodal interaction architecture for a distributed computing system is disclosed. The distributed computing system includes a plurality of clients and at least one application server that can interact with the clients via a plurality of interaction modalities. The factored architecture includes an interaction manager with a multimodal interface,... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090013037 - System providing methods for dynamic customization and personalization of user interface: A system providing methods for dynamically generating personalized content is described. Specific items of content which may be personalized or customized are identified. Subdirectories are created for each value of such personalized content. Files specific to each value of personalized content are created and placed in these subdirectories. When a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090013042 - Interactive contribution widget: A system and a method for facilitating interactions between users such as social interactions across computer networks such as the Internet are disclosed. In one embodiment herein, a plurality of distributed user computers, each user computer capable of accessing a webpage is provided. An interactive contribution widget (ICW) is provided... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20090013041 - Real-time asynchronous event aggregation systems: A real-time asynchronous event aggregation system, method, and network device are configured to capture real-time asynchronous events, and to pass them as input to one or more aggregation engines to determine a reputation for a target. The aggregation engine(s) may then send out notifications where a reputation category changes for... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090013043 - Method of populating a collaborative workspace and a system for providing the same: A method of populating a collaborative workspace based on an electronic message is disclosed herein. An embodiment of the present invention is operative to post-process an outgoing email after being assigned to a workspace. Further, a message identifier is computed to uniquely identify the e-mail and then the method identifies... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20090013045 - Mobile meeting and collaboration: A method for coordinating the remote participation of a client device in a meeting within a network comprising the client device and one or more nodes, the meeting involving a multimedia presentation. According to one embodiment, the method includes receiving an invitation for the client device to participate in the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090013044 - Techniques for managing annotation transformations for context changes: Techniques for managing annotation transformations are described. An apparatus may include a processor coupled to memory. The memory may store a shared application manager (SAM) module for execution by the processor. The SAM module may comprise a client user interface component operative to generate a shared application view for a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090013052 - Automated selection of appropriate information based on a computer user's context: A system filters received messages (e.g., unsolicited advertisements) to determine if they are appropriate for a user based on the non-static, constantly evolving, context of the user. The system can track the user's context by monitoring various environmental parameters, such as related to the user's physical, mental, computing and data... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090013049 - Content and service delivery in telecommunication networks: A service system (1) comprises a service core (1(f)) and an interface (1(d)) for interfacing with instant messaging clients (10). The service core (1(f)) controls interfacing with an instant messaging client to provide an interactive service according to an application and involving routing of multimedia content to the client (10).... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090013047 - Method and apparatus for managing messages related to workflows: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing messages. A message and a tag are sent to a set of recipients, wherein the tag contains state information for the message. In response to receiving an event from a recipient within the set of recipients, the reply... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090013046 - Method and system for managing message communications: A method for managing message communications includes detecting a message comprising a plurality of intended recipients and automatically initiating a forum for response communications associated with the message. The method also includes detecting response communications associated with the message and posting the response communications to the forum.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090013051 - Method for transfer of information related to targeted content messages through a proxy server: Information transfer methods for exchange of information with a wireless access terminal (W-AT) includes receiving a first message from the W-AT, the first message including first information provided by the W-AT and an address of the W-AT capable of identifying the W-AT, converting the first message to an anonymized message... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090013048 - Multimedia mood messages: A user terminal connected to a communication network and executing a communication client. The user terminal comprises display means for displaying a list of contacts associated with a user of said client, means for retrieving a message from said communication network, wherein said message is related to a further user... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090013053 - System and method for the dynamic generation of correlation scores between arbitrary objects: When an end user opens an e-mail the user's e-mail client requests the image content based on the image tag from a recommendation platform and sends an identification to the recommendation platform as part of the image URL. The user ID or seed item is looked up in the recommendation... Agent: Eric Olsen/blakely

20090013050 - Systems and methods for information delivery: Provided is a computer system 26 and associated methods for information delivery across a communications network 38, such as the Internet. The computer system 26 includes a memory arrangement 28, a processor 30, a display 44, and a transceiver 32 for managing input and output ports 34 and 36. The... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20090013054 - Detecting spam messages using rapid sender reputation feedback analysis: A network device and method are directed towards detecting and blocking spam within a message by rapidly performing a predication analysis based on early received sender reputation reports. Reputation reports may be received from a plurality of users receiving messages that they interpret as either spam or non-spam. A reputation... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090013056 - Architecture and method for remote platform control management: An integrated circuit is a baseboard management controller that is a fully integrated system-on-a-chip microprocessor incorporating function blocks and interfaces that provide remote management solution. The integrated circuit uses a microprocessor, a media co-processor to accelerate video processing, and a set of system and peripheral functions that are useful in... Agent: Gibbons P.C.

20090013055 - System and method of controlling terminal services availability remotely: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method comprises establishing network connectivity with a remotely located electronic device currently in a state that precludes access to the electronic device remotely. After such connections have been established, the state of the electronic device can be altered to allow access to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090013059 - Communication system and method: A method of accessing content at a user terminal connected to a communication network and executing a communication client. The method comprises: the client displaying a list of contacts associated with a user of the client; the client retrieving a message from the communication network, wherein the message is related... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090013057 - Data file transmission method and wireless communication device: A storage in a wireless communication terminal stores at least one data file. A data file selector selects a data file from among the data files stored in the storage, in accordance with an instruction from a user acknowledged in an acknowledging unit. A search unit searches for a wireless... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090013058 - Embedded device and method for assisting in processing media content based on subcribed syndication feed: The invention provides a device, embedded in an electronic equipment, for assisting in processing a media content based on a subscribed syndication feed. The invention utilizes a widget engine module to perform a widget application to parse the subscribed syndication feed to obtain link tags, to download media data based... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090013060 - Methods and systems for device personalization: Systems and methods for personalizing devices using data objects in a manner that deters theft and provides a mechanism for finding lost devices are described. In one embodiment, one of the methods includes uniquely registering a device and an owner of the device with the system. The method further includes... Agent: Jesse St. Marie

20090013062 - Configuration of ip telephony and other systems: The present specification provides a system for the configuration of multiple devices on a local network. The system can permit configuration by unskilled personnel. The configuration is resilient in that the devices can cooperate to preserve configurations for devices which are temporarily removed. The system includes a local configuration server... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20090013061 - Custom operating system via a web-service: Operating systems can be constructed through working “in the clouds” without dependence on a specific piece of hardware. Over the Internet, an operating system is constructed based on received requests. Received requests disclose modules that are to be added to the operating system and these modules are added. A constructed... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090013067 - Data transfer system, data transfer method and data transfer apparatus: A transmitter-side access point measures a transmission delay between the transmitter-side access point and a receiver-side access point, and calculates a threshold based on the transmission delay. Unless the amount of data from a source user terminal exceeds the threshold, the transmitter-side access point transmits data over a network in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090013065 - Information processing apparatus, information processing apparatus control method, and storage medium storing computer program: When an information processing apparatus has moved from one sub-area to another sub-area, anycast is performed to a plurality of management servers using an IP address for anycast in accordance with network management information. Network management information is acquired from a management server which has responded to the anycast. The... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090013064 - Managing distributed devices with limited connectivity: A method of managing devices may include downloading information to a courier device from an enterprise. The information may be information for performing a device management operation. The method also includes communicating the information from the courier device to a monitored agent coupled to at least one of a disconnected... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090013063 - Method for enabling internet access to information hosted on csd: The disclosure describes a method for enabling internet access to information hosted on a computer or a storage device (CSD), even without having a web server software on the CSD. The CSD is registered with a server and assigned an ID by the server. Information about all CSDs is stored... Agent: Anand Keshav Soman

20090013066 - Network management system and method: A network management method includes receiving network requirements of a network application/service of an entity. Thereafter, network resource capability is determined over a plurality of network providers to meet the received network requirements. Finally, network resources of at least one of the plurality of network providers are dynamically assigned to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090013069 - Information processing system, information processor, server, information processing method and program: An information processor (1) comprises: a history packet transmitter (11) for transmitting via a plurality of ports of a communication processor (2) a plurality of history packets; a request packet transmitter (12) for transmitting a request packet requesting transmission of a return packet; a packet transmission controller (13) for controlling... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090013073 - Method and system for detecting wireless access devices operably coupled to computer local area networks and related methods: A system and method is provided for detecting wireless access devices coupled to local area network of computers. The method includes coupling a sniffer device to a local area network. The method includes transferring one or more packets to be directed to a selected device over the local area network.... Agent: Airtight Networks

20090013075 - Monitoring apparatus, executive program, and information processing system: The present invention has: a data deriving section 610 that derives from an information processing apparatus having a management function for the client-server system state data representative of an apparatus state of the information processing apparatus, when the data deriving section receives a notification of occurrence of a breakdown by... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090013072 - Network apparatus test system and network apparatus test method: An object of the present invention is to provide a network apparatus test system capable of highly efficiently performing a test of a network apparatus, wherein the host server includes a first control unit which transmits a test signal to a monitoring server, the monitoring server includes a second control... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090013071 - Provision information notification apparatus, provision information notification method and software program: An apparatus and method is provided which enable a user using a plurality of terminals to obtain information in a convenient manner compared to conventional systems. An image forming apparatus includes a notification setting database 1K1 that stores, for each piece of RSS data designated by a user, individual notification... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090013074 - System and method for distributed network monitoring for steganographic messages: This invention relates to distributed monitoring of networks for steganographically encrypted or encoded messages. Terrorists or criminal groups may use stenography to encode or hide messages in image data or other encrypted data. Law enforcement agencies seek to monitor the distributed networks for the hidden information. However, the size of... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20090013070 - System and method for providing network application performance management in a network: The present invention relates to a system and method for network performance management for monitoring performance of network applications. The system comprises a transmitter for sending one or more types of probe packets to the network, a receiver for receiving the one or more network probe packets from the network... Agent: Nortel Networks Limited

20090013068 - Systems and processes for evaluating webpages: Systems and methods may manage webpages in a set of webpages. The set of webpages may include webpages in an intranet and/or an extranet of an enterprise. Queries may be performed on the webpages and a list of results determined based at least in part on query terms and webpage... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090013076 - Systems and methods to provide and bill for internet access: Systems for regulating Internet access at libraries are provided herein. In one embodiment, the system comprises a first computer having a user interface in communication with a network and a library card database, wherein the first computer is configured to compare library card information stored in the library card database.... Agent: Karl L. Larson Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP

20090013079 - Disconnecting selected participant in multicast session: A slow client that participates in a reliable multicast session may reduce the speed of data transfer for other clients in the session. A multicast server can mitigate the effect of a slow client by identifying and disconnecting one or more clients that are slowing down the session, or by... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090013080 - Media stream scheduling for hiccup-free fast-channel-change in the presence of network chokepoints: An implementation, as described herein, facilitates fast start-up of a new media stream while avoiding temporal interruption (i.e., “hiccups”) of the presentation of that new media stream. At least one implementation, described herein, coordinates the delivery of multiple simultaneous media streams on a media-stream network. Its coordination accounts for traversal... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090013077 - Obje network device service control method and system: An Obje network device service control method and system, the method including: discovering Obje components by an Obje proxy, and generating component proxies by an Obje proxy, the component proxies respectively corresponding to the Obje components; discovering the component proxies by a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) control point, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090013078 - Optimized signaling protocol, including session initiation protocol (sip), in a communications environment: A redacted version of a signaling protocol, such as Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), is used to optimize call session communications between a communications terminal and a proxy server. During a session registration process, the proxy server captures and stores session context data by leveraging the content of the registration messages.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090013082 - Field communication system, field server, field device, and field communication method: A transmitting section spontaneously transmits a command including device information relating to a field device, to a field server. An updating section receives commands including device information which is spontaneously transmitted from field devices, and updates a database on the basis of the device information. Based on the device information... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090013081 - Methods and apparatus related to peer discovery and/or paging in peer to peer wireless communications: Methods and apparatus related to peer to peer communication networks are described. A peer to peer timing structure is implemented which includes recurring peer discovery intervals and traffic intervals. During a peer discovery interval, a wireless communications device, supporting peer to peer communications, monitors for and receives a broadcast signal... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090013084 - Method and apparatus for controlling multiple systems in a low bandwidth environment: A method of controlling one or more client systems by means of one or more server systems, comprising the steps of identifying a set of system control actions that occur as a result of carrying out a particular function on the server system, which function is required to be replicated... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090013083 - System and method for using a mapping between client addresses and addresses of caches to support content delivery: Various information object repository selection procedures for determining which of a number of information object repositories should service a request for the information object include a direct cache selection process, a redirect cache selection process, a remote DNS cache selection process, or a local DNS cache selection process. Different combinations... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090013085 - Interaction-management methods and platform for client-agent interaction-related environments: A platform for enabling collaboration of components of a distributed interaction-related loosely-coupled system, and a method thereof are provided. The platform may include a communication medium and interaction-related business services capable of communicating via the communication medium using an interaction management protocol. The platform may include one or more business... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090013086 - System and method for live video and audio discussion streaming to multiple users: A network system for providing live video based discussion comprising: a host server for connecting with a plurality of browser clients; a web site having an embedded code that allows a connection between said host server and each of said plurality of browser clients; a media server for receiving first... Agent: Wolf, Block, Shorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20090013087 - Communications network system and methods for using same: A communications network system, comprising: a first user device, wherein the first user device uses a first communications protocol; a second user device, wherein the second user device uses a second communications protocol, different from the first communications protocol; and, a server, in operative communication with the first user device... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20090013088 - Data communication method, data communication system and program: Data is broadcasted to a plurality of receivers (step 11), then a maximum message length of reply messages from the receivers is calculated (step 13), and a backoff time of the reply messages is calculated (step 14). The maximum message length and the backoff time is sent to the receivers... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090013089 - Systems and methods for discerning and controlling communication traffic: Communication traffic redirection systems and methods are disclosed that allow for redirection of communication traffic over the Internet based, at least in part, on the type of higher-level communication protocol intended to be used. The systems and methods permit redirection of only certain types of communication traffic of interest for... Agent: Latimer, Mayberry & MatthewsIPLaw, LLP

20090013090 - Techniques for path finding and terrain analysis: A system for path finding and terrain analysis. The system includes at least one processing unit, a graph processing unit and an artificial intelligence logic unit. A local bus is coupled to the at least one processing unit, the graph processing unit, the artificial intelligence unit and a bus interface... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090013091 - Customer based message routing: A method and system for messaging, and more particularly archiving of messages in a distributed network of archiver nodes, by routing and grouping of the messages by customer, utilizing traditional recipient email addresses in SMTP is disclosed.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090013092 - Method for virtual com port modbus gateway ethernet i/o: A virtual COM port for Modbus gateway Ethernet I/O includes a host terminal, and an I/O controller connected to the host terminal through a network. The host terminal and the I/O controller comprise a first virtual COM port and a second virtual COM port respectively. When transmitting or receiving commands... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090006519 - Managing a computing environment: Embodiments are provided to configure a number of computing devices based in part on a number of deployment parameters and functions, but the embodiments are not so limited. In an embodiment, a managing application can be used to define a deployment blueprint which includes a number of deployment parameters and... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090006521 - Adaptive receive side scaling: Receive side scaling in a network system may be improved by moving the task of adapting the load distribution from the operating system (“OS”) to the network device. A load feedback mechanism may be used for the OS to report per-core load to the network device. With per-core load information... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090006522 - Integrated interface apparatus and method for heterogeneous sensor networks: Provided are an integrated interface apparatus and a method for heterogeneous sensor networks. The integrated interface apparatus includes an application system interface for converting a query command of an application system into a sensor network command according to a common message protocol, analyzing a response message with respect to the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090006520 - Multiple thread pools for processing requests: In embodiments, servers within a distributed system include more than one thread pool from which threads may be allocated for processing requests received at the servers. The servers have a local thread pool from which threads for processing requests that require only local resources (resources stored locally on the server)... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090006527 - Autonomic control of a distributed computing system using dynamically assembled resource chains: In general, this disclosure describes techniques of managing resources in a service-oriented distributed computing system. As described in this disclosure, one or more control nodes provide for the efficient and automated allocation and management of resources within the distributed computing system. In order to provide automated allocation and management of... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20090006526 - Autonomic control of a distributed computing system using finite state machines: In general, this disclosure describes techniques of managing resources in a service-oriented distributed computing system. As described in this disclosure, one or more control nodes provide for the efficient and automated allocation and management of resources within the distributed computing system. In order to provide automated allocation and management of... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20090006523 - Method and system for providing xml-based asynchronous and interactive feeds for web applications: A system for providing XML-based asynchronous and interactive feeds for Web applications that provides a highly efficient and extensible XML Javascript framework allowing easy insertion of a comment/news feed control into any Web page. The framework allows for reading of any XML format and provides a new and easy way... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20090006524 - Method for providing user feedback to content provider during delayed playback media files on portable player: A computer program product stored on machine readable media including machine readable instructions for collecting input of a user from a personal media player, the product having instructions for playing a data file using the personal media player; recording the input on the personal media player; and transmitting the input... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20090006525 - Methods, systems, and products for producing persona-based hosts: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for producing a virtual host. The virtual host is generated. A demographic trait of a user, interacting with the virtual host, is acquired. The virtual host is endowed with the demographic trait, thereby enriching the virtual host to appeal the user.... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090006538 - Automatic distributed downloading: Automatic distributed downloading (ADD) may involve, for example, enabling the downloading of a resource via a peer-to-peer (P2P)-based protocol from a uniform resource identifier (URI). In an example embodiment, an ADD module includes a directory client that sends to a directory service a mapping request including a URI corresponding to... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090006528 - Availability determination of a party to receive a call prior to call setup: Presence servers, communication devices, and methods are disclosed for determining the availability of a target party to receive a call prior to call setup. Upon initiation of a call to a target party, the communication device of a subscriber transmits an availability request message to a presence server requesting the... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20090006531 - Client request based load balancing: A method for balancing load in a network system, having a plurality of clients initiating transactions with a plurality of servers. For each transaction a host name associated with one or more servers capable of completing the transaction is specified. The client initiates a request to resolve the host name... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20090006529 - Client side based data synchronization and storage: Client side based data synchronization and storage is accomplished through a smart way of data off-lining coupled with a synchronization technique implemented on the client side that does not require any modifications to the server side. The customized client utilizes the server as a temporary placeholder for document synchronization. Attached... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090006536 - Content sharing via mobile broadcast system and method: A method for sharing data content is provided. The method includes aggregating requests to share data content across broadcast networks and re-broadcasting the data content based at least in part on the number of requests or a determined capacity of the broadcast networks.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090006545 - Creating an interactive gaming environment: Methods for creating an interactive gaming environment are provided. In various embodiments, methods of the present invention may include initializing an interactive game application at a game server which is then characterized as having an active status, notifying a lobby server concerning the active status of the game server, registering... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090006532 - Dynamic phishing protection in instant messaging: Method, apparatus, and systems are directed to phishing detection and prevention in Instant Messaging (IM) environments. A variety of sources provide phishing data to a client phishing engine (CAE). The CAE may receive data from various applications local to the client device, from sources external to the client device, user... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090006541 - Load distribution in client server system: The present invention provides a load balancing client server system (10) that includes a plurality of clients (16) each of which can request a connection for processing to a server (14). Each of the clients (16) includes a communication unit (20) that sends status information that indicates status of each... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090006542 - Method and system for updating media lists in portable media devices: A method and apparatus for updating a media list or a media list collection of a portable media player device is disclosed herein. In various embodiments, the updates are generated by a proxy or a third party server, based at least in part on data gathered for media preferences for... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20090006533 - Server-aided approach to improve media negotiation efficiency: A network device, system, and method are directed towards employing a media advisor to determine a media match for media types among computing devices. During a SIP communications, a caller device sends an SIP/SDP invite message to a callee device, which is received by a first proxy server and forwarded... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090006543 - System and method for asynchronous retrieval of information based on incremental user input: A system and method for asynchronously retrieving information over a network based on incremental input. The system comprises a client part, a communication protocol, and a server part. The server part receives incremental text-based input from one or more objects in the client part, and asynchronously returns matching information to... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090006544 - System and method for managing account of instant messenger: A system for managing an Instant Messenger account including a process server and a database server, and the process server is adapted to receive enhanced association information of at least one account from at least one client terminal, transmit the enhanced association information to the database server; when receiving a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090006540 - System and method for remote machine data transfer: A method for data transfer between a client system and a server comprises receiving one or more user-defined file transfer specifications and establishing a communication channel between a client system and a server system based on the file transfer specifications. The method also includes initializing transfer of operation data between... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090006539 - System and method for switching between stateful and stateless communication modes: Methods and systems for specifying the state of an application interface during configuration of the business system are provided. A state controller can manage communication between application interfaces and interface proxies. Each interface proxy replicates the services exposed by an application interface associated with backend applications in a business system.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090006530 - System and method for transferring data to a portable electronic device: A method of transferring data to a portable electronic device includes providing a link for pushing data to the portable electronic device, receiving a selection of the push link, receiving an identifier of the portable electronic device for delivery of the data thereto, and transmitting the data to the portable... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20090006535 - Techniques for performing intelligent content indexing: Techniques for intelligent content indexing are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for performing intelligent content indexing comprising indexing by one or more processes associated with a client an initial full set of data of the client to create an index of... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP / Symantec Corporation Intellectual Property Dept.

20090006534 - Unified provisioning of physical and virtual images: A system for the unified provisioning of virtual and physical disk images is created. The system includes a library of disk images. Client devices are able to upload to, and select disk images from the disk library. The library is able to determine the hardware requirements of a client device,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090006537 - Virtual desktop integration with terminal services: An integration system is disclosed that provides a virtual desktop integration with terminal services. A client computer is connected to one the virtual desktops operating in a server. The client computer examines information contained in a remote desktop protocol (RDP) compliant packet supplied by the server. The client computer connects... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090006547 - Adding personal note capabilities to text exchange clients: The present invention discloses a personal note capability for a text exchange client. A personal note can be a note not transmitted in a dialog between text exchange participants. It can, however, be transmitted in a communication outside the text exchange dialog communication. The personal note can be created and... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20090006548 - Delegating instant messaging sessions: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates redirecting an instant messaging session or an instant messaging communication. An interface component can receive a portion of data related to an instant messaging session, wherein the portion of data is associated with an instant messaging communication. A... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090006551 - Dynamic awareness of people: A system for sharing collective information is provided. The system includes a profile component that receives information regarding a user's profile. A detection component determines profiles of other users related to the user's profile and a content component relays data associated with the other users in view of the user's... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090006546 - Multiple node remote messaging: A method for passing remote messages in a parallel computer system formed as a network of interconnected compute nodes includes that a first compute node (A) sends a single remote message to a remote second compute node (B) in order to control the remote second compute node (B) to send... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090006549 - System and method for providing a community portal for chat-based support services: An approach is disclosed for providing a community portal for chat-based support services. Chat sessions corresponding to customer support service are established among multiple users and one or more agents. A community of the users is created during the chat sessions.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090006550 - System and method for providing agent managed support via instant messaging: An approach is disclosed for providing a managed chat session. An agent establishes a chat session with a user for customer support. Information from the user is received via the chat session, wherein the information is used to determine customized content to be presented to the user over the chat... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090006553 - Remote collaboration tool for rich media environments: A remote collaboration tool, system and method are presented. The remote collaboration tool can be hosted by a collaboration computer for enabling collaborative communication of rich media files between a server connected with a rich media data source and a plurality of client computers over a network. The remote collaboration... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64046

20090006552 - System and method for providing a multilayered message: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems and methods for providing a multilayered message. These layers include a first layer and a second layer in the body of the message. A sender includes the first content in the first layer of the message, and the second content in... Agent: Sap Ag

20090006554 - System and network terminal for ip communications: A network terminal is capable of running a plurality of user environments in parallel and is connected to an interface device. The network terminal includes a plurality of communication units, a plurality of collaborating units, and a monitoring unit. The plurality of communication units are provided in one to one... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090006559 - Application message subscription tracking in a high speed, low latency data communications environment: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for application message subscription tracking in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that includes: receiving, by a stream administration server from a subscribing client device, a subscription initiation request, the subscription initiation request specifying a message topic, the message topic specifying application... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090006556 - Assigning tags to network addresses for subsequent retrieval of the network addresses: Systems and methods are provided for assigning a tag, such as a short name, to a network address of a web page for ease in subsequent retrieval of the web page. A user of a browser application may enter a tag responsive to which the browser application associates the tag... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20090006571 - Data transfer process apparatus, device, status notifying method, storage medium storing program for status notification, and program for status notification: Transmission data is generated depending on the status change of a device according to a message indicating the status information about the device and the destination information about the message and is transmitted by electronic mail, and the user who manages the device can be notified of the status of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090006563 - Dynamic peer network extension bridge: A dynamically extended peer network is formed from a first peer network and a second peer network. The first and second peer networks are separated from each other by a boundary. A first computing system in the first peer network is configured to establish a communication link with a second... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090006570 - Email fetching system and method in a portable electronic device: In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for fetching email from an email server to a portable electronic device is disclosed. The method includes fetching email from the email server upon occurrence of at least one of: expiration of a first period of time after activation of an email... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20090006564 - High availability transport: A system provides high availability electronic message forwarding. When an electronic message is communicated to a first server, a copy of the electronic message is maintained at a second server. The electronic message is maintained on both servers until the electronic message is successfully communicated to a third server. After... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090006572 - Method and apparatus for bouncing electronic messages: A method and apparatus is provided that establishes user accounts that automatically forward a user's e-mail to the user's pre-selected forwarding e-mail address(es). Each user creates a forwarding directory, which may comprise multiple e-mail accounts, that the user activates and deactivates as needed.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20090006569 - Method and apparatus for creating predictive filters for messages: A method and apparatus for creating predictive filters for messages. In one embodiment, filter information is coupled to a reputation database. One or more filters for a message feature are generated if a reputation of the message feature is associated with one or more portions of the filter information. In... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group/symantec Corporation

20090006565 - Method and apparatus for message customization: Disclosed is an apparatus for customizing messages. The apparatus includes a communications unit and a processing unit. The communications unit can be configured to receive a message from a sender and intended for one or more target recipients. The communications unit can also be configured to receive one or more... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090006555 - Method and system for integration of instant messaging and teleconferencing via a telephone network: A system is provided comprising a plurality of instant messaging client applications (202, 207, 208, 209) communicating via a computer network (206) to send and receive messages in real time integrated with n-way teleconferencing capability via a telephone network (216). The system includes a plurality of instant messaging client applications... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090006573 - Method and system for publishing an electronic file attached to an electronic mail message: Publishing content associated with an electronic file attached to an electronic mail message by executing instructions contained in the electronic mail attachment and accessing the content at a remote computer server identified by the attached file. The attached file includes computer-executable instructions, such as a computer program or script, which... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090006561 - Method of and system for retracting instant messages: A method of and system for enabling retraction of instant messages detects a command to send an instant message from an instant message window. The system determines if the command is the first command sent from the instant message window after the window has received focus. If so, the system... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090006568 - Network-based collaboration record: A network-accessible data storage service integrated with instant messenger software. Network-based collaboration between one or more collaborators may be facilitated by enabling information exchanged in an instant messaging environment, such as files and comments, to be integrated into a network-accessible data storage service and made available to the one or... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090006566 - Providing access to presence information using multiple presence objects: An approach is described for maintaining multiple presence objects associated with a single entity. The different presence objects correspond to different respective aspects of the entity's presence. Each presence object includes subscriber information and permission information associated therewith. The subscriber information identifies the subscribers that subscribe to receive notifications for... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090006567 - Providing sender-selected sound items to conversation participants: Functionality is described for allowing a first user to select a sound item. The first user can use a first device to send this sound item to a second device operated by a second user. Upon the occurrence of a triggering event, the sound item selected by the first user... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090006557 - Remote programming of an automatic reply feature in an email account: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing remote programming of an automatic reply feature in an email account through a communication device, such as a landline phone, a mobile phone, etc. An automatic reply server is implemented in a communication network, such as a PSTN, a cellular network, etc. The... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20090006562 - Service gateway decomposition in a network environment including ims: In one embodiment, a scheme is described with respect to a service network system adapted to interoperate in an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) environment wherein signaling and message media planes are decoupled. The service network system comprises a service gateway controller (SGC) that is decomposed from a plurality... Agent: The Danamraj Law Group, P.C.

20090006558 - System and method for transforming a thread of email messages into a real-time meeting: A system and method for transforming a thread of email messages into a real-time e-meeting. Collaborative processing between asynchronous and synchronous components are controlled through a UI which controls the selection of threaded messages and initiates an e-meeting including all the recipients of the thread, each participant may privately view... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090006560 - Terminating an application message subscription: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for terminating an application message subscription that include: receiving, by messaging middleware of a subscribing client device, application messages having one or more message topics on one or more message streams from one or more message transmitting devices; receiving, by the messaging middleware from... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090006576 - Cooperative location based tasks: A method for providing location dependent information to a user for selective colleague assistance. The method on a Client Wireless Component includes the steps of receiving location data from a plurality of Global Positioning System GPS satellites and transmitting the location data to an Active Calendar Component. The method further... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20090006575 - Detection and removal of undesirable items in a data processing environment: Functionality is described for addressing a threat to the security of a user device that utilizes a network-accessible service. The functionality operates by assessing the likelihood that the user device is infected by the undesirable item. When the user device makes a request to access the network-accessible service, the functionality... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090006574 - System and methods for disruption detection, management, and recovery: A task disruption and recovery system and methods are described that detects shifts away from ongoing tasks, whether by self-interruption or by disruptive events from within or outside a computing system, based on signals detected. Among other functions, the system works to enhance the efficient recovery of suspended tasks or... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090006579 - Data providing system, server and program: A data providing system of the present invention is provided with an image acquiring device, an area extracting device, a data storing device, and a data providing device. For each image data acquired by the image acquiring device, a storage destination specifying area is extracted by the area extracting device,... Agent: Davis Bujold & Daniels, P.l.l.c.

20090006577 - Gathering statistics based on container exchange: A method of tracking statistics related to a container of data is disclosed. A container created by an author may be stored on a network. Other users aside from the author may be permitted to search for containers. The other users may be permitted to obtain a copy of a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20090006578 - System for dynamically integrating remote portlets into portals: The present invention discloses a system and method allowing dynamically integrating remote portlets into each Portal by providing local portlets as remote portlet Web-Services by providing, to each Portal-Server, a publishing functionality allowing electronic creation of a service description for each single local portlet and publishing it into a Central-Registry... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090006582 - Method and apparatus for restructuring of personalized data for transmission from a data network to connected and portable network appliances: A system for retrieving and disseminating information records from Internet sources includes a client device and an intermediary server system, including software, between the client device and the Internet. The system collects a record specific to a client from an individual one of said Internet sources in a first form... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090006581 - Method and system for downloading streaming content: According to this invention a content object can be downloaded that is being sent to an access device (1) from a content platform (5) comprising a streaming server (4), a content server (8) and a storage means (9) for storing one or more content objects. According to this method a... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090006580 - Server system, method of controlling operation thereof and control program therefor: It is arranged so that the history of access to a web page that has been returned to can be determined even in a case where a “BACK” button on a browser has been clicked. Owing to a transition from one web page to another in response to clicking of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090006585 - Ip address allocation method: A DHCP server allocates IP addresses to DHCP clients and the IP address validation process is moved from the client to the DHCP server. The DHCP server is required to periodically select a predefined number of validated IP addresses from its unused IP addresses. When a client applies for an... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090006583 - Method and system for distributing restricted media to consumers: Techniques for distributing restricted media to consumers are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, personalized settings (e.g., parameters or table) are managed in a primary client device associated with a user. A copy of the personalized settings is maintained in a server. When the primary box is... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20090006587 - Method and system for thin client configuration: A method for configuring a thin client connected to a communications network includes the thin client sending a request for a network address to an address server. The address server sends an assigned network address back to the thin client together with a location of a configuration server. The thin... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090006588 - Method for heterogeneous system configuration: A method for provisioning systems within a solution which includes mapping a physical identifier of a component within a system to a logical identifier of the component within a system and mapping the logical identifier of the component within a system to an implementation identifier of the component within the... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090006586 - Model driven portlet development system and program product: Under the present invention desired portlet behaviors are embodied as portlet patterns. When a developer wishes to create a new portlet for a portal page, the developer will select a presentation template, select one or more portlet patterns and input values for the selected portlet patterns. Thereafter, the portlet will... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090006584 - Service personalization in a terminal device: Two service signals are transmitted from a service server through a first network in such a way that users' terminal devices display personalized service data items. When service signals are filtered, a terminal device extracts common data items accessible for several terminal devices and a parameter type from a service... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090006604 - Communication across multiple game applications: Systems for communication across multiple game applications are provided. In various embodiments, systems of the present invention may include a first application server hosting a first game application, a second application server hosting a second game application that is different from the first game application, a first client device for... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090006589 - Control of sensor networks: A method and apparatus is provided for generating an index and creating a network of devices based on the index. Information and data may be provided via the network. In one example, a request may be received from a user at a service. The service may maintain an index containing... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090006591 - Dashboard interface group identifier: A device receives multiple identifiers associated with a customer of a network, receives multiple products associated with the customer and provided by the network, groups the multiple identifiers into a single customer identifier, and associates the single customer identifier with the multiple products.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090006596 - Dynamic address redemption and routing in zigbee networks: Dynamic address redemption and reallocation is performed in a ZigBee network. When a router node attempts to join a parent with no available address space, the parent requests available address space from child router nodes and possibly from the entire network. If available address space can be found, it is... Agent: Lemoine Patent Services, PLLC

20090006595 - Edge traversal service dormancy: A system maintains a dormant state in the host, in which no beacons (or “bubbles”) are transmitted from the host when no application or service (collectively, “processes”) of the host is accepting unsolicited traffic via the edge traversal service. When at least one application or service begins to accept unsolicited... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090006590 - Method and apparatus for enabling a management system to interface with managed devices: The invention includes a method and apparatus for interfacing with a managed device. A method according to one embodiment includes receiving a message including an identifier indicative of a location at which interface information associated with the managed device is stored, obtaining the interface information, and initiating a request to... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20090006594 - Method and system for remote manageability of networked computers: A method and system may allow a management server in a first network to communicate via a mediator server with a management module of a computing system in a second network. The mediator server may establish a communication connection to the management module and the data transferred from the management... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090006603 - Methods for operating virtual networks, data network system, computer program and computer program product: The invention relates to a method for operating virtual networks. The method comprises providing a first virtual network (103) comprising a first set (101) of network ports assigned to a first virtualization tag (T1) and a second virtual network (104) comprising a second set (105) of network ports assigned to... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20090006602 - Multi-host management server in storage system, program for the same and path information management method: Provided is a multi-host management server that includes: a reception section that receives failure information about paths from hosts and stores the received failure information in a failure information reception queue; an extraction section that extracts from the failure information reception queue plural pieces of failure information about a plurality... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090006592 - Network evaluation grid techniques: Network evaluation grid techniques are presented. Local specifications for traffic patterns are evaluated for local traffic on local grids of a grid computing environment and reported out. The local traffic reported out is then evaluated in response to global traffic pattern specifications and a global traffic policy in order to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20090006600 - Network identification and configuration using network signature: Methods, computer program products, systems and data structures for generating a signature for a network are described. A network signature may include, for example, network information associated with a network (e.g., IP address, MAC address, domain name, DNS name, routing information, phone number, etc.). A signature of a network that... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090006599 - Off-peak background delivery: Methods, systems, and machine readable media are disclosed for managing bandwidth utilization including off-peak, background delivery of content. According to one embodiment, a method of managing bandwidth used for delivering content to a plurality of users can comprise determining one or more destinations for the content and determining available bandwidth... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090006593 - Replica/cache locator, an overlay network and a method to locate replication tables and caches therein: A replica/cache locator, a method to locate replication tables and caches in an overlay network having multiple nodes and an overlay network. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) determining a network distance between a first node of the multiple nodes in the overlay network and each of the remaining... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Alcatel-lucent

20090006601 - Storage system and management method in storage system: A storage system includes business-use hosts 12 and 14, a management server 16 and a storage subsystem 18; wherein the business-use hosts 12 and 14 are connected via a SAN 22 to the storage subsystem 18, while the management server 16 is connected via a LAN 20 to the business-use... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090006598 - System and method for efficient storage of long-lived session state in a sip server: A SIP server can be deployed in a two-tier architecture, including an engine tier for processing of SIP communications and a state tier for maintaining the state associated with these communications. The state tier can include RAM-based replicas that provide data to the engines. Some of the SIP session state... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090006597 - Trust evaluation: A solution for evaluating trust in a computer infrastructure is provided. In particular, a plurality of computing devices in the computer infrastructure evaluate one or more other computing devices in the computer infrastructure based on a set of device measurements for the other computing device(s) and a set of reference... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090006606 - Command queue loading: A data storage system and associated method are provided wherein a policy engine continuously collects qualitative information about a network load to the data storage system in order to dynamically characterize the load and continuously correlates the load characterization to a command queue depth of data transfer requests.... Agent: Mccarthy Law Group

20090006611 - Communication network analysis system in multi-layered communication system: A communication network analysis system according to the present invention is a BACnet MS/TP communication network analysis system including at least one BACnet MS/TP node connected to a BACnet MS/TP communication network and a BACnet visual test shell (VTS) for monitoring the BACnet MS/TP communication network. The system comprises a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090006612 - Communication system, proxy server, method of controlling same and control program therefor: It is arranged so that the history of access to a web page at a terminal device that does not have a unique IP address can be determined. To achieve this, a proxy server generates identification data of the terminal device upon accepting a request for a web page from... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090006608 - Dynamically enhancing meeting participation through compilation of data: Meeting attendees can have the resources available to participate in an efficient meeting regardless of where the attendees are located (e.g., across from each other or thousands of miles apart). Information can be gathered that relates to the attendees, the subject matter of the meeting or other information. In addition,... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090006616 - End-to-end performance tool and method for monitoring electronic-commerce transactions: A method and apparatus for monitoring electronic commerce transactions. A network delay agent, coupled to the access point for the electronic commerce provider's system is operable to send and receive communications to a designated customer's site for measuring network transport latency. Application test latency is also determined. An application monitor... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090006610 - Event driven plugin architecture for importing scanned image data into a production workflow: Systems and methods are described that facilitate importing scanned image data into a production workflow, in accordance with various features described herein. A plurality of loosely-coupled, dynamically loaded plugins can be defined in a configuration file for a given production scanning job. The plugins can be invoked in response to... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090006605 - Extended write combining using a write continuation hint flag: A computing apparatus for reducing the amount of processing in a network computing system which includes a network system device of a receiving node for receiving electronic messages comprising data. The electronic messages are transmitted from a sending node. The network system device determines when more data of a specific... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090006609 - Media content distribution indicator: A method includes providing an expandable element associated with a message transmit key of a device. An outer border of the expandable element moves or expands to reflect a number of recipients of a message to be sent from the device. The message transmit key of the device is contacted... Agent: Perman & Green

20090006615 - Method and apparatus for extracting and visualizing execution patterns from web services: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for extracting and visualizing execution patterns from Web Services collects data relating to one or more transactions executed in accordance with one or more Web Services-based applications (e.g., messaging systems or other services). One or more patterns is then extracted from the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20090006614 - Monitoring web service transactions: Systems and methods for monitoring web service transactions include a monitoring server that is configured to monitor a web service transaction. The monitoring server allows a user to describe a sequence of web service requests that in combination define a web service transaction. The monitoring server sends out the web... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090006607 - Scalable methods for detecting significant traffic patterns in a data network: Methods and apparatuses are provided for detecting traffic patterns in a data network. A sequential hashing scheme can be utilized that has D hash arrays. Each hash array i, wherein 1≦i≦D, includes Mi independent hash tables each having K buckets, with each of the buckets having an associated traffic total.... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20090006613 - System and a method for updating a user presence status on a terminal by aggregating multisource information: A method of updating a user presence status at at least one terminal connected to a telecommunications network, on the basis of presence status information provided by at least one status source of said terminal. The presence status is determined during an aggregation step comprising collecting a plurality of unit... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090006617 - System and method for transmitting pollution information over an integrated wireless network: A pollution information message system provides a system and method for generating and transmitting pollution information messages. In one embodiment, the pollution information message system employs a transceiver network with a plurality transceivers coupled to monitoring devices. Control room operators receive a pollution information message from an identifiable transceiver. The... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20090006619 - Directory snapshot browser: Embodiments of the systems and methods expose a form of backup data, referred to as snapshot data, to an online server. The snapshot data is copy of the directory system at a time in the past. The snapshot data, in embodiments, is exposed as an LDAP server database, which can... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090006620 - Method and system for securing a commercial grid network over non-trusted routes: A method for securing a commercial grid network over non-trusted routes involves receiving, by an administrative node in the commercial grid network, a lease request from a client to lease one of multiple resource nodes in the commercial grid network, wherein the client is separated from the resource node by... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090006618 - Methods and systems for access routing and resource mapping using filters: A method for access routing and resource mapping using filters includes the step of receiving a request from a client for access to a resource. A rule is identified, the rule having a rule priority level and associated with: i) a filter, ii) at least one method for providing access... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090006621 - Recoverable error detection for concurrent computing programs: A system and method detects communication error among multiple nodes in a concurrent computing environment. One or more barrier synchronization points/checkpoints or regions are used to check for a communication mismatch. The barrier synchronization point(s)/checkpoint(s) can be placed anywhere in the concurrent computing program. Once a node reaches a barrier... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090006622 - Ultimate client development system: A client development system is provided that includes creating a plurality of hosts and host databases. A host contact is identified, qualified, and cultivated. The system provides for three levels of users: hosts, experts, and members. The system permits a host's member contacts and experts to search the expert directories... Agent: Robert L. Rispoli Clayman, Tapper & Baram, LLC

20090006627 - Accessing shared resources with improved request peak management: A solution is provided for accessing a shared resource in a data processing system (such as a server of a DAM application) by a plurality of exploiter entities (such as clients). A corresponding method starts with the step of monitoring an activity of each enabled entity being granted an access... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090006626 - Bandwidth requesting system, bandwidth requesting device, client device, bandwidth requesting method, content playback method, and program: A bandwidth requesting system includes: a bandwidth requesting device provided to a network to which a plurality of client devices configured to play contents are connected; a router provided externally from the network and connected to the network; and a relay server provided externally from the network and connected to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090006624 - Entertainment access service: This document describes tools capable of managing digital content based on a user's identity. By so doing, the tools free people from the limitations of their storage media and devices. If a user's CD breaks or hard drive fails, the tools permit a user to continuing accessing his content. If... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090006625 - Method and system for allocating receiving resources in a gateway server: The disclosed embodiments relate to a method and apparatus for allocating resources in an efficient manner in a gateway service device. The apparatus includes of a gateway server or head end unit connected to a plurality of end user terminals. The gateway server contains a controller for managing the allocation... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090006623 - Secure sharing of resources over a network: A resource sharing system including a resource manager maintaining a list of resources that are accessible to a first computer, and a rights manager maintaining a list of users that may access any of the resources of the first computer, the resource manager and rights manager processing a request to... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090006629 - Instantiating a communication pipeline between software: An embodiment not only instantiates a pipeline that allows communication between first and second executable nodes regardless of whether the nodes have compatible or incompatible interface views, but also structures the pipeline based on the relationship between the interface views so, for example, the pipeline does not consume unnecessary overhead... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090006631 - Media stream scheduling for hiccup-free fast-channel-change in the presence of network chokepoints: An implementation, as described herein, facilitates fast start-up of a new media stream while avoiding temporal interruption (i.e., “hiccups”) of the presentation of that new media stream. At least one implementation, described herein, coordinates the delivery of multiple simultaneous media streams on a media-stream network. Its coordination accounts for traversal... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090006630 - Sip converter: When communications are performed by connecting a non-SIP information terminal device in which SIP is not supported to a SIP converter connected to a communication line via a line terminating device, the SIP converter performs establishment and disconnection of a SIP session, and transmission of a SIP message on behalf... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC. Suite 202

20090006628 - System and method for controlling the presentation of dynamic information to a mobile device: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for controlling the presentation of dynamic information to mobile devices. In one example, the method includes receiving status information from a mobile device indicating that the mobile device is available to receive advertisement information and receiving device information from the mobile... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20090006633 - Interactive connectivity establishment for non-enabled endpoints: Procedures for commanding a media relay to direct interactive connectivity establishment (ICE) communications are discussed. In an implementation, a back-to-back user agent may issue a command changing the state of the media relay so that communications initially routed through the back-to-back user agent may be routed to a non-ICE device.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090006635 - Network management: Systems and methods relating to managing network addresses. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes sending a first request to use a particular network address, sending one or more second requests for respective hardware addresses corresponding to network addresses of one or more network address leases. When... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090006634 - Run-once static content generation using a descriptive file path: A variation of a static base asset used to build a web page is generated responsively to a client browser request using a descriptive file path that is included with the base asset's file name in the request. The descriptive file path employs a specific syntax to declare one or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090006632 - Updating conversations after redirection: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates maintaining identification data for a real-time communication. A unified communications component can enable real-time communications by employing a communication session with at least one data communication mode, wherein the communication session can include conversation identification (ID). An invitation... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090006636 - System & method for automatically registering a client device: A system and method for policy-based registration of client devices is provided. Policy-based registration may use registration keys to register devices on a network. For example, registration keys may include policy assignments, folder assignments, group assignments, or other assignments for registering, identifying, and managing the device on the network. Devices... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090006638 - System and method for accessing features offered by an application server: Systems and methods are provided for accessing additional features offered by an application server. The additional features are generally regarded as being specific to the application server. According to an embodiment of the application, a communications device obtains information for accessing the additional features. The communications device accesses an additional... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20090006637 - System and method for communication protocol mapping: Systems and methods are provided for protocol mapping. According to an embodiment of the application, the protocol mapping is based on a non-compiled editable file (e.g. XML file) that describes the protocol mapping. Therefore, the protocol mapping can be updated by updating the non-compiled editable file without updating any compiled... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20090006639 - Formulating multimedia content of an on-line interview: Formulating multimedia content of an on-line interview, including transmitting during the on-line interview, over a data communications network from a first client device to a second client device, a media stream of content from an interviewee; simultaneously with the transmitting of the media stream from the interviewee, recording the media... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090006640 - Incremental secure backup and restore of user settings and data: Methods and apparatuses for performing secure incremental backup and restore operations are disclosed.... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090006642 - Multicast content provider: A multicast content provider operates on a multicast server in conjunction with a multicast transmission protocol that is independent of the content data transmitted and allows extensibility in the content provider to distribute any type of content. The content provider module is designed to find, read, write, and transform particular... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090006641 - Reliable multicast transport protocol: A semi-reliable multicast transport protocol uses multiple channels for communication between a server and multiple client devices. A join channel allows the sever to negotiate with client devices to join and exit a transmission session. A communication channel allows the server to communicate with client devices about a status of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090006643 - Systems and methods for universal real-time media transcoding: Digital content is encoded and transmitted in form suitable for presentation in a variety of formats, particularly suited to mobile device environments. In specific embodiments, server-side, independent and integrated architectures are disclosed. In further specific embodiments, techniques for prefix, postfix, interrupted and midway insertions of generic data and multi-media data... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090006644 - Port discovery and message delivery in a portable electronic device: In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for fetching email from an email server to a portable electronic device is disclosed. The method includes, at a portable electronic device configured with an email client: (1) when creating an email account on the portable electronic device: (a) attempting to connect... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20090006645 - Automatic reverse engineering of message formats from network traces: A system for automatic inference of message formats from network packets is described. Each network message from a set of network messages is split into one or more tokens based on the types of bytes in the network messages. The set of network messages can then be classified into clusters... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090006646 - System and method of auto populating forms on websites with data from central database: A system and method for automatically populating a form on one or more webpages with data originating from a central database. According to one embodiment, a user communication device receives the data from a first server via a network, accesses the form on the one or more webpages via the... Agent: Fountain Law Group, Inc.

20090006647 - Method and apparatus for performance and cost optimization in an internetwork: Systems and methods are described for supporting routing intelligence for evaluating routing paths based on performance measurements. The routing intelligence may include processes executed in a self-contained device. This device may control one or more edge routers, based on performance data from end users. In other embodiments, the routing intelligence... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP Attn: Thomas B. Haverstock

20090006650 - Communication device, communication method, communication interface, and program product: A communication device connected to a network includes a communication unit used for communications with the network, a data transmission unit that transmits data having a first address indicating the communication unit as a destination and a second address different from the first address as a source from the communication... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090006649 - Display control apparatus, display control program and display control method: A display control apparatus, a display control program and a display control method can prevent re-controlling of a CGI from taking place as a result of updating a web browser. The display control apparatus includes a CGI processing section that executes a CGI process and outputs the outcome of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090006648 - Network address translation traversals for peer-to-peer networks: In a networking environment, multiple end-users applications running on computing devices may operate behind a respective NAT device. Information transferred from one end-user application to another can be accomplished by establishing a connection from one private network. The NAT device translates information related to an end-user application operating within a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090006651 - Document delivery system and method there of: A mobile document transfer system using a document format with a font data and a method thereof are disclosed. More concretely, when the document made by a computer user terminal is transmitted to a receiver mobile communication terminal through an internet, a document format file having the font data capable... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090006652 - Network synchronization system and information processing device: A disclosed network synchronization system includes plural information processing devices. At least one of the information processing devices includes a setting information storage unit configured to store a setting information piece of the information processing device, a synchronous shared-storage unit configured to duplicate the setting information piece of the information... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090006653 - System and method for optimizing synchronization: A system and method is provided for optimizing a SyncML slow sync between a proprietary client and server. When a slow sync is detected, the client and server can depart from the normal SyncML protocol and process summary data without having to compare all items on a field-by-field basis.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP C/o Susan Trader

20090006654 - System and method for optimizing synchronization: A system and method is provided for optimizing a SyncML slow sync between a proprietary client and server. When a slow sync is detected, the client and server can depart from the normal SyncML protocol and process summary data without having to compare all items on a field-by-field basis.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090006655 - Network adapter with shared database for message context information: A network interface adapter includes a network interface and a client interface, for coupling to a client device so as to receive from the client device work requests to send messages over the network using a plurality of transport service instances. Message processing circuitry, coupled between the network interface and... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch