Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 03/09

20090083364 - Data communication system, terminal, catalog server, data communication method, and communication program product: In order to provide a data communication system that reduces a data amount of messages, a simple catalog identifier 31 is assigned to a plurality of common parameters. Each of terminals or servers replaces the common parameters by the simple and identical catalog identifier and transmits the simple catalog identifier... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090083362 - Maintaining a minimum level of real time media recommendations in the absence of online friends: The present invention provides a peer-to-peer (P2P) network for providing real time media recommendations. The P2P network includes a central server interconnecting a number of peer devices. In operation, a proxy function of the central server receives media recommendations from one or more peer devices that are active and online... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20090083363 - Remote monitoring of local behavior of network applications: Computer-executable instructions comprising some or all of a program can be delivered to a client for execution on a real-time basis such that the client receives anew the computer-executable instructions for each new execution of the program. Such an environment enables instrumentation instructions to be inserted into the computer-executable instructions... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090083365 - System and method for neighborhood information and local shopping offers: A system for retrieval and display of proximity shopping and restaurant listings, advertising and local information to a plurality of users is disclosed. The users are provided with a portal display page which includes a plurality of independently functioning display modules. Each display module may be populated with a different... Agent: Michael A. O'neil, P.C.

20090083368 - Hosted ads-b system: A system according to one aspect of the present invention includes two or more computer systems, the two or more computer systems each comprising a processor, a data interface, and a memory. The two or more computer systems are in communication with each other through the respective data interfaces of... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20090083366 - Secure document transmission: A method and apparatus transmits an item that is in electronic form over multiple networks. The method begins by receiving the item that is to be electronically transmitted. The method separates the item into at least a first fragment and a second fragment, transmits the first fragment over a first... Agent: Gibb Intellectual Property Firm, LLC

20090083367 - User profile aggregation: User profile data that may be spread across different service providers and that may vary across different service providers can be aggregated to provide an aggregate user profile. An aggregate user profile can be generated regardless of, among other things, varying user profile semantics, differing data formats, data item conflicts,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090083376 - Application-layer evaluation of communications received by a mobile device: Apparatus and associated methods are provided which allow a remote user to maintain a virtual session with a server. A virtual session allows a remote and possibly mobile user to maintain a virtual presence in an office environment without actually being present. Using the present invention, a remote user can... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090083369 - Dynamic content conversion: A method of display modification in a client server web system, comprising, intercepting, by a web intermediary, a response to a client request, sent by a server in response to the request, the response including client side active content adapted to execute at a browsing software on a client computer;... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090083370 - Enhanced data exchange and presentation/communication system: A system for establishing a dedicated internet connection between a user and a marketer is described. The connection is initiated by a customer downloading a framework program for a viewer. Thereafter, as content is communicated to the user, it is included with program code used with the framework program to... Agent: Venable LLP

20090083375 - Installation of a virtualization environment: The invention provides a method and apparatus for downloading a Virtualization Environment comprising an electronic programming guide (EPG) and an appliance environment onto a client. The EPG is launched from boot files stored in the hard disk or other boot media. The EPG comprises a user interface (UI) that is... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090083371 - Method and system for realizing electronic data output: The present application discloses a method and system for realizing electronic data output. The method includes the following steps: collecting electronic data; transforming the electronic data to desired format to be stored; reading the transformed electronic data through network; and outputting the transformed electronic data to medium.... Agent: Byip, Ltd.

20090083373 - Publicized information use apparatus, publicized information use method, and computer program product: An image forming device 1 is provided with: a setting information storage portion 1K1 that stores root processing setting information DTR indicating a method by which each piece of RSS data is to be used after being obtained; a download processing portion 102 that downloads RSS data from a server;... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090083374 - System and method for automating the management, routing, and control of multiple devices and inter-device connections: A system and method for managing, routing and controlling devices and inter-device connections located within an environment to manage and control the environment using a control client is presented. A user configures a presentation environment into one or more sub-environments, restricts access to one or more devices of a presentation... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20090083372 - System and methods for distributing trusted time: Systems and methods for distributing trusted time, including trusted dates with digital data files, which are accessed, created, modified, received, or transmitted by devices that include a trusted time source in a tamperproof environment. The system includes one or more subsystems for providing trusted time for a moment in time.... Agent: Venable LLP

20090083379 - Enabling connections for use with a network: An apparatus for enabling connections for use with a network comprising at least one vertex, the apparatus comprising: a receiver, for receiving a first message associated with the first vertex, wherein the first message comprises an indication that the first vertex wishes to join the network; a generator, responsive to... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090083377 - Meeting coordinator: The present invention is a new system and method for enabling multiple users of computerized schedulers to automatically find a time for a meeting. According to embodiments of the present invention a user of the system sends a request to other participants of the meeting to coordinate the meeting via... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090083378 - System and method to control collaboration participation: A system and method is provided for controlling collaboration participation. The system includes a computing infrastructure configured to monitor endpoint collaboration devices and/or users. The computing infrastructure is also configured to authorize collaboration between one or more of the endpoint collaboration devices and/or users with an initiating device if the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090083384 - Collaborative email with hierachical signature authority: Writing a collaborative email document with hierarchical authorities including establishing a collaborative email document on an administrator's computer, identifying one or more signatories for the document, identifying one or more collaborators who are authorized to view and edit the document, providing to the collaborators copies of the document for viewing... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090083385 - Device centric controls for a device controlled through a web portal: A system controls computer network communication devices in a background session in accordance with a control database. The system includes a computer network communication device having a non-volatile memory containing a unique device identifier and a communication module for communicating with a control site, the communication module being configured to... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20090083383 - Dynamic instant comments: Dynamically providing instant comments. A first instruction is received for activating an instant commenting tool for enabling instant commenting on a web media object on an online environment. The web media object is identified by the activated instant commenting tool in response to the received first instruction. An instant comment... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090083380 - Managing instant messenger contacts at a contact center: Instant messaging contacts received at a contact center are directed to a conference with other such contacts before being allocated to an agent. In this way, customers of the contact center are entertained while waiting and have the ability to resolve one another's problems, thereby reducing the load on the... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090083381 - Methods and systems for handling electronic message content for electronic communications devices: Methods and systems for handling electronic message content for electronic communications device are presented. An exemplary method for handling electronic message content for an electronic communications device includes receiving an electronic message that includes default message content at the communications device, and determining at the communications device whether alternate message... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090083382 - Real-time presence of online contacts: In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, a method for dynamically generating online contacts for an instant messaging (IM) environment in response to receiving login information from a user is provided. The method includes receiving at least one predetermined core IM contact associated with the user at a core... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090083387 - System and method for generating configurations used for accessing electronic mailboxes: A system and method generates configurations used for accessing electronic mailboxes. A database stores the configuration conventions that are sets of e-mail expressions formed by symbols. A transformer module expands configuration conventions stored in the database to generate configurations based on user supplied context data.... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090083388 - System for information capture: A system for information capture for use in an environment comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein a node communicates with another node via an electronic message and wherein expertise information is associated with a first set of the plurality of nodes. The system comprises means for receiving an input comprising... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090083386 - Systems and methods for distributing media content: Various embodiments of the present invention relate generally to methods and systems for distributing media resources used for worship services. In particular, various embodiments provide systems and methods that include a library of diverse types of media resources and an interface through which a user searches the library for diverse... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090083389 - Method and interface for multi-threaded conversations in instant messaging: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing multi-threaded conversations in an instant messaging system. The present invention provides a menu option to allow the start of a new topic of discussion within the current instant messaging session. When a new topic is selected, a new thread of conversation is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090083390 - Automatic clustering for self-organizing grids: Computational grids have traditionally not scaled effectively due to administrative hurdles to resource and user participation. Most production grids are essentially multi-site supercomputer centers, rather than truly open and heterogeneous sets of resources that can join and leave dynamically, and that can provide support for an equally dynamic set of... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20090083391 - Automatic control system with network gateway and method for operating the same: An automatic control system includes a host, a network gateway operatively connected to the host, and a plurality of programmable logic controllers (PLC) operatively connected to the network gateway. The network gateway includes a controller and registers. The controller backups data from specific addresses in the PLC to the registers... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20090083392 - Simple, efficient rdma mechanism: A server interconnect system for sending data includes a first server node and a second server node. Each server node is operable to send and receive data. The interconnect system also includes a first and second interface unit. The first interface unit is in communication with the first server node... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Sun / Stk

20090083393 - Data synchronous system for synchronizing updated data in a redundant system: A data synchronous system synchronizes, between servers each having a shared memory, data which are stored on the respective shared memories. The system includes a data writer which writes data into the shared memory in one of the servers and then generates write state information on the write state of... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090083394 - Multimedia content delivery method and system: d

20090083396 - Audio-visual navigation and communication dynamic memory architectures: Buffering data associated with a spatial publishing object data store at a buffer distance proximate a user presence in a spatial publishing object space. The buffer distance comprises a measure based at least in part on: capacity of a communications path between the data store and the user platform; availability... Agent: King & Spalding

20090083395 - Proxy server and network computer system: When, in a network computer system, a Web browser on a host computer acquires information about images or the like from a network or the like, it analyzes the data received in a proxy server, and, in case the details of the data are moving images, transmits substitute images with... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090083398 - Autonomous network device configuration method: An embodiment of the present invention comprises a method of configuring one or more target network devices for operation, that further comprises the steps of creating an object for deployment to a predetermined target network device, the object having configuration data for configuring the target network device, and at least... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090083402 - Method and apparatus for displaying browser in portable terminal: A method and system are provided which enhance a browser function in a portable terminal by controlling MIME types to be received and processed according to a network condition. User's preferred one or more MIME types can be previously set. When the portable terminal is connected to the server, it... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090083397 - Method for loading a program module into a network device and network with network devices: A method for loading program modules into programmable network devices of a network comprises loading an ID-generator into each network device for generating a unique identification code for the network devices. Next the program modules are loaded into the network devices based on the identification codes. Thus selective programming of... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag Patent Department

20090083403 - Method, device and system for implementing vpn configuration service: The present invention provides a method, device and system for implementing a VPN configuration service. According to the invention, a VPN configuration request message is received at a network side and a verification is performed on the VPN configuration request message with a directory service table; and the directory service... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090083400 - Network service configuration management: The system remotely manages the configuration of one or several network services (20). The management server (10) has access to a database (12) which stores a representation of the configuration of the network service (20). An agent software component (18)—running preferably on the network device providing the managed service (20)—has... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20090083399 - Network traffic routing: A service appliance is installed between production servers running service applications and service users. The production servers and their service applications provide services to the service users. In the event that a production server is unable to provide its service to users, the service appliance can transparently intervene to maintain... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090083401 - System and method for automatically setting up configurations of home network: Provided are a system and method for automatically setting up configurations of a home network. The system includes a setting information manager, placed within an individual home, for collecting and managing setting information associated with configurations of the home network. The setting information manager shares the setting information with a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090083405 - Maximizing application availability during automated enterprise deployments: A method of deploying enterprise applications or updates to data processing systems in a complex data processing environment. The enterprise applications or updates are phase deployed to the target data processing systems. Phased deployment includes the steps of preparing one affected node, quiescing all affected servers in the node, stopping... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090083404 - Software deployment in large-scale networked systems: Software deployment to server nodes within large-scale networked systems is provided using image-based deployment. A mostly immutable image is provided at a central service and transferred from the central service to the server nodes. The image includes a base image, which is immutable, and a delta image, which is writable... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090083406 - Dynamic host configuration protocol (dhcp) message interception and modification: In an embodiment, a method includes intercepting a configuration message from a first network node addressed to a third network node, and modifying the intercepted configuration message to provide a modified configuration message that includes address information associated with a second network node that is configured to provide bootstrap information... Agent: Norman E. Carte Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20090083407 - Crisscross cancellation protocol: Technologies, systems, and methods for ordered message delivery that avoid message races or crisscrosses between communicating nodes. For example, if Node A sends message 3 towards Node B and, shortly thereafter, Node B sends message X to Node A, Node A would like to know whether or not message X... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090083410 - Information notification system, update information notification method, and terminal unit: An information notification system of the present invention includes a server unit 100 and a plurality of terminal units 120a to 120c, the server unit 100 storing update information data 101a. The update information data 101a contains a filter description part 104b containing information that allows designation of terminal units... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.

20090083408 - Integrated data-model and flow based policy system: Disclosed is a system for managing policies related to services offered to customers of network and service providers. The system enables operators and service providers to efficiently manage and define generic policies on top of their services via a code-free centralized interface. The infrastructure solution enables the operators, subscribers and... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090083409 - Remote monitoring of local behavior of network applications: Computer-executable instructions comprising some or all of a program can be delivered to a client for execution on a real-time basis such that the client receives anew the computer-executable instructions for each new execution of the program. Such an environment enables instrumentation instructions to be inserted into the computer-executable instructions... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090083413 - Distributed frequency data collection via dns: Domain Name Service (DNS) requests are used as the reporting vehicle for ensuring that security-related information can be transferred from a network. As one possibility, a central facility for a security provider may maintain a data collection capability that is based upon receiving the DNS requests containing the information being... Agent: Terry Mchugh Law Offices Of Terry Mchugh

20090083412 - Illustration supported p2p media content streaming: A system and method for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) media content streaming are provided. In one embodiment, prior to streaming desired original media content, a playback agent of a first peer playback device downloads illustration media content, which is a derivate light-weight version of the original media content. The playback agent then... Agent: Flashpoint Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20090083421 - Internet website traffic flow analysis: An Internet-based analysis tool follows, in real-time, the flow of traffic through a website. For every website page requested by a website visitor, the state of the visitor's browser is recorded and data relating to the path visitors take through the website is collected and studied. The state of the... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090083420 - Method and apparatus for automatically conducting hardware inventories of computers in a network: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for conducting an inventory of a data processing system. When a basic input output system (BIOS) is launched during a boot process for the data processing system, the basic input output system creates a hardware report of the data processing system. This report is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090083418 - Method and apparatus for providing real friends count: A method and apparatus for tracking communications in a network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a subscription from a customer for a service to track at least one variable associated with a plurality of communicants of the customer. The method identifies a plurality of members of a social... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090083417 - Method and apparatus for tracing users of online video web sites: The method and/or apparatus monitors and records the times when a user interacts with a network video player, e.g. a web video player, while watching an online video clip. Specifically, a data collection agent (DCA) is loaded to the player or to a web page that displays the video clip.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090083414 - Method and system for monitoring and analyzing peer-to-peer users' activities over a data network: The present invention relates to a method and system for monitoring peer-to-peer traffic over a data network, comprising (a) file identifier unit (105) for searching the peer-to-peer network (126) according to search criteria, and retrieving identifiers of files that are shared over said peer-to-peer network (126); (b) an enabler (110)... Agent: Kevin D. Mccarthy Roach Brown Mccarthy & Gruber, P.C.

20090083416 - Methods to verify wireless node placement for reliable communication in wireless sensor control networks: In one exemplary embodiment, a method of verifying placement of automation components configured for use within a building automation system is disclosed. The method includes determining a wireless communication channel for use within a building automation system, polling a plurality of automation components deployed within the building automation system, wherein... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090083411 - System and method for remote control of multiple devices: The present invention is a system and method for operating multiple devices using a new remote control method. The following new techniques are illustrated for operating multiple devices using the remote control method of the present invention comprising the steps of operating multiple devices simultaneously; and performing an operation checked... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090083419 - System, apparatus and method for maintaining presence information of public group members: A system for maintaining presence information of public group members is provided, which includes a presence server and a group list management server, and further includes a presence group server, connected to the presence server and the group list management server and adapted to obtain information of the public group... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090083415 - Unobtrusive methods and systems for collecting information transmitted over a network: The present invention relates generally to unobtrusive methods and systems for collecting information transmitted over a network utilizing a data collection system residing between an originator system and a responding system. In one embodiment the Originator System can be a web browser and the Responding System can be a web... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20090083422 - Apparatus and method for improving network infrastructure: An apparatus for improving network infrastructure includes multiple network components. The network components include a Firewall and a Domain Name Service server. The network components may also include a Network Attached Storage device, an On-Demand Ad Hoc Network service provider, a Local Load Balancer, a Global Load Balancer, a Multi-Protocol... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090083424 - Apparatus, methods, and computer program products providing a dynamic header structure for signaling resource allocations: In one non-limiting, exemplary embodiment, a method includes: receiving a message including a resource allocation map having a first portion and a second portion; utilizing the first portion to determine a specific mapping scheme of a plurality of mapping schemes, wherein the determined specific mapping scheme is used for the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090083425 - Grid organization: A method includes, in a grid computing environment, maintaining systems having grid managers having hierarchical relations, the relations of each grid manager stored in each of the systems. Each of these hierarchical relations are classified as superior or inferior.... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20090083423 - System and computer program product for zoning of devices in a storage area network: A system and computer program product for performing zoning of devices, such as Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) devices, for example, in a storage area network (SAN) in which all host systems of the SAN are automatically mapped to all of the storage systems are provided. Mechanisms for automatically mapping backend... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090083426 - method and arrangement for enabling multimedia communication: A method and arrangement in a multimedia gateway connected to a multimedia service network, for providing access to multimedia services for communication devices connected to a private network. The multimedia gateway may include a device database, a communication unit and a logic unit. A service identity is associated with the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090083427 - Communication system, relay apparatus, relay method and computer readable medium: The communication system includes: an apparatus that mounts a processing unit which executes transmission and reception of a signal with an external apparatus and which processes the received signal; and a relay apparatus that relays transmission and reception of a signal between the external apparatus and the apparatus. The relay... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090083428 - Switching between conenctivity types to maintain connectivity: Techniques are provided for leveraging narrowband connectivity (such as dial-up communications or other types of low bandwidth communications) to provision or configure broadband connectivity between a broadband access provider and a broadband device, such as a DSL modem or a cable modem. Specifically, because narrowband connectivity does not require advance... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090083431 - Content rate selection for media servers with proxy-feedback-controlled frame transmission: In a method for dynamically setting a content rate of a multimedia session for a client in a network, a proxy server receives a channel condition feedback message from a network controller and determines whether a receiver report message has been received from the client since a most recent previous... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090083429 - Generic digital rights management framework, and applications thereof: Methods, systems and computer program products to implement generic Digital Rights Management (DRM) are provided herein. The methods include opening a session between an initiator and a responder, exchanging one or more of device and system information and sending one of an operation or event based on DRM capabilities, DRM... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090083430 - Method for secure user plane (supl) version negotiation: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for negotiating a version of Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) between a network entity and a SUPL enabled terminal. In a particular implementation, a SUPL initiation message is transmitted from a network entity to a SUPL entity, where the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090083434 - Coded application data unit order recovery in layered multicast: Systems and methods are provided which allow receivers to recover the decoding order of network abstraction layer (NAL) units conveyed in different Real Time Protocol (RTP) sessions. An indication of decoding order for application data units (ADUs) in each packet is included in the packet structure of a PACSI NAL... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090083435 - Online playback system with community bias: A method for entertaining individuals according to a community having similar tastes. Information derived from user accounts form the basis of a community and collateral preferences allow other subscribing individuals to enjoy the benefit of wider-ranging tastes according to the preferences expressed by the other members of the community. Additionally,... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090083433 - Reducing or minimizing delays in peer-to-peer communications such as peer-to-peer video streaming: A new P2P streaming method and apparatus disseminates video chunks to all peers with the minimum (or at least reduced) delay. After obtaining a new video chunk, a peer keeps transmitting (uploading) that video chunk to other peers until all peers receive it. The approach quickly increases the aggregate bandwidth... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20090083432 - Traffic control system and traffic control method: A traffic control system 100 includes: a quality measuring unit 110 that measures communication quality on a communication line A between a relay server 300 and a client terminal 400; an upstream specifying unit 111 that specifies an amount of streaming data, in a communication line B between a video... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090083436 - Wireless broadcast protocol: In a keyboard-video-mouse (“KVM”) system in which a target computer may be wirelessly accessed by a plurality of remote stations, a method includes, by the target computer: obtaining a frame of video data; transmitting packets for the frame; transmitting a query packet; obtaining a list of requests from at least... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20090083437 - Provision of a service to several separately managed networks: A domain name server to be connected to a telecommunications network, the server comprising storage means for storing the names of the network elements constituting the management domain of the domain name server and the IP addresses corresponding to the names, and mapping means for mapping the received access point... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090083438 - Network system, network administration apparatus, communication apparatus, path setting method and program: The present invention provides a network system, a network administration apparatus, a communication apparatus, a path setting method and a program that can set a path by autonomous distributed control through an autonomous distributed control non-adaptive apparatus in a network including both an autonomous distributed control adaptive apparatus and the... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090083439 - Data transmission device, data transmission system and address registration method: A data transmission device receives an instruction from a user via a user interface to search for address information registered in an LDAP server. An address management module of the data transmission device acquires the address information from the LDAP server, and a list of the address information is displayed... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090083440 - Document management server and control method of document management server: A document management server includes: a storage unit configured to store a document as associated with a temporarily registered user ID; a determining unit configured to determine whether to perform main registration of the temporarily registered user ID or to reject main registration; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090083443 - Autonomous service backup and migration: A service appliance is installed between a production server running a service applications and service users. Upon being connected with the production server, the service appliance contacts the production server and/or service application and automatically replicates the service data from the service application. As additional service data is added to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090083444 - Method for the automatic time synchronisation of devices in network-based systems: A method is based on a communication- and data network for the automatic time synchronisation of field devices, namely fill-level measuring devices and pressure measuring devices as well as field-device control units. The method comprises the steps of: determining a current time value by the field device or by the... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20090083441 - Synchronization of web service endpoints in a multi-master synchronization environment: A Web service synchronization protocol is provided that sets forth the metadata and messaging by which endpoints roam, share and synchronize common information with one another in a multi-master networked computing ecosystem. A general SOAP-based protocol is defined for synchronizing data between two endpoints where one or more of the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090083442 - Tracking identifier synchronization: A tracking identifier synchronization system using a convergent selection method comprises first party instructions accessed through a content provider and a synchronization system comprising a receiver, a composer and an output. First party instructions direct the client to submit a request comprising a third party cookie to a synchronization system.... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20090083445 - Method and system for virtual port communications: A method and system may provide virtual port communications. A data frame, containing a destination identifier in a destination field and payload, may be modified by inserting a first virtual machine tag therein. The first virtual machine tag may include a first virtual port identifier for identifying a first logical... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090077157 - Architect for process sharing between independent systems/applications in medical imaging: Method and system for process sharing in a medical imaging system are disclosed. A first application system is provided capable of processing data within a second application system. A process sharing system residing outside of the second application system is configured for enabling process sharing of the first application system... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090077156 - Efficient constraint monitoring using adaptive thresholds: Methods for tracking anomalous behavior in a network referred to as non-zero slack schemes are provided. The non-zero slack schemes reduce the number of communication messages in the network necessary to monitor emerging large-scale, distributed systems using distributed computation algorithms by generating more optimal local constraints for each remote site... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090077159 - Method, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for controlling communication: A transfer controller determines whether or not a communication message received by a receiver satisfies a predetermined condition, on the basis of data stored in a communication data storage. When the communication message received by the receiver satisfies the predetermined condition, the transfer controller stops and cancels the process for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090077158 - System and method for embedding a view of a virtual space in a banner ad and enabling user interaction with the virtual space within the banner ad: A system and method for providing a view of a virtual space to a user in a banner ad of a webpage. This enables an advertiser to provide content that is not merely static or scripted, but instead enabled provision of content through a web ad that represents activity within... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090077168 - Access control method and access control device: A client device and a server device are connected to each other via a network. The client device sends an acquire request containing an identifier that indentifies the partial image data to the server device. The server device extracts the identifier from the acquire request, and acquires image information about... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090077163 - Approach for identifying and providing targeted content to a network client with reduced impact to the service provider: A client network is provided, whereby an internet service provider can anonymously acquire behavioral, contextual, and/or demographic information on a client specific basis. The behavioral information may include a historical digest of network activity by the client, such as webpages visited by the client user, content downloaded to the client... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090077164 - Distributed workflow-enabled system: A distributed workflow-enabled system includes: a workflow-enabled provider and a workflow-enabled client communicatively coupled by a network. The workflow-enabled provider and the workflow-enabled client include a workflow unit. The workflow unit allows the workflow-enabled provider and the workflow-enabled client to communicate, distribute processes and present a user interfaces by providing... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090077167 - Forming a security network including integrated security system components: An integrated security system is described that integrates broadband and mobile access and control with conventional security systems and premise devices to provide a tri-mode security network (broadband, cellular/GSM, POTS access) that enables users to remotely stay connected to their premises. The integrated security system, while delivering remote premise monitoring... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090077172 - Image processing apparatus, and method for controlling the same: An information processing apparatus fully utilizing contents available on a network by processing content that cannot be displayed on a built-in browser. A web browser displays in a pop-up fashion a dialog window that queries a user about the process to be performed on undisplayable data if the received data... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090077162 - Medium management device and medium management method: The medium management device includes a communicating unit (11) that communicates with the client device (20); a content data accumulating unit (13) that accumulates content data transmitted to and received from the client device (20); a remaining capacity obtaining unit (15) that obtains remaining capacity indicating an amount of free... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090077173 - Method and apparatus for dynamic data flow control using prioritization of data requests: A data center (14) receives a request (22) for content from a browser (12) on a client (11). The data center determines whether the requested content is available at the data center. The content is available when the content is both present at the data center and current. The content... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090077161 - Modifying time progression rates in a virtual universe: Described herein are processes and devices that intentionally modify time progression rates in a virtual universe. One of the devices described is a temporal variation device. The temporal variation device can determine an area, in a virtual universe, in which time progresses at a specific time progression rate. The temporal... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090077169 - Network device, service providing method, and service providing program: A network device providing a service to a client device connected via a network. An information providing section provides information that promotes accessing the service by the client device. A service execution section executes the requested service according to a request from the client device based upon information provided by... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090077166 - Obtaining location information of a server: A system for obtaining location information of a server. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention cause a node to obtain correlation of a first address of at least one target server with a second address of the at least one target server based on the second address of the... Agent: Ibm Rp-rps Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090077174 - Server-based computing environment: In a method for providing a client computer (5) with a user interface for controlling at least one application that can be run locally on the client computer (5), which client computer (5) is connected to a server (1) through a network (2) and comprises a display device (7), an... Agent: Knoble, Yoshida & Dunleavy

20090077160 - System and method for providing media content selections: A system and method using events to traverse a content selection path for the purpose of providing media content selections are provided. In general, events are defined based on one or more stimulus such as, but not limited to, a chronological-based stimulus, a location-based stimulus, a user-based stimulus, a third-party... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20090077175 - System for development, management and operation of distributed clients and servers: A lightweight application server for use on portable or embedded devices includes an application manager and services containers. Each of these is managed by an admin server allowing for remote and rapid deployment and maintenance of applications, objects and features associated with the server-enabled portable or embedded devices. This permits... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090077170 - System, architecture and method for real-time collaborative viewing and modifying of multimedia: A system, architecture and method for real-time viewing and collaborative modification of data is disclosed. The platform utilizes pointers to quickly and efficiently render data at a user location. A mechanism for viewing and disseminating modifications in real-time is disclosed.... Agent: Matthew L. Ahart

20090077171 - Systems and methods for monitoring webpages: Webpages at a universal resource locator (URL) address are compared at two different times. A request is received from a web browser for a first webpage at the URL. The first webpage is requested and received from the URL at a first time. A selectable webpage is created by editing... Agent: Kasha Law LLC

20090077165 - Workflow manager for a distributed system: A workflow manager handles the communication between a workflow-enabled provider and a workflow-enabled client. The workflow manager maintains a directory of clients, translates a transaction from a provider into multiple transactions suitable for the client, and handles security. In one embodiment, the workflow manager connects with the workflow-enabled client by... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090077177 - Componentized site engine services: A plurality of modules which provide a user with tools for engaging in social networking are created. The plurality of modules are associated with a service. A server hosting the web space receives a selection from the user corresponding to a first module. In response to the selection, the server... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090077176 - Method, apparatus and computer program product implementing a chat application proxy and a chat application wrapper in a chat system: Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement a chat proxy component and a chat wrapper component. The chat proxy component controls interactions with a chat application by external users. The chat proxy component receives chat requests from external users and initiates a chat session only if a user is validated... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090077185 - Automatic-reply instant messeging system and method thereof: An automatic-reply instant messaging system and a method thereof are provided. First, an identity classification of a contactor is previously classified, when the contactor sends a message to a computer platform, a recognition unit and a message meaning identification unit in the computer platform respectively recognizes the identity classification of... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090077188 - Event notification system and method: A notification system comprises a plurality of claim checks and a plurality of communication device identifiers. The notification system further comprises a messaging module that is configured to receive an electronic notification of an event. The messaging module is further configured to associate at least one of the claim checks... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20090077186 - Interface, system and method of providing instant messaging service: An interface, a system and a method of providing an instant message service are provided, so as to solve a problem that the interface of providing the instant message service is excessively dull. A first image is used to represent a user, and a second image is used to represent... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090077187 - Method and apparatus for communications: A communication apparatus working as a sub-device wirelessly transmits/receives encrypted data to/from a plurality of communication apparatuses working as main-devices. Upon detecting a plurality of connectable main-devices, the sub-device determines a target main-device for establishing communication based on priority of the detected main-devices. When the sub-device is disconnected from the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090077190 - Method and system for providing access to electronic learning and social interaction with in a single application: A system for managing academic and social life for students includes a central server connected to a wide-area network and storing a repertoire of logic functions for use by students in managing academic activities; and a plurality of computerized appliances associated with individual students, the computerized appliances connectable to the... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090077178 - Method and system for sequencing of electronic mail to derive a specified response trajectory: A method for electronic mail (email) distribution and collaboration, the method includes: composing an email message; designating one or more recipients for the email message; assigning a status to each of the one or more recipients; specifying an order of delivery of the email message to the one or more... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20090077180 - Novel systems and methods for transmitting syntactically accurate messages over a network: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for encoding and retrieving information from a variety of sources using novel search techniques. The systems and methods of the invention are capable of extracting all types of structural and relational information from a query or a source data allowing for... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20090077181 - Providing multi-device instant messaging presence indications: Displaying an instant messaging (IM) presence indicator for each of a plurality of devices associated with a first user, wherein the plurality of devices include a first device representing a first type of instant messaging device and second device representing a second type of instant messaging device. Presence information is... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090077184 - Remote control of mobile terminal via remote control proxy and sms: A remote operator and a mobile terminal initiate contact with a remote control proxy server. These components may be behind a firewall. If a mobile terminal does not have a then-extant session with the remote control proxy server, the remote operator and/or the remote control proxy server may send an... Agent: Newman & Newman, Attorneys At Law, LLP

20090077182 - System and method for identifying email campaigns: A system and method for identifying email campaigns. A first embodiment uses an email client local to email recipients to report email header back to an email monitor server application. The email analysis server application compares the email header information received from many sources and identifies email messages having substantially... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090077179 - System and method for personalized messaging: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to capture a voice recording, add the voice recording to a greeting to produce a personalized message, and deliver the personalized message upon scheduled delivery to at least one recipient based... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090077183 - System and method of updating an event schedule via electronic mail based on a user's calender settings: A method, system and computer program product for associating automated electronic mail (e-mail) with a calendar of events. A sender utilizes an automated e-mail to notify an event's scheduled attendees that the sender is out of office. When utilizing options within a mail user agent, a user may select a... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090077189 - System and methods for using an application layer control protocol transporting spatial location information pertaining to devices connected to wired and wireless internet protocol networks: Application layer signaling is provided from users registering at a presence server for a presence service wherein upon reception the signaling is checked for spatial location information and stored for future use in providing the presence service in association with other user information, such as user identity. The application layer... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090077192 - Server apparatus, terminal apparatus, and communication control method: A server apparatus for establishing communication with a plurality of input/output devices via a network. The apparatus includes: a management unit configured to manage a communication session with the input/output devices; a storage unit configured to store information of the input/output devices in association with group information thereof; an execution... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090077191 - System and method for distributing notifications to a group of recipients: Systems and methods by which a user may use a client computing device (such as a mobile phone, for example) to initiate and send a notification message to a selected group of recipients are provided. The notification message may be an audio message that is delivered by various electronic methods... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090077193 - Enhanced single-node protocol for data, address and control operations: An integrated circuit digital device, acting as a master, communicates with at least one peripheral device, acting as a slave, using an enhanced single-node protocol for data, address and control operation. The peripheral device may be selected from any number of different functions. The peripheral device may be packaged in... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090077194 - Data input terminal, method, and computer readable storage medium storing program thereof: The input unit stores data input by the user in the data storage. The status determiner determines reception status of the screen data to be one of three statuses of “abnormal”, “normal”, and “recovery” from “abnormal” to “normal” on the basis of frame losses. In a case of the “abnormal”... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090077196 - All-hazards information distribution method and system, and method of maintaining privacy of distributed all-hazards information: An information distribution method includes: gathering all-hazards information into an information exchange from a first information source; gathering all-hazards information into the information exchange from a second information source; distributing the all-hazards information from the information exchange to a first independently-controlled alert network; distributing the all-hazards information from the information... Agent: King & Spalding, LLP

20090077198 - Dynamically constrained, forward scheduling over uncertain workloads: Scheduling searchable items such as web pages for crawling involves dynamically scheduling items for downloading based on capacity based on time. The workload is distributed over time, in advance, by anticipating and accounting for the discovery of new links on the particular host. Respective times to download items can be... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090077195 - Method and system for accessing audio/visual content: A method and system for accessing audio/visual content is provided. Such access involves initiating a download of selected content over a communication link, for display on a display device, and monitoring the download status to detect download conditions that may lead to a delay in the display of the selected... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090077197 - Method, pre-fetch server, and system for pre-fetching thin and thick slice image data: In a method and a system to provide medical image data sets stored in a data archive, wherein an image data set contains either thin slice data or thick slice data. A determination is made as to whether a requested image data set contains thin slice data or thick slice... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090077199 - Presence information processing system, information processing apparatus, and presence document schema managing server: A disclosed presence information processing system in which plural information processing devices are connected for exchanging presence information among each other via a network, includes a schema information sharing unit that operates such that the information processing devices can share a presence document schema representing at least one of a... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090077203 - Clock with link to the internet: A system and method wherein a personal computer is operable to access content from a networked environment and to stream the content to a device in response to a request from a user. The content accessed via the networked environment may be based on user preferences. The content may also... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090077204 - Enhanced delivery of audio data for portable playback: A system for selection by a user and delivery to the user over an internetwork transmission channel of selected audio data files at a delivery rate of at least twice the delivery rate for normal, audibly perceptible playback of an audio data file. The user registers the user's selection of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090077202 - Method for creating an extensible content distribution framework: In a network of digital computers (20), a method for facilitating access by a first digital computer (24) to a file that is stored in a local file system tree (198) of a second digital computer (22). The method includes establishing, by recursively combining hierarchical file system trees (198) that... Agent: William M. Pitts

20090077205 - Object transfer control in a communications network: A method and an intermediate component for controlling in a communications network an object transfer from a first network component via the intermediate component to a second network component which is remote from the first network component are described. The object transfer is based on a plurality of object requests... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090077201 - Root node for integrating nas of different user name spaces: A computer apparatus which integrates at least two or more services of user management domains has a processor, a memory and an interface. The processor receives an access request, specifies an access source domain, specifies an access target domain, and judges whether the specified access source domain matches the specified... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090077200 - Shortcut sets for controlled environments: A method and apparatus for shortcut sets to data sources, such as web sites, is disclosed. The shortcut sets may be associated with a controlled environment. A controlled environment might be a home, corporation, business, etc. As an example, an information technology (IT) manager configures shortcuts for the employees of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090077207 - Multi-mode controller: Techniques for controlling and managing network access are used to enable a wireless communication device to selectively communicate with several wireless networks. A portable communication device constructed according to the invention can communicate with different networks as the device is moved through the areas of coverage supported by the different... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090077206 - System and method of installing a network device: A method of installing a network device is disclosed that includes downloading installation data at a portable computing device from a communications provider server via an Internet Protocol (IP) network connection. The installation data includes a script that is adapted to establish IP connectivity between a first network device and... Agent: Toler Law Group

20090077208 - System and method for assigning addresses to information handling systems: Information handling system network addresses are managed to support a consistent MAC address for iSCSI and fibre channel host bus adapter. For example, a management controller retrieves a MAC address from persistent memory, such as a network location, and assigns the MAC address to a non-persistent memory of a predetermined... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090077209 - Particle therapy configuration: A particle therapy system is provided. The particle therapy system includes a plurality of spatially-distributed, configurable systems, which are operable to be configured using configuration data, a central configuration server that is operable to centrally store the configuration data, and a network that connects the configurable systems, with the central... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090077212 - Network management system accelerated event channel: This invention relates to a network management system accelerated event channel. This invention also relates to a method and computer program product for controlling an accelerated event channel in a network management system. The network management system comprising: a probe for intercepting a system event from a monitored system and... Agent: Ibm Corp. (jgt) C/o Toler Law Group

20090077211 - Network management system accelerated event desktop client: This invention relates to a network management system accelerated event desktop client. This invention also relates to a method and computer program product for controlling an accelerated event desktop client in a network management system. The network management system comprises: a probe for intercepting a system event from a monitored... Agent: Ibm Corp. (jgt) C/o Toler Law Group

20090077218 - Software method and system for controlling and observing computer networking devices: Mechanisms for managing the keyboard, video or mouse commands at a target device, which may be a computer or non-computer. During a boot up cycle, the present subject matter uses the intelligent platform management interface and a BIOS management application to receive keyboard or video signals from the BIOS, convert... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20090077213 - System and method for advising network solutions: A system and method advises network solutions. The method comprises receiving a request for a service to be implemented on a network, determining at least one solution to implement the service utilizing existing network components of the network, and presenting the at least one solution to a user. The system... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP/ Motorola

20090077210 - System and method for analyzing and coordinating service-level-agreements (sla) for application-service-providers (asp): The present invention describes a system for automatically monitoring and managing Service Level Agreements on behalf of Service providers (such as Application Service providers). The system is based on a specialized SLA language that can translate complex or simple Service Level Agreements into measurable and controllable criterion. The system enables... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090077219 - System and method for managing content on a network interface: The disclosed invention is a system and method (collectively the “system”) for the automated management of content on a network interface. The network interface can be a web site on the World Wide Web, an Internet location, an intranet location, an extranet location, or some other form of network interface... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090077214 - System for fusing information from assets, networks, and automated behaviors: A system for fusing information from disparate data sources is disclosed. The system comprises a database module operative to maintain an information database identifying one or more items-of-interest, and a situation display module in operative communication with the database module. An asset data plugin is in operative communication with the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090077215 - Using a managing device to configure and locally manage multiple managed devices: A management network that supports local management of managed devices by a managing device while also supporting remote management by a remote device management (DM) server. The managing device comprises a DM client that exposes a management tree for facilitating remote management by the remote DM server. The DM client... Agent: Madhavi Jayanthi

20090077216 - Workflow-enabled client: A workflow-enabled client comprises a client and a workflow manager interface unit. The workflow manager interface unit couples the client to a workflow manager to provide the automatic discovering, distributed processing and dynamic user interface generating functionality of the present invention. A communication manager of the workflow-enabled client has a... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090077217 - Workflow-enabled provider: A workflow-enabled provider includes a service provider and a workflow manager interface unit. The workflow manager interface unit couples the service provider to a workflow manager to provide the automatic discovering, distributed processing and dynamic user interface generating functionality. An advertisement monitor listens for broadcasts from the workflow manager regarding... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090077228 - Behavioral classification of communication sessions using active session initiation: A method includes measuring behavioral characteristics of a plurality of communication sessions in a communication network. A subset of the sessions is identified using the behavioral characteristics, such that the sessions in the subset are suspected of using a target communication protocol. A candidate session is selected from the subset.... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20090077230 - Call processing system and method: A call processing system (10) and method are disclosed. The connection status between a node (30) and a data communications network (30) is monitored, the node (30) being arranged to receive calls over the data communications network, wherein if a call connection request is received for the node within a... Agent: Leason Ellis LLP

20090077231 - Device information management apparatus, device information management method, and storage medium: A device information management apparatus for processing a report from a device management client during a failure of a transaction system is disclosed. The device information management apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive the report from the device management client; a determining unit configured to determine whether to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090077222 - Kvm switch and multi-computer system incorporating the same: The invention discloses KVM switches comprising a body, a data transceiver, a micro control unit, and a display disposed on the body. The data transceiver receives data from a plurality of computers. The micro control unit analyzes and operates the received data to generate an image. The image may show... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090077233 - Load control device and method thereof: The number of response-waiting requests which are already sent to a server (4) but to which a response is not yet returned from the server (4) is limited. To limit this number, received requests are temporarily accumulated in a buffer if the number of response-waiting requests has reached a threshold... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20090077225 - Method and apparatus for distributing and activating security parameters: An apparatus and method for distributing and activating a new security parameter in a computer network in a non-disruptive manner includes transmitting a new security parameter to the an element in the network, instructing the element to place the new security element in a pending database of the element and... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20090077224 - Method and apparatus for propagating accelerated events in a network management system: a probe for intercepting a system event from a monitored system and creating event items or modifying event items associated with the system events; a collection database server collecting, in database of event items, a batch of new event items or modifications to an existing event items; a client; a... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20090077226 - Method and system of auto-monitoring network ports: A method of auto-monitoring network ports includes the steps of: receiving at least one path of an application program; detecting whether or not the application program represented by the received path needs at least one network port; notifying a router to open the relative network port required by the application... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090077223 - Methods and systems involving monitoring website content: An exemplary embodiment of a system for monitoring website content, including, a browser client operative to send a first request for content to a first website server, the content stored on a second website server, an intermediate server, operative to receive a URL associated with the content, from the first... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20090077229 - Procedures and models for data collection and event reporting on remote devices and the configuration thereof: Systems and methods are disclosed to monitoring a remote object with a remote client to receive a configuration file directing the remote client to capture events of interest specified by one or more rules; a wireless network to communicate events of interest captured by the remote client; and a server... Agent: Tran & Associates

20090077232 - Remote activity monitoring: A computer readable medium and system for remotely monitoring activity includes generating first server heartbeat information at a first server at a local site, and storing the first server heartbeat information in a first primary site disk at the local site. The method also includes sending the first server heartbeat... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090077220 - System and method for identifying music content in a p2p real time recommendation network: A peer-to-peer (P2P) network for providing real time media recommendations is provided. The media recommendations may be song recommendations or video recommendations. Each time a media presentation is played by a peer device, the peer device provides a recommendation identifying the media presentation to other peer devices in the P2P... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20090077227 - System and method for monitoring network communications originating in monitored jurisdictions: A method of monitoring network communications originating in monitored jurisdictions includes a step of identifying a monitored jurisdiction within a computer network based on predetermined criteria. The computer network includes at least one monitored jurisdiction and at least one unmonitored jurisdiction. A database is queried to identify at least one... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell, Mcneil & Harper

20090077221 - System for analyzing and visualizing access statistics for a web site: A method for monitoring and visualizing user access made to a web site is disclosed. The method comprises: embedding in a web page to be monitored code to request a thumbnail image from a site when the page is loaded into a browser. The embedded code also includes a user-activateable... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090077234 - Server and server program: A server comprises a content database for storing content files of a plurality of contents; a content information database for storing the content information of the content; a sharing section for sharing the content information with other server connected to a network; an access control section which permits or prohibits... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090077236 - Apparatus and method for managing services received in a local area network: This invention concerns a method for managing access to reception services of resources of a distribution gateway within a local area network. The gateway comprises means for receiving digital services and the capacity to distribute over the local area network to clients the received services. It consists in using levels... Agent: Joseph J Laks Thomason Licensing

20090077235 - Mechanism for profiling and estimating the runtime needed to execute a job: A mechanism is provided for estimating the amount of time needed to execute a job. The mechanism receives a request to execute a new job. The mechanism processes the request to determine the job profile signature for the new job, which is based on a set of job characteristics of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP And Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20090077237 - Method for establishing a bidirectional point-to-point connection: A communication device (S) for an MPLS network comprises a signaling module capable of establishing a point-to-multipoint MPLS connection tree with a plurality of leaf nodes (A, B) by transmitting a connection request message and by receiving a reservation method in response, said connection request message comprising addresses of said... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090077238 - Method, node apparatus and system for reserving network resources: The present invention provides a method, a system, and node apparatus for reserving network resources. The method includes: obtaining a logic transport network identifier of a logic transport network carried in a resource reserve request; and reserving link resources for the logic transport network corresponding to the logic transport network... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090077240 - Method and apparatus for implementing a mobile server: Methods and apparatus are provided for transmitting data to a client device from a computer module in a vehicle. Data is transmitted from the computer module over an in-vehicle network to an in-vehicle communications gateway module. The data from the computer module is destined for the client device. A request... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gm)

20090077241 - Method of forwarding/sharing service and device of enabling the method: A terminal apparatus for forwarding/sharing a data service is provided. The terminal apparatus for forwarding/sharing the data service includes a service receiver to receive the data service from a service provision apparatus; a connector to perform a connection with a corresponding terminal; and a service forwarding unit to forward the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090077242 - Method, terminal, device and system for obtaining id information of application service: The present invention discloses a method, a terminal, a device, and a system for obtaining ID information of an application service to solve the problem of the prior art that a terminal cannot automatically obtain the ID information of a target application service. In the invention, a first device sends... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090077239 - Server apparatus, mobile terminal, electric appliance, communication system, communication method, and program: A server apparatus, a mobile terminal, an electric appliance, a communication system, a communication method and a program for notifying a mobile terminal user in the open of the cause of a failure of P2P connection. In a communication system, an electric appliance (101), a server apparatus (103) and a... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090077245 - Client-to-client direct rtp exchange in a managed client-server network: A method for establishing a data packet exchange communication session that allows the exchange of data packets between an originating client and a destination client in a data network having a client-server arrangement is provided. An originating client transmits communications session request data message to a communications management server via... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090077243 - Conversation recovery method: A system for recovering from an interruption of communication on a network between computer users which includes a computer network connecting a plurality of users using computers in a communication session. A computer readable medium encoded with a computer program is connected to at least one of the users' computers... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090077244 - System, method, and device for scheduling a future time for a communication session: A method for scheduling another time for a communication session when a called party is presently unable or unwilling to accept an incoming call. A first user's communications device receives a request for a communication session from a second user's communications device. Upon failure to accept the request, a server... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20090077248 - Balancing access to shared resources: Methods, systems, and computer program products for accessing a shared resource in a data processing system by a plurality of clients are disclosed. In one example, a privilege limit for a privileged use of the shared resource is associated a with each client. A use indicator is measured for each... Agent: Ibm Corp. (austinIPLaw)

20090077250 - Computer and access control method in a computer: A CPU 11 executes a management program B (Pb), from a management program A (Pa) receives authentication information, a request, and a program ID, and determines whether the authentication information is correct. If the authentication information is correct, the CPU 11 acquires the execution authority information of the authenticated user,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090077246 - Load balancing and admission scheduling in pull-based parallel video servers: A pull-based parallel video server system and method of implementation useful in an on-demand video system includes a plurality of slave admission schedulers operating in parallel with a master admission scheduler to back up the master admission scheduler that controls access to an array of pull-based video servers according to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090077249 - Method and device for implementing remote control of a terminal: Disclosed are a method and a device for remote control of a terminal, in which authentication information is requested from the control terminal after a control request for a controlled terminal is received; and when the identification information from the control terminal is correct, dynamic identification information of the controlled... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090077247 - System and method for optimizing download user service delivery to roaming clients: A system and method for providing MBMS content distribution using unicast bearers. According to various embodiments, MBMS download user services are delivered to pieces of user equipment by delivering a FLUTE file delivery table via an OMA Push message. One of a number of different additional actions may be used... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090077251 - Protocol for enabling dynamic and hierarchical interconnection of autonomous federations of enterprise service buses: In a method and system for creating an interconnection between autonomous enterprise service buses (ESB) federations, each one of the ESB federations comprise at least one ESB deployment, which further include a plurality of ESB nodes that provide connectivity to one or more services. According to a protocol, a first... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20090077255 - Accelerated channel change in rate-limited environments: Accelerated channel change (ACC) strategies are described for supplying a client module with media information by transitioning between a first delivery of media information provided by first delivery functionality and a second delivery of media information provided by second delivery functionality without exceeding prescribed data rate limitations. The first delivery... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090077256 - Dynamic change of quality of service for enhanced multi-media streaming: The present invention describes a method and apparatus to change the QoS automatically to minimize the initial delay in multimedia streaming. Additional QoS parameters may be used to enable the automatic selection of initial data rate and transition to steady state date rate. The method enhances the user experience with... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090077253 - Enhanced tabular data stream protocol: Systems and methodologies are provided as part of a computing environment that implements an enhanced tabular data stream (TDS) protocol. Such enhanced TDS protocol can mitigate synchronization inconsistencies between client and servers, improve robustness of the data transfer, facilitate password specification as part of login procedures, and reduce administration overhead.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090077252 - Optimized data stream compression using data-dependent chunking: Systems and methods for compression of data to be transmitted are described. A data stream, such as a byte code sequence, is partitioned into one or more data chunks. The data chunks can be associated with an identifier, such as a signature that differentiates one data chunk from the other.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090077254 - System and method for streamed-media distribution using a multicast, peer-to- peer network: In one embodiment, a system for streamed-media distribution comprises a first media stream received at a streaming server, at least a first and a second client in communication with the streaming server, first and second sub-stream packet streams created from the first media stream at the streaming server, and received... Agent: Maldjian & Fallon LLC

20090077257 - System and method for trouble detection, isolation, and management: A method of detecting and isolating a fault includes collecting information regarding utilization of a resource of a device. The method further includes predicting the fault based on the information and modifying operation of the device in response to the fault.... Agent: At&t Legal Department, Attn: Patent Docketing

20090077259 - Method and device for transmitting data to several receivers using arq: The present invention concerns a method and a device for transmitting data between a sender, and at least two receivers, in a network where a data between a sender and a receiver is carried on a connection and where a unicast connection enables a sender to send the data and... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090077258 - Negotiated wireless peripheral systems: Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in mobile network communication systems. A mobile unit such as a smart phone is preferably equipped with a wireless local area network connection and a wireless wide area network connection. The local area network connection is used to establish a position-dependent... Agent: Rpx Corporation

20090077260 - Application platform: A method and system for mapping logical identifiers to physical identifiers is provided. In one embodiment, a logical routing system allows each application, or more generally entity (e.g., user of an application), to register its logical identifier to physical identifier mapping when the application starts executing on a computer. To... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090077261 - Method and system for file transfer over a messaging infrastructure: A method and system for file transfer over a messaging infrastructure are provided. The method includes dividing a file into multiple portions. The method includes generating for a current portion of a file, except for the first portion in a file, a first hash summarizing the state of the file... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090077263 - Methods and apparatus for dataset synchronization in a wireless environment: Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products are provided for wirelessly synchronizing datasets that are stored on a wireless device and at a network device, such as a network server or database. Present aspects provide for a simplified and efficient synchronization process, whereby synchronization can be completed in a single... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090077264 - Resource information managing device, system, method, and program: Resource information is managed chronologically even in a large-scale distributed system or an information terminal network where time synchronization is not established. A resource information collection device confirms if time synchronization is established with a resource information generation device when resource information is collected from the resource information generation device... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090077262 - System and method for synchronization between servers: A system and method for synchronizing data between two or more servers including replicating at least a portion of an original data set, associated with a first server, to provide a replicated data set, associated with a second server, the replicated data set based upon, at least in part, the... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090077266 - Method and apparatus for implementing a mobile server: Methods and apparatus are provided for transmitting data from remote server device to a computer module in a vehicle. A request for data is transmitted from the computer module over an in-vehicle network to an in-vehicle communications gateway module. The request for data from the computer module is destined for... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gm)

20090077267 - Method and apparatus for implementing a mobile server: Methods and apparatus are provided for transmitting data between a client device and a vehicle. A server hosted at an in-vehicle communications gateway module sends a software component comprising a non-standard transfer protocol module to a browser application hosted at the client device in response to a request from the... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gm)

20090077265 - Method and apparatus for remote initiation of arinc 615 downloads: A method and apparatus for remotely downloading data from a selected one of a plurality of avionics line replaceable units (LRUs) on an aircraft. In one configuration, a method includes transmitting a message wirelessly to a receiver on the aircraft identifying an LRU having data to be downloaded; selectively switching... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090077268 - Low latency multicast for infiniband host channel adapters: A low latency multicasting receive and send apparatus and method comprising low latency receive and send queues. In an InfiniBand® network each destination group of nodes (recipients) is identified by a unique Global ID (GID)+Local ID (LID). Each node whose ports are part of a multicast group identify themselves via... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090077269 - Distributed computing system architecture: A computing system architecture is based upon a peer-to-peer, asynchronous model. The architecture specifies a set of infrastructure facilities that comprise an inter-prise operating system. The inter-prise operating system provides all the facilities that make application coding as easy in the peer-to-peer asynchronous model as it is in a hierarchical,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090070401 - Configurable distributed information sharing system: A configurable distributed information sharing system includes a process for controlling the sharing of data entities among a plurality of interconnected computers including one or more servers and a plurality of client computers. As transactions are processed by the client computers, the client computers log new data records, modified data... Agent: Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, PC

20090070402 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for a distributed network of quantum computers: A problem solving system includes a number of special-purpose computers including at least one quantum computer. Problems are decomposed into sub-problems and routed to one of the special-purpose computers based on the problem class to which the problem belongs. Sub-solutions produced by the special-purpose computers are complied to produce at... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090070403 - Distributed environment controlled access facility: A computer implemented web based access control facility for a distributed environment, which allows users to request for access, take the request through appropriate approval work flow and finally make it available to the users and applications. This program also performs an automatic task of verifying the health of data,... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090070405 - Methods and systems for providing, by a remote machine, access to functionality associated with a resource executing on a local machine: A method for providing, by a remote machine, access to functionality associated with a resource executing on a local machine includes receiving, by a remote agent executing on a remote machine, an identification of a shell extension associated with a resource provided by a local machine. The remote agent installs... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090070404 - Methods and systems for providing, by a remote machine, access to graphical data associated with a resource provided by a local machine: A method for providing, by a remote machine, access to graphical data associated with a resource provided by a local machine includes initializing, by a remote agent on a remote machine, a proxy icon handler. The proxy icon handler receives, from an icon handler on a local machine, data associated... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090070408 - Apparatus and method for managing delivery of media content: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set top box having a controller to receive primary multimedia content from available multimedia content where a determination of the primary multimedia content is based at least in part on monitored user activity associated with the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090070415 - Architecture for mixed media reality retrieval of locations and registration of images: A MMR system for publishing comprises a plurality of mobile devices, an MMR gateway, an MMR matching unit and an MMR publisher. The mobile devices send retrieval requests including image queries and other contextual information. The MMR gateway processes the retrieval request from the mobile devices and then generates an... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090070413 - Displaying content on a mobile device: A method for facilitating the rendering of a web page on a mobile device includes providing an enhanced DOM tree for the web page that includes web page components and their display coordinates. A rule set is applied to the DOM tree, thereby selecting components for display on the mobile... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090070416 - Dual-component state token with state data direct access index for systems with high transaction volume and high number of unexpired tokens: Access to state data by a client process such as state data in an Online Transaction Processing arrangement is controlled through generation of and exchanging of a dual-component token. The first component of the token is an Index value which indirectly points to a block of state data assigned to... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20090070410 - Managing presence information of a presentity: Methods, apparatus, and products for managing presence information of a presentity through a network according to a loosely-coupled network architecture style, the presentity representing a user of the network, are described that include receiving, by the presence information server, a request message to administer presence information of the presentity in... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090070417 - Method, system and device for implementing quality of experience of group session: A system and method for realizing group talk QoE includes the following: a group talk control server determining the group talk QoE type according to preset QoE type corresponding with a group when group talk is established; and the group talk control server configuring the established talk characteristic, according to... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090070411 - Mobile and pervasive output client and device: Pervasive output capability is provided so that an information apparatus can pervasively output digital content to an output device regardless of the processing power, display screen size and memory space of the information apparatus. This allows small mobile devices with limited display, processing power, and memory to be able to... Agent: Ipsolon LLP

20090070412 - Providing personalized platform application content: A social networking website maintains a profile for each user of the website. The profile includes data associated with a user, such as a connection to one or more plurality of other users of the social networking website or user preferences. The social networking website communicates with one or more... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090070414 - System and method for distributing media content using transfer file that eliminates negotiati0n between server and client in point-to-multipoint distribution: Transfer file format, system, signal, and method for performing distribution of media content across computer networks. Transfer file and signal includes signature identifying format of file, header containing information about various parts of transfer file, asset metadata describing technical details about media content, media content that is capable of being... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090070409 - System and method of inter-widget communication: A method and apparatus enabling inter-widget communication and control uses a central server to receive selected widgets and settings associated with at least one widget, wherein the received settings are used to at least partly determine the settings of the other selected widgets according to a pre-defined relationship between or... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20090070418 - System for maintaining state information on a client: The present invention provides a system and method of maintaining state information on a client. In response to a client request for a file located on a server, the file is transmitted from the server to the client. An unmodifiable cookie that specifies state information from the server is also... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20090070406 - Systems and methods for dynamically registering endpoints in a network: Various systems and methods for dynamically registering a communication device with a network are disclosed. As one example, a system is disclosed that includes a home feature server, a central feature server, and a floating feature server. The floating feature server is communicably coupled to at least the home and... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090070407 - Systems and methods for scheduling, producing, and distributing a production of an event: According to various embodiments, an event management system is provided that provides a single interface through which a production team can schedule a production of an event, produce the production of the event, and direct distribution of the production. For example, in one embodiment, the event management system provides a... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090070419 - Administering feeds of presence information of one or more presentities: Methods, apparatus, and products for administering feeds of presence information of one or more presentities including creating a feed definition; adding to the feed definition one or more identifications of presentities; receiving a feed request; creating the feed, the feed including presence information for presentities identified in the feed definition;... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090070423 - Apparatus and methods for information transfer using a cached server: Apparatus and methods for information transfer using a cache server are disclosed. A user requests a file via a file requesting device, over a network, from a host. The host transfers the file to a cache server over a connection at a first scheduled time. The cache server then transfers... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090070422 - Multicast group management in infiniband: A mechanism for managing multicast groups with send-without-receive (SWR) joiners without the use of traps on creation and deletion of groups is provided. Group information is maintained continuously while the SWR member exists. When an SWR join is attempted and the group does not already exist, the group information (MLID)... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090070421 - Real-time chat and conference contact information manager: An extension or accessory to a real-time, online virtual collaboration session, meeting and messaging system, which scans a participant's contact list for partially complete contact records, accesses an administered contact information store such as a corporate personnel contact database, and completes the partially complete records in the participant's contact list.... Agent: Robert H. Frantz

20090070420 - System and method for processing data signals: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a system and method for listeners, or “virtual fans,” to exist in a monitor mode during a real-time multimedia collaboration via a global computer network. In one embodiment, a system for processing data signals via a communication network comprises a first data... Agent: Maldjian & Fallon LLC

20090070426 - Content contribution and placement through external social communities: A method and system for content distribution and placement through external social communities is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes building a work of authorship through a collective coordination of authors of the work of authorship in a community environment, providing a portion of content of the work of... Agent: Raj Abhyanker LLP C/o Intellevate

20090070425 - Data processing system, method of updating a configuration file and computer program product: Provided is a managed node comprising: a management agent comprising:—at least one monitoring element for monitoring at least one of a plurality of managed objects on the managed node according to at least one configuration file, the monitoring element adapted to send a message to a server over a network... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090070424 - System and method to provide a centralized alerting and awareness system through the use of an ear piece or other user interface: The personal information manager system comprises a centralized information manager (CIM) and a personal information manager (PIM) device. The centralized information manager is encoded on a server and is accessable by the PIM device through Internet protocols over a wireless medium. The PIM, to be carried by a user, is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090070431 - Automated instant messaging state control based upon email persona utilization: Communication services are integrated. A communication suite includes several communications accounts for a first communications service and several communications accounts for a second communications service. Logic is configured to detect when one of the communications accounts in the first communication suite for the first communications service is being actively utilized... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090070432 - Electronic communication distribution system: A computer system and associated method to distribute an electronic communication object. The electronic communication object comprises a main communication and a first sub-communication object. The first sub-communication object is embedded within a main communication object. The main communication object comprises a first set of attributes and a first addressee.... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090070429 - Information exchange in wireless servers: Systems and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism for resource sharing. In an embodiment, e-mail messages is routed between mobile wireless clients without first processing the e-mail message through an external e-mail domain identified in the e-mail message. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Research In Motion Corp/slw Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090070433 - Instant message user management: Techniques are disclosed for improving management of user information in instant messaging systems. Expiration criteria are defined, whereby one or more users or user groups may be considered as having “expired” from consideration by instant messaging functions such as presence determination. In particular, instant messaging activity is preferably used as... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20090070428 - Method and device for sending e-mail according to postal address: Directory and storage of addresses in electronic form arranged according to the physical postal address. Directory including sub-directory according multiple email addresses at the same physical address. Computer program to support search for addresses. Computer program to store electronic mail giving access to the recipient. Security provision to allow access... Agent: Uzi Ezra Havosha & Partners

20090070427 - System and method for device-directed processing of remote desktop documents: The subject application is directed to a system and method for device-directed processing of remote desktop documents. A controller functionally integrated with a document processing device is first connected with remote workstations via a computer network. An electronic document is received from one of the workstations having an associated document... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090070430 - System and method for notifying legal status of patents: A method for notifying a legal status of a patent is disclosed. The method includes: setting notification parameters, the notification parameters including one or more patent numbers and/or patent application numbers and an assignee information; downloading a new legal status of patents in a database from the patent office website... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090070434 - System and method for efficiently accessing internet resources: A system, method and apparatus for efficiently accessing Internet resources are disclosed. The system, method and apparatus employ a portable device for receiving and transmitting information such as contact information, voting information and medical information, for example.... Agent: Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Attn:IPDepartment Docket Clerk

20090070435 - Targeted websites based on a user profile: A method, apparatus and system of targeted websites based on a user profile are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating profile information of a user based on interests of the user in a social network, associating links to the user based on contact information added by the user... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090070437 - Methods and systems to manage the viral transfer of rental media: The technology described herein provides systems and methods for the viral transfer of entertainment media with a “media exchange” established based on tools over the internet in a “buddy list,” peer-to-peer, social networking environment, or the like, without utilizing a service provider's distribution system. Additionally, this technology provides tangible media... Agent: Crose Law LLC

20090070436 - Networked touchscreen with integrated interfaces: An integrated security system integrates broadband and mobile access and control with conventional security systems and premise devices to provide a tri-mode security network that with remote connectivity and access. The integrated security system includes a touchscreen providing security keypad functionality as well as content management and presentation, and is... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090070438 - System and method for creating and posting media lists for purposes of subsequent playback: A method and apparatus for creating and posting media is provided. For example, the invention allows a user to quickly create, signal process, encode, and transfer media files to a server for storage, posting, distribution, and retrieval. Thus, media such as audio, video, display, photo, spreadsheet, Web Clips, and HTML... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP New York

20090070440 - Controlling presentation engine on remote device: A communication mechanism or facility for enabling interaction with, and control of, a remote presentation engine for presenting a rich media application, such as one written using animated graphics allows the presentation engine to be configured or instructed remotely to perform certain actions, to send requests, and/or to send information,... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20090070441 - System and method for computer network configuration and operation: A system for simplifying the configuration and administration of computer networks. A the server system first sends a broadcast message out to the other network nodes on the computer network to learn configuration of each other network nodes on the local network. Next, network software within each other network node... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090070439 - System and method for generating a pluggable network stack interface: The subject application is directed to a system and method for generating a pluggable network stack interface. A plurality of common network communication features associated with each of a plurality of network stacks are first mapped via a network interface stack. A network stack associated with an installed network communication... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090070442 - Architecture and protocol for extensible and scalable communication: A system performs information technology (IT) tasks using a computer. Examples of IT tasks include installing or configuring software, displaying alerts, executing programs or scripts on the endpoint, or logging activities. In an embodiment of the system, a connection initialization module receives a request for a persistent connection over a... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090070445 - Dynamic configuration of mobile station location services: On startup, a mobile station application will determine the current carrier network and submit a query to an application server that will return the correct location server configuration for the specified network. This information will be used on the mobile station to dynamically configure the device through the available GPS... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20090070444 - System and method for managing supply of digital content: Digital content is stored in a logical volume provided in a storage system connected to a communications network. A sub-management computer selects a destination computer forming a supply destination for digital content from a plurality of business computers or virtual computers, further selects the address information corresponding to the selected... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090070443 - System and method of determining user demographic profiles of anonymous users: A method determines a user demographic profile of an anonymous user that visits one or more websites of a predetermined group of websites. The method includes determining whether an anonymous user's computer has user identification data installed thereon. Determining whether the user identification data is installed is performed upon the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090070451 - Data transmission system, destination management device, data transmission device, address book acquisition method and program: When a destination management device requests an address book of each user, a data transmission device transmits the address book to the destination management device. The destination management device stores the address book received from the data transmission device. If location information of destination information is included in the address... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090070447 - Energy monitoring system using network management protocols: A system and method are disclosed for integrating an intelligent electronic device (IED) in a network management system. The IED may be configured to communicate using the network management protocol of the network management system. IED variables may be mapped to associated network management protocol variables to allow the network... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/pml

20090070452 - Information processing apparatus, control method for controlling the information processing apparatus, and program: Functional information about a plurality of workflow executing apparatuses capable of executing a processing flow including a plurality of processing steps is managed by obtaining a first set value information for executing the processing flow in a first workflow executing apparatus, and when a second workflow executing apparatus executes the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090070450 - Main electronic device for communicating within a network and method for operating a main electronic device for communicating within the network: n

20090070449 - Management system, management method and program for the same: There is described a management system which makes it possible to appropriately manage the managed apparatus, while securely maintaining the productivity of the managed apparatus. The system includes the management apparatus, the managed apparatus and the HTTP server. The managed apparatus is provided with a connection controlling section that periodically... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090070453 - Method and apparatus for limiting reuse of domain name system response information: A method of limiting reuse of domain name information includes the steps of requesting the information by a local domain name server from an authoritative domain name server, and providing this information to a requestor, such as a client or server. The domain name information includes an allowable usage limit... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090070446 - System and method for securing of document processing devices in accordance with use patterns: The subject application is directed to a system and method for securing of document processing devices in accordance with use patterns. Operational data is first received associated with the historic operation of an associated document processing device is first received. Next, feature data corresponding to the available capabilities of the... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090070448 - Techniques to allocate virtual network addresses: Techniques to allocate virtual network addresses are described. An apparatus may include a virtual network address management module. The virtual network address management module may be capable of determining an approximate age for a virtual network address, referred to herein as a virtual network address age value. The virtual network... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090070454 - Allocating access across shared communication medium: A method of providing network access across a shared communications medium between competing users (86) includes the step of allocating network access for each user for a future time interval (102). Features include forecasting network access (1100) of the users in a future time interval, and prioritizing the users for... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20090070455 - Apparatus, system, and method for visual log analysis: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for visual log analysis. The apparatus for visual log analysis is provided with a plurality of modules configured to functionally execute the necessary steps of retrieving log entries from a plurality of devices on a network, parsing the log entries to determine an... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090070464 - Autonomic content load balancing: Techniques are disclosed for providing autonomic content load balancing. A programmatic selection is made from among alternative content versions based upon current conditions. Preferably, the alternative selectable versions specify content to be used in a Web page, and a version is selected responsive to receiving a request for the Web... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20090070461 - Distributed file system and method of replacing cache data in the distributed file system: Provided are a distributed file system and a method of replacing cache data in a distributed file system capable of replacing cache data based on the degree of network instability between a server and a client. The method includes monitoring network instability between the first apparatus and the second apparatus,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090070459 - High-performance context-free parser for polymorphic malware detection: The invention provides a method and apparatus for advanced network intrusion detection. The system uses deep packet inspection that can recognize languages described by context-free grammars. The system combines deep packet inspection with one or more grammar parsers (409A-409M). The invention can detect token streams (408) even when polymorphic. The... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090070457 - Intelligent performance monitoring of a clustered environment: A method, system and computer-usable medium for selectively monitoring transactions in a cluster computing environment are disclosed. A transaction is received by a load balancer. A transaction monitoring manager determines if the received transaction is a candidate for monitoring. If it is, then the resource thresholds defined in the transaction's... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Austin

20090070465 - Method and device for making clients rapidly access to the peer-to-peer network: A method and device for making clients rapidly access to the peer-to-peer network comprise that the accessed clients, which are separated into one or more normal state groups; the clients that intend to log in are separated into one or more login groups; and the required contents, the variant of... Agent: GlobalIPServices

20090070460 - Method and system for social network analysis: Methods and system for social network analysis are described. In one embodiment, a strongly connected component value, an in-component value, an out-component value, a disconnected component value, a tendril value, and a tube value of a social network for a time period may be accessed. A social strength of the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090070463 - Preliminary classification of events to facilitate cause-based analysis: The present invention provides methods and systems for performing preliminary cause-based classification of events in a computer or networked computer system. Methods are provided in which, based on an event message, cause-based preliminary classification of an associated event is performed. The result of the preliminary classification is used to facilitate... Agent: Ibm Corp. (aus) C/o Ostrow, Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090070456 - Protocol for enabling dynamic and scalable federation of enterprise service buses: In a method and system for creating a federation of a plurality of enterprise service buses (ESBs), a plurality of ESB nodes provide connectivity to one or more services. According to a protocol, at least a portion of the ESB nodes transmit policy-based service advertisement messages to other ESB nodes,... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20090070458 - Server device, information report method, and information report system: A server device including a management unit for receiving and managing a status of equipment or a user operating the equipment as status information and detecting a load status of the server device from receiving situation of the status information, a notification request receiving unit for receiving a notification request... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090070462 - System and computer program for monitoring performance of applications in a distributed environment: A system and computer program for monitoring the performance of applications running on a server in a distributed computing environment includes prompting the user to select information for monitoring, monitoring application performance in accordance with the selected information, and making the monitored performance information available to the user.... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20090070467 - Enabling access to remote entities in access controlled networks: In network access control networks, it may be difficult to provide certain remote accesses such as remote boot or remote storage access. An available network connection established through chipset firmware (e.g. active management technology (AMT)) may be utilized to establish a connection and to enable the remote access. Then as... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090070466 - System and method for securely managing data in a client-server application environment: Systems and methods for securely managing data in a client-server application environment are provided. According to a method for securely managing data in the client-server environment, a network connection of a client device is monitored. It is determined when one of a plurality of IP addresses is accessed by the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090070468 - Communication system and communication method: In a case where a first relay device 200 receives a first band allocation request and a second band allocation request in listed order, the first relay device 200 does not reserve bandwidth requested by the second band allocation request if flow information of the first band allocation request is... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090070469 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing services in a telecommunications network using interoperability specification/session initiation protocol (ios/sip) adapter: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing services in a telecommunications network using an IOS/SIP adapter. According to one aspect of the subject matter described herein, a method for providing supplementary services to IMS devices and non-IMS devices using common IMS network components... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090070470 - Priority based ldap service publication mechanism: A method and system are provided for directing a client to a preferred service instance. At creation of a service instance, the service binding attribute of the created instance is extended to include assigned domains and associated priorities. There are then two phases to directing a client to the preferred... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20090070472 - Automatic and secure configuration of wireless medical networks: A system (10) automatically configures and sets up an ad hoc wireless medical network (40). Wireless peer devices (221, 222, . . . , 22n) each includes a peer BCC interface module (241, 242, . . . , 24n) for authenticating a patient and transmitting device identification of a selected... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090070473 - Method for data routing in networks: An integrated security system integrates broadband and mobile access and control with conventional security systems and premise devices to provide a tri-mode security network having remote connectivity and access. The integrated security system delivers remote premise monitoring and control functionality to conventional monitored premise protection and complements existing premise protection... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090070471 - Method for recovering a video-on-demand session: The present invention relates to a method for recovering a downloading section that has been interrupted, in a device comprising an interface with a network enabling access to a remote server and means for implementing a downloading session with the said server, comprising the steps for starting up a downloading... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090070475 - Communication device and response method thereof: A communication device connected to a first network receives a connection request transmitted from a second network, and sets a service existing in the first network to a data request wait state in accordance with receiving the connection request. The communication device transmits a response to the connection request in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090070474 - Dynamic host configuration protocol: Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) is extended in order to assist with secure network location awareness. In an embodiment a DHCP client receives a signed DHCP response message from a DHCP server, the signed message comprising at least a certificate chain having a public key. In that embodiment the DHCP... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090070477 - Controlling data routing among networks: An integrated security system integrates broadband and mobile access and control with conventional security systems and premise devices to provide a tri-mode security network having remote connectivity and access. The integrated security system delivers remote premise monitoring and control functionality to conventional monitored premise protection and complements existing premise protection... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090070476 - Method and system for improving the appearance of a person on the rtp stream coming from a media terminal: Method for replacing an input RTP stream coming from a media terminal by an output RTP stream integrating an environment which improves the appearance of a person on said input RTP stream, said method providing for the identification of the media terminal user and of a person, the providing of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090070478 - Remote computer system management through an ftp internet connection: A method for remote computer systems management through an FTP Internet connection. A user operating on a remote client issues requests to the host server. These requests are first sent to an FTP server which enforces security measures. Upon authentication, the FTP server issues appropriate commands and then passes these... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090070479 - Generating and implementing a signal protocol and interface for higher data rates: A data Interface for transferring digital data between a host and a client over a communication path using packet structures linked together to form a communication protocol for communicating a pre-selected set of digital control and presentation data. The signal protocol is used by link controllers configured to generate, transmit,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090070481 - Method and apparatus for an improved bulk read socket call: An apparatus and method for an improved bulk read socket call are provided. With the apparatus and method, a new field, so_rcvlen, is added to the socket structure that identifies the bulk read size requested by the user. The kernel of the prior art recv( ) function is also modified... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090070480 - System and method for conveying information: A system and method for conveying data include the capability to determine whether a transaction request credit has been received at a computer module, the transaction request credit indicating that at least a portion of a transaction request message may be sent. The system and method also include the capability... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090070482 - Methods and apparatus for cooperative file distribution with target data delivery rate: Methods and apparatus are provided for cooperative file distribution with a target data delivery rate. A file is provided in a cooperative file distribution system by obtaining a target delivery rate for the at least one file; obtaining at least a portion of the file from one or mole unreliable... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090070483 - Group judgment device: In a server, an echo-request transmitting unit 204 transmits echo-request data to a target device, and an echo-reply receiving unit 205 receives echo-reply data from the target device. A time measuring unit 206 measures, as the target time, the time required between transmission of the echo-request data and reception of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090070485 - Automated media delivery system: An automatic graphics delivery system that operates in parallel with an existing Web site infrastructure is provided. The system streamlines the post-production process by automating the production of media through content generation procedures controlled by proprietary tags placed by an author within URLs embedded within Web documents.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090070484 - Framing format selection in a communications network with a user plane: The invention relates to a technique for selecting a framing format to be used for communications on the user plane of a layered communications network. The selection technique includes the provision of a first user plane component (such as a media gateway, MGW) bridging transmission regimes and operable in accordance... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090070487 - Method and device for distributing data across network components: A network device and associated operating methods interface to a network. A network interface comprises a plurality of registers that receive data from a plurality of data sending devices and arrange the received data into at least a target address field and a data field, and a plurality of spreader... Agent: Koestner Bertani LLP

20090070486 - System and method for service assurance in ip networks: A system and method for providing service assurance in a data network is provided. Resource control points are positioned throughout a data network, such as an IP data network. The resource control points obtain network topology information and correlates that information with information associated with a particular service session. The... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090070489 - Content-aware application switch and methods thereof: The content-aware application switch and methods thereof intelligently switch client packets to one server among a group of servers in a server farm. The switch uses Layer 7 or application content parsed from a packet to help select the server and to schedule the transmitting of the packet to the... Agent: Philip Yau Skjerven Morrill Macpherson LLP.

20090070488 - Data communication method: A data communication method between a first communication user arranged at a motor vehicle and a second communication user arranged outside the motor vehicle is provided. The first communication user can be addressed by the second communication user by way of a network address. The network address of the first... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090070490 - Dynamic characterization of nodes in a semantic network for desired functions such as search, discovery, matching, content delivery, and synchronization of activity and information: The present invention provides a system of computers on a wide area network that establishes connections between nodes on the basis of their multidimensional similarity at a particular point in time in a certain setting, such as a social learning network, and sends relevant information to the nodes. Dimensions in... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20090063612 - Image forming apparatus and image forming system: When plural image forming apparatuses support different formats for a request, the content of the request is analyzed and processed properly in an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus comprises a communication unit configured to receive a request from a client apparatus in a predetermined description format; a request... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090063611 - Transmission apparatus, transmission method and computer program: A transmission apparatus and method including transmitting software to a device, confirming that transmission of the software was successful based on information received from the device, and transmitting, after confirming successful transmission of the software, transmitting the software to a different device.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090063610 - Vibrating usb data key accessory: A user inputs event information into a data processing system which is stored in an application memory of an application. Message information contained in each incoming message received by a messaging service is compared to the event information. In the event that the message information corresponds to the event information... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090063614 - Efficiently distributing class files over a network without global file system support: A system and method for distributing class files in a network to multiple recipients without global file system support are provided. A root node includes a virtual machine, is configured to receive network topology information for all nodes in the network, and obtains class files. First level nodes include virtual... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20090063613 - Secure inter-module communication mechanism: Methods, apparatuses, and systems directed to facilitating secure, structured interactions between code modules executing within the context of a document processed by a user agent, such as a browser client, that implements a domain security model. In a particular implementation, a module connector script or object loaded into a base... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090063616 - Apparatus, system, and method for controlling a processing system: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for controlling a processing system. The apparatus to control a processing system is provided with a plurality of modules configured to functionally execute the necessary steps of controlling a processing system. These modules in the described embodiments include a data acquisition module that... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090063621 - Apparatus, system, and method for cooperation between a browser and a server to package small objects in one or more archives: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for reducing the loading time of a web page. In one embodiment, the apparatus, system, and method comprise requesting a web page from a web server, wherein requesting a web page from a web server comprises sending a browser parameter comprising an indicator... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090063622 - Apparatus, system, and method for cooperation between a browser and a server to package small objects in one or more archives: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for reducing the loading time of a web page. In one embodiment, the apparatus, system, and method comprise requesting a web page from a web server, wherein requesting a web page from a web server comprises sending a browser parameter comprising an indicator... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090063626 - Call management system, call management method, management server, client server, client terminal, and call device: A call management system is configured of a client terminal 200 and a management server 100. The client terminal 200 executes a presence detection process by communicating with a call device 50 and acquiring presence information including a user ID, and a presence transmission process of transmitting, to a management... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090063629 - Data transfer controlling method, content transfer controlling method, content processing information acquisition method and content transfer system: A method of controlling data transfer, a method of controlling content transfer, a method of obtaining content processing information, and a system for transferring content are provided. The method of controlling data transfer in a data interoperable environment includes: receiving a request for transmitting data from a client; gathering information... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090063623 - Determining connection information to use to access an artifact from an application on a remote server: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for determining connection information to use to access an artifact from an application on a remote server. A request is received in a local server for an artifact at a target application executing on a remote server. A determination is made... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20090063625 - Highly scalable application layer service appliances: A highly scalable application layer service appliance is described herein. According to one embodiment, a network element includes a plurality of application service modules (ASMs), each providing one or more application services to network traffic, including layer 5-7 services, a lossless data transport fabric (LDTF), a network service module (NSM)... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090063615 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, server apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus (1) is equipped with: a history packet transmitting unit (11) for transmitting a history packet via a communication processing apparatus (2); a request packet transmitting unit (12) for transmitting a request packet which requests a transmission of a return packet; a packet transmission control unit (13)... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090063618 - Method and apparatus for client-side aggregation of asynchronous fragmented requests: The Asynchronous Aggregator shifts the burden of retrieving and aggregating asynchronous responses by replacing asynchronous requests in an original request thread with placcholders with a unique identifier, creating new threads for each asynchronous request, writing a script to request the asynchronous request output, and returning the original request and the... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090063619 - Module hosting and content generation platform: A module hosting and content generation platform in a social network site. In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving, from a network application, one or more module requests for module output data, wherein each module request includes a module identifier, an instance identifier, and user identifier, a module identifier; retrieving... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090063620 - Novel method and system for controlling access to features of a software program: A system for controlling access to features of a software program having a software framework on a workstation, the software framework having at least one selector that is configured to access a lease package associated therewith when selected, the lease package is accessible during a subscription period, and a server... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20090063627 - Playlist on demand: A playlist on demand is a type of product distribution network (PDN) that provides an easy method for users to access music heard on the radio or in other media. The user may sign up for an online service with a product distribution network (PDN) provider, which may include a... Agent: Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20090063624 - Portable electronic devices and methods for downloading applications or events based on presence of portable electronic devices having a common element being in a defined region at a same time: Methods, portable electronic devices and servers are provided for downloading applications to a portable electronic device from a server based presence of a certain number of portable electronic devices having a common element in a defined region at a same time. The at least one application or event is stored... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20090063628 - System and/or method for audibly prompting a patient with a motion device: 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.

20090063617 - Systems, methods and computer products for throttling client access to servers: Systems, methods and computer products for throttling client access to servers. Exemplary embodiments include a method to throttle client access to servers, the method including maintaining local state information on active and pending requests, receiving a delay call from a client, calculating a delay, incrementing a pending operation count, p,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Boca Raton

20090063632 - Layering prospective activity information: A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for signaling a decision whether to present first message content at least partly based on one or more prospective activity attribute identifiers and signaling a decision whether to present second message content partly based on whether a user indicates the... Agent: Searete LLC

20090063631 - Message-reply-dependent update decisions: A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for receiving a reply to a message transmitted to a first remote system and signaling a decision whether to cause an update to at least a portion of the message at a second remote system at least partly based upon... Agent: Searete LLC

20090063630 - Rating based on relationship: People often trust ratings provided by those with whom they have an existing relationship more than they would trust ratings provided by strangers. A system that provides ratings can combine the ratings with information about a person's social network, in order to provide information that a person seeking the rating... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090063635 - Methods and systems for providing a contact service: An embodiment relates generally to a method of providing a service. The method includes receiving a request to determine a status of a user and determining an on-line status of the user. The method also includes providing a geographic proximity of the user in response to the on-line status of... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20090063634 - Open customer database for use by third parties: Embodiments of the present teachings provide for standardized post installation configuration of a software application. For Linux-based applications, a portal service provides a Red Hat Packet Manager (“RPM”) package that includes selected software to be installed on a user's computing device, post-install configurator, and a post install configuration file (“PIC”).... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20090063633 - Remote program production: A method of compiling an audio/video work from a plurality of pieces of editable material via a computer network comprising a central server and one or more remote stations, the method comprising storing as said pieces of editable material together with information unique to each piece of material and timing... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20090063642 - Gui for presenting electronic messages: A method and apparatus for providing a graphical user interface to present electronic messages. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a user interface presenting a first electronic message to a recipient, where the first electronic message is associated with a segment of a second electronic message. The method further... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090063647 - Messaging centre for forwarding e-mail: Methods and systems for forwarding an e-mail message from an e-mail server to a mobile terminal are provided. A messaging centre may store a permanent terminal identifier of the mobile terminal and an associated temporary identifier of the mobile terminal. The messaging center, upon receiving an e-mail message, may identify... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090063638 - Method and apparatus for processing messages in messaging system: Techniques are disclosed for processing messages in a messaging system, particularly during an overload condition. For example, a method of processing messages of an instant messaging system includes the following steps. A message from a first instant messaging user is received during an overload condition. A message type associated with... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090063641 - Method and system for composing electronic messages: A method and apparatus for composing electronic messages. In one embodiment, the method includes dividing a first electronic message into one or more segments, uniquely identifying each of the segments of the first electronic message, and storing the first electronic message in a repository with unique identifiers of the segments.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090063640 - Method and system for optimizing transmission of electronic messages: A method and system for optimizing transmission of electronic messages. In one embodiment, the method includes maintaining a database to store electronic messages received from various clients. The method further includes receiving a new electronic message from a client, determining whether the new electronic message is associated with one or... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090063639 - Method and system for using business rules to control invitations to join instant message collaborations: A method and system for using business rules to control invitations to participate in instant message (IM) collaborations. A primary invitee is invited to participate in an IM collaboration via a first IM. A business rule associated with the primary invitee is applied to determine that the primary invitee is... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090063643 - Processing data obtained from a presence-based system: Functionality is described for collecting data from a presence-based system, such as an instant messaging system. The functionality can extract information from the collected data based on one or more rules. For instance, the functionality can identify presence data and/or message data that includes predetermined key words. The functionality can... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090063646 - System and method for collecting and organizing popular near real-time data in a virtual geographic grid: A system and method for including a geographical framework to the Internet and permitting users to convey data via mobile devices or computers or to convey universal resource locator values through automated filtering and localizing mechanisms that such data for every geographical location (e.g., longitude/latitude, zip code, etc.) in categories... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20090063637 - System and method for providing message status in chat messaging: A method for indicating in a messaging client the status of a sent message. The method can include the steps of composing a message in a messaging client associated with a sender, sending said message to at least one recipient, receiving a status message from a messaging client associated with... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090063636 - System and method for soliciting and retrieving a complete email thread: A system and method allows an email user to solicit an email thread from another user (or from a server) in situations where the first requesting user may have been added to an email thread after the email thread was started, or in situations where the user may have an... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090063645 - System and method for supporting messaging using a set top box: Tools are provided for supporting messaging about a video program using a set top box. Video information related to the video program is received and converted at the set top box and a display device is caused to display the video program. A message to be sent from a first... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090063644 - System and program product for replicating message status changes across messaging systems: The present invention provides a method, system and program product for replicating message status changes across messaging systems. Specifically, under the present invention, when a status of a message for a user is changed on a messaging system, the status change is entered into a log associated with the user... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090063648 - Viewing attachments to electronic communications via pushing the attachment to a networked viewing site: A method and system for viewing an attachment to an electronic communication transmitted in an electronic messaging system is disclosed in which the system receives a communication; examines the content of the communication; sends an attachment contained in the communication to an alternate viewing site; and presents the content of... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090063649 - Request and notification for metadata of content: A server apparatus has a database configured to store metadata of content. A message receiving unit receives a subscribe request for an event notification subscription from a client terminal, the subscribe request including a search condition for the metadata, and establishes a dialog for the event notification subscription. A metadata... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090063650 - Managing collections of appliances: An appliance manager for managing appliances in a networked environment comprises a subscription component, a hierarchy component, a storage component, an interface component and a management component. The subscription component identifies active subscribed-to appliances to be managed and the hierarchy component organizes subscribed-to appliances into at least one managed set... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20090063651 - System and method for saving dump data of a client in a network: A system and method for saving memory dump data from an operating system of a client in a network. The method includes configuring the client to allocate client system memory according to system memory classifications, configuring the client to transfer dump data to at least one dump server, saving said... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090063653 - Grid computing space: A method and apparatus for using a tree-structured cluster as a library for a computing grid. In one embodiment, a request for computation is received at a cache node of the cluster. The computation requires data from an other cache node of the cluster, and not present in the cache... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090063652 - Localized media content delivery: Improved approaches to make data available locally at business establishments are disclosed. In one embodiment, data anticipated to be soon to be requested by patrons of a particular business establishment can be pre-loaded to a local server provided at the particular business establishment. By pre-loading data that is anticipated to... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090063654 - Apparatus, system, and method for xml based disconnected data access for multivalued/hierarchical databases: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for providing a client with disconnected data access to a non-relational database. A command module requests non-relational XML data from a non-relational database using an XML mapping in response to a non-relational data request. A fill module receives the non-relational XML data from... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090063655 - Service forwarding addresses in distributed computing: A message sent to a first service addressed in a distributed computing environment having a service oriented architecture is received, wherein the message is directed to a service that is no longer present at the first service address. The message is forwarded to a second service address at which the... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090063657 - Systems and methods of clustered sharing of compression histories: Systems and methods of storing previously transmitted data and using it to reduce bandwidth usage and accelerate future communications are described. By using algorithms to identify long compression history matches, a network device may improve compression efficiently and speed. A network device may also use application specific parsing to improve... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090063656 - Use of browser history file to determine web site reach: Methods and apparatus for using a browser history file to determine web site reach are disclosed. An example method includes accessing Web site access history information stored at a client computer, accessing a user setting corresponding to a duration of time for retention of the Web site access history information,... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090063658 - Fast file server methods and systems: The invention provides, in one aspect, an improved system for data access comprising a file server that is coupled to a client device or application executing thereon via one or more networks. The server comprises static storage that is organized in one or more directories, each containing, zero, one or... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20090063661 - Method, system and apparatus for presenting forms and publishing form data: A computer system, method, and computer-readable medium for presenting forms and publishing form data are provided. A software component is operative to determine if a request for a network resource containing a form has been received. If such a request has been received, the software component determines whether a previously... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090063659 - Methods and systems for use in customizing displayed content associated with a portable storage medium: The present embodiments provide methods and systems to playback and customize the playback of content relative to the portable storage medium. Some of these methods identify content to be rendered, through a playback device, in association with a first portable storage medium; identify one or more customizable display parameters to... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20090063660 - Synchronization and transfer of digital media items: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for synchronizing and transferring digital media items. One or more media items are received, from a network operating environment, at a first device. A first media database on the first device, including metadata associated with the media items, is synchronized with a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090063662 - Arrangements for auto-merging processing components: In some embodiments a method for auto-configuring a network is disclosed. The method can include communicating with at least one node in a processing complex, receiving node connection data from the at least one node querying a node to verify at least a portion of the node connection data and... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090063663 - Device management apparatus, device management system, device management method and medium: The present invention in its first aspect provides a device management apparatus, which manages a virtual device that implements a cooperative function upon cooperating a plurality of physical devices connected via a network, comprising an acquisition unit adapted to acquire statuses from the physical devices that implement the cooperative function... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090063665 - Highly scalable architecture for application network appliances: A highly scalable application network appliance is described herein. According to one embodiment, a network element includes a switch fabric, a first service module coupled to the switch fabric, and a second service module coupled to the first service module over the switch fabric. In response to packets of a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090063667 - Methods and systems for validating real time network communications: Methods and systems for managing network communications are described. An example resource management system includes a communications manager configured to access information regarding communication protocols used by corresponding broker systems and to provide message translations based on an origin and/or destination of the message to be transmitted. A message processor... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090063666 - Network and method for the configuration thereof: A method and corresponding apparatus is provided for determining the location of a configuration server being connected to a totally symmetric network infrastructure that does not exhibit any symmetry breakers on network level. The configuration server reaches a decision to determine its network-wide unique configuration in order to be able... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090063664 - Systems and/or methods for location transparent routing and execution of processes: The example embodiments disclosed herein relate to networks and, more particularly, to systems and/or methods that enable processes to be routed and/or executed in a distributed, location transparent manner. A process engine for use across instances of a service-oriented integration server is provided to a network having a messaging layer.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090063669 - Computer network and method of operating same to preload content of selected web pages: A method for operating a computer network for example a school to preload the content of web addresses on the local memory, i.e. the web cache memory for use in for example a subsequent lesson. The network comprises at least one device, a web cache memory, and internet access apparatus... Agent: 3com Corporation

20090063670 - Method and apparatus for a network hub to diagnose network operation and broadcast information to a remote host or monitoring device: A network hub in a communication network that acts as a server to network clients to push, or transmit, information regarding the state of local and remote devices and networks. The information can be one, or more, status information, which information can be one or more predefined fields in a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090063668 - Transfer of ownership of a storage object in response to an original owner node becoming available after a period of unavailability: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a plurality of nodes coupled over a network are maintained, wherein a first node of the plurality of nodes initially owns a plurality of storage objects accessible via the network. A second node preemptively takes ownership of a selected storage... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090063680 - Connection locator in a power aggregation system for distributed electric resources: Systems and methods are described for a power aggregation system. In one implementation, a method includes charging an electric resource over a power connection to an electric network, obtaining a unique identifier of a device over the power connection, and determining an electric network location of the electric resource from... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090063673 - End-to-end (e2e) service level agreement (sla) compliance across both managed and unmanaged network segments: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to e2e SLA support in a network of both manageable and unmanageable portions and provide a method, system and computer program product for e2e SLA compliance across both managed and unmanaged network segments. In one embodiment of the... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090063678 - Equipment set generation support apparatus and method: An equipment set generation support apparatus (a) acquires, from a plurality of equipments connected to a network, state change event information notifying a state change of each equipment and an occurrence time and date of the state change, (b) sets a detection condition including a start time and an end... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090063675 - Internet-based method of and system for monitoring space-time coordinate information: An Internet-based method of and system for monitoring space-time coordinate information and biophysiological state information collected from an animate object moving along a course through the space-time continuum. The Internet-based system comprise a wireless GSU-enabled client network device affixed to the body of an animate object. The wireless device includes... Agent: Reveo, Inc.

20090063676 - Method and apparatus for providing status information by utilizing presence service and method and apparatus for generating content status information by utilizing presence service: A method of and apparatus for providing status information by using presence information data, and a method of and apparatus for generating content status information are provided. The method of providing status information on a second user to a first user terminal which is used by a first user includes:... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090063674 - Method and system for monitoring and instantly identifying faults in data communication cables: A method and an associated system for monitoring and instantly identifying faults in a data communication cable are disclosed. A fault monitoring program learns a reference data traffic pattern communicated through the data communication cable by reading inputs from a sensor. The reference data traffic pattern is stored and is... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090063671 - Method, device, software for determining a need: The present invention relates to a method, a client device (CL) and a computer program product for determining the need for requesting network configuration information from a network. The client device includes memories (M1, M2) comprising network identifying data (NI) and corresponding configuration data, and a control unit (CO). The... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090063672 - Monitoring of computer network resources having service level objectives: In a typical computer network, at least some of the managed resources are monitored to determine whether those resources are meeting predetermined performance goals or service level objectives. To simplify the process of configuring a network monitor, information about the service level objectives is loaded into the resource itself. When... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090063679 - Network relay apparatus: A network relay apparatus which conducts data transfer by using a plurality of network LSIS includes a transfer engine unit having at least two network LSIs and a central control unit which controls the operation state of the network relay apparatus. The transfer engine unit includes the network LSIs capable... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090063677 - Systems and media for updating an instant messaging system: Systems and media for updating an instant messaging system on a network are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for updating status indicators such as ‘away’ messages of an instant messaging system are disclosed. Embodiments include determining that a change in status of the user has occurred and automatically transmitting... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090063682 - Method for redirection of web streaming clients using lightweight available bandwidth measurement: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method for selecting a server to provide content to a client is presented. A media controller receives a request from a client for content. The media controller instructs a plurality of servers each storing the content required by the client... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20090063681 - Systems and methods for distributing video on demand: A method of providing content comprises making the content available on a central server, and surveying a plurality of peers for a portion of the content. The portion of the content from one of the peers is obtained when the portion of the content is available from the one of... Agent: At&t Legal Department, Attn: Patent Docketing

20090063683 - Information distribution in a dynamic multi-device environment: A system for managing operation of a “whiteboard” supported by one or more devices. A whiteboard may comprise a shared storage area allocated amongst the memories of one or more devices enabled for wireless communication. The whiteboard may be accessed by various programs, or “nodes,” resident on the devices. In... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20090063684 - Wpar halted attack introspection stack execution detection: Responding to an event at a server that supports workload partitions. An event is detected. The event is an activity that can degrade an ability of the server to function according to an intended purpose. The event is triggered by a communication from a client to the server. Responsive to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090063686 - Automated service discovery and dynamic connection management: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes device functional circuitry to perform at least one service; and network interface control circuitry to control interaction between the apparatus and a network. The network interface control circuitry includes a service discovery module to (1) send a presence announcement message to be transmitted outside... Agent: Silicon Image/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090063688 - Centralized tcp termination with multi-service chaining: A network element having centralized TCP termination with multi-service chaining is described herein. According to one embodiment, a network element includes a switch fabric, a first service module coupled to the switch fabric, and a second and a third service modules coupled to the first service module over the switch... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090063687 - Hybrid connection model: A connection manager to manage connections between a web server using a hybrid connection model. The hybrid connection model is optimized to minimize system resources necessary to maintain an idle connection The hybrid connection model decreases resources required during idle times by using a single or set of poller threads... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090063689 - Method and system for provisioning customer premises equipment: A method for execution by at least one entity in the service provider network. The method comprises receiving an access request from a communication device; determining a logical identifier intended for use by the communication device during an eventual communication session; and identifying, based on the logical identifier, an object... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20090063685 - Secure computer working environment utilizing a read-only bootable media: A read-only bootable media is provided in which a remote agent loads the read-only bootable media onto a computer. The read-only bootable media provides a customized operating system that is run in the computer's volatile memory. The read-only media also disables any persistent storage connected to the agent computer or... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090063690 - Continuing an application session using a different device from one that originally initiated the application session while preserving session while preserving session state and data: The present invention discloses a solution for migrating an application session from one device to another. In the solution, a migration event can be detected during an application session involving an application server and an original device. Client-side session information and server-side session information can be stored. The client-side session... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.-motorola

20090063691 - Access rights used for resource discovery in peer-to-peer networks: Secure resource discover in peer-to-peer networks involves creating a resource discovery record associated with a computing resource of a user device that is made available via the user device to peers of a peer-to-peer network. The resource discovery record describes the computing resource and may be independent of native service... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20090063692 - Bidirectional flow service support method in ieee 802.16/wibro system: Provided is a bidirectional service flow management method in a wideband wireless connection communication system, and more particularly, a method of performing a bidirectional flow establishment. The method of providing a flow service in an IEEE 802.16/WiBro includes: generating a revised dynamic service addition (DSA) related message in which an... Agent: Perman & Green

20090063695 - Digital broadcasting transmitter, turbo stream processing method thereof, and digital broadcasting system having the same: A digital broadcasting transmitter, a turbo stream processing method thereof, and a digital broadcasting system having the same. The digital broadcasting transmitter includes a first compressor, forming a normal stream by compressing audio and video signals in a first compression format, a second compressor, forming a turbo stream by compressing... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090063694 - Multimedia access device, multimedia playing system comprising the multimedia access device, and multimedia data playing method: A multimedia access device, a multimedia playing system comprising the multimedia access device, and a multimedia data playing method are provided. The multimedia playing system comprises a portal web server, an interface, a multimedia access device, and a multimedia playing apparatus. The portal web server provides a file allocation table... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090063693 - System and method for active transcoding of content in a distributed system: A system and method for streaming media and, more particularly, to a system and method for active transcoding of content in a distributed system. The method includes receiving a file having predetermined parameters and sizing the file up to an optimal packet size according to a logarithmic scheme. The optimal... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090063697 - File transfer system and method for same: A file transfer system includes transfer requesting terminals, a transfer responding terminal, and a mediating server. If a transfer responding terminal sends to the mediating server a request for session setup with the transfer responding terminal, the mediating server forwards the connection request to the transfer responding terminal irrespective of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090063696 - System and methods for high rate hardware-accelerated network protocol processing: Disclosed is a system and methods for accelerating network protocol processing for devices configured to process network traffic at relatively high data rates. The system incorporates a hardware-accelerated protocol processing module that handles steady state network traffic and a software-based processing module that handles infrequent and exception cases in network... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090063699 - Media player plug-in installation techniques: In general, the invention is directed to techniques of distributing media player plug-in software. As described herein, default media player software may cause a client device to begin receiving and presenting media data in a media object. During the presentation of the media data, the client device may identify an... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20090063698 - Method and system for aggregate bandwith control: A virtual link bandwidth control scheme is described that is a software-based mechanism for achieving distributed and coordinated bandwidth control. The scheme can be seamlessly integrated with the data transfer protocols utilizing queuing delay as part of rate control mechanism for data transfer and allows multiple processes to self-limit their... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090063700 - Communication system between a vehicle network and a wayside network: A system for communications between a vehicle network and a wayside network includes a router in the vehicle network configured to manage routing of data over one of at least two clients, and a radio-frequency based communication network for providing a connection between each client and an access point linked... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20090063702 - Crossbar apparatus for a forwarding table memory in a router: A router including a lookup execution unit including a plurality of stages, a forwarding table memory arranged in hierarchy including addressable sectors, blocks, and entries, and a crossbar having an address crossbar for selectively coupling one of the plurality of stages to a sector of the memory so that data... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090063701 - Layers 4-7 service gateway for converged datacenter fabric: Layer 4 gateway for a converged datacenter fabric is described herein. According to one embodiment, a packet of a network transaction is received from a client over a first network for accessing a server of a datacenter having a plurality of servers over a second network. One or more network... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090063703 - Device profile-based media management: A server configured to provide media to devices remote from the server is configured to provide different media to different devices at substantially a same time. The is server configured to recognize a device that requests media. The server is configured to automatically set a resolution at which a media... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090063704 - Systems & methods for statistical resolution of domain name service (dns) requests: Systems and methods are provided for resolving domain name services (DNS) queries for address information about hosts on a network. The queries are posited from remote users across a satellite or other remote link to a network, and are monitored as they pass through a central node logically present between... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (es)

20090063705 - System and method of sending compressed html messages over telephony protocol: A system and method for sending compressed html messages and, more particularly, a system and method for sending compressed html messages over a telephony protocol. the method comprises compressing an html message and sending the compressed html message via a telephony protocol. The compressed html message is sent as an... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090063706 - Combined layer 2 virtual mac address with layer 3 ip address routing: Inbound packets received by a physical network adapter of a processing device are routed by evaluating an inbound frame to determine if an inbound frame destination MAC address is associated with the processing device and determining whether the inbound frame should be routed to a corresponding logical interface or to... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20090063707 - Shared resource support for internet protocols: Creating a unique identification for each stack in partitions of a host data computer such that a plurality of partitions may share a single adapter card during an Input/Output operation wherein the adapter card is exchanging data between the host and a Local Area Network. The adapter card includes a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090063708 - Load distribution and redundancy using tree aggregation: A network comprising a plurality of trees each comprising at least one ingress leaf node, at least one interior node, and at least one egress leaf node, wherein at least some of the ingress leaf nodes and the egress leaf nodes are common to the trees, and wherein the ingress... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.