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Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization April category listing, related patent applications 04/09

20090112964 - Devices, methods, and computer readable media for wireless adapter disengagement control: Disclosed are devices, methods and computer readable media including a wireless adapter disengagement control that is configured to disengage at least most of the wireless communication when several conditions are met. A wired communication detector detects that a wired communication connector is in communication with a wired network, and an... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090112966 - Assignment of application modulesto deployment targets: A distributed application deployment engine uses declarative deployment data that describes deployment characteristics for application modules, and potential target environments. The engine uses the deployment data to potentially match a module to a deployment target. At some point, the modules may then be actually deployed on the identified deployment target.... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090112967 - Data access control system and method according to position information of mobile terminal: To restrict data transmission to a mobile terminal according to a location of the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal requests data to a second computer, the mobile terminal does not log in the second computer. A communication method for a communication system having a first computer and the second... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090112968 - Identification information creating method, information processing apparatus, computer program product, recording device monitoring method, terminal apparatus management method, and communication network system: A terminal apparatus generates a hash value from a sequence number based on a predetermined hash algorithm, and creates identification information from an IP address and/or a MAC address and the generated hash value based on a predetermined creation algorithm. Moreover, at the time of processing for shutdown or reboot,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090112965 - Preservation of file locks during checkpoint and restart of a mobile software partition: A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer-usable program code for preserving file locks while moving a software partition from an origination network file system client data processing system to a destination network file system client data processing system is provided. A request for a file is received. A determination is made... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090112970 - Automatically updating virtual worlds: Methods and arrangements of automatically updating virtual worlds are discussed. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to receive from a user a specification of a data store of the user external to a virtual world. The method may involve automatically gathering data from the data store of... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090112969 - Checkpoint and restart of nfs version 2/version 3 clients with network state preservation inside a workload partition (wpar): Exemplary embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer-usable program code for moving a software partition from an origination network file system client data processing system to a destination network file system client data processing system. Responsive to receiving a request to perform a checkpoint operation on a software... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090112971 - Internet multimedia content delivery to consumer electronic devices through wireless network infrastructure: Internet multimedia content delivery methods, devices and systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for communicating internet multimedia data to a consumer electronic via a wireless network comprises receiving the internet multimedia data via the wireless network, converting the internet multimedia data to a data type associated with the... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes, LLP

20090112978 - Click detection method, apparatus and system: A click detection method, apparatus and system is provided. An embodiment includes a method that receives a request from a client destined for a server and a unique identifier for the client. The method of the method also includes generating a representation of the unique identifier, and forwarding the unique... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20090112974 - Community-based web filtering: Community-based rating information is generated about a Web site, Web page or other network-accessible content for use in Web filtering operations. The rating information may relate to the appropriateness of the content for a particular audience or audiences, such as for children or for children of different age groups. The... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090112981 - Database end-user identifier: A user identifier relay, comprising control logic adapted to relay an identifier of an application server user to a database associated with said application server, wherein said relay is performed via a transaction request from said application server to said database.... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP C/o Landon Ip, Inc.

20090112979 - Extensible method and system for performing management operations on known and unknown targets: This invention provides an extensible method for performing management operations on known and unknown targets. The extensible method is implemented on a fully extensible system where management software and triggers that cause these management operations to be run are easily extended in the field. The triggers may include information indicating... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P. (c/o Intermec)

20090112980 - Image data server: Disclosed is an image data server which transmits image data through a communication network to a client apparatus for displaying an image on a display screen, the image data server including: an obtainment section to obtain aspect ratio information of the display screen from the client apparatus through the communication... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090112972 - Managing device models in a virtual machine cluster environment: Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system are described. In some embodiments, a client platform may determine that an input/output operation related to a hardware device may happen in a virtual machine of the client platform and request a server platform via the network to handle the input/output operation related to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090112973 - Method and apparatus for composite part data extraction: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for providing ply lay-up data for a composite part. A designation of a location is received for the composite part in a three dimensional object from a requester. A three dimensional model is opened in which the composite part is... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090112976 - Method for measuring web traffic: A method is presented for measuring, analyzing and/or reporting web traffic, predetermined events, and/or user activity on one or more web pages utilizing a landing page having code embedded thereon, wherein the program code is structured to deploy at least one portal element onto the landing page. Further, the portal... Agent: Malloy & Malloy, P.A.

20090112975 - Pre-fetching in distributed computing environments: Client-side performance is optimized through server-side pushing of content. Portions of content are requested and retrieved as required by a client-side application. Moreover, content likely to be needed in the near future is pre-fetched and pushed to the client. This is beneficial from an overhead standpoint since all content need... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090112977 - System for measuring web traffic: A system is presented for measuring, analyzing and/or reporting web traffic, predetermined events, and/or user activity on one or more web pages utilizing a landing page having code embedded thereon, wherein the program code is structured to deploy at least one portal element onto the landing page. Further, the portal... Agent: Malloy & Malloy, P.A.

20090112982 - Automatic management of associations between users: Automatically associating users of a communication system, without using an invitation or affirmative permission. In one embodiment, a first user submits contact information about a second user to a relationship system, which stores the information in the first user's contact list. Similarly, a second user submits contact information about the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090112983 - Floor control in a communications system: A method (400) of implementing floor control in a communications system (100). The method can include receiving a random symbol from each of a plurality of communication devices (104, 106, 108, 110, 112) or network nodes (204, 206, 208, 210, 212). From the plurality of random symbols, a random symbol... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090112984 - Meeting invitation processing in a calendaring system: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, an apparatus and a computer program product for meeting invitation processing in a calendaring system. In one embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises receiving a meeting invitation request from a user, wherein the meeting invitation includes a set of attributes and analyzing the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090112988 - Method and instantaneous messaging system for mobile terminals equipped with a virtual presence server allowing an instantaneous messaging session to be managed automatically: l

20090112987 - Method and system for establishing commonality between members in an online community: A method, system and computer program product for establishing commonality between a plurality of members and deriving an opinion of a dignitary on one or more issues in an online community is disclosed. A questioner poses a questionnaire, which includes one or more questions on the issues in the online... Agent: Lester H. Birnbaum

20090112985 - Supporting serendipitous group interaction based on user activities: The disclosed functionality enables non-sessions users of an activity session to be provided awareness of the session. The non-sessions users are made aware of the session and can then choose to join (or not join) the session in an ad hoc manner based on the exposed session information. This functionality... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090112986 - System and method for publishing and subscribing to calendar events information via categorical mapping methodology: A system, method and program product for publishing and subscribing to calendar events publication are disclosed. In one aspect, method and system for providing a publication of calendar events for one or more computer-based devices having a calendaring system capable of operation therein, is disclosed. The method and system comprises... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090112989 - Trust-based recommendation systems: Systems and methods that analyze aggregated item evaluation behavior of users, to suggest a recommendation for the item. An analysis component forms a collective opinion by taking as input votes of users and trusted relationships established therebetween, to output an evaluation and/or recommendation for the item. Accordingly, within a linked... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090112991 - Instant conversation in a thread of an online discussion forum: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to discussion forum management and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant conversations in a thread within a discussion forum. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for instant conversations in a thread within... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090112992 - Method and system for request processing: The invention relates to a method for request processing. The method includes receiving an asynchronous request for a shared context from a first client, where a second client is subscribed to the shared context. The method further includes receiving a modification of the shared context from the second client and,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090112990 - Private views of data and local calculations during real time collaboration: Techniques for performing a process during a real time collaboration by multiple users or clients on a spreadsheet file are disclosed herein which may permit calculations to be performed locally by at least one of the clients. By doing so, increases in performance are realized since only data updates need... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090112993 - System and method for supporting communication among users: A system, method and computer program product for supporting communication among users. The system includes a storage device for storing, a search unit for searching, and a selection unit for reading and then selecting a communication means to be used in the communication between the first and second users. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090113000 - method for requesting the termination of a communication session: A method (800, 900) for terminating a communication session. The method can include generating a first message (114) requesting permission to terminate participation in the communication session and communicating the first message to a server (108). The method can also include receiving a second message (116) from the server authorizing... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090112996 - Determining presence status of end user associated with multiple access terminals: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving presence data associated with a plurality of access terminals associated with an end user. The method includes combining the presence data associated with the end user. The method includes associating a single presence status with the end user based on the combined presence... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090112995 - E-mail and file tracker: A method, system, and computer program product for tracking e-mail and e-mail attachment usage information is provided. A request to track an e-mail is received. The recipients of the e-mail are determined. E-mail usage information for the e-mail is determined for each recipient. A determination is made as to whether... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090113002 - Electronic message attachment options: Included are embodiments for providing an attachment for a message. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving a message from a sender, the message configured to be sent to at least one recipient, the message including an attachment and determining whether the at least one recipient is designated... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Tkhr Attn: Patent Docketing

20090113011 - Image processing system, image processing apparatus, mail server, and method of sending email: An image processing system includes an image processing apparatus and a mail server connected to the image processing apparatus through a network. The image processing apparatus includes a first communication unit for receiving a normal reception command from the mail server indicating that the mail server normally receives an email;... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC

20090113003 - Image spam filtering based on senders' intention analysis: Systems and methods for an anti-spam detection module that can detect image spam are provided. According to one embodiment, an image spam detection process involves determining and measuring various characteristics of images that may be embedded within or otherwise associated with an electronic mail (email) message. An approximate display location... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20090113010 - Image transmission system: Upon accepting, from a user B, a new registration of a configuration showing that the user B wishes to receive data via a FAX, a server sets a notification flag to an address book of a user A which includes an address of the user B. Upon accepting a login... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090112998 - Method and apparatus for controlling dissemination of enterprise information: Information dissemination in an electronic messaging system is controlled by presenting, to a user, first and second user-action elements. The first element is indicative of whether the first message is to be sent to all recipients in the first distribution list, while the second element is indicative of whether the... Agent: Leveque Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090113006 - Method and apparatus for mutual exchange of sensitive personal information between users of an introductory meeting website: Methods for simultaneous exchange of sensitive personal information between two unrelated parties are disclosed, such as between two users of an online networking website or introductory meeting website, the information being mutually accessible to both users upon exchange. The invention allows for exchange of sensitive personal information between two parties... Agent: Russ Weinzimmer

20090113007 - Method and instantaneous messaging system for mobile terminals equipped with a virtual presence server configured to manage different contact lists of a single user: t

20090112994 - Method for disambiguating email recipient fields in an electronic device: An electronic device and a method implemented within the electronic device for disambiguating email recipient fields by extracting sufficient information from the domain portion of an intended recipient's email address to disambiguate between a personal and a business email address. An exemplary method includes parsing at least one of said... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20090113013 - Method, system, server and user equipment for obtaining default notification message: The present disclosure discloses a method, server, and UE, to be applied to a DVB-H system, for obtaining a default notification message. The method includes obtaining a data structure carrying a unique default notification access parameter corresponding to a default notification message, obtaining the default notification access parameter from the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090113009 - Notification device interaction: Devices and methods are disclosed for establishing device interaction among electronic devices of a device environment and a notification device interfaced with the user. Notification devices allow the user to communicate directly with the device environment, such as by entering information in a mobile phone that has a wireless connection... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Moazzam Attn: Patent Docketing

20090113001 - Pre-send evaluaton of e-mail communications: A system for identifying attributes associated with content of an e-mail message and alerting a user includes a client device programmed to allow a user to create an e-mail message including at least one recipient and a message content, a server programmed to check an attribute of the e-mail message,... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090113004 - System and method for distributing electronic information: The present system for distributing electronic information includes a central email client connected to an email sending server, the central email client connected to an addressee's computer operating an addressee's email client connected to a email receiving server, the email sending server and the email receiving server utilizing a common... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090112999 - System and method for handling e-mail attachments in data processing systems: A system and method for handling e-mail attachments in a data processing system. A client receives at least one message in a message database stored in a system memory, wherein the at least one message includes at least one attached file. The client displays a main preview of the at... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090113012 - System and method for identifying spoofed email by modifying the sender address: A system, method and computer program product are provided for identifying spoofed emails. According to the method, an email addressed to a recipient in a first network is received, with the email including a plurality of headers, and at least one of the plurality of headers including a sender address.... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090113005 - Systems and methods for controlling pre-communications interactions: The present invention can permit a communications request initiator to control pre-communications interactions. For example, the present invention can permit a communications request initiator to instruct a recipient communications device to present specific information to a communications request recipient when the initiator sends the communications request to the recipient. The... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090113008 - Systems and methods to exchange patient information and to set up and trigger healthcare alerts: Systems and methods for sending health care alerts or reminders to patients, such as a reminder to visit the doctor, be vaccinated, or undergo a therapy. The alerts and reminders may be delivered to the patient's cell phone, PDA, or computer, for example. The system manages information of patients and/or... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20090112997 - Utilizing presence data associated with web item: In one embodiment, a method includes subscribing to a web item, extracting presence data from the web item, receiving the presence data originating from the web item. The method includes updating status associated with the web item based on the presence data and displaying the updated status associated with the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090113017 - Arrangements for a 3270 compatible terminal with browser capability: Disclosed herein is a system that includes a 3270 compatible terminal that can accept browser compatible languages in a 3270 format and process these languages and display such languages in graphical user interface format. In some embodiments it can appear that the browser performs as a “plug-in” to the 3270... Agent: Alan Carlson

20090113014 - Device, method and computer program product for providing an alert indication: A method for providing an alert indication, the method includes: allowing a first user to define an alert to be generated in response to an availability of a second user to participate in an instant messaging session; and sending to the second user an alert indication indicative of the alert.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090113016 - Managing email servers by prioritizing emails: Disclosed are email server management methods and systems that protect the ability of the infrastructure of the email server to process legitimate emails in the presence of large spam volumes. During a period of server overload, priority classes of emails are identified, and emails are processed according to priority. In... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090113015 - Remote application processing system: A remote application processing system is provided. The remote application processing system includes one or more remote terminals; and a server operable to process an application for one or more remote terminals having a server service session. The server is operable to transmit a status change from the server to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090113018 - Mobility service clustering using network service segments: Described in an example embodiment herein is a Mobility Service Engine (MSE) cluster comprising an MSE Cluster Master and at least one MSE Cluster Slave. The MSE Master is configured to define Network Service Segments. The MSE Master of the cluster distributes the Network Service Segments to slaves within the... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090113019 - Method and apparatus for transporting/receiving notification messages via file delivery over unidirectional protocol: A method for transporting/receiving notification messages via File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport (FLUTE) includes: At the transmitting end, a server carries a notification content in a transport object and carries notification related information and a transport object identifier (TOI) of the transport object carrying the notification content in a first... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090113020 - Unsolicited and unconfirmed computing platform service information: An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to receive solicited or unsolicited computing platform service information associated with services offered by a plurality of service points in a range area, store some portion of the received information, and periodically transmit, with or without... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090113022 - Facilitating music collaborations among remote musicians: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for facilitating music collaboration between remote musicians (or the like) are provided. In general, mechanisms for facilitating live music collaborations or “jam sessions” over a computer network. These mechanisms allow musicians to perform from remote locations via one or more computer networks. Each musician is... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090113023 - Method and system for transmitting data between digital photo frames: A method and a system for transmitting data between DPFs of which a first DPF has a first list configured for storing ID information of a second DPF includes transmitting directly image data from the first DPF to the second DPF when the first DPF detects the second DPF is... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20090113021 - System and method for generating functional addresses: A plurality of networked devices on a communication network host services and instances of those services. These services and service instances are mapped onto destination addresses within a given address space. Thus, the destination addresses provide information about the location of the networked devices, as well as the functional topology... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090113026 - Machine readable storage medium and system for communicating in a computing system: Provided are a computer readable medium and a system for communicating in a computing system. An example of the method includes establishing a local communications interface at a local site. This example also includes writing local site communication information to the local communications interface, which comprises storing the local site... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090113024 - Multicase downloading using path information: The downloading of content to a requesting client (A1, A2 and A3) through content distribution network consisting of edge servers occurs upon receiving a content request, a content server responses with a request-routing message that includes source data identifying the content and path data identifying a path through the network... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090113025 - System and method for remotely accessing cablecard: A system remotely accesses information on a non-addressable access control module, such as a cablecard module, over a communications network. The system includes a host device configured to interface with a network server remotely located from the host device and the access control module. The host device includes a table... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090113028 - Network-centric processing: In one aspect, a network-centric processing (NCP) system includes sensors configured to monitor activities associated with testing of an asset, a first system configured to provide the testing on the asset, a second system configured to provide training of personnel using the asset, a third system configured to record problems... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090113027 - Personal network management method and personal network management apparatus: A personal network management method wherein if an access request is received from a communication terminal exterior to a personal network and the association of communication terminal information of the access request with the corresponding terminal in the personal network has not been registered yet, then the registration as to... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090113030 - Ip endpoint automated activation: The specification teaches a method for automated configuration and installation of IPEPs such as VoIP devices. Configuration may utilize a configuration server in communication with the IPEP through a WAN. The configuration process may temporarily utilize the MAC address of the IPEP during the configuration process. The IPEP may respond... Agent: Law Office Of David Mcewing

20090113029 - System and method for the provision of secure network boot services: A system and method for providing a network boot is provided in which the entire length of the communications link between the client computer and the boot server is secure. Because the communications link between the client and the boot server is secure, an identifier for that uniquely identifies the... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090113032 - Feature set based content communications systems and methods: In an exemplary system, a plurality of access devices comprising at least a first access device and a second access device is selectively and communicatively coupled to a profile management subsystem. The profile management subsystem is configured to maintain profile data representing a feature set of at least one of... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090113034 - Method and system for clustering: A system and a method for automatic cluster formation by automatically selecting nodes based on a selection criteria configured by the user is disclosed. During a cluster re-formation process, a failed node may automatically get replaced by one of the healthy nodes in its network, which is not part of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090113033 - Method and system for managing operations on resources of a distributed network, in particular of a communication network, and corresponding computer-program product: A system for generating instruction signals arranged in workflows or rules for performing interventions on equipment, such as equipment of a communication network, wherein the equipment may be associated with resource proxy agents, each responsible for managing a single equipment. The system includes a distributed architecture of intervention management proxy... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090113031 - Method, apparatus and computer program product implementing multi-tenancy for network monitoring tools using virtualization technology: Method, apparatus and computer program product manage a plurality of networks with a single tenant network management tool using virtualization and implement control plane virtualization of the single tenant management tool; data storage virtualization of a data storage apparatus and network address virtualization of an available address range. A virtual... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090113035 - Network management apparatus and method: A method for a network management apparatus configured to communicate with a peripheral device using a version of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) that requires key information during communication includes acquiring device-specific information from the peripheral device, generating a plurality of key information candidates using the device-specific information before performing... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090113040 - Community based moderation in on-line sessions: Methods, apparatuses, and techniques for moderating activity in an online community are described. Aspects include a triggering mechanism being activated by a community member in response to inappropriate activity by another community member. Receiving a time based history of community members activity around a time of the triggering mechanism being... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090113046 - Information processing apparatus for updating environment information: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a server apparatus connected to a plurality of client apparatuses capable of sending out a message containing environment information to the server apparatus, the server apparatus has a storage for storing environment information in association with each of the client apparatuses and a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090113037 - Interoperable network programmable controller generation system: An interoperable controller operation system having a command module or processor, and input and output interfaces. The command module may have an application that is fixed, configurable or programmable. The module may be changeable on the fly. The input and/or output interfaces may be changeable on the fly. The module... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090113047 - Method and apparatus for last message notification: An agent for generating a last message notification in an asynchronous message delivery environment, wherein messages received by a messaging server are routable to a messaging client through an API binding protocol, the agent comprising: a monitoring component for monitoring a message store to determine if there is a message... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090113048 - Method and program for managing the quantity of data transmitted by a transmission device over a telecommunication network:

20090113050 - Method and system for automated session resource clean-up in a distributed client-server environment: A system and method of automatic session resource clean-up resulting from a client-server session wherein the client has requested use of server resources during the session. During each session, a list of the resources allocated to that session and associated with the client is maintained and, when the session terminates,... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090113039 - Method and system for content handling: Methods and systems for content handling mapping are described. A client profile may be accessed. The client profile may include a general usage pattern of an access device. A current usage pattern of the access device may be accessed. The current usage pattern may be based on a plurality of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090113042 - Method for correlating periodically aggregated data in distributed systems: A computer-implemented method for computing distributed component lag times includes: determining a transaction path for groups of transactions in a plurality of transactions to be processed; determining a distribution of elapsed times from a start of work at each component to an end of work at each component for the... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20090113043 - Network location service: A method is provided for a network location service in which one or more packet forwarding devices in the network collect and maintain location data for the devices/users currently connected to a network. The data is maintained locally in each packet forwarding device and may be provided on demand to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman, LLP

20090113045 - System and method for an integrated dsl/cable modem performance test: A modem, method, and system is presented for performing a data communications speed test or line speed test between a network node and a customer premises. The modem may be configured to perform calculations for determining the data communications speed without interference of network elements or overhead modules that cause... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090113036 - System and method for logging communications: A method for logging communication includes determining when a target user is active and identifying an access device and private Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the target user when the target user is active. The method further includes causing the access device to provide traffic information associated with the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lnap Attn: Patent Docketing

20090113041 - System and method for providing an intelligent wireless network: A system and method is for identifying where an employee is located and which network services node, such as a printer, is near him/her through a access point. The system uses the connection between the access point to identify the location of the user and which printer he/she can use.... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090113044 - System and method of configuring a network: Methods and systems for configuring a network are provided. A method may include monitoring properties of a connection between a computing device and a network. The method may also include detecting a change in the properties of the connection. The may also include verifying the connection to the network is... Agent: Toler Law Group

20090113038 - Systems and methods for monitoring performance of field assets: A system and method for monitoring performance of field assets are disclosed. A method may include transmitting packets on a shared bus located in a field asset may be captured. The captured packets may be analyzed to determine one or more operational parameters associated with one or more peripheral devices... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20090113049 - Systems and methods for real-time forecasting and predicting of electrical peaks and managing the energy, health, reliability, and performance of electrical power systems based on an artificial adaptive neural network: A system for utilizing a neural network to make real-time predictions about the health, reliability, and performance of a monitored system are disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, a power analytics server and a client terminal. The data acquisition component acquires real-time data output from the electrical system.... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090113051 - Method and system for hosting multiple, customized computing clusters: A computer system for hosting computing clusters for clients. The system includes clusters each including a set of computing resources and each implemented in custom or differing configurations. Each of the configurations provides a customized computing environment for performing particular client tasks. The configurations may differ due to configuration of... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090113052 - Troubleshooting of wireless client connectivity problems in wireless networks: A troubleshooting system. In particular implementations, a method includes receiving a request for troubleshooting, where the request comprises identifying information for a wireless client having a connection problem. The method further includes identifying network nodes that are sources of log data associated with connection activity of the wireless client, and... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20090113053 - Automated real-time data stream switching in a shared virtual area communication environment: In one aspect, one or more real-time data stream connections that deliver a set of real-time data streams to a given network node are determined based at least in part on bandwidth capabilities of the given network node. In another aspect, for each of one or more recipient network nodes,... Agent: Edouard Garcia Attorney At Law

20090113056 - Computer resource distribution method based on prediciton: A resource distribution method capable of lending surplus resources among a plurality of services and reducing the maintenance cost of the surplus resources is provided. Computer resources in the standby system have a dead standby state in which at least an application is not installed. A plurality of services or... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090113055 - Method and apparatus for fulfilling information requests in a networked environment: Method and apparatus for fulfilling information requests (such as information retrieval or consolidation and name address translation) that adapts to a highly scalable server and/or network architecture. Used for determining the location of a server and/or services based on an account number, a phone number, a service identifier or any... Agent: Vonage

20090113054 - Threshold-based normalized rate earliest delivery first (nredf) for delayed down-loading services: A content delivery system comprises at least one content server that servers a number of client requests. The content server uses a Threshold-Based Normalized Rate Earliest Delivery First (TB-NREDF) scheduler. The TB-NREDF scheduler imposes a threshold value, or limit, on the number of rescheduling requests.... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090113059 - Method and apparatus for peer to peer link establishment over a network: A method and apparatus for linking to a Peer-to-Peer (“P2P”) network for VOIP communications. An intermediary peer creates a map to link peers together in the P2P network. A series of messages are generated to open the ports of one peer to be accessible to other peers on the P2P... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090113057 - Proximity routing for session based applications using anycast: Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a method, which can comprise automatically providing content to an information device from a content distribution node of a plurality of content distribution nodes. The information device can be adapted to send a request for the content from the first content distribution node utilizing an... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090113060 - Systems and methods for seamless host migration: Systems and methods of the present invention for maintaining network data distribution are provided. Network data may be distributed in such as manner as to allow a network session to weather interrupted communications between host and clients without significant loss of data. Embodiments of the present invention provide for one... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090113058 - Terminal server draining: Techniques are described for managing and controlling connections of server sessions, including systems and methods for managing and controlling connections to a server computer. Connections are monitored to a server computer depending on a “drain state” of the server computer. If the server is in drain mode, requests to initiate... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090113061 - System and method for establishing communications parameters for electronic device: Disclosed are methods of establishing communication parameters for communicating between a first electronic device and a second electronic device, and corresponding computer apparatus and computer-readable medium. The embodiments store a device driver indicator on the first electronic device, the device driver indicator for indicating a driver for driving the first... Agent: Prass LLP

20090113063 - Authentication method and apparatus for integrating ticket-granting service into session initiation protocol: In an authentication method for integrating ticket-granting service into session initiation protocol, a server provides session initiation protocol and ticket-granting services between a calling facility and a called facility, and the method includes enabling the calling facility to obtain a first ticket from the server, and subsequently issue an INVITE... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090113062 - Efficient network monitoring and control: In one embodiment, a method for monitoring traffic associated with users in a network includes assigning a trust level to each of the users, monitoring traffic associated with each of the users, and analyzing the monitored traffic. A level of monitoring is based on the trust level of the user.... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20090113064 - Converter for converting communication method and/or communication protocol: This is a converter which converts communication methods and/or protocols in order to enable communications between at least one medical equipment (ME) and a medical support control device (MSCD), comprising: a first communication interface corresponding to a communication interface of the MSCD; a plurality of second communication interfaces corresponding to... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090113065 - Integrity mechanism for file transfer in communications networks: A method, a system and a computer program product for file transfer between a source node and a target node in a communications network are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of generating and storing a first hash product of a file; sending the first hash product to the target... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20090113066 - Automated real-time data stream switching in a shared virtual area communication environment: Switching real-time data stream connections between network nodes sharing a virtual area is described. In one aspect, the switching involves storing a virtual area specification. The virtual area specification includes a description of one or more switching rules each defining a respective connection between sources of a respective real-time data... Agent: Edouard Garcia Attorney At Law

20090113067 - Communicating a selection of a potential configuration: In an example embodiment, a first streaming media device, such as a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone initiates a communication session with a second streaming media device. An offer is sent to the second streaming media device comprising a plurality of potential configurations. The second device selects one of... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090113068 - Content delivery system, cache server, and cache control server: In a cache control assuming plural user terminals accessing identical content, cache delete priority assignment is performed from a position where a user finished playback based on whether the user intends to view the content later. A cache control server is provided, and a cache delete inhibit span is determined... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090113069 - Apparatus and method for providing a congestion measurement in a network: Example embodiments of a system and method for providing a congestion measurement in a network are disclosed. In an example embodiment information is received at an information transfer rate, from a source network device. A sample of the information may be taken before the information is transmitted to a destination... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090113070 - Enhance fault tracing in multi-tiered ethernet/mpls network: Techniques for providing connectivity fault management (CFM) for a multi-tiered network are described herein. In one embodiment, a link trace message (LTM) is received at a provider edge (PE) router and originated from a first Ethernet node and destined to a second Ethernet node, where the PE router interfaces an... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090113071 - Methods and systems for providing efficient provisioning of data flows: A system and method may include receiving a new flow request, the new flow request for requesting provisioning of a flow between a computer and the server, identifying a path of one or more network elements between the computer and the server, and determining whether provisioning the flow between the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090113072 - Hot-swappable services in distributed computing: A message directed to a first version of a service is received at a content based router in a distributed computing system. The message is transmitted to a second version of the service instead of the first version of the service if the message is compatible with the second version... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090113073 - Remote access system and its ip address assigning method: An IP address assigning method for assigning a fixed address to a user terminal apparatus through a network in a system for remote accessing to the network to which a tunneling apparatus belongs from the user terminal apparatus. The user terminal apparatus connected to a first network requests a setting... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090113075 - Server and method for managing domain names in a network: A domain name server includes a zone file containing partitioning rules that define the partitioning of all subfolders of this domain into subzones. The DNS data of each of these subzones is hosted by a partition server that is able to obtain from the zone file information for identifying the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090113074 - Variable dns responses based on client identity: An address resolver such as a DNS service may use the identity of a requesting client device to determine a response of a network address for a hostname in a request. A requesting client device may transmit a hardware or user identifier to an address resolving server in order to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090113076 - Hierarchical file synchronization method, software and devices: A method of maintaining a computer file in synchrony between multiple computers is disclosed. The multiple computers may comprise at least one ancestor, a descendant of the ancestor, and a subsequent descendant of the ancestor. A local copy of the computer file may be stored at the ancestor, the descendant... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090113077 - Service discovery associated with real time composition of services: Real-time service composition is provided by a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) transport binding for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) messages. A SOAPAction header and SOAP envelope can be included in a SIP message to identify a requested service. The SIP message recipient can parse out the SOAP envelope and forward... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090106345 - Interface between a production management system and an automation system: An interface makes it possible not only to link an automation system component in uniform fashion to a production management system but also to relieve the production management system. For this purpose a generic data server has a long-term data store integrated with the server, an integrated data analysis unit,... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20090106344 - Method and apparatus for processing web service with management information: The present invention provides service processing used in a computer system comprising a plurality of computers, each of which receives a message and executes a Web service on the basis of the message and then outputs a message generated from the result of the execution. The computer system realizes a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090106346 - Method for exchanging content between communication devices: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to request from an alternate communication device a log of subscribed content acquired by the alternate communication device from an alternate source, identify from the log a desired portion of the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090106358 - Cache control program, storage medium storing cache control program, and cache control apparatus: A storage medium stores a cache control program which causes a computer to execute receiving a feed that concerns any desired site. The computer judges whether or not a rich content specified from the feed among contents stored in a first server is cached, on the basis of the number... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090106351 - Client apparatus: A client apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a contents list request transmitting means 401 for transmitting a request of a media server apparatus 101 to transmit a contents list which is a list of metadata of contents, a contents list receiving means 402 for receiving the contents... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090106360 - Content delivery method and system, network device, and mobile data service platform: A content delivery method and system, a network device, and a Mobile Data Service Platform (MDSP). The content delivery method includes receiving a service request that carries a content for approval and a standard content, searching for the digest of the standard content corresponding to the standard content identifier, where... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090106359 - Generation and retrieval of incident reports: Upon detection of an anomaly, a report is generated that includes a description the anomaly. A description of the anomaly contained in the report is examined to determine a proposed remedy for the anomaly.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090106361 - Identification of root cause for a transaction response time problem in a distributed environment: Method and apparatus for identifying a cause for a response time problem for a transaction in a distributed computing system that includes a central server and a plurality of subsystems. Data is stored at each subsystem relating to sub-transactions of transactions performed by the subsystems. When a problem is discovered... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090106354 - Identifier authentication system: In the identifier authentication system, when an identifier holding user 19 presents an identifier to an information requesting server 15, the information requesting server 15 asks a location management server 13 about a location of an information providing server 14 corresponding to the presented identifier, the location management server 13... Agent: Clark & Brody

20090106356 - Media playback point seeking using data range requests: Techniques are described for downloading user-selected segments of media objects. As described herein, a user may demand that a client device present a segment of a media object when the client device has not yet downloaded the data that represents the partial segment of the media object. The client device... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20090106350 - Method and apparatus for dynamic web service client application update: A method for managing a web service client update without recompiling or redeploying of the client code includes the following steps or acts of: receiving a request for the web service from a subscribed client; transmitting the request to the web service; receiving notification of the web service update from... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20090106355 - Method and apparatus for peer-to-peer services: A method and apparatus for peer-to-peer services have been described.... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090106348 - Method and system for limiting instances of a client-server program within a restricted distributed network: The present invention provides a computer implemented method, data processing system and computer program product for limiting instances of a client-server program within a plurality of platforms in a restricted distributed network. The data processing system receives an invocation of the client-server program. The data processing system assigns a write... Agent: Ibm Corp. (rcr) C/o Rolnik & Associates, P.C.

20090106353 - Method and system for providing an event auditing client server software arrangement: A computer system, includes a first input configured for data communication with a network of computers; a computer-readable medium storing processor executable instructions corresponding to a plurality of rules where the plurality of rules control the functionality of the system; a first processor configured to receive external events from the... Agent: Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Attn:IPDepartment Docket Clerk

20090106347 - Methods and systems for providing access, from within a virtual world, to an external resource: In a method for providing access to resources, a virtual world application executing on a first server transmits, to a client, data representative of at least one virtual world object. The virtual world application receives, from the client, a request to access a resource executed on a second server. The... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart

20090106357 - Synchronized media playback using autonomous clients over standard internet protocols: A method of achieving synchronous playback of media content over the internet, such as digital video and audio, when the media content is stored on a host that does not have synchronous broadcasting software installed. Users select media sources that are accessible from one or more content servers and create... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090106349 - Systems and methods for managing cookies via http content layer: The cookie management system and methods of the present solution address issues with rewriting cookie headers by handling cookies in the content layer of HTTP instead of the HTTP transaction layer. The present solution maintains cookie information for a browser via an intermediary and installs the correct cookie parameters in... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090106352 - Zugidome dating / social interaction system: A personal interaction and dating system that includes a plurality of individual portable hand-held transmitter and receiver units. The system further includes data storage and transfer mechanisms, personal computer software that is used to filter and prioritize data, and an easily accessible website for further uploading, downloading, and analyzing of... Agent: Jonathan Woolfson

20090106363 - Intelligent collection of diagnostic data for communication to diagnosis site: Techniques for intelligently identifying diagnostic data to be communicated from a product or system site (e.g., a customer site) to a diagnosis site (e.g., a vendor site). An appropriate amount of diagnostic data is identified to facilitate efficient and quick diagnosis and error resolution. Techniques are also provided that enable... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090106362 - Wirelessly-enabled identification of digital media generated at an event: A method in one embodiment includes embedding a unique event tag into media files recorded at an event by a first media recording device, which is operable to wirelessly discover a second media recording device at the event. The first media recording device wirelessly communicates the unique event tag to... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20090106364 - Method and apparatus for peer-to-peer network traffic analysis: A method and an apparatus can be provided for identifying and separately treating peer-to-peer traffic in a network. For example, the method can include identifying a supernode of a peer-to-peer network using intelligent heuristics. The method can also include identifying additional nodes of the peer-to-peer network using feedback. The method... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090106382 - Adaptive notification delivery in a multi-device environment: A notification service node to deliver notification messages is disclosed. The notification service node includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory includes instructions executable by the processor to receive a notification message via an instant messaging network, where the notification message is intended for a... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090106365 - Conditional reminders for conveyed electronic messages: The present invention discloses a solution for providing conditional reminders for electronic messages. The solution can identify an electronic message conveyed from a sender to a recipient, wherein the electronic message is an email message or text exchange message. A software program can determine a response time and a response... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090106369 - Duplicate email address detection for a contact: Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for managing multiple email addresses, each of which are associated with a known contact, e.g., a specific person. One embodiment includes selecting email addresses for an email to be sent through a computer system in communication with a mail server, wherein the email addresses... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090106368 - Injection advertising technology: A method and information processing system for providing messaging through an electronic messaging system. At least one user is determined to have performed at least one of the following two acts, creating an electronic message and sending an electronic message. At least one message is selected from a data store... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090106379 - Method and apparatus for increasing personability of instant messaging with user images: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for handling instant messages. In response to receiving an instant message, a determination is made as to whether a picture of a sender of the instant message is associated with the instant message, wherein the picture is located in a preexisting database of pictures.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090106383 - Method and apparatus for individualizing nicknames in message: A method for individualizing message nicknames is provided. The method includes creating a nickname conversion table that contains a message address and the corresponding nicknames; receiving messages, converting the sender nickname or recipient nickname in the message according to the nickname conversion table; and sending the converted message out. An... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090106374 - Method and apparatus for response enabled messaging: A method and apparatus for creating associations between messages in a stateless system. The method comprises adding a unique identification to a notification message at a gateway, and upon receiving a response from a user, identifying the unique identification within the response, and utilizing the unique identification to associate the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090106375 - Method and system for conversation detection in email systems: A method and system are provided for conversation detection in email systems. Multiple email messages are provided and grouped as relating to a conversation. The grouping is carried out by applying a similarity function based on a similarity of the email messages' attributes, the similarity function including a similarity between... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090106381 - Network object predictive pre-download device: A network object predictive pre-download device operable on a network logically between a web client and a web server on a network is described. The pre-download device includes a prediction engine that intercepts a request from the web client to the web server for a first network object and determines... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20090106378 - Open system for integrating and managing computer-based components representing a specific functionality of a specific application: An open system for integrating and managing computer-based components representing a specific functionality of a specific application with a computer-based core including: a standard context for integrating computer-based components into the specific application; an integrating protocol including instantiating and loading means for indexing, selecting and assigning computer-based components to the... Agent: Perman & Green

20090106376 - Persistent group-based instant messaging: A system for managing an instant messaging conversation in a persistent context is provided. The system has an archiving feature for convenient access to the conversation, even after the conversation has ceased.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090106370 - Processing electronic messages according to sender classification: A computer-implemented method of sorting electronic messages can include identifying at least one recipient of an electronic message and retrieving a classification scheme of the recipient. An identifier can be included within the electronic message. The identifier can specify a tag selected from the classification scheme of the recipient. The... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20090106380 - System and method for accessing information processor services from a mobile communication device: A system and method for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device upon sensing a triggering event is disclosed. A redirector program operating at the host system enables a user to continuously redirect user-selected data items from the host system to the user's mobile data... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090106366 - System and method for visualizing threaded communication across multiple communication channels using a mobile web server: A system, apparatus and method for visualizing threaded communication across multiple communication channels using a Mobile Web Server. A Mobile Web Server enables access to the messages received on a wireless communication device from the Internet using any web browser. Messages belonging to the same conversation, even if received on... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20090106377 - Systems and methods for adaptive communication control: Computer program products, apparatus, and methods for processing digital messages to recipients at destination domains is provided. A plurality of profiles are established, each profile for handling digital to a specific domain or set of domains. A request to process a plurality of outbound digital messages is handled by, for... Agent: Jones Day

20090106371 - Systems and methods to generate business reports based on electronic mail messages: A system may include reception of a first internet electronic mail message, determination of report selection criteria based on the first internet electronic mail message, and generation of a report based on the report selection criteria.... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090106373 - Systems and methods to receive information from a groupware client: A system may include reception of an internet electronic mail message associated with a standards-compliant groupware object, and conversion of the internet electronic mail message to a message associated with the standards-compliant groupware object and compliant with a Web service message interface.... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090106372 - Systems and methods to transmit information to a groupware client: A system may include creation of a message associated with a standards-compliant groupware object and compliant with a Web service message interface, conversion of the message to an internet electronic mail message, and transmission of the internet electronic mail message to an electronic mail address.... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090106367 - Triggering a communication system to automatically reply to communications: A communication system which facilitates distribution of electronic communications for a user account includes an emergency auto-reply agent that scans each received communication addressed to the user account for a particular communication sent from at least one emergency address specified for the user account separate from the address of the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20090106384 - Agent platform, multi agent system, and message transmitting/receiving method thereof: Provided are an agent platform, a multi agent system, and a message transmitting/receiving method thereof. The message transmitting/receiving method for a multi agent platform including a first agent platform for managing at least one of a first agent and a second agent and at least one of a second agent... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090106385 - System and method for diameter prefix authorization: The invention provides a method for Diameter prefix authorization. The method includes sending a request for a prefix by a Prefix Authorization (PA) client or Diameter client to a Prefix Authorization (PA) server or Diameter server. The method also includes replying with an answer message by the PA server to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090106386 - Methods and systems for pushing content fragments into a distributed storage system: Methods and systems for pushing content fragments into a distributed storage system, comprising registering a plurality of storage-and-computing elements that are accessed using Internet protocol; associating the plurality of storage-and-computing elements with a plurality of storage element types; and distributing content fragments to the storage-and-computing elements utilizing a predefined distribution... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20090106387 - Cidr based caching at application layer: A system for CIDR-based caching at the OSI application layer 7 is disclosed. The system improves performance of free peer routing servers, and can be implemented within a video on demand system.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090106391 - Information delivery apparatus, information delivery method, and information delivery system: An information delivery apparatus is disclosed which delivers update information about a specific resource designated by a terminal to the terminal, the information delivery apparatus includes: a delivery section configured to receive from the terminal a request to deliver the update information about the resource and for delivering the update... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090106392 - Push to storage network enabling fast start: Methods and systems for distributed storage and retrieval systems comprising a plurality of storage-and-computing elements, each storage-and-computing element storing a plurality of pushed content fragments and able to simultaneously retrieve pushed content fragments from a plurality of storage-and-computing elements. Wherein many storage-and-computing elements, within a short duration of receiving a... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20090106389 - Sharing multimedia: In order to enable contents to be shared between participants in group communication when the contents are located in a by a communication server (501), a solution in which a user terminal sets us a transport mechanism between the media server and the communication server for delivering the contents from... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20090106388 - Storage system and data transfer method: This storage system includes one or more household appliances, a home server storing contents data and management information of the contents data received from the one or more household appliances and pre-set with an unused capacity limit, and an online storage center. When the actual unused capacity in the home... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090106390 - System and method for sharing web performance monitoring data: A monitoring system is provided that allows owners of monitoring accounts to share web monitoring data collected under the direction of the monitoring account. Account owners are able to interact with the monitoring system to identify recipient accounts for shared web monitoring data and apply permissions at a granular level... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090106393 - Data distribution system and method: There is described a method of distributing rights-managed media data items to users, wherein each media data item has associated rights information, including a time-limited availability attribute. The method comprises, for each media data item: in a seeding phase; storing the media data item; receiving requests for the media data... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090106394 - Method of establishing a tunnel between network terminal devices passing through firewall: A method of establishing a tunnel between network terminal devices passing through firewall is applied to a network system which comprises at least two private networks and Internet wherein each of said private networks comprises at least a NAT router and at least a network terminal device (such as a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090106399 - Content storage medium making method, computer program, and content providing system: A content providing technique stores content data 120, sends a program for detecting a drive 35 capable of writing on a removable medium D on a user terminal 30, sends a program for determining whether or not a removable medium D is loaded on the drive 35, sends blocks of... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090106396 - Data extraction system, terminal apparatus, program of the terminal apparatus, server apparatus, and program of the server apparatus: This invention provides a terminal searching for web pages on the web and extracting the prescribed data from the web pages and a server verifying and accumulating the extracted data. The prescribed data can be extracted from the web pages on the web in a manner that the process relating... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090106397 - Method and apparatus for interactive content distribution: Systems, methods, and apparatus for distributing content include receiving content from a content provider. Activating a media device when desired content is being observed. Building a request for the desired content, the request including information identifying the content provider. Communicating the request for the desired content to a media server... Agent: Sean Partrick O'keefe

20090106400 - Remote data copying among storage systems: The present invention provides a method for guaranteeing a data consistency among a plurality of storages and sites, when data transfer is performed by asynchronous remote copying from a site including a plurality of storages. When writing is made into a first storage system or a second storage system, the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090106395 - Satellite data network acceleration: A satellite data network may include one or more acceleration systems for acceleration data transfers through the network. The acceleration systems may spoof one or more protocols of a server to respond to requests from a client. One protocol that may be spoofed is the Common Internet File System (CIFS)... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090106398 - Web service architecture for dynamic rules table generation: Various systems and methods for providing access to a dynamically generated rules table as a Web Service are disclosed. One method involves receiving a Web Service request from a requester and then dynamically generating a rules table, in response to receipt of the Web Service request. Dynamically generating the rules... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090106401 - System and method for intra network internet protocol (ip) address modification by dual controller: An intranet IP address modification system and method for a dual controller, and is used to modify the intranet IP addresses dynamically under the condition of keeping an intranet based TCP connection of a dual controller from disruption and disconnection. Before modifying the intranet IP address, blocking all data transmission... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090106402 - Web service architecture for product configuration: Various techniques for providing product configuration as a Web Service are disclosed. One method involves receiving a Web Service signature requesting access to a product configuration session to configure a product and accessing information representing an instance of the product, in response to receipt of the Web Service signature. A... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090106403 - Method and apparatus for maintaining compatibility within a distributed systems management environment with a plurality of configuration versions: A method, apparatus and computer instructions are disclosed for maintaining the compatibility of a multiple nodes in a distributed systems management environment with multiple configuration settings, by transforming the configuration data stored in the master repository (one possible realization is where XML documents contain the configuration data) from one version... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090106404 - Method and apparatus for dynamically configuring virtual internet protocol addresses: A host node connected to a network using an Internet Protocol automatically identifies multiple adapters connected to the same network, preferably by broadcasting a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) request for assignment of an IP address on a first adapter, and listening to the request on a second adapter, thereby... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090106405 - System and method for initializing and maintaining a series of virtual local area networks contained in a clustered computer system: A system and method for sharing network resources; the system comprising: (1) at least one network switch; (2) a plurality of computing devices, where the computing device comprises (i) at least one network connection; (ii) a plurality of processing nodes; and (iii) at least one storage device containing software for... Agent: Michael S. Mazarick

20090106408 - Communication management server and computer system: Provided is a computer system, comprising a management server and a presence server. The user terminals include a first user terminal for originating a question and a second user terminal for responding to the question originated from the first user terminal. The management server comprising: an interface coupled to the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090106407 - Content transfer system, content transfer method and home server: Provided are a content transfer system, a content transfer method, and a home server capable of backing up all backup target contents without having to transfer all backup target contents. This content transfer system includes a home storage and an online storage. The home storage transfers identifying information of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090106410 - Management apparatus and method for managing network device: In the case of displaying a screen for designating a distribution destination of resource data, a resource manager determines an attribute of resource data to be distributed. Based on the determined attribute of the resource data, the resource manager switches a user interface to be used for designating a distribution... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090106406 - Method of initiating dtmf diagnostics and other features via a call in diagnostics interface: A method to initiate a remote diagnostic mode in a network terminal includes determining whether a received signal corresponds to a command to initiate a remote diagnostic mode, and setting the network terminal in a remote diagnostic mode in accordance with the result of the determining. An authentication procedure may... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (tellabs)

20090106409 - Method, apparatus and recording medium for migrating a virtual machine: In one embodiment, a method for migrating a virtual machine (VM) under operation from one server to another server among a plurality of servers is provided. The method includes providing a schema defined beforehand by an operator, an application-dependent policy using the schema, and an total optimization policy to optimize... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090106412 - Network system, network management device and management method thereof: Operation history information related to operations performed at a plurality of devices and communication history information related to communications performed between the devices are managed. When an operation accompanied with a communication has been performed at the device, a predetermined action corresponding to the operation accompanied with the communication is... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090106411 - Scalable, high performance and highly available distributed storage system for internet content: A method for content storage on behalf of participating content providers begins by having a given content provider identify content for storage. The content provider then uploads the content to a given storage site selected from a set of storage sites. Following upload, the content is replicated from the given... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20090106418 - Agent device, image-forming-device management system, image-forming-device management method, image-forming-device management program and storage medium: An agent device is connected with one or more image-forming devices in a local network having a firewall provided therein. A management device carries out remote management of the image-forming devices in the local network through the Internet. The agent device includes a command receiving unit which starts connection with... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090106414 - Digital living network alliance (dlna) enabled portable electronic devices, dlna management consoles and related methods of operating dlna enabled portable electronic devices: Digital living network alliance (DLNA) enabled portable electronic devices are provided that include a DLNA device circuit and a DLNA management console circuit. The DLNA device circuit is configured to attach the portable electronic device to an existing DLNA network having at least one existing DLNA management console so as... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20090106415 - Display of person based information including person notes: Among other disclosures, a method may include collecting historical communication data and personal data relating to a portion of a plurality of communications, a sender of one or more of the communications or one or more recipients of the communications. The method may include generating a profile based on the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090106420 - Ghost agents for application domains within a grid environment: A method for evaluating system behavior of an application domain within a grid environment can include the step of identifying a host software object within the application domain. A software object can be associated with the host software object. Within the associated software object, host actions can be replicated. Replicated... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090106413 - Method and apparatus for detecting click fraud: Detecting click fraud at a user device involves detecting a event targeted to a network service that is rated based on the number of individuals who access the network service. The event is of a type associated with user interface selections. It is determined whether the user device is in... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20090106417 - Method and apparatus for packet analysis in a network: A method and system for monitoring traffic in a data communication network and for extracting useful statistics and information is disclosed.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090106419 - Methods to test multimedia devices on computer systems: The described embodiments relate to testing streaming media capture devices and/or computer systems. One exemplary method enumerates and tests multiple streaming media capture device which are operably associated with a computer. The method simultaneously exercises said computer's display and power states.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090106421 - Network monitoring system: Methods and systems consistent with the present invention solve the limitations of current monitoring systems by automatically and completely monitoring various networks devices and services. Specifically, a network monitoring system monitors all services and conditions on various networks. Moreover, the network monitoring system may provide an advance warning of potential... Agent: Sandy Kronenberg

20090106416 - Shared groups rostering system: Information about all current members of a group is stored. Instructions are received from at least one current member to invite at least one prospective member to join the group and the invitation to join the group is sent to the prospective member. In the event that an affirmative response... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090106422 - Methods, apparatus and techniques for suspending, resuming, and sharing sessions using object serialization: An X display may be dynamically rerouted to a different graphics terminal, or to several graphics terminals, without disrupting X clients. The corresponding X server architecture includes a static, protocol router part which acts as an endpoint for client connections and which routes X protocol to one or more X... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090106425 - Distributed push-to-storage system with redundancy: Methods and systems for distributed push-to-storage with redundancy. One method includes the steps of setting at least two storage groups according to a required storage redundancy; registering a plurality of peer-to-peer devices; associating the peer-to-peer devices with at least one of the storage groups; receiving a first content having a... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20090106424 - Processing requests in virtual computing environments: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing read and write requests received from a cloned instance of a server application, the cloned instance of the server application having a corresponding instance that is hosted in a production portion of a computing environment.... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090106423 - Providing services via a communication system: A method provides services via a communication system. The method comprises comparing an identifier relating to a removable storage means to information on at least one set, wherein each set is related to at least one identifier. The method further comprises fetching at least one feature determined for said at... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090106429 - Collaborative music network: A collaborative music network for collaboratively linking members with each other has a central control center which is adapted for a plurality of members accessing thereto through internet, and a communication center linked to the central control center for interactively networking the members with each other. The music network includes... Agent: David And Raymond Patent Firm

20090106426 - Method and apparatus for model-based pageview latency management: Within exemplary embodiments of the present invention a methodology for response time management for a web page-view download operation is provided. The methodology providing a server-side approach for optimizing weighted, per class, client perceived web page-view download response time. Further, a model for monitoring web page-views download latency in real-time... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090106427 - Mobile server with multiple service connections: A method of communicating between a mobile communications device and a plurality of services that are used by the mobile communications device. The method includes establishing, through a firewall and a wireless network, a first communications session between the mobile communications device and a mobile server located in an enterprise... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20090106428 - Service intermediary addressing for real time composition of services: Real-time service composition is provided by a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) transport binding for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) messages. A SOAPAction header and SOAP envelope can be included in a SIP message to identify a requested service. The SIP message recipient can parse out the SOAP envelope and forward... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090106430 - System and method for a shared i/o subsystem: A computer system that includes a plurality of servers, and a shared I/O subsystem coupled to each of the servers and to one or more I/O interfaces. The shared I/O subsystem services I/O requests made by two or more of the servers. Each I/O interface may couple to a network,... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20090106431 - Information on demand process framework to generate, manage, secure, and deploy browsers and application accessible web services: Disclosure is a method and system for delivering a reusable framework. The disclosure invokes an interface to define an information service within the reusable framework. The defined information service is stored in a repository. The method further includes outputting a service request as an address for invoking the defined information... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20090106432 - System and method for transmitting data from a server application to more than one client node: The invention relates to a system and method for transmitting the same data to more than one client node substantially simultaneously. In one embodiment the invention relates to a method for transmitting the same data substantially simultaneously from an application executing on a server node to at least two client... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090106433 - Access system interface: An access system provides identity management and/or access management services for a network. An application program interface for the access system enables an application without a web agent front end to read and use contents of an existing encrypted cookie to bypass authentication and proceed to authorization. A web agent... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090106434 - Community network: The community network may be configured to deliver relevant, informative, and useful content regarding the client to individual users of the community. Further, individual users may be provided an opportunity to communicate with one another and to invite new users into their community. Additionally, users may collaborate with one another... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090106435 - Data transmission and reception system with accurate time information: A data transmission and reception system for sending and receiving data between a sender and a receiver via a network. The system includes an authorizing server maintaining time information and authorizing a sender server after subjecting the sender server to examination and after the sender server is licensed by the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090106437 - Method and device for handling different addressing schemes in session initiation protocol communication: A method including sending a request for a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) service, the request including at least one Universal Resource Identifier (URI) according to a first addressing scheme. The method further includes receiving a response including the URI of the first addressing scheme, a corresponding SIP URI for each... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090106438 - Method of setting ip address to network device: A method for setting an IP (Internet Protocol) address to a network device is provided. In this method, a step is first performed to check if a DHCP server exists in a network domain and obtain a checking result. When the checking result is yes, a dynamic IP address is... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090106436 - Methods and systems for offload processing: Communication nodes, systems and methods are described which provide offload processing capabilities. Tasks can be offloaded from a host element to an offload processing element. Incoming data streams can have their associated Layer 3/Layer transportation protocol stacks terminated. Data can be repackaged and routed using an internal, offload protocol which... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090106439 - Virtual dispersive routing: A computer performs a method comprising the steps of, for each application, creating, for such application, a virtual machine that is associated with sending and receiving of communications over the computer network, determining, for such application, a network protocol out of a plurality of available network protocols, the determined network... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20090106443 - Embedding a session description message in a real-time control protocol (rtcp) message: Embedded within at least some Real-Time Control Protocol (RTCP) messages sent from a media content source to a recipient is a session description message that describes a media presentation being streamed to the recipient. The session description message can be associated, for example, with one of a plurality of pieces... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090106442 - Method, system and apparatus for playing advertisements: Embodiments of the present invention provide method, system and apparatus for playing advertisements during buffering time in network living broadcasting. The method includes: obtaining, by a network living broadcasting client, streaming media data of a channel currently watched by a user, obtaining an advertisement content file corresponding to the channel,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090106441 - Methods for high bandwidth utilization by a distributed storage system: Methods for high bandwidth utilization by a distributed storage system. One method comprising accessing a plurality of storage-and-computing elements distributively storing a plurality of content fragments belonging to ‘N’ contents, wherein at least most of the ‘N’ contents are associated with different retrieving functions and the retrieving functions have low... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20090106440 - Support for incrementally processing user defined aggregations in a data stream management system: A computer is programmed to accept a command for creation of a new aggregation defined by a user to process data incrementally, one tuple at a time. One or more incremental function(s) in a set of instructions written by the user to implement the new aggregation maintain(s) locally any information... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP Attn: Ora

20090106444 - Cec enhancement: A method for determining transfer rate comprising selecting a first transfer rate of a plurality of transfer rates, transmitting a message at the first transfer rate over a Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) line of a High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) network, determining whether an acknowledgment to the message having been... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090106446 - Internet network apparatus and method of transferring data using the same: An Internet network apparatus and a method of transferring data are provided. An encoder encodes source data and then generates communication unit input data. A communication unit sequentially transmits the communication unit input data to a client via, in order, an application layer, a transport layer, an IP layer, and... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090106445 - Method and apparatus for model-based pageview latency management: Within exemplary embodiments of the present invention a methodology for response time management for a web page-view download operation is provided. The methodology providing a server-side approach for optimizing weighted, per class, client perceived web page-view download response time. Further, a model for monitoring web page-views download latency in real-time... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090106447 - Method and system for transitioning between content in web pages: Methods and systems are described for presenting a transition between content in web pages. One method includes receiving content associated with a first web page that includes a presentable representation of the first web page, and a request for a second web page, rendering the second webpage to retrieve content... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20090106448 - Data distribution management device and data distribution management method: A data distribution management device (10) is provided on a transmission route between a transmission device (C1) that requires a delivery acknowledgement corresponding to data transmitted and a receiving device (C2) in which a transmission delay in a circuit (2) is smaller than a transmission delay in a circuit (3),... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090106450 - Input device for allowing interface to a web site in association with a unique input code: An input device for allowing interface to a web site in association with a unique input code. A method for interconnecting a first location on a global communication network with a second location thereon is disclosed. An input device is provided at the first location on the global communication network... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20090106449 - Method and apparatus for providing dynamic route advertisement: A method and apparatus for providing dynamic route advertisement based on IP-Sec security associations are disclosed. The method receives a notification for an establishment, a deletion or a modification of a security association for a sub-network. The method then adds or deletes a route for the sub-network based on the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090106451 - Methods and systems for boosting streaming from a distributed storage system: Methods and systems for retrieving content fragments stored in a distributed storage and retrieval system comprising a plurality of storage-and-computing elements. One method comprising, for each content fragment: determining the storage element type that stores the content fragment; determining a first storage-and-computing element physical address from which to retrieve the... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20090106452 - Address assignment: A system comprises a first computer comprising a first switch and a first endpoint device. The system also includes a second computer comprising a second switch and a second endpoint device. The second computer couples to the first computer. The first endpoint device receives a signal from the second endpoint... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090106453 - Domain name system using dynamic dns and global address management method for dynamic dns server: In order to constitute a domain name system obtained by providing and utilizing a DNS service by using a self-supporting (not rented) DDNS server in a dynamic IP address environment, a DDNS server inside a network of a central site and routers which are DDNS clients inside networks of other... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090106454 - Independent synchronization of meta-data between devices: A method comprises maintaining a data store of meta-data for a plurality of other data stores. The meta-data data store includes a plurality of meta-data data elements. Each of the meta-data data elements corresponds to a respective one of a plurality of data stores on a first network element. Meta-data... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090106455 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing messages between multiple terminals: A method for synchronizing messages between multiple terminals includes: receiving a message state change notification carrying a message state and a message identifier from a first terminal of a user; and sending a message state change notification to the second terminal of the user, according to the message state change... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090100123 - Data communication apparatus, control method for data communication apparatus, and storage medium: A data communication system which enables a user to easily receive desired transfer data by an apparatus to which the user has logged in, thereby making it possible to improve user convenience. A server apparatus has a function of transferring data received via a public telephone line or a network... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090100128 - Accelerating peer-to-peer content distribution: The acceleration of peer-to-peer downloads of content files using auxiliary resources in combination with peer-to-peer content distribution. A further feature relates to the use of enhanced message scheme for communications between the tracker and peers. One embodiment is a swarm having at least one seed capable of at least initially... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090100132 - Collector for monitoring and recording appliance data: A central collector has appliance communication links to communicate with multiple appliances, and removable memory to store operational data retrieved from the appliances. When the memory is removed from the central collector and installed in a device capable of communication, the operational data can be communicated from the removable memory... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20090100131 - Method and apparatus for integrating distributed shared services system: Method and apparatus for integrating distributed shared services system which integrates web based applications with each other and with other centralized application to provide a single sign-on approach for authentication and authorization services for distributed web sites requiring no access time back to the authentication/authorization server is provided.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090100127 - Method and system for hoarding content on mobile clients: A device and method for efficient hoarding content set on a mobile client prior to disconnection of the mobile client from a network. The content set to be hoarded on the mobile client and a respective schedule for hoarding the content set on the mobile client are dynamically computed by... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090100125 - Optimized key frame caching for remote interface rendering: Frames of user interface (UI) graphical data can be remotely rendered more efficiently at a client during a remote session with a server by utilizing graphical data cached at the client to prevent re-sending data to the client that was sent in previous payloads. By using cache memory to remember... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20090100133 - Slow-dynamic load balancing system and computer-readable medium: A load balancing system and a corresponding computer-readable medium are proposed. The load balancing system is used in environments (e.g., implementing a licensing management application) wherein each client is associated with a preferred server storing specific information for the client. Each client periodically detects a workload and a response time... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090100130 - System and method for anomalous directory client activity detection: An information processing system for a computing network in which the access log of a directory server is analyzed to detect anomalous client access requests.... Agent: Mark Wahl

20090100126 - Systems and methods for managing a service registered on a device: A method for managing a service registered on a device is described. A device and a service associated with the device are discovered. The validity of a server hosting the service is verified. The validity of a link corresponding to the service hosted on the server is verified. The compatibility... Agent: Austin Rapp & Hardman

20090100129 - Thin terminal computer architecture utilizing roaming keyboard files: A thin client server system including a client server configured to transfer at least one roaming keyboard file to at least one thin client terminal is described. The thin client terminal includes a touch-sensitive interface, session layout module and a client processing module. The session layout module generates a selection... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090100124 - Web feeds over sip: A method may include issuing a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) request to a Web feed server to receive a Web feed, and receiving from the Web feed server the Web feed.... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090100135 - Device and method of sharing contents among devices: A method of sharing contents among devices, the method includes a first device and a second device performing a time synchronization, the first device receiving, from a user, a time stamp with respect to contents being replayed by the second device, the first device transmitting the time stamp to the... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090100136 - Intelligent presence: A method and apparatus for obtaining contact information for individuals using an electronic device is disclosed. The user creates a user profile and storing the profile in the electronic device and creates a preference list of desired characteristics and storing the list in the electronic device; The electronic device registers... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090100134 - System and method for customized sharing of multimedia content in a communications network: Methods and devices for sharing multimedia content in a communications network are disclosed. In an exemplary method, the initiation of a communications session between a first communications device and a second communications device is detected. In response, a content update, based on multimedia content stored on the first communications device,... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20090100137 - Method and apparatus for providing services in a peer-to-peer communications network: A method and apparatus that provides services in a peer-to-peer communications network is disclosed. The method may include determining at least one group to which a first application is associated, determining if there is at least one second application in the group, and if there is a second application, then... Agent: Prass LLP

20090100139 - Apparatus system and method for responding to web form inquiries: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for generating contact plans and responding to web form inquires using the contact plans.... Agent: Utah Valley Patent Services, LLC

20090100141 - Instant messaging priority filtering based on content and hierarchical schemes: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for filtering and prioritizing instant messaging threaded conversations in an instant messaging system based on thread content. The instant messaging client analyzes an incoming message to determine the thread subject. Based on the thread subject analysis, the client determines the priority level associated with... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090100140 - Method and system for contextual messaging as utilized for decision support: A method and system for contextual messaging as utilized for decision support is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises receiving and storing information from an administrative client that establishes memberships of a plurality of clients to a common contextual messaging system. Nomenclature information is received from the... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20090100138 - Spam filter: Detection of undesired electronic communication, such as spam emails, by comparing the email with a list of likely spam words and establishing the communication as undesired when the words in the list, are substantially present in the email, even if not completely present. For example, the match is close enough... Agent: Scott C Harris

20090100142 - System and method for interruption management: A method and computer program product for managing interruptions including defining an interruption control initiation trigger and defining an interruption control release trigger. An interruption control period is initiation based upon, at least in part, the interruption control initiation trigger. The interruption control period is terminated based upon, at least... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090100143 - Audio signal processor and network system: In the case where an audio network system that performs transport of audio signals between a plurality of processors is constructed such that the plurality of processors each including two sets of transmission I/Fs and reception I/Fs are connected in series, and a TL frame generated by a master node... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090100144 - Computer peripheral device for accessing web site content: A computer peripheral device is provided comprising a housing, a plurality of figures each having a unique physical appearance and a unique structural characteristic, an identifying portion that is configured to identify one of the plurality of figures, at a time, based on the unique structural characteristic of the figure.... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090100145 - Method for internet-based applications to enable internet service providers to specify location context: A client computing device accesses a communications network via a network service provider, including exercising to at least one other user using a network-based service. A request for location context is provided, destined to the network-based service via the network service provider. The network service provider intercepts the location context... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20090100146 - Storage system managing data through a wide area network: In a storage system, a server apparatus and a storage apparatus are provided, while the server apparatus is connected via a LAN to one, or plural sets of computers so as to accept an access request of file data issued from the computers, whereas the storage apparatus is connected via... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090100148 - Electronic device with end-to-end flow control of messages: An electronic device is provided which comprises at least one sender (S0-S3) for transmitting data and at least one receiver (R) for receiving data. Furthermore, a network-based interconnect (N) is provided for coupling the at least one sender and the at least one receiver such that a data traffic from... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090100147 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program: A configuration is provided in which a device in a home network receives content from a server outside the home network and plays the content. A home IMS gateway maps an external server outside the home network as a virtual home network device, and executes a process of receiving a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090100149 - Method and system for using tokens to conduct file sharing transactions between handhelds and a web service: A method and system supporting web file sharing transactions via a networked handheld computer system. In a system having a server that automatically detects when new versions of currently used applications are made available for a networked handheld computer system, a method is described for allowing one handheld computer system... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20090100153 - Method of self servicing an appliance: A method of self servicing an appliance includes connecting a service accessory to an appliance, recording diagnostics data associated with the appliance onto the service accessory, removing the service accessory from the appliance, coupling the service accessory to a personal computer, and uploading the diagnostics data to an automated service... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20090100151 - Network accessible media object index: A real-time locater for digital media objects, related to one or more creative compositions and accessible over a network, is described. A service-provider maintains a master index of the digital media objects. The master index is organized by considering each media object to be an example of a primary attribute... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090100150 - Screen reader remote access system: The present invention provides an assistive technology screen reader in a distributed network computer system. The screen reader, on a server computer system, receives display information output from one or more applications. The screen reader converts the text and symbolic content of the display information into a performant format for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090100152 - System for selecting a network element: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a client terminal having a controller to transmit a request for a communication identifier of each of a plurality of network elements in a proximity to the client terminal, receive the communication identifier of each of the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090100154 - Automatically instrumenting a set of web documents: Embodiments of the invention provide a method and system for automatically instrumenting a set of web documents, such as web pages, as well as embedding structures that present advertising content via the web pages. The instrumentation automatically embeds tags that enable usage information associated with the web documents to be... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090100155 - Method and device to set device configurations: A device to set device configurations, and a method thereof. The method includes requesting a server for address information to be used by a device and cloning information for setting configurations, and receiving the cloning information from the server according to the address information to be used by the device... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090100156 - Method and system for configuring settings for a communications client utilizing host device drivers: A system and method for configuring a client on a host device using a configuration application on a configuring device, the system comprising: a link between the configuring device and the host device; host drivers for communicating between the host device and the configuring device over the link; and an... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090100158 - Backup and recovery system for multiple device environment: A backup system stores configuration data for several interdependent systems in a single backup store. As the systems are being configured and when changes are made to the systems, the backup store is updated with the change. The systems may be configured with each system having a designated role. During... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090100159 - Method for automatically modifying a program and automation system: A method for automatically modifying a program of an automation system, wherein a first item of data related to a program component is determined using an identificator assigned to the automation system, wherein a program code object stored in a database is selected using a selector based upon the first... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090100157 - Virtual session on a removable memory: A virtual session for a computer in which files that are worked on or automatically stored to a portable device such as a hard drive. Depending on the options that are selected, helper files for those programs may also be stored. Those helper files may be files that enable reading... Agent: Scott C Harris

20090100164 - Apparatus and method for providing content: An apparatus and method for providing content is provided, which performs a web service initialization through a provided local offline web server and manages a plurality of content provided through a multithreaded web service. The apparatus for providing content includes a communication unit receiving one or more sets of content;... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090100160 - Data server administration using a chatbot: Provided are techniques for data server administration. Under control of a chatbot in real time, a command is received from a user for administering a data server in a natural language format. It is determined whether the data server is to be contacted to process the command. In response to... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20090100165 - Dynamically integrating disparate computer-aided dispatch systems: Systems and methods for dynamically integrating disparate computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems are disclosed. The systems and methods provide bi-directional interoperability between disparate CAD systems and maintain stateful ongoing interactions between interconnected CAD systems. Information objects in one CAD system are associated and bound to related objects in other CAD systems... Agent: David B. Tingey

20090100167 - Messaging: A device for transmitting a message for reception by another device, comprising: a processor for adding location information to the message, before transmission, wherein the location information identifies an area within which the message is to be hosted for reception by the other device; and a transmitter for transmitting the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090100163 - Method and apparatus forweb based storage on demand: The distributed virtual SAN infrastructure provides a plurality of host systems with a scalable dynamically expandable distributed virtual storage pool, which includes a virtual storage automatic construct protocol. The distributed virtual SAN infrastructure includes one or more IP SAN units, the management console, the distributing control management station and the... Agent: Sheng Tai (ted) Tsao

20090100162 - Sharing policy and workload among network access devices: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to sharing policy and workload among network access devices. In aspects, a network access device receives a communication between a first and a second node. The network access device may be one of a set of network access devices responsible for processing... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090100161 - System and method for managing communications: A method and computer program product for managing interruptions including defining a communication management policy for a plurality of communication channels. Communications on the plurality of communication channels are delivered based upon, at least in part, the communications management policy. Similarly, communications on the plurality of communication channels are rejected... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090100166 - 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

20090100170 - Apparatus, method, computer program product and system for requesting acknowledgment of transmitted data packets: An apparatus, method, computer program product and system are provided for initiating a request for acknowledgment of successfully, or unsuccessfully, transmitted data packets, wherein the request is initiated in response to the detection of a potential overload situation or an upcoming resource limitation. In particular, a transmitter may monitor certain... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090100168 - Automatic location detection in a computing environment: Automatic position location detection, such as satellite position information is used along with a computer to enhance an operation over a remote information channel or a network. This may be used over the Internet to enhance an Internet transaction by determining the origin of the transaction and determining if that... Agent: Scott C Harris

20090100173 - Communication management system, communication management method, and communication control device: Each P2P node constituting a P2P network in a communication management system conducts P2P communication with another P2P node. A P2P node has a P2P connection to communicate with a P2P node. A node detector refers to communication data transmitted from or to a P2P node to detect identification information... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090100177 - Condition dependent data maintenance system for a plurality of functional entities: The present invention is directed to a server system for supplying differing amounts of data into a database, wherein the system comprises the database and a data tracker device, wherein the data tracker receives data sent by a plurality of functional entities, preferably office machines and in particular devices with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090100175 - Location of unidirectional handover relationships: A management system includes a first management device storing information regarding: objects monitored by the first management device, objects monitored by a second management device and relationships between objects monitored by the first management device and objects monitored by the second management device. The first management device requests such information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090100172 - Method and apparatus for monitoring web services resource utilization: A method for dynamically adjusting resources among a plurality of co-existing applications comprises the steps of: building a relation model between a request number and resource consumption of said plurality of applications; obtaining at multiple sampling moments a request number and resource consumption of each of said plurality of applications;... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20090100174 - Method and system for automatic polling of multiple device types: A common poller polls multiple network devices of a communication network regardless of device type. A device personality service associates information corresponding to each of the devices with unique identifiers thereof. The common poller provides information resulting from polling the devices to network management systems (“NMS”) that request status and... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20090100176 - Methods, systems and computer program products for providing a multimedia applications gateway: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing application services to an end user domain are disclosed. A method includes providing a multimedia applications gateway that is connected to an access gateway for the end user domain of the application services or a multimedia applications gateway that includes an integrated... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090100169 - Network bookmarking based on network traffic: A system comprises a packet data processing element; first network resource tracking logic operable to perform monitoring data packets as the packets pass through the network element; detecting network resource identifiers within the data packets; forming network resource identifier report messages that carry the network resource identifiers; forwarding the network... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090100171 - Providing a user of an instant message client with an over-shoulder status: In an instant message (IM) method and system, a user of an IM client is provided with an over-shoulder status indicating the user has a visitor. The method and system further include receiving a preference setting for an over-shoulder status for defining an over-shoulder status toggle input. Mouse and keyboard... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20090100180 - Incremental run-time session balancing in a multi-node system: An approach migrates database sessions from a database server on which performance and resource availability requirements are not being met to another database server. Because workload is removed from the database server not meeting these requirements, improved performance there is promoted. Furthermore, the approach switches the users in a way... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090100179 - Method of controlling resources using out-of-band signaling: Provided is a method of controlling resources using out-of-band signaling. A central admission entity checks subscription information of a user requesting resources and policies of a network for call setting, determines whether the resources are to be assigned, and distributes an IP-level flow descriptor to an edge node of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090100178 - Systems and methods for access and control of hardware device resources using device-independent access interfaces: Systems and methods are provided that enable seamless access and control of hardware device resources through a common, device-independent interface without the need for device-specific drivers. For instance, system and methods are designed to expose capabilities/functions of hardware devices as web-based services which can be invoked to provide specific services... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090100181 - Apparatus, method and computer program for establishing a service session: A method of establishing a service session via a server with a secondary entity of a first user having a primary entity associated with a subscription is disclosed. The method comprises sending a unique identifier of the first user's subscription from the secondary entity to the server; receiving from the... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090100183 - Detection of missing recipients in electronic messages: A computer-implemented method of identifying a missing recipient of an electronic message can include identifying at least one user specified as a recipient of an electronic message and accessing a data store comprising measures of correlation between a plurality of users, wherein the plurality of users comprises the recipient of... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C. Kevin T. Cuenot

20090100182 - Method and system for securely requesting download of content to a user device from another device: A method and system includes a first web service client generating a first message with first security portion and communicating the first message and first security portion to a second web service client. The second web service client generates a response to the first message at the second web service... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090100185 - Position identification method and system: The present invention is directed to a system and method for collecting and maintaining an up-to-date database of points of interests, whereby agents of the points of interests, such as owners or operators of hotels or restaurants, can register their point of interest onto the database by uploading their contact... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20090100184 - Protecting context sensitive information from being transmitted from an instant message client: In a method and system for protecting context sensitive information from being transmitted from an instant message client, at least one policy is received that includes an entry of one or more disallowed terms and is associated with at least one action. Words typed into an IM message of the... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20090100189 - Data network with a time synchronization system: A system matches frame counter values between a timing master and one or more slave devices in a synchronous network. To detect synchronization losses, a timing master counts transmitted frames of a continuous data stream. When a synchronization loss occurs, the timing master transmits a message to the slave devices... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090100187 - Media player with automatic streaming of media files: A media streaming device which automatically senses the proximity of an auxiliary media player such as a digital picture frame or digital audio device, and automatically streams the media information from the player to the auxiliary media player. Commissions can be sent so that only some files are sent, based... Agent: Scott C Harris

20090100188 - Method and system for cluster-wide predictive and selective caching in scalable iptv systems: A method for caching of stream data is accomplished by assigning for each video segment in the system a likelihood rating of future showing and then determining for each node that contains a copy of the segment a second likelihood value that reflecting a probability that the node will be... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc. C/o Laura Weiss, Paralegal

20090100190 - Method and system for the dynamic management of the transmission of streams within a plurality of terminals: A method of transmitting data streams representing stimuli of at least one particular type, including a first step of setting up transmission of a particular stream Vstr1 from an interface device INFD to a terminal LT1 initially selected as the destination terminal. The method further includes a step of identifying... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090100191 - Methods, systems & products for providing communications services: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing communications services. One method receives a first data stream at a computer, with the first data stream comprising packets of data packetized according to a packet protocol. The first data stream is recursively segmented into segments, and at least one of the... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman

20090100186 - System for data stream processing: A method for processing a data stream including receiving a transport stream (TS), storing at least a portion of the TS, the at least a portion of the TS having a beginning and including a plurality of TS packets, determining, from among the plurality of TS packets, at least one... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Welsh & Katz

20090100192 - Autonomic service routing using observed resource requirement for self-optimization: A service request routing system and method includes a model table configured to store resource models. A monitor is coupled to the model table and programmed both to model resource consumption in a service providing infrastructure, and also to store the modeled resource consumption in the model table. A router... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090100193 - Synchronization of state information to reduce aps switchover time: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a controller configured for operation in an active automatic protection switching (APS) mode and an inactive APS mode and a processor operable when the controller is in the active mode to transmit a synchronization message to a corresponding APS node. The synchronization message includes... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20090100194 - System and method of emulating a network controller within an information handling system: A system and method of emulating a network controller within an information handling system is disclosed. In one form, an information handling system can include a host chipset operably coupled to a network interface controller of a first main circuit board, and a management controller operably coupled to the host... Agent: Larson Newman Abel & Polansky, LLP

20090100195 - Methods and apparatus for autonomic compression level selection for backup environments: In one aspect, a method is provided. The method includes: (1) gathering statistics during compression of a dataset into a compressed dataset and during transfer of the compressed dataset over a network connection; and (2) optimizing compression settings based on the gathered statistics.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Matthew Zehrer

20090100196 - Generic shared memory barrier: A method, information processing node, and a computer program storage product are provided for performing synchronization operations between participants of a program. Each participant includes at least one of a set of processes and a set of threads. Each participant in a first subset of participants of a program updates... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090100197 - Pulse-per-second attachment for stp: A time synchronization apparatus, method and system are provided. In one aspect, the apparatus comprises at least a time of day clock, a first port operable to receive at least first time information using a first time protocol, a second port operable to receive at least second time information using... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090094310 - Parallel computing system and parallel computing method: The parallel computing system is provided with: plural computing nodes that perform a computation; a management node that is connected to the plural computing nodes, and that manages parallel computing by the plural computing nodes; and an external memory that is connected to the management node, that is accessible from... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090094311 - System and method for detecting internet bots: Apparatuses, methods, and systems directed to detect Internet bots in communication networks. Some embodiments of the invention allow an agent of a server to detect human interaction events on a client system. In other particular embodiments, the systems and methods disclosed below can be used to detect bots using server... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090094325 - Acuro universal multimedia communication system (aumcs): A global multimedia server, local multimedia server and multimedia client create a universal communication system allowing any consumer to engage a plethora of media content to any end user. The global media server may be located through a publicly accessible IP address using a FQDN (fully qualified domain name) based... Agent: Steven A. Nielsen Allman & Nielsen, P.c

20090094321 - Content providing device, data processing method, and computer program: A content providing device serving as a server for executing content providing processing as to a client, includes: a data processing unit for executing content providing processing in response to a content request from the client; wherein the data processing unit receives a disc recorded identifier for identifying a disc... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090094323 - Contents reproduction system: A contents reproduction system comprises: a server apparatus for storing contents obtained from external and a client apparatus by which the contents stored in the server apparatus is reproducible, wherein the server apparatus includes: a list preparing section for preparing a list of the contents stored in a contents storage... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090094326 - Control system methods and apparatus with services: A system for process control comprises a server digital data processor and a client digital data processor that are coupled by a network, such as the Internet or an Intranet. The server digital data processor, which is additionally coupled to a control/sensing device and any associated interface equipment (collectively, referred... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20090094316 - Distributed virtual machine architecture: A distributed virtual machine architecture includes a virtual machine client (16) and a virtual machine server (32). The virtual machine client provides a platform upon which an application may be run on a host device (12). The virtual machine server may appear anywhere within the network to which the host... Agent: Anthony T. Cascio Casio And Zervas

20090094320 - File system adapted for use with a dispersed data storage network: A file system interface to a dispersed data storage network is disclosed. The disclosed interface accepts read and write commands from a file system resident on a user's computer and generates network commands that are forwarded to slice servers that form the storage component of the dispersed data storage network.... Agent: Law Offices Of Eugene M. Cummings, P.C.

20090094327 - Method and apparatus for mapping a site on a wide area network: A method and system for organizing and displaying information about Internet Web pages on Web maps are disclosed. Web maps display a summary of the information that a Web page provides access to, in a format that facilitates a rapid assessment of what may be accessed through a Web site's... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090094317 - Method, apparatus and system for sharing multimedia content within a peer-to-peer network: A system, method and communication device configuration for sharing multimedia content between network devices, such as UPnP or UPnP/DLNA devices and mobile communication devices, across different local networks or subnets. One possible system arrangement or architecture is based on the communication devices forming groups and then sharing UPnP control messages... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090094312 - Methods and systems for dynamic code extension: A method for normalizing client interactions with service providers is provided. The method includes receiving a request for a desired service provider method interface from a client, searching a directory for an extender that is associated with the desired service provider method, and returning a proxy to the client, the... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090094324 - Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing local and online data services: A system and method for processing content data for one or more reader devices at a server in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include receiving, from one or more end-user devices, content data associated with one or more content resources via a first network, analyzing the content data using one... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090094314 - Reroute of a web service in a web based application: The invention relates to systems and method for rerouting web service messages. A method for performing web services includes receiving a web service request from a client, rerouting the web service request to a server, receiving results of the web service request, and sending the results of the web service... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090094318 - Smart access to a dispersed data storage network: An improved system for accessing data within a distributed data storage network (“DDSN”) is disclosed. In a system implementing the disclosed invention, traffic is routed to individual slice servers within the DDSN in accordance with objective criteria as well as user-defined policies. In accordance with one aspect of the disclosed... Agent: Law Offices Of Eugene M. Cummings, P.C.

20090094319 - System and method of acquiring contents: A method of acquiring contents between a client terminal and a local server, the method including the client terminal photographing or recording partial information of predetermined contents according to an input of a user, the client terminal transmitting the partial information of contents to a predetermined local server, the local... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090094315 - System for provisioning time sharing option (tso) and interactive productivity system facility (ispf) services in a network environment: A method, system and computer program product for dynamically establishing a client's Time Sharing Option (TSO) and/or Interactive Productivity System Facility (ISPF) session and maintaining the client's TSO/ISPF session on a zero-downtime/operating system (z/OS) host over multiple service calls. A session provisioning and maintenance (SPM) utility determines whether a TSO/ISPF... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090094313 - System, method, and computer program product for sending interactive requests for information: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for sending interactive requests for information. In use, a user request for digital information from a user system is identified at an interactive system. Additionally, interactive requests for additional information are sent from the interactive system to the user system and... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20090094322 - Thumbnail distribution system, server, client and program: A thumbnail distribution system includes a client device and a server communicatable with each other by using a hyper text transfer protocol (HTTP). A client device includes a request generating unit, a request transmitting unit, a response receiving unit, and a data processing unit. The request generating unit generates an... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090094329 - Solution for managing multiple related discussion threads in an online collaboration environment: The present invention discloses a server-side collaboration system that includes a set of discussion threads, a server-side software component, and a server-side data store. The discussion threads can be managed by a collaboration session leader. The collaboration session leader can be a user authorized to define the topic, to create... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090094328 - System and methods for technology evaluation and adoption: A method for technology evaluation and adoption includes proposing a new technology and allowing at least one group to use the new technology. The at least one group provides feedback through at least one collaboration tool. The at least one group's use of the new technology is evaluated and at... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20090094331 - Information processing unit, content providing server, communication relay server, information processing method, content providing method and communication relay method: An information processing unit which acquires content data from a content providing server and is capable of reproducing the acquired content data, including: a content information acquiring portion for acquiring content information including content data and meta data of the content data; a display control portion which carries out display... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090094330 - System, methods, and computer program products for virtual presence service: System, methods, and computer program products for a virtual presence service are provided. The virtual presence service includes configuring a virtual presence community and registering a user for the virtual presence community. Also, the virtual presence service includes providing a filter to detect triggering events corresponding to the virtual presence... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090094333 - Collaborative electronic mail filtering: A method is provided for collaboratively maintaining a filter program for a device. The method comprises the following steps. The filter program is registered with a remote program in order to receive spam e-mail filter updates. Notification messages are then received from the remote program. The notification messages comprise spam... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20090094335 - Eliminating redundancy of attachments in email responses: A method, system and computer-usable medium for managing electronic mail (email) attachments. An email message comprising a first recipient list and a first file attachment is received from a sender. A response email is generated, comprising a second recipient list. The first recipient list and the second recipient list are... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Rsw

20090094338 - Email system for sending messages to multiple groups: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for transmitting an email message to multiple groups of recipients is disclosed herein. In selected embodiments, a method may include composing an email message including digitally encoded content and email addresses associated with a first group of intended recipients. The method may further... Agent: Ibm Corp. (austin)

20090094334 - Gateway with transparent mail relay: A transparent mail relay is provided at a gateway between networks using different addressing schemes. The transparent mail relay receives mail messages from a mail client in a first one of the networks, inserts trace information into the header of the mail message, and forwards the mail message to a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090094340 - Intelligence of the crowd electronic mail management system: Embodiments of ranking emails within an email system are disclosed. One method of ranking emails within an email system includes monitoring actions of a plurality of email users of the email system, and ranking a plurality of emails sent or received by at least one of the email users based... Agent: Gdm Patent Department

20090094336 - Method and apparatus for automated monitoring of system status: A method, apparatus and computer program code which monitors a group of networked computers by notifying a central apparatus or database of the current state of each of the computers. The monitoring is achieved through software and hardware which obtains the state of each of the networked computers, determines if... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Tucson

20090094341 - Method and system of enhanced messaging: Methods and apparatus for providing rich media for enhancing user interaction with a messaging program. The rich media includes user perceptible content and content specific information. User perceptible content may include a small animated picture with an embedded sound file that messaging program users can send to each other during... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090094337 - Method of accessing web e-mail off-line: Computer implemented methods and computer code products provide off-line access to web-based e-mail services. A user of a local data processing system is provided with a local replica of a webmail system. An off-line activity is performed within the local replica. The local replica then utilizes a browser to connect... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090094339 - Methods and apparatus for widget sharing between content aggregation points: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from a processing device to send a widget to a handheld mobile device. The request can be defined after at least a portion of an instance of the widget has been processed at the processing device. The request can be associated... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090094342 - Recognizing spam email: A system includes at least one router for routing email messages from a sender node to a destination node; a system memory; a network interface; a database; and a processor configured for: extracting the delivery path information from the email message; determining a network path for the email message using... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20090094332 - System and method for enabling offline use of email through a browser interface: A system and method provide online and offline collaboration suite functionality. A local web server application running on the user's computer serves an email client on the user's computer, where the email client executes within a browser. Because the local web server application executes on the user's computer, it is... Agent: The Law Office Of Deepti Panchawagh - Jain

20090094343 - System and method for freezing portions of a chat conversation in an instant messaging system: A system, method, and program product is provided that operates during an instant messaging session conducted between a first participant and a second participant. During the session, message sent to or from each participant are displayed in a first instant messaging session window. The two sets of instant messaging messages... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20090094346 - Method and system for retrieval and usage of remote entry points: A method for communicating between a client application and one or more servers is disclosed. In one embodiment, it is first determined whether a particular client application operation is the type of operation that requires a remote entry point. If a remote entry point is needed, the client application obtains... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090094344 - Method, multimedia device for the transmission and/or reception of multimedia data via a data transmission system, and gateway for connecting a multimedia device to a data transmission system according to the flexray standard: A method, a multimedia device for transmitting, and/or a multimedia device and a gateway for connecting a multimedia device to a data transmission system are provided. The multimedia data include image and/or sound data in particular. To reduce the number of bus systems used in a motor vehicle, utilize existing... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090094345 - News server for trackback between news and blog and method for interconnection thereof: The present invention provides a news server for trackback between a news and a blog and a method for interconnecting thereof. According to the present invention, news and blogs can be interconnected therebetween thereby enablinq news readers to exchange their in depth opinion with one another and to efficiently manage... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090094348 - Content server apparatus, content transfer apparatus and content playback apparatus: While a user, who registers new music CD data to a content server apparatus 10 (PC of the user's own house), comes and goes between user's own house and a car equipped with a content playback apparatus 30 (car audio system) with having a content transfer apparatus 20 (mobile phone... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090094347 - Peer to peer browser content caching: Facilitating browser access to cached content available from a peer to peer network by receiving a request for content from a content server, receiving from the content server content metadata indicating that the requested content is available from at least one alternative user computing device via a peer to peer... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090094351 - Access terminal configuration and access control: Provisioning and access control for communication nodes involves assigning identifiers to sets of nodes where the identifiers may be used to control access to restricted access nodes that provide certain services only to certain defined sets of nodes. In some aspects provisioning a node may involve providing a unique identifier... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090094349 - Device roaming on a zigbee network: An end device in a Zigbee network space is configured to roam between available Zigbee networks. When the end device determines that a quality of a current connection has fallen below a minimum threshold, the end device evaluates the network space for available networks. The end device stores a list... Agent: Rg & Associates

20090094352 - Method and apparatus for a secure network install: A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for a secure network install. One aspect of the present invention provides a proxy server within the same subnet of the client for performing a lookup of the boot image file and downloading the boot image file from a boot file... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090094350 - Method and system to manage services for multiple managed computer systems: A method to facilitate provision of services to a managed system (e.g., a PC, PDA, cell phone) includes causing installation of an agent application on the managed system, the agent application including an install component to install at least one of a plurality of service applications on the managed system.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090094353 - Information processing apparatus and information processing system: It is an object of the present invention to provide an information processing apparatus equipped with a many-core processor providing a VOD service having a fast playing response speed with a small size and power saving and an information processing system. In the information processing apparatus equipped with a many-core... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090094354 - Technique for implementing virtual fabric membership assignments for devices in a storage area network: A technique is provided for facilitating fabric membership login for an N_Port of a storage area network. A communication from a network node is received. The communication may include a portion of criteria associated with the N_Port. Using at least a portion of the portion of criteria, a virtual fabric... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090094356 - Associating physical layer pipes and services through a program map table: Embodiments are directed to mapping Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs) with the service_id and with components of a service through the Program Map Table (PMT). A descriptor may be defined for this purpose. In accordance with one or more embodiments, a PLP_identifier_descriptor may contain an identifier for a physical layer pipe... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090094355 - Integrated capacity and architecture design tool: A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code, including consolidating collected capacity architecture information, which includes data for installed resources, allocated resources and reserved resources and determining available resources based on the collected capacity architecture information. Additionally, the method includes displaying an indication the available resources and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090094358 - Data bridge maintenance utilizing data traffic log change: Data traffic, through a data bridge that couples two entities, is monitored and logged in a data traffic log. If the size of the data traffic log does not change within a pre-determined period of time, the data bridge is automatically reset.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090094359 - Local area network management: There is provided a method for managing a Local Area Network (LAN) having at least one video server in signal communication with a plurality of clients. In one embodiment of the present invention, the method includes providing a lossless Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) fabric... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090094362 - Method and system for managing quality of service in a network: According to embodiments, the present invention comprises a method and system for managing support of quality of service requirements for various clients of a telecommunications network at a server level. Servers assigned to the various clients may include quality of service descriptors that identify relative priorities of the clients. In... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090094363 - Method, system, client and server for locating operation nodes in communication system: The present disclosure relates to the field of mobile communication technologies, and provides a method for locating operation nodes in a communication system. The method includes using an identifier in the received message to obtain an adjusted path from the root node of the management tree of the client to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090094360 - Multi-source broadcasting in peer-to-peer network: A computer-implemented method for broadcasting over a network using peer-to-peer technology including commencing a broadcast over a peer-to-peer network, wherein a control computer selects at least one of multiple computers in the peer-to-peer network as an originating source of the broadcast; and changing the originating source of the broadcast, during... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090094357 - Rogue router hunter: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for discovering an unauthorized router in a network. The process in the illustrative embodiments first obtains a physical address of a suspected router or destination device. A data packet is created which comprises at least a destination media access... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090094361 - Session initiation protocol registration with ping: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate improving session initiation protocol based registration of a mobile device and an IP multimedia subsystem in wireless communications. The mobile device discovers one or more SIP servers (e.g., proxy call session control functions) that are available. The mobile device issues a ping message... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090094366 - Coordinated quiesce of a distributed file system: A process for quiescing a master and a plurality of subordinate computer systems in a cluster. An original or a pending state may be entered that is a quiesce or an online state. The master instructs the subordinates the quiesce or online state be made the pending state. The subordinates... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20090094365 - Thin client discovery: A method of assigning a resource to provide services to a thin client is disclosed. The thin client is discovered by receiving a response to a discovery request wherein the response is directed to a broker. The resource to allocate for the thin client is determined. The thin client to... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20090094364 - Virtualization method and apparatus for integrating enterprise applications: A method and apparatus is provided for integrating an application into a network of computing resources. Applications using this integration have a virtualized access to one or more computing resources associated with the network. Virtualization is generally assured through at least one network connection between the virtual layer and the... Agent: Wiesner And Associates

20090094367 - Method, system and device for establishing group session: A method and system for establishing a group session and a service server are disclosed. The method comprises: acquiring a group member list and establishing session conditions according to the information in a received group session; acquiring the various information described in the establishing session conditions; determining group members of... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090094371 - Connection forwarding: Two or more network traffic processors connected with the same LAN and WAN are identified as neighbors. Neighboring network traffic processors cooperate to overcome asymmetric routing, thereby ensuring that related sequences of network traffic are processed by the same network proxy. A network proxy can be included in a network... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew/riverbed

20090094368 - Instant messaging general queue depth management: The present invention provides systems, methods and computer program product code for data processing systems to manage instant messaging sessions and windows of a first user. An instant messaging chat window is initiated. Responsive to initiating the first instant messaging chat window, the first instant messaging chat window is flagged... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090094370 - Seamless host migration based on nat type: Systems and methods of the present invention for maintaining network data distribution are provided. Network data may be distributed in such as manner as to allow a network session to weather interrupted communications between host and clients without significant loss of data. Embodiments of the present invention provide for one... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090094369 - System for conducting multi-media communication sessions: A system for conducting multi-media communication sessions between two or more terminals includes a smart client application to dynamically load application code and data from servers on demand using an application management protocol. In the present embodiment the smart client is maintained on each terminal and initially executes a core... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090094372 - Secret user session managing method and system under web environment, recording medium recorded program executing it: The present invention provides a secure user session managing method and system between a client and a server connected through network in web environment. The user session managing method includes: allowing the server to receive a first HTTP request including a cookie from the client, wherein the cookie includes a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090094373 - Methods and systems for presentation layer redirection for network optimization: The present invention relates to systems, apparatus, and methods of intercepting commands at an application presentation layer. The method includes intercepting, at a proxy client, a command issued by an application to a network resource before the command is converted into a corresponding protocol command. The method further includes forwarding... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090094375 - Method and system for presenting an event using an electronic device: Methods and systems are described for presenting a virtual media object stream of an event via a device where a user of the device is allowed to at least one of view and hear the event virtually from a virtual location in the performance space of the event while the... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20090094376 - System and method for effectuating playlist seeking with respect to digital multimedia content from a network node: A system and method for effectuating playlist seeking capability with respect to digital media content from a network node. A Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or a Session Description Protocol (SDP) file including a set of appropriate playlist-related control attributes is provided when a media user invokes... Agent: Alcatel Lucent (fka Alcatel Internetworking, Inc.)

20090094374 - Systems and methods providing lists of available streaming content: A server for streaming media includes a functional module operable to perform the following functions within a Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) session: receiving a command that requests a list of available streaming presentation options; and generating and transmitting the requested list over a network connection.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090094377 - Method and system for accelerating browsing sessions: A solution that improves a user's experience while surfing the Internet. An intermediate device resides logically between a browsing device and content available via the Internet. As responses to content requests from browsing devices are received from a content server, browser links are identified and modified, disabled or covered for... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20090094378 - Software deployment using client location: A software distribution mechanism evaluates network addresses of requesting clients to determine a location for each client. The clients from a particular location are grouped together and a fraction of those clients in a particular group are recipients of a software distribution. The faction is adjusted to enable more or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090094379 - Apparatus and method for web forwarding: An apparatus and method for forwarding a web address to another web address is presented. A web forwarder receives a request destined to a first web address including at least a domain name. The web forwarder then determines a forwarding uniform resource locator (URL) that corresponds to the domain name... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090094380 - Shared storage network system and a method for operating a shared storage network system: A shared storage network system comprises at least one storage client and a plurality of storage servers, each providing a storage portion of the shared storage network system, each storage portion being divided into a plurality of sectors, each sector being divided into a plurality of blocks, a virtual block... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090094381 - Modem prioritization and registration: In one embodiment, a flow control logic facilitates controlling modem prioritization and registration. The flow control logic controls an order in which stored DHCP requests are provided to a DHCP server. The DHCP requests may be stored in a plurality of groups in a data store. DHCP requests may be... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay

20090094382 - Edge side components and application programming environment for building and delivering highly distributed heterogenous component-based web applications: A method is provided for processing an application on an edge server, wherein the application comprises a set of defined presentation, code and data components, each of which are preferably URI-addressable objects. In response to a client request, the presentation, code and data components are processed according to a set... Agent: David H. Judson Akamai Technologies, Inc.

20090094383 - User enrollment in an e-community: An Internet user transfers directly to a domain within an e-community without returning to a home domain or re-authenticating. The user's home domain server prepares and forwards a home domain identity cookie (DIDC) with an enrollment request to a user's browser, with the enrollment request being redirected to an affiliated... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20090089358 - Partitioning communication system: A system and method for communicating data between two nodes defines a plurality of separate partitions on each node and assigns one or more subjects to at least one of the plurality of the separate partitions. The subjects in each node communicate data with each other over one or more... Agent: Venable LLP

20090089355 - Technique for creating print data: A print data creation device may perform a plurality of tasks in parallel. The print data creation device may be provided with a first download device, a second download device, and a sending controller. The first download device may be configured to perform a first task for downloading first data... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090089354 - User device and method and authoring device and method for providing customized contents based on network: There is provided a user device for providing customized contents, including: a data receiving unit for receiving user multimedia data from outside; an authoring information setting unit for setting user authoring information on the user multimedia data upon a user's request; a data encoding unit for encoding the user multimedia... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090089360 - Central service control: Central service control may be provided. First, a control message from one of a plurality of framework applications may be inserted into a database. In response to the inserted control message, a trigger may be actuated in the database. In response to the trigger, the control message may be transmitted... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090089363 - Dynamic determination of an ideal client-server for an application executing in a client-server network: The ideal client-server for a collaborative application in a client-server network environment is dynamically determined. An Ideal Server utility compares the capabilities of the computer system of an entering client with the computer system of the current client-server to determine which system is best equipped to control the execution of... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20090089367 - Information processor, information processing method and computer readable medium: An information processor includes: an information adding unit that adds to an electronic document as an object to be processed by a work in a work flow showing the flow of the work relative to a plurality of works additional information designating a connection to the electronic document to an... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090089370 - Methods, systems, and products for providing communications services: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing communications services. One method receives a request for communications service. The request for communications service originates from a client communications device associated with a user and requests communications service from a service provider. An availability of at least one of i) a... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20090089366 - Portable caching system: A portable caching system is described that is composed of a user workstation, a prior art web browser executing on the user workstation, a portable caching device, a portable caching device driver, a cache manager, and a user carrying a portable caching device. A method for handling the browsing operations... Agent: Ganz Law, P.C.

20090089381 - Pending and exclusive electronic mail inbox: Distinguishing electronic mail (e-mail) messages for a user. An e-mail inbox is provided to include one or more e-mail messages therein. A first section of the inbox is specified. The first section includes a set of the one or more messages, and the set of the one or more messages... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090089384 - System and method for detecting content similarity within email documents by sparse subset hashing: Systems and methods for detecting content similarity in email documents are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises generating a first token value for each of a plurality of character sequences of a first email document, selecting a first subset of the plurality of character sequences based on the first... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090089383 - System and method for detecting content similarity within emails documents employing selective truncation: A system and a method for detecting content similarities in different emails employing selective truncation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises generating a first token value dependent on a first subset of characters at a beginning portion of a first email document, generating a second token value dependent... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090089377 - System and method for providing dynamic email content: A method and computer program product for providing dynamic email content includes sending a request for dynamic email content. The dynamic email content is received from a data store. At least a portion of an email message is populated with the received dynamic email content.... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090089418 - Method and system to detect a network deficiency: A system to detect a network deficiency, in one example embodiment, comprises a receiving module to receive utilization metrics of at least one network resource, wherein the utilization metrics are collected and made available at a network level, an aggregator to aggregate the utilization metrics of at least one network... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090089414 - Reporting multiple events in a trap message: A method for reporting events relating to objects of a network element manageable by a network management device, using a network management protocol, and devices, a network, and computer-readable storage medium storing control logic, that operate in accordance with the method. Events for each object are detected, event information is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (tellabs)

20090089415 - System and method for keyboard navigation in a search results page: The present invention is directed towards systems, methods and computer program products for providing keyboard navigation between components within a content item. The method of the present invention comprises receiving the content item from a server and receiving a signal indicating keyboard utilization by the user to determine a specific... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow, Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090089416 - System and method for non-letter key functionality in a search control: The present invention is directed towards systems, methods and computer program products for providing keyboard navigation within a search box that a search engine presents in a content item. The method of the present invention comprises presenting a search control to a user and determining if the search control receives... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow, Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090089426 - Security management device, communication system, and access control method: Security server 50 checks whether a combination of a domain name and an IP address of WWW site 30 to be accessed by PC 10 is registered in access-permit DB 55a or access-inhibit DB 55b. Security sever 50 also checks whether the combination is registered in any of secure DNS... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090089425 - Systems, methods and computer program products for coordinated session termination in an ims network: A network connectivity status of user equipment (UE) is detected. Detection of the network connectivity status of the UE may include, for example, detecting termination of network connectivity of the UE responsive to a communication to the network by the UE, receiving a termination message from the UE at the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20090089430 - Alternative fuels resource allocation system: A database information system that provides the means, method or process by which entities or individuals assess, interpret, analyze, compile and disseminate information pertaining to alternative energy production, resource development or the like.... Agent: Jamie Serra

20090089429 - Autonomically co-locating first and second components on a select server: Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for identifying a first component on a first server and a second component on a second server for co-location, where the first and second servers are within a domain boundary; inspecting available server resources within the domain boundary; determining a select server... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20090089450 - System and method providing secure access to a computer system: A system and method for providing secure access to a computer system. An access device divides the password into multiple segments and places them in data packets. In one embodiment, an authentication server has multiple addresses, and each packet is sent to a different address. The server then reassembles the... Agent: Steven W. Smith

20090089451 - System and apparatus for pre-routing network events: A pre-routing software system for treating incoming network events according to event importance prior to agent-level routing in a communication center network is disclosed. The system includes at least one network interface for receiving incoming events, a parsing engine for parsing electronic messages and documents, at least one communication interface... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090089452 - System and method for managing devices connected to a computer network: According an aspect of the embodiment, there is provided a method for managing management target devices each connected to a computer network and managed by one of a plurality of management servers. A management server list storing IP addresses of the plurality of management servers is provided. A hop count... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090089453 - Remote visualization of a graphics application: Many embodiments provide a technique to allow the automatic conversion between the operating system specific interfaces of OpenGL based graphics applications. Embodiments comprise logic such as hardware and/or code related to the display of a graphics application using OpenGL functions executing on a local computer system and displayed on the... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC