Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 05/09

20090138541 - Fault-tolerant networks: Recovery systems and methods for sustaining the operation of a plurality of networked computers (20a,20b) in the event of a fault conditions are described. The basic recovery system comprises a plurality of virtual machines (31a,31b) installed on a recovery computer (30), each virtual machine being arranged to emulate a corresponding... Agent: Davis & Associates

20090138540 - File conversion system and method used thereby: This invention is to provide a file conversion system capable of transmitting via a network a file provided by a file providing end in a format supported by a file receiving end to the file receiving end, the file conversion system comprising a receiving module for receiving the file provided... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090138542 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a receiving section that receives function information about one or more functions from an external device connected via a network; a display section that displays a list of the functions of the external device, the functions being included in the function information;... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090138539 - Resubmission of media for network-based distribution: Methods and systems for submitting or resubmitting media to a media distribution site are disclosed. The submission or resubmission of media to the media distribution site can be performed by numerous submitters in a uniform and computer-assisted manner. The submitted or resubmitted media can then be processed in a largely... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090138538 - System and method for detecting a proxy between a client and a server: A method and system for determining whether a proxy is present in a communication link between a client and a server, and if so, certain characteristics of the proxy.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090138543 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing electronic transactions: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing electronic transactions are provided. A method includes presenting an offer on a first commumications device to conduct an electronic transaction on another communications device that is different from the first communications device. In response to an acceptance of the offer and selection... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090138547 - Apparatus and methods for operation of a wireless server: Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, a wireless server downloads media content to a mobile wireless client based on one or more criteria for the mobile wireless client, where the one or more criteria are identified... Agent: Research In Motion Corp/slw Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090138548 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for processing information: An information processing apparatus includes a plurality of virtual machines, each including an application managing unit that determines whether an application can process a client request by referring to address information specified in the client request and application information. One of the virtual machines includes a request transferring unit that... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090138545 - Asynchronous response processing in a web based request-response computing system: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to asynchronous web based request-response handling and provide a method, system and computer program product for asynchronous response handling in a web based request-response computing system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for asynchronous response handling... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090138546 - Device awareness; user profiling; profile storage, analysis and matching; and social interaction system for wireless mobile devices: This invention is an electronic communication system for wireless mobile devices and is utilized to scan for the existence of other wireless mobile devices, analyze and present information regarding user profiles associated with each device, and provide functionality to initiate possible social interactions between users of these devices.... Agent: Nazareno Cruzada

20090138550 - Downloading server with two ports and associated method: The invention is directed to a device and a method for loading files onto a remote application which uses a standard protocol of the http type while making it possible to track the progress of said loading. For this purpose, there is provided a second port which enables the measurement,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090138544 - Method and system for dynamic image processing: A method of processing an image wherein one or more processing functions are executed. Firstly, the steps involved in the one or more processing functions are determined where each of the one or more processing functions can include one or more processing steps. Secondly, the resource requirements associated with each... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: BoxIPDept.

20090138551 - Method of managing workloads and associated distributed processing system: Various embodiments enable a server system to consider a variety of priorities in determining how to organize, allocate, and manage client workloads in a distributed processing system. In at least one embodiment, a method may include generating a capability vector for one or more distributed devices, the capability vector defining... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, Ps

20090138549 - Method, apparatus and system for business performance monitoring and analysis using metric network: A metric network provides a descriptive model that explicitly expresses the relationships among all metrics of a business enterprise. Performance of each single business entity in the operational level is measured by a set of primitive metrics, each of which measures a specific aspect of the business entity. The primitive... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20090138552 - Apparatus and method for managing communication between parties: A communication system having a user input arranged to receive data from a user, an information input arranged to receive information about another user and a rule server. The rule server being arranged to store a rule that initiates communication between the user and the another user when the communication... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090138554 - Controlling virtual meetings with a feedback history: Information is transmitted from at least one source entity to target entities over a working session, and is output on each target entity to a corresponding user. A feedback indicator is provided on each target entity. The feedback indicator is indicative of a personal level of interest of the corresponding... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja (austin)

20090138555 - Method and apparatus for maintaining connectivity in a network: A method and system for maintaining connectivity in a network. The network includes a plurality of computational devices. A first computational device includes a main processor and a co-processor. The first computational device receives the at least one data frame from a second computational device and forwards the at least... Agent: William L , Botjer

20090138553 - Selection of real time collaboration tools: A computer-implemented method of selecting a real time collaboration application can include associating each of a plurality of real time collaboration applications with a plurality of performance statistics, receiving a request for a real time collaboration session from a personal productivity application, and identifying a data type to be shared... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20090138564 - Apparatus for and a method of delivering a message to a user: Apparatus for delivering a message to a user comprising means for communicating with service providers and means for communicating with device agents operating on respective user devices, wherein the service provider communicating means is configured to receive a request to communicate with a specified user and to selectively output a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090138558 - Automated methods for the handling of a group return receipt for the monitoring of a group delivery: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a methodology for monitoring the delivery of mail pieces to a predetermined grouping of recipients and notifying the sender of the completion of the delivery tasks to the group of recipients.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20090138557 - Delegation of e-mail return receipts: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for e-mail return receipt delegation. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for e-mail return receipt delegation can include composing an e-mail message by a sender of the e-mail message, selecting a return receipt for the... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090138563 - Dynamical routing for text messaging: Routing text messages. A mobile message (MM) is received from an application program or other message source, and includes a destination identifier, such as a phone number. Based on the destination identifier, a routing server determines whether the MM is to be locally routed to a destination carrier, or forwarded... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090138559 - E-mail management for hidden recipients: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to e-mail message reply handling and provide a method, system and computer program product for hidden recipient management in e-mail replies. In an embodiment of the invention, a hidden recipients e-mail reply management method can be provided. The... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090138560 - Method and apparatus for automated record creation using information objects, such as images, transmitted over a communications network to inventory databases and other data-collection programs: A method, process and apparatus for automating software record creation are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, although not limited thereto, the present invention uses a unique email address as a proxy for and to correspond to a specific database table that in turn is associated with... Agent: James J. Stahl, Jr.

20090138562 - Method and system for aggregation of electronic messages: A system and method for aggregating and delivering electronic messages is provided. The method includes periodically retrieving electronic messages associated with a single user from a plurality of source electronic mail servers via an aggregation server, storing the retrieved messages from the plurality of source electronic mail servers in an... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090138565 - Method and system for facilitating content analysis and insertion: Disclosed is a system and method for facilitating the analysis and classification of content, and the selection and insertion of relevant content into messages. According to some embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a system and method that may allow for the selection and insertion of relevant content... Agent: Professional Patent Solutions

20090138566 - Presence system and information processing equipment, dynamic buddy list generation method in presence system, and presence notification destination controlling method and its program for use with presence system: A presentity service client has a presentity that issues presence information to a presence service and a watcher which observes presence information for other presentities; a presence change rule holding part holds a presence change rule; and a presence calculating part changes the presence information for the presentity, using as... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090138556 - System and method for implementing quick response replies on a data processing system: A system and method for implementing quick response replies on a data processing system. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a user drafts a current message within a current window of an instant messaging (IM) client, wherein the current message is targeted to a current user. In response... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090138561 - System and method for service oriented email client application: A system to facilitate a service oriented email client application. The system includes a service registry, a service address book coupled to an email client, and an email composer coupled to the service address book. The service registry includes service information. The service information describes how to invoke a web... Agent: HolmanIPLaw/ibm Rsw

20090138568 - Method and system for maintaining synchronization between a local data cache and a data store: A method and system for maintaining synchronization between a local data cache and a data store is disclosed. The method includes comparing first validation information and second validation information, and synchronizing first data stored in a local data cache with second data stored in a data store, if the comparison... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20090138567 - Network on chip with partitions: A design structure embodied in a machine readable medium is provided. Embodiments of the design structure include a network on chip (‘NOC’), the NOC comprising: integrated processor (‘IP’) blocks, routers, memory communications controllers, and network interface controller, each IP block adapted to a router through a memory communications controller and... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090138571 - Control method for modifying engineering information from a remote work site and a system of the same: A control method for modifying information concerning a remote work site includes: (i) setting up a database that comprises information concerning a remote work site; (ii) using an electronic device that has an image-capturing unit, in order to capture images of equipment or construction sites at the remote work site;... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090138569 - Method and apparatus for identifying occurrences of a given network address: A method and apparatus for identifying occurrences of a given network address is provided. A request is transmitted comprising data associated with the given network address to at least one remote communication device, the request for triggering a lookup of at least a portion of the data in a directory... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20090138570 - Method for setting parameters and determining latency in a chained device system: A storage system and method for setting parameters and determining latency in a chained device system. Storage nodes store information and the storage nodes are organized in a daisy chained network. At least one of one of the storage nodes includes an upstream communication buffer. Flow of information to the... Agent: Spansion LLC C/o Murabito , Hao & Barnes LLP

20090138573 - Methods and apparatus for blocking unwanted software downloads: Methods and systems for blocking unwanted software downloads within a network. Such methods may thereby prevent (i) downloads of spyware from one or more identified locations, and/or (ii) certain outbound communications from the network and/or may also permit software downloads only from specified locations. In general, the policies are defined... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090138572 - Scalable publish/subscribe messaging systems and methods: A publish/subscribe messaging network in which a distributed set of publish/subscribe brokers comprises a first subset of publish/subscribe brokers, each arranged to store proxy subscription information for the whole of the distributed set of brokers; and a second subset of publish/subscribe brokers, each configured to send subscription information for local... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090138576 - Content delivery method, server, and terminal: In hybrid peer-to-peer type content delivery, a server confirms user's intension as to content disclosure, guarantees content delivery by mutual authentication between a client to which content has been delivered and a client to which content has not been delivered, and guarantees the integrity of content having been delivered. Further,... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090138574 - Information processing and transportation architecture for data storage: A new architecture for networked data storage is proposed for providing efficient information processing, and transportation. Data is processed, encrypted, error checked, redundantly encoded, and stored in fixed size blocks called quanta. Each quantum is processed by an Effective Cross Layer protocol that collapses the protocol stack for security, iWARP... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090138575 - Internet radio system and method therefor: An Internet radio system and method therefor are provided. The Internet radio system includes a server unit, a client unit, and an Internet radio dongle. The server unit contains an Internet radio station list database with built-in accessible Internet radio station list. To listen to online broadcast, user plugs the... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090138578 - Method, system and apparatus for managing terminal devices: A method, system, and apparatus for managing terminal devices are disclosed. The method includes: a terminal device checks whether an actual value of its parameter is within a preset range and sends alarm information to a managing device if the actual value of the parameter exceeds the preset range. With... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090138577 - Network operating system for managing and securing networks: Systems and methods for managing a network are described. A view of current state of the network is maintained where the current state of the network characterizes network topology and network constituents, including network entities and network elements residing in or on the network. Events are announced that correspond to... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090138579 - Remote configuration of electronic device with user interface provided from electronic device: An electronic device is remotely configured from a remote server using user interface information stored in the electronic device. The method comprises a server receiving user interface information stored in the electronic device via a data communication network from the electronic device, where the server is communicatively coupled to the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090138580 - Method of booting an operating system: For use in a system where a plurality of servers are connected to an external disk device, a method is provided for a server to boot an operating system from the external disk device. The method includes the steps of searching for the port of a network switch to which... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090138584 - Apparatus and method for setting role based on capability of terminal: An apparatus and method for setting a role based on capability of a terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a calculation unit calculating a capability value of the terminal to check whether the role set in a pertinent terminal is suitable, a determination unit determining whether the role set on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090138587 - Dynamic browser-based industrial automation interface system and method: An automation device interactive user interface and method of using the interface is provided herein. The interface is network based in that it employs a browser enhanced by an interactive program embedded therein and an execution engine to execute the program. The interface can be proximate to an associated automated... Agent: Amin Turocy & Calvin, LLP Attention: Heather Holmes

20090138583 - Method and apparatus for generating statistics on information technology service management problems among assets: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating a set of statistics on information technology service management problems among assets within a network. A data processing system monitors the network for a systems management system message containing information associated with a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090138585 - Method and system for generating messages: The present invention discloses a method and system for generating Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message, wherein, at least one first information sets are pre-stored and each of the first information sets contains at least one piece of information. The method comprises: generating a first SOAP message which contains a... Agent: Steven E. Bach Attorney At Law

20090138586 - Method for managing a server load: Method for managing the load of at least one server able to process the requests sent via a telecommunication network by a plurality of terminals. The method includes the steps of receiving by the server a request originating from a terminal, obtaining an estimation of the load of the server,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090138582 - Multi-level load balancer: The multi-level load balancing system receives requests for resources provided by any of a plurality of resource nodes. The multi-level load balancing system receives a first result from a first load balancing module that orders each of the plurality of nodes that are available to service the request based on... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090138581 - Three-dimensional networking design structure: A design structure embodied in a machine readable medium used in a design process includes a multi-layer silicon stack architecture having one or more processing layers comprised of one or more computing elements; one or more networking layers disposed between the processing layers, the network layer comprised of one or... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Burlington

20090138590 - Apparatus and method for detecting anomalous traffic: An apparatus and method for detecting anomalous traffic are provided. More particularly, an apparatus and method for detecting anomalous traffic based on entropy of network traffic are provided. The apparatus of detecting anomalous traffic includes: an entropy extraction module for extracting entropy from network traffic; a visualization module for generating... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090138594 - Coordinating the monitoring, management, and prediction of unintended changes within a grid environment: A method, system, and program for coordinating the monitoring, management, and prediction of unintended changes within a grid environment are provided. A grid change controller within a particular grid environment detects an unintended change within that grid environment. In particular, grid change controller monitors potential change indicators received from multiple... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20090138592 - Method and apparatus for detection of information transmission abnormalities: In one embodiment, a method for securing a network application is described. The method for securing a network application includes receiving network information within a network application and assigning a probability value to an independent aspect of the network information. The probability value is based on a verification of the... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090138591 - Method for the display of visual sequencing of message communications between application portlets and task page relationship information in a web-base environment: A display portlet is incorporated into a portal page in a web-based environment. This display portlet presents the message communication information between the portlets that are currently running on that portal page. The displayed message communication information indicates the portlet that is the source of a transmitted message and displays... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20090138588 - Method of performing ethernet gateway switch trouble diagnostics: A service provider unit automatically diagnoses problems in an Ethernet network that are associated with layers 1, 2, and/or 3 and determines whether there is a problem associated with an Ethernet gateway switch EGS. Further diagnostics can be performed to determine the layer, type, and/or location of the problem(s) based... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hb Patent Docketing

20090138589 - System and method for active business configured website monitoring: The website performance monitoring systems and methods of the present invention are implemented via a website monitoring tool that includes a website canvas and a plurality of web page objects configured to be dragged and dropped onto the generic website canvas to facilitate creation of a website model. The monitoring... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090138593 - System and method for collecting, reporting and analyzing data on application-level activity and other user information on a mobile data network: System and method for collecting and analyzing information on application-level activity and other user information on a mobile data network. A platform non-intrusively and transparently monitors data activity on a mobile data network in real-time so that user-level information can be reported to an operator. The platform comprises a plurality... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090138595 - Technique to generically manage extensible correlation data: A technique to generically manage extensible correlation data is provided for correlating a series of events. The technique employs a global unique identifier (GUID) for identifying an event and uses the GUID as a key to associate one or more extensible correlators of correlation data. A transport correlator may be... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090138597 - system and method for accessing memory: A storage system and method for storing information in memory nodes. The storage or memory nodes include a communication buffer. Flow of information to the storage nodes is controlled based upon constraints on the communication buffer. In one embodiment, communications between a master controller and a storage node have a... Agent: Spansion LLC C/o Murabito , Hao & Barnes LLP

20090138596 - Method for changing service quality of a content adaptively: The present invention relates to a method for changing service quality of a content adaptively. When service quality updating action for a connection is received the present method invokes an action, used for requesting allowance of a new access to a network, to a device conducting traffic transfer services in... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20090138598 - Avoiding collisions between users if map containing persistent scheduling information is lost: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a MAP may be used by a base station to allocate network users for one or more users in a wireless network using persistent scheduling. In the event one or more of the users does not successfully receive a MAP transmitted by... Agent: Cool Patent, P.C. C/o Cpa Global

20090138599 - Selecting communication channels in a computing device: A computing device combines presence, profile, and preferences information of the originators and recipients of communications in such a way as to enable a communication session or sessions between the session originator and one or more recipients to be automatically set up over one or more channels of communication. The... Agent: Saul Ewing LLP (philadelphia)

20090138601 - Switched stream server architecture: A method for allocating content requests to a server pool includes directing a stream requesting a novel title to one of a least-busy server in a server pool and a least-miss-traffic server in the server pool; setting the server to which the novel title was directed to the requested title's... Agent: Fsp LLC

20090138600 - Takeover processes in security network integrated with premise security system: An integrated security system is described comprising a gateway located at a first location. The gateway includes a takeover component that establishes a coupling with a first controller of a security system installed at the first location. The security system includes security system components coupled to the first controller. The... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090138602 - secured agent communications: A server communicates with a network appliance. The server includes an agent. The network appliance sends a request to the agent. The request includes an identification of a port. The agent negotiates a secured communication channel with the network appliance on the identified port to retrieve further instructions from the... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090138605 - Connection method and conferencing apparatus: In a conferencing system having a first conferencing apparatus and a plurality of second conferencing apparatuses, the plurality of second conferencing apparatuses transmit connection requests, which are for connecting to the first conferencing apparatus, to the first conferencing apparatus based upon first connection information, which is for connecting to the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090138603 - Protection for direct link setup (dls) transmissions in wireless communications systems: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for establishing direct link setup (DLS) connections between stations in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The DLS connections may be established in a manner that helps avoid collisions with transmissions from hidden stations.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090138604 - System and method for delivering digital content: A system for delivering digital content to user devices. The system includes a content delivery server for establishing respective sessions with the user devices and for delivering streams of content to the user devices during the sessions according to a streaming protocol. An asset server is communicatively coupled to the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090138606 - Transferring sessions between devices: Methods and apparatus for transferring a communication and computer session between devices. A user launches a communication session on a first device, such as a personal computer. The user may then selectively transfer the communication session to another device, such as a wireless device, through activation of a triggering signal.... Agent: Law Office Of R. Alan Burnett

20090138608 - Automatic multipath iscsi session establishment over an arbitrary network topology: A method and apparatus for establishing multiple network sessions over an arbitrary network topology comprises receiving network configuration information describing an initiator system and a target controller. The initiator system contains one or more initiator ports. The target controller contains one or more target ports. Each target port is associated... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090138610 - Information processing system, tunnel communication device, tunnel communication method, and program: Provided are an information processing system, a tunnel communication device, a tunnel communication method, and a program that can make a communication between plural information processing devices belonging to different LANs without a user's making a complex setup. In the information processing system, a first tunnel communication unit encapsulates a... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090138609 - Method and apparatus for maintaining user sessions across user devices and portals: Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method and apparatus for maintaining user sessions across user devices and portals. One embodiment of a method for maintaining a user session across a group including a plurality of user devices includes altering, at a first device in the group, a state of... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090138607 - Method and system for enabling multipart communication in a computer network: The present invention relates to a method for enabling multipart communication between computers 1a, 1b, . . . , in of at least two users belonging to a session. The computers have access to a computer network, such as an internet/intranet and the method is characterised by the steps of:... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090138611 - System and method for connection of hosts behind nats: Disclosed is a system and method for connection of host behind network address translators. The system includes a server placed in a public network, and a transparent middleware (TMW). The server records the related data between each host and one or more NAT devices. The TMW may be performed in... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090138612 - Control device: The present invention relates to a control device with a supply device (101) for preparing control data for process control and with a network device (103) for transmitting or receiving control data using the Simple Network Management Protocol.... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20090138613 - Network converter and information processing system: A network converter connected to an information processing device and a storage device so as to be communicable including a conversion table storage section which stores combinations of iSCSI names of the information processing device and the storage device and WWNs (World wide Name) of the information processing device and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090138614 - Method and apparatus for streaming media in a communication network: A method and apparatus for streaming media content in a communication network (100) is provided. The method includes (304) receiving a request from a plurality of client devices at the content server (102). The method also includes (306) initializing the content server-streaming of the media content to the client device... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090138615 - System and method for an improved high availability component implementation: The invention relates to a computer system and method for high availability processing through a session on a transport connection, for use in a cluster with at least two nodes. The system comprises a protocol component; a cluster with at least two nodes, said cluster being arranged for running the... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090138616 - Utilizing informed throttling to guarantee quality of service to i/o streams: A system for utilizing informed throttling to guarantee quality of service to a plurality of clients includes a server core having a performance analyzer that compares a performance level received by a client to a corresponding contracted service level and determines if the client qualifies as a victim whose received... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090138617 - Method and system for creating and managing association and balancing of a mesh device in a mesh network: A method and system are provided for associating a meter to a mesh gate through a mesh network. The method may include selecting a prospective mesh network. The method may include automatically transmitting a neighbor request to the prospective mesh network. The method may include receiving a neighbor response from... Agent: King And Spalding LLP (trilliant) Trilliant Customer Number

20090138618 - Rate-controllable peer-to-peer data stream routing: Difficulties associated with choosing advantageous network routes between server and clients are mitigated by a routing system that is devised to use many routing path sets, where respective sets comprise a number of routing paths covering all of the clients, including through other clients. A server may then apportion a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090138619 - Method and apparatus for assigning network addresses based on connection authentication: Techniques for assigning a network address to a host are based on authentication for a physical connection between the host and an intermediate device. One approach involves receiving first data at the intermediate device from an authentication and authorization server in response to a request for authentication for the physical... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090138620 - Apparatus and method facilitating web service communications between networks: An apparatus facilitates communications between first and second entities via a network. The first entity cooperates with a first interface unit to communicate via the network using a first protocol. The second entity cooperates with a second interface unit to communicate via the network using a second protocol. The network... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul

20090132632 - Accessing communication history using identification information from received communication: The communication history associated with a contacting party is accessed using identification information provided with an incoming communication. The incoming communication may have a different service type (e.g., email, telephone call, instant message chat) compared to stored communications that make up the communication history for a contacting party. Multiple uniform... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20090132633 - Dynamic content pipeline: A system for providing information via a dynamic content pipeline includes a processor having instructions and a network interface in communication with the processor. The instructions configure the processor to display a media element on a display device of a computer, display a dispatcher link on the display device of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090132637 - Information recognition system: The invention, taking an electronic content utilization casing as the basis, extracts input activity to the same casing; estimates data input positions within the content by calculating similarity values and difference values among the same activity data, and similarity values and difference values between the activity data and model data;... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090132636 - Systems and methods for delivering media content and improving diagnostic reading efficiency: Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for image delivery in a picture archiving and communication system. Certain embodiments provide a method for transferring image data via a delivery chain for display at a client workstation. The method includes creating a data list describing image data to be delivered to implement... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090132635 - Terminal shift management system and method thereof: The present invention relates to a terminal control system, and more particularly, to a system and a method which allows a user to shift an IP service from a terminal to which the service is currently provided to a user's other terminal, thereby enabling the user to continuously using the... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090132634 - Web based application filing system: The computer implemented method and system disclosed herein enables filing an application at a local government for development and use of land. A web based filing system is provided to the local government. An applicant utilizes the web based filing system for filing the application. The web based filing system... Agent: Ashok Tankha Of Counsel, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20090132638 - Server-processor hybrid system for processing data: The present invention relates to a server-processor hybrid system that comprises (among other things) a set (one or more) of front-end servers (e.g., mainframes) and a set of back-end application optimized processors. Moreover, implementations of the invention provide a server and processor hybrid system and method for distributing and managing... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090132639 - Systems, methods, and media for managing multiple sessions for a user of a portal: Systems, methods and media for managing multiple sessions for a user on a portal are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for managing multiple user sessions with backend applications of a portal are disclosed. Embodiments include a portal having a client interaction module for interacting with a user and a... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090132648 - Content delivery and global traffic management network system: A content delivery and global traffic management network system provides a plurality of caching servers connected to a network. The caching servers host customer content that can be cached and stored, and respond to requests for Web content from clients. If the requested content does not exist in memory or... Agent: Michael A. Glenn

20090132640 - Content timing method and system: A computer method and related apparatus for delivering content files to a client computer are disclosed wherein a request for a content file on a content server is received from a client; a future time period during which the content file will be available on a cache server is determined;... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090132647 - Context-based dynamic policy assignment in a distributed processing environment: An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system, and storage medium for providing context-based dynamic policy assignment in a distributed processing environment. The system includes a first resource management host in communication with a client system, an application executable by the first resource management host, a dynamic... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090132642 - Delegating application invocation back to client: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to delegating application invocation back to a client. In aspects, a server hosts an application that has a user interface that is presented on a client. User interaction on the user interface is encoded and sent to the server to give to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090132649 - Method of managing workloads and associated distributed processing system: Various embodiments enable a server system to convert data for client devices by identifying capabilities associated with various distributed devices, and utilizing those capabilities to select distributed devices to convert data. In one embodiment, a tangible computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions comprising: instructions to receive a request... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, Ps

20090132643 - Persistent local search interface and method: A user interface includes a first view transmitted from a server computer system to a client computer system, the first view including a search identifier, and a second view transmitted from the server computer system in response to a user interacting with the search identifier. A search request is utilized... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090132641 - System, method, and computer program product for realization of online virtualized objects and conveyance of virtual notes: A system, method, and computer program product for an online transferring system where a conveying user may transfer a virtual object, representative of a real object, and a virtual note to a receiving user using an electronic ID of the receiving user and have a real object delivered to a... Agent: Michael A. Rahman

20090132645 - User interface and method in a local search system with multiple-field comparison: A user interface includes a first view transmitted from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a search identifier, a user interacting with the search identifier causing transmission of a search request from the client computer system at the server computer system, wherein the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090132644 - User interface and method in a local search system with related search results: The invention provides a user interface including a first view transmitted from a server computer system to a client computer system, the first view including a search identifier, interaction with the search identifier causing of a search request from the client computer system to the server computer system, the search... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090132646 - User interface and method in a local search system with static location markers: A user interface includes a first view transmitted from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a map and a search identifier. A second view transmitted from the server computer system to the client computer system for display at the client computer system includes... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090132653 - Framework and method for real-time embedded collaboration using business process and transaction context: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for facilitating collaboration between participants of a process supported by a software application (e.g., a business process supported by a business application). According to one set of embodiments, a request to initiate a collaboration session for a transaction of the process is submitted... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090132652 - Method and apparatus for determining a group preference in a social network: A method (100) of electronically determining a group preference in a social network from multiple individual preferences of members of the social network is provided. One embodiment of the method (100) uses a combination of an individual's importance to a social network and a social network's importance to the individual... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20090132650 - Method and system for detecting messages in the presence of noise: Disclosed is a method for transmitting messages between a transmitter and a receiver on a channel on which noise may be present. The messages are constituted by a sequence of data and comprise an initial portion (header) containing data to allow recognition of the message, a central portion (body) containing... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20090132655 - Method, system and device for controlling and/or limiting electronic communication: Devices and methods are provided that spatially restrict online communications to persons from a real world meeting. Such restriction, with optional supervisory control by an authority, protects children from online predators, and can facilitate communication with known friends. An embodiment provides a portable access control (AC) device having a spatially-restricted... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090132651 - Sensitive information handling on a collaboration system: On a document collaboration system, such as a wiki, the content of postings to the collaboration system is monitored for sensitive information. Under some embodiments, when instances of such sensitive information are detected, an e-mail is sent to the user that posted the collaboration page posting. In other embodiments, a... Agent: Target Brands, Inc.

20090132654 - Service retrieval apparatus and service retrieval method: A service retrieval apparatus stores service data items, each including two words as input and output items and expression as condition, receives request data item including word as input item and expression as condition, acquires first word set which is set of words having meanings identical/similar to meaning of word... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090132657 - Dynamic data partitioning of data across a cluster in a distributed-tree structure: A method and apparatus for dynamically partitioning data across a cluster in a tree-based structure is disclosed. In one embodiment, cache nodes in the cluster are detected. A partition group is formed with members including one or more cache nodes of the cluster. An instance of a cache node in... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090132656 - Transfer of items between social networking websites: A first website earns rewards, e.g. points and items, for carrying out activities. Those rewards can be transferred to a second website. For example, a parent's website allows the parent to carry more adult tasks and also earn points. The points can be transferred to the child's website. A center... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090132663 - Active removal of e-mail recipient from replies and subsequent threads: A data processing system, computer implemented method, and a computer program product prevents the delivery of undesired e-mail message. A remove request is received from a non-desiring client. The remove request identifies a first subject line or a first body text from a previous e-mail message. An active request is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090132667 - Adaptive filtering of annotated messages or the like: A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for obtaining an indication of one or more message filtering rules and accepting text-containing content after obtaining the indication of the one or more message filtering rules and after a value acceptance of a delivery evaluation of the text-containing content.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090132658 - Apparatus and method for filtering electronic messages: A method for handling electronic messages comprising: determining if a stored email addressed to a user includes an identifier; determining by an email server if an email addressed to a user includes an identifier; determining if the identifier is valid upon determining the email includes the identifier; and filtering the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090132670 - Apparatus and method for precluding e-mail distribution: E-mail addresses are converted by a hashing function into hash codes. An e-mail mass mailer that can have millions of addresses hash codes all addresses to which a message might be sent to form a first list. An entity that wishes to exclude delivery of a message to various e-mail... Agent: Vedder Price P.C.

20090132668 - Apparatus for post delivery instant message redirection: An instant messaging (IM) server provides post delivery instant message redirection when a first device having a first media access control (MAC) address is logged onto the IM server and subsequently a second device having a second media access control address logs onto the IM server. An instant message is... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Research Triangle Park

20090132659 - Enhancing collaboration opportunities for a reply to an electronic message: It is not unusual for an e-mail message to request replies from multiple addressees. To enhance the opportunities for collaborations on a reply to the e-mail message, each of the messaging servers supporting the addressees maintains a message record identifying each addressee that signals he has begun working on a... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090132661 - Forwarding un-responded to instant messages to electronic mail: A method of forwarding an instant message to electronic mail can begin with determining availability of an instant messaging client for a recipient. The method can continue with sending the instant message to the instant messaging client for the recipient. The method can include not receiving a reply to the... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20090132669 - Hash-based systems and methods for detecting and preventing transmission of unwanted e-mail: A system (120) detects transmission of potentially unwanted e-mail messages. The system (120) may receive e-mail messages and generate hash values based on one or more portions of the e-mail messages. The system (120) may then determine whether the generated hash values match hash values associated with prior e-mail messages.... Agent: Chris Edgeworth Stragent

20090132662 - Managing delivery of electronic messages: In certain embodiments, a method for managing delivery of electronic messages includes receiving an electronic message, the electronic message having an intended recipient, and analyzing the electronic message to determine a priority for the electronic message. The method further includes determining, based on the determined priority for the electronic message;... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090132671 - Message state maintenance at a cursor: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for maintaining message state at a cursor. A message consumer requests messages from a cursor. The cursor can maintain state information for the message consumers separately from a message log that stores messages. Any of a variety of message... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090132666 - Method and apparatus for implementing a network based debugging protocol: Techniques for automatically triggering debug sessions across a network are described herein. In one embodiment of the invention, at a first code module in a first computing device, a detected event is determined to constitute an automatic start network debug session condition, wherein the detected event is an occurrence of... Agent: Daniel M. Devos Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090132672 - Method and computer program for a mediation processing node to update a message: A mediation processing node computer processor updates a message. A message is received for processing by a mediation processing node computer processor. It is deduced from a declared interface of the mediation processing node computer processor that one or more message values will be updated by the mediation processing node... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090132665 - Method and system for communicating invitations and responses to an event with a mobile device: The invention provides a communications system comprising an event server computer system, an event creation module on the event server computer system for permitting the creation of an event from an event host computer system over the network, and a storing module on the event server computer system for storing... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090132664 - Method and system for removing a person from an e-mail thread: A method for automatically removing a user from an e-mail thread is provided. An e-mail client receives a reply e-mail message. Responsive to a determination that the reply e-mail message is a message to opt-out of an e-mail thread, the e-mail address of a sender of the reply e-mail message... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090132660 - Network chat device and methods thereof: A server device can receive availability inquiries from chat programs via a network. The server device determines a first user's availability to a second user based on whether that second user is a member of one of a set of groups identified by the first user. Based on the determination,... Agent: Larson Newman Abel & Polansky, LLP

20090132674 - Resolving node identifier confusion: Confusion resulting from assigning the same node identifier to multiple nodes is resolved through the use of confusion detection techniques and the use of unique identifiers for the nodes. In some aspects an access point and/or an access terminal may perform operations relating to detecting confusion and/or providing a unique... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090132673 - System and method for transmitting alert locations to navigational devices: An originating navigation device sends an alert location to a recipient navigation device over a wireless network. The originating navigation device is operable to classify the alert location (e.g. traffic accident) and associate additional data. The recipient navigation device receives the alert location and may plan an alternative route, which... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090132675 - Using identifiers to establish communication: Confusion resulting from assigning the same node identifier to multiple nodes is resolved through the use of confusion detection techniques and the use of unique identifiers for the nodes. In some aspects an access point and/or an access terminal may perform operations relating to detecting confusion and/or providing a unique... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090132677 - Apparatus, system and method for automated coronary artery disease testing and analysis: Apparatus, system, and method for acquiring data from a subject and, based on acquired data, computing indicators and results. The method comprises guiding a subject to perform a predefined protocol and further comprising acquiring data while supervising proper execution of the protocol. The method may comprise validating data acquired, communicating... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090132676 - Communication device for wireless virtual storage and method thereof: A communication device capable of sharing data in a remote storage server with an electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device communicates with the remote storage server via the communication device. The communication device comprises a wireless communication module for communicating with the remote storage server with a communication protocol,... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20090132679 - Information device: A device for obtaining, storing and displaying information from a remote server, the device has a modem for establishing communication sessions with the remote server. A memory coupled to the modem stores the obtained information, and a display is coupled to the memory for displaying the stored information. The device... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090132678 - System and method for remotely activating a service and service management system incorporating the same: A service management system and a method of remotely activating a service. In one embodiment, the service management system includes: (1) a service description repository configured to contain service descriptions that define services in terms of a set of end points that assume roles based on at least one of... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Alcatel-lucent

20090132680 - Information terminals sharing contents in a network, information sharing method and p2p system and point system using the same: Information terminal and information sharing method are provided which consider survival time of contents at a transmission destination and propagate the contents widely so as to be suitable for contents sharing. In the information terminal and information sharing method, contents allotted with survival time is received, the survival time allotted... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090132681 - Automatically providing identity information for a network appliance: A method and system for activating a network appliance. The method may include providing a user interface for a network appliance, and allowing a user to request an activation of the network appliance via the user interface, without requiring the user to specify the identity of the network appliance. The... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090132683 - Deployment method and system: A deployment method and system in the OS deployment software are disclosed in which the deployment is possible to server units having various hardware configurations. In a computer system, a disk image of a deployer server unit is managed by a management server and a deployee server unit is connected... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090132684 - Normalization engine and method of requesting a key or performing an operation pertaining to an end point: A normalization engine and a method of requesting a key or performing an operation pertaining to an end point. In one embodiment, the normalization engine includes: (1) a data manager configured to receive a request to execute an operation or obtain a key/value pair pertaining to an end point and... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Alcatel-lucent

20090132682 - System and method for secure configuration of network attached devices: A system and method for supplying, to a provider of the device, requirements for information to be stored on a device, obtaining device data for provisioning the device on a network, storing device configuration information on storage associated with the network, receiving a service request from a user of the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090132685 - System and method for provisioning and unprovisioning multiple end points with respect to a subscriber and service management system employing the same: Various systems and methods for provisioning and/or unprovisioning an end point. One aspect provides a method of provisioning an end point. In one embodiment, the method include: (1) mapping the end point into a role in a service associated with a subscriber and (2) calling at least one function associated... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Alcatel-lucent

20090132687 - Method, device and system for transmitting initialization data file of notification service: A method, a device, and a system for transmitting initialization data file of a notification service are provided. The method includes steps of encapsulating at least one initialization data file of a notification service in an initialization container; carrying an ID of the initialization container in a service acquisition fragment... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090132686 - Switch apparatus for a remote boot sequence of a network device: A switch apparatus for a remote boot sequence of a network device is disclosed. The network device may comprise a processor and a network control circuit. The switch apparatus may comprise a first storage element for storing a first boot code, a second storage element for storing a second boot... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090132693 - Application and method for generating automated offers of service and service management system incorporating the same: A service management application and method. In one embodiment, the service management system includes: (1) a service description repository configured to contain service descriptions that define services in terms of a set of end points that assume roles based on at least one of capabilities and attributes thereof, the end... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Alcatel-lucent

20090132691 - Method and system to manage communications: A method to manage communications between a communication network using radiofrequency waves and a network such as the Internet, linked by a gateway, with control members producing; parameters related to established communications, including a user identifier and a communication identifier, or parameters related to failed connections, including a connection identifier... Agent: Perman & Green

20090132688 - Method for the dynamic service configuration of a technical system: A method is disclosed for the dynamic service configuration of a technical system. According to at least one embodiment of the method: a) a functional task description is inputted and/or generated in a functional description language for an interaction task between at least one new initial service and at least... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090132690 - On-demand download network: A device retrieves only the application software that is missing on the device and is currently required to perform a certain function. An object-request module sends a request that identifies only the needed application.... Agent: Michael Molins Molins & Co.

20090132692 - System and method for starting server services: In one embodiment, services are not loaded if they are not needed by the user and if no services needed by the user are dependent upon them. In one embodiment, server services are represented as nodes in a graph data structure. Connections between the nodes indicate dependencies between the server... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090132689 - Trust based moderation: A network device, system, and method are directed towards detecting trusted reporters and/or abusive users in an online community using reputation event inputs, such as abuse reports. When an abuse report is received for a content item, the combined trust (reputation) of previous reporters on the reported content item and... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090132694 - Bandwidth constraint construction for overlapped logical channels: In one embodiment, a technique determines whether configured logical bandwidth allotments for logical channels are supported by maximum available physical bandwidths of physical channels assigned to those logical channels. The technique establishes a bandwidth-constraint directed acyclic graph (DAG) or “BCD” based on novel relationship rules between vertexes of the BCD... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090132695 - Calculation of the degree of participation of a server in a cluster using half-life decay: A method and apparatus for calculating a degree of participation of a server in a group of servers is disclosed. In one embodiment, a memory stores timestamps for each access to the server. A processor weights the timestamps to treat more recent accesses as more important than older accesses, wherein... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090132699 - Data center synthesis: A data center is designed by determining a compute description that describes computer resources to be used in the system from design requirements and models of the computer resources. A facility description that describes facilities to be used in the data center is determined from the compute description and models... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090132701 - Duplicate address discovery and action: A duplicate address discovery process detects duplicate MAC addresses or duplicate unique port identifiers within the network, alerts attached devices of the duplicates, and takes action to avoid data corruption that might be caused by such duplicate addresses.... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090132696 - Facilitating dhcp diagnostics in telecommunication networks: A computer-implemented method for facilitating DHCP diagnostic functionality comprises a plurality of operation. An operation is performed for identifying misconfigurations to a DHCP option configuration of a DHCP agent between a DHCP server and a client of the DHCP server. An operation is performed for confirming proper address concentration configuration... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20090132704 - Federated transaction path and service level agreement monitoring across service oriented application partner domains: Computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for monitoring a transaction that crosses an enterprise boundary in a composite application. A computer implemented method for monitoring a transaction that crosses an enterprise boundary in a composite application includes a provider enterprise of the transaction receiving a request to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090132702 - Generic method for resource monitoring configuration in provisioning systems: A generic mechanism and model are provided to capture and store configuration profiles for resource monitors such that monitors can be flexibly deployed, configured, modified, and removed using appropriate sets of parameters and values. As an integral part of resource provisioning, this generic mechanism will require only a generic set... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090132697 - Integration of passenger and flight operation communications: A communications device is provided for permitting internet access on an aircraft. A first computer on the aircraft is in communication with the communications device. A second computer on the aircraft is also in communication with the same communications device. Access to the first computer is provided to a passenger.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090132700 - Network-connectable device and method for managing power thereof: A network-connectable device is configured to communicate with one or more computer-related devices via a network. The network-connectable device includes a list management unit and a shutdown unit. When the list management unit receives a start command signal instructing an activation of the network-connectable device which is transmitted from a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090132698 - System and method for automatic configuration and management of home network devices: Embodiments of a method and system for automatically installing and managing consumer devices in a home network environment are described. A system implements automated configuration and maintenance of devices and their peripherals that connect to the home network, in particular the establishment of a distributed system that serves as a... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090132703 - Verifying resource functionality before use by a grid job submitted to a grid environment: A method, system, and program for verifying resource functionality before use by a grid job submitted to a grid environment are provided. When a new resource is allocated to a particular execution environment within a grid environment managed by a grid management system, then a grid verification service automatically selects... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20090132706 - Interpersonal communication enhancer: A system for enhancing interpersonal communication is disclosed. The system includes one or more personal computer devices capable of broadcasting and receiving select messages based on overlapping user interests. The device shares identity credentials with other devices to ensure credibility of the information being broadcast and maintains user interests in... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090132705 - Server, terminal apparatus, device registering system, registering method, registering program and recording medium: A device registration system including a server which holds content and a terminal apparatus which uses content, whereby the terminal apparatus is registered in the server if a communication time between the terminal apparatus and the server is less than or equal to a reference value. A measuring unit of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090132708 - Adaptation of service oriented architecture: An architecture and method are provided for provisioning, configuring and deploying adaptive service oriented architectures through mounting provider systems on extended service containers and manipulating the instantiations of these containers so that the active instantiations can be optimized for the prevailing state within the service oriented architectures.... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090132709 - Application and method for dynamically presenting data regarding an end point or a service and service management system incorporating the same: In another embodiment, the method includes: (1) collecting services to which a subscriber has a subscription, (2) associating an end point with roles for the services, (3) for each of the services in which the end point has a role and for each of a plurality of user interface templates,... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Alcatel-lucent

20090132711 - Method and system for assigning or creating a resource: An example of a method for assigning a resource (for example, storage) includes receiving a request for a resource, wherein the request includes a list of paths. This example also includes retrieving a HardwareAccount, Controller, and an AccessAuthorization object for a first path in the list of paths. This example... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090132710 - Self-service application for a service management system and method of operation thereof: A service management system and method. In one embodiment, the service management system includes: (1) a service description repository configured to contain service descriptions that define services in terms of a set of end points that assume roles in the services and (2) a self-service application configured to collect ones... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Alcatel-lucent

20090132707 - Service providing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium: A service providing apparatus includes a receiving unit to receive a service request transmitted from other apparatus, a first determination unit to determine whether the other apparatus is an apparatus to be provided with a service by the service providing apparatus, a service providing unit to provide the service to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090132714 - Method and system for providing connection resiliency: A system, method and device for providing connection resiliency. The method including maintaining, by a first proxy, a TCP connection with a TCP client and a TCP connection with a TCP server through one or more TCP networks; maintaining information of both TCP connections by a forwarding component between the... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090132712 - Method and system for session mobility between end user communication devices: A method and system for providing session mobility between end user communication devices, such as between session initiation protocol (SIP) devices and universal plug and play (UPnP) devices. The session mobility methods and systems make use of a session manager, which can be part of a bridge coupled between the... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090132713 - Single-roundtrip exchange for cross-domain data access: An anonymous cross-domain data request message is sent to a target domain, the request message including a cross-domain data request header. A cross-domain response message is also received from the target domain if cross-domain data requests are supported by the computing device and if the data requested by the anonymous... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090132715 - System and method for conducting secure ip transaction sessions with persistence: A method for providing a persistent network session is disclosed. The method includes conducting a first session between a terminal and a server via a communication gateway. The first session includes a session between the communication gateway and the server. The method also includes issuing a notification to the communication... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc.

20090132716 - Fault-tolerant distributed services methods and systems: Methods and apparatuses are provided for use in fault-tolerant distributed services. One method includes establishing a plurality of server processes each associated with different non-overlapping subspace range of a distributed data structure, associating a data object with a corresponding server process based, at least in part, on mapping the data... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090132717 - Session initiation protocol-based internet protocol television: Video on demand (VoD) and other video streaming and delivery mechanisms are provided using a messaging protocol (e.g., a session initiation protocol (SIP))-based approach that builds upon existing service delivery platforms. In one example, SIP functionality is extended to provide the ability to control and alter a delivery mode of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090132718 - Content filtering system for a mobile communication device and method of using same: A method of controlling access to content from a mobile client device, the mobile client device being communicably connected to a server device via a communication link, and the method including the steps of: (i) receiving in the mobile client device, an input indicative of the content; (ii) thereafter, processing... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090132719 - Automatically determining management information base modules for a device: Described herein are processes and devices that automatically determine management information base (MIB) modules for a device. One of the devices described is a MIB detection device. The MIB detection device can automatically filter a first set of MIB modules to isolate all MIB modules (1) that are fully supported... Agent: Ibm Raleigh Iplaw (dg) C/o Delizio Gilliam, PLLC

20090132721 - Chunk header incorporating binary flags and correlated variable-length fields: Playback and distribution systems and methods for multimedia files are provided. The multimedia files are encoded with flags associated with the content data of the multimedia files. Through the use of the flags, playback of the content is enhanced without significantly increasing the file size of the multimedia file.... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20090132720 - Method and system for providing download and configuration job progress tracking and display via host user interface: A slot management system including a download and configuration server-based sub-system and method is disclosed for use with game devices, systems, and methods is provided to enable users to monitor, control, and modify game devices and other related activities. A download tracking system and method is provided for providing dynamic... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090132722 - Adaptive communication interface: Embodiments of the invention include a communication interface and protocol for allowing communication between devices, circuits, integrated circuits and similar electronic components having different communication capacities or clock domains. The interface supports communication between any components having any difference in capacity and over any distance. The interface utilizes request and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090132723 - Generic network protocol scripting: Some embodiments of generic network protocol scripting have been presented. In one embodiment, a script is received from a user. The script is associated with a set of connection oriented network transport based network protocols. The script may be executed to emulate a network transaction according to one of the... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090132725 - Methods and apparatus for fast channel switching between real time content on a device: Methods and apparatus for fast channel switching between real time content on a device. In an aspect, a method includes receiving a channel selection indicator that identifies a channel comprising real time content to be rendered, determining whether the real time content can be rendered using an existing rendering pathway,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090132724 - System and method for network infrastructure and internet applications with p2p paradigm: A system including a plurality of c-nodes, and one or more source terminal nodes and one or more destination terminal nodes connected to an IP network. The source node terminal nodes send IP packets over the plurality of c-nodes to the destination terminal nodes to arbitrary groups of the destination... Agent: Maier & Maier, PLLC

20090132726 - Server-based message protocol translation: A system and method are presented in which a plurality of transport protocol objects (TPOs) are instantiated at a server. In one embodiment, each of the plurality of TPOs is adapted to provide a translation between a first IM protocol and a different IM protocol.... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20090132727 - System for connecting different components, network forwarding component and independent application component: The present invention discloses a system for connecting different components, a Network Forwarding Component NFC and an Independent Application Component IAC. The NFC includes: a data forwarding unit, a processor, a data interface on the NFC side, a management interface on the NFC side and a status information interface on... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090125577 - Backup executability judging system: A problem of prior art is that normal backup data is lost as a result of taking a backup by overwriting the normal backup data with data that has been changed greatly from a virus infection or the like. This invention provides a computer system having a storage system. The... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090125578 - System for operating at least one non-safety-critical and at least one safety-critical process: For the operation of at least one non-safety-critical application process and at least one safety-critical application process, the invention proposes a data processing and transmission system with a data transmission network, at least one non-safety-related network element linked to the non-safety-critical application process and connected to the network, and with... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20090125581 - Automated recording and playback of application interactions: Some embodiments of automated recording and playback of application interactions have been presented. In one embodiment, an application proxy server communicatively coupled between an application server and a client records responses and requests between an application server and a client during a transaction. Furthermore, the application proxy server generates a... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090125580 - Displaying server errors on the client machine that caused the failed request: Computer-implemented methods and computer-readable storage media are disclosed relating to displaying server errors on the client computing system that caused the failed request. A client listener application configured to execute on a client computing system. The client listener application is further configured to exchange data over a network with a... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090125579 - Method and system for improving client-servlet communication: The present invention provides a method and system for improving the client-Servlet communication in the World-Wide-Web (Web) without changing the existing communication protocol, and without changing the client. The existing prior art one-way communication path between client and Servlet remains unchanged if the initial request includes all information for retrieving... Agent: Edell, Shapiro, & Finnan, LLC

20090125582 - Method and system for providing media programming: A method of generating media programming includes the steps of providing by an aggregator to a client a list of feeds; receiving by the aggregator from the client a selection of one of the feeds; receiving by a publisher from the aggregator the feed selection; and providing to the client... Agent: HowardIPLaw Group

20090125585 - Method and system for using a cache miss state match indicator to determine user suitability of targeted content messages in a mobile environment: Methods and systems for determining a suitability for a mobile client to display information are disclosed. A particular exemplary method includes maintaining on the mobile client a list of first attributes relating to message cache misses of a cache memory located on the mobile client, receiving on the mobile client... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090125583 - Priority control system and method: A priority control system includes a terminal, and a processing server coupled over a network. The processing server has an operation processing sections each of which executes a predetermined process, a communications device, a priority determination section, and a priority assignment section. The processing server also has priority information about... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090125586 - Screen sharing system and data transfer method: The client's screen includes a shared area that displays a portion of the server's screen information. The present invention performs a remote event from the client upon the server by causing an input event that is instigated upon the shared area thereof to be replayed upon the server. When this... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090125584 - System and method for spatio-temporal-context aware interaction of users with an entity of interest: A multifunctional interaction system which is capable of spatio-temporal context localization of users and of communication of audio/video streams to an entity of interest defined by the user, includes a communication domain supporting a predefined localization service, a server associated with the communication domain, client devices, and a dynamically changing... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090125587 - Management system, device for use in the system, program therefor, and management method: Assignment function notifying means (24) of a shelf management unit (2) notifies assignment function accepting means (35) of a board management unit (3a), what function executing right is assigned. Subsequently, execution function selecting means (34) of the board management unit (3a) selects a function to be actually executed, from the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090125589 - Reconnection to and migration of electronic collaboration sessions: The invention generally relates to electronic collaboration sessions and, more particularly, to systems and methods for providing reconnection to and migration of electronic collaboration sessions. A method for managing a collaboration session includes providing a computer infrastructure structured and arranged to store data regarding a plurality of clients of a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090125588 - System and method of filtering recommenders in a media item recommendation system: A system and method of allowing a recipient to control and customize filtering of recommenders in a media item recommendation system. Filtering recommenders allows the recipient to control from which recommenders media item recommendations can be received. Recommenders may be filtered using a tag associated by the recipient with the... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20090125590 - Method and apparatus for controlling information in virtual world: Provided is a method for controlling information shared in a virtual world by a server and a plurality of users' client terminals connected to each other through a network. In this information control method, a computer creates a third object between a first object and a second object in the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090125600 - E-mail role templates for classifying e-mail: An e-mail categorization system can include a plurality of role templates, each role template being associated with an e-mail account and defining a plurality of categories for categorizing e-mail messages. An authorized account holder can establish the plurality of categories and can designate programmatic actions that are to be selectively... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090125597 - Email annotation: A method of creating an annotation to an email. The method includes: receiving an email; receiving a predefined user input; creating an annotation in response to the predefined user input, the annotation linked to the email; receiving a further user input; and defining a permission for the annotation according to... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090125592 - Flexray communication controller: FlexRay communication controller for connecting FlexRay communication lines to a FlexRay network member assigned to the FlexRay communication controller, whereby said FlexRay communication controller encloses some parts as there are at least a message handler, a message memory, a first buffer memory structure for connecting said message memory to said... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090125594 - Instant messaging intercom system: A method of communication via instant messaging that avoids some of the costs and disadvantages for doing so in the prior art. In particular, the illustrative embodiment enables instant messaging clients to function as an intercom, in which one user can cause audio signals, such as speech, to be output... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20090125591 - Instant messaging proxy apparatus and method: A method is described comprising: receiving instant messages from a data processing device in a first instant messaging (“IM”) format; identifying a first IM service to which the instant messages are directed; reformatting the instant messages into a second IM format compatible with the first IM service; and transmitting the... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, P.s.

20090125595 - Intelligent message processing: Intelligent message processing is provided for person to person (P2P) messaging by intercepting the message and processing the message before directing the message to the recipient. The messaging system then acts as a person to application (P2A) and application to person (A2P) system, wherein any P2P message can be intercepted... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090125593 - Message delivery system and method: In one embodiment, a method of delivering messages to a user of a user terminal executing a communication client and connected to a packet-based communication network, includes receiving a message at the communication client from the communication network, the message comprising a content portion and a control portion, wherein the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090125596 - Method and apparatus for forwarding emails to previous recipients: The illustrative embodiments of the present invention described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for forwarding a reply email message. The process dynamically inserts email addresses associated with a plurality of recipients of an original email message and with an email address associated with the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090125598 - Method, client and server for implementing question and answer services: The invention discloses a method, client and server for implementing the question and answer services. The method includes: by a first client, putting a question into presence information for publishing so that a second client obtains the presence information that contains the question; receiving an answer to the question sent... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090125599 - Multifunctional input/output device: A disclosed multifunctional input/output device has an e-mail client function for sending/receiving e-mails to/from a mail server. The multifunctional input/output device includes a storing unit configured to store a first e-mail acquired from the mail server; a printing unit configured to print the first e-mail stored by the storing unit... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090125602 - Automatic priority adjustment for incoming emails: A method, an information processing system, and a computer readable storage medium for at least one of assigning and dynamically adjusting a priority level associated with an email message. The method includes receiving at least one email message associated with a recipient. Definitions of a plurality of priority assignment parameters... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090125601 - Electronic messaging systems having time-critical messages: To encourage recipients of electronic messages to respond in a timely manner, certain messages can be designated as time-critical messages. Such messages are delivered with an allowable response time attribute. If the recipient responds to the message within the allowable response time, nothing happens. If the recipient fails to respond... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090125603 - System and method for one-way delivery of notifications from server-to-clients using modified multicasts: A slot management system including a download and configuration server-based sub-system and method is disclosed for use with game devices, systems, and methods is provided to enable users to monitor, control, and modify game devices and other related activities. A notification system and method is provided for providing one-way delivery... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090125604 - Third party, broadcast, multicast and conditional rdma operations: In a multinode data processing system in which nodes exchange information over a network or through a switch, the mechanism which enables out-of-order data transfer via Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) also provides a corresponding ability to carry out broadcast operations, multicast operations, third party operations and conditional RDMA operations.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090125606 - Communication apparatus and remote program update method: A communication apparatus forming a predetermined communication network as a node apparatus has an operation controlled by a predetermined control program. The communication apparatus transmits update data to another communication apparatus of the predetermined communication network, where the update data is multiplexed with communication data, separates the update data from... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090125605 - Method and system for managing folders of email accounts and voice messages: A system for managing access to folders of an email account so that some folders can be viewed by Internet users other than the email account owner One way of access is simply by typing an Internet address in an Internet browser Contents can also be posted by any Internet... Agent: Michael Chung

20090125607 - Methods and arrangements employing digital content items: Methods and arrangements for identifying content, and employing such identification, are detailed. One method embeds a plural-bit digital watermark into content, but first checks to see if the content is previously watermarked. Another method applies a digital watermark detection procedure to only a sub-portion of a digital content item. Yet... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090125608 - Systems and methods for distributing remote technical support via a centralized service: The solution described herein provides an innovative use of remote services technology integrated with service personnel onsite at the point of service, such as a consumer repair outlet, to provide a pool of technical support resources to service a widely distributed resource need, such as support and repair resource needs... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090125609 - Method, apparatus, system and computer readable medium for providing a universal media interface to control a universal media apparatus: Various embodiments of the invention provide a method, apparatus, system and computer readable medium for implementing a universal media interface and control protocol to control a universal media apparatus. The universal media interface and its control protocol facilitate communication, including issuance of generalized commands between a target device, such as... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090125610 - Record transmission method for affiliate programs: A method of obtaining and displaying content on a site on a network is provided. The content is provided by a content supplier to a content requester for display by the requester on the site on the network, and is subject to a regulation. According to the method, a request... Agent: Michael M. Gerardi

20090125612 - Configuration domains for the configuration of web services and consumer proxies: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for configuration domains for the configuration of web services and consumer proxies. In general, data characterizing one or more web services to activate is received and run-time configurations are caused to be generated for each of the web services and each of consumer... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090125614 - Information processing apparatus: Each of presence servers 13 and 14 is capable of holding presence information on devices connected thereto, and transmits the held presence data to any one of the devices connected thereto, in response to a presence reference request from the device. A media conversion server 15 has a function to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090125613 - Network router employing enhanced prefix limiting: A disclosed method of managing a provider edge (PE) router includes defining a neighbor specific prefix limit and a neighbor specific restart parameter applicable to a neighbor of the PE router. The neighbor may be a customer edge (CE) router connected to the PE router. A neighbor specific count of... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20090125611 - Sharing loaded java classes among a plurality of nodes: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for sharing loaded Java classes among a plurality of nodes connected together for data communications using a data communication network, the plurality of nodes including an execution node and other nodes, that include: executing, by the execution node, a Java application, including identifying a... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090125615 - Address resolution protocol change enabling load-balancing for tcp-dcr implementations: Data processing systems, computer implemented methods, and computer program products are provided for updating an address resolution protocol table. Updates received for the address resolution protocol table are comprised of an internet protocol address, a media access control address, and a unique identifier.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090125616 - Optimized peer-to-peer file transfers on a multi-node computer system: A method and apparatus performs peer-to-peer file transfers on a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster such as a Beowulf cluster. A peer-to-peer file tracker (PPFT) allows operating system, application and data files to be moved from a pre-loaded node to another node of the HPC cluster. A peer-to-peer (PTP) client... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090125620 - Assigning telecommunications nodes to community of interest clusters: The present invention provides techniques for assigning network nodes to community of interest clusters. A seed point representing a cluster is selected. One or more nodes are added to the cluster based on each node's geographic proximity to the selected seed point. Nodes that are adjacent to the cluster are... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090125619 - Autonomic definition and management of distributed appication information: A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product for associating jobs with resource subsets in a job scheduler. At least one job class that defines characteristics associated with a type of job is received. A list of resource identifiers for a set of resources associated with the job... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090125621 - Dynamic http load balancing: The invention is a method and apparatus for facilitating facilitates load balancing in a server farm. In accordance with various aspects of the invention, all of the information about each server necessary for a load balancing program to define and execute a load balancing algorithm is stored at a predetermined... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20090125617 - Local auto-configuration of network devices connected to multipoint virtual connections: Various systems and methods for automatically configuring network devices coupled to a network that provides (or is capable of providing) multipoint virtual connections are disclosed. One such method involves receiving information identifying a plurality of virtual connections (VCs) available within a network. The method identifies a set of one or... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090125618 - Open platform for managing an agent network: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system for managing software agents. This system enables a user to configure agents and to specify wiring relationships between the agents and other system components. This system also includes a hub component, which is configured to route communications to and from the... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090125623 - Data validation using signatures and sampling: Architecture that facilitates validation of a data mapping of data from a data source to a data target. There is included a signature generation component that generates a source signature of all or a portion of the data source and a target signature of all or a corresponding portion of... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090125622 - System and method for providing server status awareness: A method including analyzing one or more network interactions of a user. One or more servers associated with the one or more network interaction may be identified. A listing of at least a portion of the one or more servers may be rendered.... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090125624 - System for billing network access capacities shared between internet service providers: For optimizing Internet access resources, a system for billing network access capacities shared across Internet service providers is disclosed. A Client Service Provider (CSP) may rent access on Points Of Presence belonging to a Master Service Provider (MSP) while maintaining a constant security level and providing connection accounting. When a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090125625 - Load balancing method and apparatus, and software streaming system using the same: Disclosed herein is a load balancing method and apparatus which can efficiently distribute load to a plurality of servers providing a software streaming service where a bandwidth-on-demand is different depending on sending times, and a software streaming system using the same. Sessions established between the servers and clients are classified... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090125627 - Highly scalable network environment for managing remote devices: A highly scalable primary server is provided to serve an increasing number of users and remote devices. Instead of communicating with a primary server using an expensive communication protocol, a remote device communicates with a secondary server using a less expensive protocol to determine whether the primary server desires to... Agent: Christensen O'connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

20090125630 - Method and apparatus for defining a search window based on distance between access points: An access terminal defines a search window based on a distance between access points. Here, a first one of the access points may comprise a macro access point from which the access terminal acquires timing. The search window may be used to monitor for pilot signals from a second one... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090125629 - Method and apparatus for transparent negotiations: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for transparent TCP negotiations. In one embodiment, endpoint machines (e.g., clients and servers) negotiate network characteristics through use of TCP header fields, which provide backward capability. Negotiations may be requested or initiated by either endpoint, and if the receiving... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20090125626 - Method and system for processing a control message in an internet protocol-based mobile communication system supporting a multimedia service: A method and system for processing a message in an Internet protocol-based mobile communication system supporting a multimedia service. In the system, application servers include a representative application server and multiple backend application servers. A method for defining a control message between application servers to set up a session using... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090125628 - Service subscription 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

20090125631 - System and method for processing quality-of-service parameters in a communication network: System for processing a communication session to be set up via a communication path from an originating location (ASD) to a destination location (TYO) through a communication network. A common Service Level Agreement (SLA) registry contains Quality-of-Service (QoS) related parameters representative for the QoS valid for the domains between the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090125632 - Method and system for controlling client access to a server application: A method and system for controlling access to an application being executed by a server. A time interval between the server's receipt times of a first request and a second request. The first and second requests are included in multiple requests for an access to the application. An adjustment value... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090125633 - Server initiated secure network connection: In general, the invention is directed to techniques for establishing secure connections with devices residing behind a security device. In accordance with the techniques, a managed device initiates a transmission control protocol (TCP) session to establish a TCP session with a management device such that the management device acts as... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20090125635 - Consistency sensitive streaming operators: A new approach for handling stream imperfections based on speculative execution involves the retraction of incorrect events facilitated using operators to remove speculatively produced incorrect output. Additionally, parameters are disclosed that define a spectrum of consistency levels. A first parameter, maximum blocking time, exposes a tradeoff between a degree of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090125634 - Network media streaming with partial syncing: Partial content syncing in a network media receiver is disclosed. One embodiment comprises identifying available cache space on the media receiver, detecting a media data file to be downloaded from a media server, and pre-buffering a portion of the media data on the media receiver prior to selection of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090125636 - Payload allocation methods for scalable multimedia servers: The dynamic streaming of multimedia data between a data server and one or more clients is disclosed. Dynamic streaming enables the rapid and accurate characterization of the end-to-end path conditions in a server-client streaming session, as well as the rapid and intelligent response to those conditions in terms of source... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20090125637 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing data management in a p2p network: An apparatus for providing data management in a P2P network may include a processor. The processor may be configured to communicate, from an originating node, information indicative of a user entry update to a destination node via at least one intermediate node, receive a response to the communicated information via... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090125638 - Message transformation selection tool: A message transformation selection tool and method for use in a distributed message processing system running applications on subsystems using incompatible message formats, selects the most appropriate output message format for a given input message format. Firstly, the tool determines compatibility of each field of the input message format with... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090125639 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for ring network communication: Communication modules are coupled in a communication ring and are operable to send and receive data from peripheral devices. The modules are operable to send and receive data streams on paths of the ring, and each module is operable, responsive to receiving a predetermined initialization signal, to operate as a... Agent: Anthony England

20090119362 - Application/data transaction management system and program for the same: The application/data transaction management system 1A comprises an application/data transaction management system 1 of the administrator side, a resource provider terminal 21, . . . , 2n, and a user terminal 41, . . . , 4k etc. And the application/data transaction management system 1 of the administrator side has... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090119361 - Cache management for parallel asynchronous requests in a content delivery system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for cache management in handling parallel asynchronous requests for content in a content distribution system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for cache management method for handling parallel asynchronous requests for content in a content... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090119360 - Condition control system, device and process for message transmission: The invention concerns in particular a system comprising: a first terminal (1); a second terminal (21 or 22 or 23); at least a first messaging system (31 or 32 or 33) able to transmit, to the second terminal, at least the message body of a message (10) from the first... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090119365 - Method and apparatus for display synchronization using image compression: Methods and apparatuses for synchronizing displays of a local and a remote device using image compression to achieve efficiency gains are disclosed. A local device requests an update for a particular requested region of a remote device's display, receives an update region which is a portion of the requested region,... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090119364 - Method and system for exchange of data between remote servers: t

20090119367 - Method and system for providing service functions: A method for providing service functions includes: the service provider side receives a service request from the service requestor side, screens service functions requested by the service request and forms a service request result, and sends the service request result to the service provider side. A system for providing service... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090119366 - Routing incoming call requests: A storage medium and computer system that in an embodiment dynamically allocate client requests to target servers based on prepare messages sent by the target servers. The addresses of target servers are added to a queue in response to the prepare messages from the target servers. A network interface is... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090119359 - Server, computerized network including same, and method for increasing level of efficiency of a network: A data access engine 22, computerized system 20 and method 40 for increasing a level of efficiency of a network server are disclosed. Data access engine 22 located in first data processing machine 21 is capable of communication with at least one pseudo server 28 located in a second data... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090119363 - Web sharing system, client device, and web sharing method used for the same: Multiple client devices which enable operation of a Web browser thereon each include a relaying client for rewriting, between the Web browser and a network, the URL of a Web page requested by the Web browser to description for obtaining the Web page via a Web sharing server. A web... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090119368 - System and method for gathering conversation information: A method and computer program product for receiving a request for conversation information, from a requester, concerning an online user of an instant messaging system. The conversation information concerning the online user is obtained and provided to the requestor.... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090119369 - Collaborative editing in a video editing system: Included are embodiments of a method for collaborative editing. At least one embodiment includes receiving an indication to include at least one media effect with at least one media segment and sending at least one media attribute associated with the at least one media segment to a remote server. Some... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090119374 - Adaptive instant messaging awareness: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to presence awareness for instant messaging and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for adaptive instant messaging awareness. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for adaptive instant messaging awareness can be... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090119382 - Content disposition system and method for processing message content in a distributed environment: In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for interpreting contents of at least one message body per message, e.g., a SIP or HTTP message, wherein the message body contents correspond to a content type. A communication protocol message such as a SIP or HTTP message is generated by a sender... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./dlg Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090119378 - Controlling access to an r-smart network: Implementations related to controlling access to r-smart person-centric networks are disclosed.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090119383 - End to end data transfer: A method, apparatus and system for data transfer is disclosed. For example, settings from multiple entities arranged in a multi-tier control plane are used to set data transfer policies. The policies are use to govern data transfers such as between end users or from an origin server.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090119376 - Hint-based email address construction: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for hint-based email address construction that include: receiving, in an email address constructor, an email address hint specified by a user, the email address hint representing an email address for an email recipient; parsing, by the email address constructor, the email address hint for... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090119377 - Managing communications on an r-smart network: Implementations related to managing communications on r-smart networks are disclosed.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090119375 - Method and system for optimizing delivery of mobile content using differential metadata updates: A method of and system of optimizing content delivery within a content delivery channel at a processing element in a dynamic content delivery architecture, the content delivery channel having a plurality of logical or physical content types or a plurality of sub-channels, the method: receiving an envelope at the processing... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090119384 - Multi-path gateway communications device: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed for enabling a virtual personalized network. Communications are established with a personal digital gateway to control access, sharing, security, and/or management of up-to-date personalized data exchanged between or among a plurality of associated communications devices and/or communications networks. The associated communications devices are owned,... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20090119379 - Rendering of multi-media content to near bit accuracy by contractual obligation: In another embodiment, an interface to a delivering unit receives a piece of content embedded with a content identifier in a pre-determined format. The content identifier identifies the content. The content is transmitted from a content provider to a content delivery operator and delivered by the content delivery operator free... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090119380 - Schema negotiation for versioned documents transmitted in a distributed environment: In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for negotiating schema information relating to one or more content types of a message body comprised within a message of a communication protocol. A communication protocol message such as a SIP or HTTP message is generated by a sender towards a recipient, wherein... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./dlg Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090119371 - Synchronization of questions and answers in a collaborative messaging environment: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to question and answer management in a collaborative environment, and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and apparatus for synchronizing questions and answers in an instant messaging session. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090119373 - System and method for controlling instant messaging status: A method and computer program product or managing instant messaging status include identifying an instant messaging unavailable status for a user, and identifying a point-in-time collaborative intersection between the user and one or more collaborative users. The instant messaging unavailable status of the user is penetrated to allow instant messaging... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090119370 - System and method for dynamic tagging in email: A method and computer program product for dynamically sharing tags associated with an email including associating one or more tags with an email after the email has been sent. The one or more tags are made accessible to at least a portion of one or more email users.... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090119372 - System and method for providing email warnings: A system and method for providing an email warning including analyzing one or more communication activities of a user. A pattern of communication activity may be defined based upon, at least in part, the analyzed one or more communication activities of the user. An attempted communication activity may be compared... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090119381 - System and method of responding to a request in a network environment including ims: In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for facilitating responding to a request in a network environment including IMS. A component associated with a recipient is configured to receive an incoming message from a sender, wherein the incoming message is substantially free of an indication of acceptance by the sender... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./dlg Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090119385 - Integration of a computer-based message priority system with mobile electronic devices: Methods for integrating mobile electronic devices with computational methods for assigning priorities to documents are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first receives a new document such as an electronic mail message. The method assigns a priority to the document, based on a text classifier such as a Bayesian... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090119386 - Method and arrangement for data transmission between peer-to-peer networks: A method for data transmission between a first peer device (P1) in a first peer-to-peer network (P2P1) and a target peer device (P2′) in a second peer-to-peer network (P2P2), where each peer device (P1, P1′, P2′) has a node address (NID1, NID1′, NID2′) in its respective peer-to-peer network (P2P1, P2P2)... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090119387 - System of handling a web service call: A system for handling a web service call by clients in a communication network is disclosed. The system comprises a client requester for issuing client requests. The client requests may comprise at least one client request to call a web service. The system also comprises a callback web Service that... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090119388 - Content relaying device and content relaying method: Concerning a content provided by a content server 40 in group A with a high access frequency, a content relay apparatus 1 stores the content in a content storing unit 107 upon first transmission thereof to a communication terminal 20, and the content is retrieved from the content storing unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090119389 - Method for transferring file in conference system, file transfer system and conference server: A method for transferring a file in a conference system is provided, which includes the following steps. A file sending UE sends a conference identification of the conference to the file receiving UE through a conference server; and sends the file to the file receiving UE through the conference server.... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090119390 - Adaptive resource management method and system: A resource management method (400c) and a corresponding system implementing an adaptive model are proposed. The method allows an authority to define a desired target state of several kinds of resources, which are directly controlled by different subjects. The authority publishes (460) a series of rules in a shared repository;... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090119391 - Targeted web page redirection: The present invention provides redirection for a web page request for an old URL received at a web server. In an embodiment, a web page request from an end-user is redirected to a Common Gateway Interface (“CGI”) script for handling the web page redirection. In an embodiment, the CGI script... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20090119395 - Information processing system and data management method: The server device includes: an allocation unit for allocating a unique identifier to each of first data and second data; a management unit for managing a correspondence between the identifier and a method for accessing the first data or second data identified by the identifier; a presentation unit for presenting... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090119394 - Method and system for determining the geographic location of a network block: Described herein are a method and a system to assign geographic locations to network blocks. A particular embodiment of the system includes a set of intermediate assignment generators, each intermediate assignment generator being associated with at least one of a plurality of network data sources, each intermediate assignment generator being... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090119392 - Method for managing decisions, method for constructing a decision tree, central manager, intermediate manager, terminal and corresponding computer program products: A method is provided for managing decisions between a central manager and at least one terminal in an architecture of networks distributed and prioritized according to N levels, with N≧2. The central manager is included in a level of rank N. The terminal is included in a level of rank... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090119393 - System and architecture for supporting mobility and multipath packet delivery in ip network stacks: A communication system is provided. The system has at least two nodes communicating with each other with each nodes associated with an operating system, wherein the operating system comprising a costack adapted to generate a unique or a low probability of overlap CID and intercept packets going down or up... Agent: Maier & Maier, PLLC

20090119398 - System and method for automatically managing a netnwork port based on a calendar function: Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for automatically managing a network port based on a calendar function. In one embodiment, a discovery protocol is provided for automatically discovering at least one port of at least one switch in a network. Furthermore, a management protocol is provided. The... Agent: 3com Corporation

20090119397 - Using virtual domain name service (dns) zones for enterprise content delivery: A domain to be published to an enterprise ECDN is associated (either by static configuration or dynamically) with a set of one or more enterprise zones configurable in a hierarchy. When a DNS query arrives for a hostname known to be associated with given content within the control of the... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20090119396 - Workload management with network dynamics: A workload management system identifies a first source device and first destination device which can be used to perform a job function. The system further communicates information about the first source device and destination device to one or more switches, and receives a set of network parameters along a data... Agent: Pvf -- Brocade Communications Systems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090119403 - Composite resource models: A mechanism and model are provided for representing and managing composite resource models. When a resource monitor is deployed for a resource, the resource monitor scans for information that indicates that the resource under monitoring is part of a cluster, grid, or other composite configuration. The resource monitor then determines... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090119401 - Content providing system, monitoring server, and sip proxy server: A content providing system that provides content to a user terminal via a network includes a content providing server that is connected to the network and provides content, an SIP proxy server that is connected to the network and relays transmission and reception between the user terminal and the content... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090119402 - Domain name ownership validation: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for validating ownership of a domain name. According to one embodiment, a validating ownership of a domain name can comprise retrieving one or more domain name ownership records. For example, the one or more domain name ownership records comprise Who Is records.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090119399 - Intelligent graph walking: An apparatus, and corresponding method, for performing a search for a match of at least one expression in an input stream is presented. A graph including a number of interconnected nodes is generated. A compiler may assign at least one starting node and at least one ending node. The starting... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090119400 - Presence management system: According to one embodiment a presence management system including: a first presence server that controls a first network; a plurality of presentities that belong to the first network; a second presence server that controls a second network, the second network connected to the first network via a communication channel; and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090119404 - Method for improving subscriber data integrity in an ims network: An IMS system including a Home Subscriber Server including data for terminals connecting to the IMS. The Home Subscriber Server being arranged to transmit a reset message to components such as application servers and S-CSCF in the IMS when it undergoes a reset. The receipt of a reset message causing... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090119405 - Combining unix commands with uniform resource locators: A computer command processor to prepare a data processing pipeline where an output of a first process is provided as an input of a second process, wherein the first process and the second process execute at different computer systems. Systems (and the processes that are to occur there) are identified... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090119406 - Method for data communication and system thereof: The present invention discloses a system and method for data communication. In the system and method for data communication, a part of communication peers in the communication system are assigned as super peers, and each super peer forwards message according to its route table. When a communication peer logs in... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090119407 - Secure neighbor discovery between hosts connected through a proxy: A method, a proxy and a host are provided for securing neighbor discovery (ND) signaling between hosts when the hosts are connected through the proxy. A first host sends an original ND message comprising a first signature based on an address of the first host. The proxy removes the address... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090119408 - Method for managing execution by a server of an application providing at least one interactive multimedia service to at least one terminal, corresponding computer program product and server: A method is provided for managing execution by a server of an application providing at least one interactive multimedia service to at least one terminal connected to the server via a communication network. The method includes the following steps performed by the server: converting outputs of the application in the... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090119410 - Middleware architecture for iptv multimedia streaming: A media content distribution system for distributed multimedia streaming communicates over a network and incorporates multiple independent media stations, each having a media director for control and a number of media engines for storage, retrieval and streaming of media content. A middleware system employing a execution engine for service platform... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc. C/o Laura Weiss, Paralegal

20090119409 - Origin request with peer fulfillment: A method, apparatus and system for data transfer is disclosed. For example, settings from multiple entities arranged in a multi-tier control plane are used to set data transfer policies. The policies are use to govern data transfers such as between end users or from an origin server.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090119411 - Synchronous rate adapter: Systems and methods for transporting client data received at a first rate over an interconnect at a second, higher rate, wherein the client data is combined with dummy data according to a pattern that minimizes the amount of buffer space required to store the received client data. In one embodiment,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090119412 - Support for avoidance of unnecessary tunneling: A system can include an access router and a proxy mobile internet protocol aware client mobile internet protocol node. The access router can include a storage unit configured to store a local care-of-address. The access router can also include a sending unit configured to send the proxy mobile internet protocol... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090119413 - Addresses assignment for adaptor interfaces: Provided are a method and device for address assignment for adaptor interfaces. An initial configuration is maintained assigning multiple local interfaces to one initial local address. For each local interface, a remote address of a remote interface on at least one remote device to which the local interface connects is... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Int77

20090119414 - Method and system using arp cache data to enhance accuracy of asset inventories: A technique for improving accuracy in an inventory containing assets associated with a network. Information pertaining to computer devices connected to a specified network is updated. Each device sends packets through at least one router in a set of routers, and each packet contains an element uniquely identifying its sending... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090119416 - Data transformation and exchange: A data transformation and exchange server receives an input data stream from one or more application servers and/or computing devices. The data stream includes a plurality of input records and each input record can be in a different input protocol and/or character encoding. The transformation and exchange server determines each... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090119415 - System and method for representing mfs control blocks in xml for mfs-based ims applications: A system and method for representing MFS control blocks in XML for MFS-based IMS applications utilizes an MFS XML adapter and an MFS XML repository to translate between XML and MFS. The repository contains XML files for DOF/MOD and XML files for DIF/MID. When an XML request is received, the... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090119417 - Federated multiprotocol communication: Methods, apparatus, and business techniques are disclosed for use in distributed communication systems comprising a plurality of communication protocols. In one embodiment a first air interface is used to initiate communication between a wireless client and a remote server at least partially using a first wireless access point. The server... Agent: Rpx Corporation