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Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization July category listing 07/09

20090193068 - Architecture for a system of portable information agents: A method and system for providing enhanced intelligent agents that are moveable by a user from a browser application to a desktop. In specific embodiments, agents provide advanced interactive graphics and communications back to a server.... Agent: Mr. Christopher John Rourk Jackson Walker LLP

20090193077 - Communication control: A server including a storage unit for storing a history of activities that each character in a virtual world has performed; a search unit for searching the storage unit to retrieve a history of activities in which a first character that performs an activity on a first client has changed... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090193076 - Exchanging data using programmatic conversion to emulated html form data: Programming code embedded in an application automatically converts local client data to emulated HTML multi-part form data, without downloading a corresponding form from a web server. The selection of data for conversion is performed programmatically, without the need for interactive user specification of each data item. The emulated HTML multi-part... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090193071 - Facilitating deployment of new application services in a next generation network: A disclosed application docking module (ADM) for use in a communication network includes a message monitor, an application monitor, and an anomaly handler. The message monitor monitors messages exchanged between a monitored application server and a session control layer resource of the network and the application monitor monitors a heartbeat... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20090193073 - Information processing apparatus and computer readable medium: An information processing apparatus includes an output unit and a determining unit. The output unit outputs a piece of information relating to a piece of storage subject information stored in first storage unit into a source of request. The determining unit determines, at each piece of subject information, which to... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090193074 - Method for protecting client and server: A service provider provides a service to a service user using a client server based system executed in network, such as Internet, Intranet and Extranet. If the service user request a service to the service provider, the service provider installs a protection space within system of the service user and... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090193075 - Notification of suspicious electronic activity: Included are embodiments for notifying of electronic activity. One embodiment of a method, among others, includes receiving from a client an indication of a suspicious electronic activity, the client being associated with a user, gathering data related to the suspicious electronic activity, and calculating a frequency of appearance of at... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090193072 - Shared software management method and apparatus: Provided is a shared software management method including: receiving a signal for requesting to delete a shared software used by a second device from one or more first device; and when the delete request signal is received, blocking the output from an interface for executing the shared software to be... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090193069 - System and method for optimizing data traffic in signaling stream of ip multimedia subsystem service: A system and associated method for optimizing media data in signaling stream of a network system. A client subscribed for a presence service sends a signaling message embedding media data in an Extensible Markup Language file. An optimizer gateway in the network system intercepts the signaling message, extracts and keeps... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090193070 - Validating control of domain zone: A requester requests a domain zone control validation from a validating entity. The validating entity generates a pass string. The requester enters the pass string into a domain zone. The validating entity determines if the pass string was entered in the domain zone. If the pass string is present in... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20090193080 - Method and system for automating organizational tasks using a wireless node network: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless node network that includes a set of portable devices associated with members of an organization and a set of client nodes. During operation, the client nodes detect the portable devices in the vicinity of the client nodes and send records of... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090193078 - Method for facilitating a real-time virtual interaction: Techniques for facilitating a real-time virtual interaction between two or more users are provided. The techniques include extracting a dynamically changing context from two or more users, wherein the context comprises at least one of user-provided information and one or more items related to at least one of current activity... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090193081 - Methods, systems, and products for network conferencing: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for conducting a peer to peer conference amongst remote participants. Prior to the conference, a library of digital objects is communicated to an upstream participant communications device and is further communicated from the upstream participant communications device to a downstream participant communications device. During... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20090193079 - System and computer program product for facilitating a real-time virtual interaction: Techniques for facilitating a real-time virtual interaction between two or more users are provided. The techniques include extracting a dynamically changing context from two or more users, wherein the context comprises at least one of user-provided information and one or more items related to at least one of current activity... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090193083 - Method and apparatus to link members of a group: A system for providing an online community to link members of a community together. The online community may include a business portal, a community portal, a people portal, and an education portal.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20090193082 - Social network communities for support and accountability based on tracked tips: Bookmarking content modules and tracking scores of user properties against the bookmarked content modules on a computer implemented social network are provided. Content modules containing text, audio, video, or audio-video content are accessible to users of a social network. User properties are associated with the users of the social network... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090193086 - Control of an instant message system that allows multiple clients with identical credentials: A method and system for improving control of an instant messaging system. Multiple instant message (IM) instances are initiated with identical credentials of a user of multiple users participating in an IM session controlled by an IM server. A front-of-screen representation enables the user to manage instance attributes and allows... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090193088 - Dynamic message correction: A system is presented to allow users in an instant messaging environment to edit already-exchanged messages dynamically, and resend the edited version of the message to the target users, as an example. The newly edited message received by the second user is clearly understandable because the corrected parts of the... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting LLC

20090193089 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus transmitting and receiving electronic mail within a network includes an identification information storage unit, a loop mail judgment unit, and a loop mail process control unit. The identification information storage unit stores identification information. The loop mail judgment unit judges whether or not the electronic mail... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090193091 - Message delivery using a plurality of queue managers: A method and system for message delivery in a messaging network are provided for enabling scaling. A messaging network includes a group of a plurality of queue managers, each of which includes means for carrying out a method comprising: receiving a message at a queue manager, removing at least some... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090193084 - Method and apparatus for obtaining information from a plurality of network elements: In one aspect, a method for obtaining information from a plurality of network elements via a management system is provided. According to one embodiment, a plurality of network elements join a broadcast group associated with a broadcast channel. A management request message is broadcasted to the group and is processed... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090193092 - Method and system for intercommunicating chat information between instant messaging group and chat room as well as intercommunication system: The present invention involves Instant Messaging, IM, fields, and provides a system and method for intercommunicating chat information between an IM group and a chat room, and an intercommunication system. The system for intercommunicating chat information between an IM group and a chat room includes an IM group system, a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090193090 - Method and system for message delivery in messaging networks: A method and system for message delivery in messaging networks is provided. The system provides a group of replicated queues for messages that are operable to be identified by an application before a message is read. The group of replicated queues are defined in association with a group of message... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20090193085 - Patient informational exchange: Described herein are systems and methods for patients to exchange information related to medical conditions and systems and methods to provide a discussion forum by which patients may converse by posting and reviewing electronic messages. The stored messages may be indexed and moderated by a medical expert. The content of... Agent: Olive & Olive, P.A.

20090193093 - Reducing unwanted and unsolicited electronic messages by exchanging electronic message transmission policies and solving and verifying solutions to computational puzzles: The present invention provides for generating inputs that can be provided to a message classification module to facilitate more reliable classification of electronic messages, such as, for example, as unwanted and/or unsolicited. In one embodiment, a sending messaging server provides an appropriate response to address verification data thereby indicating a... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090193087 - System and method for configurable meeting invitation notification on unopened/unaccepted invitations: This presentation enhances current meeting/calendar programs, so that the user will receive alerts via cell or regular phone in the event that a user chooses to receive these alerts or is unaware of receiving a meeting invitation via an electronic mail or calendar system. Voice alert can be sent to... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting LLC

20090193094 - Method for coordinating processing in a distributed system: The method controls processing units (10) in a distributed computer system. At least one stream (4) of messages (2) is sent by a client unit (14) to each of the processing units (10). Each message (2) includes an identifier, member of an ordered group. The messages (2) are sent in... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090193095 - Using message content to group messages: In a message grouping application, the broker/ESB architecture allows the messages mid-flow to pause and collecting them into groups according to a correlation string that is calculated from the content of the messages. Furthermore, minimum/maximum quantity and timeout constraints are applied to the group. Once a collection, as a group... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting LLC

20090193096 - System and product for role-based tag management for collaborative services integrated within an soa: A tag management system for a user of a client-side portal application providing access to a set of services that include provisions for collaborative tagging of content comprises one or more data repositories configured to maintain one or more separate sets of tags, a messaging intermediary configured to provide access... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20090193097 - Method and apparatus for targeted content delivery based on rss feed analysis: A system and related method for targeted content delivery based on RSS feed analysis, including one or more of the following: a behavior analyzer that formulates a behavioral profile of a user of a terminal device who requests an RSS feed and receives same through the terminal device; an infrastructure... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090193098 - System and method for managing and distributing bundled code objects: A method and apparatus for managing and distributing bundled code objects to, for example, set-top boxes serviced by a multi-service operator. The system and method creates different profiles, each including code objects, download conditions and so on. The different profiles are then combined in a code download bundle and the... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090193099 - Method and apparatus for automatically incorporating hypothetical context information into recommendation queries: A system facilitates automatically determining the hypothetical context information or the distribution of hypothetical contexts. During operation, the system receives a request from a user for one or more recommendations. The system also receives a current context substantially associated with the request. The system then determines a hypothetical context for... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090193101 - Multimedia data transmitting apparatus and multimedia data management method: To provide, in a multi-user environment, a multimedia data transmitting apparatus which prevents a content for which playing is paused by a user from being deleted by another user, and allows playing to be resumed. The multimedia data transmitting apparatus includes: a content managing unit which holds a content and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090193100 - Presenting a link to a media file automatically selected for optimized rendering on a client device: A system, computer program product and method for automatically presenting a link to a media file is described for a server. The method on a server begins with receiving over a network (114) from at least one client device (122, 125, 126), a plurality of parameters related to media play-back... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090193102 - Automatically configuring a network device during a dissimilar system restore: Various embodiments of a system and method for restoring a backup image to a target computer system such that a network device of the target computer system is automatically configured with network settings specified in the backup image are disclosed. A backup image created from a first computer system may... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090193103 - Method of and system for support of user devices roaming between routing realms by a single network server: A network server provisioning at least one Local Area Network (LAN) comprising a client entry store, a packet driver module, a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) request handler. The LAN has one or more routing realms. The client entry store stores records representing a user device connecting to the LAN... Agent: Arthur G. Schaier Carmody & Torrance LLP

20090193110 - Autonomic storage provisioning to enhance storage virtualization infrastructure availability: The invention is an improvement to a storage virtualization system that enables the system to determine a class of service for potential storage devices and allows a user, administrator, or application to select a minimum class of service for any given type of data. The class of service is based... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090193108 - Critical resource management: In one embodiment, a method of managing critical resource usage in a storage network comprises receiving, in a storage controller, an input/output operation from a host, wherein the input/output operation identifies a storage unit, placing the input/output operation in a waiting queue, determining a maximum queue depth for at least... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090193104 - Forwarding of device absence information in system with a dynamically changing set of devices: A suspension member for connecting a vehicle body and a suspension device that comprises a pair of side members that extend in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body and are located symmetrically relative to the center in the transverse direction of the vehicle body, and cross members interconnecting the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090193105 - Local placement of large flows to assist load-balancing: In one embodiment, an apparatus generally comprises one or more input interfaces for receiving a plurality of flows, a plurality of output interfaces, and a processor operable to identify large flows and select one of the output interfaces for each of the large flows to load-balance the large flows over... Agent: Cindy S. Kaplan

20090193109 - Power-saving network apparatus and method thereof: A power-saving network apparatus includes a MAC and a PHY. The PHY includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter executes the operations of: transmitting a data signal to a remote network apparatus according to output packets of the MAC when the transmitter enters a normal state; transmitting an idle... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090193107 - Synchronizing for directory changes performed while offline: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to synchronizing for directory actions performed while offline. In aspects, file system objects that reside on a remote data store are made available for offline use. While offline, a client receives an indication that a directory is to be deleted or renamed.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090193106 - System and method for managing message transport in a virtual environment: A system and method for communicating through a network wherein a user may write a message that is released into a virtual environment. The message must be selected by a second user to be read, but the second user does not know the content of the message until the message... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090193116 - Data capture system and method: A computer-implemented data capture system and method for capturing inputs made at a client system are disclosed. The data capture system 10 is arranged to capture at least selected user inputs inputted into the client system 20 in respect of a session. The data capture system 10 is arranged to... Agent: Leason Ellis LLP

20090193111 - Method for monitoring transaction instances: Techniques for monitoring one or more transaction instances in a real-time network are provided. The techniques include obtaining one or more system log files, wherein one or more footprints left by one or more transaction instances are recorded in the one or more system log files, obtaining a transaction model,... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090193119 - Methods and systems for reducing the spread of files on a network: Methods and systems can reduce the spread of computer files or data on a network by obtaining and tracking times of arrival for chunks of data transmitted on the network. The times of arrival for a node can be transformed into time-series and periodograms computed from the time-series. Successive periodograms... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090193115 - Monitoring/analyzing apparatus, monitoring/analyzing method and program: A receiving unit receives data of a specific protocol, transmitted from a server to a client. An extraction unit extracts status codes from the received data. A classification unit classifies the extracted status codes, into first-type status codes and second-type status codes. A judgment unit finds a receiving rate of... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090193118 - Non-centralized network device management using console communications apparatus: A apparatus for the management of one or more wide area or local area network connected devices by a collocated managing device. The managing device includes communications connectivity to each of the managed devices via a console connection and optionally via shared local area network connections. Additionally, the managing device... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090193112 - System and computer program product for monitoring transaction instances: Techniques for monitoring one or more transaction instances in a real-time network are provided. The techniques include obtaining one or more system log files, wherein one or more footprints left by one or more transaction instances are recorded in the one or more system log files, obtaining a transaction model,... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090193117 - System and method for presence subscription delegation: A system and method for presence subscription delegation in a multi-domain environment in an SIP-based presence system are provided, in which a watcher transmits a presence subscription delegation request to a presence subscription delegation handler of a delegating user, the presence subscription delegation handler performs delegation authorization for the received... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090193114 - System, method and computer program product for analyzing data from network-based structured message stream: A system, method and computer program product for analyzing data from a message stream, are disclosed. Data in a structured format is captured from a message stream. The captured data is processed to conform to a data model format so that one or more events can be identified from an... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20090193113 - Systems and methods for grid-based data scanning: A computing grid for performing scanning operations on electronic data in a networked computing environment. The data scanning operations may include scanning data for viruses or other malicious software code. The computing grid for performing data scanning operations may include one or more event detectors to detect data scanning events... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090193120 - Critical resource management: In one embodiment, a method of managing critical resource usage in a storage network comprises receiving, in a storage controller, an input/output operation from a host, wherein the input/output operation identifies a storage unit, placing the input/output operation in a waiting queue, determining a maximum queue depth for at least... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090193121 - Critical resource management: In one embodiment, a method of managing critical resource usage in a storage network comprises receiving, in a storage controller, an input/output operation from a host, wherein the input/output operation identifies a storage unit, placing the input/output operation in a waiting queue, determining a maximum queue depth for at least... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090193122 - Methods and systems for migrating network resources to improve network utilization: A method and system are disclosed for migrating network resources to improve network utilization, for use in a multi-node network wherein nodes of the network share network resources. The method comprises the steps of identifying a group of nodes that share one of the network resources, and identifying one of... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090193124 - Methods, portable electronic devices, systems and computer program products for automatically creating social networking services (sns): Methods, portable electronic devices, systems and computer program products are provided for automatically creating a social networking service (SNS) session. The methods include generating at and transmitting from a first device a first audio and/or video fingerprint of an audio and/or video event. The first audio and/or video fingerprint has... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20090193125 - System and method for transmitting data via data networks with data conversion by a com automatic marshaller: A system and a method of transmitting data via data networks. A bidirectional data connection is created even behind firewalls, including from a client not visible to a server in the Internet. In the method and system, a first connection request for establishing a first transmission channel is sent to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090193123 - System and method of using conversational agent to collect information and trigger actions: A system of using a conversational agent to collect information and trigger actions, in one example embodiment, comprises a user interface to selectively receive user credentials to obtain access to a computer-implemented marketplace, an information exchange module to establish an information exchange between the user and a conversational agent based... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090193128 - Call connection processing method and message transmission/reception proxy apparatus: A call connection processing method that uses SIP (Signal Invitation Protocol) to perform call connection between user terminals and a backbone network via an access network is disclosed. In the method the user terminal instructs a proxy apparatus in the access network to send specified SIP signaling messages to the... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090193126 - Systems and methods for configuration driven rewrite of ssl vpn clientless sessions: The present disclosure provides solutions for an enterprise providing services to a variety of clients to enable the client to use the resources provided by the enterprise by modifying URLs received and the URLs from the responses from the servers to the client's requests before forwarding the requests and the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090193127 - Systems and methods for establishing and validating secure network sessions: A method and system that employ a central server with an associated database and a Master Agent for establishing a TCP/IP connection between a client and an application server associated with a Remote Agent.... Agent: Robert C. Kain, Esquire Kain & Associates

20090193131 - Communication network system and method for providing a service broker function, and service broker apparatus: The disclosure provides a system for providing service broker function including: a user subscription data server coupled to a service broker entity, configured to save user subscription data; a service control entity coupled to the service broker entity, configured to provide a service for the user; a session control entity... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090193129 - Systems and methods for fine grain policy driven cookie proxying: The present solution enables a client that is not configured to use cookies to access resources of the server that uses cookies for communications with the clients. An intermediary deployed between a client and a server intercepts and modifies transmissions between the client and the server to compensate for the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090193130 - Web-based access to data objects: Providing a mobile device with web-based access to data objects is disclosed. Authentication information is sent from a mobile device to a relay server. The relay server executes a connection application to establish a connection to a web access server. The authentication information is provided to the web access server... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090193133 - Network device management apparatus, control method therefor, network system, and storage medium: A network device management apparatus which is capable of constructing a network environment in which excellent operability is maintained without displaying a communication error screen even in a case where different protocols, such as IPv4 and IPv6, are mixedly used on a network, or between network apparatuses operating on a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090193132 - Web services interface extension channel: A Web Services interface extension channel exposes new operations for a Web Service without requiring changes to the WSDL definitions for the Web Service. In some embodiments, extended operation requests and responses are transmitted over the extension channel using SOAP methods reserved for extended operation requests and responses, respectively.... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20090193135 - Architecture, system and method for an rtp streaming system: An architecture, system and method for an RTP streaming system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes developing multiple standalone modules, developing application programming interfaces associated with the standalone modules, and tying together the standalone modules to form a subsystem associated with a streaming application and with a network.... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20090193137 - Dynamic quality adjustment based on changing streaming constraints: A method and apparatus for dynamic quality adjustment of digital media based on changing streaming constraints is provided. A digital media server sends a digital media stream according to a set of streaming constraints to a requesting client. Audio and visual information may be sent to a requesting client together... Agent: Fsp LLC

20090193134 - Guide based content services: Systems are described for a guide of audio, video, multimedia transmission, receiving and playback with advertising and bi-directional fulfillment of goods and services over the Internet. A method of streaming content distribution includes creating data on streaming content; creating data on network locations of streaming content; creating data on access... Agent: John Bruckner, P.C.

20090193138 - Method and system for integrating instant messaging, streaming audio and audio playback: A method and system are provided for integrating a streaming audio server application, an instant messaging client application, and a media player application. The instant messaging client application may be utilized to engage in an instant messaging session with other users. The instant messaging client application can notify participating users... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090193136 - Streaming object instantiation using bookmarks: Bookmarking of tokens in a set of streaming tokens, each representing an instantiation instruction or instantiation context. A navigator receives a set of streaming tokens, and provides the tokens to the instantiation manager. However, if the navigator receives an instruction to bookmark a particular token, the navigator buffers the set... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090193139 - Communication apparatus, communication system, communication method and program: A communication apparatus includes a physical layer to perform signal transmission/reception with another communication end, and a data transfer section (DTL) to connect an upper level user application and the physical layer. The DTL includes a profile ID addition section to add a profile ID indicating the type of a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090193141 - Adaptive flow control techniques for queuing systems with multiple producers: Provided is a method, computer program and system for controlling the flow of service requests originated by a plurality of requesters. The method includes adding an additional control mechanism, which includes a serializer and a serializer queue, between the requesters and the service provider. The serializer inhibits the requesters when... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090193140 - System and method for throttling host throughput: A method for throttling host throughput in a computer storage subsystem is provided. The host throughput is compared to a throughput limit for a predetermined time period. If the host throughput exceeds the throughput limit during the predetermined time period, an input/output (I/O) delay is set equal to the remainder... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090193143 - Media exchange network supporting remote peripheral access: Systems and methods that provide remote access are described. In one embodiment, a system may include, for example, a plurality of communication devices and a media device. The plurality of communication devices may be operatively coupled to a network and may include, for example, a native communication device The media... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090193142 - Method to allow a host to replace logical path resources it owns: A method for replacing logical path resources, a host is able to replace a logical path it owns with a new logical path. Such a system is especially applicable when the condition of “out of resources” has been reached for a port. With this system, a host is guaranteed that... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Tucson

20090193144 - Method and systems for resource bundling in a communications network: A method for resource bundling comprises receiving at a network policer (110) a plurality of data flows having different class of service (CoS) priority levels and processing the data flows while sharing a user allocated bandwidth between the different CoS priority levels in a prioritized manner. The method and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090193145 - Method, apparatus and system to dynamically manage logical path resources: A system, apparatus, and method dynamically manages logical path resources by adding, removing, and establishing logic paths based on specified priority schemes associated with the logical path resources. Information associated with the logical path resources is updated in a logical path resource table.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090193147 - Methods and systems for the use of effective latency to make dynamic routing decisions for optimizing network applications: The present invention relates to systems, apparatus, and methods for implementing dynamic routing. The method includes receiving a request for data located at a content server from a client system and determining latency between the client system and the content server. Based on the latency between the client system and... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20090193146 - Utilizing virtual server weight for loadbalancing: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving current weight data from one or more hosts associated with a virtual server and configuring a maximum weight of the virtual server. The method includes communicating the sum of the current weight data from all of the hosts to a global loadbalancer and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090193148 - Method of creating mashup application: Provided is a method of creating a mashup application in a host device in communication with a peer device by sharing remote services. The method includes discovering a second device that uses a middleware remote service sharing mechanism within a network, wherein a mashup framework of a first device performs... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090193149 - Synchronization of multidimensional data in a multimaster synchronization environment with prediction: Various embodiments are provided for synchronizing with multidimensional data in a knowledge based synchronization framework for a multi-master synchronization environment. Prediction can be employed to transmit the next versions of a sequence of subsets of multidimensional data to consuming clients in an intuitive manner for a given application. For example,... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090187618 - Method and apparatus for outputting event of third party device in home network supporting upnp remote protocol: An apparatus for outputting an event of a third party device in a home network is provided, which includes a remote user interface (RUI) client taking part in a user interface (UI) session using a universal plug and play (UPnP) remote protocol; an RUI server taking part in the UI... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090187619 - Recording medium having distributed processing program stored therein, distributed processing device and distributed processing method: A computer executes a distributed processing program. The computer is a master computer that uses communicable worker computers to execute distributed processing on plural jobs. The computer determines an allocation destination of the jobs from the worker computers. The computer calculates the number of jobs to be allocated to the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090187620 - Converged information systems: A notification system for providing notifications to a user equipment (UE) from a plurality of sources using at least two different protocols, over a network, comprising a notification agent arranged to receive notifications from said plurality of notification sources and which are intended for the UE, the notification agent including... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090187621 - Current updates: This document describes tools capable of differentiating a superset of entities from which a user may receive current updates effective to provide current updates for only some of the entities of the superset. In one embodiment, for example, the tools enable a user of a mobile device to select a... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, P.s.

20090187622 - Method, system and apparatus for data synchronization: A data synchronization method includes: acquiring, in a partial-data synchronization process, a first part of a data item which is to be sent to a client, wherein the data item comprises at least the first part and a second part, and acquiring a data link corresponding to at least the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090187623 - Method for delivering businesses enterprises advertising via instant messaging: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for advertising a business enterprise via an instant messaging (IM) environment comprising registering at least one business enterprise computing system application with an IM server and registering at least one subscriber with the IM server, wherein a subscriber logs on... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090187625 - Method for discovering and discriminating devices on local collaborative networks to facilitate collaboration among users: A method for identifying participants of a collaborative network is disclosed. The participants communicate over a larger electronic network wherein not all members may be participating in the collaborative session. The method begins by determining a unique session identifier for only the participants of the collaborative network. Next, a message... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090187624 - User pivot navigation of shared social media: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to social media navigation in a social network and provide a method, system and computer program product for user pivot for media sharing in a social network. In an embodiment of the invention, a social networking data processing... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090187627 - Identifying an appropriate connection point for connecting to an application layer session: A multi-party application layer session, such as, for example, an electronic conference, is configured to make efficient use of resources associated with lower layer connections that connect computer systems participating in the multi-party application layer session. In response to receiving an invitation to join a multi-party application layer session, a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090187626 - Interactive intelligent system and method for information management: An intelligent interactive, system and method for information management in a communication network. The system is used, in particular, for interest easily-upgradeable interactive systems, electronic e-mail systems and instant messaging systems, or any other communication means. The method and system bring together a set of participants which can be senders... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090187628 - Queuing of conflicted remotely received transactions: Queuing of received transactions that have a resource conflict is disclosed. A first node receives a first transaction from a second node, where the first transaction relates to a resource of the first node. The transaction may be a request relating to a memory line of the first node, for... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja (austin)

20090187631 - Aggregated message tracking status notification mechanism: A notification mechanism that aggregates multiple email tracking status updates into a new type of aggregated message, and transports this new type of message according to a configured interval. The tracking status transported in this aggregated status message can be a positive delivery event, a negative delivery event, hand-off of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090187633 - Capability broker and messaging system: Disclosed are a capability broker, a related messaging system and methods. The capability broker is placed in new network architecture between traffic proxies and enabler servers. The capability broker is equipped with a capability interface adapted to receive a capability request pertaining to a request of at least one capability.... Agent: Saltamar Innovations

20090187629 - Embedding a unque serial number into the content of an email for tracking information dispersion: The present invention discloses a solution for tracking email dispersion through content substitution. In the solution, a set of entities to receive an email can be identified, where the email can contains textual content. A subset of words contained within the textual content can be programmatically selected. A set of... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090187637 - Instant messaging system and method: Methods and apparatuses for processing an instant message from a source wireless communication device to a destination device are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method includes receiving the instant message from the source wireless communication device, the instant message having a source wireless communication identifier,... Agent: Jones Day

20090187632 - Mail object migration: A mail enabled object may be migrated from one hosting server to another by using a temporary buffer that may capture incoming mail during the migration operation. A new mail enabled object may be created and enabled on a target server, and the old mail object may be disabled and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090187636 - Mail sending and receiving apparatus and mail sending and receiving system: An apparatus of a mail sending and receiving system includes an authentication unit, an account determining unit, and an operation-instruction accepting unit. The authentication unit authenticates a login by a user to an entry account. The account determining unit reads account information, and determines one or more other accounts for... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090187635 - Message processing control in a publish/subscribe system: Messages in a publish/subscribe system can be processed after they leave the original publisher and before they are delivered to an ultimate subscriber. Each published message has an associated topic string and a PubLevel value initially assigned by the original publisher. Subscribers are assigned different SubLevel values. These subscribers register... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090187634 - Method for filtering messages in an instantaneous messaging system of mobile terminals, system of instantaneous messaging and a server to implement this method: s

20090187630 - Method for interacting with infrastructure devices via instant messaging: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for interacting with and controlling infrastructure devices within an IM environment. The method comprises registering at least one infrastructure device at an IM server, registering at least one computing device at the IM server, and delivering one or more of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090187638 - Method and apparatus for allowing a portable device to provide rich site summary service: A method of allowing a portable device to provide a rich site summary (RSS) feed including information about renewal of contents, and an apparatus performing the method are provided. If contents of the portable device are renewed, the portable device generates an RSS feed for the renewed contents and sends... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090187639 - Information processing system and management device for managing relocation of data based on a change in the characteristics of the data over time: In an information processing system including a computer device, and a storage device storing data used by the computer device, the region in which the data is held is managed in association with a change, over the passage of time in the performance and availability required of the data holding... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090187640 - In-flight information system: A system for implementing an in-flight passenger information system includes one or more ground-based servers in network communication with an airplane-based server, the one or more ground-based servers configured to execute a computer application for accessing a database containing airport infrastructure information and passenger transactional information; and the airplane-base server... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Endicott

20090187644 - Address distribution system and method and program for the same: An internal unit acquires a first internal use address and uses the first internal use address to acquire a second internal use address. When receiving a notification of change of IP address from the main unit, the internal unit uses the second internal use address as a first internal use... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090187642 - Configuration profiling for remote clients: A method and system for a securely gathering and sharing metrics on configurations of client systems. In one embodiment, a system includes a client that determines which components are installed in the client. The client receives, from a user, rating information for individual components in the client, and generates a... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090187641 - Optimization of network protocol options by reinforcement learning and propagation: In one embodiment, a method for optimization of network protocol options with reinforcement learning and propagation is disclosed. The method comprises: interacting, by a learning component of a server of a network, with one or more clients and an environment of the network; conducting, by the learning component, different trials... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090187643 - System and method for configuring networked enterprise information handling system solutions from a product and options template: Networked enterprise information handling system solutions are configured by reference to a components template having plural components, each component having one or more associated attributes, such as in an XML structure. A selector interface provides end user access to the component template to accept end user inputs for products and... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090187645 - System for providing multi-path input/output in a clustered data storage network: A network storage system is provided. A storage server system can comprise at least two data storage servers. Each server can comprise a network interface operable to transmit/receive communications to/from a network infrastructure; at least one data storage device; a processor operable to receive, from said network interface; an iSCSI... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090187646 - Ip address assigning method, vlan changing device, vlan changing system and quarantine process system: An IP address assigning method is used for assigning a second IP address to a computer to which a static IP address is assigned in advance. The method includes the steps of storing one temporary IP address and the static IP address of the terminal device in association with each... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090187647 - Service providing apparatus: A service providing apparatus 100 capable of providing a service while effectively managing execution codes and screen configuration information stored in the apparatus includes: a display apparatus 108; a communication unit 101; an obtaining unit 151 for obtaining an execution code for providing the service through communication unit 101; an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090187648 - Security adapter discovery for extensible management console: An extensible management console may use a discovery mechanism to detect and identify security services across a network. After identification, the console may download and install an adapter so that the security service may be monitored and controlled using the extensible management console. A catalog of security services may be... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090187649 - Server and method for managing dnssec requests: A domain server that comprises: means (10) for receiving a query transmitted from a client device (CL1) for obtaining DNS data; a zone file (FZ1, zone) comprising one or more distribution rules defining a partitioning of the domain into sub-zones, DNS data of said sub-zones being associated with a pair... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090187652 - Inferred discovery of devices of a data communications network: Methods, apparatus, and products for inferred discovery of devices of a data communications network are described. In embodiments of the present invention the data communications network includes a plurality of data communications devices connecting a plurality of routers, each data communications device having a device address, each router having one... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090187651 - Information technology remote services management environment: An apparatus for providing remote services to an integrated information technology environment. The information technology environment comprises a services appliance. The services appliance provides agent-less monitoring of information handling systems within the information technology environment. The apparatus comprises a remote management platform. The remote management platform is configured to receive... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090187650 - Method and system for determining probability for availability in an instant message system: This invention provides a method or a system to track, query, and display an accurate time for the availability of other users in an instant messaging environment. The solution provides an advantage over the known solutions by providing an accurate estimation of the time for the user to be online,... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting LLC

20090187656 - Method, system, and apparatus for scheduling pattern based web services: A method of scheduling a request for a plurality of Web services can include providing service activation rules. Each service activation rule can specify a trigger condition and a state condition for causing a watcher to invoke a particular Web service. The method also can include receiving an event indicating... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090187655 - Secure platform management device: A platform management device configured to control the functionality of a provisioned electronic device is disclosed. The platform management device includes a processor operative to execute commands. A memory maintains a series of instructions that when executed by the processor, causes the processor to: (1) establish a connection with a... Agent: General Counsel - Intellectual Property Gte Control Devices Of Puerto Rico

20090187654 - Systems and methods for monitoring components of a remote access server farm: The present application is related methods to monitor a state of one or more components of a remote access server farm by an intermediary to distinguish between operating and functional components and improve farm availability for user application requests. The intermediary may be deployed between a client and the remote... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090187653 - Systems and processes of identifying p2p applications based on behavioral signatures: Disclosed are a system and a process for identifying P2P applications and specific P2P software as well from an original mixed packet trace based on behavioral-signatures. The behavioral-signature based system and process according to the invention is mainly to check whether the application has these specific periodic behaviors or not.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090187657 - Content asset management system, method and control program: A content asset management system, a method and a control program capable of managing a content asset of each person while protecting benefit as property of these content assets are provided. Each person deposits a content subject that he or she owns in an object storage warehouse 109 of a... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090187661 - Interference suppression methods for 802.11: An 802.11 source station transmits a signal with the duration field other than that required for the transmission to prevent transmission by other stations during known sequences. Thus, the source station uses the duration field to spoof the actual time the medium will be occupied, to stations within range of... Agent: At & T- Legal Department - Brendzel

20090187660 - Load balancer having band control function and setting method thereof: A load balancer includes a configuration information receiving unit that receives configuration information having address information of all the servers to which a request is directed and the type of service provided by each server, a load balance setting unit that configures so that a request transmitted from a client... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090187662 - Load balancing of server clusters: A load balancing scheme is described for a server cluster. An application identifier is received by the cluster from a client desiring to connect to the application. Each one of the servers in the cluster independently hashes the application identifier into a unique number. This unique number is used to... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090187658 - System for allocating resources in a distributed computing system: According to one embodiment, a distributed computing system includes a resource control system coupled to a web server. The web server configured in a service oriented architecture and operable to provide a business application by executing a plurality of services on a plurality of computers configured in the distributed computing... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20090187659 - Wireless content distribution and advertising: A method, system and software enable location- and profile-based display material to be aggregated and distributed to a mobile wireless device, on which a wireless connection manager application is installed, while roaming on any wireless IP network. This involves the steps of: identifying the connected user; locating the currently connected... Agent: Law Offices Of William H. Holt

20090187665 - Data communication system suited for transmitting and receiving data among a plurality of data communication apparatuses connected to a network, data transmission apparatus constituting such system, and transmission destination update method and transmiss: In order to allow the communication method for receiving data to be set at the side receiving the data, among a plurality of data communication apparatuses, a data transmission apparatus includes a destination designation portion for accepting designation of user identification information, a data accepting portion for accepting data, a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090187663 - Method and system for accessing data in an enterprise information system: Systems and methods for requesting and receiving data from an enterprise information system are described. In accordance with one embodiment, the connector system includes an application server managed connection factory for receiving a data request, and a load balancer for assigning an enterprise information system server connection to the request.... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090187664 - Method for addressing call transmission and service elements between heterogenous nodes: A SIP server addressing method for the inter-operation of SIP nodes (A, B) of a determined IP type in which each SIP server (P, R) is attributed (A) an auxiliary address (R2@v4, P2@v4) of the same IP type as their original address (R1@v4, P1@v4), wherein the auxiliary address corresponds to... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090187666 - Method and system for controlling a computer application program: Aspects of the invention relate to a computer-implemented method of controlling a computer application program in a computer system configured for electronically communication with a client. The computer system is configured to have access to a first request set of one or more allowable requests corresponding to a first application... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090187667 - Transmitting information across firewalls: A mechanism provides a layered communication stack. A connection manager manages the actual transfer of data through a single point-to-point connection crossing a respective firewall. A sessions manager multiplexes multiple sessions over the connection. A routing manager exploits the sessions manager for building a routing table dynamically. A routed sessions... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090187668 - Protocol independent server replacement and replication in a storage area network: A method for adding a server to a storage area network, the method comprising identifying a set comprising one or more communication protocols for connecting a second server to a first storage device configured to communicate with a first server using a first protocol, wherein the set of protocols comprises... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090187669 - System and method for reducing traffic and congestion on distributed interactive simulation networks: A system and method are provided for communicating Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) traffic over a network in an accelerated manner. In one embodiment, DIS traffic is accelerated through use of accelerated DIS packets having a reduced size. In this manner, network traffic is reduced. Accelerated DIS packets may be created... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20090187670 - Method for suspending and resuming content transmission/reception: Disclosed is a method for a method for suspending content transmission/reception, including: transmitting, if content reception within a certain channel needs to be suspended, an error notification message to a server, wherein the error notification message includes a first element indicating that the content reception is suspended, and a second... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090187671 - Method and system for implementing url scheme proxies on a computer system: A method and system for implementing URL scheme proxies. Embodiments of the invention allow URL schemes that are not natively supported by a computer to be supported via proxy, e.g., using a URL scheme that is native to the computer to forward the non-native transport. More specifically, embodiments of the... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20090187672 - Packet structure for a mobile display digital interface: An Enhanced Reverse Link Encapsulation packet for a MDDI system combines and improves upon the functionality of the Round Trip Delay Measurement packet and Reverse Encapsulation packet. The combination of these packets allows for reduced MDDI link overhead when providing client reverse link transmission. This packet allows for dynamic reverse... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090187673 - Content compression in networks: Described is transparently compressing content for network transmission, including end-to-end compression. An end host or middlebox device sender sends compressed packets to an end host or middlebox device receiver, which decompresses the packets to recover the original packet. The sender constructs compressed packets including references to information maintained at the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090187674 - Communication terminal apparatus and method of performing communication by using plurality of network interfaces mounted on the communication terminal apparatus: Provided is a method of performing communication by using a plurality of network interfaces mounted on a communication terminal apparatus. The method includes allocating different Internet protocol (IP) addresses corresponding to the plurality of network interfaces to a plurality of applications of the communication terminal apparatus, relaying data transmitted or... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090182801 - Communication transmitting apparatus and communication transmitting method: When opposed communication transmitting apparatuses A and C are connected in a physical configuration thorough a communication transmitting apparatus B, if an interface configuration changing command is input to the communication transmitting apparatus B, the interface configuration is changed in the communication transmitting apparatus B and virtual connection is achieved... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090182798 - Method and apparatus to improve the effectiveness of system logging: The disclosure relates to an apparatus to improve the performance of system logging. The apparatus comprises a buffer storing a log, a log register comprising a bit, and a core unit. The core unit is coupled to the buffer and the log register to acquire and transmit the log to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090182800 - Operation system of internet connected digital photo frame: An operation system of an internet connected digital photo frame includes local and remote storage units to store digital images, content settings relevant to homepages and connecting lists of groups, respectively. With control tools, a user may manage and edit the digital images and the customized content settings of homepages.... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090182799 - Server with network-based remote access and server management functions using reduced number of network connections: A server with network-based remote access (iKVM) functions and server management such as IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) functions include a system section for performing various server functions, an iKVM controller for controlling remote access, and an BMC for controlling the server management function. The iKVM controller is provided with... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20090182803 - Browser-based proxy server for customization and distribution of existing applications: A system, method and computer program product for executing at least one client computer software application by embedding a web browser in a proxy server, thereby forming a proxy browser. The proxy browser is used to execute the application inside the proxy server. In one embodiment of the invention, each... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20090182808 - Instant messaging system and method: Methods and apparatuses for processing an instant message from a source wireless communication device to a destination device are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method includes receiving the instant message from the source wireless communication device, the instant message having a source wireless communication identifier,... Agent: Jones Day

20090182806 - Methods and systems for content-consumption-aware device communication: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for content-consumption-aware device communication.... Agent: Kristine Elizabeth Matthews

20090182805 - Methods and systems for peripheral-device-assisted networking: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for peripheral-device-assisted networking.... Agent: Kristine Elizabeth Matthews

20090182802 - Mobile device management scheduling: A mobile device management system is provided. The mobile device management system may include a device management client configured to be executed on a mobile computing device. The device management client may include a client scheduler module configured to contact a device management server via a computer network and download... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090182804 - System and method for a tagging service: Disclosed is a service for displaying custom information. The service includes establishing a data connection to at least one data source, storing specific information via the data connection in the data source, and providing a data crawler to crawl said at least one data source using the stored information. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090182807 - Terminal device, network system, method to provide context information, and program to provide context information: A terminal device is provided with a context information storing means for storing context information on a prescribed memory medium, a Cookie receiving means for receiving a Cookie to request specific context information in the case of communication with an outside server, a context information extracting means for extracting the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090182811 - Data sharing system, data sharing method, information processing apparatus,and computer-readable storage medium: A data sharing system which is capable of preventing duplicated data which does not match original data stored in an original node from being spread across the network. An original node stores original data. A first duplicating node acquires duplicated data of the original data from the original node, and... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090182809 - Eliminating redundant notifications to sip/simple subscribers: A system for eliminating redundant notifications to SIP/SIMPLE subscribers, the system including a notification fingerprinter configured to generate a fingerprint from the contents of a SIP/SIMPLE subscriber notification using a predefined fingerprinting method, a fingerprint comparactor configured to compare a fingerprint of a previously-sent notification with a fingerprint of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion PLLC Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20090182810 - System and method for real-time media object-specific communications: A system and method to facilitate word-of-mouth advertising and sales support associated with displayed media objects on distributed networks is described. The system provides one or more advocates to a network user accessing advertising of a brand, product, or service. One or more of the advocates may be socially related... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090182814 - solving mixed integer programs with peer-to-peer applications: The present invention discloses methods of solving mixed integer programs (MIP) in distributed environments, where the number of computers or users involved in the optimization can be extremely high. The proposed methods are designed to be robust in order to cope with all the difficulties in public and heterogeneous environments... Agent: Miller Thompson, LLP

20090182813 - Data repurposing: A digital broadcast network is provided in which multiple original experiences powered by the same data is created. A server software intelligently handles delivery of data so that the data can be utilized by several different client-side applications at substantially the same time. Through filtering of large amounts of data... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090182812 - Method and apparatus for dynamic scaling of data center processor utilization: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for dynamic scaling data center of processor utilization. In one embodiment, a system for managing a data center includes a control module for gathering data related to at least one server in the data center, the data being gathered... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20090182815 - Accelerating peer-to-peer content distribution: The acceleration of peer-to-peer downloads of content files wherein a tracker performs a condition based peer selection that is dynamically adjustable. A further feature relates to the use of enhanced message scheme for communications. One embodiment is a system in a swarm having at least one origin seed capable of... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090182821 - Apparatus and associated method for providing network based address book and sharing and synchornizing address book information at multiple communication devices: Apparatus, and associated methodologies for facilitating sharing and distributing contact, calendar, and scheduling information amongst communication devices. The information is distributed using presence information maintained at a presence server, thereby obviating the need for a user manually to enter the information, or changes to the information, at the different devices... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090182817 - Architecture for online communal and connected experiences: Various aspects are disclosed herein for an architecture for online communal and connected experiences. This architecture can be embodied in an application running a host computing device, where the application provides functionalities such as finding modules on local devices or hosted on online services, launching such modules, switching between a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090182826 - Chat system, chat device, chat server control method, and information storage medium: Provided are a chat system for realizing good communication between users, a control method for a chat device and a chat server, and an information storage medium. Upon receiving a message, a message transfer unit (11a) transfers the message to a game terminal of a transferring destination, and a stop... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090182828 - Electronic mail distribution system for integrated electronic communications: A system is disclosed for integrated electronic mail, voice mail, and fax mail messaging. A common message format is defined for use by an electronic mail service and a telecommunications service so electronic mail messages that may include voice and fax mail attachments may be exchanged between the services. Message... Agent: Jeffrey S. Standley, Esq. Standley & Gilcrest

20090182818 - Heuristic detection of probable misspelled addresses in electronic communications: Methods and systems for detecting suspicious electronic communications, such as electronic mail (email) messages containing, originated or purportedly originated from misspelled and/or deliberately misleading addresses, are provided. According to one embodiment, an electronic communication, such as an electronic mail (email) message, is scanned to determine whether the electronic communication contains... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20090182827 - Method and apparatus for the aggregation and indexing of message parts in multipart mime objects: An indexing mechanism for multipart messages, such as multipart Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) multipart messages, which contain several parts from different objects. The indexing enables an identification of the content of the message and the fast locating of a specific part in a multipart MIME container. When a multipart... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090182816 - Method and system for managing j2ee and .net interoperating applications: A computer implemented method, system, and computer usable program code for managing a transaction between a service client and a service provider is provided. A request from a Web services client application is received. A correlation token and a unique transaction handle associated with the correlation token are extracted from... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090182825 - Method and system for providing source information of data being published: A method and system for providing source information of data being published are provided. The method includes making available source information (311) for a message (310) being published. The source information includes: a topic of the published message (310); any source topics the topic of the published message (310) is... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090182820 - Method for automatically modifying electroinic distribution lists using predefined rules: An initial distribution list is dynamically modified using criteria determined from the current entries in the list. After an originator generates a distribution list and prior to submission of the message to entries on the generated list, the method of the present invention examines the entries in the created distribution... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20090182829 - Method, system and apparatus for keeping session table alive in net address translation apparatus: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for keeping a session table alive in a Network Address Translation (NAT) apparatus, includes creating a hello session table by an Access Border Gateway Function (A_BGF) apparatus, creating a hello message by the A_BGF apparatus according to the hello session table, sending the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090182823 - Social collaborative scoring for message prioritization according to a social networking relationship between sender and recipient: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to message prioritization and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for social collaborative prioritization of messages in a messaging system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for social collaborative prioritization of... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090182822 - Social collaborative scoring for message prioritization according to an application interaction relationship between sender and recipient: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to message prioritization and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for social collaborative prioritization of messages in a messaging system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for social collaborative prioritization of... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090182830 - Sorting electronic messages using attributes of the sender address: Systems and methods for sorting electronic messages using attributes of senders or of sender addresses. An electronic messaging server sorts electronic messages using attributes associated with the senders or sender addresses of the electronic messages. The sender addresses and associated attributes are stored in an accept list. A sorting module... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090182824 - System and method for follow-on message processing: A follow-on message processing system for an integrated information management application. The follow-on message processing system includes a client computer coupled to a network, an email client coupled to the client computer, and a follow-on message controller coupled to the email client. The email client receives an email and a... Agent: HolmanIPLaw/ibm Rsw

20090182819 - Techniques to selectively share messages: Techniques to selectively share messages are described. An apparatus may comprise a trusted delegate server having a message sharing module. The message sharing module may be operative to selectively retrieve messages for a primary message recipient from a unified messaging server based on a message type defined by a message... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090182831 - Social collaborative scoring for message prioritization according to a temporal factor between sender and recipient: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to message prioritization and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for social collaborative prioritization of messages in a messaging system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for social collaborative prioritization of... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090182832 - Social collaborative scoring for message prioritization based upon an organizational relationship between sender and recipient: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to message prioritization and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for social collaborative prioritization of messages in a messaging system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for social collaborative prioritization of... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090182834 - Device and method for providing data: Devices and methods for providing data via a network are disclosed.... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20090182833 - Sharing material in a master-slave configuration using an instant messaging infrastructure: A method for utilizing an IM system enables presenters and participants to interact with material in a master-slave configuration. Both the presenter and participants access the material locally on their computers. The material on the participants' computer interacts with the presenter's computer using an existing instant messaging infrastructure. As the... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090182835 - Non-disruptive storage caching using spliced cache appliances with packet inspection intelligence: A method, system and program are disclosed for accelerating data storage by providing non-disruptive storage caching using spliced cache appliances with packet inspection intelligence. A cache appliance that transparently monitors NFS and CIFS traffic between clients and NAS subsystems and caches files using dynamically adjustable cache policies provides low-latency access... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090182836 - System and method for populating a cache using behavioral adaptive policies: A method, system and program are disclosed for accelerating data storage in a cache appliance cluster that transparently monitors NFS and CIFS traffic between clients and NAS subsystems and caches files using dynamically adjustable cache policies which populate the storage cache using behavioral adaptive policies that are based on analysis... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090182837 - Spatial sieve tree: A method, apparatus, and system is described for creating a spatial sieve tree which stores, manages, and manipulates multidimensional data by partitioning the bounds of the nodes of the tree, creating child nodes which each have defined bounds associated with a partitioned portion of their parent node(s) and may be... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090182839 - Image processing device, control method therefor, and program: An image processing device communicable with an information processing device, includes: a first management unit for managing at least one service provided by the image processing device based on a first protocol; a second management unit for managing the at least one service provided by the image processing device based... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090182840 - 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

20090182838 - Starting enterprise applications on demand: A method to start enterprise applications on demand using naming references is described. The method matches Enterprise JavaBeans applications to respective naming references, checks if the matched application is running and starts it if it is not.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090182841 - Electronic ad delivery system and method: A system, method and computer readable medium configured to determine whether an initial electronic advertisement has been displayed, and to deliver an alternate advertisement when the initial electronic advertisement has not been displayed.... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - San Diego

20090182842 - Method and system for redirecting data requests in peer-to-peer data networks: A methodology for operating a data sharing application in a peer-to-peer network is presented. After a first peer node receives a request for a copy of a specified file from a second peer node, the first peer node may either return a copy of the specified file or a response... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Austin

20090182845 - Automated access of an enhanced command set: A method for accessing an enhanced command set includes utilizing a generic command set to obtain identifying data from a data exchanger in communication with a router device. The generic command set is utilized to cause the data exchanger to establish a remote link between with a data service provider.... Agent: Ormiston & Mckinney, PLLC

20090182844 - Browser-based proxy server for customization and distribution of existing applications: A system, method and computer program product for executing at least one client computer software application by embedding a web browser in a proxy server, thereby forming a proxy browser. The proxy browser is used to execute the application inside the proxy server. In one embodiment of the invention, each... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20090182847 - Content management apparatus and computer-readable medium storing content management program: A content management apparatus includes a transmission device, a receiving device, a manual acquisition device, an automatic acquisition device, a storage capacity determination device, a manual content storage control device, a message output control device, an automatic storage determination device, an automatic content storage control device, and a first automatic... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090182843 - Policy-based content insertion: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for policy-based content insertion. A client device transmits to a content server a request for the delivery of content. The content server modifies the request based on an ingress policy. The content server transmits the modified request to a second... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090182846 - System and method for transferring data in high latency firewalled networks: A system and method are provided for establishing multiple parallel connections between a client and a server on a single server port. Data may be transferred on the multiple parallel connections between the server and the client through an opening in a network firewall that corresponds to the single server... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090182848 - Network scoring system and method: A client may be configured to access a network by identifying a network bandwidth configuration setting to be used by the client in accessing a networked content source, enabling the client to access the content source using the network bandwidth configuration setting, monitoring client access to the content source, comparing... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090182849 - System and method for using snmp in an application server environment: A system and method for sharing security information across multiple SNMP Agents running within a domain, including features such as dynamically extending SNMP MIB to expose customer MBeans with SNMP. The system includes a managed server instance of an application that hosts an SNMP agent. An agent or sub-agent is... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090182850 - Service access control system and method using embedded browser agent: Provided is a service access control system using an embedded browser agent. The service access control system includes: a server providing an Internet protocol service; and a browser agent including device information and service information and controlling the access of a device to the server. When the service access control... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090182852 - Identification device and method for device identification: A device having a unique identification or an identifier for uniquely identifying the device. The unique identification can be a series of alphanumeric characters, a series of numeric characters or letters of the alphabet. The device further comprises a storage module for storing the unique identification. The device also comprises... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090182851 - Remote install assistant: A remote install assistant application is provided on a host device which leads the user through a series of steps for starting up a target device, and remotely installing an operating system or application from the host device onto the target device over a wireless or wired network. The assistant... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090182853 - Upnp apparatus and method for providing upnp network with multiple remote access service: A universal plug and play (UPnP) apparatus and method for providing a UPnP network with a multiple remote access service by operating a multiple remote access server (RAS) device in a UPnP home network and controlling the multiple RAS device by using a UPnP control point (CP). The communication method... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090182854 - Facilitating defense against mac table overflow attacks: A method for defending against MAC table overflow attacks comprises a plurality of operations. An operation is performed for determining whether each one of a plurality of MAC addresses within a MAC table has one-way traffic or two-way traffic corresponding thereto. Thereafter, operations are performed for designating each MAC address... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20090182861 - Method and communication system for managing a communication network: Communication networks are automatically tested from a superordinate producer-independently managing network management center, such as when subordinate, producer-specific operation and maintenance centers (OMCs) are not occupied. Producer-dependent information is transmitted when an alarm report is sent and producer-specific hardware tests are automatically generated in the network management center (NMC). It... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090182857 - Method and system for protocol operation for intelligent controllers: A controller object within a communication device may process one or more objects and/or enable consumption of media content specified by said one or more objects according to a protocol extension such as an extension of the MTP. The protocol extension may comprise operations, datasets, objects and/or object properties. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090182860 - Method and system for securely sharing content: A method and apparatus for securely sharing content are provided, which can securely share the content without allowing access by unauthorized third parties. The method of securely sharing content includes a first domain, which has content that requires security among a plurality of domains logically generated on a hardware platform,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090182858 - Method for assigning address to the intelligent information household appliance and the sub-equipment in the household network: A method for allocating addresses to intelligent information appliances and their subordinate devices is provided. The network side of a household network sends down-link broadcast message, triggering intelligent information appliances newly connected to the network to return device connection information containing its MAC address to the network side. Alternatively, a... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090182856 - Method for the automatic generation of workflow models, in particular for interventions in a telecommunication network: A system for automatic generation of workflow models related to interventions performed on equipment included in a communication network having associated resource proxy agents each providing a representation of the status of corresponding network equipment according to a given data model. The system includes a set of recorder agents, and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090182855 - Method using a hashing mechanism to select data entries in a directory for use with requested operations: In association with a data processing system that includes one or more servers, one or more clients and a partitionable distributed directory contained in a database, a computer implemented method is provided for selectively processing data entries that reside in the directory. The method comprises the steps of generating a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090182859 - System, computer program product and method for managing and controlling a local network of electronic devices and reliably and securely adding an electronic device to the network: A system method and computer program product for setting up a wireless electronic device to join a wireless local area network (LAN). The method upon which the system and computer program product is based includes sending a setup request from the wireless electronic device to a control device, the setup... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090182874 - Adaptive, application-aware selection of differentiated network services: Methods, apparatuses and systems that dynamically adjust the selection of differentiated network services for selected classes of traffic in response to changing network conditions or application performance levels. In one implementation, the present invention allows for a differentiated network services scheme that adapts to existing network conditions and, in one... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090182868 - Automated network infrastructure test and diagnostic system and method therefor: A testing system provides automated testing of one or more network infrastructures. The testing system may automatically reconfigure one or more devices within a network infrastructure and then conduct testing on the newly configured network infrastructure. Test results may be used to diagnose network anomalies and to compare performance or... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20090182871 - Backup paging for wireless communication: A backup page is provided for a node that misses a page. In some aspects, a first type of access point in a system provides a backup page for an access terminal that is idling on a second of access point in the system in the event the access terminal... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated Patent Department/central Administration

20090182863 - Centralized social network response tracking: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to response subscriptions and provide a method, system and computer program product for centralized response tracking across social networks. In one embodiment of the invention, a social networking response tracking method can be provided. The method can include... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090182872 - Method and apparatus for detecting events indicative of inappropriate activity in an online community: A method of detecting events in a computer-implemented online community includes providing a computer-implemented event processor, providing the computer-implemented event processor with a description of at least one event to be detected, automatically analyzing messages of the online community with the computer-implemented event processor to detect the at least one... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20090182864 - Method and apparatus for fingerprinting systems and operating systems in a network: A system and method for identifying the number of computer hosts and types of operating systems behind a network address translation is provided. The method includes processing an internet protocol packet associated with the host computer system. The process may involve capturing the internet protocol packet and extracting key fields... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090182867 - Method and apparatus for identifying a packet: A system and method for identifying target packets in a network. The invention identifies packets by computing a hash value over at least a portion of a packet passing through a network device such as a router. The hash value is used as an address, or index, into a memory.... Agent: Chris Edgeworth Stragent

20090182870 - Method and communication system for managing a communication network: Communication networks are automatically tested from a superordinate producer-independently managing network management center, such as when subordinate, producer-specific operation and maintenance centers (OMCs) are not occupied. Producer-dependent information is transmitted when an alarm report is sent and producer-specific hardware tests are automatically generated in the network management center (NMC). It... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090182873 - Method and system for monitoring online computer network behavior and creating online behavior profiles: A method and system for monitoring users on one or more computer networks, disassociating personally identifiable information from the collected data, and storing it in a database so that the privacy of the users is protected. The system receives a user identifier and uses it to creates an anonymized identifier,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090182866 - Method of setting and managing performance monitoring conditions and computer system using the method: In order to change a policy while alarm-monitoring a production environment, during a production-environment operation, a method of controlling a computer system is provided, in which a policy is temporarily changed, thereby performing setting change. An agent transmits a monitoring result based on a first monitoring condition. A management unit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090182875 - Monitoring apparatus, processing method, program for implementing the processing method, and management apparatus, management method, and program for implementing the management method: There is provided a monitoring apparatus which is capable of efficiently notifying an external host of completion of installation of the monitoring apparatus for image forming apparatuses, and completion of operations carried out for the image forming apparatuses. The monitoring apparatus is connected to a management apparatus for communication therewith.... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090182862 - Optimization for wireless access point management: In one embodiment, wireless access point management is optimized. The data bandwidth and/or processing requirements for data indicating operation of the access point is baselined. For example, air quality or interference measurements are made at the access point on a regular basis. The interference measurements over one or more periods,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090182865 - Smart component monitoring: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that automatic discovers and monitors enterprise components. During operation, the system scans an enterprise environment for an item of meta-data. Next, the system analyzes the item of meta-data to determine a monitoring instruction for a corresponding enterprise component. Finally, the system... Agent: Pvf -- Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090182869 - Viewing effect measuring system, and measuring method and measuring terminal thereof: A viewing effect measuring system is provided. A user terminal performs a content output process for receiving content from a content delivery apparatus and outputting the content, a Web site displaying process for accepting a request to access a Web site, while the content are outputted, accessing the Web site... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090182876 - Data transmitting/receiving method: Provided is a data transmitting/receiving method as follows. A server device receives management data which includes matching information for making a judgment of validity and which is transmitted from a terminal. The server device judges whether or not the matching information included in the received management data is valid. If... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20090182877 - Ineligible group member status: A computing system group member, signal bearing medium, and method. A configuration of a computing system group member is determined to be able to assume a role of a primary member of the computing system group and, in response thereto, a first status is assigned in the member. All members... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090182878 - Devices, methods, and computer program products for real-time resource capacity management: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a network element device, wherein the device monitors and reports any changes to the availability status its internal resources. As such, the network element device supports the real-time capacity management of a networked managements system, wherein no polling information is required to... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090182879 - Method for the central control of resources in expandable medical platforms: A method of at least one embodiment uses a central instance for receiving all orders within the platform. A meta interface regulates the assignment of resources to orders. In addition, in at least one embodiment, each order is performed by at least one process handler. This assures the deadlock-free use... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090182880 - System and method to synthesize custom metric attributes from available mbean attributes on an application server: A system and method for synthesizing custom metric attributes from available attributes. The system includes an application server that exposes available metric attributes of a MBean. A network console displays for selection the metric attributes of the MBean on a navigation tree and a view panel is located on the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090182882 - Method for transmitting data from and to a control device: A method is described for signaling a connection request between data processing devices, in which a connection call is transmitted by broadcast, the connection call calling at least one data terminal to set up, via a radio network, a connection suitable for transmitting the data.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090182881 - Network communication device and internet protocol session distributing method: A network communication device establishes a communication connection between a terminal device and an electronic communication network. The network communication device includes a database module, a transceiving module, a determining module, and a connection determining module. The database module stores a plurality of internet protocol (IP) sessions, a maximum number... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090182884 - Domain name resolution making ip address selections in response to connection status when multiple connections are present: Methods, configured storage media, and systems are provided for resolving domain names into IP addresses in a path-sensitive manner, namely, a manner that may consider information about a link to a server and/or information about routers and other path components. The IP addresses given in response to domain name resolution... Agent: Ogilvie Law Firm

20090182883 - Policy control and charging (pcc) rules based on mobility protocol: Techniques for supporting policy control and charging (PCC) functions in a wireless communication network are described. In one design, a Policy Control and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) may receive a request from a first network entity (e.g., a home agent) to establish a PCC session for a user equipment (UE)... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090182885 - System and method for interactively delivering expert information to remote outlets: A networked interactive expert system is disclosed for selectively providing relevant expertise when a user requires such assistance. System provides a set of networked facilities for determining an expertise needed by a customer based on a location. Such location can be either physical or logical. A physical “location” corresponds, for... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090182886 - Delivery and display of information over a digital broadcast network: A digital broadcast network is disclosed that can provide information at different frequency repetition rates in order to mitigate delay of information at a receiving device. A data stream can be divided into sets of data and depending on how each set of data will be consumed by a user,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090182887 - Data transmission and writing method using multicast data flows: A data transmission and writing method using multicast data flows is used for performing data transmission and writing operation of a mirror file on one or more client computers simultaneously by multicast data flows sent from various servers, in a network system architecture having a plurality of client computers and... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090182890 - Information communication: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for imparting information. In general, one or more aspects of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in one or more methods that include receiving (e.g., in a peer-to-peer network) multiple sets of numerical residuals generated in accordance... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090182891 - Interactive data stream: The present invention is geared generally towards the transmission of data, such as images, audio, video, or text, as a continuous stream via a network to recipients. In particular, the present invention relates to enabling the transmission of data to recipients and enabling the recipients to interact and influence the... Agent: Greg Clary

20090182888 - Source updating for streaming based servers: A method includes the steps of: detecting a request from a client to restart a streamed multimedia presentation from a new starting point; determining if an update to a source file of the streamed multimedia presentation is available; if the update is available: closing the source file, opening the update,... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20090182889 - System and method of managing multiple video players: A system and method are provided for managing multiple video players executing on a client software platform. The method includes the operation of displaying a plurality of video players viewable by an end user. Each video player can have at least one video data stream supplied over a data network.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090182892 - Method and system for device property for specification of vendor specific protocol features: One or more vendor extensions that may be communicated to and/or from a device that may communicate via media transfer protocol (MTP) may be specified within an extension of the MTP. The vendor extension may comprise vendor specific information such as proprietary supported features. Vendor extensions may be indicated as... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090182893 - Cache coherence in a virtual machine managed system: A method, a system, and computer readable program code for managing cache coherence in a virtual machine managed system are provided. In response to a processor issuing a message to be broadcast, a determination is made as to whether the processor is part of a virtual domain. In response to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090182894 - Dynamic path computation element load balancing with backup path computation elements: In one embodiment, a first path computation element (PCE) operates between first and second network domains, and is adapted to service requests from path computation clients (PCCs) in at least the first domain. In response to a backup event (e.g., failure of a second PCE), a backup PCE in the... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090182895 - Handheld computer system that attempts to establish an alternative network link upon failing to establish a requested network link: A computer system that attempts to establish an alternative network link upon failing to establish a requested network link is described. The computer system may encounter conditions where access to numerous networks, in particular wireless networks, is not available. Rather than only providing an error message to the user upon... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20090182896 - Various methods and apparatuses for a route server: A method, apparatus, and system are described for a route server that connects network users to network providers. The route server may connect to network elements, including routers, from a plurality of Internet network service providers (ISP) to the network elements of a plurality of users through the route server.... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP.

20090182897 - Method and apparatus that provides targeted http deliveries for users within a private network: The present invention enables a NSP to customize content to any number of user profiles, instances, browsers or computers including systems that are located behind a NAT network. It solves the persistent issues that multiple users and NAT networks present to the NSP who does not have view into the... Agent: Robroy R Fawcett

20090182898 - System for tracking domain name related reputation: Systems and methods of the present invention allow for tracking of domain name related reputation by a domain name Registering Entity (e.g. Registry, Registrar, etc.). In a preferred embodiment, the Registering Entity maintains a database with reputation data that can be accessed by the requesters. The Registering Entity may update... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20090182899 - Methods and apparatus relating to wire formats for sql server environments: Systems and methods are provided, wherein the method includes retrieving and/or storing one or more data types representative of a selected date and/or time value from a server to a client in a server/client SQL environment using a selected wire format. Another aspect provides apparatus including a SQL server, a... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090182900 - Network adapter with shared database for message context information: A network interface adapter includes a network interface and a client interface, for coupling to a client device so as to receive from the client device work requests to send messages over the network using a plurality of transport service instances. Message processing circuitry, coupled between the network interface and... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090177727 - Evaluation of current capacity levels of resources in a distributed computing system: In general, this disclosure describes techniques of managing resources in a service-oriented distributed computing system. As described in this disclosure, a control node automatically manages the system such that the system has sufficient capacity to satisfy an agreement to provide a given level of a service. In order to automatically... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20090177728 - Peer-to-peer indexing-based marketplace: The system implements user authentication and user-level access control to data and indexes, so that users can transparently manage and share their resources from any location on the network, even when the data for a single user resides on multiple devices. End users drive the software by means of a... Agent: William M. Pottenger

20090177729 - Managing watcher information in a distributed server environment: A system for managing watcher information in a distributed server environment, including a watcher information database configured to store records, any of the records populated by a watcher identifier, a presentity identifier, a list of unique identifiers of a plurality of subscriptions by the watcher, a watcher state field indicating... Agent: Sughrue Mion PLLC Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20090177730 - System and method for determining device location in an ip-based wireless telecommunications network: A system and method determines a geographic position of a mobile device in communication with an IP-based wireless telecommunications network. A wireless connection between the mobile device and the IP-based wireless telecommunications network is established when the mobile device registers with a network controller (NC) through an access point (AP).... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090177733 - Client application localization: A method for application localization support on Web applications includes retrieving a locale database from a server, translating text strings using the locale database and optionally a locale electronic translation dictionary, and formatting text strings using format strings retrieved from the locale database. The method also includes the extraction of... Agent: Albert Talker

20090177737 - Devices and method for invocation of a sequence of web services by means of a single request based message: A method consists, when N web services need to be invoked sequentially for a communication equipment (T1), in generating a dedicated message containing requests relative to these N web services, and in transmitting this dedicated message to a server (S1) in order it analyzes the requests it contains, and then... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090177732 - Method and system for automated and configurable remote cache refreshes: A method and system for enhancing the download of a webpage to a mobile communication device or other type of networked device. The system comprises a module for retrieving a designated webpage from a web server. The system includes a cache for storing a copy of the retrieved webpage and... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP

20090177741 - Method, system and device for subscribing to a service: The present invention provides a service subscription method including: transmitting, by a service user terminal, a request for subscribing to a service to a subscription management server, the request including a service ID; obtaining, by the subscription management server, permission to subscribe to the service for the service user terminal... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090177739 - Methods and systems for supporting the production of shipping labels: Methods and systems for supporting the production of shipping labels are provided. Example embodiments provide a Shipment Management System (“SSMS”), which facilitates the production of shipping labels. The SMS may be configured to generate a shipping uniform resource identifier (“URI”) that identifies a shipping protocol and includes shipment information and... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090177742 - Methods and systems employing digital content: The presently claimed invention relates to methods and system employing digital content. One claim recites a method including: receiving indentifying data from a remotely located handheld device, the remotely located handheld device utilizing a multi-purpose electronic processor to extract the identifying data from data representing audible portions of an audio... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090177734 - Network operating system: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090177740 - System and method for software license management for concurrent license management and issuance: The present invention is a method and system for software license management. The License Management System (LMS) is comprised of three components. These three components are the License Client (LC), the License Server (LS) and the Network License Manager (NLM). For the system to function the LC and LS are... Agent: White-welker & Welker, LLC

20090177736 - Systems and methods for outputting updated media: The operation of the enabled device can allow the message to be delivered to the user as the result of some action in regards to enabled device usage. Selective delivery can be activated upon enabled device power up, by coming out of a low power “sleep” mode, by going into... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090177735 - Unified communications systems and methods: Systems and methods for providing digital content are disclosed through a universal medial connection API, which include registering an application to be used during a session, loading policies to be used during the session, and identifying hardware features to be used during the session. These systems and methods also include... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090177731 - Virtual state machine for managing operation requests in a client server environment: A method of managing operations performed in a client-server environment comprises receiving a set of commands; executing a first command in the set, wherein the first command is associated with a second command; and executing the second command, in response to determining that a first event has occurred.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090177738 - Wireless communication system for communication of audio data: At a client, when first time data received from a server prior to continuous transmission of audio data of the server is set at a second timer, the second timer initiates time-counting from the set first time data. Accordingly, during the subsequent continuous transfer period of audio data, the timers... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c Citigroup Center

20090177743 - Device, method and computer program product for cluster based conferencing: A method and computer program product for conferencing, the method includes: electing a cluster leader node out of multiple nodes that participate in a conference; monitoring, by the cluster leader node and at least by one other node, a connectivity status of the nodes; recording conference content during at least... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090177744 - Identifying and employing social network relationships: Methods and apparatus are described for detecting social relationships across multiple networks and/or communication channels. These social relationships may then be utilized in a wide variety of ways to support and enhance a broad range of user services.... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090177745 - System and method for delivery of augmented messages: The disclosure describes systems and methods delivering communications associated with delivery conditions in which the occurrence of the delivery condition is determined by monitoring information received from a plurality of sources via multiple communication channels. The message delivery systems allow messages to be delivered to any “Who, What, When, Where”... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090177751 - Mail transmission method: A mail server unit receives an electronic mail sent by a mail sender, the mail being received via a mailer of a terminal of the mail sender, sets a browsing privilege for an attachment of the mail and encrypts the attachment, controls the browsing privilege for the attachment, executes error... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090177747 - Mailing list expansion trace: A method is disclosed for providing a trace of mailing list expansion performed on an electronic message delivered to an electronic mailing list. The method comprises receiving an electronic message addressed to an electronic mailing list having a set of recipients; inserting an informational header line in a message header... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20090177754 - Presentation of organized personal and public data using communication mediums: Systems, methods and computer program products for providing information associated with an attachment (e.g., attachment received through an instant message system, online collaboration tool, electronic message and the like). A sidebar may allow a user to view comprehensive profile and content information associated with the attachment using an attachment information... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090177753 - Retained publish/subscribe system: Disclosed is a method comprising steps of: a broker software application receiving a first published message on a topic from a publisher application and storing the first published message in a local storage location along with an indicator which indicates that the first published message originated from a publisher application... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090177749 - Status and time-based delivery services for instant messengers: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to unattended status and time-based messaging in an instant messaging (IM) environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for unattended status and time-based messaging in an instant messaging (IM) environment. In an embodiment of the... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090177748 - System and method for automatic opportunistic data and image sharing: A system for requesting data from another includes means for automatically appending a request for certain information to an outgoing message. In one embodiment, an e-mail editor includes an on-screen “radio button” for causing a request for missing contact information to be appended to the message being composed. The system... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20090177752 - System and method for processing user input: Systems and methods for processing user input are provided. In one example method, a method for accepting at least one contact identifier as input data in a social networking system is disclosed. The method comprises: providing a text box to a first account holder, the text box enabling the first... Agent: Lech Law, LLC

20090177746 - Terminal managing method, terminal managing apparatus, and mobile communication terminal: Data indicating information relating to a mobile communication terminal is sent from the mobile communication terminal at a designated opportunity and the status of the mobile communication terminal is managed by a server apparatus. An AP managing server 500 sends to a mobile telephone device 600 an identifier indicating a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090177750 - Text-based communication control for personal communication device: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for enabling a user to control the content of text-based messages sent to or received from an administered device. In some embodiments, a message will be blocked (incoming or outgoing) if the message includes forbidden content. In other embodiments, the objectionable content is removed... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090177755 - Script serving apparatus and method: A computer system comprising a processor operably connected to a memory device. The memory device stores an application providing functionality and a plug-in augmenting that functionality. In selected embodiments, the plug-in includes a request module configured to generate a request for a script, a communication module configured to contact a... Agent: Warren M Pate Warren M. Pate, LLC

20090177756 - Multiple network shared disk servers: A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product access data on an information processing system. The information processing system includes a plurality of Network Shared Disk servers and at least one set of Network Shared Disks. Each of the Network Shared Disks is served by at least one... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090177759 - Base station apparatus for distributing contents and terminal apparatus for receiving the contents: A content transmitter distributes contents. An update information management unit manages update information on the update of the contents distributed by the content transmitter. An identifier generator generates notifying identifiers containing the update information managed by the update information management unit. The update information contains the update time of each... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090177760 - Data distribution network: A data distribution network or system is provided that distributes digital data of any type, but in particular is configured to efficiently distribute digital data for media content titles. The network comprises a data center configured to generate one or more data streams carrying digital media content tiles for transmission... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090177761 - Light weight portal proxy: A method for accessing locally stored data at a client site via a network request issued by a client browser of a user includes, with a proxy component at the client site, integrating the locally stored data into a placeholder portlet; and providing the portlet including the locally stored data... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090177757 - System for content-based peer-to-peer indexing of data on a networked storage device: The storage device stores its data by means of a file system. The software executes either on co-processing hardware within the storage device enclosure or on some other device on the network. The indexing portion of the software performs topic-based categorization by means of a higher-order path analysis algorithm, which... Agent: William M. Pottenger

20090177758 - Systems and methods for determining attributes of media items accessed via a personal media broadcaster: Systems, devices and methods are described for determining attributes identifying media items from other media items. A first video sequence of a first media item is received from a media source, the video sequence including one or more images having first banner information embedded therein. The attributes of the first... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (es)

20090177762 - Network device, network system, ipv6 address assigning method, and network device managing method: To explicitly identify network devices without providing a database server using an IPv6 address. An IPv6 address for address management on a network is set in a network device connected to an IPv6 network and the network device keeps and maintains the address. An interface ID 12 of the IPv6... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090177763 - Data restore device and system and method for restoring configuration data: The invention provides a convenient and rapid concurrent manner to restore a group of target devices. Restore configuration data from a source device is transferred to the group of target devices by a data restore device over a network. The data restore device instructs each target device to partially cover... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090177764 - Method, apparatus and system for modulating an application based on proximity: A method, system and apparatus for modulating an application associated with at least one of a first communication device and a second communication device is provided. Proximity between the first communication device and the second communication device is determined. The application associated with at least one of the first communication... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20090177765 - Systems and methods of packet object database management: The present disclosure generally provides systems and methods of packet object database management. The database management system includes a database server designed specifically to process binary network packet data. The database server is associated with a parser, query engine, retrieval engine, virtual machine, data manger, and file processor. The database... Agent: Cash Klemchuk Powers Taylor LLP

20090177769 - Determining online status of a medical device: Methods and systems of patient treatment are disclosed. The methods and systems include use of medical device informatics to modify and validate therapies and drugs used in those therapies. In certain embodiments, a medical device, such as a medical infusion pump, interfaces with a server to administer the patient treatments.... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090177770 - Domain managing method, domain extending method and reference point controller electing method: A method of managing a domain, a method of extending a domain, and a method of selecting a reference point controller are provided. The method of operating the domain includes: receiving a request for authenticating a reference point controller from a reference point controller candidate; invalidating a membership of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090177767 - Local web server based controller: A system for monitoring parameters related to a product in a storage tank is provided. The system includes a monitor operably coupled to the storage tank, an internet protocol (IP) enabled electronic device, and an internet protocol enabled controller. The controller is in communication with the monitor and the electronic... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C.

20090177771 - Method and apparatus for internet traffic monitoring by third parties using monitoring implements: Disclosed is an internet traffic monitoring method. In the method, a first packet, sent from a user client, having a web content request meeting certain monitoring selection criteria is detected. Upon detection of the first packet, a second packet is forwarded to the user client. The second packet has a... Agent: Robroy R Fawcett

20090177772 - Method, system and device for establishing a peer to peer connection in a p2p network: A method and system for establishing a peer to peer connection in a P2P network and a peer device in the P2P network, wherein the method comprises of the following: (1) a management node in the P2P network receives a resource request; (2) the management node selects one or more... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090177766 - Remote active window sensing and reporting feature: A system and method is provided for remote active window sensing of a display in a computing device and reporting of the same. The system includes a tool comprising a remote monitoring and reporting component configured to monitor active windows of one or more remote devices and provide a report... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090177768 - Systems, methods and computer program products for extracting port-level information of web services with flow-based network monitoring: Systems, methods, and computer program products for extracting port-level information of Web services with flow-based network monitoring. Exemplary embodiments include a method for extracting port-level information of Web services with flow-based network monitoring, the method including identifying a registry machine, coupling the registry machine to a traffic meter and flow... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090177773 - Determining policy follow-up action based on user-specified codes: A system, method and computer program product for determining policy follow-up action based on user-specified codes are set forth. When determining policy follow up action based upon user specified codes, a policy system receives function templates for permissible actions on a given resource type; each function template is annotated with... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Rsw

20090177774 - Network mass operation infrastructure: In various embodiments, a method for managing edge processors includes providing an interface that allows a user to define a network operation associated with a edge processor. A network operation is generated based on input received via the interface. An action defined by the network operation is then performed at... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090177775 - Interdependent capacity levels of resources in a distributed computing system: In general, this disclosure describes techniques of managing resources in a service-oriented distributed computing system. As described in this disclosure, a control node automatically manages the system such that the system has sufficient capacity to satisfy an agreement to provide a given level of a service. In order to automatically... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20090177777 - Machine-processable semantic description for resource management: A method and associated apparatus is provided for generating a machine-processable semantic description of a first manageable resource of an application domain. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the first manageable resource is characterized by a set of aspects. Accordingly, an ontology is provided for the application domain... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090177776 - Systems and methods for providing resource allocation in a networked environment: Methods and systems for allocating resources, such as computer controlled resources, in a networked system are described. In an example embodiment, a plurality of requests to select one or more resources are received from distributed computer systems over a network at a receiving computer system. The receiving computer system allocates... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090177780 - Method and apparatus for data processing: According to the present invention, a method and apparatus for data processing is provided for a data processing device comprising an auxiliary execution system, a main execution system, a switch unit and a networking unit. The method and apparatus according to the present invention are capable of establishing a networking... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090177779 - Methods and apparatus for randomization of periodic behavior in communication network: A technique for use in a client, wherein the client supports a state-based signaling protocol (e.g., Session Initiation Protocol or SIP), includes initiating a given session state between the client and a server that also supports the state-based signaling protocol, and refreshing the given session state in a randomized manner.... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090177778 - Session affinity cache and manager: A method and apparatus for managing sessions by a load balancer using a session affinity cache to manage common session identifiers and resource node session identifiers. A session affinity manager within the load balancer utilizes a common session identifier to represent multiple sessions to a client. The session affinity manager... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090177788 - Communication system, server, terminal, packet data transferring method, and program therefor: A communication system includes a plurality of terminals and a server that relays packet data transmitted and received between a first terminal and a second terminal among the plurality of terminals. The server includes a connection establishment message processing unit configured to transmit a first SYN ACK message that is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090177784 - End-point identifiers in sip: A system and method for uniquely identifying an SIP device extends the SIP communications protocol with an end point identifier, carried for example in the header of an SIP transmission. The end point identifier is useful for routing, registration, subscription, and authentication. The end point (device) of a given user... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090177785 - Fast handover using sip: A method of handling a data stream during a handover in a communications network comprising a first user agent having a fixed address, a proxy server and a second user agent, said method comprising the steps of: mapping at the proxy server the fixed address with a dynamic network address... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090177781 - Methods and systems for communicating with storage systems using slim ip stacks: Methods, and associated devices, media, and systems, for establishing a communication link between a host system and a storage device are provided. Such a method includes the steps of: providing a communication stack having only an application layer and a physical layer; and establishing a communication channel between a host... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20090177786 - Network device, address change notification method, and address change notification program: A network device includes a storage unit configured to store an IP address assigned to the network device as an address to be sent to a plurality of domain name servers in which an address-domain mapping relationship between the IP address and a domain name of the network device is... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090177783 - Pairing and storage access scheme between a handheld device and a computing system: A method is described that involves detecting the presence of a pairing partner. Prior to establishing a paired relationship with the pairing partner, a user is prompted to verify himself/herself. In response to the user properly verifying himself/herself, the paring partner is paired with. The pairing includes invoking a remote... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090177787 - Server, and packet transferring method and program therefor: A server that relays packet data transmitted and received between a first terminal and a second terminal among plurality of terminals, includes a transfer table storing unit configured to store a transfer table in which a connection address pair, includes a first connection address and a second connection address, is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090177782 - System and method for associating communication devices: A system and method of associating at least two communication devices is provided. First information identifying a first communication device and second information identifying a second communication device is received via a link layer protocol over a data network. It is determined if the first communication device and the second... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20090177790 - Configuration of a peer group: Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for configuring computing devices to join a peer group. A peer group may be created on a subnetwork by a computing device. When a new computing device enters the subnetwork, it may join the peer group and be given access... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090177791 - Remote device communication platform user interface: Enabling a user interface (UI) for management of a host device from a client device. A connection is established between the host device and the client device via a web portal. The host device and the client device are without a host management software installed thereon. A content window is... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090177789 - System and method for communicating with tools in a closed, secure production network: A system and method for providing connectivity to a closed, secure production network, and computer program products for executing the same and, more particularly, to a system and method for securely communicating with remote tools. The system comprises a self-configuring server configured to create separate, isolated networks for a vendor... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090177793 - Method and system for content distribution: A centralized distribution server includes converter means for embedding content data into a digital delivery stream and transmitting means for transmitting the digital delivery stream to at least one of the subscriber terminals via a forward network channel. The at least one subscriber terminal includes receiving means for receiving the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090177792 - Performance aware peer-to-peer content-on-demand: A method is described including receiving a streamed leading content sub-clip, determining a set of needed content sub-clips, locating one of the set of needed content sub-clips and downloading the located content sub-clip. A system for providing content-on-demand is described having a peer, a server and a tracker. The tracker... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090177794 - Subscriber driven media agnostic content delivery across networks: A system and method is provided to facilitate subscriber driven media agnostic content delivery across same or different networks. The method includes receiving preferences from a sending client and a receiving client and receiving content of a first media type over a network. The method further includes sending the content... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090177796 - Method and device for diversion of messages on a mobile terminal: A method and a device divert messages of a terminal, in particular, a mobile terminal from a first network provider connected to an access network by a gateway node of a second network provider. Network access identifiers are provided in the exchanged messages, made up of a character string for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090177795 - Method for routing user inputs between applications: A method is set forth for routing user inputs from a PC to at least one embedded system over a network, comprising configuring at least one hotkey combination within the PC that maps to the at least one embedded system, upon receipt of the at least one hotkey combination capturing... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20090177797 - Client device identification when communicating through a network address translator device: Enabling a host system to communicate with and to identify at least one client device that communicates with the host system through a network address translator device includes enabling communications from a first client device through the network address translator device. A data packet is received that includes a payload... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090177798 - Data distribution using dns: A method for distributing data includes selecting for transmission to a client a plurality of data items from a data set. The selected data items are encapsulated in multiple CNAME-type resource records, each such resource record containing an artificial domain name including one or more of the data items. The... Agent: D. Kligler I.p. Services Ltd

20090177799 - Low complexity compression of short messages: The present invention relates to a method for data communication, where the data compression and decompression is performed by use of a specific hash table, by which data compression a symbol for each data segment is generated, which symbols are transmitted to the receiver, in which receiver the symbols are... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090177800 - System and method for client synchronization for a communication device: A system and method for synchronizing data between a communication device and a server, through an agent installed on the device.... Agent: Dr. D. Graeser Ltd.

20090177802 - Service network system and server device: A server device that represents a plurality of service provision servers implements authentication and a SIP message exchange with respect to a SIP server as a representative, and notifies a service provision server of client communication information that is acquired by the SIP message exchange. The service provision server communicates... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090177801 - System and method for detecting free and open wireless networks: A system, method, and program product is provided that passively detects the existence of wireless networks in proximity to a wireless signal detector. A determination is made as to whether the detected wireless networks are encrypted or unencrypted. For those wireless networks that are unencrypted, a restriction level that applies... Agent: Lenovo - Jvl C/o Vanleeuwen & Vanleeuwen

20090172075 - Relay server and relay communication system: A process of automatically transferring a file can be performed via an external network without using a VPN. A plurality of client terminals is separately connected with a relay server and can share a resource. The client terminal monitors the addition of a resource to a specified transfer source folder.... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20090172072 - Remote viewing of documents via the web in real-time: The present invention offers a component that enables the presenter to begin presenting the first pages of the document as they become available, without having to wait on the entire document to be processed. The present invention provides an approach that is used to monitor document processing as it taking... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090172074 - System and method for reading a web feed that represents multiple related objects: A method and computer program product for receiving, on a remote device, a data feed that includes a plurality of feed entries. The feed entries are processed to identify one or more page entries. The feed entries are processed to identify one or more object entries. At least a first... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090172073 - System and method for representation of multiple related objects within a web feed: A method and computer program product for processing a data page to be provided to one or more remote devices via a data feed. A determination is made concerning whether the data page includes two or more data objects. If the data page includes two or more data objects, a... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090172077 - 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

20090172076 - Community information and news flow network: A system is described that provides a localized community information and news flow network. Devices are employed throughout a community to input news and information and automatically (or in an automated fashion) send the information to one or more predetermined locations. Once the data has been stored, the information is... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C.

20090172079 - Method, computer system, and computer readable medium for sending messages from a mobile device via a host system transparently: A system including a rate governor is provided for monitoring and controlling the amount of communications between a remote communication unit (201) and communication server (220). Preferably, as threshold are passed a user is alerted to amounts (time and/or charges) spent or remaining, and once a use limit is reached... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090172078 - Network operating system: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090172094 - Connection pool and prepared statement cache: An improved resource pool is provided that provides for dynamic configuration and is comprised of code that is configured to be used for different subsystems, including JDBC, Connector, and JMS subsystems. Pool maintenance, resource object creation and timeout, multiple deque management, and pool state transition features are provided. An application... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090172084 - Facilitating a user of a client system to continue with submission of additional requests when an application framework processes prior requests: A computing system in which a user of a client system can continue with submission of an additional request while an application framework processes prior requests. In an embodiment, when a request is received, the resource requirements for processing the request are determined. If the resource requirements exceed a threshold,... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20090172080 - Incremental downlink of flight information: A method for providing flight information to a ground server is provided. The flight information is received from an aircraft system. The flight information is converted into a graphical representation and a plurality of properties associated with the flight information. The graphical representation and the plurality of properties is stored.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090172090 - Information display system and method: The invention disclosed herein is directed to a system and method for displaying graphics, text, animation, video and other content. In one embodiment of the invention, the system comprises a three-dimensional “Display Carousel” system. The system may include one or more display windows, each of which is capable of displaying... Agent: Dilworth Paxson LLP

20090172085 - Network operating system: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090172086 - Network operating system: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090172087 - Network operating system: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090172088 - Network video/audio browsing system and browsing method thereof: A network browsing method is provided for browsing video/audio data shot by an IP camera. A local computer is coupled to a LAN (local area network) to detect the IP camera. The network browsing method includes the steps of: executing an application program by the local computer to obtain an... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090172083 - Personal video network: The invention is a personal wireless network that generally comprises at least a lightweight wireless client to send and receive audio and video from another system component. The personal wireless network also provides a wireless-enabled routing component, which stands alone to route traffic within the personal wireless network. Also provided... Agent: Docket Clerk

20090172082 - Software as a service in a peer-to-peer environment: A method and system are disclosed. In one embodiment the method includes populating a software as a service (SaaS) application lookup table on a first computer system on a network with a first categorized set of pointers. Each pointer includes one or more storage locations within one or more peer... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090172091 - System and method for implementing click-through for browser executed software including ad proxy and proxy cookie caching: An improved proxy is disclosed for allowing click-through on an ad URL delivered on a web page within a Java® applet executing on a client machine. The proxy caches cookie information for the browser, to support java applications that do not allow for planting of cookies directly. When the user... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20090172081 - System and method for incorporating social networking maps in collaboration tooling and devices: A system and method for incorporating social networking maps in collaboration tools is presented. A user creates rules that are based upon the user's relationship with other users and provides the rules to a network server. The network server uses these rules when the network server receives a relational request... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20090172092 - System and method for providing service: A system comprises a service anchor apparatus having a unit configured to hold an original of an application program for providing a service; an end-user accommodation apparatus having a unit configured to connect with a terminal of an end user; and a relay apparatus located on a route between the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090172093 - Technique for previously providing estimate of time required for processing: Provided is a client device communicating with a server device, the client device including: a display section for displaying a page including at least one display object on a screen; a transmitting section for transmitting a processing request to the server device in response to an event where the display... Agent: Bond Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20090172089 - Virtual space system, method and program: In a virtual space including a plurality of islands, location of the islands is mapped in two dimensions, preferably using multidimensional scaling such as Kruskal method, to keep the order of the distances between the feature vector including the information of profile and preference of the user and the feature... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20090172098 - Automatic rating system using background audio cues: Methods and systems for capturing, transmitting and processing data for generating ratings relating to multimedia programming based on passively obtained user cues are disclosed herein.... Agent: At& T Legal Department - Monka Attn: Patent Docketing

20090172096 - Detecting exceptions for collaborative object addressing: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to distribution list management for a collaborative object and provide a method, system and computer program product for detecting exceptions for collaborative object addressing in a collaborative computing environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090172099 - Freight backbone messaging architecture: A messaging architecture extends the communication capability of complex systems in existing enterprises. The architecture implements sophisticated messaging capability between typically disparate order management and shipping systems. As a result, the messaging architecture greatly streamlines order processing and shipping, increases productivity, increases system uptime and provides a baseline solution for... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090172095 - Optimizing conferencing performance: Optimized conferencing performance may be provided. First, a plurality of data streams respectively received from a plurality of conferencing users may be monitored. Then, for each of the plurality of conferencing users, a plurality of talk frequency conditions respectively corresponding to the plurality of conferencing users may be determined based... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090172097 - System and method for managing calendaring events: An indication of a meeting being scheduled between a plurality of attendees is received. A first one of the attendees is designated an owner of the meeting. Ownership privileges for the meeting are associated with at least a second one of the meeting attendees. The ownership privileges associated with at... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090172100 - Deriving and communicating attention spans in collaborative applications: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to collaborative computing and provide a method, system and computer program product for deriving and communicating attention spans in a collaborative computing environment. In an embodiment of the invention, an attention span management method can be provided for... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090172101 - Gesture-based collaboration: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090172118 - Conditional communication: Conditional communication settings may be defined by a user of a communications device to be transmitted with a communication to a receiving device, where the receiving device may be restricted from performing a user-specified type of communication operations with a user-specified contact until the conditional communication settings are satisfied. The... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20090172103 - Event based instant messaging notification: A message is received in a device, the message is analyzed to determine a type of a content of the message, and a notification is provided to a user of the device, the notification being dependent on the type of message.... Agent: Perman & Green

20090172121 - Information processing system, e-mail transmission control apparatus, information processing method and program: In an information processing system which includes a transmitter terminal and an E-mail transmission control apparatus, the transmitter terminal sets an application classification of an E-mail to be transmitted, and transmits the E-mail to which the set application classification has been added, to the E-mail transmission control apparatus. Further, the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090172112 - Instant messaging based social introductions: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant messenger based social introductions. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for instant messaging based social introductions can be provided. The method can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090172111 - Instant messaging transcript sharing for added participants to an instant messaging session: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant messaging transcript sharing for added participants to an instant messaging session. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for instant messaging transcript sharing... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090172104 - Instant messenger subset management: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant messenger subset management. In an embodiment of the invention, an instant messenger subset management method can be provided. The method can include selecting a... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090172116 - Maintaining communication continuity: On a client electronic device, a message in a first format configured to be communicated over a first communication channel. The message in the first format is modified, on the client electronic device, to form a message in a second format, in which the message in the second format is... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090172120 - Managing participants in an instant messaging meeting: There is disclosed a system and method for managing participants in an instant messaging meeting. In an embodiment, the method comprises: scheduling an instant messaging meeting in a calendar module; communicating information about the scheduled instant messaging meeting to an instant messaging module including information necessary to contact confirmed participants;... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20090172122 - Message transmission method, message transmission device, and storage medium recorded with message transmission program: Provided is a method of transmitting a message in a business process management system that includes a service execution device providing services and a business process management device. The business process management device executes a business process defined by combining the services, the business process includes a definition of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090172106 - Method and apparatus to facilitate provision and use of a media source bundle: One provides (101) a media source bundle (200) as pertains to a given subject matter of interest to at least one end user. This media source bundle can comprise, for example and at least in part, content source locations for each of a plurality of independent content sources that each... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20090172119 - Method for providing messaging using appropriate communication protocol: The invention relates to a low latency transport of an Internet message over a connection from an Internet message-sending node to an Internet Message-receiving node. Said Internet Message-sending node determines the size of the Internet message (40) and compares the size of with a pre-determined single-packet threshold (42). Thereafter, the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090172117 - Methods for using message queuing telemetry transport for sensor networks to support sleeping devices: Methods support a sleep mode for an embedded device. Embedded devices like sensors and actuators used in wireless sensor networks have a limited power supply. To conserve energy and thus increase the lifetime of these devices, the devices should be put into a stand-by mode (also called sleep-mode) when they... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090172115 - Name resolution in email: An email recipient input name is received. It is determined if the email recipient input name is ambiguous. If the email recipient input name is ambiguous, one or more employee attributes of a plurality of possible intended email recipients are compared with one or more employee attributes of an email... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090172102 - Processing electronic messages wirelessly sent to a vehicle: A processing system and method for controlling the distribution of certain types of electronic messages, such as SMS messages, instant messages, emails, etc., that are wirelessly sent to a vehicle. In one embodiment, a messaging application installed on a communication device diverts to a call center outgoing messages destined for... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20090172123 - Providing application-layer functionality between one or more database clients and one or more database servers: One embodiment includes a system providing application-layer functionality between one or more database clients and one or more database servers. The system includes one or more decoders residing at a decoding layer above a network layer. The decoders reside at a first network location between one or more database clients... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20090172107 - Proxy content for submitting web service data in the user's security context: A computer implemented method provides a web service to a client. A document request identifying a web service on a web service server is sent from the client to an application server. The document request is stored at a first location. The application server then sends a proxy document request... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090172105 - Roaming instant messaging: A computer-implemented method of instant messaging can include determining location information for at least one user of an instant messaging system, determining when the user is no longer proximate to a home instant messaging client, and determining when the user is proximate to a guest instant messaging client. The computer-implemented... Agent: Cuenot, Forsythe & Kim

20090172113 - System and method for client-side interruption management: A method and computer program product for determining that a user of a client electronic device is in do-not-interrupt mode. A message directed to the user is routed to a client-based storage queue for subsequent delivery.... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090172109 - System and method for enforcing single-threaded conversations: A method and computer program product for enforcing single threaded conversations includes defining a single threaded status for an email chain including one or more emails. If a received email belongs to the email chain, the single threaded status of the email chain is enforced.... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090172114 - System and method for server-side interruption management: A method and computer program product for determining that a user of a client electronic device is in do-not-interrupt mode. A message directed to the user is routed to a server-based storage queue for subsequent delivery.... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090172108 - Systems and methods for a telephone-accessible message communication system: Systems and methods are provided for providing voice access to an electronic-mail system. A voice command is received from a call-center user to compose an electronic-mail message. The call-center user is prompted to begin vocally recording an electronic-mail message. The electronic-mail system records the vocal message recited by the call... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090172110 - Systems and methods to identify internal and external email: A system may include reception of an internet electronic mail message, parsing of a header of the internet electronic mail message to identify zero or more routing devices from which the internet electronic mail message was received, and a determination to accept or to reject the internet electronic mail message... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090172124 - Method and apparatus of multimedia data sharing for a multimedia processing device: A method for sharing multimedia data in a multimedia processing device includes generating a web address corresponding to a remote multimedia device, and transmitting an indication message according to the web address for notifying the remote multimedia device to receive the web address.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090172125 - Method and system for migrating a computer environment across blade servers: A method and system for migrating a computer environment, such as a virtual machine, from a first blade server to a second blade server includes storing data generated by the first and second blade servers on a shared hard drive and transferring a logic unit number from the first blade... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg, LLP

20090172129 - Automatic multimedia upload for publishing data and multimedia content: Disclosed herein is a method and system for utilizing a digital data capture device in conjunction with a Bluetooth (BT) enabled mobile device for publishing data and multimedia content on one or more websites automatically or with minimal user intervention. A client application is provided on the BT enabled mobile... Agent: Ashok Tankha

20090172128 - Internet linking from audio and image content: An internet linking method includes providing plural-bit sampled values representing media content at a user's computer. This digital data is passed to a processing system, and an identifier of the media content derived from the sampled values is returned from that system. This derived identifier is used to index a... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20090172126 - System and method for providing controlled access to a funds dispensing device from external processors: Systems and methods for providing controlled access to value dispensing devices are described and in certain examples, systems including those for providing controlled access to a postage meter from multiple programs executing on an external collocated processor are described.... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc.

20090172127 - System and methods for recommending network content based upon social networking: A system, apparatus, and method for recommending network content based upon shared preferences among members of a social network is provided. The method can be a computer-implemented method that includes determining a membership of a user in at least one social network in response to the user accessing a communications... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090172131 - Emergency information system: A method and system for intelligently detecting an emergency situation through Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) notification and providing first responders with vital information to respond and mitigate the emergency situations comprising the following steps: acquiring subscriber information; storing the subscriber information electronically within an information company's secure server; linking... Agent: Vincent G. Lo Tempio

20090172132 - Method and system for providing image rich web pages from a computer system over a network: The present invention is related to a computer system that provides a web page to a requestor over a network. Aspects of the present invention include receiving by the computer system a request to access a web page and in response, determining whether a descriptor for the requested web page... Agent: Flashpoint Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20090172130 - Method of and apparatus for downloading data: A method of and apparatus for downloading data. The method includes: connecting the downloading apparatus to a server via a communication network and downloading data from the server; generating download information on the data downloading; when connection to the server is interrupted and the data downloading is discontinued, reconnecting the... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090172134 - Automated provisioning system: An automated provisioning system for provisioning a service or device in a communications network, which system comprises a listener (2) adapted to receive a request from a user and a driver adapted to control operation of the service or device. The driver supports a describe operation, which enumerates which operations... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20090172133 - Control points for controlling devices in a network: The present invention relates to a method for a control point of initiating actions on a device in a communication network comprising at least two control points both adapted to control said device. Further, the present invention relates to a method for a device of initiating actions on said device... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090172137 - Apparatus, system and method for configuration of adaptive integrated circuitry having heterogeneous computational elements: The present invention concerns configuration of a new category of integrated circuitry for adaptive or reconfigurable computing. The preferred adaptive computing engine (ACE) IC includes a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network. The plurality of heterogeneous computational elements include corresponding computational elements having fixed and differing... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20090172136 - Method and system for the distribution of configurations to client computers: A method for distributing computer configurations to at least one client from a server, comprising the following steps: Network-booting a first operating system for the clients from a server, automatically loading a virtual machine having an elective second operating system on the basis of the booted (first) operating system while... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090172135 - Pre-boot retrieval of an external boot file: Embodiments of methods for more securely booting an apparatus into an operational mode, using a boot file disposed in a network boot server are disclosed herein. In embodiments, the name and location of the boot file is placed into a storage location of a manageability engine of an apparatus. The... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, PC Pacwest Center

20090172139 - Balanced consistent hashing for distributed resource management: A method, system, computer-readable storage medium and apparatus for balanced and consistent placement of resource management responsibilities within a multi-computer environment, such as a cluster, that are both scalable and make efficient use of cluster resources are provided. Embodiments reduce the time that a cluster is unavailable due to redistribution... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090172144 - Id collection and management apparatus, method and program of computer: An ID collection and management apparatus which manages identifiers of computers in a computer system including said computers and a storage system which provides said computers with a storage volume, including: a first ID acquisition unit which acquires first IDs which are IDs of a data port for said computers... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090172143 - Information-processing apparatus and program thereof: An information-processing apparatus which is capable of transmitting device identifiers of devices connected with LANs to terminals without using a broadcast command is provided. A server is connected with a World Area Network. A managing terminal and printers are connected with a LAN. The server receives a device identifier of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090172145 - Integrated point of presence server network: A network of point of presence servers allows a customer to organize their web site by functions where functions are mapped into domain names. The functions have requirements that define what is needed by a server to satisfy the function. The domain names are mapped into resources or servers that... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090172140 - Network device: A Network Attached Storage Device (NAS) that is configured to receive at least one webfeed and display information derived from the webfeed on a display.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090172141 - Storage system and data management method in storage system: Provided is a storage center including a storage subsystem for storing content data to be used by the user's home server, and a center server for controlling the storage subsystem. The center server aggregates the content recording reservation requests sent from several home servers, obtains content data from a content... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090172142 - System and method for adding a standby computer into clustered computer system: There is provided a method of adding a new computer as a standby computer to a computer system that includes an active computer for performing service processing and a standby computer for storing replica of data stored in the active computer. The replica of the data stored in the standby... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090172138 - Using domain name service for identifying a home domain of a romaing device: A method, information processing system, and wireless communication network determine a domain name associated with at least one device for providing services to the at least one device in a network. A service request (604) that includes a unique identifier associated with at least one device (102) is received. A... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090172156 - Address security in a routed access network: In one embodiment, providing multi-layer address security incorporating Layer 2 Media Access Control (MAC) addresses and corresponding Layer 3 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for host machines on a routed access network is provided.... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090172147 - Balanced management of scalability and server loadability for internet protocol (ip) audio conferencing based upon monitored resource consumption: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to audio stream management in an audio conferencing server and provide a method, system and computer program product for balancing audio server loadability and audio server scalability based upon monitored resource consumption. In an embodiment of the invention,... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090172150 - Coordinated deep tagging of media content with community chat postings: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to deep tagging of media content and provide a method, system and computer program product for coordinating deep tagging of media content with chat postings. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for coordinating deep tagging of... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090172151 - Dynamic network configuration: In one embodiment, determining a default gateway of a network, determining a MAC address and an IP address associated with the default gateway of the network, updating a table of one or more MAC addresses and corresponding one or more IP addresses based on the detected MAC address and the... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090172153 - Heterogeneous two-phase commit test engine: A computer-implemented method, information processing system, and computer program storage product validate a two-phase commit process. First information is received that indicates a plurality of web services to be tested. Each of the web services are associated with a different resource manager. Second information is received that indicates a plurality... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090172146 - Media playlist construction for virtual environments: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for generating song playlists for use in an immersive virtual environment. Generally, playlists may be generated based on stored music preference data. The music preference data may be generated by storing user interactions with specific songs. The user interactions may be associated with characteristics... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090172158 - Memory management system and method for open platform: The present invention relates to a memory management system and method for open platform. The memory management system and method of the present invention utilizes the main spirit of sharing service in open platform. When the used memory in local open platform exceeds an upper limit, the standard service bundle... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090172157 - Method and device for content transmission on p2p network: This invention discloses a method and device for content transmission on P2P network, including: dividing the content into multiple blocks and mark each of them; dividing nodes participating in content transmission into at least two groups; selecting part or all members from the content-transmitting groups to participate in the distribution... Agent: GlobalIPServices

20090172148 - Method and system for monitoring and analyzing of ip networks elements: Exemplary embodiments include methods and systems for monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting of control plane dynamics of a network including collecting state data from the one or more routers of one or more protocols at discrete time intervals, the state data being associated with one or more routers of a network,... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090172155 - Method and system for monitoring, communicating, and handling a degraded enterprise information system: A system and method in accordance with the present invention provides a 3-phase commit client-server protocol that allows the EIS server to detect the sick-but-not-dead situations, identify the resources involved, determine its degraded level, take the actions if needed, and send out a degraded status information message to the client.... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090172154 - Method for autonomic detection and repair of broken links in web environments: A method for implementing autonomic detection and repair of broken links in Web environments includes receiving a request for additional Web content in a server in response to a link present in an originating Web content held on a host server; determining the present state of the received link; wherein... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090172149 - Real-time information technology environments: Real-time data of business applications of an Information Technology environment is monitored to obtain information to be used in managing the environment. A business application includes processing collectively performed by a plurality of components of the environment. A component includes one or more resources, and therefore, in one example, the... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090172152 - Real-time monitoring of a routing server: Calculating the roundtrip delay between first and second computers due to the latency of a routing server. The first computer receives an incoming message from the second computer via the routing server. The incoming message includes incoming time information indicative of processing time at the second computer and outgoing time... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090172159 - Web page link-tracking system: A link-tracking server receives a request for a Web page or an image and stores link-tracking information in one or more link-tracking files to create a record of link-tracking information. The link tracking files may later be accessed by a link-tracking subscriber, such as by logging onto the link-tracking server.... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090172160 - Loading of server-stored user profile data: One or more computer-implemented methods provided by computer-readable media for providing and loading user profile data from a server computer system to a client computer system may be used together with the server and client computer systems. The client computer system may be caused to initiate a login process for... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090172161 - System and methods for web-based interactive training content development, management, and distribution: System and methods for integrated web-based interactive training content development, management and distribution including a network for remote access by users to a content distribution server having privilege-based user access to content in at least one delivery format, wherein the content is stored on a content server in a format-neutral... Agent: Triangle Patents, P.l.l.c.

20090172164 - Data distribution system: A data distribution system can select paths easily with flexibility when paths are generated. In the data distribution system, a management device includes a node bandwidth information acquisition unit to acquire and hold information on data transmission-enabled bandwidth of each of the plurality of nodes on the network; a content... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090172165 - Information processing apparatus and information processing system: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a monitor module configured to control and simultaneously operate a plurality of software resources executed on the operating system on one hardware resource, one of the software resources is a server software resource operated as a server, a one of the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090172162 - Method of throttling unwanted network traffic on a server: The invention provides a method and device for limiting unwanted network traffic, including unwanted emails. The method proceeds by assigning at least one network address to a category of network addresses based on a level of trust of the network address. Connection resources are allocated to the category. When a... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20090172168 - Program, method, and apparatus for dynamically allocating servers to target system: Server management data describes observed operating condition of a pool of spare servers. Based on a demand forecast of a specific target system, a dynamic allocation period is determined as a period during which the target system needs additional server resources to handle an expected demand. Based on the dynamic... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090172166 - Relay server and relay communication system: A relay server can collectively copy a plurality of shared resources separately held by client terminals to a terminal that belongs to the relay server by performing a simple operation. The relay server includes a shared resource information registration unit. The shared resource information registration unit stores shared resource information... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20090172167 - System and method for a cdn balancing and sharing platform: A method for managing content distribution resources for a customer, including: providing a CDN (content distribution network) center for managing content distribution; providing a plurality of CDNs; providing content of the customer to be distributed; and selecting at least one of said plurality of CDNs for distributing the content by... Agent: Dr. D. Graeser Ltd.

20090172163 - Systems and methods of on-demand waking of computers: The invention is directed to systems and methods of on-demand waking of computers from a reduced power state, whether they are on standby, hibernating, or off. The invention may use multiple redundant proxies capable of receiving commands and waking computers within a broadcast domain to wake computers that may not... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20090172170 - Establishment of media sessions with media adaptation: The present invention relates to a method and terminal for reporting media format adaptation resources to convert a media format of a media stream of a media session to be established between terminals through a packet switched communications network towards a requesting terminal. The invention further relates to a method... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090172171 - Method and an apparatus for disguising digital content: A method for establishing a disguised communication session between communicating user terminals. The method comprises at a first communicating user terminal, providing data for a communication session with a second communicating user terminal, distributing the data among a plurality of proxy network nodes, and using the plurality of proxy network... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090172169 - Secure proxies for flat networks: A proxy is in communication with an internet protocol network and a mobile operator network. The proxy receives first communications from access points via the internet protocol network, transmits content from the first communications to the mobile operator network, receives second communications from the mobile operator network, and transmits content... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090172172 - Systems and methods for enabling peer-to-peer communication among visitors to a common website: In one aspect, a method for methods and systems for enabling peer-to-peer communication among visitors to a common website includes determining, by a server unaffiliated with a first URL, that a first computer is accessing the first URL via a first web browser. The method includes determining, by a server,... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090172175 - Data providing system and data providing apparatus: A data providing system is provided with a data providing apparatus, a data utilizing apparatus configured to be connected with the data providing apparatus in a communicable manner, and a communication apparatus configured to be connected with the data providing apparatus in a communicable manner. The data utilizing apparatus sends... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090172176 - Method and apparatus for filtering electronic messages: A method is provided for filtering electronic messages such as unsolicited bulk email. The method includes establishing a communications connection with the remote server under the Simple Email Transfer Protocol or other suitable protocol; accepting session data from the remote server; and determining if the session data meets criteria associated... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20090172173 - Method for the management of flows between appliances of a telecommunications network: This method is for managing flows between a first appliance and at least one second appliance, these appliances being designed to operate according to the so-called SIP protocol on a telecommunications network, wherein, the second appliance being preferably registered with the first appliance. The method comprises upon reception of a... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090172174 - System and method for multi-service access: A control and bearer separating system for the multi-service access includes: at least one access node for receiving the message of the user, separating the control flow and the service flow of the message, transmitting the control flow to the controller, and transmitting the service flow to the corresponding edge... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090172177 - System and method for data transmission: A data transmission system includes a sending device and a receiving device. The sending device includes an image receiving unit that indicates the order of reception of the blocks using version numbers, a first database for storing the version numbers of the blocks, a transmitting unit which transmits the blocks... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090172178 - Transmit scaling using multiple queues: According to some embodiments, it may be determined, at a first processing element of a device with a plurality of processing elements, that first data is to be transmitted in association with a first network connection. A first entry associated with the first data may then be stored into a... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090172180 - Apparatus and method for transmitting streaming services: Disclosed is a system and method for transmitting streaming services. The system may comprise a service agent having a service list. The service list records the contact addresses and priority for one or more nodes that can provide streaming services. The priority for a node represents the level that the... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090172181 - Multimedia data sharing system and method for most network: A multimedia data sharing system and method for a MOST network is disclosed. The system provides a service management module, a data link control module, and a protocol conversion module. The service management module provides state analysis and management for all services of the multimedia data sharing system and records... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20090172179 - Networked transmission system and method for stream data: Disclosed is a networked transmission system and method for stream data. The system comprises a network, a streaming server and an ordered series of a first up to n-th cooperative-sharing groups. There is a cooperative relationship among all users' terminals in a cooperative-sharing group. The streaming server provides a plurality... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090172182 - System and method for multimedia streaming service: A system and a method for a multimedia streaming service in a mobile communication device are provided for reducing power consumption. The mobile communication device determines a buffering size of a buffer according to characteristic information of the streams. The device receives the streams from the server, stores the streams... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090172183 - Management of networked resources on different platforms with a common interface: A system and method to manage networked resources from a central management node. The management node is exposed to a common web services interface for a plurality of managed nodes having different system stacks. The management node and the managed nodes employ a schema to encode arbitrary data corresponding to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090172184 - Tcp burst avoidance: A computer-implemented method including providing, at a first device, a packet scheduler layer between a network layer and a transport layer; receiving, at the packet scheduler layer, one or more transmission control protocol (TCP) packets from a sending layer on the first device, wherein the sending layer is one of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090172185 - Unified connector architecture: A system, device, and method are disclosed. In one embodiment the system includes a first host controller that utilizes a first protocol. The system also includes a second host controller that utilizes a second protocol. The system also includes a unified connector port. Finally, the system includes a router that... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090172188 - Fast path message transfer agent: A method of providing a fast path message transfer agent is provided. The method includes receiving bytes of a message over a network connection and determining whether the number of bytes exceeds a predetermined threshold. If the number of bytes is less than a predetermined threshold, then the message is... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090172189 - Radio frequency local area network: An apparatus and a method for routing data in a radio data communication system having one or more host computers, one or more intermediate base stations, and one or more RF terminals organizes the intermediate base stations into an optimal spanning-tree network to control the routing of data to and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090172186 - System and method for providing latency signatures: A system and method for providing latency signatures including a transmitter to transmit a request for one or more latency signatures from one or more servers, a receiver to receive one or more latency signatures from the one or more servers based on the request, and one or more processors... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090172187 - Techniques to enable firewall bypass for open mobile alliance device management server-initiated notifications in wireless networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising enabling firewall bypass for open mobile alliance device management (OMA DM) server-initiated notifications in WiMAX wireless networks by requiring that a certain OMA DM packet is captured by a WiMAX modem associated with a OMA DM client and routed via... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090172190 - Link state protocol routing message containment: In one example embodiment, a system and method are shown that includes calculating a first SPF tree for a first device, the first SPF tree including a root node and a first child node, the first device being the root node of the first SPF tree. Additionally, the system and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090172191 - System and method for routing service requests: A computer-implemented method routes service requests to services in a service framework provided by a plurality of hosts. The method comprises receiving a service request for a service in the service framework and discovering a plurality of candidate hosts that host the service. The plurality of candidate hosts are a... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090172192 - Mapless global traffic load balancing via anycast: Techniques are described for directing connections between clients and the closest web server. Authoritative DNS resolvers of a network are placed at edges of the network. Using anycast, the authoritative DNS resolvers advertise routes of their destination netblock to the Internet. A request from a client to connect to the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090172193 - Cable redundancy with a networked system: Aspects of the invention provide apparatuses, systems, and methods for supporting cable redundancy in a network connecting a network controller (101) and an I/O device (109) (an adapter). An adapter includes a first port (407) and a second port (409) for receiving the same messages from a scanner (301) over... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group (b&w)

20090172194 - Method and system for propagating statistics between federated contact center sites for use in event distribution: A routing system includes a router, a statistics server (Stat Server) coupled to the router, receiving, processing and storing statistics related to event handling, and providing information regarding the statistics for use by routing intelligence in the router, and a first proxy data server coupled to the Stat Server and... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090172195 - Method and system for remote configuration of managed nodes: A method and system may send a first data packet on a network from a client node to a management server. The first data packet may be formatted to include a client Internet Protocol (IP) address field, a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) request flag, a client UUID field, a client... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090172197 - Creating and editing media objects using web requests: A computer-readable medium, apparatus, and interface are provided for constructing an edit decision list that specifies media content to be included in a composed media object. The edit decision list is constructed by generating at least one media portion specifier, wherein the at least one media portion specifier identifies at... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20090172196 - System and method for protecting content transferred between devices: A method of modifying a series of packets of a content for transmitting to a user over a network includes providing a key that includes at least one aspect of at least one of the packets of a content that is to be modified; and modifying the content based on... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090172199 - Method and system for calibrating response of pointer with respect to mouse: Disclosed is a method for calibrating response of a pointer of a remote computer with respect to a mouse of a client computer. The method of the present invention includes steps: (a) showing the pointer of the remote computer in a screen of a display of the client computer; (b)... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090172201 - Peer to peer syncronization system and method: A method and system for enabling peer to peer synchronization between members of a synchronized network. A predefined synchronization reference area on each member of the network is provided. A common identifier associated with the synchronization network is provided to each member. Changes are detected on a member regarding a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090172200 - Synchronization of audio and video signals from remote sources over the internet: The present invention is an architecture and technology for a method for synchronizing multiple streams of time-based digital audio and video content from separate and distinct remote sources, so that when the streams are joined, they are perceived to be in unison.... Agent: Rozsa Law Group Lc

20090172198 - System and method for synchronising a data processing network: A data processing system according to the invention comprising a group of at least a first and a second module, wherein each module has a data processing facility, a clock for timing data transmissions from the module to another module, a time-slot counter for counting a number of time slots... Agent: Docket Clerk