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

20090240758 - Intelligent establishment of peer-to-peer communication: A device may receive, from a first peer in a network, a request for a list of one or more candidate peers from which the first peer can obtain a resource. In addition, the device may obtain the list in response to the request, determining a set of costs based... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090240759 - Methods and apparatus for web application testing using proxy: Techniques for testing at least one application using at least one proxy are provided. At least one request directed to a running application is obtained from a client. The at least one request is forwarded to the running application and at least one test application. At least one response from... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090240762 - Methods and system for distributing data to technical computing workers: A method and system is disclosed for providing a distributed technical computing environment for distributing technical computing tasks from a technical computing client to technical computing workers for execution of the tasks on one or more computers systems. Tasks can be defined on a technical computing client, and the tasks... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090240761 - Sending voluminous data over the internet: A system comprises a first set of data transfer tools, operable by and exhibited to a first workstation and a second workstation, the first set of data transfer tools including commands for controlling transfer and communication, a second set of data transfer tools, operable by and exhibited to the first... Agent: Lsi Corporation C/o Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090240760 - System and method for initiating services: A system of the present disclosure has a communication device that communicates with a service provider and logic that receives data identifying at least one subscriber and a property corresponding to the subscriber at which the subscriber desires service from the service provider. Further, the logic initiates service at the... Agent: Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne P.C.

20090240766 - Information processing unit, information processing method, client device and information processing system: An information processing unit includes an application data receiving buffer to temporarily store data transmitted from a client device for initiating a connection, an application data receiving section to acquire the data transmitted from the client device from the application data receiving buffer and transmit the data to an upper... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090240763 - Messaging device and system: A display device configured to use an array of discrete light sources to display information received from a remote computer over a network. The device includes a processor coupled to the light sources and a memory storing computer-executable instructions and a device identifier. The device is coupled to the network... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20090240769 - Method and system for screening remote site connections and filtering data based on a community trust assessment: Remote site connections are screened based on assessments performed by members of a trust community. Data based on a plurality of-end user assessments of particular remote websites are received at a server from a plurality of end-users. Each end-user is associated with a specific client machine which is in communication... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090240767 - Method, terminal, server and system for processing notification message: A method, terminal, server and system for processing the notification message are disclosed. According to the method, the server transmits the notifying message with description information. The description information contains the parameter; the terminal parses the notifying message after receiving the notifying message. The description message may contain one or... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090240768 - Methods for transmitting multimedia files and advertisements: The invention is directed to a method of transmitting a file having an advertising portion and a requested portion different from the advertising portion. The method includes receiving a request to transmit the file, via a streaming protocol allowing non-sequential access, transmitting the advertising portion of the file, receiving a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090240764 - Network storage system for a download intensive environment: A network storage system for a download intensive environment is provided. The network storage comprises at least a data storage server (DSS) that includes an interface enabling connection of the DSS to a network at a location that enables at least a view of network transactions performed by a plurality... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090240765 - Synthetic transaction monitor with replay capability: Systems and methods for recording and replaying client-server transactions on selected clients in order to gauge the performance of the client-server system from the perspective of the client. In one embodiment, a method comprises playing back a set of recorded transactions on a client, monitoring selected performance-related parameters at the... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20090240770 - Establishing a remotely hosted conference initiated with one button push: A method includes registering with a first remote conference manager operated by a first entity and a request to enable conferencing with a second entity. The method also includes querying the first remote conference manager for at least one conference room hosted by the second entity and updating a directory... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090240771 - Method and apparatus for providing feedback regarding digital content within a social network: Maintaining a social network and providing corresponding access to digital content. A social network includes at least one social group having a defined membership. The content items that collectively correspond to content resource devices of the group members are identified, and feedback information for the content items is maintained based... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090240773 - Information processing apparatus, data sharing method, and data sharing program: Information processing apparatus that can improve the convenience of data sharing. A portable apparatus has a voice call function implemented by a voice call block and a data storage function implemented by a shared data storage block. A voice call destination information output block identifies the destination of a voice... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090240772 - Method and apparatus for collaborative selection of proposals: A method and apparatus for selecting a subset of proposals from a set of proposals submitted via a web site, including defining proposal attributes for the selecting, formulating selection requirements for the subset, establishing metrics for comparing proposals according to the proposal attributes and the selection requirements, evaluating each of... Agent: Ibm - Arc Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090240775 - Electronic device, a method of displaying mail information: An electronic device includes a receiving unit configured to receive a plurality of e-mails having a message body and an attached file, a determination unit configured to judge whether or not the message body and the attached file of each e-mail thus received by the receiving unit have been checked,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090240780 - High performance electronic message delivery engine: In a messaging system interfaced through the Internet, a method for processing a message from a sender and intended for delivery to at least one recipient, which sender is interfaced to the Internet through a sender server and which recipient is interfaced to the Internet through a recipient server, where... Agent: Pritzkau Patent Group, LLC

20090240777 - Method and system for protecting messaging consumers: The present invention is directed to a system, method, and computer-program product for protecting messaging consumers. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for protecting messaging consumers can be provided. The method can include intercepting a message prior to arrival at a destination, comparing the message to one... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090240778 - Method for transferring data from a sensor over a computer network, corresponding device, and computer program product therefore: The invention concerns a method for transferring data from a sensor over a computer network, wherein the method comprises the steps of receiving from the sensor a signal representing a physical quantity, encoding the signal, converting the signal into a message, and transmitting the message over the computer network, wherein... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090240774 - System and method for securely performing multiple stage email processing with embedded codes: A system and method for performing email processing at multiple stages along an email delivery chain. A first embodiment uses an email filter to receive information about an email message from a message transfer agent and then perform limited email pre-processing on the email message. The email filter then stores... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090240779 - Wireless device detection: A method includes but is not limited to detecting a wireless-device capability. Related systems include but are not limited to circuitry for effecting the foregoing-described method; the circuitry can be virtually any combination of hardware, software, and/or firmware configured to effect the foregoing-described method depending upon the design choices of... Agent: Christensen O'connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

20090240776 - Xml2 x-mail (tm) 2: The Mother invention, XML1, covers certain improvements to the Internet methods of handling “stray” email messages, which are sent to old “invalid” email addresses. It provides means and methods to salvage such stray messages. It proposes to establish a depository data center, which could be referred to as the XMAIL™... Agent: Gabe Cherian

20090240781 - Communication apparatus, control method for communication apparatus, and communication system: In a system that performs communication between master and slave, the device better suited as the master device is not always the master device, since the device that initially constructs the network becomes the master device. A device that enters the network later transmits a restart request on detecting the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090240782 - Redundant data forwarding storage: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for redundant data forwarding storage. A method includes, in two or more networks of interconnected computer system nodes, receiving a request from a source system in a first network to store data, directing the data to a first computer memory in a first... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090240783 - Direct network file system: A computer-implemented method of implementing a network file system may include steps of providing a host, the host including an Operating System (OS) that includes a kernel and a first client implementing the Network File System (NFS) protocol in the kernel, and a database server process. A second NFS client... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090240784 - Storage area network file system: A shared storage distributed file system is presented that provides clients with access to a storage area network (SAN) attached storage device. The access is provided either via block-level requests over the SAN or via file-level requests made to a server over a local area network (LAN). File requests are... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20090240785 - Information processing unit, information playback unit, information processing method, information playback method, information processing system and program: An information processing unit includes a location information transmission section to transmit, to a further information processing unit connected, location information indicating a location of a connection target unit to which the further information processing unit is to be connected, a location information determination section to determine whether the further... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090240787 - Method and system for redirecting an electronic content request to an alternate content transport mechanism or storage site: A method includes receiving content from a provider, storing the content at a location of a local cache, and transmitting a request for the content from a user device to a transport proxy server. The method also includes receiving an indicator from the transport proxy server, and accessing the content... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lna Attn: Patent Docketing

20090240786 - Methods for transmitting multimedia files and advertisements: The invention is directed to a method of transmitting a file having an advertising portion and a requested portion different from the advertising portion. The method includes receiving a request to transmit the file, via a streaming protocol allowing non-sequential access, transmitting the advertising portion of the file, receiving a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090240788 - Ethernet virtualization using automatic self-configuration of logic: A method of Ethernet virtualization using automatic self-configuration of logic of a data router. The method comprising maintaining control parameters at a master device, accessing, by a slave device, the control parameters at the master devices, and configuring the slave device based on the accessed control parameters.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090240789 - Method and system for removing a tunnel between portal points: Systems and methods of removing a tunnel created when a client having an active IP session with a first portal point in a first subnet of a network, disconnects from the first portal point and reconnects to a second portal point in a second subnet of the network, the client... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090240792 - Method and system for transmitting dhcp message via ppp link and for obtaining configuration information: A method and system for transmitting DHCP message via PPP link and of obtaining configuration information are provided. In the method and the system, when an end of PPP link sends DHCP broadcasting message directly through PPP link, address of hardware desired in DHCP message is replaced by a symbol... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090240790 - Network switching apparatus, server system and server migration method for server system: A network switching apparatus, a server system and a server migration method for the server system are provided which can perform server migration easily. The server system has a physical server, a physical server having a server virtualization mechanism, a network switching apparatus having a plurality of ports and a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090240791 - Update management method and update management unit: A management node for managing a program update time refers to an update management table in which a plurality of managed nodes are classified into a plurality of groups and the sequence of program updating of the groups is defined. The management node sequentially selects the groups in accordance with... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090240795 - Address redirection for nodes with multiple internet protocol addresses in a wireless network: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate obtaining an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a node with multiple IP addresses using address redirection in a wireless communication environment. A wireless communication component can retrieve a previously registered IP address corresponding to the node from an Authentication, Accounting, and Authorization/Home Subscriber... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090240796 - Management server, client terminal, terminal management system, terminal management method, program, and recording medium: A management server which is connected to a plurality of client terminals via a network, includes a storage unit adapted to store a management policy including usage-permitted time periods of the plurality of client terminals, and an application unit adapted to read out from the storage unit the management policy... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090240793 - Memory buffer management method and system having multiple receive ring buffers: The present invention is directed to a method and system of memory management that features dual buffer rings, each of which includes descriptors identifying addresses of a memory space, referred to as buffers, in which portions of data packets are stored. Typically, the header segment of each data packet is... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090240794 - Techniques utilizing a layer-2 proxy for energy-efficient service discovery and connectivity in networks: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of server energy conservation in networks, comprising integrating a layer-2 service discovery proxy with an access point (AP) in the network, wherein the AP advertises the services on behalf of servers in the network to enable the servers to go to... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090240797 - An on demand message based financial network integration middleware: e) wherein meta data of newly created instances are managed in a plurality of message stores (242, 244, 246), the data contents of which are frequently synchronized in order to decouple the plurality of client applications (110, 112, 114) from bindings fixed during their operation to particular service instances (222,... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090240801 - Computer data network filter: An electronic device which connects a network (e.g. the internet) to a subnet (e.g. a home network) for the purpose of filtering the data that moves through the device in order to prevent computers on the subnet from accessing material on the network which may be deemed inappropriate (e.g. pornography).... Agent: Jonathan Rhoads

20090240799 - Interactive dns for controlling party: A Hosting Entity or another entity may provide a framework for collecting DNS Business Information from a Controlling Party of a domain name and entering it into DNS. The framework may include a website, webpage, web service, web resource, software, API, or another technological solution suitable for collecting DNS Business... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20090240805 - Isolating local performance variation in website monitoring: Systems and methods are provided for isolating performance variation in website monitoring. A set of geographically diverse monitoring agents are identified and a subset of baseline agents is selected from these monitoring agents. The baseline agents are those agents that are geographically close to the target website or otherwise enjoy... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090240804 - Method and apparatus for preventing igmp packet attack: A method for preventing IGMP packet attacks includes two levels of anti-attack steps: anti-attacking on the basis of the source IP address of an IGMP packet; and anti-attacking on the basis of the multicast group IP address of the IGMP packet. Moreover, an apparatus for preventing IGMP packet attacks is... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090240802 - Method and apparatus for self tuning network stack: A method and apparatus for tuning a computer network by detecting different workload patterns. One embodiment of the method provides a system configuration analyzer to collect data regarding network configuration and tuning parameters, a workload analyzer to collect and store data relating to tuning such as network traffic information, a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090240803 - Method for copying session information, call control server for executing the same, and computer product: The method is executed by a call control server that establishes a media session for sending and receiving media data between a calling terminal and a called terminal. The method includes exchanging messages with calling terminal and called terminal for establishing the media session, generating a session information necessary for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090240800 - Remote monitoring of user input devices: A precision data capture recorder/security device non-intrusively and precisely captures and records information from computerized input devices (e.g., computer keyboards and mouses). Information collected by a data capture recorder co-located with a client can be precisely date and time tag user input to a user interface (e.g., keyboard) and transmitted... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20090240798 - Resource equalization for inter- and intra- data center operations: An exemplary component for managing requests for resources in a data center includes a service request module for receiving requests for resources from a plurality of services and a resource module to monitor resources in a data center and to match received requests to resources. Such a component optionally includes... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090240806 - Wireless local area network: The present invention relates to a wireless local area network comprising: a base transceiver station (1) comprising means for transmitting signals over a wireless connection to one or more terminals (2) connected to the local area network, and means for receiving signals over a wireless connection from one or more... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090240808 - Bandwidth and latency controller: Systems and methods described relate to controlling bandwidth and latency in a remote computing environment. A controller establishes a remote session between a client and a remote server. Data transfer between the client and the remote server is routed through the controller. The controller regulates bandwidth consumption and latency in... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090240807 - Content push service: A method, system and computer program product for pushing contents to client devices is disclosed. The method, system, and computer program product handles group pushes, manages different content priorities, prevents one content push from starving others, and handles different transport mechanisms for different clients.... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090240812 - Domain name acquisition and management system and method: A preferred embodiment of the present invention can accept an indication of a domain name or set of domain names from interested entity. The desired domain names are names that an interested entity desires to register through a domain name registration system or systems, such as that operated by a... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090240810 - Method of digital resource management and related digital resource management system: A method of digital resource management includes establishing an OSGi framework between a user end and a service end, providing an application service via the OSGi framework for the user end by the service end according to a request of the user end, and exchanging information corresponding to the application... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090240811 - Resource management method, system and network equipment: A resource management (RM) method, an RM system, and a network equipment are described. The network equipment is directly or indirectly connected to a UE via at least one user link. The network equipment includes a receiving unit and an RM unit. The receiving unit receives a resource request triggered... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090240809 - Thin-provisioning adviser for storage devices: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for thin-provisioning of storage in a storage system by an adviser is provided. A workload profile of the storage is created from performance data. The workload profile includes a measurement of changed data per a predetermined time and resource utilization data over a... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090240813 - Communication network system of bus network structure and method using the communication network system: Disclosed is a communication network system in a bus network structure, the system including: a broker processing a message routing; a connector, and a plurality of services connected to the broker via the connector, wherein: the service is a communicable terminal node and each of the plurality of services is... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090240816 - Method and apparatus for accessing a remote location with an optical reader having a programmable memory system: An optical reader for accessing a remote location on a network includes an optical scanning system, a memory system, an output circuit for interfacing to a first computer disposed on the network, and a switching device for switching between a scan mode, a record mode and a playback mode. The... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20090240814 - Unified pairing for wireless devices: A framework for users to connect to wireless devices, regardless of the underlying wireless technology. The framework has a modular structure, including discovery handlers, pairing handlers, and pairing ceremony modules. Discovery and pairing handlers are specific to each wireless technology, enabling discovery of wireless devices, and connection to the device.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090240815 - Upnp apparatus and method for providing remote access service: A universal plug and play (UPnP) device and method of providing a remote access service, the method including: receiving product identification number (PIN) information that is an identifier provided to a remote access server (RAS) device when manufactured and a uniform resource locator (URL) of the RAS device from the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090240819 - Information processing unit, information processing method, remote server, and information processing system: There is provided an information processing unit including an application execution section to execute an application to request establishment of an HTTP tunneling connection with a connection target unit, a connection establishment section to set a maximum content length settable with the connection target unit, establish an HTTP tunneling connection... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090240818 - Method and apparatus for reconstructing a communication session: Each person to a communication session records their contributions to the communication session. Metadata is maintained for each contribution to identify the time of the contribution and any other useful information to enable the content of the contribution to be accessed at a later point in time. When a portion... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20090240821 - Multiplayer peer-to-peer connection across firewalls and network address translators using a single local port on the local host: A system for providing peer-to-peer connections includes a plurality of host devices behind corresponding NATs; and a plurality of STUN servers. Each host device includes first and second sockets respectively bound to first and second private ports. Each host device sends a first STUN packet through the first socket to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090240820 - Quality of service for network connected clients: A mechanism is provided for network communication. The mechanism establishes a connection between a network server and a network client. The connection is established using a connection-oriented protocol. The network server has a first server configuration stored in a memory of the network server. The first server configuration comprises a... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090240817 - System and method for transporting data units through a communication network: A system and method for transporting data units for a communication network. In a communication between two peers a proxy and a network entity for controlling a partial communication are provided. One or both of the proxy and the network entity is arranged to modify one or more of the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090240822 - System and method for controlling access rights to network resources: A system and method for securing access to network resources are described. One embodiment includes an exemplary method for securing access to a network element and can include associating a network element with a set of data, and configuring a portion of the data to be responsive to a first... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090240823 - System and method for controlling access rights to network resources: A system and method for securing access to network resources are described. One embodiment includes an exemplary method for securing access to a network element and can include associating a network element with a set of data, and configuring a portion of the data to be responsive to a first... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090240824 - Udp hole punch timeout discovery algorithm over network address translation connection: A method is provided for communicating between a server and a client via a network address translator. The server is in communication with the network address translator via a first channel. The client is in communication with the network address translator via a second channel. The method includes performing a... Agent: The Law Office Of John T. Whelan, L.L.C.

20090240825 - Delivering streaming data: A method of delivering streaming data to a user device comprises delivering a first data stream supplied by a data server to a user device via a router, and receiving a change request from the user device, the change request being indicative of a second data stream required by the... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090240827 - Methods for transmitting multimedia files and advertisements: The invention is directed to a method of transmitting a file having an advertising portion and a requested portion different from the advertising portion. The method includes receiving a request to transmit the file, via a streaming protocol allowing non-sequential access, transmitting the advertising portion of the file, receiving a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090240828 - Methods for transmitting multimedia files and advertisements: The invention is directed to a method of transmitting a file having an advertising portion and a requested portion different from the advertising portion. The method includes receiving a request to transmit the file, via a streaming protocol allowing non-sequential access, transmitting the advertising portion of the file, receiving a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090240826 - Using rtcp statistics for media system control: e

20090240830 - Methods for transmitting multimedia files and advertisements: The invention is directed to a method of transmitting a file having an advertising portion and a requested portion different from the advertising portion. The method includes receiving a request to transmit the file, via a streaming protocol allowing non-sequential access, transmitting the advertising portion of the file, receiving a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090240829 - Translating between implicit and explicit publish-subscribe protocols: In one embodiment, a translating publish-subscribe (pub-sub) server may be configured to receive a subscribe request from a subscriber device according to an original pub-sub model. The server may then convert the received subscribe request into a pub-sub subscribe request of a second pub-sub model, and may transmit the converted... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090240831 - Method, device, and communication system for adjusting data rates in a network: A method for adjusting data rate in a network is disclosed. In the method, when a device is added to the network, a data rate controlling parameter is configured, and when there is a new service or the requirements of a service have been changed, the data rate will be... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090240832 - Receiving apparatus, transmitting apparatus, communication system, and method of detecting buffer setting of relay server: A receiving apparatus of the present invention includes: a relayed dummy data receiving unit for receiving relayed dummy data including dummy data of n bytes (n≧1) and/or dummy data of N bytes (N≧n) sequentially and repetitively transmitted from a transmitting apparatus to a relay server from the relay server; and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090240833 - Method and apparatus for realizing positioning play of content stream in peer-to-peer network: A method of content transmission in peer-to-peer network includes the following steps: dividing contents to be transmitted into a plurality of stripes in time sequence (101); establishing one or more than one group(s) for clients which request for transmission contents from same stripes (102); a source divides the requested content... Agent: GlobalIPServices

20090240834 - Management apparatus, communication path control method, communication path control system, and computer-readable storage medium: A management apparatus manages relay apparatus information about communication of a relay apparatus, and connection information about a relay apparatus to which a communication apparatus is connected, and controls change of a communication path between communication apparatuses based on information including the relay apparatus information and the connection information.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090240835 - Interactive whois: A Registering Entity or another entity may provide a framework for collecting WHOIS Business Information from a Non-Controlling Party of a domain name and entering it into WHOIS. The framework may include a website, webpage, web service, web resource, software, API, or another technological solution suitable for collecting WHOIS Business... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20090240836 - Support apparatus, design support method, and design support program: The configuration data obtaining unit obtains a network configuration data, and the actual-apparatus collection result data obtaining unit obtains an actual-apparatus collection result data. Then, the comparing unit compares a network address in the network configuration data corresponding to a network apparatus with a network address in the actual-apparatus collection... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090240837 - Method for transmitting data: A data transmission method suitable for transmitting a first data table from a server to a mobile device is provided, wherein the first data table has a plurality of first data fields. The data transmission method includes following steps. A maximum used bit number of each of the first data... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090240838 - Broadcasting a message in a parallel computer: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for broadcasting a message in a parallel computer. The parallel computer includes a plurality of compute nodes connected together using a data communications network. The data communications network optimized for point to point data communications and is characterized by at least two dimensions. The... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090234903 - Processing client requests for common services according to one or more canonical forms: In certain embodiments, a method for processing client requests for common services according to one or more canonical forms includes receiving from a computer system associated with a particular client a request to provide a common service and converting at least a portion of the request according to a canonical... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090234904 - System and method for dynamic extension of aggregation engine: Systems and methods for dynamic study management. The method may comprise the steps of: (1) receiving a subscription request at a dynamic study proxy extension engine from a front end for a dynamic study; (2) validating, by the dynamic study proxy extension engine, the subscription request; (3) locating, by the... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090234902 - System, method and apparatus for making content available over multiple devices: Embodiments of the invention may enable defining and sharing content spaces. According to embodiments of the invention, metadata may be associated with content and may further be distributed to a number of devices. According to embodiments of the invention, metadata may be used to provide a view of a content... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090234905 - Maintenance information management system, management apparatus, and maintenance information management method: A maintenance information management method comprising steps of: by a terminal processing apparatus, transmitting, to a management apparatus via a network, maintenance work information about an analyzer on which maintenance work has been performed; storing, in a maintenance work information storage section of the management apparatus, the maintenance work information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090234906 - Computer processing system for realizing data upgrade and a data upgrading method: A computer processing system for implementing data upgrade includes a communication interface device, at least two application servers and a database server for storing data, wherein the communication interface device detects in real-time a connection state of the communication interface device and each of the application servers, and sends data... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090234913 - Data structure for initiating multiple web sites: A method for facilitating the simultaneous initiation of a plurality of web sites can be provided. The method can include receiving from a client a request for a web page and sending to the client a first program logic configured for providing an interface. The method can further include receiving... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul LLP Attn: Steven M. Greenberg, Esq.

20090234908 - Data transmission queuing using fault prediction: In a distributed computer system, data to be communicated is assigned to one of a plurality of virtual queues. The plurality of virtual queues includes a first representative virtual queue associated with a first fault group and a second representative virtual queue associated with a second fault group. The data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090234916 - Downloadable datasets for a patient monitoring system: In general, this disclosure describes techniques for remotely monitoring the health of an ambulatory patient. As described herein, an ambulatory patient may interact with a monitoring device that is located at the patient's home. The monitoring device may prompt the patient to provide responses to health-related questions or requests for... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090234907 - Embedded distributed computing solutions: Methods and Systems are provided for participating in distributed computing. The distributed computing program instructions are embedded in content delivered to a client computer. The client computer renders the content delivered from the server and executes the program instructions generating solutions for datasets delivered from the server, thus participating in... Agent: The Brevetto Law Group, PLLC

20090234912 - File transfer via local server: Embodiments of the present invention use a web browser on a client and a file transfer server to transfer files over a wide-area network (WAN). The files are transferred from the client to the server or vice versa. The server transfers the file to a remote server via the WAN.... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20090234914 - Media delivery platform: Provided is a method of delivering an audio and/or visual media file comprising, without limitation, for example, one or more of full or partial master recordings of songs, musical compositions, ringtones, videos, films, television shows, personal recordings, animation and combinations thereof, over the air wirelessly, from one or more servers... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090234915 - Media delivery platform: Provided is a method of delivering an audio and/or visual media file comprising, without limitation, for example, one or more of full or partial master recordings of songs, musical compositions, ringtones, videos, films, television shows, personal recordings, animation and combinations thereof, over the air wirelessly, from one or more servers... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090234910 - Method and apparatuses for network society associating: The method of the invention applies employing token, public key, private key and ad hoc technology to associate members who are interested to join a specific society, with which the member's privacy can be protected and the trust between members can be build. The apparatus is directed to a social... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090234909 - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for providing filtered services and content based on user context: An apparatus may include a processor configured to receive a request for a service or content from a first device. The processor may be further configured to receive a user's context information from a second device. The processor may additionally be configured to filter the requested service or content based... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090234911 - System and method for creating an efficient and scalable cache mode for a collaboration suite application: A system and method for creating a cached mode is created for some applications, such as for use with BES. Operations on the mailbox items are conducted off the cache, rather than off the collaboration suite server itself, thus reducing the load on the collaboration suite server. According to one... Agent: The Law Office Of Deepti Panchawagh - Jain

20090234918 - Method for managing requests for obtaining peer identifiers to access stored contents in p2p mode, and associated management device and network equipment: A management device (D) that is part of a communication network (R1) to which can be connected items of communication equipment (T1-T4) constituting peers storing content data and operating in P2P mode. This device (D) comprises analysing means (MA) adapted to, in the case of reception of a request for... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090234919 - Method of transmitting data in a communication system: A method of transmitting image data from a first node to a second node during a communication event, wherein the second node comprises a display for displaying image data at the second node, said method comprising; receiving at the first node, information indicating at least one display characteristic with which... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090234917 - Optimal operation of hierarchical peer-to-peer networks: A Network capable entity, having an estimator for estimating a superpeer number of required superpeers in a hierarchical peer-to-peer network, the number depending on an actual network situation, and for estimating an existing superpeer number of actually existing superpeers in the hierarchical peer-to-peer network, and a controller for promoting a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090234920 - System for instant collaboration: A method comprising identifying data that is needed by a collaborator to complete a workflow process; creating a temporary access login and password to allow the collaborator temporary authentication and login ability; notifying the collaborator by a communication method that their participation is required to complete process; receiving a login... Agent: Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP

20090234921 - Capturing, processing, managing, and reporting events of interest in virtual collaboration: A method of monitoring a collaboration space receives an identification of a computerized collaboration space that a user desires to monitor. The method receives, from the user, an identification of events of interest with respect to the collaboration space. The items within the collaboration space as well as the collaborator... Agent: Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090234924 - Automatic association of messages with conversations: This disclosure describes techniques of automatically associating messages with conversations. As described in this disclosure, when a messaging application stores a message, the messaging application uses a set of heuristics to identify a conversation associated with the message. After identifying the conversation associated with the message, an interface may be... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090234922 - Automatically enabling the forwarding of instant messages: Techniques are described for forwarding an instant message addressed to an intended instant messaging recipient to the recipient's mobile telephone when the recipient's mobile telephone number is known to the instant message sender. In one example, an instant message is forwarded to the intended recipient's mobile telephone number when the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090234925 - Dyanmic domain based electronic mail signature lines: A method for automatically choosing an electronic correspondence signature line, having an electronic search agent for scanning electronic correspondence for the designated destination address of the electronic correspondence, and retrieving at least one designated destination address for the electronic correspondence. The method also includes determining a domain name associated with... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20090234930 - E-mail relay system and method of controlling e-mail relay system: An e-mail relay system including a first information processing apparatus that receives a first e-mail with a first identifier and stores the received first e-mail in a first storage device and notifies the first identifier to a second information processing apparatus, and the second information processing apparatus receives a second... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090234923 - Interaction among items connected to a network: Particular embodiments provide interaction between items in a network. For example, lists of content may be shared between items connected through a network. A user may use a first item to select a second item in which content should be outputted. Instead of sending the content to the second item,... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090234928 - Method and system for message delivery: The present invention is directed to an apparatus, system, methods, and computer-program product for message delivery in a publish/subscribe network is provided. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for message delivery in a publish/subscribe network includes defining a group of publish/subscribe engines as a subset of a... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090234929 - Recording medium with electronic mail management program recorded, communication terminal, and electronic mail management method: An address set in a forwarding mail of an electronic mail received from a sender is obtained, a receiver having a delete program for deleting the forwarding mail is identified as the obtained destination, and the electronic mail is related to the sender and the receiver of the identified delete... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090234931 - System and method for selecting messaging settings on a messaging client: A system and method of selecting messaging settings on a messaging client are provided. A data store configured to operate in conjunction with the messaging client stores records comprising messaging settings or characteristics for previously received and/or sent messages. The messaging client is configured to send outgoing messages, each of... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090234927 - System and method for the distribution and use of presence information: A system and method are provided for automating the implementing and use of presence information in a network and/or for automatically selecting the most efficient means for sending a message. In an embodiment of the system, presence information is transmitted to a presence server. The presence server then ascertains presence... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090234926 - Using a local business directory to generate messages to consumers: A system and method are provided for notifying a user of a change to a record in a business record directory, based on user specified contact information and preferences. A significance engine determines if identified business record directory changes warrant message generation and delivery to requesting users.... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Canavan

20090234932 - Communication apparatus, method of controlling same, and communication system: A communication apparatus operating by selectively switching between a master mode and a slave mode includes: a determination unit configured to determine whether an apparatus that operates in the master mode exists; a control unit configured to exercise control in such a manner that the communication apparatus operates in the... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20090234933 - Data forwarding storage: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for data forwarding storage. A network includes a group of interconnected computer system nodes each adapted to receive data and continuously forward the data from computer memory to computer memory without storing on any physical storage device in response to a request to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090234934 - Managing multiple network interfaces by assigning them to individual applications: A multiple network interface system that efficiently utilizes the different interfaces by binding specific applications to them. The system is able to direct selected applications to specified interfaces through a resource management module, which can dynamically or manually bind the application. The resource management module acts as a router within... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090234935 - System and method for managing distribution of rich media content: There is provided a system for managing distribution of rich media content. The system comprises a communications server accessible by a mobile device; a local services network interactively connected to the communications server; a rich media control application resident on the communications server, the rich media control application configured to... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090234936 - Dual-band communication of management traffic in a blade server system: In one embodiment, a communication system for a multi-blade server system includes a multi-drop serial bus network interconnecting a management module with each of a plurality of servers in a multi-server chassis. A first transceiver subsystem is configured for communicating over the serial bus network between the management module and... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/nc) C/o Streets & Steele

20090234937 - Optimization in a communication system: A communication system comprises a configuration manager which includes an optimizer for performing a Radio Access Network (RAN) optimization process. An optimization characteristic for the RAN optimization process and operational data for a plurality of remote terminals is determined, and based on this information a grouping processor determines a plurality... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090234938 - Method and system for switching media streams in a client system based on environmental changes: A method and system for switching media streams of a video in a client system. The media streams are made available to the client system by a content providing system. A first media stream received from the content providing system is played in a SHOW mode in the client system.... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090234947 - Advanced content and data distribution techniques: A method and apparatus for displaying locally stored content objects is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a message containing one or more parameters indicative of one or more characteristics of a client, and sending one of a plurality of groups of one or more content objects from... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090234942 - Apparatus, system, and method for testing embedded device: An apparatus is used for testing an embedded device with identification information. The apparatus includes a storage device. A monitoring program and a testing program are installed in the storage device. The monitoring program receives the identification information from the embedded device through a serial connection formed between the apparatus... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090234944 - Liveexception system: A method of monitoring an element in a computer network including monitoring a preselected variable relating to that element; defining a threshold for the monitored preselected variable; establishing a sliding window in time; repeatedly generating a time above threshold value, the time above threshold value being a measure of an... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090234945 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for active node selection: An apparatus for enabling active node selection may include a distribution potential determiner and a node selector. The distribution potential determiner may be configured to determine a distribution potential for a particular node based on characteristics of the particular node. The distribution potential may be indicative of a relative likelihood... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090234939 - Methods and systems for content-consumption device monitoring and control: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for remote monitoring and control of a content-consumption device.... Agent: Kristine Elizabeth Matthews

20090234943 - Multi-party cooperative peer-to-peer video streaming: A method and apparatus for transmitting data are described including partitioning a stream of data into a plurality of sub-streams, establishing an allocation of the plurality of sub-streams among a plurality of sending devices, enabling the plurality of sending devices to simultaneously begin transmitting the plurality of sub-streams in accordance... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090234941 - Resource management system for hosting of user solutions: Scalable hosting of user solutions is provided. A system for hosting application software includes a local server, one or more remote servers, a configuration database and a content database. The local server includes a web front end module that processes a request from a client computer over the Internet to... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090234940 - System and method for evaluating streaming multimedia quality: A system and computer program for evaluating in real-time streaming multimedia quality. The system including a multimedia server connected to a multimedia source and a remote client in communication with the multimedia server over a network. The multimedia server is configured to receive multimedia content from the multimedia source and... Agent: Chowdhury & Georgakis, P.c

20090234946 - Systems and methods for managing faults in a network: A system (130) improves network management. The system (130) associates an event in the network with a network device and provides a geographical map (710). The geographical map (710) displays locations of network devices and indicates which network devices are associated with at least one event.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090234950 - Service discovery: The invention can be used for enabling service discovery. Service discovery can be enabled by requesting, by a first apparatus from a gateway entity, information on apparatuses capable of providing a predetermined service and being located in proximity of the first apparatus, receiving, by the first apparatus from the gateway... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090234949 - System and method for distributing a client load from a failed server among remaining servers in a storage area network (san): A system delivers data and includes a plurality of data storage devices. A plurality of servers such as video servers are connected to the plurality of data storage devices and access the data storage devices to provide streaming data to a plurality of clients upon request therefrom. Upon failure of... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090234948 - Using multiple servers to divide a virtual world: Embodiments of the invention provide a method for distributing data from within a virtual world to multiple hosts. In one embodiment, primary areas within the virtual world may be hosted on servers controlled by the provider of the virtual world. At the same time, some areas within the virtual world... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090234951 - Cluster control apparatus, control system, control method, and control program: A cluster control apparatus, cluster control system, and computer-readable recording medium are provided. The cluster control apparatus includes a switching unit that disconnects a first computer from a first group and disconnects a second computer belonging to a second group from the second group to cause the second computer to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090234952 - Service processing method, network device and service processing system: A service processing method, a network device and a service processing system are disclosed. The method includes: determining whether a frequency of a service request initiated by a user exceeds a set value according to user information carried in the received service request; discarding the service request, if the frequency... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090234953 - Apparatus and methods for integration of third party virtual private network solutions: Various embodiments for integration of virtual private network solutions are described. In one embodiment, a mobile computing device may comprise a virtual private network client configured to establish a virtual private network connection over one or more transports and a connection manager. The connection manager may comprise a virtual private... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC 4500 Brooktree Road

20090234956 - Method, apparatus and system for establishing a connection: A method for establishing a connection includes the following steps: A mobility management entity generates a create bearer context request message and sends the message to a selected serving gateway. The create bearer context request message at least includes address information of at least one packet data network gateway and... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090234955 - Methods and systems for synchronization of multiple applications: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for synchronizing multiple applications.... Agent: Kristine Elizabeth Matthews

20090234954 - Selectable non-interactive entity application proxy method and system: A selectable security method and system. The method includes retrieving first configuration data associated with a non interactive entity (NIE) software application and second configuration data associated with a plurality of requesters. A master refresh period is calculated from the first configuration data and the second configuration data. Credentials data... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090234957 - Managing database connections: The present invention provides a method for managing a database connection, comprising the steps of: in responsive to a connection request of a first application, allocating an available connection for the first application; if there is no available connection, selecting a held connection being used by a second application; backing... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20090234963 - Freeing transmit memory on a network interface device prior to receiving an acknowledgment that transmit data has been received by a remote device: A transmit offload engine (TOE) such as an intelligent network interface device (INIC), video controller or host bus adapter (HBA) that can communicate data over transport protocols such as Transport Control Protocol (TCP) for a host. Such a device can send and receive data for the host to and from... Agent: Mark Lauer

20090234960 - Protocol processing apparatus and processing method: A protocol processing apparatus includes: a tag extracting section configured to output a tag data and an input data based on the input data and a protocol data of the input data; a format sheet configured to store a format data common to protocols; and a processing unit configured to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090234959 - Proxying multiple initiators as a virtual initiator using identifier ranges: A gateway includes a Fibre Channel (“FC”) port configured to couple to a FC target, and an internet small computer system interface (“iSCSI”) port configured to couple to iSCSI initiators. The iSCSI port is configured to facilitate communication between the iSCSI initiators and the FC target, and proxy the iSCSI... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20090234961 - Server-side protocol configuration of accessing clients: The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for configuring a client-side communications protocol stack. In a method of the invention, a mapping can be consulted to determine a set of client-side protocol stack components which correspond to a set of protocol stack components in a server side protocol... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090234962 - Supplying electronic content to networked appliances: A system and method communicates data from a web content provider to a wireless computing device (e.g., a PDA, a cellular phone) via a proxy server. The proxy server transforms web content “on-the-fly” into a streamlined format, optimizes it for display, and delivers it to the device, where it is... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090234958 - System for processing context data: A system for processing context data comprising means for receiving context data from a plurality of sources; means for producing context information from the received context data according to a predetermined rule-set including a plurality of rules; and means for communicating the context information to at least one application, wherein... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090234964 - Method for interface adapting iptv with stream media device: A method and apparatus for interface adapting IPTV with a stream media device, including: an adaptation layer receives the batch commands from the service layer and judges the type of the batch commands; the adaptation layer judges the type of the batch commands, and analyzes or generates the batch commands... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20090234965 - Stream server selection based on feedback information from a client: A technique for selecting a media streaming engine, such as a stream server, to source a media stream to a client involves receiving feedback information from a client that indicates a quality of service experienced by the client and then selecting a media streaming engine, from a set of media... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20090234966 - Systems and methods for sharing compression histories between multiple devices: Systems and methods of storing previously transmitted data and using it to reduce bandwidth usage and accelerate future communications are described. By using algorithms to identify long compression history matches, a network device may improve compression efficiently and speed. A network device may also use application specific parsing to improve... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090234967 - Method, system, and apparatus for transferring p2p file distribution tasks between devices: Transferring peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution tasks involve beginning a file transfer session at a first apparatus via an Internet-based, peer-to-peer, distributed file transfer network. A local connection between the first apparatus and a second apparatus is established via a local network while the file transfer session is ongoing. Data describing... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20090234968 - Server selection for routing content to a client using application layer redirection: In one embodiment, a first request is received for a probe link from a client that has downloaded a page. The request is received from an application. A test may be performed to determine a server that could optimally service a content request from the client. After receiving the request,... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090234969 - Automatic mep provisioning in a link state controlled ethernet network: Ethernet OAM MEPs are automatically configured in a link state protocol controlled Ethernet network. A node operating in the link state protocol controlled Ethernet network receives a Link State PDU (LSP) containing a TLV having a MEP associated with the Ethernet MAC node ID of a second node in the... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20090234970 - Individuals' url identity exchange and communications: A method for managing data associated with a data profile involves providing a web server hosting facility, providing a set of remote-hosted second.top domains, storing, on the web server hosting facility, a set of web-accessible data profiles for a third level domain name of the set of remote-hosted second.top domains... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090234971 - Encoding/decoding while allowing varying message formats per message: Encoding and/or decoding of messages. On the encoding end, a composite encoder encodes message from an internal format that is used by internal system components into an external format. However, the composite encoder may encode the outgoing messages into different external formats on a per-message basis. For incoming message, a... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090234972 - Systems and methods for content injection: The present solution is directed towards a policy-based intermediary that dynamically and flexibly injects content in responses between a client and a server based on one or more policies. The present solution addresses the challenges of injecting content in a client-server transaction. The intermediary determines when and what content to... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090234973 - Data compression method: A method for transmitting the value of a parameter in a compressed form, the method comprising the steps of: accepting successive numbers representing the value of a parameter; manipulating each number, the manipulation comprising placing the number in a form comprising a mantissa and an exponent, and defining a transmission... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090234974 - Performance counters for virtualized network interfaces of communications networks: Performance counters are provided for virtualized network interfaces of communications networks, while minimizing the use of hardware resources. A virtualized network interface includes physical resources, as well as logical resources. Dedicated performance counters are provided for the physical resources of the virtualized network interface, as well as for logical partitions... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090228543 - Agent representative for the internet: An Internet mobile agent for representing a shopper is disclosed. The agent comprises objects having methods that are called by a server visited by the agent. By calling the methods a server can determine needs, wants and physical characteristics of the shopper. The server finds matches of items for sale,... Agent: David E. Orr

20090228544 - Multimedia player and browser system: A multimedia software application that can include audio, video and/or graphics, in a manner that combines the multimedia experience with the transfer of information from and between a variety of sources (126), in a variety of directions, and subject to a variety of prompts. The application provides a “Web in... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20090228541 - Network virtualization in a multi-node system with multiple networks: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide for network virtualization in a multi-network system. The virtual network may abstract multiple, underlying physical networks connecting compute nodes on a multi-node system. A network driver and control system may route traffic on the underlying physical networks according to system and/or application requirements,... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090228542 - Occasionally-connected support through off-line service-supplied proxies: A system is provided to facilitate service-oriented applications. The system includes one or more network accessible resources that are split into two or more application functions. A proxy component communicates over a network with the network accessible resources and executes a subset of the application functions during outages of the... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090228545 - Online mobile applications capable of dealing with occasional disconnects: A technique for building applications consuming web services; where users can use the application while being online or offline, while maintaining the impression and feel of an online application, and without the requirements of a synchronization engine.... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20090228548 - Client terminal, client server system, data acquisition method, and program: The client terminal according to the present invention is connected to a server and comprises a display unit and an input unit of a virtual computer executed by software on the server, includes a storage unit which stores dump data of the client terminal, an information acquisition unit which acquires... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090228546 - Distributed business process tracking: A system for distributed business process tracking includes a client adapted to receive a first notification and a second notification, a first provider adapted to perform a distributed business process using a first process, generate a first notification based on the first process, and send the first notification to the... Agent: Venable LLP

20090228549 - Method of tracking usage of client computer and system for same: Some embodiments disclose a method of tracking usage of a client computer. The method can include: (a) receiving a first request for a first file from the client computer; (b) assigning first identifying information to the client computer, the first identifying information is associated with the client computer; (c) providing... Agent: Bryan Cave LLP

20090228551 - Mobile device, content distribution system, and content distribution method: The mobile device comprises a first transmission portion, which transmits a content transmission request to a first server, a second transmission portion, which transmits a content transmission request to a second server, a transmission control portion, which outputs transmission instruction information ordering the transmission of a content transmission request to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090228552 - Requesting computer user's context data: Techniques are described for providing information about a current state that is modeled with multiple state attributes. In some situations, the providing includes receiving from first and second sources indications of an ability to supply values for, respectively, an indicated one of the state attributes and another of the state... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090228547 - Server apparatus and communication system: A client apparatus requests a server apparatus to transmit information. The server apparatus receives the request from the client apparatus, and determines whether a state of an information source satisfies a predetermined condition. The server apparatus, as a result of the determination, if the state of the information source does... Agent: Mitchell P. Brook Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP

20090228550 - System, method, and computer program for determining whether object is genuine or fake in metaverse: A server computer connected to a plurality of client computers through a network and controls objects in a Metaverse accessed by the client computers. The server computer includes: a storage unit for storing, as object information for a certain object, an object ID specifying the object and, associated with the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090228554 - Method and system for assigning unique and dynamic information-carrying serial numbers: A method and system for assigning unique static and dynamic information-carrying serial numbers is disclosed. The static portion of the serial number is assigned before the device enters service, such as at assembly. A serial number computer is used to store the static and dynamic serial number, such as an... Agent: Alticor Inc.

20090228553 - Trouble report system algorithm: A Trouble Report System Algorithm will provide a means for users to voice a concern or recognized issue for review, evaluation, and solution by others involved and/or responsible for the given project, who's identity will also be kept anonymous.... Agent: Rachele Cocks

20090228555 - Automated contact list determination based on collaboration history: A computer-implemented method of automated contact list determination can include detecting a collaborative event in real time and, responsive to detecting the collaborative event, identifying an owner of an electronic message and at least one contact specified by the electronic message, wherein the electronic message is associated with the collaborative... Agent: Cuenot, Forsythe & Kim, LLC

20090228564 - Electronic mail forwarding service: A system and method are disclosed that enable an email service provider to implement an email forwarding service without losing associated page views. In one embodiment, rather than forwarding the entire email message, the email forwarding service generates a summary email message, and sends this summary email message to the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090228565 - Electronic mail forwarding service: A system for detecting information leakage in e-mails using neural network and support vector machines is provided. This system does not use the content of the e-mail or the content of the attachments in the e-mail. Instead, a set of non-sensitive variables or attributes is picked from the e-mails originating... Agent: Venable LLP

20090228562 - Mail sending and receiving apparatus, method, computer-readable medium and system: A method, to facilitate sending and receiving e-mails, includes: reading mail information from a mail-information memory regarding accessible e-mail accounts to which an authenticated user is permitted to have access; providing the mail information specific to a first one of the accessible email accounts; receiving a switching instruction to switch... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090228556 - Message character string output system, its control method, and information storage medium: A message string output system which allows increased input motivation of a user with respect to a specific string is provided. A point information storage (48) stores point information in correspondence with user identification information. A specific string storage (44) stores a specific string. A user identification information acquiring unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090228560 - Method and apparatus for classifying electronic mail messages: A system for classifying an electronic mail message is presented. During operation of the system, type tags are included in an electronic mail message, wherein the type tag can be used to classify the electronic mail message. Furthermore, specified actions can be performed based on the type tags included in... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090228561 - Method and system for promoting a website: A system for promoting a website through a user of the website is disclosed. The system includes a data generator for generating data, the data including user identity information for identifying the user. The system also includes a data sender for sending the data to the user for forwarding to... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090228557 - Multiple-layer chat filter system and method: A computer network-based messaging system includes a multiple-layer chat filtering system for controlling the content of messages sent by users. A computer receives a message including a plurality of words entered by a sender. A word database includes a plurality of permitted words which are allowed to be transmitted. A... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090228563 - Publish/subscribe message broker: A method of operating a publish/subscribe message broker. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes receiving a message on a topic from a publisher, identifying the message as a start of a sequence of messages, transmitting the message to one or more existing subscribers to the topic, registering a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090228559 - Rating system for instant messaging (im): User ratings can be received from Instant Messaging (IM) users, such as ratings for other users established via an IM application interface. Each received user rating can represent a rating corresponding to an IM communicator. The received user ratings can be processed to establish a global rating for the IM... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090228558 - Time management for outgoing electronic mail: Apparatus and methods of delivering electronic messages, such as e-mail, which provide e-mail users with additional control over the delivery process. A sending delay timer is incorporated into e-mail products, such as e-mail client and server software. Instead of trying to catch a message after it has been sent, the... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC (alu)

20090228566 - Automatic notification system and process: Receiving a notification message by a mobile subscriber can include establishing a session with a notification service; maintaining a persistent communication connection with the notification service after the session is established; subscribing to a node hosted by the notification service, wherein the node is pre-provisioned for use by a mobile... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090228567 - Digital media content promotion methods including automatic alerts: A system and methods for automatic geographic alerts to authorized users, including geography-specific promotional material associated with digital media provided through a website for providing distribution and promotion for the digital content through network-based access to authorized users who pay for predetermined rights.... Agent: Triangle Patents, P.l.l.c.

20090228568 - Multicasting computer bus switch: There is disclosed apparatus and methods of multicasting in a shared address space. A shared memory address space may include two or more multicast portions. Each multicast portion may be associated with a respective end point and with at least one other multicast portion. Data units may be transmitted to... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20090228571 - Information processing device, information processing method, information processing program, and remote controller terminal: An information processing system, an information processing device, an information processing method, an information processing program, and a remote controller terminal offer further improved operability. A remote controller terminal uses function item information receiving means to receive function item information representing functions of an information terminal device to be operated,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090228569 - Pause and replay of media content through bookmarks on a server device: A method, apparatus, and system of pause and replay of media content through bookmarks on a server device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a server device includes authenticating a user of a client device, communicating a media content to the client device through a network, processing a... Agent: Raj Abhyanker LLP C/o Intellevate

20090228570 - System and method for automatically synchronizing and acquiring content for battery-powered devices: A time budget during which a portable device will be enabled to acquire content is established and the time budget as well as a filter is used to determine which content the portable device will acquire during a synchronization process.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090228573 - Computer, method and program for effectively notifying others of problems concerning accessibility in content: A computer having a display device, a speaker device and an input device, for identifying problems concerning accessibility in content the computer. The computer includes: display means for displaying content containing a plurality of structured objects; conversion means for converting the content into reading information based on predetermined rules; reading... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090228572 - System and method for creating and tracking rich media communications: The present invention includes a system, methods, and technology platform for instantly creating, delivering, updating, deploying, and inherently tracking one or more unique, multimedia rich, email and web-based communications campaigns or rich media presentations—all without any technical knowledge. Each rich media presentation created with the invention may consist of a... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20090228574 - Digital media content distribution and promotion methods: A system and methods for digital content creation and upload through a managed website for providing distribution and promotion for the digital content through network-based access to authorized users who pay for predetermined rights.... Agent: Triangle Patents, P.l.l.c.

20090228575 - Computing disjoint paths for reactive routing mesh networks: In one embodiment, a reactive routing computer network may be partitioned into diverse logical topologies, and a source node may transmit route request (RREQ) messages toward a destination node on each logical topology. In response, the source node may receive route reply (RREP) messages indicating routes to the destination node... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090228577 - Push update system: A push update system for a security system having a plurality of network nodes connected in a hierarchy to a root node, including: (i) an upstream agent of an upstream node for sending updates for respective downstream nodes; (ii) a schedule agent for scheduling processing by the upstream agent; (iii)... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090228576 - System and method for testing software: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer program products for testing software in a virtual private environment. One embodiment of a method for testing software in a virtual private environment includes cloning an original computing environment into one or more virtual environments, wherein the one or more... Agent: Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP Susan Formicola

20090228578 - Multimedia player and browser system: A multimedia software application that can include audio, video and/or graphics, in a manner that combines the multimedia experience with the transfer of information from and between a variety of sources (126), in a variety of directions, and subject to a variety of prompts. The application provides a “Web in... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20090228583 - Checking electronic messages for compliance with user intent: Intention data is used to determine an intent of a sender of a message, or other participant, in an electronic communication system such as an email system. For example, a message that is designated for sending can be compared to the sender's intention data and if a discrepancy or deficiency... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090228580 - Computing environment sensitive data synchronization: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and computer program product for computing environment sensitive data synchronization in a pervasive device. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for computing environment sensitive data synchronization in a pervasive device can be provided. The method can include monitoring environmental conditions... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090228587 - Intelligent performance monitoring based on user transactions: A system and method to allow an individual transaction in an instrumented software application to be monitored according to its own configuration. In one preferred embodiment, each transaction is associated with a token. The token includes the monitoring configuration that should be used for the associated transaction. When the application... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090228585 - Method and apparatus of end-user response time determination for both tcp and non-tcp protocols: End-user response time in a network is determined by an analyzer which measures client data transfer time, server response time, server data transfer time and, if the protocol is a TCP protocol, further measuring server network round trip time. End-user response time may be approximated by the sum of these... Agent: Patenttm.us

20090228588 - Performance computer network method: A method for a computer network includes a plurality of customer web servers, each of the customer web servers storing a web page, using a POP DNS server to determine a customer web server from the plurality of customer web servers, the customer web server having a traffic load lower... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090228586 - Periodic exporting of information over a flow protocol: In some example embodiments, a apparatus and method are shown that include receiving a subscription instruction identifying a subscription to management information from a network device. Additionally, the apparatus and method includes periodically retrieving the management information from the network device. Further, the apparatus and method includes formatting the management... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090228584 - Presence-based event driven architecture: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for using a presence-based network to monitor systems, devices, or agents. According to one embodiment, monitoring a system can comprise receiving a publication of one or more presence attributes from a presence network agent. The presence attributes can comprise at least one... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090228581 - System and method for enabling virtual playdates between children: The present invention concerns a system and method that enables children to have virtual playdates with each other within a virtual environment. The virtual environment is separately accessible by a child through a child interface and a parent through a parent control interface. The parent provides playdate control information to... Agent: Winthrop D. Childers

20090228582 - System and method in a communication system with concealed sources: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a proxy system having a controller to submit to law enforcement agency an identity of a source that conceals its identity with one or more anonymous Internet Protocol addresses. Other embodiments are disclosed.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090228579 - Unified service management: The described unified service management system provides a unified console to perform functions of individual management specialists. A unified console facilitates an administrator to perform the complex tasks that were performed by the individual management specialists. The unified console provides a “wizard” based approach to the administrator to design all... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090228590 - Device for sharing a host with multiple users through power lines in a building: A device for sharing a computer host with multiple users through power lines in a building has a primary transceiver and at least one secondary transceiver. The primary transceiver is used to connect a computer host and the power lines, and has a bidirectional communication with the computer host via... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090228591 - Information processing apparatus, information processing apparatus control method, and computer product: An information processing apparatus includes a service-start notifying unit and an existence-confirmation notifying unit. The service-start notifying unit generates, when a new UPnP service starts, a service-start-time broadcast packet and sends it to other information processing apparatuses in a UPnP network. The existence-confirmation notifying unit generates a service-time broadcast packet... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090228589 - Server and storage-aware method for selecting virtual machine migration targets: A method and system selecting a target physical machine for a virtual machine (VM) migration is provided. Selecting a target physical machine for a VM migration involves determining storage volume connectivity and spare path capacity of one or more candidate physical machines, and preferentially selecting among the candidate physical machines... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. C/o Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090228592 - Techniques for watermarking and distributing content: Techniques for watermarking and distributing are provided. Content is broken into frames, each frame includes a watermark. Resources request the content and each frame of each resource's acquired version of the content includes a watermark. The frames of each resource's acquired version of the content form unique watermark sequences or... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/macrovision

20090228593 - Traversal of symmetric network address translator for multiple simultaneous connections: Handling of multiple connections during NAT traversal for a node behind a symmetric NAT is disclosed. The likelihood of connection failure during symmetric NAT traversal may be reduced by serializing critical time windows after port prediction. Once port prediction has begun for a first connection, port prediction for a subsequent... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20090228596 - Method, server and terminal for implementing call directions: A method, a server, and a terminal for implementing call directions are provided. The method includes sending a message including PUSH contents to a terminal, receiving a redirection request from the terminal and sending the message according to the redirection request. A server and a terminal or implementing call directions... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090228594 - Policies for session types: A session-specific policy may be used to define specific configuration and operational characteristics of different types of sessions. One type of session may have one set of characteristics while a second type of session may have a different set of characteristics. The policy may be applied by a server or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090228595 - Policy negotiation system and method: A system and method for policy negotiation in a web services platform includes a client node and a provider server that transmits policy alternatives to the client node. The client node selects at least one policy from the policy alternatives and transmit the selected policy to the provider server. The... Agent: Venable LLP

20090228597 - Methods and systems for transaction record delivery using thresholds and multi-stage protocol: The present invention provides systems and methods for conducting electronic transactions in a distributed computing environment. A communications protocol is provided that enables reliable transactional state synchronization for peers participating in a distributed transaction. A transaction processing application is deployed on a local computer system to manage transactions thereon. The... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090228598 - Method and apparatus for frequency reuse in a multi-carrier communications system: Systems and methods are described that facilitate evaluating conditions of nodes (e.g., access points, access points, access terminals, etc.) in a wireless communication environment having a plurality of carriers to determine a level of disadvantage for a given node relative to other nodes. The node may transmit a resource utilization... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090228599 - Distinguishing data streams to enhance data storage efficiency: Systems, methods, and computer products for communicating between a client and server by identifying and separating file data streams within a file are provided. The method comprises indicating the type of file data stream to be transmitted and transmitting the indicated file data stream. The transmitted file data stream is... Agent: CenturyIPGroup, Inc. [ibm Us]

20090228601 - Method and apparatus for processing audio/video bit-stream: A method for processing an audio/video bit-stream includes the steps of receiving an input bit-stream, detecting whether the input bit-stream has a startcode emulation prevention pattern, and removing the startcode emulation prevention pattern from the input bit-stream to generate an output bit-stream and setting a flag signal as a first... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090228600 - Streaming content provisioning system for wireless networks: A system and method (“utility”) for facilitating the selection of streaming data by, and the delivery of streaming data to, users of mobile devices is provided. The utility includes a network platform for provisioning the streaming content. The system also includes a website that is operable to list or otherwise... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090228602 - Method and apparatus for managing transmission of tcp data segments: A communication device is arranged to transmit data segments over an interface, wherein the communication device comprises transmission management logic. In response to receipt of a data segment for transmission over the interface, the transmission management logic is arranged to determine a sequence number of a data segment to be... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090228604 - Apparatus and method for calculating communication paths: The apparatus further calculates two or more intra-area paths for each of the multi-path passage areas, and determines the first end-to-end path by selecting a first intra-area path among the calculated intra-area paths for each of the multi-path passing areas so that the first end-to-end path includes the selected first... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090228603 - System and method for selecting proxy gateways in peer-to-peer networks: The current invention provides a system and method for selecting a proxy gateway for communication between a client and server. In exemplary embodiments, a network includes a plurality of proxy servers and one or more reference nodes in signal communication with the proxy servers. A reference communication path is determined... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090228605 - Method and system for routing service requests based on throughput of teams of servers: A method and system are disclosed for creating portfolios of requests so as to reduce or minimize the variance in the workloads generated by those requests. The invention also takes into account the throughput of the servers that are servicing the requests. In a preferred embodiment, the method comprises the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090228606 - Data synchronization protocol: Among other things, techniques and systems are disclosed for syncing data between a client device and a server. Synchronizing data includes initiating a sync session by negotiating a sync mode between a client device and a server for each of one or more dataclasses. A status code is generated based... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090228607 - Method and apparatus for managing delivery of media content: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set top box having a controller to select a portion of content servers among a plurality of content servers for delivery of media content to the set top box, where the selection is based on server... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090222504 - Distributed cross-application server deployment: A method for a distributed deployment includes selecting a first feature module of an application to be deployed where the application includes multiple feature modules. A second feature module of an application to be deployed is selected. A first server and a second server to which to deploy the first... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090222507 - Method, system, and apparatus for supporting personal service: A personal service support method for assisting an inquiry about a user operation in a virtual world, a computer program product, and a system for the same. The method includes: storing a dialog between a user and an agent; connecting the dialog in a list structure with another dialog in... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090222508 - Network site testing: Various embodiments enable a server system to transmit a test workload to N distributed devices, request that the N distributed devices execute the test workload by requesting a service from a network site, and receive results from the N distributed devices indicating a quality of service received by the N... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, Ps

20090222505 - Peer to peer software license management system for temporarily relocating available software licenses: A peer to peer software license management system that is capable of temporarily relocating available software licenses is disclosed. Any node of the peer to peer software license management system (i.e., any computer in which the software license management system software of the invention is installed) is allowed to act... Agent: Anthony Miologos Honeywell International Inc.

20090222506 - System and method for metering and analyzing usage and performance data of a virtualized compute and network infrastructure: A method and system for metering and analyzing usage and performance data of virtualized compute and network infrastructures is disclosed. The processing functions of the metered data are divided into “processing units” that are configured to execute on a server (or plurality of interconnected servers). Each processing unit receives input... Agent: Gearhart Law, LLC

20090222511 - Delivering composite media to a client application: An approach is provided for generating composite media and delivering the composite media to a client application. Data is received from one or more external sources, and a portion of the data is selected to be used in the composite media according to the time period of delivery of the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090222512 - Entryway communication system: A premises entryway communications device and system enable a visitor to the premises and an occupant of the premises to communicate via icons and text.... Agent: Avaya Inc.

20090222514 - Information processing apparatus, information communication system, information processing method, and computer program: A configuration is provided in which a device in a home network receives content from a server outside the home network and plays the content. A home IMS gateway maps an external server outside the home network as a virtual home network device, and provides mapped server information in response... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090222510 - Method and apparatus for controlling web page advertisement through incentives and restrictions: A method and apparatus for a cooperative process for negotiating the display of advertisements on a web page or web site. The user configures his preferences for advertisements that are displayed through a browser or plug-in interface when accessing a web page or web site. Each hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090222513 - Method for handling different versions of an application, and an automation system: A method in an automated system for handling at least two versions of an application. The system includes a controller for automation of a process with the application stored thereon in bidirectional connection with a communication server. The communication server is in bidirectional connection with at least two clients. The... Agent: Venable LLP

20090222515 - Methods and apparatus for transferring data: Methods and apparatus for transferring data according to various aspects of the present invention may operate in conjunction with a computer system configured to connect to a p2p network. The computer may run a p2p communication program that receives a request for content via the p2p network. The computer determines... Agent: The Noblitt Group, PLLC

20090222509 - System and method for sharing storage devices over a network: A distributed data sharing system provides storage areas for network clients. Files are written in such a manner that user data is protected and/or so that the network can make use of any available space at a network when saving files.... Agent: Cameron Kerrigan Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090222519 - Computer-based methods for arranging meetings and systems for performing the same: Methods and systems for assisting individuals arrange meetings such as networking meetings with other individuals at a specified time (or within a specified time range) and at a specified place (or within a specified geographic region). More specifically, methods and systems for allowing individuals to post an invitation to for... Agent: John Boyd

20090222517 - Methods, systems, and apparatus for using virtual devices with peer-to-peer groups: Using virtual devices with P2P groups involves sending a discovery record from a virtual device to an Internet-based broker. A registration message from the peer-to-peer group is received by the virtual device in response to the discovery record. The registration message is used to join the virtual device with the... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20090222516 - Self-described rendering of data: An exemplary data package for a network-based instant messaging system includes descriptive data about a user of the instant messaging system and data indicating a network location of a gadget to render the descriptive data, the location accessible by one or more other users of the instant messaging system. Various... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090222518 - System and method for network conference: The present invention provides at least an electronic system for network conference. The electronic system includes a user right module for storing and maintaining a plurality of user rights associated to each user of the electronic system, and a meeting right module for creating a meeting having a plurality of... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090222520 - Synchronizing multiple user remote content playback: Playback of content downloaded or streamed from a network service is automatically synchronized for users at different client devices. Synchronization is achieved using user approved actions to perform during content playback. Each client device submits playback status to a server while the server generates and sends synchronization instructions for each... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20090222522 - Method and system of organizing and suggesting activities based on availability information and activity requirements: Activities may be automatically organized and suggested to members of a network based at least on interest information and availability information. A suggested activity may be confirmed or canceled based on attendance information received from the members.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090222521 - Method for managing messages in a peer-to-peer network: A message management method, for use when a depositor (X) wishes to send a message (M) to an addressee (Y), includes a step of the depositor (X) sending a call invitation (INV1) to a call router (10) to set up a call to the addressee (Y), a step of the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090222523 - Method for receiving and displaying segments of a message before the message is complete: A method for messaging based communication includes enabling a first message to be entered into a message entry area of a first messaging application, receiving at least one segment of a second message from at least one remote messaging application before the message is completed, displaying the received segment of... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090222525 - Method of providing quick answer service in sip message service system: Disclosed is an SIP based message service. If a message service server receives a quick answer addition request from a user terminal, the server detects a quick answer text and a quick answer ID, assigned corresponding to the quick answer text, in the quick answer addition request, and stores the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090222528 - Resource sharing method and system: A resource sharing method for a resource sharing system for a plurality of edge peers that individually store a resource and a plurality of super peers that manage the plurality of edge peers or resource information including a name of the resource that includes at least one key word is... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090222524 - Signalling optimisations using hash functions: A method for configuring a connection between first and second peer entities in a wireless telecommunications network comprises sending a hash value between the first and second peer entities, the hash value being a compact representation of information relating to a connection configuration procedure between the first and second peer... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090222527 - Useful data and content feeds in the enterprise: In a new Notification Service, applications can publish data and allow users to subscribe to that data how they wish, with methods for secure redaction and secure authentication.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090222526 - Using gender analysis of names to assign avatars in instant messaging applications: A data processing system includes a processor, a memory, and computer readable instructions stored in the memory for execution by the processor to perform a method comprising receiving a username for a first user having a first user account registered with an instant messaging system; performing an anthroponomastic analysis of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20090222529 - Information processing system, information processing terminal, and computer readable medium: An information processing system includes: an external device; and information processing terminals. The information processing terminal includes: a storage unit configured to store identification information unique to the information processing terminal; an obtaining unit configured to obtain media information from the external device, the media information relating to a recording... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090222533 - Data relaying apparatus, data relaying method, and data relay processing program: A data relaying apparatus disposed on the preceding stage of a registry server centrally managing meta-information extracts meta-information from a content retrieval result transmitted from the registry server to a client terminal and retains and correlates the meta-information with URI information included in the meta-information. On the other hand, a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090222532 - Software to provide geographically relevant website content: Internet based software application that identifies the geographic location of each a website visitor by their IP address to provide geographically relevant content to each individual visitor in a customized web page. In an embodiment, content can be further customized by web page viewing patterns of users in similar geographic... Agent: Christopher J. Vandam, P.A.

20090222534 - System and method for managing documents with multiple network applications: A method and system for managing documents, where the system includes a document manager server connected to image processing devices and to applications via a network. The document manager server receives identification information from the image processing devices and transmits information relating to network applications to the image processing devices.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090222530 - System and method for service discovery in a computer network using dynamic proxy and data dissemination: A service advertisement delivery system and method is useful in a data processing network. A broadcasting node receives service advertisements describing services offered by service providing network nodes. A datastore in communication with the broadcasting node stores a set of the service advertisements of the service providing network nodes. The... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20090222531 - Xml-based web feed for web access of remote resources: Techniques for XML (Extensible Markup Language) web feeds for web access of remote resources are described. In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining information regarding one or more available resources from one or more resource hosts, rendering the information regarding one or more available resources into an Extensible Markup Language... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090222535 - internet access server for isolating the internal network from the external network and a process method thereof: A internet access server for isolating the internal network from the external network and a process method thereof, the server is used to isolate the user computer from internet. The computer server universal-based includes a graphics terminal service module, a graphics terminal network transmission module, a internal network transmission control... Agent: Law Offices Of Clement Cheng

20090222536 - Dynamic portal assembly: The present invention provides a Dynamic Portal Assembly for Portals which provides the function to manipulate whole topology tree of a Portal at runtime. Topology Fragments, that are partial topology trees, are computed by software components called Adapters and are merged with existing trees at run time. The Adapters themselves... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090222539 - Selectively routing patient data between field devices and treatment center destinations: Techniques for routing event data from a field device, such as an external defibrillator, to a selected subset of a plurality of possible destinations are described. The event data may include physiological data of the patient, such as a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG). The destinations may be associated with one of... Agent: Jason D. Kelly Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.

20090222537 - System and method for interactive instant networking: Interactive instant networking may be achieved by receiving an indication to change from a current network mode to another network mode, disabling a collaboration authority DHCP server if the current network mode comprises a collaboration authority instant network mode, enabling the collaboration authority DHCP server if the current network mode... Agent: Robert E. Krebs Thelen Reid & Pries LLP

20090222538 - Terminal function management server, communication system, and communication method: An object is to provide a terminal function management server, communication system, and communication method enabling efficient and smooth communication. A terminal function management server such as a DM server is configured as follows. When there is a modification of communication functions retained by a first mobile terminal 2A, function... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090222540 - Architecture for operational support system: A network management system for management of a communications network is disclosed. The system comprises an inventory database storing a network inventory comprising information representative of network resources of the communications network. The system comprises means for receiving a change request specifying a modification to be made to the network,... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20090222543 - Automatic cluster node discovery and configuration: A computer cluster system comprising a plurality of nodes and a software package comprising a user interface and a kernel for interpreting program code instructions is provided. In one embodiment, a cluster node module is configured to communicate with the kernel and other cluster node modules. The cluster node module... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090222541 - Dynamic sensor network registry: A scalable network architecture adapted to interface with various sensor types and sensor access mechanisms while providing real-time access to sensor data for distributed applications and organizations is described. A centralized sensor network service manages the registration, capabilities, near real-time status of the sensors and their current network connections. New... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20090222542 - Virtual system and method in a virtual system: A virtual system, which realizes virtual computing environments for performing communication processing, includes a user virtual machine which is provided as a virtual machine environment to be used by users, and a service virtual machine which has a physical communication interface with a real network for communication between the real... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090222545 - Device control apparatus, device information acquiring method, and computer-readable recording medium: A device control apparatus configured to control a device based on device information acquired from the device, the device control apparatus including a search part configured to search for an information processing apparatus connected to a network; a remote control availability determining part configured to determine whether the information processing... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090222544 - Framework for joint analysis and design of server provisioning and load dispatching for connection-intensive server: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates managing a number of active servers in a cluster. A forecast component can predict at least one of login rate or number of connections in the cluster at a future time. A dynamic load analysis component can evaluate... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090222547 - Generating displays of networking addresses: Technologies for generating displays of user-defined blocks of networking addresses on a map of an associated address space are provided. Each block of networking addresses is described in a user-defined table with a start address and a map size. The display for each block of network addresses may be rendered... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20090222548 - Method and apparatus for restricting address resolution protocol table updates: Techniques for restricting Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) table updates to updates originating from authorized subsystems is disclosed. According to an embodiment, an instruction to update an ARP table is received. It is determined whether a command interface from which the instruction originated is authorized. If the command interface is authorized,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090222546 - Network device management apparatus and device management method: When a management operation for changing an IP address of a device is applied to a plurality of devices, and the devices as operation targets include a network device management apparatus, the self apparatus is put to the end of operations, and the IP address change operation is applied to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090222557 - Analysis system, information processing apparatus, activity analysis method and program product: An analysis system, information processing apparatus, activity analysis method, and program for analyzing activities of an information source on a network. The system and apparatus include an attribute extraction block for extracting, an information propagation graph acquisition block for searching action history data, and a characteristic user calculation block for... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090222549 - Correlating performance data of multiple computing devices: Systems, products, and methods are disclosed for facilitating the correlation of performance data associated with multiple computing devices. An illustrative method includes referencing a time as indicated by a computer and referencing a start time indication that identifies a time to begin monitoring computer performance. Thereafter, the time indicated by... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090222552 - Human-computer productivity management system and method: The invention is a human-computer productivity management system with both processes and data systems designed to monitor the interactions between humans and computer systems, log the interactions, securely transmit the data to a centralized server, archive the data, process the data into highly efficient database, analyze the data to calculate... Agent: Clock Tower Law Group

20090222558 - Managing network data transfers in a virtual computer system: A method for protecting a virtual computer system which may be susceptible to adverse effects from a Denial of Service attack is described. The virtual computer system includes a plurality of VMs. In the method, data that is transferred between the virtual computer system and the computer network is monitored... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090222550 - Measurement of the effectiveness of advertisement displayed on web pages: A method to determine user attentiveness to an information item included in a web page comprising: displaying an image representing a first web page that includes a first information item to a first individuals; determining a baseline time that represents a typical amount of time that respective first individuals look... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Duane Morris LLP

20090222551 - Method and system for qualifying user engagement with a website: A system and a method of identifying information characterizing use of a website is provided. A plurality of user profiles are analyzed. A user profile includes information associated with an interaction by a user with the website. A plurality of user comments associated with the website are analyzed. Characteristic information... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090222553 - Monitoring network performance to identify sources of network performance degradation: A method of measuring, for communication paths between a networked computer and at least one other networked computer connected via a network performance, network information to detect network performance degradation and diagnose source(s) of the performance degradation. The diagnosis may be performed by a progressive elimination of possible sources. Network... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090222556 - Monitoring network usage: A method of determining whether a user has complied with a service level agreement (SLA) with a network operator, comprising collecting a set of data values representative of the user's service usage and comparing the set of data values to the service level agreement. The data values collected provide the... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090222555 - Network performance monitor: A network performance monitor for a computer. The performance monitor maintains a baseline for communication paths between a networked computer and other networked computers connected. The network performance baseline is established and maintained by measuring and updating network performance parameters of the communication paths. The network performance parameters are updated... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090222554 - Statistics for online advertising: An apparatus and a method for collecting online advertisement statistics is described. In one embodiment, a web browser of a client requests from a server, a web page having an advertisement banner. The web browser receives the web page and a JavaScript program. The browser loads the webpage and the... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090222559 - Address management in a connectivity platform: Disclosed are an approach form managing and assigning addresses in a connectivity platform that allows for proprietary connectivity modules (Providers) to plug into the operating system. In this disclosure, when a user/application/computing device, connects to another user on another computing device an address is generated for that user. However, because... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090222562 - Load skewing for power-aware server provisioning: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method facilitates energy-aware connection distribution among a plurality of servers in a cluster. A set of busy servers in the cluster can be provided that each handle a high number of connections. In addition, a set of tail servers in the... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090222560 - Method and system for integrated deployment planning for virtual appliances: A method and system for integrated server-storage deployment planning for virtual appliances is provided. One implementation involves determining a performance cost in deploying the virtual appliance to different pairings of candidate host and storage subsystems. A host and storage subsystem pair is preferentially selected among the candidate pairings, a pairing... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. C/o Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090222561 - Method, apparatus and computer program product implementing session-specific urls and resources: Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement session-specific URIs for allocating network resources by receiving a request from a user for at least one network resource; assigning a session-specific URI to the at least one network resource for use in identifying the at least one network resource and controlling access... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090222563 - Method of establishing a connection on a communication network: A method of establishing connections between at least a first and a second terminal on a communication network includes: sending to the second terminal a network signal requesting the network availability to establish the connection and a terminal signal requesting the availability of the second terminal to run an application... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090222564 - Apparatus and method for supporting connection establishment in an offload of network protocol processing: A number of improvements in network adapters that offload protocol processing from the host processor are provided. Specifically, a mechanism for improving connection establishment in a system utilizing an offload network adapter is provided. The connection establishment mechanism provides the ability to offload connection establishment and maintenance of connection state... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090222565 - Centralized publishing of network resources: Techniques for centralized publishing of network resources within computer networks are described. Publication of and access to the network resources are controlled from a single, centralized location, advantageously improving the uniformity of network administration responsibilities, and overall robustness of the network.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090222566 - Name system in communication network, and naming method: A name system and method in a communication network, includes a technique for implementing naming in which security is ensured in an Internet environment and a personal network in which a user can access his own device or data.... Agent: Sampson & Associates, P.C.

20090222568 - Connectivity platform: Disclosed are a connectivity platform that allows for proprietary connectivity modules to plug into the operating system and also allows the operating system users and various existing networking applications in the operating system that are authorized by those providers to use that connectivity via existing APIs without the need for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090222567 - Method and system for media-based data transfer: A method for media-based data transfer involves obtaining data, by a first virtual network interface card (VNIC) selected from multiple VNICs, where the multiple VNICs are associated with multiple virtual machines, where each of the multiple virtual machines is located in one of multiple computers communicatively coupled with each other... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090222569 - Storage system front end: A storage system may include a first storage device and a protocol translator. The protocol translator may be programmed to receive a storage-access command formatted in a first protocol format. The protocol translator may also be programmed to translate the storage-access command into a second protocol format. The storage system... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20090222570 - Service for personalizing communications by processing audio and/or video media flows: A method is provided for the exchange of media flows between a terminal used by a user and a connection termination during the same session of interpersonal communication. The method includes a personalization step for running a personalization program associated with an activation command by a personalization table, following the... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090222572 - Communication system, communication apparatus, communication program, and computer-readable storage medium stored with the communication program: Multiple client apparatus 1 belonging to a predetermined communication group connected to the Internet 30 transmit and receive with each other video data corresponding to an image videotaped by a video camera 11 and audio data corresponding to voice input from a microphone 12. One of the multiple client apparatus... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090222571 - Portable communications framework: Embodiments of the present invention provide a portable MTP framework. In an embodiment, the portable MTP framework includes an MTP communications stack and a portability layer. The portability layer decouples the MTP communications stack from the underlying platform, storage, and transport components, thereby achieving transport protocol, platform, and storage media... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090222573 - System and method for application layer resource traffic control: Methods and systems are presented for controlling application layer message traffic at a central web services resource in which a web services gateway associated with the central resource sends a backoff message to a gateway associated with a remote web service client, which in turn slows the application layer message... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090222574 - Trust information delivery scheme for certificate validation: A unique TIO based trust information delivery scheme is disclosed that allows clients to verify received certificates and to control Java and Javascript access efficiently. This scheme fits into the certificate verification process in SSL to provide a secure connection between a client and a Web server. In particular, the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff , Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007412

20090222577 - Bypassing an application layer gateway: A device may include a client configured to select a network address that an application layer gateway does not recognize, create a message that includes the selected network address as a source address of the message and excludes any address that the application layer gateway will overwrite when the application... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090222576 - Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption of a network communication device receiving streaming content via an ip-based network: A method and apparatus for transmitting multimedia content to a network communication device, such as a wireless local area network (WLAN) device, via one or more IP-based networks, in a manner that reduces power consumption by the network communication device. A system stream server, such as a set-top box, transmits... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090222575 - Router analysis system: A device may receive a first message that indicates whether an application layer gateway is hosted on the router, send a second message to test whether a firewall on the router incorrectly blocks the second message from reaching a client, send a set of messages to detect a pinhole in... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090222578 - Tunneling ssl over ssh: A system and method for enabling single-socket server applications to receive information via multiple ports. In one embodiment, a system includes a network tunnel configured to receive traffic at a first port of an application server and to communicate the received traffic to a second port of the application server.... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090222579 - Apparatus and methods for the communication and fault management of data in a multipath data network: An apparatus and methods are provided for the communication of a data stream and management of faults in a multipath data network having a protected ring-in-ring network architecture. The data stream is communicated over redundant paths between various nodes located throughout the network. Each node is capable of dropping and... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090222580 - System and method for optimizing distribution of media files: There is disclosed a media file distribution system and method. An asset management and delivery system and method for the distribution of digital files and data is provided. There are two major functions, with sub-functions within each. The system first serves as a fully automated management system for a company... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090222583 - Client-side load balancing: An exemplary method for load balancing includes accessing a range of values for IP addresses associated with a virtual IP address associated with a domain name; selecting, using a local statistical algorithm, a value in the range; and, based at least in part on the selected value, connecting to a... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090222584 - Client-side management of domain name information: An exemplary method includes booting a computing device, in response to the booting, accessing a file that includes domain names and resolving at least one of the domain names by issuing a request to a server where the resolving occurs as a background process. An exemplary method includes receiving a... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090222582 - Failover in an internet location coordinate enhanced domain name system: An exemplary failover module includes (a) instructions to respond to a connection problem to a host server at an IP address by selecting a different IP address from a cached list of IP addresses for a domain name associated with the host server and (b) instructions to return the selected,... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090222581 - Internet location coordinate enhanced domain name system: An exemplary architecture is for an Internet Location Coordinate enhanced Domain Name System (DNS). An exemplary method includes requesting information for a plurality of servers associated with a network domain name of a Domain Name System (DNS) where the information includes information based in part on packets transmitted by each... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090222585 - Efficient decoding of mediaflo system non real-time service files: A technique for decoding code packets of file delivery protocol (FDP) and file delivery control protocol (FDCP) messages, the FDP messages comprising fields having values used to generate an indices of a data packets, the FDCP messages comprising a value of a minimum number of code packets required, the code... Agent: Rahman LLC

20090222587 - Providing location path: The server for providing location path, comprising: a server communication unit for interlocking with a mobile communication terminal and an E-mail reception server; a server control unit for receiving location path data and E-mail account information from the mobile communication terminal by controlling the server communication unit, creating location tracking... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090222586 - Systems and methods for universal protocol for case management systems: An embodiment relates generally to a method of communication between multiple case management systems. The method includes providing for a standard universal format that can be used for a plurality of case management systems, where each case management system is different from another, to communicate within the plurality of case... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20090222589 - Circuit arrangement and method for synchronization of clocks in a network: A circuit arrangement and a method for synchronizing clocks in a network is provided, comprising a plurality of at least two nodes, wherein at least two of said nodes can communicated with each other and each have a local clock, wherein, in a receiving one of said nodes, from at... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090222588 - Portable device and remote computer synchronization: Embodiments of the present invention provide a portable MTP framework. In an embodiment, the portable MTP framework includes an MTP communications stack and a portability layer. The portability layer decouples the MTP communications stack from the underlying platform, storage, and transport components, thereby achieving transport protocol, platform, and storage media... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090222590 - Device and method for managing two types of devices: The present invention concerns an Interconnect device, comprising a first interface to a first network, a second interface to a second network, a bridge for connecting said first interface to said second interface, a router comprising routing means, and a local server. The interconnect device comprises means for detecting a... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090222591 - Method and apparatus for selecting an access: A method and apparatus are disclosed according to which a programmable access selector comprising at least one defined characteristic and at least one defined method are applied with each other, wherein at least one access from among a plurality of available accesses is selected responsive to the application.... Agent: Nokia, Inc.