Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization inventions 10/09

20090248785 - Audio content identification system and methods thereof: A method of determining the number of recipients for an audio content item includes receiving a packet associated with the audio content item at a network monitoring device. The monitoring device includes a packet inspection module that analyzes a data payload of the packet to identify the audio content item.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lna Attn: Patent Docketing

20090248787 - Content management: A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider determines a class associated with a set of client computing devices and monitors resources requests for the determined class. The content delivery network service provider then identifies at least one cache... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090248784 - Diskless image boot outside of lan: A local area network (LAN) server allows an authenticated user of a computer remote from the LAN to cause a diskless computer in the LAN to redirect screen shots to the computer remote from the LAN, with the screen shots being generated based on a users computer image persistently stored... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090248783 - Method for preventing use of multiple application instances: A method and apparatus are provided for managing activation of one or more application instances in a client machine in communication with a server across a network. The client machine is configured with a manager local to the client machine to manage the application instances. Data associated with the application... Agent: Pastel Law Firm

20090248786 - Request routing based on class: A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider receives a DNS query from a client computing device. The DNS query corresponds to a requested resource from the client computing device. The content delivery network service provider associates the client... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090248782 - Thread timeout coordination method and system: An apparatus, program product and method associates a timeout used by a client computer sending a work request with a maximum amount of time that the server computer should spend processing the work request. The server computer dynamically reacts to diverse, incoming client load requirements without using a static processing... Agent: Ibm-rochester C/o Toler Law Group

20090248791 - Data providing system and communication apparatus: A data providing system includes a first communication apparatus and a plurality of second communication apparatuses that provide data to the first communication apparatus using a communication protocol capable of performing authentication by identification information. The first communication apparatus includes an identification information request sending section, an individual identification information... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090248788 - Distributing session initiation protocol content to universal plug and play devices in a local network: A system and method for distributing session initiation protocol (SIP) content to Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) devices in a local network. The system and method employ, for example, a SIP user agent (UA) and a UPnP media server (MS) that can communicate with each other so that when the... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090248789 - Learning and community-based web aggregation techniques: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that facilitates access to a website from an application. During operation, the system obtains community data associated with interactions between a set of users and the website and examines the community data to identify an interactivity request made by the website... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090248792 - System and method of sharing contents using messenger: The present invention provides to a system and method of sharing contents using a messenger program. The system includes a device server which registers Consumer electronic (CE) devices of the same user and CE devices of different users, and generates a messenger account; a messenger server which registers the generated... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090248790 - System for classifying an internet protocol address: A system for classifying an Internet protocol (IP) address, including: a data store for storing client profile data associated with a client, the client profile data including an Internet protocol address of a server; and a processor for receiving a resolved Internet protocol address from the client, and determining whether... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc

20090248798 - Content providing system, receiving apparatus and method, storage medium, and program: The present invention relates to a content providing system, a receiving apparatus and method, a storage medium, and a program, which enable to perform a variety of contents provisions. An operational terminal 21 can obtain, from a storage terminal 1, contents corresponding to utilization information sent from an operational terminal... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090248795 - Object-oriented systems and methods for controlling storage management services in a content management system: A method and system employing an object-oriented approach to remotely controlling storage management services in a content management system. An Application Programming Interface (API) is used to communicate between a system administrator client and a resource manager, so that a system administrator can, e.g., start and stop services, check the... Agent: Edell, Shapiro, & Finnan, Llc

20090248793 - Providing content in a network: Among other disclosed subject matter, a computer program product includes instructions that when executed by a processor perform a method for providing content in a network. The method includes receiving an identifier that is forwarded from a device in a network and associated with content divided into content portions that... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20090248797 - Server apparatus, network system, data transfer method, and program: Disclosed is a server apparatus including a registration means for associating a first apparatus with a plurality of second apparatuses as the control targets thereof, and registering the first apparatus and the plurality of second apparatuses associated, a constant connection session establishment means for establishing a constant connection session with... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090248794 - System and method for content sharing: A video content system includes a head end server module and a content-sharing server coupled to a video content network. Also included is a converged premises gateway module coupled to the video content network at a location remote from the head end server module and the content-sharing server. The converged... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090248796 - System and method for creating a punch list: A system and method for creating and utilizing an electronic construction punch list. A touch screen displaying a virtual floor plan is utilized to input and detail punch list items. The punch list information can then be transmitted to a contractor who uses the system to locate and address punch... Agent: Brett J. Trout, Pc

20090248804 - Access request transfer system, access request transfer method, and recording medium storing access request transfer program: A proxy server is communicably connected to another server. An association storage unit stores proxy information and server information. A determination unit determines, when an access request transmitted by the client is received, whether or not the server specified by the access request is actually accessible. A first access request... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090248803 - Apparatus and method of analyzing service processing status: Apparatus for storing information about collected messages in a message storage mechanism includes a mechanism for detecting a request message and for a process suspended as a suspended process request message, a mechanism for referring to a model storage mechanism to search for a transaction model beginning with a message... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090248801 - Automatic change detection and notification system and method: A method for automatic change detection and notification comprising the steps of storing at least one subscription corresponding to a notification preference of at least one user; detecting at least one change made to a collaborative editor; determining the change level class of the at least one change; comparing the... Agent: King & Spalding

20090248799 - Method and server for user identifier update: A method and communication server for updating a user identifier, wherein the server detects that a user involved in a new communication has changed an old user identifier for a new identifier. The server also triggers a search for pre-defined groups containing the old user identifier and when determining that... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090248800 - Peer-to-peer communication between different types of internet hosts: In one embodiment, a method for processing, at an enhanced Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) proxy (e-proxy), (1) a SIP INVITE message to a first user at an IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack (DS) host, connected to an IPv6 network, from a second user at an IPv4 host, connected to an IPv4 network. The... Agent: Mendelsohn, Drucker, & Associates, P.c.

20090248805 - Systems and methods for communicating audio/visual presentation materials between a presenter and audience members: Systems and methods for communicating presentation materials from a presenter to audience members utilizing a number of USB port based devices. The presenter's USB device includes application plug-in software that loads to the presenter's computer and operates in conjunction with a standard application software product (such as PowerPoint® or Keynote®).... Agent: Kammer Browning Pllc

20090248802 - Systems and methods for managing multimedia operations in remote sessions: Techniques relating to managing multimedia transmissions in terminal services scenarios are described. In an example, a method sends a user-interface component from a server to a remote client. The exemplary method further streams a media component for presentation on the remote client in combination with the user-interface component and the... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20090248812 - Composing, forwarding, and rendering email system: The present invention provides a computer implemented method for communicating a signature in a received email. Initially, a server receives a source email from a source client, the source email comprising a signature index entry, and a body. The server determines for a first recipient that a first associated destination... Agent: Ibm Corp. (aus/rcr) C/o The Rolnik Law Firm, P.c.

20090248818 - Cooperating system, chat server, program, and cooperating method: A cooperating system includes a chat server and a blog server, the chat server includes an extracting part for, when detecting a URL related to a blog in a message received from outside, extracting the received message, an acquiring part for acquiring a trackback URL from a blog server based... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090248813 - Download of current portions of email messages: In general, this disclosure describes techniques of enabling devices to download only current portions of email messages without downloading historical portions of the email messages. For instance, when an email client generates a reply email message to an original email message, the reply email message includes a current portion and... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090248819 - Email routing: A method of routing an email message comprises receiving a message to be routed, receiving details of a first recipient of the message, receiving an indication of a second recipient of the message, the indication defining a relationship to the first recipient, obtaining an address for the first recipient, obtaining... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Boice

20090248814 - Increasing spam scanning accuracy by rescanning with updated detection rules: A method, system, and computer program product for processing email messages rescans emails messages that have already been scanned for spam and delivered to user inboxes with updated spam detection rules. This increases the accuracy of spam scanning and reduces the need for users to submit missed spam in emails... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc

20090248809 - Instant message session transfers: A method facilitates instant message (IM) session transfer of messages intended for an IM user to a new IM session being established by the user. Existing IM sessions may be queried for active IM sessions when the user is connecting to an instant message service. If there is an active... Agent: Leveque Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20090248820 - Interactive unified access and control of mobile devices: An interface between mobile devices and computing devices, such as a PC or an in-vehicle system permits a user to use the better user interface of the computing device to access and control the operation of the mobile device.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.c.

20090248826 - Method and apparatus for identifying, managing, and controlling communications: A method and apparatus for sorting, prioritizing, identifying, managing, and otherwise controlling (collectively, “controlling”) a communication. A frank may be used to associate a value and a class with a communication. The communication may be associated with the frank through the method of selecting a frank associated with a value... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090248817 - Method for automated acknowledgement of electronic message: An electronic messaging device adapted to receive electronic messages from a sender. The electronic messaging device has a controller, a transmitter and receiver unit connected to the controller, a user interface connected to the controller, and a body detection device connected to the controller. After receipt of a notification message... Agent: Perman & Green, LLP

20090248822 - Method for providing peer-to-peer emergency service and node for providing peer-to-peer emergency service: The present invention relates to a method for providing peer-to-peer emergency service in a peer-to-peer network. The method comprises receiving a peer-to-peer emergency request (2). Said request (2) comprises an identifier relating to the origin (110) of the request (2). The identifier is used to identify the network access provider... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090248825 - Method for tagging and tracking non-hypertext markup language based e-mail: A method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for tagging and tracking non-hypertext markup language based e-mail. An e-mail is converted from a non-hypertext markup language format to an encoded format. An item is identified in the e-mail. A tag is added to the item in the e-mail. The e-mail... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090248808 - Methods and apparatus for transmitting attachments using a mail send/receive program: Techniques for transmitting attachment data through a network are provided. Attachment data from an attachment sender is obtained. A copy of the attachment data is stored at a storage location as stored attachment data. The obtained attachment data is replaced with program code. The program code is transmitted to at... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090248823 - Methods for sending an email and distributing an email and an email server: The present application relates to methods for sending an email and distributing an email, and an email server. According to the application, a summary is generated for an email to be sent, with the email stored in a sender side server; the summary of the email is sent to a... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090248821 - Microscope image taking system: A camera takes an observed image of a sample acquired by a microscope. A disk device stores image data representing the observed image taken by the camera A CPU generates e-mail including the image data and information indicating the settings of the microscope or the camera during taking the observed... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, P.c. 16th Floor

20090248815 - Mobile apparatus: According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a mobile apparatus including: a mail storage unit configured to store a history of email communications; an address storage unit configured to store a first email address associated with a certain name and a second email address associated with the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20090248816 - Passive personalization of buddy lists: Personalizing communications for a first communication platform includes accessing status information for communication sessions by a communication identity that leverage a first communication platform other than an instant messaging platform. A participant list associated with the communication identity and the first communication platform is passively configured to persistently reflect a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20090248806 - System and method for dynamically changing item status in static email messages: A system and method that allows dynamic updating of a static email message by maintaining the status of the content of the email message on a server and remotely serving images or stylesheets relaying the current status to a user's email client when the static email digest is displayed. Other... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090248807 - System and method of matching presence for subscribers in a social network: A social network allows subscribers to build and maintain a network of friends. The network includes a server that maintains travel information for the subscribers and for their friends. The server analyzes this travel information to determine whether a given subscriber will be geographically near a friend for a predetermined... Agent: Coats & Bennett, Pllc

20090248810 - Systems and methods for querying status of peer-to-peer multimedia connections in communication systems: Status information associated with a peer-to-peer multimedia connection can be queried by the network. A queried terminal can provide responsive status information including, for example, a type and/or amount of data which has been sent over the peer-to-peer multimedia connection and/or a type and/or amount of data which is yet... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090248811 - Systems and methods of automatic retransmission of electronic mail: Disclosed are systems and methods of automatic retransmission of electronic mail.... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090248824 - Theme-based instant messaging communications: Instant messaging communications are controlled using themes. A theme is a definition of properties and features of a specific instance of an instant messaging communications environment. Themes are stored at a server computer and may be requested by users of a client computer. Themes may be made available to users... Agent: Ibm Corporation Lotus Software

20090248827 - Method and apparatus for connection - and network - network-independent on-line and off-line theft-management protocol and service for processor based devices: A theft-deterrence process enabling a theft-deterrence server, remotely disposed from the processor based device, to deter or thwart theft of the processor based device, is disclosed herein. In various embodiments, the theft-deterrence process employs connection and network independent communication for at least one direction between the theft deterrence server and... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.c.

20090248828 - Methods and apparatus for centralized and decentralized emergency alert messaging: Apparatus and methods for providing emergency alert system (EAS) data to subscribers of a content-based network for multiple locations including via mobile devices. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a server performing real-time receipt and encapsulation of the EAS data, transport of the EAS data to client devices over an... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20090248829 - Interconnection of wireless networks using a master/slave node: A network array (200) comprises a first network (201) having a plurality of first nodes (203, 204, 209), comprises a second network (202) having a plurality of second nodes (206, 209) and comprises a forwarder node (209). The forwarder node (209) constitutes one of the first nodes (203, 204, 209)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090248830 - Remote direct memory access for iscsi: A storage networking device provides remote direct memory access to its buffer memory, configured to store storage networking data. The storage networking device may be particularly adapted to transmit and receive iSCSI data, such as iSCSI input/output operations. The storage networking device comprises a controller and a buffer memory. The... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090248832 - Auto-discovery based item(s) sharing, including sender pushing and recipient approval: Methods and apparatus involve the voluntary transfer or sharing of item(s), such as files or other data, based upon the automatic discovery of recipients, including sender pushing of the items and recipient approval. During use, computing devices advertise their availability for potential receipt of the items and recipients are automatically... Agent: King & Schickli, Pllc

20090248831 - Dynamic image composition: The number of connections and/or requests needed to obtain or provide image content in an electronic environment can be reduced by dynamically composing the content when needed to serve a request. In a case where a large number of images are to be transmitted across a network, the images can... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090248833 - Location based content aggregation and distribution systems and methods: In an exemplary method, a content posting is received from an access device connected to a network. The content posting includes data representative of a content instance and a geographic location associated with the content instance. The content posting is stored. The content instance is selectively distributed to at least... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090248836 - Modem user management system and method: A modem user management system is configured for managing a plurality of user terminals with different Internet protocol (IP) addresses and users associated with different groups in a communication network. The system receives an IP address of one of the user terminals and a group type of the user of... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090248835 - Offloading data transfers between a local and remote network: A method, system, and computer readable medium are disclosed. In one embodiment the method includes initiating a data transfer from a first computing device to a second computing device. Then the method continues by designating a third computing device to offload at least a portion of the data associated with... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090248837 - Online report system and method for optical disc formats with enhanced interactivity features: An online quality assurance system and method for optical disc formats with enhanced interactivity features is disclosed. Specifically, the system and method provides a means for various studios, DVD player manufacturers, DVD standards specification providers, authoring facilities, and DVD standards tool developers to each provide and receive input, preferably in... Agent: Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro

20090248834 - Tiered architecture and method for securely routing ip-based transactions across the internet: A method for transaction routing is provided. The method begins by initiating a call session at a transaction terminal and routing the call session from the transaction terminal to a first communication gateway over a secure public network. A routing condition is determined at the first communication gateway. Based on... Agent: Utstarcom, Inc.

20090248838 - Method and system for pairing a medium to a user account: There is provided a system for pairing a medium with a user account comprising a media player configured to retrieve a medium identifier from the medium and a player identifier from a memory of the media player. The media player is further configured to transmit the medium identifier and the... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090248839 - Using a proxy to redirect downloads: One aspect of the present invention provides a system configured to enable a proxy to redirect downloads from a web server to one or more remote machines via a command issued from a local computer web browser. In one embodiment, a user accesses the web server with a web browser... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

20090248840 - Network topology detection using a server: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for automatically detecting whether a local network that a computer is connected to is a public or private network by utilizing a trusted online service and/or heuristics. Techniques are also described for detecting whether or not two computers are connected to the same local... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090248841 - Unique prefix assignment with automatic address configuration: A method (500) and a system (300) for implementing point-to-point communications. The method can include identifying at least a first portion (348, 350) of a prefix (344, 346) of a network address, the prefix corresponding to a particular topological region (326, 328) of a communications network (302). The method further... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090248842 - Control-relay apparatus: A control-relay apparatus that controls a device to be controlled, according to a control request received from a management device includes a request receiving part that receives, from the management device, control request data containing data indicating a condition that a device to be controlled should satisfy, and data indicating... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090248843 - Parallel random proxy usage for large scale web access: A system and method efficiently and anonymously retrieves large scale Web data through a restricted query interface. A number of proxy servers are utilized to permit parallel access to a target Web server for processing multiple queries simultaneously. Latency in the individual queries is absorbed by the proxy servers. Queries... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20090248846 - Configuring communications between computing nodes: Techniques are described for configuring communications between multiple computing nodes, such as computing nodes that are separated by one or more physical networks. In some situations, the techniques may be used to provide a virtual network between multiple computing nodes that are separated by one or more intermediate physical networks,... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc

20090248849 - Device management system, device, and computer readable medium: A device management system, a device, and a management apparatus are provided. The device management system includes a plurality of devices that are coupled to a network; and a management apparatus that is coupled to the network. The devices include a first device and a second device. The first device... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090248848 - Drm interoperable system: A DRM interoperable system is provided. The DRM interoperable system includes: a domain manager which manages a domain; first and second devices which are authenticated by the domain manager and registered in the domain; and a control unit which gathers information on entities that are to participate in transmission of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20090248844 - Hybrid profile management for electronic social networks: In the context of electronic social networking platforms, ‘hybrid profile’ management allows a user u to create and locally manage ‘pseudo-profiles’ reflecting the profile information of real-world contacts who are not actual members of the networking platform. The first-degree electronic social network of a given user u thus includes both... Agent: King & Spalding

20090248845 - Network bandwidth control for network storage: Network bandwidth is allocated to storage access requests as a function of a client system activities. Client system activities that produce network access requests and remote storage access requests are monitored. The network bandwidth allocation between network access requests and storage access requests is modified as a function of the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20090248847 - Storage system and volume managing method for storage system: A time and an amount of data for setting information which is necessary to execute an exclusion process which is necessary when data is stored in a cluster system are reduced. A storage system included in the cluster system includes a plurality of volumes, and a plurality of virtual servers... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.c.

20090248863 - Analysis apparatus, analysis method and recording medium for recording analysis program: An analysis apparatus includes a history analysis part analyzing the trend based on the access log and deriving the latent trait to an access destination, a principal components analysis part analyzing principal components of the frequency distribution of the access, a classification part classifying the correlation of the principal components... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090248866 - Connection control method and connection system: A connection control method includes: a transmitting step of transmitting a request for provision of a function by a transmitting unit; a first storing step of storing a task involving information having a disclosure restriction set thereon, and the site of a support device that provides a function to support... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090248868 - Contact management in a serverless peer-to-peer system: Systems and methods are described that facilitate the management of contact information, at least some of the contact information related to entities in a serverless, peer-to-peer system. A contact store may store information regarding which other entities of a plurality of other entities are authorized to monitor presence of a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20090248858 - Content management: A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider determines a class associated with a set of client computing devices and monitors resources requests for the determined class. The content delivery network service provider then identifies at least one cache... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090248851 - Deploying analytic functions: A method, system, and computer usable program product for deploying analytic functions are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A resource is identified in an analytic function specification. A set of input time series is identified for the analytic function specification. An analytic function instance corresponding to the analytic function specification... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20090248862 - Device and computer readable medium: A device and a computer readable medium having a computer program stored thereon are provided. The device includes: a detecting unit configured to detect one or more host computers accessible from the device and operational states of the respective host computers; and a restricting unit configured to restrict a function... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090248861 - Device manager and device management program: A device manager and a computer readable medium storing a device management program are provided. The device manager includes a transmission unit that transmits, to devices connected to a network, a broadcast command which requests management information that is stored in and unique to each device for use in communication... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090248859 - Electronic device and method for monitoring communication within a network: d

20090248852 - Evaluating entities associations with their respective environments: A method comprising representing an association between a first entity and a first environment as a first edge that connects a first node to a second node, wherein the first node and the second node respectively represent said first entity and said first environment; and assigning a first weight value... Agent: Century Ip Group, Inc. [ibm Il] C/o Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090248865 - Load distribution method, load distribution device, and system including load distribution device: A load distribution device that receives processing requests from terminals and that allocates and transfers the processing requests to at least one of a plurality of servers. The load distribution device includes a monitoring unit, a request receiving unit, an update server determining unit, a distribution ratio setting unit, a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090248854 - Method and system for energy efficient routing and network services: A method and system of an embodiment may include identifying a power source used by a network element, determining a carbon footprint of a unit of power usage from the power source, identifying one or more components associated with the network element used for a network operation performed by the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090248855 - Method for monitoring web page statistics: A method includes, at a web server: receiving a request from a web browser for a page; requesting the page from a web application; receiving the requested page from the web application; generating a monitoring script after receiving the request from the web browser for the page, wherein the monitoring... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc- Ibms

20090248867 - Network system, device, control method thereof, and storage medium: A network system capable of autonomously changing a management configuration of a management device and managed devices in the network system. One of a plurality of devices connected to a network operates as a parent device that collects data from the other devices, and the remaining devices operate as child... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090248853 - Real time control and management of security \"buddy\" system over mso lan: An inventive system and method for a buddy security system is presented. The system and method enable the buddy security system in which messages can be exchanged between two distinct security systems. The inventive system is operable on a network having dynamic IP addresses using a centralized database of real... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090248857 - Session management method for computer system: There is provided a session management method for a computer system including an initiator, and a storage system coupled to the initiator via a network. The initiator includes an interface coupled to the network, a processor and a memory. The storage system includes an interface coupled to the network, a... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.c.

20090248856 - Staged integration of distributed system and publishing of remote services: A method, computer program product, and system for the staged integration of a remote entity and the simultaneous publishing of services is provided. The integration of the distributed remote entities is broken into five stages, with appropriate events published after each stage. Each of the five stages is initiated only... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20090248864 - System and method for tracking performance and service level agreement compliance for multipoint packet services: A system and method for measuring compliance with a service level agreement (SLA) for communications. A committed information rate operable to avoid contention is set. A determination is made that there is frame loss on the network. A determination is made if the CIR is exceeded in response to the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090248860 - System and method for using virtual ip addresses in a multi-user server system: A method of handling network access in a multi-user server system is disclosed. In the disclose system, a virtual network adapter is created for each user session on the multi-user server system. Each virtual network adapter receives its own independent IP address such that each individual user session appears to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20090248850 - Wait for ready state: Automation of actions on a server system (e.g., web server, FTP server) is facilitated by a server system that is ready for actions to be performed upon it. Because there are scenarios when a server system is not in a state to be acted upon (e.g., web page changed due... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090248870 - Server system and control method for same: The server system includes a server apparatus transmitting and receiving file data based on an access request transmitted from a client apparatus; and a management apparatus managing the server apparatus, wherein the server apparatus includes a plurality of virtual server parts controlling transmission and reception of the data independently for... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.c.

20090248869 - System for provisioning, allocating, and managing virtual and physical desktop computers in a network computing environment: A system for provisioning, allocating, and managing virtual and physical desktop computers in an enterprise network computing environment allows for these physical and desktop computers to be grouped logically based on personnel, organizational, or networking efficiencies without regard to the hardware or server that will ultimately run the virtual machine... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090248877 - Content processing apparatus and method: The content processing apparatus and method perform an operation instruction for contents by using at least one operation unit, allocate corresponding pattern identification information to an operation pattern of the at least one operation unit, store the operation pattern and the pattern identification information allocated to the operation pattern related... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090248876 - Delivery system: A delivery system includes a plurality of storage units each of which has a plurality of storage spaces for storing therein recording media according to the unit of customer's order, one or more feeding units for feeding the recording media stored in the storage unit to the outside, an identification... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20090248874 - Method and apparatus for distributing requests among a plurality of resources: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for distributing a request to one of a plurality of resources. A request is mapped to a location in mathematical mapping space. Each of the plurality of resources is mapped to a respective location or locations in the mathematical mapping space. The... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090248873 - Name-address management in communication networks: A network infrastructure and method for name-address management in an internetwork having a hierarchical address structure with a number of address areas on different levels of the address structure. For a given resource, a distributed name-to-address resolution chain is built up through the hierarchical address structure utilizing a set of... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090248872 - Realtime media distribution in a p2p network: Nodes in a realtime p2p media distribution can act in the role of ‘Amplifiers’ to increase the total available bandwidth in the network and thus to improve the quality of the realtime media consumed by the viewers. Examples of such media consumptions are TV channels over the Internet, video on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090248871 - Server and connecting destination server switch control method: A connecting destination server switch control method for switching a server and the connecting destination of the server is provided, the method realizing a larger-scaled network system by distributing a load to each cache server, thus reducing the total load and dynamically modifying a logical network according to the load... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090248875 - Socket management device and socket management method: In order to properly allocates a limited number of sockets to applications (202, 202, . . . ) in a computer system so as to improve the system network performance, an application management module (300) memorizes the total number of sockets which OS (100) can supply to the applications (202,... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090248878 - Aggregating connection maintenance to optimize resource consumption: Combining network connection maintenance operations that use a resource to extend battery life. Each of the network connections has a timer and a defined tolerance for early connection maintenance. After receiving notification of an event, the network connections are accessed to identify the connections for which a maintenance operation may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090248880 - Digital broadcast service method and system: A method and system for providing digital broadcast services are disclosed. The digital broadcast service method, using a service server and user terminal, includes establishing connections between a user terminal and a service server through a wireless network and a broadcast distribution system, performing, by the user terminal, service registration... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20090248881 - Method, server and system for controlling a virtual role: A method for controlling a virtual role includes: initiating, by a source virtual role client, a virtual role trip request carrying an identification of a destination virtual role client to a control server on the network side; establishing, by the control server, a session between the source virtual role client... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090248879 - System and method for collecting, cataloging, and sharing product information: In accordance with the principles of the invention a network based social cataloging service is provided that automatically catalogs product information for products that a user views while “window shopping” on the network for retrieval at a later time. Further in accordance with the principles of the invention, a network-based... Agent: Donald J Lenkszus

20090248883 - Apparatus and methods for managing widgets in a wireless communication environment: Apparatus and methods relating to mobile widgets. In particular, apparatus and methods for integrating network services and/or network resources with widget capabilities, managing mobile widgets, providing portability to mobile widgets, and generating content with respect to a mobile widget. In one aspect, a method for integration of network services and/or... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090248882 - Virtual social group management system, virtual social group management method, and computer program: An SNS system is provided with: a user attribute storage unit that stores user attributes for each user; a community attribute storage unit that stores a community grade rank for each community; an access allowance/rejection determination unit that determines whether or not to allow a user to access a community... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090248885 - Controlling the transfer of terminal server data: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling the transfer of terminal server data. In some embodiments, contending request to send terminal server data are resolved by a flow control module situated between a terminal server protocol and a transport/network protocol. The flow control module... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090248884 - Distance extender for serial attached scsi and serial ata: A first special character encoded in a first protocol is transmitted across a first communications link. The transmitted first special character is received at a first interface between the first communications link and a second communications link. The first special character is converted to a second special character encoded in... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090248887 - Export of metadata streams to applications: The present invention provides a computer storage server implemented method for generating attribute streams. The storage server receives a request from an application to write data to at least one storage object, the request having a request type. The storage server then updates an attribute stream with metadata associated with... Agent: Ibm Corp. (aus/rcr) C/o The Rolnik Law Firm, P.c.

20090248886 - Network-optimized content delivery for high demand non-live contents: The invention relates to a method of distributing a non-live content stream in a network. The method comprises transmitting an initial meta-file in response to receiving a request for a non-live content stream. The initial meta-file comprises information, and the information identifies a division of the content stream, identifies a... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hb Patent Docketing

20090248888 - User-selectable streaming audio content for network-enabled television: User-selectable streaming audio content for a network-enabled television is provided. In one embodiment, displayable network content is provided to a user in a graphical user interface on a display of a network-enabled television. Streaming audio content may also be accessed and provided, where the category or source of such streaming... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090248890 - Communication apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium: A communication apparatus, which has a normal power consumption mode and a power saving mode lower in power consumption than in the normal power consumption mode and which is connected to a network via a network interface device, communicates with a device on the network via the network interface device.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090248889 - Serial attached scsi and serial ata wide port tunnelling through a fibre channel connection: Network traffic encoded in a first protocol is transmitted across a first communications link, wherein the first protocol allows a first plurality of simultaneous logical connections. The transmitted network traffic is received at a first interface between the first communications link and a second communications link. The received network traffic... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090248891 - Data receiving apparatus, data receiving method, and program storage medium: An apparatus includes: a receiver which receives a data sequence; a specifying unit which specifies a temporary buffer area in a data storage and specifies a destination buffer area in the data storage; a first identifying unit which identifies a destination number range depending on a size of the specified... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090248892 - Method and apparatus for launching a web browser in response to scanning of product information: A method for interconnecting a user's location to a destination location on a network. The unique information is received at the user's location, which unique information has no associated routing information embedded therein. Network routing information is associated with the received unique information in response to receipt thereof. The user's... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20090248893 - Request routing: A system, method and computer-readable medium for request routing. A client request processing a resource identifier for requested content transmits a first DNS query to a content delivery network service provider. The content delivery network service provider transmits an alternative resource identifier in response to the client computing device DNS... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090248894 - Determining a path for network traffic between nodes in a parallel computer: Determining a path for network traffic between a source compute node and a destination compute node in a parallel computer including identifying a group of compute nodes, the group of compute nodes having topological network locations included in a predefined topological shape; selecting, from the predefined topological shape, in dependence... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090248895 - Determining a path for network traffic between nodes in a parallel computer: Determining a path for network traffic between a source compute node and a destination compute node in a parallel computer including: beginning with an identified group of compute nodes that includes the source compute node and iteratively until an identified group of compute nodes includes the destination compute node: identifying... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20090248897 - Controlling the status of network address space: Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media provide for automated control of the status of network address space. Blocks of networking address space assigned to a network may be allocated from a free status to a new status based upon a request to allocate a particular size block. Blocks of... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20090248896 - Embedding overlay virtual network addresses in underlying substrate network addresses: Techniques are described for managing communications between multiple computing nodes, such as computing nodes that are separated by one or more physical networks. In some situations, the techniques may be used to provide a virtual network between multiple computing nodes that are separated by one or more intermediate physical networks,... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc

20090248898 - Encoding and decoding optimisations: The invention provides methods of encoding content for distribution over a network and methods for decoding encoded content which has been distributed over the network. In a first example in which the content is divided into a plurality of segments and each segment comprising a plurality of blocks of data,... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20090248899 - Linkage support apparatus and method thereof: A linkage support system links related messages among a plurality of messages sent and received among a plurality of communication terminals. The linkage support system includes an information acquisition unit that acquires message types of the plurality of messages, character strings included in the plurality of messages, and amount of... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090248900 - Synchronizing clocks in an asynchronous distributed system: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for synchronizing clocks in an asynchronous distributed system. Embodiments of the invention facilitate creation of a trustable and practical common time (time of day) reference across a set of peer nodes (observers), such as, for example, members within a... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090248901 - Delivering multimedia services: Disclosed is a scalable, hierarchical, distributed network architecture and processes for the delivery of high-performance, end-to-end online multimedia services, including Internet services such as World Wide Web access. The network architecture connects a high-speed private backbone to multiple network access points of the Internet, to a network operation center, to... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP