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Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization November recently filed with US Patent Office 11/09

20090292759 - Event server using clustering: An event server receiving input streams of events and producing output streams of events is adapted to be clustered with other event servers. The event server uses configuration data to control the event processing. The event server multicasting updates of the configuration data to the other event servers of the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090292760 - System and method for maintaining stateful information: A system for maintaining stateful information includes a client proxy configured to receive and collect status information associated with a client, and a state machine executing on a processor to collect and store the status information in a memory and provide stateful information associated with the client. The client may... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090292761 - Bypass dsmcc middleware via section filter mechanism: A desired file (182) of a filesystem (105) is recovered from a data stream (160) for use by a multimedia services application (181, 252) at a client (150), such as a Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) client. The DSMCC module (175) in the middleware (254) of the client is bypassed to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090292766 - Http publish/subscribe communication protocol: A communication protocol for distributing information related to a resource in substantially real-time to a subscriber includes a first HTTP request message for allowing the subscriber to request a subscription to the information related to the resource, where the first HTTP request message includes subscription data in a header and/or... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20090292765 - Method and apparatus for providing a synchronous interface for an asynchronous service: Methods and apparatus for providing a synchronous interface for an asynchronous service including, in a synchronous interface engine executing on a processor, receiving a request from a client for the asynchronous service, issuing an asynchronous service request to perform the asynchronous service, the asynchronous service request including a unique client... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090292768 - Method and system for conducting a plurality of cyber-based conventions: A method and system for conducting multiple Internet-based conventions, events, conferences, trade shows and meetings (“conventions”) includes a plurality of meeting planner clients, exhibitor/sponsor clients and attendee clients, all using web browser computers and a central website server on the Internet. The system receives and stores initial convention data, and... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090292762 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for publishing content: An apparatus for publishing content may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive a content item and receive a selection of user contact entries. Further, the processor may be configured to identify one or more online services associated with the selected user contact entries, and publish the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090292764 - System and method for linking the real world with the cyberworld via a displayable object: A system for linking the real world with the cyberworld includes a displayable object, a website and a user profile database. The displayable object is configured to be displayed by a user and is positioned so that it is viewed by other users. The displayable object comprises a user name... Agent: Akc Patents

20090292767 - System, apparatus and method for realizing web service: A system and method for realizing WEB service is provided. The system includes a WEB service signaling server is configured to receive a WEB service choice information sent by a logon WEB service client, obtain a WEB service signaling and a signaling performing logic of a WEB service selected by... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090292763 - Thin client-server architecture networks and using method thereof: Thin client-server architecture networks have many servers and at least one thin client. Each server has a hard disk for storing environmental parameters and a synchronizing application having information of the environmental parameters. The thin client connects one of the servers through Internet and has synchronizing module for setting transport... Agent: Chih Feng Yeh Brian M. Mcinnis

20090292770 - Determination of extent of congruity between observation of authoring user and observation of receiving user: A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring a result of an observation of an authoring user; acquiring a result of an observation of a receiving user; comparing the result of the observation of the authoring user with the result of the observation of the receiving user;... Agent: Searete LLC

20090292772 - Information processing apparatus, method for controling thereof and computer program: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit adapted to store information of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, a reception unit adapted to receive from an other information processing apparatus a request to acquire information of the plurality of image forming apparatuses stored by the storage unit, a determination... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090292771 - Method for the management of parameters for the delivery of spontaneous contents, method for the delivery of spontaneous contents, method for providing spontaneous contents, associated terminal and remote systems: The invention further concerns a method for the delivery of spontaneous content, a method for network transmission of spontaneous content, and a terminal and a remote system suitable to deliver spontaneous content for the implementation of such methods.... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090292769 - Presence indicativeterminal device and presence managing system: Provided is a presence display terminal device comprising a registration unit for registering presence targets, an update information receiving unit for receiving update information indicating an update of the presence targets registered, a control unit for displaying a predetermined one of the presence targets registered, in a screen, and an... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090292773 - System and method for collaborative messaging and data distribution: A collaborative messaging and data distribution system includes a text-messaging engine executing on a processor for sending and receiving messages among a plurality of users. The text-messaging engine includes an information proxy for distributing information among at least one information source and the plurality of users. The information proxy appears... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090292778 - Management system for a conversational system: The present invention is uniquely designed to interact with web retailer's customers with real agent reaction times as they give astute answers directly concerning web retailer's products and goals. The entire process is manageable through a third-party website which includes scripting, settings and other parameters selected by the web retailer.... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090292774 - Method and apparatus for electronic message delivery: Timely delivery of electronic messages during a presentation is a valuable tool. The embodiments describe a method and apparatus for delivering electronic messages. One method includes creating the electronic message by identifying auxiliary media content associated with a main presentation and marking temporal locations within the main presentation to allow... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090292775 - Method and process for the forensic inspection of real time streams first engine: The present invention relates generally to a business method, computer system and software implemented method in the field of internet based security for facilitating the analysis and inspection of real time data streams, which will allow a user to actively monitor chat and email information. The present invention will inspect... Agent: Scott Flenniken

20090292779 - Method and system for supervising electronic text communications of an enterprise: A method and system for supervising electronic text messages in an enterprise allows for storing organizational information related to the enterprise, identifying a source and a target of the electronic text message, invoking communication screens between the identified source and target, each of the invoked communication screens being determined by... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090292781 - Method for filtering e-mail and mail filtering system thereof: A method for filtering e-mails and a mail filtering system thereof are provided. In the present invention, two filters are used to filter a first mail class and a second mail class respectively. And these filters are connected in serial or in parallel to execute a filtration of the e-mail.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090292782 - Mobile terminal and method of managing meeting information using the same: A mobile terminal and a method of managing meeting information using the same are provided. The method of managing meeting information using a first mobile terminal includes acquiring meeting information including identification data of at least one location data sharing mobile terminal existing within a meeting distance from the present... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20090292787 - Process and computer for collectively transmitting unique messages, and recording medium storing a program for collectively transmitting unique messages: A recording medium storing a program for performing collective communication of unique-messages by a computer. According to the program, a space in which nodes are arranged is equally split into regions according to directions from the origin of a relative coordinate system, and a region to which each node belongs... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090292776 - Selecting email signatures: In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting a request to append a signature to an outgoing email, wherein the email is addressed from a sender to a recipient. The method can also comprise determining one or more temporal conditions associated with the email and determining one or more social relationships... Agent: Ibm Raleigh Iplaw (dg) C/o Delizio Gilliam, PLLC

20090292785 - System and method for dynamic contact lists: A collaborative messaging system includes a communications engine for sending and receiving messages among a plurality of users, including a contact generator to generate at least one user contact, a plurality of user filters, each associated with at least one of the plurality of users, and a plurality of user... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090292784 - System and method for message filtering: A collaborative messaging system and method includes, in a communications engine, a plurality of message interrogators to process a message from a sender to a receiver. The plurality of message interrogators includes a message adjudicator configured to compare message information from the sender with message information obtained by the message... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090292780 - System and method for selective application of a feature to multiple recipients of an email message: A system and method of selectively utilizing a feature with an email message. The method includes processing, by a mail client within a user's computer, a single email message for a plurality of recipients. The mail client receives a designated first set of recipients of the plurality of recipients for... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090292777 - System and method of controlling a messaging system: Systems and methods of controlling a messaging system are provided. A particular method includes generating an n-times-use network address to access a control interface in response to receipt of a message addressed to a subscriber at a messaging system. The method further includes determining a notification address associated with the... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090292783 - System, apparatus and method for event management: A system, apparatus and method may perform event management by creating an electronic event based on received event data corresponding to an event, where the event data includes information pertaining to the event and invitees to be invited to the event, storing one or more responses received from one or... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090292786 - Systems and methods for distributed electronic signature documents: Systems and methods for providing a report describing the status of an electronic envelope. The electronic envelope includes a first electronic document to be distributed for electronic signature and an electronic signing template defining a set of at least one task that must be performed by an executor of the... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20090292788 - Data transfer processing apparatus, data transfer processing method, and computer product: A computer-readable recording medium stores therein a data transfer processing program that causes a computer capable of accessing plural recording devices to acquire a group of update data for a first recording device among the recording devices and calculate, based on addresses respectively assigned to each data item in the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090292789 - Computer system, management server and configuration information acquisition method: The management server includes an acquisition unit for acquiring the configuration information and performance information of the storage apparatus and the host computer respectively at different timings, and a comparison unit for comparing, when a configuration change of the storage apparatus is commanded externally, a performance value of components in... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090292791 - Automated code splitting and pre-fetching for improving responsiveness of browser-based applications: A “code splitting tool” provides various techniques for automatically analyzing and rewriting existing browser-based applications to introduce dynamic code loading into those applications thereby improving perceived application responsiveness. Structural elements of application code (including functions, classes, etc.) are broken into small “stubs” with corresponding bodies. Rewritten applications then initially transfer... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090292790 - Dynamic file transfer scheduling and server messaging: According to some embodiments, first and second schedule patterns are determined. For example, a graphical user interface might be used to indicate the times, days, and/or weeks when information is to be transferred. A first transfer of information may be scheduled between remote devices in accordance with the first schedule... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090292792 - Management infon, method and system for workflow management in a communications network: The invention relates to a computer readable medium containing a management infon modeling an execution result of a management activity in a communications network. The management infon comprises a descriptor of the management activity, at least one value representing a managed object involved in the management activity and an indication... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090292793 - Autonomous operation of networking devices: A system, method, and information processing system for managing a configuration of a network device. A current state associated with at least one network device (104) is determined (206). A set of commands (118) available for the current state of the network device (104) is retrieved (208). A next state... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090292794 - System, apparatus, and method for automatically configuring application terminals in home network: A system, apparatus, and method for automatically configuring application terminals in a home network are provided. The method includes the following steps: the application terminal obtains address information of the GACS from the home gateway and sends a configuration request message to the GACS, the GACS obtains address information of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090292795 - Configuration file override: In one embodiment, a router is configured to relay a provisioning request originating from a remote network device to a remote provisioning server. When the router receives back a provisioning response including provisioning information identifying a first remotely stored configuration file, the router is configured to modify the provisioning information... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090292796 - Method and device for providing routing policies to user terminals according to applications executed on user terminals: A method and system for providing routing policies to user terminals according to applications executed on the user terminals are provided. The method includes defining configurations for the user terminal and classifying the user terminal as a privileged user terminal or a common user terminal, retrieving a private IP address... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090292798 - Apparatus, system, and method for communicating control messages between a first device and a second device: An apparatus and system are provided for communicating control messages between a first device and a second device. The apparatus and system include a communication module that directs control messages between a first device and a second device through an intermediate device. The intermediate device is coupled to the first... Agent: Brian C. Kunzler Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090292797 - Dynamic runtime service oriented architecture: According to one embodiment, a dynamic access method for a service oriented architecture includes receiving a number of proxy endpoints from a business application, selecting one proxy endpoint from among the multiple proxy endpoints, and transmitting a request to an enterprise service bus (ESB). The request includes the one proxy... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20090292800 - Method and apparatus for enabling associated portlets of a web portlet to collaborate for synchronized content display: The invention provides method and apparatus for collaboration between a plurality of associated portlets in a portal server including: associating each portlet with a portlet descriptor describing context names; forming collaboration groups of portlets having corresponding context names for synchronized contents.... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090292802 - Method and apparatus to support application and network awareness of collaborative applications using multi-attribute clustering: A method of clustering communication nodes based on network attributes such as network delays and forwarding capacity; on communication interest attributes; and on application attributes such as quality of service preferences/constraints in providing communications between users and application servers. A multi-attribute communication feature vector is formed. That vector is comprised... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20090292801 - Registering a common information model provider to a common information model object manager: A mechanism is provided for registering a Common Information Model (CIM) provider to at least one Common Information Model Object Manager (CIMOM). The CIMOM pre-stores at least one class definition. The CIMOM sends information to the Common Information Model (CIM) provider in order for the CIM provider to determine the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090292799 - Remote administration of mobile wireless devices: Apparatus and methods to manage operational features of a mobile wireless device using parameters for the mobile wireless device set in another mobile wireless device provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.... Agent: Research In Motion Corp/slw Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090292804 - Content transmission apparatus, content reception apparatus, and content upload method: According to one embodiment, a content transmission apparatus includes a data acquisition module configured to get a content item and metadata having a plurality of items for explaining details of the content, a notification module configured to notify an upload destination apparatus for the content of the metadata, a transmission... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090292803 - Method for measuring web visitors: An apparatus and a method for tracking the number of hits to a web page is described. In one embodiment, a web browser of a client requests from a server a web page. The server redirects the web browser to a cookie counting web page, where the cookie counting web... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090292805 - System and method for network monitoring of internet protocol (ip) networks: A system and method for implementing network monitoring with a unified IPv4+IPv6 address type. IPv4 network traffic and IPv6 network traffic are captured. IPv4 and IPv6 address patterns read from the captured network traffic are then encoded into a unified IPv4+IPv6 address space using a data type encoding.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090292806 - Management of remotely hosted services: A management system for remote services may use an administrative server within a local area network to manage the remote services for many manageable entities. The administrative server may connect to a clearinghouse server outside the local area network to obtain information about available remote services and to consolidate some... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090292807 - Multimedia data transferring method and system thereof: A multimedia data transferring method includes the following steps. Receive a browsing command from a controller, wherein the controller is in a first domain. Obtain the transfer protocol and data format supported by a multimedia content item from a media server based on the browsing command, wherein the media server... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090292808 - Server having an interface for connecting to a server system and server system: The server includes an interface for connecting to a server system, and features a component carrier for holding several servers with a serial management bus and several servers that are connected to the management bus via serial interfaces, wherein one server is set up as a management server and other... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20090292812 - Allocating management method of computer: A blade management server is provided for managing the allocation of blade PCs to remote operating terminals, respectively. The blade management server responds to a request for alternative from the remote operating terminal to search for any one of the blade PCs that is not allocated yet, and notify the... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090292811 - Arrangement for managing data center operations to increase cooling efficiency: A method includes a step of obtaining efficiency characteristic information for each of a plurality of air conditioning units in a location containing a plurality of server computers. The method also includes employing one or more processing units to allocate one or more processing tasks to one of the plurality... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090292810 - Message binding processing technique: An apparatus has a unit that receives plural messages, which belong to plural transactions and respectively have a pertinent transaction identifier, in an indefinite order; plural processors each having a queue storing the messages belonging to a transaction in charge, and outputting, after the messages belonging to one of the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090292809 - Method for transferring resource and method for providing information: A method of transmitting a resource and a method of providing information are provided. In a resource in a Digital Rights Management (DRM) interoperable system, the method includes: transmitting the resource in a transport session by using at least two handlers; and receiving from the handlers an event message including... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090292813 - Address assignment in fibre channel over ethernet environments: A method of initializing a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) link between a Fibre Channel over Ethernet node (ENode) and Fibre Channel Forwarders (FCFs) in a network by discovering the presence of FCFs available to the ENode and other FCFs, assigning second MAC addresses to the ENode corresponding to each... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090292816 - Device and method for secured communication: Devices and methods are provided for securing communication between a traffic management center (TMC) and a traffic controller via utilization of a field security device. In one embodiment, the field security device transmits a device identifier to the TMC upon being powered up or connected to the traffic controller. The... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090292814 - Federation and interoperability between social networks: Communications between social networks are enabled via authentication that provides single-sign-on (SSO) authentication of users such as individual users or social networks or social network services that desire access to network resources on a particular social network. The particular network requests authentication of the requesting user(s), and based on an... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090292815 - Method, device and system of obtaining network information using device as service credential: Method, device and system of obtaining the network information using the device as the service credential, which use the device without power supply and display, in which presetting the configuration files containing the information connected to the network, after connecting the device with the online data process device, establishing the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090292817 - Method and apparatus for providing remote access service: A remote access service is provided by receiving remote access transport agent (RATA) capability information of a home remote access server (RAS) and a remote RAS from the home RAS and the remote RAS, respectively, generating a RATA profile based on the RATA capability information, supported by the home RAS... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20090292818 - Method and apparatus for determining and validating provenance data in data stream processing system: Techniques are disclosed for determining and validating provenance data in such data stream processing systems. For example, a method for processing data associated with a data stream received by a data stream processing system, wherein the system comprises a plurality of processing elements, comprises the following steps. Input data elements... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090292820 - Method for playing streaming data, electronic device for performing the same and information storage media for storing the same: A method for playing streaming data is suitable for an electronic device having a limited memory resource. The method includes: downloading a part of a streaming file to a buffer memory for playing, a size of the streaming file being larger than a capacity of the buffer memory; downloading another... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090292819 - System and method for adaptive segment prefetching of streaming media: Systems and methods are provided for obtaining look-ahead segments for a streaming media item during playback such that the viewer can easily skip to the look-ahead segments without experiencing any substantial interruption or delay in playback. In general, a streaming media source begins streaming a media item to a streaming... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20090292821 - Method and apparatus for performance measurement of different network routes between devices: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for performance measurement of different network routes between devices. Typically, a network includes multiple paths between a first device and a second device. A first performance test is conducted over a first path between the first and second devices. A second performance test is also... Agent: Level 3 Communications, LLC C/o Cpa Global

20090292822 - Software client control of digital picture frames: In one embodiment, a method can include: determining a topology of digital picture frames in a frame network; identifying a lead picture frame from among the digital picture frames; sending the digital picture frame topology to a client coupled to the lead picture frame; receiving in the lead picture frame... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090292823 - Digital asset format transformation: A method for providing a digital asset to a remote recipient via a network. An unmodified digital asset is received in a native format, transformed into a derived digital asset having a non-native format, and offered to a remote recipient via the network. The method further includes sending the derived... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090292824 - System and method for application acceleration on a distributed computer network: Application acceleration is provided across a widely deployed network. In one embodiment a number of servers throughout the network provide address translation, acceleration, and performance measurements and are organized as service deliver points (SDPs). Collectively the SDPs form an application service network provider (ASNP) located between the client and the... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20090292825 - Method and apparatus for in-kernel application-specific processing of content streams: An embodiment of the invention transfers content between one or more input streams and one or more output streams via an application running on a host system. A kernel-level service is provided which is adapted to perform application-specific processing and which attends to transfer of content from at least one... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20090287760 - Communication terminal, user data transferring system and user data transferring method: A first communication terminal (100) is a communication terminal which executes an application using user data which can be output to a second communication terminal (200), and has a management data making section (140) which makes management data including an access information of a server (300) capable of transmitting the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090287758 - Creating a virtual universe data feed and distributing the data feed beyond the virtual universe: Business transactions are becoming more prevalent in virtual universes. Functionality can be implemented within a VU to allow syndication of data feeds to subscribers outside the VU. Feeds collect and serve data from one or more VU objects and locations based on changes made to the VU either by the... Agent: Ibm Endicott- Delizio Gilliam, PLLC

20090287759 - System and method for providing imaging operations in multiple environments: According to a particular embodiment, an imaging system is provided that includes an imaging device operable to image a hard-drive of a target device. The imaging device includes a first connection to the target device and a second connection to an output capture device, whereby both connections facilitate an information... Agent: Patent Capital Group

20090287761 - Cached message distribution via http redirects: A method for distributing cached messages in a load-balanced publish/subscribe messaging network using an HTTP redirect in response to an HTTP client message request is disclosed. The redirect response including a URI at which a next message in a list of sequential messages slated for the HTTP client per the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090287762 - Blending single-master and multi-master data synchronization techniques: Architecture that maintains the user experience as close as possible to the user experience when dealing with the usual/regular forms and data provided in an office application when dealing with hybrid forms and hybrid data. Synchronization of the hybrid data to single-master and multi-masters systems is accomplished when the associated... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090287766 - Brokering mobile web services: The invention provides a novel mobile web services discovery method that is capable of fulfilling the requirements from both the clients and providers. It allows the provider to balance the cost/performance ratios and utilize the network bandwidth more effectively, while also attaining the quality levels expected by the client.... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090287770 - Distribution device, distribution method, and computer program: The present invention includes: a step of creating at least a play list including reproduction start times of the display terminal devices (1) and acquisition destination data indicating acquisition destinations of the creative data; and a step of transmitting the play list and the creative data to the display terminal... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090287771 - Intelligent content management system for effective knowledge transfer: A computer implemented content management system providing for facilitating the exchange of information between a Professional and a Client.... Agent: Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, LLP

20090287768 - Management apparatus and management method for computer system: A computer system according to the present invention is provided with a request classification tool generating a request classification log which describes a number of web requests handled by said computer system for each predetermined measurement period and for each type of said web requests; a system unification processing tool... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090287764 - Media access control server for radio access network: A method (200, 300, 400) and a system (100, 500) of controlling access to media content (120). A first setup request indicating a request to access at least a first portion of the media content can be received from a mobile client (104). A first authorization request can be communicated... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090287767 - Mobile remote device management: When an electronic message is received from a requester a mail relay server decodes the command electronic message to produce and issue a command to a service manager server. The command from the service manager server is directed to a device manager server responsible for managing the target printing device.... Agent: Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090287763 - Question server to facilitate communication between participants: Systems and methods are provided for facilitating contact or communication between users or participants. A profile matching process is performed to match a user profile of a first user to a user profile of a second user. A number of questions to ask the second user are automatically selected. In... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20090287773 - Reverse mapping method and apparatus for form filling: In the presently preferred embodiment of the invention, every time a user submits a form the client software tries to match the submitted information with the stored profile of that user. If a match is discovered, the program tags the field of the recognized data with a corresponding type. The... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090287769 - Server unit, client unit, server-based computing system, server control method, client control method, and recording medium: A display-operation setting database for defining key arrangements on the input unit (soft keyboard) of a client according to the type of an application which runs on a server is stored in the server beforehand. When the application running on the server is changed according to an input event from... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090287772 - Systems and methods for remoting multimedia plugin calls: Described are methods and systems for remotely providing calls issued to a multimedia plugin. A proxy plugin executing on a server can intercept calls issued by a container application on the server, to a multimedia plugin. The proxy plugin can then transmit the intercepted call to a plugin executing on... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090287765 - Virtual universe desktop exploration for resource acquisition: The present invention is directed to a system, method and program product that allows a user to acquire resources from a local computer during a session with a virtual universe. Disclosed is a system that allows a user to: invocate a local operating system session that displays an operating system... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090287774 - Method and apparatus for utilizing social network information for showing reviews: A method and apparatus are provided for utilizing social network information to show reviews written by others. In one example, the method includes uploading at least one review written by an entity other than a particular user; filtering the at least one review according to criteria specified by the particular... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20090287775 - Method and apparatus for enabling associated portlets of a web portlet to collaborate for synchronized content display: The invention provides method and apparatus for collaboration between a plurality of associated portlets in a portal server comprising: associating each portlet with a portlet descriptor describing context names; forming collaboration groups of portlets having corresponding context names for synchronized contents.... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090287781 - Grouping messages using patterns in a messaging system: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for handling messages. A plurality of messages that have failed to be sent to a set of destination applications is identified. The plurality of messages is grouped based on a pair of associated identifiers in headers for the plurality of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090287782 - Interactive multimedia timeline: A method and system for allowing a plurality of users to collaboratively interact via a dynamic timeline that presents a plurality of events in an interactive multimedia format. The method and system allows a user to define a computer network group by setting access parameters, add additional individual user to... Agent: Brian D. Laubscher

20090287780 - Management of email threads: A method and system are provided for managing email threads. The method includes receiving a plurality of separate email threads. The method further includes generating associations between at least two email threads of the plurality of separate email threads. The method further includes displaying the associations of the at least... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20090287786 - Message board aggregator: Web content representing a first message is displayed in a window of a computer program. The first message is one of a plurality of messages posted to an online forum. A plurality of message summaries are displayed in the same window of the computer program, contemporaneously with the first message.... Agent: Chris Edgeworth Stragent

20090287778 - Method and apparatus for context-sensitive exchange of electronic information: A method and apparatus for context-sensitive exchange of electronic information, is provided. One implementation involves maintaining multiple signatures for a sender; associating each signature with a recipient address or communication content pattern described based on a rule; sending an electronic communication to a recipient address by automatically selecting a most... Agent: Ibm-acc-washington C/o Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20090287783 - Method of social interaction between communication device users: A method of social interaction between communication device users across a network (14, 16), the method including: at a first communication device (18, 20), selecting a user communication group of a communication group type corresponding to one of: (a) a known user; (b) a group of users with a previously... Agent: The Ollila Law Group LLC

20090287779 - Methods and systems to selectively mark email as partially reviewed: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for selectively marking email as partially reviewed are described. An extent to which a user has reviewed an email is estimated, and a review value is assigned to the email based upon the estimated extent of review. A visual indicator associated with the email... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20090287788 - Network asset tracker: A network attached apparatus, system, method and computer program product for identifying users of networked computers is provided. The apparatus is installed at core network uplink points and analyzes packets as they traverse the network and intelligently correlates the contents of the traffic with user contact and system access information.... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090287777 - Off-line smartphone file system snapshots: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for distributing a file by email from a mobile device. An email is composed on the mobile device. A user selection is received of a file to be attached to the email. The selection is made from an off-line... Agent: Mollborn Patents, Inc.

20090287787 - Process for transmitting data between at least one cockpit display screen and at least one remote client system: A process for transmitting data between at least one display screen in a cockpit and at least one remote client system includes at least one computer, in which the display screen displays a first request to send a message in a first communication protocol; this message is sent to the... Agent: Perman & Green, LLP

20090287776 - System and method for autogenerated email follow-up: A system and method for transmitting an electronic mail message to one or more intended recipients, which allows the user to designate that an electronic mail message contains a request for information which requires a reply from the one or more intended recipients, monitors electronic mail messages incoming to the... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090287784 - Systems and methods for adding media content to electronic messages: A method includes receiving an electronic message by a communication entity; determining if an indicator in the electronic message identifies the communication entity as an entity to retrieve a content referenced in the electronic message; and retrieving the content from a storage unit if the indicator identifies the communication entity... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20090287785 - Systems and methods for sending and receiving e-mail on a network community platform: A network platform for supporting a network-enabled application, comprising a plurality of communication channels to respective plurality of wireless network carries, each of the wireless network carriers having a plurality of users, the network platform comprises at least one processor, at least one interface having access to the internet, a... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090287790 - System and method for providing a virtual environment with shared video on demand: A system and methodology for creating, compiling, managing and distributing works of multimedia within a virtual space (environment) or virtual meeting space. The system consists of a server and client architecture. Within this architecture, the server or controller plays a “master” role, pulling, storing, and delivering media content from a... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC

20090287789 - Web browser accessible modbus tcp/ip activity log: A system and methods for recording Modbus communications. An example system includes a master controller and a gateway device coupled to a network. A slave device capable of Modbus communications is provided. A gateway device is coupled to the network. The gateway device includes a slave communications interface coupled to... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group (np)

20090287791 - Systems and methods for automatically testing an application: Systems and methods for performing automated load and usability testing via an application delivery appliance can include methods where a browser having a unique identifier is detected and a script is injected into the HTML response generated by the page displayed within the browser. The injected script renders the page... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090287792 - Method of providing service relating to content stored in portable storage device and apparatus therefor: Provided are a method of providing a service relating to content stored in a portable storage device to an external device, and an apparatus therefor. The method includes outputting a user interface to manage information relating to contents stored in the portable storage device through a display unit associated with... Agent: Charles Y. Park

20090287793 - Markup elements in referenced content: A method and computer program product for associating one or more markup elements with one or more portions of a piece of content and associating a reference to the piece of content with communication. The reference to the piece of content includes an indicator of the one or more markup... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090287794 - Assisting media servers in determining media profiles: Assisting media servers to determine profiles of locally served media objects involves enumerating digital media objects on a media server device. A remote procedure call of a network server is invoked to determine the media profile identifiers. Sample portions of the digital media objects are accessed, and the sample portions... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20090287797 - Generating, storing, and displaying graphics using sub-pixel bitmaps: Techniques for generating, storing and displaying graphics on computer systems are disclosed. The type of graphics in particular are images, where the image can be defined as a set of areas, whether these areas are lines, geometric shapes, letters or other types of areas. The effect of using these methods... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20090287796 - Method and apparatus for device and carrier independent location systems for mobile devices: A method and system for a device and carrier independent geographic location protocol. Specifically, the present invention provides location information of a mobile device to third parties in a communication network through a protocol that is device and network carrier independent. Position information of any first format is sent to... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20090287795 - Method, system, and service server for providing firmware through communication network: A firmware providing method in which firmware for an electronic device is downloaded from a service server provided on a communication network to a communication terminal. Display information to be displayed on a display of the electronic device is stored in the service server as language standard data that responds... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090287800 - Method, device and system for managing network devices: A method for managing network devices includes: after detecting that a primary network device is connected to a network management device, sending an information query to a secondary network device to query the management configuration information of the primary network device; receiving response information sent by the secondary network device... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090287801 - Multicomputer system and method for the configuration of a multicomputer system: To configure a multicomputer system with a plurality of computers, at least one computer group is set for providing each service, wherein a first one of the computers, on which runs an agent, assigned to the corresponding service and the corresponding computer group, is assigned to each computer group. A... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090287799 - Program deployment apparatus and method: With a program deployment apparatus that is connected via a network to at least one physical server including a physical server with a virtualization facility for providing a virtual server to a client and deploys a program to the at least one physical server as necessary, and by a program... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090287798 - System and method for configuring devices for wireless communication: A system and method for configuring devices for wireless communication are disclosed. A method may include detecting one or more available wireless access points. The method may also include accessing filtering information including at least one of (a) factory default information identifying one or more factory defaults for each available... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090287802 - Upnp/dlna device support apparatus, system, and method: An apparatus, system, and method may include a universal plug and play or digital living network alliance (UPnP/DLNA) device, a support server, and a mobile device. The mobile device may be configured to discover the UPnP/DLNA device of a UPnP or DLNA network by using a UPnP/DLNA protocol. The mobile... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090287803 - Automated discovery of devices in large utility monitoring systems: An auto-discovery algorithm attempts a scattered-read of register addresses of a device in a utility monitoring system whose identity is unknown to a computer system. If the scattered read is successful, and data from the device includes a device ID code that is matched against a lookup table of devices.... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group (np)

20090287808 - Automated display of an information technology system configuration: An Information Technology (IT) system display method and computer program product. A description is provided of a configuration of devices, network segments, and vertical connectors relating to an IT structure. The devices are initially distributed to form a distribution of the devices in a matrix representing a display screen. A... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090287807 - Managing apparatus, information processing apparatus, program, and information processing system: There is provided a managing apparatus including a management-side communication unit that communicates with an information processing apparatus, which includes a first communication unit that communicates in a non-contact manner with an information processing terminal storing first information and second information and a second communication unit that communicates with an... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090287806 - Method, system, and product for comparative efficiency decisions in print operations: Methods, devices, services and program products are provided for selecting a printer from a plurality of printers as a function of a printer resource consumption attribute where there is a network environment comprising a plurality of printers, each of the plurality of printers having a resource consumption attribute value. A... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20090287809 - Service bandwidth configuring method and network management system: A service bandwidth configuring method of is provided by this invention, which includes the following steps: defining various kinds of service classes according to the characteristics of various services provided by a network system; defining various kinds of bandwidth specifications of the network system; establishing the mapping relationships between the... Agent: Christopher P. Maiorana, P.C.

20090287805 - System & method for non-http session based publish/subscribe support using pre-emptive subscriptions: The invention includes a publish/subscribe system for publish/subscribe messaging utilizing pre-emptive subscriptions in a cluster of HTTP servers that includes load balancing. The system includes at least one HTTP client in a role of HTTP subscriber, and a set HTTP servers arranged as an HTTP server cluster in communication with... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090287804 - Topic based loop detection in a publish/subscribe network: When a new broker is connected to a network, a loop detection message is sent over the new connection created by the new broker. The loop detection message includes topics. At each receiving broker, topics that cannot be propagated to a neighbor broker are removed. If the loop detect message... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090287810 - Virtual private network management: The invention provides a centralized VPN management of a plurality of VPN sites by means of a VPN Information Provider (VIP). Management of a VPN device is distributed so that at least part of the VPN configuration is centrally managed without giving away control of the firewall rulebase or other... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090287811 - Configuration of network's nodes in a telecommunication system: The idea of the present invention providing a solution for configuration problems of a node is based on the following components. A problem recognition system, which analyses performance indicators and identifies root causes, so that signatures can be attached to a found problems. Furthermore there is a signature based filtering... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090287816 - Link layer throughput testing: A technique for testing a network path involves making use of feedback enabling parameters. Values for the feedback enabling parameters can be generated from a measurement of path performance. The technique can be implemented for wireless paths. The technique can also be implemented for multi-hop paths.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090287813 - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for analyzing communication relationships: An apparatus may include a processor configured to store a record of communications with a remote device. The processor may be further configured to calculate one or more values representative of a communication relationship with the remote device over a period of time based at least in part upon the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090287818 - Monitoring apparatus and monitoring method: A monitoring apparatus for monitoring communication configurations of a plurality of client devices connected to a server, the monitoring apparatus includes: a processor for controlling the communications between the client devices and the server in accordance with a process including: receiving from each of the client devices communication condition information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090287812 - Network connection switching unit and network station: The invention relates to the field of data transmission in a network of distributed stations. One problem, particularly in a UPnP based network, is that the UPNP devices need to be constantly switched on in order to be available in the network. The invention intervenes at this point and describes... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090287817 - Network device: A network device to be connected to a server via a network comprises: a cable connecting unit connected to a network cable for connection to the network; a network controller for sending/receiving signals to/from the cable connecting unit and for detecting whether the network cable is connected to the cable... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090287815 - Systems and methods for monitoring a remote network: One embodiment relates to a method for monitoring a remote network over the Internet. In the method, a monitoring request from a client is received from over the Internet at a server. The server transmits a relayed monitoring request over the Internet to a remote network monitor. The remote network... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20090287814 - Visualization of streaming real-time data: A system facilitates dynamic data visualizations. The system includes an analysis component that periodically processes one or more incoming data streams to determine a visualization form from a plurality of visualization forms. A visualization component dynamically generates the visualization form based in part on the processing of the incoming data... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090287820 - Information processing device: An information processing device is configured to communicate with a network device via a network using UPnP (Universal Plug and Play). The information processing device includes a management component and a memory component. The management component is configured to manage a plurality of service URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) of the... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090287819 - System from reputation shaping a peer-to-peer network: A method of managing access to resources in a network. A reputation for each network participant is evaluated by querying a data source for the reputation associated with the network participant. Based on the evaluated reputation, an appropriate level of access to network resources is determined from a plurality of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090287825 - Distributed client services based on execution of service attributes and data attributes by multiple nodes in resource groups: A network provides distributed client services based on participation in respective resource groups by computing nodes, each resource group including a corresponding resource requirement for any computing node that joins the corresponding resource group for execution of the corresponding distributed client service. Each computing node, in response to determining its... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20090287822 - Group based allocation of network bandwidth: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for group based allocation of terminal server network bandwidth. Output packets are classified into groups based on classification criteria. Output packets for each group are queue into a corresponding queue. During a queue flush cycle each queue containing data... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090287823 - Method and system for server consolidation using a hill climbing algorithm: A system and method for consolidating a plurality of resources on a plurality of data processing units (DPUs) in a data processing network is provided. The method includes selecting a first DPU having a highest DPU volume among the plurality of DPUs. The method further includes calculating an angle made... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090287821 - Method for managing the allocation of resources to channel swarms in a peer-to-peer network: A method for managing the allocation of resources to channel swarms in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. The method is based on a distributed algorithm in which resource-nodes occasionally join and leave channel-swarms. Each resource-node independently decides whether or not to stay in the channel-swarm that it has joined to. These... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090287824 - Multi-process browser architecture: Systems and methods for multi-process browser architecture are described herein. In an embodiment, a system for providing multi-process browser architecture includes at least one rendering process for each browser instance that renders a content area; and at least one browser process that communicates with one or a plurality of rendering... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090287827 - Managing discovery in a wireless peer-to-peer network: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for managing discovery in wireless peer-to-peer networks. Various discovery procedures may be implemented by supporting a broadcast of a plurality of discovery signals spaced apart in time by silent periods from a peer node and changing the duration of at least one of the silent... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090287826 - Many-to-one mapping of host identities: A computer-implemented method includes sending, from a first node to a second node, an initiator message to open a connection between the first node and the second node, receiving, at the first node, a responder message sent from the second node, in which the responder message comprises a responder certificate,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090287828 - Method, system and server for transferring session control right: A method, a system and a server for transferring session control right, relating to communication field, are provided in the present invention. The method includes: receiving a request for transferring session control right; negotiating about session transfer with a client of which the control right is to be taken over... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090287831 - Application distribution control system, application distribution control method, information processing apparatus, and client terminal: An application distribution control system is made up of an information processing apparatus including a data collecting part that collects and stores data of a use state when using an application of an application distribution server into a memory and a data moving part that moves the use state data... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090287830 - Method and system for managing the transfer of files among multiple computer systems: A system and method is disclosed for transferring files from a source computer to a destination computer. The system and method comprises reading a configuration file containing one or more parameter expressions representing file transfer instructions. One or more transfer files stored on the source computer are identified based on... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20090287829 - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for facilitating establishing a communications session: An apparatus may include a processor configured to maintain at least a portion of a distributed database. The distributed database may comprise a plurality of private address data. The processor may be further configured to receive a request from a first terminal device seeking to establish a communications session with... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090287832 - Multiple client control system: Systems and methods for multiple client control are provided. In an aspect of the disclosure, a multiple client system is provided. The multiple client system comprises a master client and one or more slave clients. The master client comprises a remote access module configured to receive session data from a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090287836 - Ajax proxy indirection for external domain requests: An Ajax proxy indirection technique enables a local, front-end proxy server to handle Ajax requests from an Ajax client that must be serviced by an external Ajax server in an external domain, instead of a local Ajax back-end server exposing itself to the external domain. The front-end proxy server accepts... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090287837 - Information record infrastructure, system and method: A data security apparatus and method for controlling access to records provided within automated electronic databases, each record having an associated set of access rules, comprising: receiving, by a security processor, a request for access to records associated with at least one of an entity, attribute, and datum from a... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20090287835 - Method and apparatus for facilitating communication in a content centric network: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for facilitating communication in a content centric network (CCN). During operation, the system receives at a first node from an interest owner an interest in a piece of content. The interest indicates a structured name for the content. Furthermore, the name... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090287834 - Method and system for allocating on-demand resources using a connection manager: A method and system provide a user-friendly mechanism that allows the user to access remote on-demand resources through a network only when the resources are required. These on-demand resources are accessed using a connection manager that is enabled on a client when, for example, the user moves a mouse cursor... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090287833 - Security-based presentation in client application software: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for security-based presentation in client application software. A network includes one or more client systems coupled to one or more servers, a server including an application adapted to compare a request received from a client application for particular data, metadata and descriptors, together... Agent: Kenneth F. Kozik

20090287838 - Method and apparatus for inexpensively monitoring and controlling remotely distributed appliances: A method and associated apparatus are described that enables unattended, remotely distributed appliances, such as vending machines, utility meters, thermostats and kitchen appliances (ovens, washing machines, refrigerators, etc.) to be connected inexpensively to each other and to a centrally located server. The apparatus 1) uses relatively simple “personality” modules to... Agent: James Remenick Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20090287841 - Live media delivery over a packet-based computer network: In general, this disclosure describes techniques of determining a backset for client devices attempting to download data of a live transmission. A backset is an amount of temporal delay that the client devices are delayed by when viewing the live transmission. As described herein, a media content provider may determine... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20090287840 - Live media serving system and method: A method and system for transmitting a continuous live performance to a media client via a data network for rendering to a user. The method comprises acquiring the continuous live performance as a live stream of digital data and, on receiving a request from the media client to transmit the... Agent: Goudreau Gage Dubuc

20090287839 - System and method for data feed acceleration and encryption: The transmission of broadcast data, such as financial data and news feeds, is accelerated over a communication channel using data compression and decompression to provide secure transmission and transparent multiplication of communication bandwidth, as well as reduce the latency. Broadcast data may include packets having fields. Encoders associated with particular... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090287842 - Systems and methods of prefetching objects for caching using qos: The present solution provides a variety of techniques for accelerating and optimizing network traffic, such as HTTP based network traffic. The solution described herein provides techniques in the areas of proxy caching, protocol acceleration, domain name resolution acceleration as well as compression improvements. In some cases, the present solution provides... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090287844 - Data transfer method, system and protocol: A method for transmitting blocks of data in data packets from a first device on a network to a second device on the network comprising the steps of, providing a File Transmitter Application in communication with the first device, which File Transmitter Application is adapted to control the transmission of... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090287843 - Packet receiving apparatus and processing method for the same: A packet receiving apparatus determines whether or not data to be stored in a buffer overlaps previously stored data based on information contained in a header portion of a received packet. If it is determined that the data overlaps, a checksum for the overlapping data is subtracted. If it is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090287845 - Mediator with interleaved static and dynamic routing: A system for routing an application message detects that routing rules are dynamic and static. The system then invokes a rules engine to receive the dynamic routing rules and interleaves the dynamic routing rules with static routing rules. The system then executes the interleaved rules to route the message.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. Oracle International Corporation

20090287846 - Method and apparatus for load balancing in network based telephony based on call length: Techniques are disclosed for load balancing based on call length in networks such as those networks handling telephony applications. By way of example, one method for directing requests associated with calls to servers in a system comprised of a network routing calls between at least one caller and at least... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090287847 - System and method for offering a fixed internet protocol address to a client device: A method for offering a fixed Internet protocol (IP) address to a client device is provided. The method includes recording a client device ID and an IP address assigned to the client device by a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server. The method further includes sending a renewing request periodically... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090287848 - Information processing device and communication control method: According to one embodiment, the host virtual machine includes a virtual bridge connection module configure to virtually connect one guest virtual machine and the network by bridge connection, a conversion modules configure to convert packets transmitted from the another guest virtual machines and the application to packets of a virtual... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090287849 - Exchange of events based synchronization of browsers: A technique for synchronizing a visual browser and a voice browser. A visual browser is used to navigate through visual content, such as WML pages. During the navigation, the visual browser creates a historical record of events that have occurred during the navigation. The voice browser uses this historical record... Agent: Ashok Tankha

20090276482 - Automated offloading of user-defined functions to a high performance computing system: Technologies are described herein for the automated offloading of the execution of a user-defined function (“UDF”) to a high performance computing (“HPC”) system. When a request is received to calculate a workbook that references a UDF, a spreadsheet application program determines, based upon a tag set by the UDF, whether... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276479 - Distributed execution model for cross-organizational declarative web applications: A system and method for distributed computation includes providing a first service of a first computation node in a network of nodes, the first service having a first resource, the first resource including one of references to data and other resources. In a second service on a second computation node,... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090276483 - Java virtual machine having integrated transaction management system: A computing system comprises a plurality of computing nodes and is configured such that each computing node includes a processor configured to execute JAVA computer program instructions. The computing nodes cooperate to form a cluster, wherein the JAVA computer program instructions being executed by the plurality of computing nodes collectively... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090276481 - Message receipt version management in network: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for message receipt version management in a distributed computing environment including a plurality of nodes is provided. At least one translation vector is received in at least one additional node of the plurality of nodes from a first node. The translation vector provides... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090276480 - Message send version management in network: An apparatus, method, and computer program product for message send version management in a distributed computing environment including a plurality of nodes is provided. A message is sent from a first node of the plurality of nodes to at least one additional node of the plurality of nodes. At least... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090276484 - Software platform for radio network: A pervasive computing system comprises a set of client devices and a network of small computing units, referred to as nodes. The client devices and nodes run programs that communicate with each other to solve a given problem, but the client devices and the nodes use different software execution environments... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090276486 - Apparatus and method for creating configurations of offline field devices in a process control system: A method includes receiving a first proposed value or attribute for a parameter associated with a field device. The field device is or will be used in a process control system. The method also includes determining whether the first proposed value or attribute is valid using a device description associated... Agent: Anthony Miologos Honeywell International Inc.

20090276489 - Automated incident response method and system: An automated emergency response method and system to remotely and timely update emergency response protocols, such as Emergency Medical Dispatch Protocol Reference Systems (EMDPRS), is provided. A method and system to remotely and timely update the EMDPRS in a controlled, consistent and timely manner is also provided. A method that... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090276488 - Extensible, asynchronous, centralized analysis and optimization of server responses to client requests: An optimizer for messaging systems learns the purpose and context of each message and combines that information with knowledge of the specific client that will be rendering the response, such as a specific HTML browser. Any of a number of optimization factors can be applied, singly or in any combination.... Agent: Raubvogel Law Office

20090276487 - Interactive web based system in support of bariatric procedures: The present invention is directed to a computer-based weight loss system for supporting bariatric treatment of obesity that is accessible to both the patient and the medical practitioner. The system has a central server maintaining a library of information related to the treatment of obesity and a patient interface and... Agent: Welsh & Flaxman LLC

20090276485 - Method of playing back digital content, and an appliance and a server for implementing such a method: depending on the user profile, sending at least one address of digital content present on a content supplier site from the server to the playback appliance connected to the network, thereby enabling the playback appliance to recover and play back said digital content via playback means.... Agent: O'brien Jones, PLLC

20090276490 - Transparent request routing for a partitioned application service: Systems and methods for providing an efficient partitioned resource server. In one embodiment, the partitioned resource server comprises a plurality of individual servers, and the individual servers appear to be equivalent to a client. Each of the individual servers may include a routing table that includes a reference for each... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090276491 - Management method for remote digital signage: A management method for a remote digital signage provides communication between a web server and the digital signage to make the web server collect a system information from the digital signage. The management method includes the steps of: transmitting a heartbeat every period to the web server by the digital... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090276494 - Mutual scheduling of events on handheld computers: An embodiment of the invention provides a method for scheduling an event. The method includes signaling a request from a first computer to schedule an event to a second computer. A schedule is then received from the second, the schedule includes indicators of available time periods in the calendar period... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090276493 - Service processing system and service processing method: In a case where a service for performing specified processings of document data as one job is processed in a cooperative manner on a network, a service processing state is exhibited in a proper notice form in each job unit and in each processing unit in the job, so that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090276492 - Summarization of immersive collaboration environment: A system (and corresponding method) that enables automatic (and/or manual) summarization of significant events that occur within a collaborative discussion is provided. The summarization promotes efficient review and asynchronous participation where a user can trigger playback of a series of events that occurred within a discussion. The system can automatically... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090276495 - Chat system, chat device, chat server control method, and information storage medium: Provided are a chat system, a chat device, a chat server control method, and an information storage medium for realizing sound communication between users. When a message transfer unit (11a) receives a message, the message is transferred to a game terminal of a transmission destination and a stop limit unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090276497 - Click to create meeting makers from electronic messages: A method and system for generating meeting maker requests as efficiently and with as few steps as possible. Here, a software API or program automatically generates and populates a meeting maker request by using information already located within an electronic message, such as an e-mail, to compose the meeting maker... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090276499 - Interworking method for message systems and message interworking gateway: An interworking method for message systems and a message interworking gateway are provided. When a session initiation protocol (SIP) message system sends a message to a non-SIP message system, the message is first sent to the message interworking gateway through a message session relay protocol (MSRP) channel established between the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090276500 - Microblog search engine system and method: A method, system and an apparatus of Microblog Search Engine and method are disclosed. In one aspect, a computer implemented method includes accessing a Short Message between a Broadcaster and a follower through a first Microblog Server and processing the Short Message through a Microblog Search Engine. The processing of... Agent: Raj Abhyanker LLP

20090276498 - Specifying during meeting establishment when respondents are to be prompted for attendance intentions: A meeting initialization request for a meeting can be identified. The meeting initialization request can specify a prompt time for attendance intentions. A programmatic trigger, referred to as a prompt trigger, can be established for the prompt time. A firing of this prompt trigger can occur when a current time... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090276501 - Storage device, storage system and control thereof: The present invention discloses a storage device connected through an internal network with an external network. The storage device includes a storage medium for storing files and an access unit for carrying out data communication of an e-mail with an attached file for accessing the storage medium with a terminal... Agent: Yokoi & Company U.s.a., Inc.

20090276496 - Systems, methods and computer program products for building a user's buddy list through public group membership: Systems, methods and computer program products for hardware assists for building a user's buddy list through public group membership. Exemplary embodiments include identifying a member from the user's buddy list, identifying a skill possessed by the member of the user's buddy list, searching for a group having the skill, selecting... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20090276502 - Network switch with shared memory: A network switch that incorporates memory that can be shared by computers or processors connected to the network switch is provided. The network switch of the present invention is particularly suitable for use in a computer cluster, such as a Beowulf cluster, in which each computer in the cluster can... Agent: Rene A. Vazquez

20090276503 - System and method of collecting, correlating, and aggregating structured edited content and non-edited content: Edited and non-edited multimedia content from a plurality of sources is formatted as a standardized data feed. The standardized data feed is correlating with a syndicated data feed as an aggregated data feed. The aggregated data feed is presented for display at a device.... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Gb Attn: Patent Docketing

20090276504 - Dynamic networking system: In a method of managing interactions between a first entity and a second entity, an indication of information requirements that the first entity requires from the second entity to establish a link is received from the first entity. The second entity transmits: a first set of information corresponding to the... Agent: Bryan W. Bockhop, Esq. Bockhop & Associates, LLC

20090276505 - Web service control apparatus and method: A computer readable storage medium stores a Web service control program that allows a computer to execute a process comprising: receiving from a consumer of a reservation request for a reservation which reserves the Web service and defines a condition; acquiring a state of a server; determining whether to accept... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090276508 - Automatic address assignment apparatus, control method, and program: When an automatic address assignment apparatus is operating in a network, another automatic address assignment apparatus stops the automatic address assignment service thereof. When a wireless LAN access point which functions as an automatic address assignment apparatus (DHCP server device) sends a DHCP discover message on the network and a... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090276506 - Generating document templates that are robust to structural variations: A template or wrapper tree for a document such as a web page is generalized from the bottom up (from leaf toward root of a logical tree structure of the template). At a given level in the tree, sub-trees are clustered and the clustered sub-trees are generalized, and the process... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090276509 - Method and apparatus for operating a host computer in a network environment: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus that utilize a portable apparatus to operate a host computer in a network environment. The portable apparatus including an operating system and a list of software applications are installed in a removable data storage medium. The basic input/output system (BIOS) of... Agent: Invent Capture, LLC

20090276507 - Peer-to-peer (p2p) network system and method of operating the same: A peer-to-peer (P2P) network system and a method of operating the P2P network system are provided. The P2P network system includes at least one edge peer storing resources and at least one super peer sharing and managing resource information corresponding to the resources of the at least one edge peer.... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090276510 - System and method for network design: A system and method for network design are disclosed. In one embodiment of a method incorporating teachings of the present disclosure, embedded network information describing at least one existing network element and a plurality of physical locations available for locating new network nodes may be received. A demand forecast for... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090276511 - Controlling method, computer system, and processing program of booting up a computer: A computer system having computers executing programs, a management computer managing said computers, and a storage system which can be accessed from said computers via a network, wherein said management computer includes: a storage unit for storing network identity information of said network which is allocated to said computers, application... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090276512 - Bios selection for plurality of servers: A method for selecting a basic input output system (BIOS) and an operating system (OS) for a server managed by a controller in communication with a plurality of servers is provided. The server is detected. A map describing a relationship between the server and the plurality of servers is consulted.... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090276514 - Discarding sensitive data from persistent point-in-time image: A network storage server implements a method to discard sensitive data from a Persistent Point-In-Time Image (PPI). The server first efficiently identifies a dataset containing the sensitive data from a plurality of datasets managed by the PPI. Each of the plurality of datasets is read-only and encrypted with a first... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090276515 - Multi-modality network for improved workflow: Described herein are systems and methods for multi-modality networks that provide access to different medical devices though a common operator interface. In an example embodiment, a multi-modality network comprises a host computer and a plurality of medical devices. The medical devices may support different diagnostic and/or therapeutic modalities. The host... Agent: Boston Scientific Corporation Darby & Darby P.C.

20090276513 - Policy control architecture for servers: A system for implementing and controlling a plurality of server-specific policies for a plurality of servers using a management module in communication with the plurality of servers is provided. A policy controller module is operational on the management module. The policy controller module is adapted for defining a first policy... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090276522 - Cooperative monitoring of peer-to-peer network activity: Particular embodiments include cooperative monitoring of peer-to-peer activity on a network including maintaining communication between a local monitoring process and a network monitoring process such that a process can use both network monitoring and local monitoring. The cooperative monitoring includes monitoring a local peer using local monitoring of a point... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20090276517 - Download and data transfer gaming method: A download and data transfer gaming method utilizes a hybrid peer-to-peer, segmented file distribution protocol to vastly improve the download capabilities of a gaming system by improving the upload cost burdened by the download host. The method redistributes this cost to the download clients by allowing clients on the gaming... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20090276516 - Download and data transfer gaming system: A download and data transfer gaming system utilizes a hybrid peer-to-peer, segmented file distribution protocol to vastly improve the download capabilities of a gaming system by improving the upload cost burdened by the download host. The system redistributes this cost to the download clients by allowing clients on the gaming... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20090276523 - Expression-based web logger for usage and navigational behavior tracking: Configurably storing data in a plurality of files based on expressions and conditions associated with the data. Logging software enables tracking of the navigation pattern of users for selected network properties under specified conditions. The logging software is configurable such that most current and future logging specifications may be fulfilled... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090276521 - Judicial monitoring on peer-to-peer networks: The invention relates to a procedure for judicial monitoring in peer-to-peer networks, in which participants to be monitored are marked, and in which furthermore upon setting up a peer-to-peer communication with a marked participant the connection is diverted via a monitoring server and access to the communication data takes place... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090276525 - Method and apparatus for integrating heterogeneous sensor data in ubiquitous sensor network: Provided is an apparatus and method for integrating heterogeneous sensor data in a ubiquitous sensor network. The method includes steps of receiving an integrated query for heterogeneous sensor networks from a sensor network management system, disintegrating the received integrated query to be suitable for each sensor network and transmitting the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090276520 - Method and apparatus for server election, discovery and selection in mobile ad hoc networks: A method and apparatus for server election, discovery and selection in mobile ad hoc communication networks is disclosed. The server election method may include a server node that may elect itself as a server in network if the received server capabilities, network server lists and network specific parameters allow its... Agent: Prass LLP

20090276519 - Method and system for achieving better efficiency in a client grid using node resource usage and tracking: A system, method and computer program product for distributing task assignments on a computer network comprising a client grid having at least one server coupled to at least one client node and a plurality of client computers coupled to the client node through a plurality of monitoring agents. Each monitoring... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20090276518 - Technique for regulating link traffic: A system which regulates communication with a server is described. During operation, the system determines a retransmission rate of data packets during a first set of conversations between a group of users and the server via a peering link. Next, the system compares the retransmission rate and an historical retransmission... Agent: Google Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090276524 - Thin client terminal, operation program and method thereof, and thin client system: A thin client terminal 1 that can be connected to a thin client operation management server 3 includes: a memory 12 capable of storing system data for mobile environment used when the thin client terminal 1 is not connected to the thin client operation management server 3; and a controller... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090276526 - Access control list endpoint implementation: A method, system, and computer program product for providing direct communications between FCoE endpoint devices within the same fibre channel network zone. A direct fibre channel (DFC) utility provides an FCoE stack with an exclusive ability to define an Ethertype within an ethertype field of an Ethernet packet with “FCoE”.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090276527 - Light weight process abstraction for distributed systems: Methods and apparatus provide for a Process Descriptor to obtain an identity of an entity controlling resources of a plurality of computer systems linked via a network which access a common set of network file systems. Via a process abstraction, the Process Descriptor allows a user to describe a run-time... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20090276528 - Methods to optimally allocating the computer server load based on the suitability of environmental conditions: A method includes generating a space information value for each of a plurality of spaces based on at least one environmental condition measurement for the corresponding space. Each space includes one or more computing devices. The space information value includes information regarding the relative suitability of a corresponding space for... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090276529 - Connecting external devices to a gaming voice chat service: Voice chat enhances the game playing experience by allowing gamers in different locations to have conversations within the gaming environment. Functionality can be implemented within a gaming system to send an external invitation a user who is logged out of the game system to participate in a voice chat and/or... Agent: Ibm Raleigh Iplaw (dg) C/o Delizio Gilliam, PLLC

20090276530 - Devices, systems, methods and software for computer networking: A method of accessing content from a server using a client device, the client device having at least first and second connections to one or more remote computers. The method includes testing the performance of the first connection, testing the performance of the second connection and selecting, in response to... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20090276531 - Media file sharing, correlation of metadata related to shared media files and assembling shared media file collections: The present invention provides for systems and methods for communicating media files and creating a collection of media files, also referred to herein as a master media file. In addition, the systems and methods of the present invention provide for the creation of automatic metadata and compilation of metadata associated... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090276532 - Reducing occurrence of user equipment registration expiry during calls: Methods, systems, User Equipment (UE), and computer readable medium for reducing the occurrence of UE registration expiry are provided. A method of reducing the occurrence of UE registration expiry during calls includes registering a UE with a network for a registration period, determining a re-registration threshold time period, comparing a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090276533 - Authentication option support for binding revocation in mobile internet protocol version 6: A network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising sending a message comprising an authentication mobility option to a mobile node, wherein the message is configured to revoke a mobility binding for the mobile node is disclosed. Also disclosed is a system comprising a home... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc. C/o Conley Rose, P.C.

20090276534 - Enterprise device policy management: Methods and systems for managing policies of portable data storage devices in conjunction with a third-party service are disclosed. One or more candidates of a plurality of members in an enterprise may be identifying via the third-party service. Each of the plurality of members may be associated with a respective... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090276535 - Media streaming of web content data: Methods for streaming web content data via a computer-readable medium. The web content data comprises one or more media samples. The media samples are encoded in a streaming media format as a web component stream. The web component stream is combined with other component streams comprising additional data other than... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090276536 - Distribution method, preferably applied in a streaming system: The invention relates to a data live streaming system comprising at least one data live streaming broadcaster LSB and at least two live streaming recipients LSR, said at least two live streaming recipients LSR forming at least a part of a peer-to-peer streaming network and said at least two live... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090276537 - Mechanisms for role negotiation in the establishment of secure communication channels in peer-to-peer environments: A method of establishing secure communication channels in peer-to-peer environments is provided, that includes eliminating a role conflict between at least first peer and a second peer, determining which the peer will act as a client and which the peer will act as a server in a secure connection handshake,... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090276538 - Devices and methods for providing network access control utilizing traffic-regulation hardware: Disclosed are devices and methods for providing network access control utilizing traffic-regulation hardware, the device including: at least one client-side port for operationally connecting to a client system; at least one network-side port for operationally connecting to a network; a logic module for regulating network traffic, based on device-related data,... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090276539 - Conversational asyncronous multichannel communication through an inter-modality bridge: A communications apparatus is configured to bridge modalities and different communications formats. The apparatus may include a bridge to receive an input through a modality gateway and to deliver an output through an output channel, a communication engine configured to manipulate the input into the output, a router configured to... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090276540 - Peer-to-peer (p2p) network system and method of operating the same based on region: A peer-to-peer (P2P) network system and a method of operating the P2P network system based on region are provided. If an edge peer storing a resource information list of a super peer migrates to a different super peer and is registered and connected with the different super peer, the edge... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090276541 - Graphical data processing: A method and system 13 for processing graphical data for transmission to a remote computer 15 via a data network 17, the graphical data representing an image or graphical model the display of which can be manipulated from the remote computer in real-time in accordance with control commands, for example... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090276542 - Method and apparatus for time and frequency transfer in communication networks: A timing system for time synchronization between a time server and a time client over a packet network. The timing system includes a time server for generating current timestamp information and a time client having a phase-locked loop driven client clock counter. The time client periodically exchanges time transfer protocol... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20090276543 - Peer to peer broadcast content synchronization: A method and apparatus for synchronizing recorded broadcast content on a peer to peer system, in which portions of the content are synchronized between the peers by referring to program clock reference values.... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian