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Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization January recently filed with US Patent Office 01/10

20100023576 - Managing resources for ip networking: Resources for IP networking are managed. A field is added to an operating system kernel software procedure. The field references a virtual router context. Packet processing software code is modified to cause the packet processing software code to execute in accordance with the virtual router context.... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20100023577 - Method, system and article for mobile metadata software agent in a data-centric computing environment: An event management system that plays a central role in handling varying loads of metadata events from each of a large number of touch-points or data servers that come into a Data Centric computing environment. As a matter of distinction when compared to conventional method-centric computing environments, there is broadly... Agent: Sughrue Mion PLLC Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20100023580 - Content delivery apparatus, communication system, content delivery method, and computer product: A content delivery apparatus and method operable to access a network, to which a content management apparatus and a content acquiring apparatus are connected, where the content delivery apparatus accepts content delivery request(s). The content delivery apparatus obtains a number of content delivery apparatus(es) having the same content on the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100023579 - Dynamic media bit rates based on enterprise data transfer policies: In general, this disclosure describes techniques of dynamically selecting versions of media content based on data transfer policies of a media content provider that provides the media content. As described herein, a media content provider may establish a variety of data transfer policies for a variety of purposes. When requests... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20100023581 - Method and system for providing targeted content to a surfer: A system and method for providing targeted content to a surfer is disclosed. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention seek to provide novel solutions for determining which content object, taken from a group of content objects, will be best suited for presentation in association with a link on a web... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20100023582 - Systems and methods for accelerating delivery of a computing environment to a remote user: The present invention is directed towards a method and system for accelerating delivery of a computing environment to a remote client. The computing environment may include a plurality of files comprising an application program and may be streamed to a remote client from a server. Responsive to a determination of... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20100023578 - Systems, methods, and media for sharing and processing digital media content in a scaleable distributed computing environment: A distributed workload media processing system including: a storage server storing playlists, including a substantially permanent origin identifier identifying a remote device, the storage server programmed to store the plurality of playlists in a plurality of formats; and a network server in communication with the storage server and in communication... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20100023588 - Document data communication in an image forming system: An image forming apparatus includes a first SOAP processing section and a first communication processing section. When the first communication processing section receives a data transmission request message from a client apparatus, the first SOAP processing section generates a response message described in XML. The response message includes document data... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20100023583 - Efficient presentation of related messages in a computer network-based messaging system: Efficient presentation of related messages in a computer network-based messaging system, including a message parser for parsing related messages into sub-messages, a comparator for comparing each sub-message identified by the parser to each sub-message in a set of unique sub-messages previously identified by the parser within any of the related... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20100023589 - Image forming system and image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a data storage device that stores list data, and a simple object access protocol (SOAP) processor. When a partial-list-data-request message is received from a client apparatus by a communication processor, the SOAP processor generates a response message including a partial list data items that have... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20100023591 - Method and apparatus for debugging protocol traffic between devices in integrated subsystems: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for a storage subsystem. This subsystem includes controller devices, storage devices, and a communications network. The communications network connects the controller devices and the storage devices. The communications network also includes a set of diagnostic outputs. The set of diagnostic outputs is configured to... Agent: Duke W Yee

20100023584 - Method and system for creating a personalized social network in a telecommunication network: The invention describes a method and system for creating a social network in a telecommunication network. The method includes extracting one or more contact information stored in a telecommunication device of a user. The one or more contact information is added to the social network of the user in response... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100023585 - Privileged and restricted email processing to multiple recipients based on sender definded visibility settings: A method is provided for email processing to recipients based on user defined visibility settings. Input of email addresses for recipients in a privileged list and for recipients not in the privileged list is received. An email message is transmitted to recipients in the privileged list and to recipients not... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20100023586 - System and method for correlating questions and answers in an instant messaging environment: A system and method for correlating questions and answers in an instant messaging environment. First creating an instant messaging client at least two zones, each zone of the at least two zones corresponding to a unique end user, each zone of further comprising at least one textbox. After creating the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20100023587 - System for controlling retention of data messages: Subscribers connected to a publish/subscribe message broker receive messages on topic names to which they have subscribed. The subscribers receive any number of messages on each topic to which they have subscribed. When the broker receives a message on a second, pre-specified, topic, associated with a first topic, the broker... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20100023590 - System, method and apparatus for communicating via instant messaging: A system, method and apparatus for facilitating communication among a number of distributed clients in a distributed network is disclosed. A user, such as through a personal digital assistant device, may select one or more instant messages for transmission to one or more other users in the network. The instant... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20100023592 - Systems and methods for domain name registration by proxy: A system and method of proxy domain name registration permits a would-be domain name registrant anonymity. A registrar affords customers the opportunity to use the proxy registration. If the customer seeking registration of a domain name requests, the registrar obtains contact information needed for registration from a proxy entity established... Agent: Go Daddy Group, Inc.

20100023594 - Content processing apparatus, content processing method, and recording medium: A content processing apparatus includes an extracting part extracting undownloaded contents from a list of downloadable contents, a providing situation storage part that stores a providing situation of the contents that content processing apparatus provided to other apparatuses, a priority order determining part determining the priority order of download in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100023593 - Distributed storage system, node device, recording medium in which node processing program is recorded, and address information change notifying method: In a receiving node device which receives the address change notification message, a second storing device stores address information and node identification information of a plurality of the second specific node devices, and an updating device updates the address information stored in the second storing device with the address information... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100023595 - System and method of multi-path data communications: In a particular embodiment, a multi-path bridge circuit includes a backplane input/output (I/O) interface to couple to a local backplane having at least one communication path to a processing node and includes at least one host interface adapted to couple to a corresponding at least one processor. The multi-path bridge... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100023596 - File-system based data store for a workgroup server: A system and method for storing workgroup objects on a file-system based data store in a workgroup server is disclosed. The present invention implements a file-system based workgroup system in which a workgroup object is stored in one or more files. The present invention further includes a workgroup object list... Agent: William L. Botjer

20100023597 - Diskless computer system: A diskless computer system has a network connecting device and a diskless computer connecting to the network connecting device. The diskless computer stores a disk driver and a network driver. The disk driver stores a device number corresponding to the network connecting device. The network driver is capable of obtaining... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates, LLC

20100023599 - Communication terminal device performing content display control, control method, and video display system: When it is judged that data communication with a video display device is enabled, a display element is displayed to transmit a control signal for operating the video display device. When an instruction input for the display element is received, the control signal for controlling the video display device is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100023600 - Development, test, and demonstration of automation solutions using web-based virtual computers and vpn tunneling: The present invention relates generally to an Internet based management of software and/or hardware. More particularly, the invention encompasses the development, test, and demonstration of automation solutions using web-based virtual computers and VPN (Virtual Private Network) tunneling. The present invention is also directed to a novel concept of storing various... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100023598 - Event monitoring and management: Described are techniques used in monitoring the performance, security and health of a system used in an industrial application. Agents included in the industrial network report data to an appliance or server. The appliance stores the data and determines when an alarm condition has occurred. Notifications are sent upon detecting... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20100023601 - Extending an internet content delivery network into an enterprise: An Internet content delivery network deploys one or more CDN server regions in an enterprise and manages those regions as part of the Internet CDN. In one aspect of the invention, a CDN service provider (CDNSP) deploys one or more CDN regions behind an enterprise's corporate firewall(s). The regions are... Agent: David H. Judson Akamai Technologies, Inc.

20100023602 - Method and apparatus for updating information on an embedded system: A target system is dynamically configured to boot from a network connection upon power-up. A portable data loader connected to the target system may receive communications from the target system that a connection has been established. In response, a copy of a target-specific software data loader (SWDL) application may be... Agent: Lockheed Martin Corporation C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20100023603 - Method, system and apparatus for provisioning a communication client: According to embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a method, system and apparatus for provisioning a communication client. The method comprises receiving via a communication network a request from the communication client. The method further comprises determining a positioning object associated with the communication client. The method further... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20100023607 - Determining collocations with an access transport management system (atms): A device receives network configuration information from a network, determines a new capacity model of the network based on the network configuration information, and constructs a mixed integer programming (MIP) model based on the new capacity model. The device also calculates an optimal baseline solution, that minimizes network costs, using... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100023608 - Device setting alteration system, network device, and storage medium: A device setting alteration system comprises a plurality of network devices connected to one another via a network. Each of the plurality of network devices comprises: a device main body that requests a setting alteration with respect to its network device that comprises the device main body itself; a data... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20100023609 - Fmc architecture for cdma network: A method and apparatus are provided for connecting a mobile device to a subscriber access network, such as 3G network over an untrusted network, such as a wireless local area network (WLAN). SIP signaling is performed to authenticate and establish a connection to the subscriber access network. A unique identifier... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100023604 - Method and system for providing operator guidance in network and systems management: An operator guidance system is provided for an administrator managing a computer network such as a distributed computer system. Fault events reported by a fault management system in the network are enhanced to include topology information about other nodes (such as neighbor nodes, path nodes and/or service nodes) that may... Agent: Kevin M. Jordan IBM Corporation

20100023606 - Method for providing composed services in a peer-to-peer network: A method for providing a service containing facilities in a peer-to-peer network comprising peer devices is provided. The peer devices may be associated with groups, each group being defined by a pre-determined facility. The pre-determined facility may be executed by each peer device associated with a respective group, and a... Agent: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC (sen)

20100023605 - System and method for synchronizing configurations in a controller network: A method is disclosed for synchronizing configuration data. The method may include providing a controller network that includes a plurality of control modules and each control module may have registration information stored thereon. The method may include detecting a registration information change associated with a control module and receiving current... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20100023611 - Method and device for storing domain name system records, method and device for parsing domain name: A method, device, and terminal for storing domain name system (DNS) records are provided. The method includes: locally storing received DNS records needed to be stored; and if the size of all the stored DNS records does not satisfy a preset storing threshold, deleting a part of the stored DNS... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100023610 - Mixed integer programming model for minimizing leased access network costs: A device receives network configuration information from a network, determines a logical network based on the network configuration information, and constructs a mixed integer programming (MIP) model based on the logical network. The device also calculates an optimal solution, which minimizes network costs, using the mixed integer programming (MIP) model,... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100023612 - Network system, information management server, and information management method: To reduce the load on a management server in a load distributed system, a server list manager 16 of a management server 10 selects servers 4, 6, 20, and 30 to be accessed by a client terminal management server 43 by referencing an operation status or a load status of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100023616 - Information processing and transmission systems: Disclosed are systems and methods for transmitting information from a remote location to a financial decision system. In certain representative transmission methods machine readable content is generated that is adapted to be received by a financial decision system. The machine readable content is transmitted using a first protocol or standard.... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100023613 - Managing pluggable modules of a network element: Managing pluggable modules of a network element includes receiving an approved pluggable module list for the network element. A pluggable module is received at the network element, and a component identifier of the pluggable module is determined. If the component identifier is on the approved pluggable module list, the pluggable... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100023617 - Method and apparatus for ensuring ipv6 uniqueness in a mobile subnetted environment: A method and apparatus for ensuring network address uniqueness is described herein. An address manager determines whether any link-local addresses associated with peripheral devices connected to a mobile device would conflict with a network assigned global address. The address manager negotiates with the network to avoid conflicts.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100023619 - Operation management system, management apparatus, management method and management program: A management apparatus has a control unit for realizing a management function through a comprehensive process of characteristic information of a storage apparatus, a connecting apparatus and a computer. The management apparatus also has an interface for receiving characteristic information from the storage apparatus, connecting apparatus and computer, depending on... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20100023615 - Redirecting web downloads: One or more downloads of web content from one or more web content servers are monitored. A swarm is defined including one or more previous downloaders of the web content from the one or more web content servers. The one or more previous downloaders of the web content include one... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20100023614 - Server location mapping: Embodiments of a method for determining locations of computers in a group of computers, which may be performed by a system, are described. During operation, the system receives a location of a first computer in the group of computers. Then, the system determines locations of one or more additional computers... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100023618 - System and method for supplicant based accounting and access: The method of the present invention comprises initiating a connection to a port on an access device by a supplicant and associating supplicant identification information with the port. The access device may comprise any network connectivity device, including a wireless access point. Data packets transmitted over the port by the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100023620 - Access controller: An access controller not requiring a large amount of resources such as a memory device and not needing to change the list of secure host devices each time the configuration of a network is changed. On receiving a DNS response through an access control section (103) of the access controller... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20100023623 - Allocation of network resources: Methods and systems for allocating a network resource such as bandwidth between a plurality of network applications, comprising steps of obtaining, for each of said plurality of network applications, parameters defining a quality function indicative of quality of service obtainable as a function of the amount of said network resource... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100023621 - Load-derived probability-based domain name service in a network storage cluster: DNS name resolution is integrated into each node in a network storage cluster, to allow load balancing of network addresses, using a weighted random distribution to resolve DNS requests. A node in the cluster gathers statistics on utilization of resources, such as CPU utilization and throughput, on nodes in the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100023622 - Method for assigning resource of united system: A method of assigning a resource of a united system in which a plurality of single systems are complexly operated includes: determining a cost function using standard network state information commonly used within the united system; and assigning a resource based on the cost function. Therefore, a state of each... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100023626 - Method and apparatus for reducing host overhead in a socket server implementation: A network application executing on a host system provides a list of application buffers in host memory stored in a queue to a network services processor coupled to the host system. The application buffers are used for storing data transferred on a socket established between the network application and a... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20100023624 - Method, user equipment and application server for adding media stream of multimedia session: A method, user equipment and application server for adding media stream of multimedia session. A UE1 establishes a multimedia session with a UE2, receives a media stream adding request directed at the multimedia session of the UE 1; the media stream adding request includes an identity of a UE3 and... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100023625 - Terminal unit for handling session on the basis of session initiation protocol, method of transmitting and receiving thereof: According to the present invention, a service is configured by a plurality of sessions and respective session negotiation requests defined by different media formats can be performed without influencing existing connected sessions, and hence it is easy to add, delete, and change the media, the contact of session negotiation can... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100023628 - Apparatus and method for setting ip addresses in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method for setting a plurality of Internet Protocol (IP) address in a mobile communication system are provided. A method for using the plurality of IP addresses at a dual-mode terminal in the mobile communication system comprises determining whether a socket open is requested from an application program,... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20100023627 - Call setup and control by third-party device: Method for setting up a communication session (SM) between two communication agents (A, B), triggered by the reception of an event (S) by a third-party communication element (C). Following the reception of this event, the third-party element sends the first of the two agents (A) a signalling message (M1) adapted... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100023629 - Method for setting up a peer-to-peer link between two communication media: A method for setting up a peer-to-peer communication link between a first communication medium (3) and a second communication medium (4) by means of a mediation server (5), wherein the first communication medium (3) comprises a multitude of communication ports, which are assigned in dependence on the destination by the... Agent: Steinfl & Bruno

20100023630 - System and method for globally and securely accessing unified information in a computer network: A client stores a first set of workspace data, and is coupled via a computer network to a global server. The client may be configured to synchronize portions of the first set of workspace data with the global server, which stores independently modifiable copies of the portions. The global server... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100023632 - Method and system for negotiating the bidirectional forwarding detection session discriminator of pseudo wire: A method, apparatus and system for negotiating the BFD session discriminator of the PW are disclosed. The method includes: a second equipment receives a negotiation message from a first equipment, where the message carries the BFD capability of VCCV of the PW at the first equipment and the BFD discriminator;... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20100023631 - Processing data access requests among a plurality of compute nodes: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for processing data access requests among a plurality of compute nodes. One compute node operates as a processing node, and one compute nodes operates as a requesting node. The processing node receives, from the requesting node, a data access request to access data currently... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20100023641 - Communication terminal, terminal, communication system, communication method and program: A communication source application is specified in TCP/IP stream communication. The communication source terminal 10 which communicates with the communication destination terminal 20 transmits information (a communication source IP address and a communication source port number) of the communication source terminal 10 related to communication with the communication destination terminal... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100023635 - Data streaming through time-varying transport media: Methods of data streaming from an encoder to a decoder through a connection subjected to time-varying conditions are disclosed. The connection is assigned a nominal flow rate and an encoding coefficient associated with the connection modifies the nominal flow rate to determine a permissible flow rate compatible with a time-varying... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20100023634 - Flow-rate adaptation for a connection of time-varying capacity: A system and methods for adapting streaming data for transmission over a connection of time-varying capacity are disclosed. A streaming server individually adapts transmission rates of signals directed to subtending clients according to measurements characterizing connections from the streaming server to the clients. The measurements may relate to characteristics such... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20100023633 - Method and system for improving content diversification in data driven p2p streaming using source push: A system and method for improving content diversification in data driven streaming includes computing a weight factor and a qualification factor for each of at least two nodes among a plurality of nodes, based upon a bandwidth of each node. Content is pushed to a node based on the qualification... Agent: Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20100023642 - Method and system for transforming input data streams: The present system and method transforms an input data stream in a first data format of a plurality of first data formats to an output data stream in a second data format of a plurality of second data formats. A plurality of input connector modules receive respective input data streams... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20100023636 - One-way media streaming system and method thereof: A one-way media streaming system and a corresponding method thereof are provided. The system includes a relay server, a first user device, and a second user device. The first user device and the relay server determine the format of a specialized media streaming packet by exchanging at least one Session... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100023640 - Software streaming system and method: A method for streaming software may include downloading blocks associated with a software title until an executable threshold is reached, initiating execution of the software title, and continuing to download blocks of the software title while the software title is executed. Another method for streaming software may include sending to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100023638 - System and method for streaming audio: A system and method is provided of synchronizing data streaming. The method can include the operation of receiving an incoming media packet having a timestamp from a media server at a client device. A further operation is synchronizing the clocks for a client device with a clock for a media... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20100023639 - System and method for streaming audio using a send queue: A system and method are provided for preparing a streaming media system for initial presentation of a media stream. The system includes a media server configured to send out media packets for a media stream at periodic clocked intervals. A framer can be located with the media server to divide... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20100023637 - System, method or apparatus for combining multiple streams of media data: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with combining or mixing digital media streams are disclosed.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100023644 - Inspecting web browser state information from a synchronously-invoked service: The present invention provides a browser-independent method to inspect the state of any Web Browser from a service that has been invoked synchronously. The remote agent responds to the service request with instructions for the browser to synchronously and recursively invoke another service request with a specific portion of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation-raleigh Swg C/o Thomas, Raring & Teague, P.c

20100023643 - Network device, network device management apparatus, network device control method, network device management method, program, and storage medium: A network device includes a communicator which communicate with an information processing apparatus on a network by using a first communication protocol requiring authentication and a second communication protocol requiring no authentication, a setting unit which sets the operation mode of the communicator so as to communicate with an object... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20100023645 - System and method for dynamically managing message flow: System and method for dynamically managing message flow. According to the example embodiments, an intermediary network device or a client device dynamically manages the flow of messages received from an electronic exchange by analyzing the client device's capabilities, such as CPU utilization. Based on a percentage of total CPU utilization,... Agent: Mbhb/trading Technologies

20100023646 - Communication system, information processing apparatus, server, and communication method: A first information processor transmits a bubble packet to a second communication control unit for leaving transmission record in a first communication control unit by way of the first communication control unit, a second information processor transmits a reply packet to one or more ports including at least the bubble... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20100017454 - Program, computer terminal, and command execution method: A program causing a computer to perform processing for executing a specific command under predetermined conditions independently of input information when automatic control information is set in association with a computer terminal and calculations are performed based on data of the computer terminal.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100017455 - Customized media broadcast for a broadcast group: Methods and systems are provided for delivering a customized media broadcast to a social group of users referred to as a broadcast group. In general, a broadcast group including a number of users is identified. User profiles of the users forming the broadcast group are obtained and aggregated to provide... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20100017457 - Method of management of a multimedia program, server, terminals, signal and corresponding computer programs: t

20100017456 - System and method for an on-demand peer-to-peer storage virtualization infrastructure: A system and method for creating an on-demand virtual drive from dedicated storage on a plurality of partners in a peer-to-peer network using an agent installed on each of the partners. The agent has a contributing program and a requesting program. The contributing program creates a first storage unit and... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20100017458 - Techniques for broadcasting messages on a point-to-point interconnect: Techniques to broadcast a message across a point-to-point network are described. More particularly, some embodiments of the invention relate to broadcasting messages between electronics components within a point-to-point interconnect. Other embodiments are also disclosed.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli LLC C/o Cpa Global

20100017460 - Assymetric dynamic server clustering with inter-cluster workload balancing: A method, computer program product or computer system for selecting a target data server from a plurality of data servers in an information system to service a request of a client with a data quality requirement, includes determining a formalized data quality of the client using the data quality requirement,... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20100017459 - Device and method for updating code: The invention is directed to a method for a software provider to enable a software-acquiring entity to arrive from an existent first signed piece of code at a second signed piece of code. Both pieces of code were generated at the software provider by use of a first software archive... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20100017461 - Method and system for executing applications using native code modules: Some embodiments provide a system that executes a web application. During operation, the system loads the web application in a web browser and loads a native code module associated with the web application into a secure runtime environment. Next, the system provides input data associated with the web application to... Agent: Google Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100017467 - Process monitoring system and method: To display process data so as to be easily understood even when operating when switching between daylight savings time and non-daylight savings time (standard time). A combination of detection times, using the first standard times, and process data are stored by a server device; the detection times of the historic... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20100017466 - System and method for dynamic processing of measurement metrics and tagging measurement metrics: A computer system is dynamically configurable for inputting, storing, processing and outputting metric data and tag data. The system includes a server and client computers that each has an input device, storage device, processing device and output device. The input, processing and output are each controlled by a dynamically configurable... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20100017469 - System and method for providing a certified photograph in a network environment: A method for providing a certified photograph in a network environment is offered that includes interfacing with one or more end users and managing information related to one or more of the end users. The method further includes displaying one or more photos of the end users and providing a... Agent: Patent Capital Group

20100017462 - System and method for seamlessly providing video content to client systems over a network: A system and method for providing video content to a client system is disclosed. The system includes a server and a computer coupled by a network. The server obtains operating environment information of the computer in response to a request for video content from the computer. The server selects a... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20100017468 - System, method and computer program product for providing content to a terminal: A system for providing content to a mobile terminal includes a source and a messaging gateway. The source is capable of reformatting content intended for receipt by a terminal, and transferring the reformatted content and an address of the terminal to the messaging gateway. The content can be reformatted in... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20100017463 - Unicast/multicast media edge proxy with fast channel switching: A system, method, and media edge proxy, MEP, (17) for providing media data such as Internet Protocol Television, IPTV, or Internet radio channels to a media client (12). The MEP obtains the media data from a media server (18) utilizing a temporary unicast connection and provides the media data obtained... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100017464 - Web page content translator: A system, method, and computer readable medium for reformatting web content into a format readable on one or more mobile devices is provided. A user generates a user request for a web page from a mobile device to a proxy server. The proxy server forwards the user request to an... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC Attn: William H. Bollman

20100017465 - Wireless network system and method for providing same: A wireless network, which includes a wireless router client operable to broadcast data packets to at least one wireless server and one additional wireless client. Each client and server includes programs for determining optimum routes between them. The client also includes a program for determining if a received data packet... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP Bank Of America Plaza

20100017470 - Apparatus and methods for communication using icon: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for communication using an icon. A first communication terminal of a first user stores a second user icon profile including an icon(s) representing at least one communication terminal used by a second user and a second communication terminal of the second user stores a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100017472 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing presence data from multiple presence information providers: Methods, systems, and computer readable medium for providing presence data from multiple presence information providers are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for providing presence service using presence information from multiple presence information providers. The method includes, at a network node including at... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20100017471 - System and method for transmitting electrocardiogram data: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing improved medical care. A system includes a defibrillator, a gateway device, a routing device, and a wireless modem. The system may further include hardware and/or software components located at a remote facility for receiving data and one or more server... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100017473 - Telecommunication method and system offering a plurality of mutually consistent means for access to a message base: A telecommunication method is provided, which includes storing at least one message in a message base and defining a set of communication devices. The method further includes sending each device in the set, a notification of at least one event relating to the message. The method offers a plurality of... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100017474 - System and method for playback positioning of distributed media co-viewers: Systems and methods are disclosed for obtaining and presenting information to a user playing a media item identifying playback positions of a number of other users also playing the media item. In one embodiment, a first user begins playback of a media item. Information identifying playback positions of a number... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20100017477 - performance and reduce network traffic for remote hardware data scan operations: According to one embodiment of the present invention, multiple data scan operations are compacted into a single network message. A plurality of requests to perform a data scan operation on a remote node controller is received, forming a set of received data scan operation requests. A set of data scan... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20100017476 - Anti-spam profile clustering based on user bahavior: A user can be assigned to one of a plurality of filtering profiles to filter the user's incoming email messages. Each filtering profile in the plurality of filtering profiles filters the incoming emails according to a different set of filtering rules. The filtering profiles are applied to incoming emails, and... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20100017478 - Dynamic grouping of email recipients: A method, system, and computer usable program product for dynamic grouping of email recipients are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A first recipient and a second recipient of a first email are identified and an association is formed between them. A selection of the first recipient is detected in a... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20100017484 - E-mail response time estimation on compose or send: An e-mail application calculates a dynamic estimate of an e-mail response time. A recipient address module, a status module, a processing module, and a presentation module interact to generate a first and a second estimated response time. The first estimated response time is determined from sender side data. The second... Agent: Ibm Corporation (aus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Yee & Associates, P.C.

20100017485 - Enforcing conformance in email content: In an email message method and system, an email server receives at least one user-defined constraint for a first email message, where the user-defined constraint comprises at least one of an expected format and expected content of a reply email message. The email server associates the at least one user-defined... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20100017495 - Fast byzantine paxos: A distributed computing system can operate in the face of malicious failures on the part of some of its constituent devices, and provide a minimum of message delays between receiving a client request and providing a response, when each device within the system verifies the sender of any message it... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100017494 - Formalizing, diffusing and enforcing policy advisories and monitoring policy compliance in the management of networks: An apparatus and method for centralized policy management of large-scale networks (221) of computational devices is disclosed. The apparatus includes a number of distributed clients (400) run on registered computers (201-203), gathering policy advisories (401) and reporting (405) relevance (403) to a system administrator (224). The system administrator may view... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20100017488 - Message classification using allowed items: A system and method are disclosed for classifying a message. The method includes receiving the message, identifying all items of a certain type in the message, determining whether each of the items meets a criterion, and in the event that all the items are determined to meet the criterion, determining... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20100017482 - Method and system for location aware electronic communication: A method and system for location aware electronic communication. One implementation involves receiving an electronic communication at a receiving client, upon detecting that the communication includes location-based information, retrieving criteria for processing the communication from a location profile, and automatically processing the communication utilizing the retrieved criteria and the location-based... Agent: Ibm - Eu C/o Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20100017492 - Method and system for message pacing: A system for managing message volume and timing, which permits messages from multiple sources to be spaced apart over time, with the pacing controlled in part by the type or priority of the message. The system permits the volume of messages to be reduced by aggregating messages according to a... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20100017479 - Method and system for providing proxy functionality in a message client: A method and system for communicating electronic messages among clients in a network is provided. One implementation involves marking an electronic message to indicate that the message is to be routed to recipient clients identified by a user group definitions, sending the marked message from a sender client to a... Agent: Ibm - Eu C/o Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20100017487 - Method, apparatus, and system for clustering and classification: The invention provides a method, apparatus and system for classification and clustering electronic data streams such as email, images and sound files for identification, sorting and efficient storage. The method further utilizes learning machines in combination with hashing schemes to cluster and classify documents. In one embodiment hash apparatuses and... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20100017483 - Multi-topic instant messaging chat session: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for establishing a multi-topic instant messaging (IM) chat session. In one embodiment, the invention includes sending a first message to at least one participant or receiving a first message from at least one participant; receiving a second message from at least... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20100017480 - Recipient side grouping of addresses: A method for grouping addressees of a message based on groups defined by a recipient of the message includes receiving a message including a plurality of addressees; determining the addresses of the addressees; comparing the addresses to one or more groups maintained by the recipient of the message; and displaying... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20100017490 - Serial communications device with dynamic allocation of acceptance masks using serial implementation: A CAN module or a microcontroller comprises a CAN module which receives a serial bit stream. The CAN module comprises a filter register with a bit select input and a single bit output, a bit select unit for selecting a bit of the filter register in accordance with the serial... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20100017486 - System analyzing program, system analyzing apparatus, and system analyzing method: A system analyzing apparatus obtains a message group including a message ID, a protocol, a type, and a transmission time of messages transmitted/received in a system where a hierarchical structure of protocols is defined. The apparatus detects pairs of a request message and a response message of the same message... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100017475 - System and method enabling future messaging directives based on past participation via a history monitor: A system and method for controlling the flow of documents by associating Globally Unique Identifiers with each original document, each reply document, each copy document and each forwarded document, such as email messages. Historical analysis is performed on a locally stored history records containing the Globally Unique Identifiers extracted from... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20100017491 - System and method for notification of digital images to be shared via a service provider: A method and system for organizing and sharing digital images over a communication network wherein an image server at a service provider stores digital images for a customer which may have more two more electronic addresses which may receive e-mail. The server automatically forwarding all electronic mail having an address... Agent: Raymond L. Owens Patent Legal Staff

20100017481 - System and method for sectional e-mail transmission: A process of segmenting a single email so that portions of it may be directed to or away from select recipients is disclosed. The sender highlights portions of the email and right clicks (or key command, button, or menu item) and selects an option to select recipients. The operator interface... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20100017493 - System for publishing messages from identified, authorized senders to subscribers: A message publishing system processes a message from a sender in a first format and comprises a central processor, a sender account, a storage area to store at least a portion of the message, and software executing to configure the central processor. The processor identifies the sender as an authorized... Agent: Leason Ellis LLP

20100017489 - Systems and methods for haptic message transmission: Systems and methods for haptic message transmission are disclosed. For example, one disclosed method includes the steps of receiving a sensor signal from a sensor configured to sense a physical interaction with a messaging device, determining a virtual force based at least in part on the sensor signal, and applying... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20100017496 - Method and system for using shared memory with optimized data flow to improve input/output throughout and latency: The data path in a network storage system is streamlined by sharing a memory among multiple functional modules (e.g., N-module and D-module) of a storage server that facilitates symmetric access to data from multiple clients. The shared memory stores data from clients or storage devices to facilitate communication of data... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100017497 - Network system with initiator subnetwork communication to target subnetwork communication including fibre channel over ethernet to fibre channel over internet protocol conversion: A network system supports multiple network communication protocols. An Ethernet component gateway in a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) initiator system converts FCoE data packets from host devices to Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP) data packets for transmission to a Storage Area Network (SAN) target system. The SAN target... Agent: Mark P. Kahler

20100017498 - Process and device for securing the transmission, recording and viewing of digital audiovisual packetized streams: A process for secure distribution of original digital audiovisual streams including audio, video components or other data, including packetizing the original stream into packets that can be manipulated and have a flexible size, wherein each packet includes a header containing information about the packet and a useful load including part... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20100017501 - Content management and method: A technique for content management involves storing runtime state of content externally. A system created according to the technique may include a state server that receives runtime state of content from a playback device, and provides the runtime state to that or another playback device upon request. A playback device... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100017499 - Data downloading initiated by portable communicating objects during a campaign: Content data available in a server is downloaded to portable communicating objects via a radio communication network during a data downloading campaign initiated by a portable communicating object upon transmission of a request of content availability to the server when at least one request transmission triggering element fulfills a rule... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100017503 - Download server and method for installing and updating application program using partitioning of shared library: A download server that transmits, when it receives a request of one or more application programs from a client device, to the client device connected to the download server via a wired or wireless network the application programs includes a dependency analyzer, a partitioned shared library generator and a controller.... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100017500 - Methods and systems for peer-to-peer proxy sharing: The system and methods for providing peer-to-peer (p2p) proxy sharing in a distributed computer network. Each peer nodes can include a Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and a p2p program. The p2p program provides the utilities for implementing the p2p network. A controller server connected to the network can... Agent: Rubik Lee

20100017502 - Web page content translator: A system, method, and computer readable medium for reformatting web content into a format readable on one or more mobile devices is provided. A user generates a user request for a web page from a mobile device to a proxy server. The proxy server forwards the user request to an... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC Attn: William H. Bollman

20100017505 - Application updating management terminal device, system and program: A use frequency communicating unit 108 creates use frequency information for intra-terminal applications by referring to a record of the status of activation of the intra-terminal applications, and present the use frequency information for at least one of the intra-terminal applications. An information storage unit 112 stores substitute application information... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20100017504 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving rich media content: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving rich media content. A creator creates configuration information of each node formed in a hierarchical structure in a changeable format in which a driver can change the configuration information, and transmits content including the configuration information of each node to the driver.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100017509 - Handling announcement media in a communication network environment: In order to efficiently handle the switch between user media and announcement media, a basic step is to first determine a configuration of the user media. Next, a configuration of the announcement media to be presented is determined based on the determined user media configuration. Subsequently, the announcement media is... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100017507 - Method and apparatus of combining multiple packets into protocol transactions with request and response detail for enhanced troubleshooting in a line rate network monitoring device: Multiple packets are combined into protocol transactions with request and response detail for enhanced troubleshooting in a network monitoring device. The analysis may be done at a line rate, in an always on operation mode, providing constant gathering of analysis data and information.... Agent: Patenttm.us

20100017508 - Method for monitoring events in a communication network: There is described a method for monitoring at a management terminal events of a given type occurring in a communication network. The communication network comprises a plurality of network elements. The management terminal has a browser suitable for supporting a web like management graphic interface. The method comprises: at one... Agent: Carmen Patti Law Group, LLC

20100017510 - Multi-layered measurement model for data collection and method for data collection using same: A method and system are described for collecting information from a device in a network at a collection interval. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method for collecting the information includes determining data needed from the device at the collection interval to evaluate the information. A measurement request is defined... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100017506 - Systems and methods for monitoring data and bandwidth usage: Access to a communications network may be provided via a data provider that may charge for access. In some cases, the access fee may be related to the amount of network resources consumed (e.g., amount of data downloaded or bandwidth used). In some cases, a user may have access to... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20100017512 - Method and system for improvements in or relating to off-line virtual environments: The compliance of a virtual machine image to a set of requirements is determined during a process to potentially introduce the virtual machine image into a network. One or more virtual machine images are identified. During compliance testing, the identified virtual machine image is controlled such that it cannot connect... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20100017511 - Method of constructing tree network: Provided is a method of constructing a tree network which includes a first node. The method comprises: (a) the first node determining if there is a child node and requesting a parent node to allow the first node to withdraw if there is no child node; (b) selecting a child... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100017516 - Demand-driven optimization and balancing of transcoding resources: The present invention provides a system and method for optimizing delivery of a content item from a content distribution network to a display device, where the content distribution network includes transcoding resources to convert the content item from a first format to a second format. A computing device receives a... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20100017514 - Method for determining service demands in a network load balanced scenario: An approach to determine the service demand of various resources of any individual server (present in a cluster of servers), given the overall transaction throughput and utilization values of these resources, in case of a network load balanced scenario is disclosed. The method proposes a quantitative approach to calculate the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20100017513 - Multiple overlapping block transfers: This document describes, among other things, a computerized system comprising a plurality of processing nodes, a physical channel configured to transfer data between a memory local to a processing node and a network target remote from the processing node, and a block transfer engine configured to allocate a plurality of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100017517 - Network operations management method and apparatus: The present invention provides a network operations management method and apparatus which realizes efficient power-saving by enabling virtual servers to move between physical servers beyond network segments. A reallocation design unit 13 designs reallocation of virtual servers to physical servers so that necessary resource amounts are assigned to all virtual... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100017515 - Resource migration system and resource migration method: A resource migration system includes a plurality of servers. A first (second) server includes a first (second) main memory and a first (second) memory data manager. The first memory data manager manages a set of first data segments formed by copying a plurality of segments of first memory data stored... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100017520 - Data synchronization: The invention relates to a method of limiting the size of synchronization messages between a first synchronization device and a second synchronization device. The first device specifies a maximum message size for synchronization messages to be sent to the first device and transmits information on the maximum message size to... Agent: Perman & Green, LLP

20100017518 - Facilitating early media in a communications system: A method of sending information from a Session Initiation intermediate node to a first Session Initiation Protocol terminal. The method comprises, upon receipt of a session initiation request at the Session Initiation Protocol intermediate node, establishing a first Session Initiation Protocol dialog between the Session Initiation Protocol intermediate node and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100017519 - Method and apparatus for dynamically determining connection establishment mechanism based on the relative locations: An apparatus and a method for dynamically determining a connection establishment mechanism between virtual machines (VMs) based on locations of the VMs. The apparatus includes a communication agent unit for receiving messages relating to the locations of the VMs, a control unit for determining the connection establishment mechanism between the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20100017521 - Qos channels for multimedia services on a general purpose operating system platform using data cards: A SIP (session initiation protocol) service activation abstraction layer that provides a unified interface to upper layer applications for discovering, establishing, and managing the QoS connectivity. In one implementation, this is IP Multimedia Subsystem-centric, further supporting applications that utilize SIP for session control. This capability extends to the data card... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20100017523 - Communication control apparatus and communication control method: A data transmission control server is connected to a network, and communicates with a data transmission server, a data transmission auxiliary server, and a client via the network. The data transmission server and the data transmission auxiliary server respectively include: a network interface that transmits data to the client based... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100017524 - Continuous permission to send media: A method, PT client device and PT server device for controlling transmission of media data, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes starting, by a PT server, a timer when a media burst revoke message is transmitted to a PT client; stopping, by the PT server, the timer... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100017522 - Streaming electronic content between dissimilar domains: A system, method, and streaming gateway for delivering a video stream between an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) endpoint in an IMS domain and an Internet endpoint in an Internet domain. The streaming gateway sets up sessions in both the IMS and Internet domains. The IMS endpoint sends the video stream... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100017525 - Electronic supply chain management: In some embodiments a method for correlating supply chain network information received from supply chain network components controlled by different entities includes receiving connection agent information indicating access point identifiers associated with network access points; receiving provisioning information including physical location identifiers identifying venues at which the network access points... Agent: Ipass Inc. (delizio Gilliam) C/o Delizio Gilliam, PLLC

20100017526 - Method and system for establishing a dedicated session for a member of a common frame buffer group: A method for establishing a dedicated session for a member of a common frame buffer group includes the step of transmitting, by a server agent, via at least one frame buffer channel, a first frame buffer update to each generated by one of the plurality of associated clients. The method... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20100017528 - Mobile terminal management system, network device, and mobile terminal operation control method used for them: The object of the present invention is to provide a mobile terminal management system in which a mobile terminal can rapidly decide a PMIP operation or CMIP operation in accordance with the policy of a network administrator. According to the present invention, a network notifies a mobile terminal whether or... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100017527 - Sip server and communication system: In order to reduce network loads in a large system, provided is a representative aspect of this invention is as follows. That is, there is provided a SIP server coupled to at least one client via a communication line to control a communication session of the at least one client.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100017533 - Method and apparatus for reproducing contents, and portable terminal device: The present invention relates to a content reproducing apparatus, a method for reproducing contents, and a portable terminal device. The present invention comprises a download module 110 configured to download media contents. The download module 110 comprises a buffer memory 112 configured to store content stream and a rate checking... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20100017529 - Multimedia transport optimisation: To achieve sophisticated adaptation mechanisms in a packet switched communication environment for service delivery according to the present invention, there is generated descriptor information (LID) on an application level. The descriptor information (LID; 16) describes media stream control options and is provided to the packet switched communication environment prior to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100017530 - Priority-based physical layer transmission rate control for video streaming over wireless networks: Priority-based physical layer transmission rate control for video streaming over wireless networks comprises receiving a video packet comprising at least part of a video frame. The video frame includes multiple slices, and each of the slices includes multiple macroblocks of a particular type. A current physical layer transmission bit rate... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100017531 - Streaming media software interface to a dispersed data storage network: A client computer streams a digital media presentation from a dispersed data storage network including a plurality of slice servers. A dispersed data storage network access component streams data directly from the dispersed data storage network and passes data to a media player, also residing on the client computer.... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison (cs)

20100017534 - System and method for real-time question and answer sessions via a global computer network: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system of and method for executing a real-time, interactive question-and-answer session broadcast to users via a global computer network. In one embodiment, a method of providing real-time question and answer sessions via a global computer network comprises providing a network-accessible data portal... Agent: Maldjian & Fallon LLC

20100017532 - Transport stream migration method and system: A transport stream migration method is described. The transport stream migration method includes providing a live server (17A) and a target server (19), the live server (17A) receiving a transport stream, designating exactly one of the live server (17A) and the target server (19) as a controlling server, the controlling... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Welsh & Katz

20100017535 - Method and system for transparent tcp offload (tto) with a user space library: Certain aspects of a method and system for transparent TCP offload with a user space library are disclosed. Aspects of a method may include collecting TCP segments in a network interface card (NIC) without transferring state information to a host system. When an event occurs that terminates the collection of... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100017536 - Method and apparatus for audit logging and role based security using one way proxy architecture: A method and apparatus are provided for managing logging data communications in a computer system. The computer system is configured with a proxy agent in communication with a client machine and storage, and an embedded agent in communication with the proxy agent and the client machine. All inbound communications from... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20100017538 - Method and apparatus for providing composite link assignment in network design: A method and apparatus for composite link assignment are provided such that network capacity is sufficient to handle all the traffic (e.g., load) while an objective function, e.g., the total cost of the capacity is minimized. The present method receives a plurality of weights for a plurality of arcs and... Agent: Mr. John Etchells At&t Enterprise Services, Inc.

20100017537 - Method of selecting nodes: There is provided a method (700, 900) of selecting nodes (120, 130, 140) in a communication network (100), in which a source node (110) communicates with destination nodes (120, 130, 140). The method (700, 900) includes steps of: (a) transmitting a first message (770, 950) from the source node (100)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100017539 - Method and device for the exchange of data: A method and devices for the exchange of data between a client network access system and a provider network access system. A message is sent from the provider network access system to the client network access system. The message triggers a response containing information about the client network access system,... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20100011048 - Methods and systems for resolving a geospatial query region to a network identifier: A method for resolving a geospatial query region to a network identifier includes receiving a request identifying a geospatial query region. The method includes sending a first query message identifying the geospatial query region to a first network directory service representing a first domain space including a first domain having... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20100011053 - Apparatus and system for identifying and filtering emails based on content: An apparatus and system are disclosed for regulating emails in an enterprise email system by marking, demarcating and referencing a content-context field in the header of the email. The content-context field designates the email as business or non-business in nature. Non-business emails are rejected, relayed elsewhere, or destroyed in response... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20100011050 - Content management that addresses levels of functionality: Data can be provided via devices based on levels of functionalities of the devices. In one example, a broker receives content from a data source and sends the content to devices in a network for presentation to a user. The devices may have different functionalities and the broker may modify... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100011058 - Data capture and identification system and process: An identification method and process for objects from digitally captured images thereof that uses data characteristics to identify an object from a plurality of objects in a database. The data is broken down into parameters such as a Shape Comparison, Grayscale Comparison, Wavelet Comparison, and Color Cube Comparison with object... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20100011056 - Method and system for opportunistic delivery of less-than-best-effort application data over communication networks: In a method and system for opportunistic delivery of less-than-best-effort application data, a WIN network identified the elements of the wireless network servicing a specified mobile client. One or more elements of the wireless network servicing the specified mobile client monitor the connection state of a mobile client and notify... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20100011051 - Methods and devices for processing one or more test requests between a testing facility and one or more customers: Methods, devices, and computer programs are provided for providing an information platform between a testing facility and customers of the testing facility. The information platform may be configured to allow customers to submit requests for testing and other information to the testing facility and check on the statuses of previously... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100011057 - Parallelizing bounded model checking using tunnels over a distributed framework: A system and method for bounded model checking of computer programs includes decomposing a program having at least one reachable property node for bounded model checking (BMC) into sub-problems by employing a tunneling and slicing-based (TSR) BMC reduction method. The sub-problems of the TSR method are partitioned in a distributed... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20100011054 - Portable media delivery system with a media server and highly portable media client devices: A portable media delivery system is disclosed. According to one aspect, the media delivery system comprises a portable media server and at least one client device. The client device is a plug and play apparatus for the server. A processor in the media server controls the operations of the client... Agent: Yang Pan

20100011055 - Remote desktop control system using usb cable and method thereof: A desktop sharing and remote control system where a server and a client are connected by a connecting device using the USB protocol. The connecting device includes an ASIC which is a PC-to-PC USB connection bridge. The ASIC enumerates a first standard USB mass storage device to the server and... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20100011049 - System and method for accumulating a historical context of interactions between components: A system and method for accumulating a historical context of interactions between components is presented. A plurality of components that each have a component context and which include at least one of a requester component and at least one of a service component are maintained. An interaction including the requester... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20100011052 - System and method of regulating data traffic between a client device and a server: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for regulating data traffic between a client device and a server. The system determines whether a transmission of a data file is allowable based on pre-defined criteria. The system provides an indication of whether the transmission is allowable and under what conditions the transmission... Agent: Apple Inc. C/o Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20100011061 - Centralized selection of peers as media data sources in a dispersed peer network: A multi-source peer content distribution system transfers content files from multiple, distributed peer computers to any requesting computer. The content distribution network coordinates file transfers through a mediation system including s content catalog and a host broker system. The content catalog contains an identification of each content file, the segmented... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100011060 - Methods and apparatus for distributing content: Methods and apparatus for transferring data according to various aspects of the present invention may operate in conjunction with a computer system configured to connect to a p2p network. The computer may run a p2p communication program that receives a list of content available for download and determines a list... Agent: Daniel J. Noblitt The Noblitt Group, PLLC

20100011059 - Self-marketing system and method: A system and method that allows generating, maintaining and presenting one or more self-marketing scores based on references from friends or acquaintances, preferably via a communication network such as the Internet. The respective scores can be generated in a standardized format making the scores comparable across different persons.... Agent: Peter Ebert

20100011062 - Automated bioremediation system: Embodiments of a bioremediation system and bioremediation methods provide for automatically measuring the progress of a bioremediation effort and automatically adjusting the bioremediation. In embodiments, one or more bioremediation stations are deployed in the geographic area associated with the bioremediation. The bioremediation stations provide measurement of important environment characteristics that... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100011066 - Controlling email distribution lists using policies: A policy can be established that is associated with an email distribution list. The policy can specify an extent that email addresses contained in the email distribution list are visible to recipients. An email message to be conveyed to at least the email distribution list can be identified. A set... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20100011075 - Delivery of email messages in multiple parts: A method, server and system for managing the delivery of email messages in multiple parts is provided. A method for sending email messages in multiple parts to a mobile communication device, comprises receiving a request for additional content from a mobile communication device in respect of an email message for... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20100011077 - Delivery of email messages with repetitive attachments: A method, server and system for the delivery of email messages with repetitive attachments. In one example embodiment, the method comprises determining a unique identifier for a content item that is referenced in an email message; determining, in dependence on the unique identifier, if an attachment corresponding to the content... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20100011069 - Exchange of messages and sessions: A Conversation-ID indication, a Contribution-ID indication and an optional In-reply-to-Contribution-ID indication are contained in individual standalone CPM Messages and the CPM Session Invitation messages only. The Conversation-ID indication allows assigning the CPM messages and media to the CPM conversations. The Contribution-ID identifies the individual standalone CPM message or the CPM... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20100011065 - Instant messaging content staging: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for staging content for an instant messaging (IM) chat session. In one embodiment, the invention includes entering content into a staging area and transferring the entered content from the staging area to an input area.... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20100011079 - Intelligent electronic mail server manager, and system and method for coordinating operation of multiple electronic mail servers: Provided are an electronic mail server manager, and a system and method for coordinating operation of multiple electronic mail servers to efficiently store, process, and forward a high volume of electronic mail. The system for managing operation of multiple email servers in accordance with one embodiment may comprise an email... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA C/o Peter Nieves

20100011081 - Location-based social software for mobile devices: A method of establishing connection between users of mobile devices includes receiving at a computer a location of a first user from a first mobile device, receiving from a second mobile device a location of a second user having an acquaintance relationship to the first user, and sending a message... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100011068 - Method and apparatus for providing notification of calendar event messages: An electronic device and a method implemented within the electronic device for controlling notification of calendar event messages by receiving a message having an attachment; examining the message to identify the attachment; and in the event that the attachment relates to a calendar event then activating the notification.... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20100011070 - Method and device for notification message processing: A method and apparatus for Notification message processing is provided. The method includes: receiving, from a Data Synchronization (DS) server, a Notification message for trigging the establishment of a session connection, the Notification message carrying instruction information for instructing a DS client to perform at least one action. The DS... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20100011064 - Method and system for future defined email recipient: Methods, systems and devices are provided for automatically sending e-mail to a future-designated recipient. E-mail servers accordingly send an e-mail categorized with respect to a target project group to each of a plurality of e-mail clients associated with each defined member of the target project group; add the sent e-mail... Agent: Ibm - End Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20100011080 - Method and system for providing collaborative moderation and correction of message history in an instant messaging session: A system for providing collaborative moderation and correction of instant messaging session transcripts in an instant messaging session that includes an improved instant messaging client user interface that allows collaborative editing and moderation of an instant messaging session transcript in order to correct for errors. An instant messaging client operates... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20100011078 - Optimizing the delivery of email messages containing alternative versions of content: A method, server and system for optimizing the delivery of email messages is provided. In accordance with one embodiment, the method comprises: receiving an email message containing at least two alternative versions of content, each version being in a different format; obtaining a reduced email message from the received email... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20100011076 - Optimizing the delivery of formatted email messages: A method, server and system for the delivery of email messages is provided. In accordance with one embodiment, the method comprises: receiving a Markup Language email message, the email message including a displayable content portion and a markup portion; determining whether the markup portion of the email message is too... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20100011074 - Publication of informational messages to software applications in a computing environment: Systems and methods for publishing information to a plurality of software applications are provided. The methods may comprise identifying a plurality of records to transmit to the software applications based on a last sequential identification code in a high watermark table of a persistent store. The plurality of records may... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20100011063 - System for remote management of machine via internet protocol links: The so-called M2M solutions for the remote management of a machine or a process by users of a telecommunication network are addressed using an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem platform by equipping both authorized users and a machine to be controlled with IMS clients supporting presence and messaging services as minimum... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100011072 - Systems and methods for exchanging information in a large group: Systems and methods are disclosed for actively all-to-all exchanging messages in a large group of individuals, comprising accumulating messages from individuals in at least one hub, processing and reorganizing accumulated messages and their groups into short representations of the messages, and selectively actively delivering short representations according to a distribution... Agent: Tran & Associates

20100011071 - Systems and methods for reporter-based filtering of electronic communications and messages: Methods and apparatuses for filtering electronic communications in a communication system. The method includes receiving a message report from a user in response to an electronic message received by the user, and identifying a confidence value associated with the user from whom the message report is received. The method also... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100011067 - Transmitter instant messaging interface in a distributed control system: A distributed process control system and method, includes a control component, a field device, and a process control network communicably coupling the control component to the field device. A first instant messaging (IM) component and IM user interface is associated with the control component, a second IM component and IM... Agent: Richard L. Sampson Sampson & Associates. P.C.

20100011073 - User-deployable data transformation and exchange platform including on-demand item synchronization and user-deployable order management system: A user-deployable data transformation and exchange platform includes on demand item synchronization formed by a user buildable dynamic link library associating incongruent article identifiers to reference common articles; and a user deployable order management system for generating, sending, receiving, and tracking the status of documents, such as purchase orders and... Agent: Blynn L. Shideler The Blk Law Group

20100011082 - Method and system of reporting conformance violations in web-services messages: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for reporting conformance violations in web-services messages are described. A web message is received, and a location tag is assigned to at least a portion of the elements contained therein. The web message is analyzed to determine if any conformance violations are contained therein.... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20100011083 - Personal and server computers having microchips with multiple processing units and internal firewall: This invention generally relates to one or more computer networks having computers like personal computers or network servers with microprocessors linked by broadband transmission means and having hardware, software, firmware, and other means such that at least one parallel processing operation occurs that involve at least two computers in the... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20100011084 - Advertisement forwarding storage and retrieval network: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for to advertisement forwarding storage and retrieval network. A method includes, in a network of interconnected computer system nodes, directing advertisement to a computer memory, directing data to a computer memory, continuously forwarding each of the unique data, independent of each other, from... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20100011085 - Computer system, configuration management method, and management computer: To manage the configuration of a data archiving system without increasing the load on the data archiving system while keeping the performance of computers and the load on storage subsystems balanced, there is provided a computer system, including: a plurality of data archiving servers; a storage subsystem which provides storage... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20100011086 - Media delivery in data forwarding storage network: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for media delivery in data forwarding storage network. A method includes, in a network of interconnected computer system nodes, directing unique data items to a computer memory, and continuously forwarding each of the unique data items, independent of each other, from one computer... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20100011089 - Computer network and method of operating same to preload content of selected web pages: A method for operating a computer network for example a school to preload the content of web addresses on the local memory, i.e. the web cache memory for use in for example a subsequent lesson. The network comprises at least one device, a web cache memory, and internet access apparatus... Agent: 3com Corporation

20100011087 - Delivering dicom data: An image and associated information provided in a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) dataset can be delivered to a web browser. The DICOM dataset is separated into image data and associated data. The image data is translated into an image file and the associated data in an associated... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20100011088 - System and method for combining pull and push modes: The present invention concerns a method for downloading content using a combination of push and pull modes. In a communication system comprising a first terminal, at least a second terminal, and a content server, the invention concerns a method for downloading content comprising, at the level of the first terminal,... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100011090 - Network-aware download manager: A download management system is disclosed. A number of download managers on a local area network (LAN) expressly negotiate bandwidth allocations with a politeness coordination function. Some bandwidth is consumed without the express negotiation and the politeness coordination function characterizes those while allocating an estimated bandwidth to provide adequate QoS.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100011093 - Multiple identity download manager: A method and apparatus for downloading files from a plurality of content sources is disclosed. The downloading is performed with a download manager that has a number of instances each customized with a personality to respectively implement a use case. The personality can specify bandwidth requirements, QoS factors, reporting locations,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100011091 - Network storage: Systems, methods, and apparatus including computer program products to receive a data transfer request that includes a specification of an access operation to be executed in association with one or more network-based storage resource elements, the specification including respective persistent fully-resolvable identifiers for the one or more network-based storage resource... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20100011092 - System and method for effectively transmitting content items to electronic devices: A system and method for effectively transmitting content items to electronic devices includes a content server that is configured to access and store various types of content information. A recommendation engine of the content server analyzes network statistics and client profiles to identify appropriate content items for device users of... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20100011095 - Method for reproducing configuration of a computer system in a remote site: A computer system that has formerly handled a service is quickly reproduced with another computer system to resume the service immediately. The association relations between services run by a primary site (1) and primary site servers (13) are collected. The association relations between the primary site servers (13) and a... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20100011094 - Systems and methods of detecting non-colocated subscriber devices: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving address configuration information for each of a plurality of subscriber devices associated with the same customer account. The method also comprises identifying, using the address configuration information, any of the subscriber devices that are not colocated with the other subscriber devices associated with... Agent: Merchant & Gould Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

20100011096 - Distributed computing with multiple coordinated component collections: A system having components that collectively perform functions and services of the system. The components are managed as belonging to at least a first component collection and a second component collection. The components of the first component collection operate at a time scale that is substantially temporally independent of the... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20100011097 - Methods of using control communications to identify devices that are connected through a communications patching system and related communications patching systems: Methods of identifying a first networked computing device that is connected to a connector port of a communication patching system are provided in which a control communication that is transmitted by the first networked computing device is passed through the connector port. An identifier associated with the first networked computing... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20100011098 - Systems and methods for managing networks: A system for managing an adaptive network having a plurality of nodes, each node comprising a processor coupled to a memory containing computer readable instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the node to fulfil one or more roles for operating the adaptive network. preferably, at least one of... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20100011101 - Apparatus and method for biased and weighted sampling of network traffic to facilitate network monitoring: An apparatus is described that performs biased and weighted sampling of network traffic to facilitate network monitoring. One embodiment of the apparatus includes a plurality of microcode controlled state machines, and a distribution circuit that routes input data to the plurality of microcode controlled state machines. A first individual microcode... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20100011100 - Health check system, server apparatus, health check method, and storage medium: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a transmission module configured to acquire a status information of a plurality of devices and transmit the status information to a server apparatus via the network. The server apparatus includes a storage module configured to predetermine a condition corresponding to items... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100011099 - Method and apparatus for monitoring and logging communication sessions: Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method and apparatus for logging and monitoring communication sessions terminating and originating in a home network. One embodiment of a method for monitoring a communication session within a home network includes routing the communication session to a device in the home network via... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20100011107 - Html delivery from edge-of-network servers in a content delivery network (cdn): A content delivery network is enhanced to provide for delivery of cacheable markup language content files such as HTML. To support HTML delivery, the content provider provides the CDNSP with an association of the content provider's domain name (e.g., www.customer.com) to an origin server domain name (e.g., html.customer.com) at which... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20100011104 - Management layer method and apparatus for dynamic assignment of users to computer resources: A method and apparatus for management and control of remote computer resources. The method and apparatus creates and maintains a hierarchical data model for determining the characteristics and state of a particular remote computer resource to ensure the most appropriate control system is used to manage that particular remote computer... Agent: Eaton Peabody Patent Group, LLC

20100011102 - Method for placing composite applications in a federated environment: Techniques for placing at least one composite application in a federated environment are provided. The techniques include analyzing a composite application to be deployed in a federated environment, obtaining one or more application artifacts, analyzing feasibility of placing one or more application components at one or more clusters in the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100011106 - Network management apparatus, network management method, and computer-readable storage medium: A network management apparatus that executes a registered task at a specified time on a device connected thereto via a network includes a determination unit configured to determine whether a registered task related to a new task exists, and a registration unit configured to, if the determination unit determines that... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100011105 - Service providing device, program, method, and system: A service providing device, program, method and system. The service providing device receives, from the different service providing device, an additional information piece including at least one of: (i) advertising information to be provided to a user of the different service, and (ii) a terms of use agreement for the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20100011103 - System and methods for peer-to-peer media streaming: A method and system for real-time streaming over a peer-to-peer (grid) network. The system is capable of controlling the peers in the network, guaranteeing the overall channel quality, and guaranteeing a secure media delivery over a packet-based network.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100011108 - Method, system and apparatus for causing a communication device to join a communication session: According to embodiments of the present invention, there are provided a method, system and apparatus for joining a communication session. A method comprises receiving from a first communication device an indication of a desire of the first communication device to establish a communication session; the first communication device having been... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20100011111 - Method for offering a call center service in a peer-to-peer network: A call center service is offered in a peer-to-peer network. At least one peer in the peer-to-peer network has a call center function added to it, and a check is then carried out by way of a search algorithm to determine whether a called subscriber is or is not registered... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20100011109 - Method for safety control of data exchange flows between a communications module and a communications network and said communications module: To perform security control for data flows exchanged between a communication module and a communication network in communication sessions organized in accordance with communication session contexts, a communication session is established with a remote unit, a corresponding communication session context is activated, and the data flows exchanged in accordance with... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20100011110 - Mobile terminal to media server connection apparatus, system, and method: An apparatus, system, and method for a communication network that includes base stations, mobile terminals, and media servers. A base station may receive enable a device-to-device connection between a media server and a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal and the media server may establish the enabled device-to-device connection to create... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20100011112 - Session transfer method and method for supporting session continuity: A device and method for transferring a session. The method includes receiving a session continuity operator policy while performing a session with a target terminal via an original network; storing the session continuity operator policy; determining whether to transfer a whole or part of the session to a server according... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100011113 - Methods and apparatus for providing access to persistent application sessions: Methods and apparatus for providing remote access to two or more application sessions in which authentication information associated with a user is received, a plurality of application sessions already associated with the user are identified in response to the information, and a client computer operated by the user is connected... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20100011116 - Dynamic network link acceleration: A method and apparatus for dynamic network link acceleration provides a managed communication link for accelerated and reliable network communication between a client and other network devices on demand. In one or more embodiments, the system comprises an enhanced client capable of providing front-end services. The enhanced client may establish... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.

20100011114 - Proxying multiple targets as a virtual target using identifier ranges: A gateway includes a Fibre Channel (“FC”) port configured to couple to multiple FC targets, and an iSCSI port configured to couple to an iSCSI initiator. The iSCSI port is configured to facilitate communication between the FC targets and the iSCSI initiator, and proxy the multiple FC targets as a... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20100011115 - System and method for real-time bidirectional communication through firewalls: A system and method for real-time data transmission through data communication networks are disclosed. The system and the method allow for real time communication between applications located in different internal networks protected by firewalls by means of representing the applications by proxies and establishing TCP channels towards an intermediate proxy... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100011117 - Video streaming using multiple channels: Systems and methods for streaming video over multiple HTTP channels are provided. The client may have control over the channels, allowing the client to control the amount and source of data received. Data requested by the client may be separated into a set of layers, with each layer being assigned... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100011119 - Automatic bit rate detection and throttling: A computer system receives a request from a client computer system for data that is to be presented to a user, accesses a portion of the requested data and determines the encoded bit rate from the accessed portion of requested data. Based on the encoded bit rate for the requested... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20100011118 - Call admission control and preemption control over a secure tactical network: In a secure network where the network characteristics are not known, a call admission control algorithm and a preemption control algorithm based on a destination node informing the source node of the observed carried traffic are used to regulate the amount of traffic that needs to be preempted by the... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20100011120 - Canonical name (cname) handling for global server load balancing: Canonical name (CNAME) handling is performed in a system configured for global server load balancing (GSLB), which orders IP addresses into a list based on a set of performance metrics. When the GSLB switch receives a reply from an authoritative DNS server, the GSLB switch scans the reply for CNAME... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt P.C.

20100011121 - System and method for enhancing network browsing speed by setting a proxy server on a handheld device: A system for enhancing network-browsing speed by setting a proxy server on a handheld device is disclosed. The system comprises a browser for sending a request for requesting a message from a website and receiving a response in response to the request, a proxy server for transcoding and compressing the... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20100011122 - Method of buffering to reduce media latency in group communications on a wireless communication network: A system and method for minimizing latency for direct group communications, such as push-to-talk (PTT) calls, among a group of wireless telecommunication devices on a wireless telecommunication network. The wireless telecommunication device has a dormant state without an open dedicated traffic channel for communications therefrom and an active state in... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100011123 - Method and apparatus for hierarchical selective personalization: A technique for delivering content in a client-server system based on a request received at a computing device from a client includes determining a current load on a next-level computing device of a hierarchy. When this current load is such that a response time for delivery of the request from... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100011124 - Systems and methods for detecting and preventing flooding attacks in a network environment: A method for processing network traffic data includes receiving a packet, and determining whether the packet is a previously dropped packet that is being retransmitted. A method for processing network traffic content includes receiving a plurality of headers, the plurality of headers having respective first field values, and determining whether... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100011125 - Determination of compression state information for use in interactive compression: The invention is directed at a method and apparatus for determining compression state information which is to be used in the compression of data being transmitted between two communicating parties. The method of determining the compression state information for use in interactively compressing data comprises the steps parsing the data... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20100011126 - Global server load balancing: A global server load balancing (GSLB) switch serves as a proxy to an authoritative DNS communicates with numerous site switches which are coupled to host servers serving specific applications. The GSLB switch receives from site switches operational information regarding host servers within the site switches neighborhood. When a client program... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100011127 - Methods and apparatus for control using control devices that provide a virtual machine environment and that communicate via an ip network: The invention provides improved methods and apparatus for control using field and control devices that provide a virtual machine environment and that communicate via an IP network. By way of non-limiting example, such field device can be an “intelligent” transmitter or actuator that includes a low power processor, along with... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20100005137 - Content navigation module and method: There is provided a method for use by a content navigation module for managing delivery of content. The method comprising communicating an identifier contained in the content navigation module with a first computing device to enable the first computing device to receive a selected content from a presentation server over... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20100005138 - Electronic file sharing: A system includes a server and a source client executable on a first electronic device in communication with the server. The source client is operable to make available to the server a set of files modifiable by a user of the first electronic device. The system further includes a first... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20100005135 - General purpose mobile location-blogging system: A method for operating a general purpose mobile location-blogging system includes receiving a location-blog request having multimedia data at a server; managing a location-blog entry parameter with the location-blog request; sending the location-blog entry parameter from the server for selecting the location-blog entry parameter at a client, and displaying the... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20100005136 - Method and system for follow-me scanning: A method and system for follow-me scanning in a shared resource environment improves image scanning in a shared resource environment in part by decoupling the act of generating a scanned image from the act of identifying a destination for the scanned image. In accordance with the teachings of the invention,... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20100005139 - System and method for facilitating presentations over a network: In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a system and method for facilitating presentations over a network comprise a service component adapted to interface with a user over the network and one or more distribution channels over the network and a create module adapted for creating... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100005134 - Systems and methods for recording changes to a data store and propagating changes to a client application: Systems, methods and consumer-readable media for recording changes to a data store and propagating changes to client application. A method according to the invention may include categorizing data into a set of sub-records based on the frequency of change of the data. The method may also include transmitting sub-records of... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20100005140 - Electronic devices and method for sharing product-related data: The electronic device (21) for receiving product-related data comprises a memory (23) for storing a unique product identifier identifying a product selected from a database, a wireless transmitter (25), a wireless receiver (27) and a processor (29). The processor (29) performs a method comprising the steps of wirelessly transmitting a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100005143 - Method of communication by messages and associated device: e

20100005141 - Method to continue instant messaging exchange when exiting a virtual world: A method, system and computer program product for associating a virtual instant messaging client, of an avatar, with a standard instant messaging account. When a communication transcript is completed in a virtual instant messaging session, the communication transcript is stored. Wherein the stored communication transcript is an archived virtual world... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20100005142 - Real-time event notification for collaborative computing sessions: In one embodiment, a determination is made that a specified event of a collaborative computing session has occurred. In response to the specified event, a real-time electronic notification is transmitted to a particular set of one or more attendees of the session that the event has occurred, the notification illustratively... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20100005145 - Configurable e-mail regions that allow recipient read permissions: The present disclosure is directed to a method for reconfiguring message permissions based upon a recipient. The method may receive a message. Then, the method may allow the user to set a read permission associated with a region in the message that may allow the region to be displayed only... Agent: Ibm Corporation (accsp) C/o Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20100005148 - Email sms notification system providing enhanced charge accounting features and related methods: A communications system may include at least one wireless communications device and at least one electronic mail (email) server for storing email messages for the at least one wireless communications device. An email relay server may detect a new email message on the at least one email server and, based... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20100005146 - Facilitating transmission of email by checking email parameters with a database of well behaved senders: Facilitating email transmission by extracting email parameters, requesting data in the form of a dns query, and receiving a sender reputation as an IP address. Querying a database by sending a plurality of arguments concatenated to a dns request and receiving an IP address in reply. Operating a remote database... Agent: Patentry

20100005144 - Method, system for transmitting document over network, virtual printer apparatus and restoration apparatus: The present invention discloses a method system for transmitting a document over a Network including the steps of a document sender converts a sharing document to be transmitted into a GDI (Graph Device Interface) document by performing virtual printing. The document receiver receives the graph device interface document sent from... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20100005149 - Methods and systems for analyzing email messages: Multiple modules are provided, each one of which is configured to analyze email messages in a different manner than other ones of the modules. For a received email message, a plurality of the modules are used to determine one or more module outputs indicative of a level of sameness of... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20100005147 - Ordered message processing: Messages are processed to guarantee proper work scheduling and allow for cyclic and conditional processing. A processing node requiring ordered processing of messages is configured to operate within a plurality of successive processing nodes not requiring ordering processing of messages. Nodes upstream of the ordered node (i) monitor skew between... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20100005150 - Image display device, storage device, image display system and network setup method: An image display system 20 includes a projector PR1, a computer PC1 and a USB memory U1 which can be connected in an ad-hoc mode by using a wireless LAN. When a user connects the USB memory U1 to a USB interface 75 of the projector PR1, the projector PR1... Agent: Advantedge Law Group, LLC

20100005151 - Distributed indexing system for data storage: A distributed indexing system spreads out the load on an index of stored data in a data storage system. Rather than maintain a single index, the distributed indexing system maintains an index in each media agent of a federated data storage system and a master index that points to the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20100005152 - Interactive information dissemination and retrieval system and method for generating action items: An interactive information dissemination and retrieval system is disclosed herein. The system includes a website configured to host a blog and to receive at least one blog post. An information retrieval reporting system is configured to i) extract a first set of tags from the blog and a second set... Agent: Julia Church Dierker Dierker & Associates, P.C.

20100005154 - Method and apparatus for obtaining information for transfer of an external content: The present invention is to notify a user of whether content streaming service will be provided well or not by obtaining information for transfer of a content to be provided from outside before traffic of the content starts to be transferred. In a method according to the present invention, a... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100005155 - Standardized mechanism of remote management of embedded radio modules: A standardized mechanism of remote management of mobile devices using Low Level Reader Protocol (LLRP) is disclosed. An LLRP provider application runs on a server. A remote management application runs on a mobile device. The LLRP provider application and the remote management application communicate using LLRP. The remote management application... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20100005156 - System and method for data acquisition and process and processing: A system and method for data acquisition and processing is described which can form the basis of new and improved business and consumer services. A subscriber captures the image of an encoded datagram associated with a product or service using a mobile phone or PDA or fixed line device and... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.

20100005157 - System and method for using a global translator to synchronize workspace elements across a network: A system transmits new workspace elements or new workspace element changes at a first memory store via an electronic network to a second memory store. The system includes a first memory store for storing workspace elements, a second memory store coupled via an electronic network to the first memory store... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100005153 - Use of wireless devices' external storage: Adapting web-based external storage, wireless device can posses huge amount of storage that current any wireless device's internal storage can not provide. To effectively let the storage server providing external storage (file system) for wireless device, the storage of a storage server need to be partitioned into multiple small storage... Agent: Sheng (ted) Tai Tsao

20100005158 - Network address assignment: In a non-limiting and exemplary embodiment, a method is provided for network address assignment. A network address request is received with an indication of a specific network address space. A network address belonging to the specific network address space may be assigned in response to detecting the indication in the... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20100005159 - Data transmission apparatus, transmission control method, and program: A data transmission apparatus which transmits data includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information including a transmission destination of the data from an information providing apparatus on a network, a transmission unit configured to transmit the data to the transmission destination based on the information acquired by the acquisition... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20100005160 - Automated discovery and inventory of nodes within an autonomic distributed computing system: A distributed computing system conforms to a multi-level, hierarchical organizational model. One or more control nodes provide for the efficient and automated allocation and management of computing functions and resources within the distributed computing system in accordance with the organization model. The model includes four distinct levels: fabric, domains, tiers... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20100005162 - Bypass control module and network management apparatus thereof and control method of the network system: A bypass control module includes a logic circuit and a condition circuit. The logic circuit produces a logic output signal according to a state of a system power received from a network system and a state of at least one first control signal. The condition circuit is coupled to the... Agent: J C Patents

20100005161 - Managing of network equipment: An exemplary embodiment of a management apparatus can be provided. For example, the exemplary managing may include a profile device/arrangement and a process device/arrangement. The profile device/arrangement can include at least one process profile. Furthermore, the process device/arrangement can generate, by using the at least one process profile, a process... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100005163 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for controlling devices: A method of controlling an apparatus comprising a plurality of features and adapted to receive messages via a first network interface, wherein said method is implemented in a filter superposed on the top of an existing architecture of the apparatus. The method comprises the following steps: receiving network management message... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100005164 - Methods and apparatus for providing a control channel in a data network: Methods and apparatus for providing a control channel in a data network. A method is provided that operates to provide a control channel in a data network. The method includes receiving one or more server digests, and generating a control channel digest from the one or more server digests. The... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100005165 - System, method and apparatus for use in monitoring or controlling internet access: An apparatus method and system are described for categorizing Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) when accessing the Internet 20 from a client 12. A request message 500 is generated to request categorization of a specified URL, and a category is provided in a reply message 600. The specified URL and the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100005167 - Job processing apparatus, method for managing job log in the job processing apparatus, and system for managing job history: A job processing apparatus connectable to another job processing apparatus via a network, and if an instruction is given to execute a job including a first job and a second job using the job processing apparatus itself and a second job processing apparatus, then the first job is executed and... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20100005169 - Method and device for tracking interactions of a user with an electronic document: j

20100005166 - Network device: The present invention discloses a network device which can access a home network system and perform network communication based on a predetermined protocol, by using a minimum number of resources of an embedded microcontroller The network device communicates with at least one electric device through a network. The network device... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey

20100005168 - Systems and methods for unification of local and remote resources over a network: The system and methods disclosed herein, according to one or more embodiments, utilize locally stored resources in a secure manner within a network-based application, while allowing locally stored resources to be shared over a network. In one embodiment, a system and method for facilitating information transactions over a network include... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100005170 - Mapping human-meaningful parameters to network-meaningful parameters to permit user to establish traffic importance in home network: A method of describing highly valued traffic in a home network in terms that are meaningful for a human and that are translated to useful network parameters.... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20100005171 - Method and system for transmitting data in a computer network: An optimization service discovery method for optimizing data transmission by multi-session applications, includes: receiving an optimization service lookup query from one of a plurality of user clients in a network, each of said user clients executing a multi-session application; and identifying an optimization service and responding to the query with... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20100005172 - Network management in a media network environment: Methods and apparatus for managing devices and content in a network environment. In one implementation, a method of adding a client as a member of a hub network includes: detecting a client connected to a server in a hub network; authenticating said client; authorizing said client; and adding said client... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20100005175 - Distributed on-demand computing system: A method and mechanism for a distributed on-demand computing system. The system automatically provisions distributed computing servers with customer application programs. The parameters of each customer application program are taken into account when a server is selected for hosting the program. The system monitors the status and performance of each... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20100005173 - Method, system and computer program product for server selection, application placement and consolidation: A plurality of application profiles are obtained, for a plurality of applications. Each of the profiles specifies a list of resources, and requirements for each of the resources, associated with a corresponding one of the applications. Specification of a plurality of constraints associated with the applications is facilitated, as is... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100005174 - Service assembly and delivery: A system for assembling and delivering a communications service or product is described which is flexible to accommodate the rapid introduction of new product/service offerings on a frequent basis. The method involves receiving data relating to a number of communication service components and creating and storing a data structure for... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20100005176 - Method and devices for resource allocation: s

20100005177 - Ip unicast streaming service delivery: A method of ordering the delivery of a unicast media stream to a second client terminal coupled to an IP Multimedia Subsystem network is described. The method comprises first sending a unicast media order from a first client terminal to an application server of said IP Multimedia Subsystem network. A... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100005180 - Method and apparatus for remotely controlling a computer with peer-to-peer command and data transfer: A remote access session is established between client and host computers with the assistance of a gateway. The gateway requests the host computer to send a plurality of data packets to different external addresses and monitors the network ports used for these outgoing packets. The gateway then uses the network... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20100005178 - Method and system for firewall friendly real-time communication: Method and system for transmitting packets of different data types from a sender client to a receiver client over a server client connection established in a packet switched network, where a transport protocol connection for each data type to be transmitted is established between the sender client and the receiver... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20100005179 - Multi-level secure network: In certain embodiments, a method for establishing a communication session includes receiving, from a first endpoint, a request to establish a communication session with a second endpoint. The first endpoint has an associated first security level and is operable to communicate via an IP network, the second endpoint has an... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20100005182 - Distributed selection of a content server: A method for directing a client to a content server containing desired content by providing the client with an address shared by a plurality of content servers, each of which has a copy of the desired content. The client is then served from an optimal, or closest available content server... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20100005181 - Method and system for controlling a terminal access and terminal for controlling an access: A method and a system for controlling terminal access, and a terminal for controlling access are provided. The method includes: receiving a policy configuration sent by a server on a network side; modifying local setting according to the policy configuration; and controlling an access authority of the terminal according to... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20100005183 - Method, system and apparatus for converting media contents: A method, system and apparatus for converting media contents are disclosed. The method includes these steps: a media conversion apparatus receives a media conversion service request from a media application terminal, where the media conversion service request carries a media content ID and playing capability information of the media application... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

20100005186 - Adaptive control of layer count of layered media stream: A technique is disclosed of controlling a layer count of actual layers within a layered media stream having a maximum number “M” of layers that include “m(0≦m≦M)” video layers and an audio layer. The technique includes: receiving from at least one destination a quality event indicative of audio quality of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100005187 - Enhanced streaming operations in distributed communication systems: A method and system are provided for enhancing streaming operation in a distributed communication system providing communication links between a plurality of stream servers, a client machine requesting a particular media file, and, a stream server selection unit. First, a list of stream servers is retrieved. Then, the list is... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20100005184 - Method and device for adapting a scalable data stream, corresponding computer program product and network element: The invention relates to a method of adapting a scalable data stream organized in blocks of data units, each comprising at least one basic data unit and at least one enhancement data unit, making it possible to define a plurality of quality and bit rate levels (N1 to N3) depending... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20100005185 - Substream trading in a peer to peer live streaming system: In a live video P2P system using substream trading, a peer device's video quality is generally commensurate with its upload rate. Such substream trading provides in a P2P live video streaming system provides incentives and can accommodate a variety of video coding schemes. In particular, substream trading with layered video... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20100005188 - Method and system for an intercept chain of custody protocol: Techniques for establishing a chain of custody for intercepted electronic information are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method, comprising securely negotiating a data collection interval time and protocol support for electronic data collection between network equipment associated with a data collecting party... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100005190 - Method and system for a network controller based pass-through communication mechanism between local host and management controller: A network controller in a communication device may be operable to route local host-management traffic between a local host and a management controller within the communication device, wherein the local host may be operable to utilize its network processing resources and function during communication of the local host-management traffic. A... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20100005189 - Pacing network traffic among a plurality of compute nodes connected using a data communications network: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for pacing network traffic among a plurality of compute nodes connected using a data communications network. The network has a plurality of network regions, and the plurality of compute nodes are distributed among these network regions. Pacing network traffic among a plurality of compute... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20100005192 - Data routing systems and methods: A motion control system collects data from a plurality of types of motion control devices and distributing data to a plurality of types of data destinations. A data input module comprises a plurality of data source components. Each of the data source components is configured to collect data from one... Agent: Schacht Law Office , Inc.

20100005191 - Requesting a service or transmitting content as a domain name system resolver: Requesting a service such as querying a database or communicating content by sending a plurality of arguments concatenated to a dns request and receiving a reply in the form of text or an IPv4 or an IPv6 address.... Agent: Patentry

20100005193 - Devices and system of interconnecting such devices in a fault-resistant topology: A device for measuring a physical quantity in a wired electrical network, such as a local area network (LAN) or Ethernet, has a unique network address and a first interface connected to a wired network and configured to receive and transmit data. To reduce costs for materials and the complexity... Agent: Henry M. Feiereisen Henry M. Feiereisen, LLC

20100005194 - Method, system, apparatus, and storage device to facilitate communication between systems: The disclosed subject matter describes a method, system, apparatus, and storage medium for interfacing multiple communication systems, comprising the following steps. The interface receives information from the client, and determines the format of the information. The disclosed subject matter identifies the third party to receive the information and transforms the... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20100005195 - System and method for globally and securely accessing unified information in a computer network: A client stores a first set of workspace data, and is coupled via a computer network to a global server. The client may be configured to synchronize portions of the first set of workspace data with the global server, which stores independently modifiable copies of the portions. The global server... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.