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Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization January recently filed with US Patent Office 01/11

20110022651 - Method and apparatus for receiving notification: A method and an apparatus for receiving a notification in a terminal entity that uses a service provided from an outside of a residential network through a gateway entity are disclosed.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20110022652 - Digital signal processor clustering in integrated media-services gateways: A Digital Signal Processor (DSP) cloud architecture for clustering DSP resources across multiple integrated media-services gateways. The control plane components use peer-to-peer overlay connections for DSP resource management. The data plane components use a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) for media stream packet processing.... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20110022653 - Systems and methods for providing a client agent for delivery of remote services: The solution of the present application provides many types and forms of resources, such as products or services, to an environment of heterogeneous devices. An agent and centralized service may communicate to deliver an optimum package of resources to a device. Each device may include an agent that collects information... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20110022654 - Method, system and computer-readable recording medium for providing information to dispersed users using data cache based on mirroring: A method for providing information to dispersed users based on an integrative cache on a communication network is provided. The method includes collecting information on the communication network, integrating the collected information and storing the collected information as a cache in a database, receiving an information request from the terminal... Agent: Mannava & Kang, P.C.

20110022656 - Requester-side distributed id management device, provider-side distributed id management device, distributed id management system, and provider-side distributed id management method: A requester-side distributed ID management device (11) includes: an ID managing unit (111) that holds first user identification information associated with first server identification information, the first user identification information being for identifying the user of a first service providing server (12); an ID request processing unit (114) that receives... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20110022655 - Smart-card based fault resistant on-line/off-line loyalty point accumulation system for spectator event venues: A computerized venue management system for managing a venue serving clients, the system comprising a multiplicity of portable computing devices each associated with a loyalty rating representing a client of the venue; a plurality of computerized delivery terminals each capable of communicating with and serving any one of the multiplicity... Agent: Paul D. Bianco Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20110022659 - Location-based networking methods and systems for performing the same: Methods and systems for assisting individuals arrange meetings such as networking meetings with other individuals at a specified time (or within a specified time range) and/or at a specified place (or within a specified geographic region). More specifically, methods and systems for allowing individuals to post an invitation for a... Agent: John Boyd

20110022657 - Markup language for incorporating social networking system information by an external website: A social networking system contains information describing information about users of the social networking system and about various connections among the users. When a user of the social networking system accesses an external website, the external website may send the user a web page containing markup language with instructions to... Agent: Facebook/fenwick Silicon Valley Center

20110022660 - Reducing or minimizing delays in peer-to-peer communications such as peer-to-peer video streaming: A new P2P streaming method and apparatus disseminates video chunks to all peers with the minimum (or at least reduced) delay. After obtaining a new video chunk, a peer keeps transmitting (uploading) that video chunk to other peers until all peers receive it. The approach quickly increases the aggregate bandwidth... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20110022658 - System for networked digital pathology exchange: A computer-based method and apparatus to facilitate the exchange of pathology studies for the purpose of providing a primary or secondary pathological diagnosis. A study consists of one or more lower-resolution images, the references to the corresponding higher-resolution images, associated image metadata, study metadata and patient metadata. The studies are... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20110022661 - Content tagging using broadcast device information: A number of devices co-located at a geographic location can broadcast and receive identity information. The identity information can include a unique device identifier and a device description. The identity information can be exchanged between various electronic devices using a communication link having limited transmission range. Device identifiers and corresponding... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20110022664 - Cost based email management system: A method for managing email costs includes: identifying a participant of an email message in an email thread; assigning a cumulative cost to the email message; and presenting the email message and the cumulative cost to a recipient of the email message.... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20110022665 - Device identifier selection: Systems and methods of device identifier selection are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method includes receiving an enumeration message via a host interface of a device operatively coupled to a host device as well as to one or more other devices and identifying the enumeration message as a command... Agent: Toler Law Group

20110022666 - Device identifier selection: Systems and methods of device identifier selection are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method includes, at a hub device having a plurality of ports including a first port, a second port, and a third port, receiving a first message from a host device. The first message including a broadcast... Agent: Toler Law Group

20110022668 - Electronic ticketing system and application method thereof: A user can book a ticket in advance and after that by means of wireless or/and wire-line transmission a service center replies an acknowledge message which contains a first Internet address to a user-designated portable hand-held device. While the user clicks the web site/address, a corresponding ticket appears or an... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20110022674 - Enforcing rule selection on user inboxes: Rule selection is enforced on user email inboxes using an inbox monitor and administrative rules at an email server. The inbox monitor includes a first agent for identifying inactive user inboxes from email messages stored at the email database, and a second agent for identifying, from the inactive user inboxes... Agent: Thomas E. Lees LLC

20110022662 - Event triggered notifications for collaborative processes: Notifications that serve as “hints” related to activity associated with a collaborative process are propagated to an originator to alert the originator of activity on the collaborative process. A collaborative process server computer receives an indication that the originator has initiated a computer implemented collaborative process that generates collaborative content... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20110022670 - 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

20110022672 - Method and apparatus for scalable transport processing fulfillment system: A scalable fulfillment system is presented that supports business processes, manages the transport and processing of business-related messages or documents between a business entity and clients, such as customers, vendors, and business partners, and generally supports business document processing. The system intelligently manages the transportation of files from clients, through... Agent: Priest & Goldstein PLLC

20110022669 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing mobile network operator controlled content to mobile subscribers using social networking messages: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing mobile network operator controlled content to mobile subscribers using social networking messages. According to one aspect, a method for providing mobile network operator controlled content to mobile subscribers using social networking messages is provided. The method... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20110022663 - Partially and completely duplicative messages handling: A first queue stores messages to be consumed. A second queue temporarily stores completely duplicative messages that have message identifiers equal to message identifiers of messages currently being processed s and that have times equal to times of the messages being processed; processing of the completely duplicative messages never occurs.... Agent: RswIPLaw IBM Corporation

20110022675 - Platform independent idn e-mail storage translation: A method is described for providing platform independent e-mail translation. The method comprising the following steps. An e-mail message is received for a recipient IDN username. An ASCII identifier corresponding with the IDN username is retrieved using a predefined mapping. The received e-mail message is stored in local storage using... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20110022671 - Resource list management system: A system for providing group accessibility is provided. An example method includes storing a profile associated with a user in a database; maintaining a service group including a plurality of service representatives in the database; and in response to a session between the user and a first one of the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20110022673 - System and method for controlling a performance environment: The present disclosure generally provides a system and method for affecting a result associated with an event. The method may include receiving one or more of a first data transmission associated with a first communication protocol and combining the first data transmissions to create a first data transmission stream. The... Agent: Klemchuk Kubasta LLP

20110022667 - Technique for controlling device management response messages: A device for use in a communication system and a method for its operation are provided. The method of operating a Device Management (DM) client of a device in a communication system includes receiving an out-of-band DM message from a DM server, determining if out-of-band message response (OOBMsgResponse) reporting is... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20110022676 - Mobility service clustering using network service segments: Described in an example embodiment herein is a Mobility Service Engine (MSE) cluster comprising an MSE Cluster Master and at least one MSE Cluster Slave. The MSE Master is configured to define Network Service Segments. The MSE Master of the cluster distributes the Network Service Segments to slaves within the... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20110022677 - Media fusion remote access system: The present invention is a system that receives data in different formats from different devices/applications in the format native to the devices/applications and fuses the data into a common shared audio/video collaborative environment including a composite display showing the data from the different sources in different areas of the display... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20110022678 - Method and system for data logging and analysis: A method of logging internet requests includes defining a plurality of field types of interest and receiving a request from the internet including one or more fields. The method also includes determining that a first field type of a first field of the one or more fields matches one of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20110022679 - Method and system for utilizing native ethernet as a virtual memory interconnect: In various embodiments of a method and system for utilizing native Ethernet as a virtual memory interconnect, a first networking device may be operable to transcode a memory read command and/or a memory write command to memory access information and encapsulate the memory access information within in one or more... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20110022680 - Content distribution systems and methods: Various embodiments facilitate the distribution of digital content. In some embodiments, a system manages the distribution of a subscription that includes digital content. In one embodiment, the system pushes the subscription to a first and second portable computing device. Then, the system receives from the first portable device a user... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20110022681 - User targeting management, monitoring and enforcement: A scalable architecture for managing, monitoring and enforcing user ad targeting operates across a distributed network. The architecture enables defining and enforcement of policy related to targeting across various domains, platforms, devices, protocols, interactions, content and media types. Targeting decisions utilize user policy as well as profile information. A user... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20110022683 - Communication links: A method of providing remote configuration access for a programming terminal via one or more data networks (113) to remote terminals (102) that are designed to be remotely configured using a programming terminal (134) adapted to program said remote terminal(s) via the PSTN using an analog dial up modem (132)... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20110022685 - Device content management: A method of intelligently degrading the quality of content, such as video clips and music, stored on a mobile device over time. The method takes into account the probability of a user watching each item of content and either encodes the content at a lower bit-rate, or under certain circumstances,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20110022684 - File transfer system and file transfer method: According to an embodiment, a file transfer system and a file transfer method to transfer an MXF file are provided. A source server performs parallel transfer of data pieces of an MXF file divided by partition packs (PPs) sequentially from the beginning, by using multiple transmitters to a recording server... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20110022686 - Method for realizing user registration: A method for implementing user registration based on Diameter network protocol, comprises: after receiving a network attaching request of a user, a requesting node sending an Update Location Request (ULR) message to HSS of the user, the message including information indicating whether it is necessary to download user subscription data,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20110022682 - Transferring multimedia content: A computer implemented method of transferring multimedia content from a content server to a receiving client, comprising: receiving the multimedia content from the content server; processing the multimedia content according to predefined redundancy parameters; receiving a downloading request for the multimedia content from the receiving client; sending the multimedia content... Agent: The Law Office Of Michael E. Kondoudis

20110022688 - Obtaining and displaying network topology information: Computer-readable media, methods and network information computer systems are provided for obtaining network topology information about a relationship between a configuration item and a network of configuration items based upon a property of the selected configuration item, and displaying the network topology information as a topological map.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20110022687 - System and method for automated, peer-based configuration of network services: The subject application is directed to a system and method for automated, peer-based configuration of network services. An initial query is broadcast in a constrained communication protocol over a network via a network interface in accordance with a data peripheral including a processor operable in conjunction with associated memory. A... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20110022690 - Communicating data from a source device to a terminal: In a method for receiving data from a source device in a terminal having a terminal identifier, a code section lookup table is received from the source device, in which the code section lookup table contains a correlation between terminal labels and specific code sections. In addition, a determination as... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20110022689 - Managing linear multimedia content delivery: Users are assigned to virtual groups. Virtual groups are associated with server assets. Achieving load-balancing during the delivery of linear multimedia content, for example, may be achieved through reassigning users to different virtual groups. Server assets can include server clusters that are assigned to the virtual groups. New hardware can... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20110022692 - Method and system for determining and controlling user experience in a network: Aspects of a method and system for determining and controlling user experience in a network may comprise a management entity that coordinates operation of one or more endpoint devices. One or more parameters associated with a content type may be received from the one or more endpoint devices by the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20110022691 - Optimizing fibre channel zoneset configuration and activation: In an example embodiment, a new qualifier is added to members in a Fibre Channel zone to specify whether each member is a target or initiator and in another embodiment a time-range attribute is added to a zone in the zoneset. When the zoneset is applied the number of ACL... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20110022694 - Automated network configuration of virtual machines in a virtual lab environment: Methods, systems, and computer programs for creating virtual machines (VM) and associated networks in a virtual infrastructure are presented. The method defines virtual network templates in a database, where each virtual network template includes network specifications. A configuration of a virtual system is created, which includes VMs, virtual lab networks... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20110022693 - Hard zoning on npiv proxy/npv devices: Techniques are disclosed for zoning information to be shared with an NPIV proxy device or an NPV device such as a blade switch in a blade chassis. Doing so allows the NPV device to enforce zoning locally for the attached server blades and virtualized systems. The NPV device may learn... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20110022695 - Management and implementation of enclosed local networks in a virtual lab: Methods, systems, and computer programs for creating isolated environments that include virtual machines (VM) and networks in a virtual infrastructure are presented. The method includes an operation to define a configuration of a virtual system which includes VMs, virtual network interface cards (VNIC) in the VMs, and configuration local networks... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20110022696 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing electronic subscriptions: Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing electronic subscriptions are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes monitoring, at an electronic subscription client, receipt of one or more subscription messages associated with an electronic subscription. Interaction with the electronic subscription client by a client may be monitored to... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P.A.

20110022698 - Dynamic management of maintenance association membership in a computer network: In one embodiment, a new maintenance end-point (MEP) may join a particular network (and initiate its sending of continuity check messages, “CCMs”) by transmitting one or more join announcement messages (JAMs). When the JAMs are received by remote MEPs in the particular network, the new MEP may be added to... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20110022697 - Dynamic resource collaboration between network service providers: Service providers capable of dynamic resource collaboration and corresponding dynamic resource collaboration techniques are provided. In one embodiment, a network service provider includes a service server that processes service requests, a resource monitoring unit that monitors available computing resources of the service server and generates a resource request for supplementary... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20110022707 - Hierarchy for characterizing interactions with an application: Application runtime data is obtained from an application monitoring system which monitors execution of an application, and traffic monitoring data is obtained from a traffic monitoring system which monitors traffic to/from the application as the clients interact with the application. Corresponding application runtime data and traffic monitoring data can be... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20110022710 - Location information service method: A location service method in a terminal includes: receiving a message including a first parameter with respect to an inner area determined based on a particular geographic area and a second parameter with respect to an outer area from a server; and checking whether or not the terminal leaves the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20110022702 - Mechanism for detecting and reporting traffic/service to a pcrf: A method implemented by a policy server operating on a network to which is connected a device that performs a data packet inspection function, the method involving: sending a first message over the network from the policy server to the device, the first message instructing the device to detect an... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20110022705 - Method and apparatus for subscription-based bandwidth balancing for interactive heterogeneous clients: A method or system for enabling client devices connected to a network to subscribe to a one or more multimedia signals available in a selection of bandwidths, based on an analysis of capabilities of the client, the quality of the connection, and the real-time changes in the ability of the... Agent: Michael Toback

20110022701 - Method and apparatus of filtering statistic, flow and transaction data on client/server: Network traffic filtering is provided to enable gathering of data and statistics related to client/server traffic corresponding to valid and desired client to server/server to client traffic.... Agent: Patenttm.us

20110022708 - Method and device for measuring the temporal drift of an item of electronic equipment connected to a network: A method of measuring temporal drift of an electronic apparatus linked to a network and capable of providing a time-stamp including capturing at least two messages including a gauge reference time circulating around the network, and determining precision of the time-stamping function of the apparatus as a function of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20110022704 - Method and system for collecting information on a user visit: The present invention provides a computer implemented method and system for collecting information on a user visit for web analytics. An information collection module is sent to a client in response to a page opening request from the client. The information collection module is for collecting additional information on user... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20110022703 - Method and system for estimating a number of users of a website based on lossy compressed data: The invention relates to a method and system for estimating a number of users of a website. According to the method, it is repeatedly determined that the website is accessed by an entity and data dependent on the entity is determined and stored. The stored data is repeatedly compressed using... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20110022706 - Method and system for job scheduling in distributed data processing system with identification of optimal network topology: The method of the present invention provides an automatic and optimised selection of the network topology for distributing scheduling of jobs on the computers of the modified network topology. The automatic and optimised selection of the network topology starts from the current topology and a desired number of additional connections.... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20110022699 - Method and system for phy initiated wake-up in energy efficient ethernet networks: One or both link partners coupled via an Ethernet link may comprise a PHY device operable to initiate a wake-up interval. The PHY device may monitor parameters that may indicate Ethernet link status. Exemplary parameters may comprise a timer, communication performance metrics and/or configuration parameters. From a low power mode,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20110022709 - Method, system and game server for recommending game room: A method, system and game server for recommending a game room are disclosed. The method includes: a speed measuring server measuring a network speed from a network user logging on an IDC in which the speed measuring server is located to the IDC, counting an average of network speeds from... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20110022700 - Real world network testing combining lower layer network tests, application layer tests and interdependent interactions: Combining lower layer network tests and upper layer network tests is disclosed. A method includes receiving a user selection to create an upper layer test and a lower layer test, receiving upper layer test information and lower layer test information, displaying a first timeline showing the activity of the upper... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20110022711 - Dynamically migrating computer networks: Techniques are described for providing capabilities to dynamically migrate computing nodes between two or more computer networks while the computer networks are in use, such as to dynamically and incrementally migrate an entire originating first computer network to a destination second computer network at a remote location. For example, the... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20110022714 - Control device, communication system, resource allocation method, and recording medium containing program: When allocating a resource to a user equipment significantly affected by interference with an adjacent communication area in an uplink, the throughput of the adjacent communication area using the same resource is improved as well as suppressing degradation of the throughput of the user equipment to which the resource is... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20110022713 - Method and system for leasing of network services and applications based on a usage pattern: Aspects of a method and system for predictive leasing of network services and applications based on a usage pattern may comprise a management entity that coordinates operation of one or more endpoint devices. A user profile associated with the one or more endpoint devices may be received by the management... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20110022712 - Multiprocessor computer and network computing system: It is inevitable in distribution processing on a network to improve resource management or to provide task scheduling with high efficiency. In a multiprocessor computer, a sub-processor (102) included in a multiprocessor (20) receives and manages available resource information provided from a computer on a network through the network. When... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20110022715 - Management session initiation with a customer premises device: A communication method for execution at a customer premises device, comprising detecting receipt of a command indicative of an intent of a management entity to initiate a management session, the command being a management session initiation command. Responsive to detecting receipt of the management session initiation command, an identifier for... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20110022718 - Data deduplication apparatus and method for storing data received in a data stream from a data store: A method of storing data received in a data stream from a data source is disclosed in which prior to performing deduplication on the data stream a processor decompresses selected compressed data entities in the data stream to provide a decompressed form of the data entities in the data stream... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20110022719 - High data rate interface: A data Interface for transferring digital data between a host and a client over a communication path using packet structures linked together to form a communication protocol for communicating a pre-selected set of digital control and presentation data. The signal protocol is used by link controllers configured to generate, transmit,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110022716 - Method and system for management based end-to-end sleep limitation in an energy efficient ethernet network: A time limit may be determined for energy efficient networking (EEN) sleep intervals based on end-to-end sleep interval limitations. The time limit may be communicated to other network devices which may limit their sleep time. End-to-end sleep interval limitation information may be received via a user input, packet header information,... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20110022717 - Network card and information processor: A network card, having a host connector and a network connector, comprises receiving means for receiving data transmitted through the network connector by block data of a second size larger than a first size as a unit through the host connector, a buffer memory for temporarily storing the received block... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20110022720 - Network managing method, device, and system: A managing device according to the present invention is a management device of a network controllable by a flow aggregate (FA), and it includes a parameter information receiver for receiving control information on the FA from an upper node, a parameter generator for receiving an FA parameter according to the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20110022721 - Method and system for packetizing data for servicing traffic end-to-end: Aspects of a method and system for packetizing data for servicing traffic end-to-end are provided. In this regard, a networking subsystem may receive, from an application, one or more values of one or more parameters associated with data generated by the application. The networking subsystem may packetize the data into... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20110022722 - Policy and charging control architecture: Apparatus for generating policy and charging rules to control IP flows across a packet switched network. The apparatus comprises a first interface for coupling to an application function and a second interface for coupling to a policy and charging enforcement function implemented at a node through which said IP flows... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20110022724 - Communication terminal that performs data transmission using sip, communication method, and storage medium: A communication terminal which is capable of preventing a user of a terminal that receives data from being confused when a redirect setting is made after occurrence of an error during data transmission and before resuming the data transmission. A communication terminal performs data transmission using SIP. A CPU of... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20110022723 - Information processing apparatus that performs data transmission using sip, method of controlling the same, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus which enables a user on a source side to transmit data to a redirect destination terminal if the user on the source side desires to perform data transmission, even when a redirect setting has been made by the destination side. A CPU of the information processing... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20110022725 - Method and apparatus for link-state handshake for loop prevention: A network node of a telecommunications network controlled by a link-state protocol includes a network interface which receives a message that contains information on a change in topology of the network. The node includes a processing unit that blocks forwarding of traffic to at least one neighbor node of the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20110022727 - Handset cradle: An embodiment of a handset cradle includes a base component and a handset component configured to couple with the base component. The handset component provides an interface with a particular type of handset selected from a plurality of handset types. This interface enables an exchange of data between the base... Agent: Zarian Midgley & Johnson PLLC

20110022726 - Method and apparatus for traffic forwarding in a stacking apparatus: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for traffic forwarding in a stacking apparatus which includes multiple member devices. The method includes: obtaining, by a member device, a forwarding table size of each member device in the stacking apparatus; choosing a member device having the largest forwarding... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20110022728 - Link state routing protocols for database synchronization in gmpls networks: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for synchronizing local databases maintained control plane (CP) nodes in a GMPLS network. CP nodes that are not involved in path computation do not need to store the TE information contained in opaque link state advertisements (LSAs). These CP nodes only... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20110022729 - Supporting non-delivery notification between a switch and device in a network: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for supporting non-delivery notification between a switch and device in a network. A login with a switch is initiated including a test service parameter requesting a non-delivery notification service to cause the switch to return a non-delivery notification in response to... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20110022730 - Inter-domain communication: A computer-implemented method for performing inter-domain communication in a web browser includes receiving first data from a first domain at a router associated with one or more domains other than the first domain, identifying at the router the one or more domains for receiving data associated with the received data,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20110022732 - Method for flexible modifications to a packet: A method allowing for flexible modification of a data packet in a data network is presented. A data packet is parsed based on one or more attributes and sent to a buffer memory and a user modifiable lookup table. Using extracted packet data, information required to modify the data packet... Agent: Marvell/finnegan Henderson LLP C/o Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garnett Et. Al.

20110022731 - Method for providing an input parameter for a network station for a network of a first type in a network of a second type, as well as a connection unit for connection of the networks of the first and second types: For this purpose, the network station which relates to the input parameter is first of all logged-off in the network of the second type. The changed input parameter is then converted to the information element in the network of the second type. The network station which relates to the input... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20110022733 - Customized data delivery and network configuration via aggregation of device attributes: Aspects of a method and system for customized data delivery and network configuration via aggregation of device attributes are provided. In this regard, a first network device may receive device attributes from a plurality of devices that are communicatively coupled to the first network device. The first network device may... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20110022734 - Differential time synchronization of intelligent electronic devices: In a utility monitoring system, a network of intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), including a master IED that receives master clock information from a global positioning system, includes a differential time synchronization (DTS) algorithm for automatically adjusting the corresponding clocks of each of the IEDs to be synchronized with the master... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Legal Dept. - I.p. Group (np)

20110022735 - Network device with a triggering element: A network device with a triggering element. In a first embodiment where a triggering element is embedded in a network socket, a user is allowed to trigger it to control a processor on the network device to set network parameters. In a second embodiment, the invention can trigger the triggering... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20110016176 - Electronic mail communications system with client email internet service provider (isp) polling application and related methods: An electronic mail (email) communications system may include a mobile wireless communications device, a wireless communications network connected to the Internet, and an Internet Service Provider (ISP) server connected to the Internet for receiving emails for a given user. The system may further include an email proxy server connected to... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist - Rim

20110016173 - Interactive information system, interactive information method, and computer readable medium thereof: An interactive information system, an interactive information method, and a computer readable medium thereof are provided. The interactive information system comprises a reading apparatus, a first transmission interface, a processing unit, a second transmission interface, and an output apparatus. The interactive information system is adapted to use with a plurality... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20110016171 - Method and apparatus for client capable of accessing broadcasting network and internet network to receive application: A method and apparatus for a client, connected to a broadcasting network and an Internet network, to receive data for executing an application through the broadcasting network or the Internet network, according to information about the application received through the broadcasting network.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20110016175 - Method for realization of thin client and client terminal and server for same: A method for realization of a thin client includes detecting a usage environment of a client terminal, using the detected usage environment and a predetermined policy to determine whether to realize the thin client as a screen transfer type or by a net boot type, when the screen transfer type... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20110016170 - Method for synchronizing a rich media® action with an audiovisual change, corresponding device and computer software, method for generating a rich media® presentation and corresponding computer software: The invention relates to a method for synchronizing an action in a piece of Rich Media® content with a change in a piece of audiovisual content, said Rich Media® and audiovisual content being part of a Rich Media® presentation. According to the invention, the method comprises the following steps: obtaining... Agent: Zilka/zilka-kotab, PC -amds

20110016169 - Rendering a web page using content communicated to a browser application from a process running on a client: The functionality of a browser application is enhanced using a browser plug-in, which enables the browser application to access portions of a file system not otherwise accessible to the browser application. The enhanced functionality provided by the browser plug-in is used in one example by an image uploading web application.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20110016172 - Synchronized delivery of interactive content: Where multiple client devices are synchronized to multiple, asynchronous instances of a time-based media presentation such as live and time-shifted views of a television broadcast, interactive content can be delivered to each one of the various devices at a particular time (or “time offset”) within the presentation independent of when... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20110016177 - Thin client system and thin client system controlling method: A thin client system in which a client execution system and a screen transfer system can be changed dynamically from one to the other while executing an application and the application can be executed beyond the functional restriction of a client terminal and a server apparatus is provided. Using the... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20110016174 - Weighing system: The invention relates to a weighing system with a Client-Server architecture, wherein the server is designed to provide services to a client on request a Client-Server communication provider being provided, wherein the services are registered and which is designed to deliver a service requested by the client. Delivery of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20110016178 - Client side culling of dynamic resources: A resource management module detect and prevents redundant resources in a client side application. The resource management module is initialized on the client side in a browser or similar application. The resource management module then searches for already executing resources or resources that are already in use. The discovered resources... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20110016180 - Application acceleration as a service system and method: Disclosed are systems and methods to provide application acceleration as a service. In one embodiment, a system includes a head office to serve an enterprise application comprised of a collaborative document. The system also includes a branch office to request the collaborative document from the head office. The enterprise application... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, P.C.

20110016179 - Social community generated answer system with collaboration constraints: A method for social network collaboration addresses the need for efficient and effective way of obtaining information. The method obtains aggregated information from members of a social network collaborating in response to a source collaboration message. The method provides for a demand-driven collaborated information production such that the information is... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20110016184 - Downloading a plug-in on an instant messaging client: Downloading a plug-in for an Instant. Messaging (IM) client includes receiving a request for the plug-in from a user of the IM client; detecting a directly accessible peer client that is currently online; sending a plug-in download request to the directly accessible peer client; and in the event that the... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20110016191 - E-mail receiving device, network server, and expiration management method for received e-mail: w

20110016188 - Email conversation management system: A system and method are disclosed for producing a list of conversations as the result of a search query. Messages are received and associated with a conversation. Each of the conversations has a respective conversation identifier and includes one or more messages. Messages, and related message information, are indexed for... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP/google

20110016189 - Email conversation management system: A system and method are disclosed for producing a list of conversations as the result of a search query. Messages are received and associated with a conversation. Each of the conversations has a respective conversation identifier and includes one or more messages. Messages, and related message information, are indexed for... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP/google

20110016182 - Managing gifts of digital media: An individual may wish to make a gift of digital media to a designated recipient. The digital media may be previously purchased by the individual or may be new, unused digital media purchased specifically as a gift for the recipient. The sender of the gift sends a gift notification. The... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20110016186 - Messaging and service system for mobile computer: A service sends rich content messages including text and photos between any mobile device and potentially across a heterogeneous network. Furthermore, to enhance the user experience, content can be delivered based on personal preferences and device display capabilities.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20110016190 - Method and apparatus for realizing message service: A method for realizing message service is provided, and the method includes: receiving, from a receiving terminal, a response message of the transmission failure of a message of the first type ; generating, according to the response message, a message of the second type to be retransmitted by means of... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110016183 - Method for configuring an apparatus in situ: The present invention refers to a method for remote configuration of at least one apparatus using a configuration server to configure the apparatus in situ via a network to which the apparatus and the configuration server are connected. The above method comprises exchanging information requests or and/or inform messages between... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20110016181 - Reducing errors in sending file attachments: The claimed subject matter comprises a technology to scan a document for file attachments, generate alternative file names corresponding to a particular attachment, determine whether or not the particular file attachment is the latest version of a file or has a name and/or file path that could be confused with... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20110016185 - Session initiation protocol stack optimisation: Apparatus comprising a Session Initiation Protocol agent (9) arranged to send and receive Session Initiation Protocol messages to and from peer Session Initiation Protocol agents. The apparatus is configured, for a Session Initiation Protocol message to be sent, to translate (10) one or more header fields of the message into... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20110016187 - User interface and method for viewing short messages on a wireless device: A method is performed by an electronic communication device. The method includes storing electronic messages, and storing criteria for determining whether a stored message is related to a current message. A current electronic message is displayed to a user of the communication device, including the current message's outside address and... Agent: Jones Day (rim) - 2n

20110016192 - Providing services from a remote computer system to a user station over a communications network: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing services from a remote computer system to a user station over a communications network, including automated identification of users. During a first communication session between a user station and a remote computer system, the user station provides first user identification information to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20110016193 - Providing services from a remote computer system to a user station over a communications network: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing services from a remote computer system to a user station over a communications network, including automated identification of users. During a first communication session between a user station and a remote computer system, the user station provides first user identification information to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20110016194 - Connecting galleries to dynamic server-hosted content: Application gallery connections to dynamic server-hosted content may be provided. An application may be instantiated on a client device. Upon loading, the application may connect to an available content server and download a content manifest. An application setting, such as a privacy setting or an administrative restriction may prevent connections... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20110016196 - Method and system to discover and subscribe to an enhanced syndicated feed: Embodiments of a method and system to discover and subscribe to an enhanced syndicated feed are generally described herein.... Agent: Research In Motion Corp/slw Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20110016197 - Proxy server, and method and program for controlling same: It is so arranged that when a client terminal communicates with a content server via a proxy server, the history of such communication can be ascertained. A request for a menu page is transmitted from the client terminal to the proxy server. A link to the content server has been... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20110016198 - Server, terminal, and reproducer: A server 1 transmits playlists, each playlist including a description of content acquisition information, and playlist configuration data represented between playlists in numerical values. A terminal device 2 receives playlists and playlist configuration data from the server 1, and for a reproduction of content, changes a playlist to be used... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20110016195 - System and method of transmitting data over a computer network including for presentations over multiple channels in parallel: A system and method of transmitting data via a computer network to a plurality of end-users. Transmission of successive data units may be prompted by human-operated and/or automated means of central control. Successive arrays of data units may be transmitted over a plurality of channels, in parallel. Each end-user chooses... Agent: Law Office Of Anna Vishev P.c

20110016201 - Multi node server system: A server system has, in addition to extensibility of scale-out type of a braid server system, extensibility of scale-up type by making SMP coupling among nodes. Each node has a unit for SMP coupling to other nodes. A module management unit responds to system configuration information to switch between a... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20110016199 - System for electronic device monitoring: The present invention relates to telemetry methods and systems and more particularly, to telemetry network connectivity systems, devices and methods. In accordance with various embodiments, a suite of software components configured to provide machine-to-machine network connectivity includes a configurable device translation server module, a complex message constructor and at least... Agent: The Noblitt Group, PLLC

20110016200 - System for providing demand response services: A system for providing demand response services relative to a resource. Demand response information may be conveyed by a provider of the resource to demand-response logic. The logic may translate the demand response information into one of a pre-defined finite amount or number of demand response levels. These levels may... Agent: Honeywell/stw Patent Services

20110016202 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for a validation framework for validating commands for configuring entities in a telecommunications network: Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a validation framework for validating commands for configuring entities in a telecommunications network are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for implementing a validation framework for validating commands for configuring entities in a telecommunications network.... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20110016203 - System and method for achieving scalability in domain computing: A connection management system can achieve scalability for domain computing among a plurality of domains. Each of the plurality of domains comprises a collection of machines and resources that are administrated as a unit. A connection concentrator can connect, and support communication between, a plurality of processes in a first... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20110016208 - Apparatus and method for sampling security event based on contents of the security event: There are provided an apparatus and method for sampling a security event based on contents of the security event, the apparatus including: a security event accumulation module collecting security events occurring in a network system and storing the security events for each type according to contents of the security event;... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20110016210 - Method and system for providing automatic disabling of network debugging: An approach is provided for automatic disabling of network debugging. A debugging command is received for initiating debugging of a router that includes a processor configured to execute a debugging procedure. Utilization of the processor is monitored. A determination is made whether the utilization exceeds a utilization threshold. The debugging... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20110016211 - Monitoring system: A monitoring system includes a center device and terminal devices. The center device is configured to return a first response if receiving a first request from a terminal device. At this point, if the center device has a second request to at least one of the other terminal devices, the... Agent: Cheng Law Group, PLLC

20110016213 - Monitoring system: A monitoring system includes a center device and terminal devices. The center device is configured to return a first response if receiving a first request from a terminal device. At this instance, if having a request to another terminal device, the center device includes designation information for designating said another... Agent: Cheng Law Group, PLLC

20110016205 - Multiple instance commercial browser website test agent: A website test environment invokes multiple instances of a commercial browser, and captures invocations of browser operations for gathering performance data without interference from other instances or multiple occurrences of the operating system (OS). Commercial browsers often employ constraints that assume only a single instantiation is executing on a particular... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20110016209 - Network characterisation: Methods and systems for assigning information indicative of a network characteristic to one of a plurality of data units traversing a path across a network, said data units having associated therewith values indicative of said network characteristic, said path having at least one portion passing through a lower-capability region and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20110016212 - Remote monitoring system: A first relay (30) and a plurality of second relays (40) are interposed between a data collection device (10) and a plurality of monitoring terminals (20). The first relay (30) is connected to the data collection device (10). The plurality of the second relays (40) is connected to the first... Agent: Cheng Law Group, PLLC

20110016207 - Selective reporting of upstream transaction trace data: Technology for monitoring transactions in a computing environment is disclosed. Execution of a transaction by a first application is monitored by a first software entity executing on a first computing device. Performance data that relates to execution of the transaction by a first application is generated. Execution of the transaction... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20110016206 - Systems and methods for creating user interest profiles: Example methods include monitoring Internet traffic for a user, analyzing content of the Internet traffic, correlating the analyzed content with a simplified classifier set, ranking each correlated simplified classifier in the simplified classifier set, and storing the ranked simplified classifiers in a user interest profile for the user. Customer premise... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20110016204 - Systems, methods, and media for identifying and associating user devices with media cues: Systems, methods, and media for identifying and associating user devices with media cues are provided. In some embodiments, a plurality of data streams from a plurality of endpoints is received. At least one media segment is then received from a user device. It is determined whether the at least one... Agent: Byrne Poh LLP

20110016215 - Resource allocation in virtual routers: A router system implements a plurality of virtual routers. Various combinations of resources may be shared by the router system when implementing the virtual routers. In one embodiment, the particular combination of resources to share when implementing the virtual router is user programmable.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20110016214 - System and method of brokering cloud computing resources: System, method, and tangible computer-readable storage media are disclosed for providing a brokering service for compute resources. The method includes, at a brokering service, polling a group of separately administered compute environments to identify resource capabilities and information, each compute resource environment including the group of managed nodes for processing... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20110016216 - Optimized negotiation of coding resources between communication clients: A network (N) device (S) (ISA, ISB) for transmitting signalling messages between a calling client (A) and a called client (B), which may contain resource information regarding the coding resources that these clients have, and intended to establish a communication session between said clients. It has means (MT) for deleting... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20110016218 - Apparatus and method for requesting and transferring contents: Disclosed are an apparatus and method enabling a user to efficiently share contents. A user of an electronic device performs an image capturing by use of a camera, thereby generating an image capture event. According to the image capture event, the electronic device obtains address information of a content transferring... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20110016217 - Method and system for predicting domain name registration renewal probability: A method for determining probability of a domain name registration renewal includes receiving a plurality of inputs associated with the domain name and assigning each of the plurality of inputs to at least one category from among a plurality of categories. The method also includes assigning a weighted value to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20110016219 - System and method for dynamic security provisioning of computing resources: The present invention facilitates the dynamic provisioning of computing and data assets in a commodity computing environment. The invention provides a system and method for dynamically provisioning and de-provisioning computing resources based on multi-dimensional decision criteria. By employing specialized computing components configured to assess an asset and requestor of an... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20110016221 - Brokerage transaction server and method using encapsulated messages: Brokerage transactions servers and related methods are provided having low latency. In a first embodiment of the invention there is provided a method of processing exchange transaction information for exchange brokerage purposes in an inbound digital message stream in a first protocol dialect. One embodiment utilizes canonical FIX messages for... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

20110016220 - Enabling peer-to-peer content retrieval in http: Described are embodiments directed to enabling the retrieval of content from a peer-to-peer network. In embodiments, a client requesting content from a server can indicate in an HTTP request that it is capable of retrieving content from a peer-to-peer network. When the server receives the HTTP request it will recognize... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20110016222 - Network element for enabling a user of an iptv system to obtain media stream from a surveillance system and corresponding method: It is proposed a network element for enabling a user of an IPTV system to obtain media stream from a surveillance system and a corresponding method. Said network element comprises: a message processing means for translating a first message for obtaining media stream from said surveillance system upon receiving said... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20110016224 - Method for dynamic rate adaptation based on selective passive network monitoring: A method for managing a session over a network that involves multiple end points obtaining services via an application server, the method involving: after the end points have registered with the application server for the session, establishing initial policies for network traffic flows for each end point participating in the... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20110016223 - Scalable cluster router: Generally, this disclosure describes a scalable cluster router that includes a plurality of server-class computers interconnected together to form a router. Each server may be configured to independently schedule switching of packets to reduce the switch speed requirements on a per server basis. Each server may include a scheduler that... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Cpa Global

20110016225 - Digital content distribution system and method: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for selecting a content distribution network (CDN) comprising at least one content server, from a plurality of CDNs, and a playing digital content file from the CDN on a content player. Selecting the CDN is based on a rank order... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20110016226 - Methods and apparatus for updating index information while adding and updating documents in a distributed network: Systems and methods are described herein for updating documents in a distributed network. When a new document needs to be added to the network, or when changes are to be made to an existing document, keywords are extracted from the document and used to generate update messages for each keyword.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110016227 - Method, node, and system for notifying proxy update in wmn: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and node for notifying proxy update in a WMN and a WMN for notifying proxy update. By constructing the proxy update add message, where the proxy update add message includes the address of terminal, the current proxy node address after terminal switching... Agent: Huawei/bhgl

20110016228 - Apparatus, method and article to provide electronic access to information across disparate systems in networked environments: An intermediary system may mediate between two or more end user systems to provide access to electronic information in a format desired by one end user where the other end user employs an at least partially incompatible format. The intermediary system employs an intermediary translation table to identify electronic information... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20110016230 - Data transfer system and method: A method is disclosed of data transfer between a source computer and multiple target computers. The method includes: transmitting a multi-media formatted transmission from the source computer over a first network to a server configured to receive the multi-media formatted transmission in more than one protocol; converting the multi-media formatted... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20110016229 - Methods and apparatus for providing data distribution that supports auditing: The invention is directed to techniques for providing data distribution that supports auditing. Accordingly, a data communications device receives data from a data provider, the data containing label information. The data communications device filters the data based on the label information contained in the data. Next, the data communications device... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/cisc

20110016231 - Methods and apparatus for transcoding metadata: Methods and apparatus for transcoding metadata are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to meter media content presented by a media consumption device comprises detecting at a metering device first metadata accompanying the media content presented by the media consumption device, receiving from a transcoder at the metering device second... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20110016232 - Time stamping apparatus and method for network timing synchronization: A time stamping apparatus and method for network timing synchronization are provided. A receiving apparatus receives data from a transmitting apparatus, generates a synchronization pulse signal synchronized with a local clock of the transmitting apparatus based on the received data, wherein the received data include information regarding the transmission time... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20110010416 - telecommunication network: A method of managing a subscriber presence of a telecommunication network comprises the step of registering with the telecommunication network by the subscriber. The telecommunication network produces a feed of the subscriber presence whilst a feed reader reads the feed.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20110010420 - Client environment creation system, client environment creation method, client environment creation program and storage medium: A client environment creation system which creates a client environment to which a user connects is provided. A user information management server which stores user information on a user and a management server which creates a client environment associated with the user based on the user information are included.... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20110010414 - Control of web content tagging: The integrity of an existing tag set associated with a web module is protected by reviewing user-generated proposed additions to the tag set to determine whether the proposed addition is appropriate. An initial test is made to determine whether a proposed addition is trivial; e.g., includes strings of the same... Agent: Ibm Corporation Lotus Software

20110010417 - Data transfer system and data transfer method: A data transfer system includes: a local unit (LU) that transmits data from the USB device connected to a local computer (LC) to a remote computer (RC); and a remote unit (RU) that acquires the data from LC and transfers the data to an application. LU includes: a unit that... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20110010419 - Mobile terminal, information distribution server, and information distribution system: A mobile terminal includes: a notification information receiving portion for receiving notification information indicating the type of newly-stored user information or updated user information, from a user information storing portion; a type collating portion for deciding whether or not the type of the user information indicated by request type information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20110010415 - Personal information bank system: A personal information bank system including a plurality of websites, each being provided by a service system which is connected to a network and each providing a service, a plurality of clients, each accessing the websites via the network to permit a user to use the services provided by the... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20110010418 - Pvr offloader: System and method for offloading and sharing content stored on a storage device of a personal video recorder (PVR) uses an offloader agent that runs on the PVR to provide content stored on the PVR storage device. A server having a server storage device receives, stores, and serves the provided... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20110010413 - Tcp/ip host name resolution on a private network: Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for resolving hostnames on a private network with a distributed DNS server configuration. One embodiment of the invention provides for a client resolver configured to communicate with a distributed network of servers. The client resolver receives a hostname query and determines if... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20110010421 - List passing in a background file sharing network: A mechanism is provided for distributing file fragments in the background of a segmented peer-to-peer network using list passing between peers. Rather than trading actual content, peers may trade file names or file fragment identifiers. Upon receiving a new file name or identifier, a peer may request that file from... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20110010422 - System and method of disseminating electronic content utilizing geographic and time granularities: A system and method for disseminating electronic content by defining a plurality of places each having a location and at least one place attribute associated therewith, receiving electronic content from a network, identifying a target geographic extent for the electronic content, identifying a target time extent for the electronic content,... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20110010426 - Method and apparatus for authenticating electronic communication: One embodiment provides a method for authenticating an electronic communication. The method includes parsing a header of the electronic communication to identify actual domain name data included in the header at a server receiving the electronic communication from a communication client; parsing the header to obtain purported sender data included... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20110010423 - Systems and methods to provide assistance during address input: Systems and methods to provide assistance for completion during address input. In one aspect, a method includes automatically generating profiles for persons identified in messages, such as incoming and outgoing emails. Based on how the addresses of the persons are used in incoming and outgoing messages, the relevancy scores of... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20110010425 - Techniques for enabling anonymous interactive communication: Techniques for enabling interactive (e.g., two-way) electronic communication between parties where one party remains anonymous. In one set of embodiments, a system is provided that can store anonymous and non-anonymous identifiers for a group of users. The system can receive, from a first user, an anonymous message addressed from the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20110010424 - Unified addressing, sending, and receiving collaboration service: Collaboration information can be sent by a collaboration team member in accordance with a sending communication modality. Another team member's unified messaging inbox/outbox can receive the collaboration information and provide the collaboration information to the other team member in accordance with a receiving communication modality. A unified messaging configuration specification... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20110010428 - Peer-to-peer streaming and api services for plural applications: Embodiments of apparatuses with a universal P2P service platform are disclosed herein. A unified infrastructure is built in such apparatuses and a unified P2P network may be established with such apparatuses. In various embodiments, such an apparatus comprises a P2P operating system (OS) virtual machine (VM) 202 and a client... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20110010427 - Quality of service in virtual computing environments: Methods and apparatus facilitate the management of input/output (I/O) subsystems in virtual I/O servers to provide appropriate quality of services (QoS). A hierarchical QoS scheme based on partitioning of network interfaces and I/O subsystems transaction types are used to classify Virtual I/O communications. This multi-tier QoS method allows virtual I/O... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20110010429 - Method and apparatus for caching multimedia content from the internet on occasionally-connected devices: An arrangement is provided for caching multimedia content on occasionally connected devices. A play list is created and submitted to a multimedia content provider that provides and processes the desired multimedia content in the play list before the desired content is downloaded to a device. The device need only connect... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20110010430 - Systems and methods for scheduling and delivering messages based on recipient's time zone: Systems and methods for scheduling and delivering a message based on a recipient's time zone are provided. In this regard, a representative method, among others, includes receiving parameters that are associated with delivering a message to a recipient. The parameters include information associated with the recipient and the time and... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20110010431 - System and method for a media content reconciler: A system and method for reconciling media content available through a number of service providers. A request is received to identify media content. One or more characteristics of the media content are determined. A determination is made whether the media content is associated with an identifier in response to the... Agent: Snr Denton US LLP

20110010432 - Method for scheduling and rescheduling vehicle service appointments: The present invention provides a computer based method for enabling or disabling an appointment feature which allows the scheduling of a vehicle service appointment from a vehicle. An embodiment of the method comprises monitoring for the ability to communicate with a remote appointment server to schedule a vehicle service appointment.... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20110010434 - Storage system: A pseudo peer-to-peer network system including several clients, each adapted to execute a path driver program. A path driver program is provided, including the steps of locating storage peers connected to the network via a network interface for storing or accessing data items provided in memories of storage peers by... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20110010433 - Targeted presentation and delivery of themes: A content delivery system supplying themes for user computers based on user interest. Each theme may be a collection of components that define an audio, visual or functional aspect of computer operation related to a topic or area of interest, such as sports, a sports team, travel or fine art.... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20110010435 - Vehicle mounted device, server device, and communication system: A first local communication part of a vehicle mounted device transmits a first data including at least one of a first video data or a first audio data generated by an AV input/output unit of the vehicle mounted device to a server device. The first local communication unit receives a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20110010436 - Configuration-information setting method and information processing device: According to an aspect of the embodiments, a configuration-information setting method and apparatus is provided for setting system configuration information of a computer server within an information processing device by recognizing a mounted hardware configuration in the information processing device using a computer processor within the information processing device, using... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20110010437 - Network device configuration: Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for configuring a network device on a private network. A network device broadcasts a status message to the private network. The network device receives a request from a client and sends a response. The network device and the client establish a direct... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20110010439 - Communications system: A communications system for a network of stations, is provided where stations identify themselves upon being informed of the desires of an inquisitor station. Additionally, techniques for “plug and play”, self-healing and homogenizing the heterogeneous parts of a network, are provided.... Agent: Tantalus Systems Corp.

20110010442 - Content management application for an interactive environment: The content management application is an intranet application which provides a process for implementing changes to an internet website of a company by providing the company the ability to define and enforce a common style of page layout. The application can be accessed via a desktop browser and multiple users... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20110010444 - Data communication: A management device (100) for use in an access network (10, 19, 20, 30, 40, 100) including a plurality of data connections (18, 19, 20) between end user devices (10) and an aggregation transceiver device (20) where the connections (18, 19, 20) are aggregated for onward connection through the access... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20110010441 - Equipment in a data network and methods for monitoring, configuring and/or managing the equipment: A router having one or more downstream interfaces and situated in a data network system between sources that send multicast data packets to at least one multicast group address and multiple hosts that request data from the multicast group address and sources. In one implementation the router has a management... Agent: Berenbaum Weinshienk PC

20110010443 - Information provision system, terminal for transmitting/receiving information, and information provision method: An information provision system (10) includes a vehicle-mounted DSRC device (20) which is a terminal to be mounted on a vehicle (100) and capable of receiving contents for the members and contents for the nonmembers distributed by a predetermined communication system, a roadside apparatus (40) which is a base station... Agent: Robinson Intellectual Property Law Office, P.C.

20110010438 - Method and apparatus for communicating during automated data processing: A number of items of data from a data source (12) can be processed and supplied to a data destination (16, 17). The data can include image data, text data, numeric data or other types of data, or a combination of these types of data. The processing of the data... Agent: Perley-robertson, Hill & Mcdougall LLP

20110010440 - Systems and methods for performing storage operations in a computer network: Methods and systems are described for performing storage operations on electronic data in a network. In response to the initiation of a storage operation and according to a first set of selection logic, a media management component is selected to manage the storage operation. In response to the initiation of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20110010450 - Apparatus and method for monitoring and auditing activity of a legacy environment: An apparatus and a method for monitoring and auditing activity of a legacy environment. The apparatus includes an analyzer and a mirror manager. The analyzer is operative to analyze intercepted packets conveyed by entities in a network and to generate analyzed data based on information associated with at least some... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20110010447 - Auto generated and inferred group chat presence: A system can include multiple individual status identifiers that correspond to multiple users and a group status identifier that corresponds to a group with which the users are associated. A status identifier update module can update the group status identifier based on a change to at least one of the... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20110010451 - Handheld media device for displaying computer status information: A system comprises a personal computer (PC) and a handheld media device (HMD) communicably coupled to the PC. The PC transfers status information to the HMD and the HMD displays the status information. The HMD is capable of displaying the status information using at least one of graphics or text.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20110010448 - Leveraging and influencing computing network activity: A system and method for associating benefit with the activities of a computing system, and for influencing the behaviour of users of the computing system, the system and method comprising a computing system having one or more subseribable actions, optionally associated with the functionality of the computing system; optionally, a... Agent: Mbm Intellectual Property Law LLP

20110010449 - Method and system for simplified network wide traffic and/or flow monitoring in a data network: Method and system for providing dynamic network data traffic monitoring including monitoring a data network, detecting a change in the data network, initiating a span session based on the detected change in the data network, and dynamically modifying network configuration based on the detected change in the data network is... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20110010445 - Monitoring application service level objectives: Embodiments of the invention provide a technique to model applications and storage used thereby, and to monitor application service level objectives. An aspect is directed to a method for managing a computer system which includes at least one host computer and at least one storage system which are connected via... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20110010446 - Program and method for adaptively maintaining a local peer group in a dynamic environment: A method for maintaining a local peer group (LPG) for supporting communications among vehicles. The LPG is formed from a plurality of vehicles. Each vehicle is equipped with a wireless communications device. One of the vehicles is selected as a group header node (GH). The method comprises receiving periodically a... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20110010452 - System and method for establishing a point-to-point connection: A communications system including a communications network, a multiplicity of communications terminals, a monitor operative to monitor whether or not a specific user is connected to the communications network, a point-to-point connection enabler operative to conditionally allow at least one seeking user to establish a point-to-point connection with at least... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20110010454 - Graphical user interface for performing administration on web components of web sites in a portal framework: Graphical user interfaces are provided for administrators to perform administration type operations. Sets of users granted administrative privileges may further grant and delegate administrative privileges to other sets of users to perform administration type operations on site objects over which they have administrative privileges. The types of graphical user interfaces... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20110010453 - Peer to peer subscription service: Peer-to-peer approaches to servicing subscriptions to information feeds are generally disclosed. Network nodes may exchange information about information feeds that they can provide to other nodes, and other information about information feeds to which they may be interested in subscribing. Any of a variety of techniques may then be applied... Agent: Jensen & Puntigam, P.s.

20110010457 - Convergent mediation system with dedicated online steams: An object is to create a convergent mediation system (10) and method that provides a good degree of interoperability and ease of administration. According to an aspect of the invention, these objects are achieved by providing a convergent mediation system (10) that comprises a common platform (18) for both online... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20110010455 - Dynamic computation allocation: Techniques for dynamic computation allocation are disclosed.... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20110010456 - Recording medium storing load-distribution program, load-distribution apparatus, and load-distribution method: A load-distribution by a computer is provided where a plurality of data centers provide a customer system with a computational resource. A computational resource request is received from a customer system. Electric power information for each data center, which can specify an amount of power consumption required for providing a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20110010458 - Methods and apparatus for automated local network formation using alternate connected interfaces: The described apparatus and methods may include a local network formation module configured to join an overlay network via an available connection, retrieve from the overlay network at least one ad associated with forming a local network, determine if there is at least one matching ad to form the local... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110010460 - Brokerage transaction server and method using encapsulated messages: Brokerage transactions servers and related methods are provided having low latency. A transaction fuser operates to split incoming order flow into multiple independent streams of data, all of which can be processed in parallel without dependencies between them, allowing back-end jobs to process this data in parallel and increase throughput.... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

20110010461 - Convergent mediation system with improved data transfer: An object is to create a convergent mediation system (10) and method that meet the technical requirements of low latency time and high reliability. According an aspect of the invention, these objects are achieved by providing a convergent mediation system (10) that comprises a plurality of independent processing nodes (120,... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20110010459 - Method and system for transmitting a multimedia stream: A method is described for transmitting a multimedia stream from a first end-terminal to a second end-terminal. The first and second end-terminal are connected to at least one gateway for enabling the multimedia stream to be transmitted from the first end-terminal to the second end-terminal. The method comprising the steps... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20110010462 - Management of bandwidth allocation in a network server: A server is connected to a plurality of connected client devices, and is configured to transfer information between any selected one of the client devices and a memory for static storage of information. The method comprises increasing the defined delay period after each execution of a packet transfer cycle, thereby... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20110010464 - Data processing system using geographical locations: A data processing system (1,2) stores coordinate data defining a plurality of unique regions (17), for example defined by a cell of a geodesic grid (13) applied to the surface of the earth (12). Each region can be allocated to an owner and there is stored a unique identifier for... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20110010463 - Propogation of dns server ip addresses in a private network: Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for updating IP addresses on a private network. A DNS server receives an updated IP address and stores both the updated IP address and an old IP address. The DNS server includes the updated IP address in responses to all DNS query... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20110010466 - Dynamic content delivery method and apparatus: The present invention relates to the communications field and discloses a DCD method and DCD apparatuses in order to solve the problem in the prior art that dynamic contents are delivered to the UE unselectively and this leads to failure of receiving or playing the dynamic contents subscribed to by... Agent: Docket Clerk/htcl

20110010465 - Methods and systems for providing template based compression: Methods and systems for providing template based compression are proxided. In some embodiments, methods for providing template based compression on a message having headers and corresponding values are provided, the methods comprising stripping a first portion of the headers and the corresponding values from the message, filtering a second portion... Agent: Byrne Poh LLP

20110010467 - Resuming a previously interrupted peer-to-peer synchronization operation: A method of synchronizing data between two devices can include starting, in a first device, a first synchronization operation comprising transmitting a first data set to be received by a second device, the first data set comprising changes to multiple different data elements in the first device that have occurred... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C. (tc)

20110010468 - Close-coupling shared storage architecture of double-wing expandable multiprocessor: A close-coupling shared storage architecture of double-wing expandable multiprocessor is provided in the close-coupling shared storage architecture with p processors scale, the close-coupling shared storage architecture of double-wing expandable multiprocessor comprises: j processor modules PMs; wherein, each processor module is formed by coupling and cross-jointing i processors Cs, and each... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20110010469 - Enhanced network system through the combination of networking objects: Reducing the cost of framing network packets in a virtual machine environment combines certain network objects to eliminate the cost of fully framing packets between the combined objects. In a virtual environment, for example, this allows a virtual NIC in one partition to send only data to a network provider... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20110004650 - Method and agent for processing messages exchanged between terminals: P

20110004649 - Methods and systems for providing a consistent profile to overlapping user sessions: Just in time delivery of a consistent user profile to overlapping user sessions, where a first user session issues a request for a first file of a user profile to a server agent. Upon receiving the request, the server agent retrieves the first file from a base user profile, and... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20110004659 - Aaa based location retrieval: A computer network is provided. The computer network comprises an AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting) client with an extension for requesting location information of a user.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20110004654 - Device management session trigger: A system and method for initiating a Device Management (DM) session between a client and a server. More particularly, a system and method for triggering an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) DM client which does not support User Data Protocol (UDP) PUSH messaging to initiate a DM session with an OMA... Agent: Nokia, Inc.

20110004656 - Load assignment control method and load distribution system: A load distribution system including an information table having information about a plurality of servers, a threshold holder having a threshold with respect to a processing state of requests to maintain service level of the plurality of servers, a server manager for monitoring and managing operational states of the plurality... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20110004652 - Method and system for enabling a user to vote on a portion of an image and for displaying the image: A server computer transmits a web page over a network to a computing device so that the web page can be displayed by a browser operating on the computing device. The web page includes an image. The server computer then receives, from the computing device, coordinates of a portion of... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20110004653 - Method for activation of a media processing device to a web server: A method for activating a media processing device to a web server by a data processing device is disclosed. A device registration request is provided to the web server. The device registration request comprises information specific to the media processing device. An activation code is retrieved from the web server... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20110004651 - Method for managing web access from a small footprint portable device: The invention discloses a wrist watch that offers immediate access to regularly updated content of a previously selected group of web pages without requiring it to keep continually connected to the network. The concept takes advantage of the portability and convenience of a wrist watch and aggregates to it a... Agent: Raja Singh Tuli

20110004657 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for processing responses to a web page: The disclosed web server and methodology processes responses to a web page. The web page is at least partially generated from one or more widgets and each widget denotes how an element of the web page is to be displayed at a client. The web server receives a response to... Agent: Mark P. Kahler

20110004655 - Relay device, relay method, and computer program product: A relay device includes a first communication unit that receives a request including processing object data from a client device; a data processing unit that obtains a first processing result by performing a relay-device-side process of equivalent algorithm to that of a server-side process, which is performed by a server,... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20110004658 - Shared object stores for a networked computer system: A store of interfaced software objects are distributed between a server computer and multiple client computers to support an object oriented application communication environment that provides communication between software applications on each client computer. The application communication environment may include a central shared object store of interfaced software objects that... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110004660 - Social network system: Social networking systems use mobile communication devices or personal computers to manage business and social transactions from a single point of reference site. The social networking systems eliminate the need to access and log into multiple sites to carry out these tasks.... Agent: Sharron Battle

20110004664 - Device and method for distributing and forwarding requests to a plurality of web servers in an industrial automation arrangement: A device and a method for distributing and forwarding requests to a plurality of web servers in an industrial automation arrangement. The device is configured to receive requests addressed to a well-known port, and the web servers are addressable by at least one local address and by means of one... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20110004666 - E-mail server: An address determining means determines whether an e-mail address in an e-mail is an extended address or an original e-mail address of an e-mail account. The extended address is an e-mail address generated by adding an extension name to an account name in the original e-mail address. A receipt accepting... Agent: Konomi Takeshita

20110004667 - Method and system for providing order status information using an update status flag: A method and system for providing order status information using an update status flag to receive status information pertaining to an order placed by a customer with a merchant. It is determined whether the received status information is new relative to further status information pertaining to the order stored within... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20110004665 - Method for providing a content-sharing service, and a device therefor: A method and apparatus for providing contents-sharing services are provided. The method for providing contents-sharing services includes: receiving a contents-sharing request message for a contents sharer from a first contents reproducing apparatus of a contents sharing requester; transmitting a contents-sharing notify message generated using the received contents-sharing request message to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20110004661 - Methods and systems for managing network elements: A system for managing networks includes a gateway capable of receiving a first TARP request from a requesting node and generating a second TARP request based on the first TARP request. The second TARP request includes an NSAP address of the gateway. The gateway is further capable of transmitting the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20110004663 - System and method for archiving and retrieving messages: A method comprises establishing by a computer an audience element comprising a particular combination of one or more addresses. The method further comprises creating a first relationship between the audience element and at least one of the one or more addresses. The method also comprises creating a second relationship between... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20110004662 - System and method for managing and displaying data messages: A system and method for managing and displaying data messages includes a computing device configured to receive stream data, assign data messages of the stream data to one or more display columns of a graphical user interface, and display the data messages in the assigned columns. The stream data may... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20110004668 - Method and system for synchronizing a server and an on-demand database service: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for synchronizing a server and an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for synchronizing a server and an on-demand database service can enable embodiments to synchronize a larger amount of data. The ability of embodiments to provide such feature... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC - Sfc

20110004670 - Electronic apparatus and control method for remotely processing files: An electronic apparatus and a control method thereof which can remotely process multimedia data stored in peripherals connected to the electronic apparatus are provided. The electronic apparatus comprises a connector to which a peripheral device storing multimedia data is connected; a communication unit which communicates with a plurality of external... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20110004669 - Statutory license restricted digital media playback on portable devices: Systems and methods are described for, e.g., providing a statutory audio content service on a portable device that complies with the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The user can select a playlist subject to DMCA restrictions but cannot access individual items. Content playback, including skipping of content,... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20110004671 - System and method for secure delivery of creatives: A method of creating and delivering an on-demand audio asset for inclusion in a creative is described. The method includes the steps of accessing a central processing environment, requesting at least one recording of at least a portion of an audio transmission generated from a communication device, generating at least... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20110004674 - Address configuration method, apparatus and system: An address configuration method, apparatus, and system are disclosed. The method includes: after receiving a neighbor solicitation message sent by a terminal and inclusive of a Link-Local Address (LLA), comparing the LLA with addresses in an Internet Protocol (IP) address cache, and judging whether any address in the IP address... Agent: Huawei/bhgl

20110004673 - Address determination apparatus, communication system, address determination method, and program: An address determination apparatus that determines a valid address that a communication apparatus designates as the address at which a communication starts for indicating the origin of a transmission includes: a duplicate valid address determination means that selects a tentative address, and by an inquiry on a network, determines the... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20110004672 - Server identifier acquisition based on device location: The present invention relates to a method, apparatus, system, and computer program product, in which a unique identifier of a node of a network is used to request from a database location-dependent information for a device attached to said node. An identifier of at least one server serving an area... Agent: Harrington & Smith

20110004675 - Virtual integrated management device for performing information update process for device configuration information management device: An information management device for performing an information update process from a virtual integrated management device that manages a plurality of device configuration information management devices to the device configuration information management devices, comprises a meta information management unit and an update processing unit. The meta information management unit, which... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20110004677 - System and method for implementing pnrp locality: A method is provided for a host node in a computer network to determine its coordinates in a d-dimensional network space, comprising discovering an address of a peer node in the network, measuring network latency between the host node and the peer node, determining whether network latency has been measured... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110004676 - Virtual appliance deploying system: In deployment of a virtual appliance to a physical server, a setting file required for the virtual appliance to operate is automatically generated based on a configuration of the physical server and a network configuration, and connection relation between the virtual appliances. Specifically, resource data assigned to the virtual appliance... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20110004679 - Method, system and apparatus for providing automation management services: An automation management system is deployed and operates on a plurality of network devices in a network in a distributed manner. The plurality of network devices may comprise a plurality of routers, for example. Automation management services are deployed and operate on the network devices in accordance with a service-oriented... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110004678 - Scheduled downloads: enabling background processes to receive broadcast data: A digital broadcast network is disclosed that can provide scheduled updates for non-critical data in a different manner than critical data updates. Updates that included non-critical information can be scheduled to be broadcast, over a digital broadcast network, during an update window, which can he a specific period of time.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110004682 - Determining projection weights based on a census data: Projection weights may be configured to project usage of a first set of resources by users of a first group of clients systems to usage of the first set of resources by users in a larger group of users. Users of the first group of client systems may be a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C. (dc)

20110004681 - Methods and apparatus for enhanced overlay state maintenance: Methods and apparatus for enhanced overlay state maintenance in a peer-to-peer overlay network. A first method includes inferring that a first node is leaving the overlay network, and transmitting a decrement message to decrement a size counter value. A second method includes identifying a set of nodes associated with a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110004684 - Prediction of systems location inside a data center by using correlation coefficients: The present invention enables location prediction of a system in a data center. Specifically, the invention monitors resources from the systems in the data center and measuring points in the data center. A system resource monitors the internal conditions of the system. A data center measuring point is any device... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20110004683 - Systems and methods for granular resource management in a storage network: In accordance with some aspects of the present invention, systems and methods are provided for dynamically and/or automatically selecting and/or modifying data path definitions that are used in performing storage operations on data. Alternate data paths may be specified or selected that use some or all resources that communicate with... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20110004680 - Systems and methods for unified management of desktop sessions: A method for using standards-based functionality to provide unified management for a plurality of remote desktop sessions includes executing an enhanced management access point on a first physical machine. The method includes monitoring a plurality of desktop sessions including a desktop session executing on one of a second physical machine... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20110004685 - Method for operating a field device: Method for operating a field device of process automation technology, wherein the field device is connected for communication with at least one servicing tool. In the case of a request by a servicing tool for access to the field device, the access allowed by the field device depends on the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20110004687 - Information processing apparatus, information processing system, setting program transmission method and server setting program: A VA arrangement server 3 includes a management unit (33) which accepts the input of at least first and second ones of server identifiers corresponding to one or at least two physical servers or one or at least two virtual servers operating on the physical servers, and a transmission unit... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20110004688 - Method and apparatus for performing a host enumeration process: A method and apparatus for host enumeration process. One embodiment of the method provides a bit to indicate to the host whether enumeration process should start or continue. The bit may be set when the shared resource process has been successfully completed, or the bit may be set if too... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20110004686 - Supporting application effectiveness in a network environment: A system for performing a mission/control application by means of an integrated application in a network-centric environment using one or more capabilities attributed to the application, with each capability being assigned one or more priorities for the application. The system may have at least one node configured to identify a... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20110004689 - Access of elements for a secure web page through a non-secure channel: Particular embodiments generally relate to allowing access of non-secure elements through a non-secure channel when a top-level page was accessed through a secure connection. In one embodiment, a webpage is accessed over a secure channel. The webpage includes secure and non-secure elements. When a non-secure element for the webpage is... Agent: TrellisIPLaw Group/oracle

20110004691 - Distribution of streaming content between media players configured to locate each other: r

20110004690 - Method of forwarding messages over a network and system for implementing the method:

20110004692 - Gathering information about connections in a social networking service: To enhance information about connections in a social networking service, embodiments of the invention enable users to reference nodes while posting content to a communication channel. To identify connections within content in the social networking service, users of the social networking service are provided an interface to post content items... Agent: Facebook/fenwick Silicon Valley Center

20110004693 - Reputation mashup: Techniques for reputation mashup are described. Reputation mashup refers to combining, aggregating, collecting, compiling, or otherwise organizing reputation data from multiple sources into a uniform format to facilitate making trust decisions for resources. In an implementation, reputation data for a resource is combined from a plurality of reputation sources. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110004694 - Generic communications protocol translator: The present invention discloses a generic protocol translator (32) that translates information from a source device to a destination device. The generic protocol translator (32) includes a receiver circuit manager (92) that receives information from a source device that is intended for a destination device through one or more interface... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20110004695 - Distribution of streaming content between media players configured to locate each other: e

20110004696 - Distribution of streaming content between media players configured to locate each other:

20110004697 - Electronic apparatus and communication control method: According to one embodiment, a electronic apparatus includes a coupler, a communication module configured to execute, with use of the coupler, wireless communication with an external device, and a file transmission module configured to execute file transmission with the external device by controlling the communication module. The file transmission module... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20110004698 - Defining network traffic processing flows between virtual machines: Network devices include hosted virtual machines and virtual machine applications. Hosted virtual machines and their applications implement additional functions and services in network devices. Network devices include data taps for directing network traffic to hosted virtual machines and allowing hosted virtual machines to inject network traffic. Network devices include unidirectional... Agent: General - Law Office Of Jonathan Hollander PC

20110004699 - Method, system and session control unit for relieving network traffic: The present invention relates to the Internet field, and discloses a method, system and session control unit for relieving network traffic. The method includes: receiving a content request message; searching a network for data corresponding to content requested by the content request message, and selecting a content replication point according... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20110004700 - Providing access to client overhead while transparently transmitting the client signal: A method includes receiving client data; extracting overhead data from the client data; mapping the client data into one or more frames, where each of the one or more frames has a frame payload section and a frame overhead section, where the client data is mapped into the frame payload... Agent: Infinera Corporation Ross Carothers

20110004701 - Provisioning highly available services for integrated enterprise and communication: A development, deployment and execution environment for a plurality of application components present in a distributed system in a service oriented architecture paradigm, the plurality of application components comprising both enterprise application components and communications application components and a method for application component life cycle management as well as registration,... Agent: Geoffrey Gelman

20110004702 - Automatic conflict resolution: A method and apparatus is for implementing a conflict resolution policy. The method includes providing a rule set that includes a plurality of rules that define the conflict resolution policy. An algorithm is generated by decomposing each rule in the rule set into at least one pre-action that is to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation