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

20130124595 - Cloud-to-device messaging for application activation and reporting: A computer-implemented method and system for updating application data for a first instance of an application via C2DM is disclosed. An application server may receive a request from the first client computing device for updated application data via a network connection. The updated application data may correspond to a second... Agent: Google Inc.

20130124599 - Dynamic resource adjustment for a distributed process on a multi-node computer system: A method dynamically adjusts the resources available to a processing unit of a distributed computer process executing on a multi-node computer system. The resources for the processing unit are adjusted based on the data other processing units handle or the execution path of code in an upstream or downstream processing... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124597 - Node aggregation system for implementing symmetric multi-processing system: Embodiments of the present invention provide a node aggregation system for implementing a symmetric multi-processing system. The system includes at least one node aggregation module, at least one service network interface module and at least one computing node cluster, where the computing node cluster includes at least one computing node;... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130124596 - Source attribution of embedded content: A source attribution system includes a tracking module to generate an identification meta-data to be associated with an original content of a first publisher that originates in a third-party source server of a public wide area network such that the original content is attributable to the first publisher through the... Agent:

20130124598 - Translation management system: A translation management system in a computer environment. A preferred embodiment of the invention automatically detects when a document, data stream, or non-text file in the master language has been updated and notifies the user which corresponding documents, data streams, or non-text files in the other languages require translation which... Agent: Transperfect Global, Inc.

20130124600 - System and method for deploying and maintaining software applications: The software deployment or maintenance procedures originally defined by the skilled individual may be applied to any number of computing systems maintained by any number of other individuals without the skilled individual's further involvement in the process. The site-specific or confidential information belonging to the other individuals is not shared... Agent:

20130124605 - Aggregating and presenting tasks: Concepts and technologies are described herein for aggregating and presenting tasks. A task engine communicates with task systems that host tasks. The tasks are rendered in a user interface provided by the task engine. Changes to the tasks within the user interface can be written to the task systems and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124606 - Automatic personalization of downloadable mobile apps: The present invention greatly simplifies the process of downloading and personalizing a mobile app by employing a unique code or “User ID” that associates the user with the mobile app. This User ID enables the mobile app to personalize itself automatically—i.e., without requiring the user to enter login information. To... Agent: Boopsie, Inc.

20130124612 - Conflict management during data object synchronization between client and server: A server stores server metadata entries corresponding to data objects, each server metadata entry including a server file name and an identifier, distinct from the server file name, for a respective data object. The server receives client metadata entries from a client, each client metadata entry corresponding to a data... Agent:

20130124622 - Content distribution system, content distribution device, content distribution method and program: To provide a content distribution system for suitably controlling bit rate for each receiving terminal while reducing the number of probe packets transmitted toward the receiving terminals from a distribution device. A content distribution device which is mutually connected via a network to a plurality of receiving terminals has a... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130124607 - Diagnostic heartbeating in a distributed data processing environment: A first component receives from a second component a set of diagnostic parameters to include in a diagnostic heartbeat packet, and information identifying a data communication protocol to be used for transmitting the diagnostic heartbeat packet. The diagnostic heartbeat packet is a packet comprising a header, a set of heartbeat... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124601 - Facilitating the operation of a client/server application while a client is offline or online: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates the operation of a client/server application while a client is online or offline. The system operates by receiving a request from an application at a client to synchronize data with a server. In response to the request, the system... Agent:

20130124610 - Generating production server load activity for a test server: A method of replicating on a test server a production load of a production server. The method can include creating the production load on the production server by processing client requests received from clients. The method further can include, while the client requests are processed, via a processor, in real... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124602 - Handling asynchronous responses from servers: Various embodiments of a method and system for handling asynchronous responses from servers. A network-enabled application (e.g., web browser) may have a client-side component (e.g., browser plug-in) for providing services “on-demand” to client code (e.g., JavaScript). The client code may use the client-side component for sending network requests of the... Agent:

20130124619 - Installing applications based on a seed application from a separate device: Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable storage media for synchronizing applications between devices. The method displays, on a sharing device, a list of one or more applications which are available to share with other devices, and receives a selection, at the sharing device, of an application to... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130124617 - Method of transferring content and device using the method: According to the present disclosure, there is provided a method of transferring content between a plurality of devices, and devices using the method. The method may include acquiring content at a first device, acquiring tag information associated with the content, adding the tag information to the content, the tag information... Agent:

20130124618 - Method, system and device for supporting application client being always online: A method supporting an application client being always online is provided, and the method includes: establishing a long link between an always online engine AOE (101) located in a terminal (10) and an always online service gateway AOG (20) located at a network side, where at least two application clients... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130124621 - Methods and systems for implementing a cache model in a prefetching system: The present invention relates to systems and methods of enhancing prefetch operations. One potential method comprises fetching an object from a page on a web server. The method may further include storing, at a proxy server, caching instructions for the fetched object. The proxy server may be connected with the... Agent: Viasat, Inc.

20130124616 - Methods for dynamically generating application interfaces for modeled entities and devices thereof: This technology generates a plurality of instances of things each including a dynamically generated interface structure and services associated with and properties of the corresponding one of the things. The services associated with and the properties of one of the plurality of instances of things for a selected one of... Agent: Thingworx

20130124608 - Providing a client interface for a server-based web application programming interface: Disclosed methods, systems, and articles of manufacture, including processor-readable mediums, relate to providing a client interface for a server-based web application programming interface (API). In a disclosed method, a client device receives a first discovery document that is represented in a first machine-readable language and that includes information describing a... Agent:

20130124609 - Providing image data to a client display device: Providing display information to a client display device communicating with a plurality of servers is disclosed. Each of the servers provides a pre-assigned partial region of an overall image for display on the client display device. The client display device sends a request to each server via a multicast or... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130124615 - Retrieval terminal device, retrieval server device, retrieval tree compression method, and center-linked retrieval system: A retrieval tree data storing unit configured to store node information corresponding to the relationship between information configuring data to be retrieved and information of a lower layer configuring the data rather than the information and retrieval tree data corresponding to entity identification information for identifying entity data representing an... Agent: Clarion Co., Ltd.

20130124604 - Source code generation for interoperable clients and server interfaces: Systems and methods are provided for generating source code to enable communication between a server defined according to a first programming language and a client defined according to a second programming language. The system identifies a server data structure defined according to the first programming language and determines types of... Agent:

20130124620 - System and method for device management: A system for managing one or more wireless devices in a wireless network, the system comprising: a single generic device manager for implementing device management operations; and an interface layer for translating administration client-specific requests to the generic device manager.... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130124613 - Systems and methods for asynchronous searching and filtering of data: An automation control and monitoring system includes a server configured to receive a subscription request from a client component. The subscription request provides one or more criteria to the server. The server is configured to provide a set of data, via a first notification, to the client component based upon... Agent: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

20130124603 - Systems and methods for displaying data associated with the operation of foundation fieldbus devices: Systems and methods are provided for displaying data associated with the operation of Foundation Fieldbus devices. A client device may include at least one computer that executes a client application. The client device may establish a communication channel with a host device configured to collect device parameter data associated with... Agent: General Electric Company

20130124614 - Thin client system and server apparatus: In a thin client system including client terminals and a server apparatus, when a user input operation that requires high-speed reactivity of screen display to the user operation is performed at one of the client terminals, the server can change the amount of data to be transmitted to the client... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20130124611 - Unified repository & tool infrastructure: A system and method are described herein that provide a repository and tool infrastructure (“RTI”) that provides common capabilities on both a client and server end based on standardized communication patterns and a unifying protocol that decouples existing repositories from multiple tools. The repository and tool infrastructure interface interacts with... Agent: Sap Ag

20130124631 - Apparatus, system, and method for digital communications driven by behavior profiles of participants: An apparatus and system are described for enhancing digital communications using behavior profiles of participants, including: a collaboration engine having a behavioral profile knowledge base, the collaboration engine being an internet cloud computing arrangement, in which the behavioral profile knowledge base includes behavioral profiles of at least two participants; a... Agent: Fidelus Technologies, LLC.

20130124623 - Attention tracking in an online conference: Attention tracking information is received. A function is applied to the attention tracking information to generate a value and a graphical representation of the value is displayed over a time period.... Agent: Adobe Systems Incorporated

20130124625 - Determining a community page for a concept in a social networking system: Equivalent concepts expressed across multiple domains are matched and associated with a metapage generated by a social networking system. User preferences expressed on multiple domains, represented as pages in a social networking system, may be organized by concept and shared with advertisers, third-party developers, and other users of the social... Agent:

20130124630 - Device and/or user identification: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus, a computer program product and a method is provided for device and/or user identification. The example embodiment comprises receiving, at an apparatus, a wireless signal comprising at least one of an address or an indication identifying a wireless... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130124629 - Dynamic identification of other users to an online user: Informing a user of a large scale network dynamically of other network users includes determining dynamically an online context of the user. Other users presently within the online context of the user are identified and trait information is stored that is related essentially only to the user or to the... Agent: Facebook, Inc.

20130124634 - Dynamic playbook: experimentation platform for social networks: Embodiments are directed towards dynamically managing contextual recommendations that can be employed with content when provided to a channel. A test for a variable having at least two outcomes may be determined to be employed with selected content. Each outcome may correspond to a different contextual recommendation. An outcome to... Agent: Wetpaint.com, Inc.

20130124636 - Dynamically providing a feed of stories about a user of a social networking system: To display a news feed in a social network environment, a social networking system generates news items regarding activities associated with a user of a social network environment. The social networking system may also attach an informational link associated with at least one of the activities to at least one... Agent:

20130124624 - Enabling preference portability for users of a social networking system: Equivalent concepts expressed across multiple domains are matched and associated with a metapage generated by a social networking system. User preferences expressed on multiple domains, represented as pages in a social networking system, may be organized by concept and shared with advertisers, third-party developers, and other users using the metapages... Agent:

20130124633 - Engine, system and method of providing location-based social services: An engine, system and method for a domain social network that interconnects Internet users with at least domains owned by or of interest to those Internet users, and that may obtain and/or forward obtained dynamic data regarding those domains automatically, such as by web service or email service. The dynamic... Agent:

20130124628 - Method and apparatus for providing social network based advertising with user control and privacy: Methods for providing targeted content are disclosed. For example, the method registers a user profile with a social network and provides a user identifier associated with the user profile to a user device. The method then receives a request from a third party with the user identifier. The method determines... Agent:

20130124635 - Notification systems and methods that consider traffic flow predicament data: Systems and methods are disclosed for automated notification systems. One representative method, among others, comprises the following steps: monitoring travel data associated with a mobile thing (MT); scheduling a notification communication; analyzing traffic flow predicament data associated with a travel plan of the MT; and rescheduling the notification communication, based... Agent: Eclipse Ip, LLC

20130124627 - Providing universal social context for concepts in a social networking system: Equivalent concepts expressed across multiple domains are matched and associated with a metapage generated by a social networking system. User preferences expressed on multiple domains, represented as pages in a social networking system, may be organized by concept and shared with advertisers, third-party developers, and other users of the social... Agent:

20130124626 - Searching topics by highest ranked page in a social networking system: Equivalent concepts expressed across multiple domains are matched and associated with a metapage generated by a social networking system. User preferences expressed on multiple domains, represented as pages in a social networking system, may be organized by concept and shared with advertisers, third-party developers, and other users of the social... Agent:

20130124632 - Terminal device, information processing method, program, and storage medium: A terminal device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire time information and position information, and a generation unit configured to generate an action identification based on acquired pieces of the time information and acquired pieces of the position information.... Agent: Sony Corporation

20130124638 - Managing updates at clients used by a user to access a cloud-based collaboration service: System and method for managing updates at clients used by a user to access a cloud-based collaboration service are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for storing a representation of the action to queues of clients associated... Agent:

20130124637 - Real time collaboration for digital scene creation: Multiple users can edit the same digital scene concurrently, with different users using different computing devices and/or different programs running on one or more computing devices to edit the digital scene. Each program maintains its own representation of the digital scene. When a user of a program makes a change... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124640 - Aggregate provider for social activity feeds and contact information: A method is presented for obtaining contact information on a client computer. A request is received to display contact information for a person on an email application running on the client computer. A determination is made as to whether third party contact information is available for a user of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124650 - E-mail integrated instant messaging: A system and method supporting instant messaging which removes many of the problems and harriers to the use of instant messaging through the use of universally unique identifiers to web pages for instant messaging sessions, with recipients invited to the instant messaging session via email.... Agent:

20130124655 - Electronic communication clarification system: A computer implemented method and system is provided for clarifying electronic communication between an originator and a recipient. The originator declares characteristics of an originating message by specifying intent and linguistic type of communication using an application software provided on an originator communication device. The originator transmits the originating message... Agent:

20130124652 - Electronic device and method for providing contents recommendation service: An electronic device and a method for providing a content recommendation service are disclosed. A controller detects a user action for requesting content recommendation, extracts content information about content displayed on a screen in response to the detected user action, and generates a content post request message including the extracted... Agent:

20130124648 - Email filtering based on social networking information: A system and machine-implemented method for automatically generating an email filter based on social networking groups, including receiving an indication of one or more social groups associated with a user, wherein each of the one or more social groups is associated with the user's account in a social networking service,... Agent: Google Inc.

20130124651 - Group messaging for facilitating interactions between users: A group messaging relationship establishment method is provided. The method includes determining, by a web server, whether a number of comments relating to information exceeds a predetermined first numerical threshold within a predefined first time period, in response to the number of comments relating to the information exceeding the predetermined... Agent: Alibaba Group Holding Limited

20130124647 - Groupware-integrated business document management: A system may include generation of a markup language representation of a business document based on a business object model, and generation of a first multi-part MIME electronic mail message comprising a first part and a second part, the first part associated with a text content-type and the second part... Agent:

20130124662 - Information registration apparatus, information registration method, information registration program, and recording medium: While making it possible to register generation information used to generate a Web page for each topic by sending element information being components of the Web page by an email and add element information to the generation information by an email, it is made difficult for persons other than a... Agent: Rakuten, Inc.

20130124658 - Integration of collaboration systems in an instant messaging application: A user of an instant messaging application may interact with instant messaging contacts in other collaboration applications (e.g., e-mail, calendar applications, etc.). IM conversations may relate to information in the collaboration applications. For example, an employee may send an e-mail containing marketing data to his manager and wishes to discuss... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124639 - Mail delivery method and mail system for mobile terminal: The present invention provides a mail delivery method for a mobile terminal, which method comprises: a server sending a mail from a sender to a mobile terminal; and the mobile terminal displaying the mail at the time point set by the sender. The present invention further provides a mail system,... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130124660 - Messenger client and method for updating messages in messenger client: Updating messages in a messenger client includes a messenger client judging whether it is necessary to pull a new message or a new message notification from a messenger server according to a state of the messenger client; performing an action of pulling a new message notification from the messenger server... Agent: Tencent Technology (shenzhen) Company Limited

20130124656 - Processing method for mobile device to display email, server, and mobile device: The present invention relates to a processing method for a mobile device to display an email, a server, and a mobile device. The method for processing an email includes: after receiving an email downloading request from a client, checking, by a server, a processing capability of the client, where the... Agent: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.

20130124645 - Providing user-defined messages: Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products provide user-defined messages. In one embodiment, user-defined messaging configurations can be defined. Then, a record queue can be monitored for the entry of new records. New records can be evaluated to determine whether they are associated with user-defined messaging configurations. For the records... Agent: Mckesson Financial Holdings

20130124644 - Reputation services for a social media identity: Reputation services can determine a “reputation” to associate with a Social Media Identity. For example, a social media identity may develop a trustworthy or an untrustworthy reputation. An untrustworthy reputation can be attained if a user (i.e., identity) posts content similar to email spam messages or links to inappropriate content.... Agent: Mcafee, Inc.

20130124657 - Routing function multimedia message service gateway: The present invention discloses a multimedia message system, which includes: aSP; a Multimedia Message Service Center (MMSC), which is configured to receive, store and send multimedia messages; and a Multimedia Message Service Gateway (MMSG) connecting with at least one MMSC and the SP belonging to the MMSG respectively, which serves... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130124653 - Searching, retrieving, and scoring social media: Computer-implemented systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating a social media score comprising: receiving a request for a score of an asset from a client computing device; receiving a plurality of posts from one or more social media networks relating to the asset; identifying a sentiment of each post; identifying... Agent: Loopa LLC

20130124643 - System and method for communication thread management: Described are systems and methods for managing an electronic communication thread. A thread is identified between a first electronic device and a plurality of second electronic devices. A parameter is generated to stop watching communications generated by the second electronic devices related to the thread. At least one new communication... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124646 - System and method for extracting, collecting, enriching and ranking of email objects: Enriching emails includes: receiving a user's email messages; performing a semantic analysis on the email message body; deriving a plurality of objects of interest; associating search-based content with the objects of interest; ranking the objects of interest; and outputting the ranked objects with the search-based content into a current email... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20130124659 - System and method for peer-to-peer media routing using a third party instant messaging system for signaling: An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables an endpoint to engage in a call with another endpoint using a third party instant message system to carry instant messages containing signaling information and a route that is external to the third party... Agent: Damaka, Inc.

20130124641 - System for interacting with a web visitor: A system for interacting with a person browsing a web site has an Internet-connected server and a connected data repository, and software executing on the server from a non-transitory physical medium. The software provides an identity function identifying the person, a selection function checking the data repository for stored information... Agent:

20130124649 - Systems and methods for managing content modification messages: System and methods for managing content modification messages are provided. In some embodiments, a request to send a modification message to a second user is received from a first user. The request to send the modification message pertains to a modification made to a first user-specific version corresponding to the... Agent: Iongrid, Inc.

20130124661 - Systems and methods for providing simplified computing functionalities to a user: Described herein are systems and methods for providing simplified computing functionalities to a user. In overview, an arrangement is provided whereby a simplified computing device is provided to a user, for example a user with relatively low computer literacy. The device provides a user interface, which is preferably remotely configurable... Agent: Tapestry Pty Ltd

20130124654 - Terminal and method for exchanging messages by means of tokens brought in proximity to said terminal, communication system, and token: The invention pertains to a terminal for exchanging messages by placing tokens near it. The terminal comprises communication means to exchange information with a database, detection means for identifying local tokens placed near the terminal, display means for displaying remote tokens, and proximity logic configured to assert a proximity relationship... Agent: Alcatel Lucent

20130124642 - User availability awareness: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing awareness of user availability. A user may activate a device, and a request to manage an availability status can be sent from the device to a communication service. The communication service may resultantly set up monitoring of the user status,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124663 - Identifying and presenting reminders based on opportunity for interaction: A method and apparatus are provided for presenting a reminder for a PIM record when there may be an opportunity for personal interaction regarding the PIM record. The opportunity for personal interaction regarding the PIM record may be identified in response to a trigger condition not associated with the PIM... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130124664 - Coordinating media presentations among peer devices: A group of “servant” devices each downloads a media presentation and renders the presentation to a local user. However, a “master” device directs the servants as to which chunks to download and when to render the presentation. In this way, the master keeps the presentations on the separate servants in... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc

20130124665 - Administering an epoch initiated for remote memory access: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for administering an epoch initiated for remote memory access that include: initiating, by an origin application messaging module on an origin compute node, one or more data transfers to a target compute node for the epoch; initiating, by the origin application messaging module after... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124666 - Managing internode data communications for an uninitialized process in a parallel computer: A parallel computer includes nodes, each having main memory and a messaging unit (MU). Each MU includes computer memory, which in turn includes, MU message buffers. Each MU message buffer is associated with an uninitialized process on the compute node. In the parallel computer, managing internode data communications for an... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124667 - System and method for managing dedicated caches: A client-based computer system configured to communicate with a remote server through a network and to provide access to content or services provided by the server is provided. The system includes a processor, a storage device, a client-side cache dedicated to a set of resources specified by a configuration, and... Agent: Mobophiles, Inc. Dba Mobolize

20130124668 - Dynamic streaming data dispatcher: A method includes receiving, by a computing device, a plurality of data streams from plurality of sources, distributing the data streams to a plurality of sinks on multiple hosts, receiving load information indicating a load on at least one of the plurality of sinks and adjusting the distribution of the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124675 - Apparatus and method for software migration in mobile environment: Provided is an apparatus for software migration between devices in a mobile environment. The software migration apparatus may include a policy manager configured to select a migration method for target software according to a migration environment, and a migration manager configured to perform migration of the target software according to... Agent:

20130124677 - Broadcast supplemental data transmission device and broadcast supplemental data transmission method, and broadcast system: Provided is a broadcast supplemental data transmission device, a broadcast supplemental data transmission method, and a broadcast system that can reduce the traffic of a communication network as much as possible at the time of supplementing missing data in broadcasted content data. When “GET HTTP/1.1 If Unmodified Since Time Information”,... Agent: Ntt Docomo, Inc.

20130124671 - Comparison of selected item data to usage data for items associated with a user account: Comparing usage of items at a location associated with a sensor network to attributes of a selected item is disclosed. A client device captures an item descriptor associated with a selected item. An item identifier is extracted from the item descriptor and transmitted from the client device to an item... Agent: Motorola Mobility, Inc.

20130124674 - Computer system and data migration method: A client computer or an application on a second file server transmits an access request for access to data stored in a first storage area to a second file server and, if an access request from the client computer is received, the second file server migrates data from a first... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20130124676 - Content distribution apparatus and method: According to one embodiment, a content distribution apparatus comprises a first distribution unit, a setting unit, an acceptance unit and a second distribution unit. The first distribution unit distributes an object content continuously regenerated according to a preset regeneration order. The setting unit sets a linked destination content linked to... Agent: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

20130124683 - Data distribution system, data distribution method, data relay device on distribution side, and data relay device on reception side: A data distribution system for distributing content data by HTTP in a MIME multipart format is arranged such that in accordance with, for example, a frequency of generation of an identical request, a server-side proxy adaptively distributes the content data via a broadcasting path and a communication path. According to... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20130124680 - Method and apparatus for ensuring transport of user agent information: Techniques to ensure that user agent information is transported includes determining whether both a type field and a client platform information field are included in a first portion of a uniform resource locator field (URL) of a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request message received from a remote client process. The... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130124678 - Method for page redirection and wap gateway: The present disclosure relates to the field of communications, and discloses a method for page redirection and a WAP gateway, which reduces the time delay the terminal experiences when acquiring pages. In the present disclosure, the WAP gateway requests, when receiving a page request from a user terminal, a page... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130124681 - Method, system and apparatus for management of push content when changing computing devices: A method, system and apparatus for management of push content when changing computing devices is provided. In an example embodiment, a computing device is configured to maintain an absolute identifier of the device that remains unchangeable, and a relative identifier that can be changed. The processor of the device is... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130124682 - Network quality as a service: A system is provided for improving the performance of an access network for coupling user devices to an application server. The system includes a user device coupled to an intermediate server via the access network. The user device has a processor adapted to encode data using a network performance enhancing... Agent: Liveqos Inc.

20130124673 - Policy controlled preload and consumption of software application: The present disclosure relates to interrelated methods in a server and in a client enabling policy controlled preload and consumption of software application in a client. The method in a server comprises receiving information pertaining to an identified user; providing the identified user's current user and/or software application usage policies... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130124672 - System and method for delivering media assets in a cloud environment: A media delivery system comprises a handheld computing and communication device, a media delivery unit and a user specific media library in a cloud. A data file including metadata of the media assets in the media library is stored in the handheld device. The handheld device and the media delivery... Agent:

20130124679 - System and method for progressive download with minimal play latency: Systems and methods for providing the progressive download of media content using techniques that preferentially identify and use periods of surplus network capacity to maintain the content delivery. A buffer of a receiving system is maintained and pre-filled with enough content to bridge playback intervals where a network is unable... Agent: Opanga Networks Inc.

20130124669 - System for monitoring eleastic cloud-based computing systems as a service: Provided is a computing-system monitor configured to monitor a plurality of computing-systems each having a plurality of monitored computing-instances. The computing-system monitor may include a plurality of collectors, each collector executed by one of a plurality of monitored computing-instances, wherein the plurality of monitored computing-instances each are part of one... Agent:

20130124670 - Systems and methods for recording data associated with the operation of foundation fieldbus devices: Systems and methods are provided for recording data associated with the operation of Foundation Fieldbus devices. Device parameter data associated with one or more Foundation Fieldbus devices may be received by a device comprising one or more computers. A visual representation of the operation of the one or more Foundation... Agent: General Electric Company

20130124684 - Visual separator detection in web pages using code analysis: A method for detection of visual separators in web pages using code analysis includes receiving a web page and its associated web code by a web page analysis device and analyzing the web code to detect visual separators in the web page. A web page analysis device for visual separator... Agent:

20130124687 - Apparatus and method for detecting modified uniform resource locator: An apparatus and method for detecting altered Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are provided. The apparatus includes a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) information collection unit, a URL HTTP header analysis unit, a URL alteration determination unit, and a control unit. The URL information collection unit collects linked URL information in a... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130124685 - Distributing overlay network ingress information: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to providing secure access to resources of a private network. For example, a client device may transmit a request identifying the protected resource to an authentication server. The authentication server queries a network address lookup table to identify a network address of the protected... Agent: Google Inc.

20130124686 - System and a method for sharing computing resources associated to scientific publications: A system of computation tools sharing, the computing tools having been used to generate results presented in scientific publications, includes a computing tool being composed of a source code and a program execution tool whose function is to execute the program described by the said source code, and at least... Agent: Cnrs

20130124691 - Adaptive media sharing: Systems, methods, and devices are provided that enable adaptive media sharing among a group of communication devices. In one embodiment, unique URLs may be associated with each version of a media payload provided to a group of devices. In another embodiment, media payloads may be transcoded and a unique URL... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130124699 - Apparatus and method for transceiving a streaming service: Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a streaming service. The apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving a streaming service may use a light multimedia file suitable for a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) streaming service. Using an HTTP hint track, an International Organization for Standardization (ISO)... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Instititute

20130124696 - Application products with in-application subsequent feature access using network-based distribution system: An improved system, device and method for accessing features of digital products with assistance from a content distribution system are disclosed. Third-party content can be submitted to and distributed by the content distribution system. In other words, the third-party content can be hosted (and distributed) by the content distribution system.... Agent: Apple Inc.

20130124689 - Content delivery using multiple sources over heterogeneous interfaces: Provided is a system for the distribution of data, comprising a data server comprising a processor, a computer-readable storage medium coupled to the data server, a plurality of proxy servers, each with a plurality of network interfaces, a file of digital content, comprising a plurality of chunks, wherein copies of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124692 - Control device, control target device and method of transmitting content information thereof: Provided are control device and a method of controlling a server. The method includes requesting an aggregated device list to the aggregate server; receiving the aggregated device list from the aggregate server; selecting at least one aggregated device from the received aggregated device list; requesting, to the aggregate server, content... Agent:

20130124694 - Method and system for enabling rendering of electronic media content via a secure ad hoc network configuration utilizing a handheld wireless communication device: A handheld wireless communication device (HWCD) establishes an ad hoc network comprising interconnected networks for a user. The HWCD gains access to content on a first device and controls communication of the content from the first device via the HWCD to a second device. The HWCD enables the second device... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130124698 - Method and system for uniform resource locator transformation: A web browser (20) at a client (12) generates a request (26) for content from an origin server (18). A cache server (16) intercepts the request and examines the request to determine whether the request should be transformed. More specifically, the cache server compares transform criteria (40) to a uniform... Agent:

20130124695 - Mobility device method: A mobility device search client operative to perform searches across disparate computing environment, and an upgrade module operative to allow at least one upgrade of a computing application is provided. In an illustrative implementation, a mobility device comprises at least one search client or upgrade computing application that is operative... Agent:

20130124690 - Novel media file access and storage solution for multi-workstation/multi-platform non-linear video editing systems: A novel system, method and computer program product for accessing digital media files stored in a media storage device via a server device in communication with the media storage device. The method includes providing, via the server, a file virtualization scheme that permits that enables a server to permit multiple... Agent:

20130124697 - Optimized client side rate control and indexed file layout for streaming media: An indexed file layout, comprising index information, is defined for segmented streaming of multimedia content. The index information can comprise program description information and streaming segment index information. In addition, the layout can comprise files containing streaming segments of the program, where the streaming segments are each encoded at one... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124693 - System, method, and device for executing a composite service: A system for executing a composite service formed by a plurality of software components, the plurality of software components including a first software component and a second software component which is referred from the first software component is provided. The system includes an execution unit configured to execute the first... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130124688 - Wireless network system and content provision method using the same: Disclosed herein is a wireless network system. The wireless network system includes a plurality of user terminals, a plurality of access points, a plurality of content source servers, and a plurality of content storage units. The plurality of access points is wirelessly connected to the plurality of user terminals. The... Agent: Korea Basic Science Institute

20130124700 - Efficient distribution of functional extensions to a 3d modeling software: Functional extensions are provided for use with a modeling software. The functional extensions provide functionality not otherwise provided by the modeling software. The functional extensions are received from a client device by a server and stored in a database. Thereafter, the server transmits the functional extensions to a second client... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited

20130124701 - Method, arrangement and program for efficient configuration of network nodes: A method for configuration of a plurality of network nodes for use with a network includes: for each network node of the plurality of network nodes in a first step, assigning, by the network, a preliminary Internet Protocol link to the network node; in a second step, transmitting, by the... Agent: Deutsche Telekom Ag

20130124702 - Method and system for network configuration and/or provisioning based on metadata: Disclosed are various embodiments for configuring a virtual machine. A template for a virtual machine may be generated. The template may include metadata that references data for port profiles for the virtual machine. The template for the virtual machine may be stored in a template repository, and the data for... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130124703 - Method and apparatus for setting up gateway for autosar-based vehicle network: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for setting up a gateway for an AUTOS AR-based vehicle network. The apparatus for setting up the gateway includes a candidate selection unit for selecting an Electronic Control Unit (ECU) connected to at least two communication clusters, from among a plurality of... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130124711 - Communications control device, communications system, and program: A communication control apparatus (1) is connected to a router (6) and a terminal device (4), and upon receiving prefix information transmitted from the router (6) by a router advertisement, stores the prefix information. In a case where prefix information of a transmission source address or a destination address, which... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130124705 - Manifold proxy for generating production server load activity on test machine(s): A method of replicating on a test server a production load of a production server. The method can include creating the production load on the production server by processing client requests received from clients. The method further can include, while the client requests are processed, via a processor, in real... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124710 - Mediation server, control method therefor, communication device, control method therefor, account provisioning server, and control method therefor: In the first embodiment, the mobile phone 20 obtains the PCID from the CCE 10, and sends the PCID and the IMSI of the USIM of the mobile phone 20 to the CAPS 50. The MCC+MNC part of the IMSI is later used as the operator identification information by the... Agent:

20130124708 - Method and system for adaptive composite service path management: A system for adaptive composite service path management includes a service path control function module configured to search for and select component services according to a template of a composite service and generate a service chain and a service path on the basis of collected contexts from user, service and... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130124709 - Method and system for nic-centric hyper-channel distributed network management: Various embodiments for hyper-channel management are disclosed. One such method is implemented by a network interface controller (NIC) residing in a server. This method involves determining a network component that is operable to create, modify, terminate, or any combination thereof, a hyper-channel. The hyper-channel corresponds to a logical abstraction of... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130124704 - Releasing computing infrastructure components in a networked computing environment: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the release of computing infrastructure components (e.g., hardware, software, combinations thereof, etc.) from a networked computing environment for potential use by another networked computing environment. In a typical embodiment, a computing infrastructure component is identified from set of computing infrastructure components associated with... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124706 - Scalable networked device dynamic mapping: Technologies are generally described for providing a system of scalable networked devices that may be mapped employing a naming convention that enables an optimized route to the devices through device search algorithms for network-connected and non-network connected devices. The naming convention and corresponding algorithms may enable users to search for... Agent: Empire Technology Development, LLC

20130124707 - System and method for flow management in software-defined networks: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for facilitating flow definition management in a switch. During operation, the system identifies a generic flow definition which specifies a flow that is not specific to any input port of a switch. The system further stores in a flow lookup data... Agent: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

20130124715 - Applet synchronization across multiple routers: In one embodiment, a method is presented for determining which downloadable applets are exposed to a user of a computer when the computer is connected to a network. Included are the steps of detecting a change in the topology of a network, requesting from a router device topology information for... Agent:

20130124725 - Automated management of generalized central name services by distributed remote devices: Systems and methods of the present disclosure facilitate updating the translation provided by one or more name servers from symbolic names to network addresses. In some embodiments, the system includes one or more remote devices, a management server, a configuration module, a detection module, and/or an update module. The management... Agent: Labtech LLC

20130124723 - Building and switching ip multimedia sessions: Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods and systems of building an IP multimedia session without the use of a central server and switching IP multimedia session among devices. The method of building an IP multimedia session includes receiving a registering request from a plurality of IP multimedia session participant... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124727 - Client suitability test apparatus and method for a substation automating system: The present invention relates to a client suitability test apparatus for a substation automating system with regard to IEC 61850 service between virtual intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) and clients for a plurality of IEDs, wherein the apparatus comprises: a suitability test process generating unit using at least one test model... Agent: Korea Electric Power Corporation

20130124721 - Detected ip link and connectivity inference: Embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer program products for inferring the switch port connectivity of discovered but. unmanaged devices in a network without direct access to the devices. Embodiments operate by generating a physical address-to-port map based on collected operational data and then pruning the generated map based on switch... Agent: Opnet Technologies, Inc.

20130124719 - Determining a bandwidth throughput requirement: Determining whether an adjustment in the bandwidth allocated to a particular network is appropriate may include polling a bandwidth usage of a device operating on a network over a fixed time interval of time by an application installed on network device, determining whether a current allocated bandwidth level allocated to... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20130124718 - Distributed application using diagnostic heartbeating: A method, system, and computer program product for a improving a distributed application using diagnostic heartbeating are provided in the illustrative embodiments. An application, executing using a processor and a memory in a first data processing system, sends a registration to a component in the first data processing system. The... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124724 - Distributed monitoring and control of network components: A distributed monitoring system and a computer-implemented method monitors and controls locally situated network components through a monitoring and control device or processor querying the network component operating parameters and sending control commands for controlling the parameters queried. Reports of the status of the monitored network components are periodically generated... Agent: John Ryan Performance, Inc.

20130124726 - Dynamic resource adjustment for a distributed process on a multi-node computer system: A method dynamically adjusts the resources available to a processing unit of a distributed computer process executing on a multi-node computer system. The resources for the processing unit are adjusted based on the data other processing units handle or the execution path of code in an upstream or downstream processing... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124712 - Elastic cloud networking: A device receives network infrastructure requirements, and determines availabilities of network resources based on the network infrastructure requirements. The device recommends one or more of the network resources based on the availabilities of the network resources, and receives selection of particular network resources from the recommended one or more network... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130124713 - Pattern-based computational health and configuration monitoring: Monitoring knowledge is distilled into platform-nonspecific patterns of high-level language elements compiled into management packs or other rule packs targeting specific platforms. A server health and/or configuration monitoring knowledge compiler accepts distillation document(s) and target-specific information, and generates target-specific rule packs to be consumed by monitoring tools to monitor specific... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124717 - Selective ip address allocation for probes that do not have assigned ip addresses: Systems and methods for managing communication in an IP network between a server and a probe that does not maintain an IP address by selectively restricting which IP addresses that are identified as active in the network may be borrowed for the probes. Restriction of IP addresses may include a... Agent: Jds Uniphase Corporation

20130124722 - System and method for adjusting central processing unit utilization ratio: A method for adjusting a central processing unit (CPU) utilization ratio of a cloud server of a datacenter using a remote server. The remote server sets a CPU utilization ratio range for a host operating system (OS) installed in a cloud server. The remote server calculates a score after the... Agent:

20130124716 - System and method for video caching based on available resources: A method is provided in one example and includes receiving a data stream; determining a prediction of the amount of resources used to cache the data stream at a network element; identifying current resources being consumed by the network element; and determining whether to cache the data stream based on... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130124720 - Usage reporting from a cloud-hosted, distributed system: Collecting usage data in a cluster computing environment. A method includes at a tracker service receiving a request from an at least partially cloud based deployment for an interval for the deployment to report usage information in usage reports. The usage information includes information defining how software in a deployment... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124714 - Visualization of combined performance metrics: Embodiments provide a visualization of combined performance metrics representing the operation of a plurality of computing devices. Sets of host performance metrics corresponding to a plurality of host computing devices are combined to create combined performance metrics, each of which is associated with a performance metric type. The combined performance... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20130124730 - Adaptive timing of distributed device response to maximize channel capacity utilization: Embodiments of systems and methods for providing access to a server by remote devices are shown. In some embodiments, the system includes a scheduling module, a connection module, and/or a timer module. The scheduling module may compute a timer period and timer offset for each remote device on the server... Agent: Labtech LLC

20130124729 - Communication apparatus and control method for communication apparatus: A communication apparatus establishes a communication link with another communication apparatus, and establishes a communication session with another communication apparatus using the established communication link. After a predetermined number of communication sessions have been established, the communication apparatus restricts communication sessions other than the predetermined number of established communication sessions.... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130124728 - Method and apparatus for entitlement control via an endpoint device: A method and non-transitory computer readable medium for providing entitlement control via an endpoint device are disclosed. For example, the method detects an attempt to access a non-network monitored service at an endpoint device, determines whether the endpoint device is authorized to access the non-network monitored service by sending a... Agent:

20130124732 - Method and system for assigning access control levels in providing access to networked content files: A method and system for assigning access control levels when granting access to resources includes a client node, a collection agent, and a policy engine. The client node requests access to a resource. The collection agent gathers information about the client node. The policy engine receives the gathered information and... Agent:

20130124733 - Server and method for providing mobile web service: A server for a mobile web service and a method for providing a web service are provided. The wired server stores an IP address of at least one mobile web server. When a request for access to a mobile web server is received, the wired server delivers the access request... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130124731 - System and method for managing registration of services for an electronic device: The present disclosure described herein relates to a wireless electronic device and method for managing access to a server. The method comprises: receiving from the wireless electronic device a message identifying one or more requested services; accessing a database to identify a plurality of services from a plurality of servers... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130124735 - Method and apparatus for provisioning network address translator traversal methods: An operating method of a device for provisioning a Network Address Translator (NAT) traversal technique includes connecting to a network, determining whether a plurality of NAT traversal techniques is operable using a server over the connected network, and storing information of an operable NAT traversal technique among the plurality of... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

20130124734 - System and method for allocation of organizational resources: System and methods for storing electronic data is provided, where the system comprises a storage manager component and a management module associated with the storage manager component. The management module is configured to receive information related to storage activities associated with one or more storage operation components within the storage... Agent: Commvault Systems, Inc.

20130124736 - Apparatus and method for setting auto connection of sensor node based on sensor data: Provided is an apparatus and method for setting a sensor node to be automatically connected. An apparatus for setting a connection of a sensor node may include: a data receiver to receive, from the sensor node, sensor data that is measured by the sensor node; a node type determining unit... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunication Research Institute

20130124737 - Communication apparatus, control method and storage medium: A communication apparatus receives, from a first apparatus which has established a communication session, a signal indicating a state in which the communication session should be maintained. If the signal is not received from the first apparatus within a predetermined period of time while the communication session with the first... Agent: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

20130124739 - Mediation server, communication device, and connecting method: A mediation server for mediating subscription information to a communication device from a network operator providing network connectivity is provided. The server includes a management unit for managing context information of a communication device, which includes data relating to service provided by a network operator; an obtaining unit for obtaining... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130124738 - Methods, apparatus and systems for traffic identification: Embodiments for enabling traffic content identification by a wireless transmit/receive unit are provided. The WTRU may store interface binding entries in a database associating links in a web page to various traffic content types, such as video, audio, and text. Upon a request to access one of the links, a... Agent: Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

20130124742 - 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: Verisign, Inc.

20130124740 - Method for automatic establishing wireless connectivity between a mobile wireless device and a target screen for multimedia data streaming: A method for automatically establishing a wireless connection between a receiving screen and a mobile wireless device to enable streaming of multimedia data is provided herein. The method comprises the steps of: (i) creating a dynamic image code which includes data enabling wireless connection that is associated with the target... Agent: Screenovate Technologies Ltd.

20130124741 - View sharing between in-range devices: A first system may receive a view from a second system. The first system may establish a direct wireless communication link with the second system that does not connect through any intermediate system between the first system and the second system. Through the direct wireless communication link, the first system... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130124743 - Communication device and method for operating communication device: A communication device includes: a first communication element configured to perform communication in a first communication scheme; a second communication element configured to perform communication in a second communication scheme different from the first communication scheme by using, as common hardware, at least part among hardware that implements the communication... Agent: Megachips Corporation

20130124749 - Apparatus and method for providing streaming contents: A method and apparatus for an adaptive Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) streaming service using metadata of content are provided. The metadata may include a minBufferTime attribute indicating a minimum amount of initially buffered media content. A terminal may receive content from a server before playback of the content, and may... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130124748 - Media streaming with enhanced seek operation: The present disclosure relates to playback of video/audio streaming media data. The media stream is available from the network at multiple bit rates. When a seek operation is performed, a playback device requests a lower bit rate media stream in order to quickly fill a playback buffer so that playback... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124745 - Metadata-driven bileratal interaction between an iptv control server and a media server during content streaming: Temporal metadata associated with media content drives bilateral interaction between a media server and an IPTV control server during streaming of that content from the media server. Specifically, the metadata is encoded to indicate, and associate together, a defined point in the media content's presentation timeline and a defined operation,... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130124744 - Optimizing streaming of a group of videos: Methods and arrangements for optimizing streaming of a group of videos. Throughput of video streams through a common link to at least two different destinations is permitted. An effective flow rate for each video stream is ascertained, and a playout lead for each video stream is estimated. The playout leads... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124746 - Optimizing streaming of a group of videos: Methods and arrangements for optimizing streaming of a group of videos. Throughput of video streams through a common link to at least two different destinations is permitted. An effective flow rate for each video stream is ascertained, and a playout lead for each video stream is estimated. The playout leads... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124747 - System and method for progressive download using surplus network capacity: Systems and methods for providing the progressive download of media content using techniques that preferentially identify and use periods of surplus network capacity to maintain the content delivery. A buffer of a receiving system is maintained and pre-filled with enough content to bridge playback intervals where a network is unable... Agent: Opanga Networks LLC

20130124750 - Network virtualization without gateway function: A local network, such as a data center, includes a plurality of servers each of which are linked to a network switch. Some of the plurality of servers are network virtualization capable and some are not. The network virtualization capable servers include functionality that encapsulates a data frame, generated by... Agent: Force 10 Networks, Inc.

20130124751 - Information reproducing system using information storage medium: An information storage medium storing management information, wherein the management information manages a main video or an advanced application, the main video is decoded, a decoded main video is presented to a main video plane, the advanced application is presented to a graphic plane, the graphic plane is placed on... Agent:

20130124752 - Diagnostic heartbeat throttling: A method, system, and computer program product for a diagnostic heartbeat throttling are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A component, executing using a processor and a memory in a data processing system, sends diagnostic heartbeat packets over a communication link at a first rate, wherein a diagnostic heartbeat packet is... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124753 - Fair quantized congestion notification (fqcn) to mitigate transport control protocol (tcp) throughput collapse in data center networks: Technologies are generally described for an enhanced Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN) congestion control approach, referred to as Fair QCN (FQCN) for enhancing fairness of multiple flows sharing link capacity in a high bandwidth, low latency data center network. QCN messages may be fed back to flow sources (e.g., servers) which... Agent: New Jersey Institute Of Technology

20130124754 - Framework of an efficient congestion exposure audit function: A method of operating a packet dropper in a congestion exposure-enabled network, wherein sending hosts and receiving hosts communicate with each other by sending flows of packets over network paths via intermediate routers, which, upon detecting congestion, mark packets of the flows as congestion packets, wherein congestion is indicated to... Agent: Nec Europe Ltd.

20130124755 - Programmatic redirect management: A computer-implemented process for programmatic redirect management receives a request containing a uniform resource locator, identifies a set of keyword tokens in the uniform resource locator of the request and a set of associated token identifications and determines whether a token identification in the set of associated token identifications is... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124756 - Unauthenticated redirection requests with protection: A redirection object may be obtained, based on a current request of a current requestor. The redirection object request may be associated with a response to a previous request for a redirection to a destination network location, the previous request associated with a previous requestor. A current transmission origination location... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130124757 - Methods and apparatus for secure routing of data packets: Methods and arrangements for supporting a forwarding process in routers when routing data packets through a packet-switched network, by employing hierarchical parameters in which the hops of a predetermined transmission path between a sender and a receiver are encoded. A name server generates and distributes router-associated keys to routers in... Agent:

20130124759 - Play control of content on a display device: A system for presenting and controlling content on a display device includes a network, a server system coupled to the network and comprising one or more servers, a display device coupled to the network and having a display, and a personal computing device operable to transmit a first message according... Agent: Touchstream Technologies, Inc.

20130124760 - System and method for preserving consumer choice: Methods and systems for preserving user attribute data by way of managing and synchronizing redundant storage locations.... Agent: Marathon Solutions LLC

20130124758 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for estimating power time of use: Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems, methods, and apparatus for estimating power time of use. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for synchronizing local system time with a network clock for estimating power time of use. The method includes storing power usage... Agent: General Electric Company

20130117347 - Communication apparatus, communication method, and computer product: A communication apparatus includes a processor configured to access memory of the communication apparatus; communicate with a second apparatus; detect an access request generated by the communication apparatus; determine whether an address of access targeted data indicated in the detected access request is an address allocated to the memory of... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130117346 - Multi-client generic persistence for extension nodes: Various embodiments of systems and methods to provide multi-client generic persistence for extension nodes are described herein. A standard field value and an extension field value specific to a client of a business data object are separated. Further, an extension node instance key associated with the extension field value is... Agent:

20130117348 - System and method for scalable data distribution: A system having a resource manager, a plurality of masters, and a plurality of slaves, interconnected by a communications network. To distribute data, a master determined that a destination slave of the plurality slaves requires data. The master then generates a list of slaves from which to transfer the data... Agent:

20130117349 - System and method for content pre-positioning determination: Systems and methods for determining or “predicting” which media content files are popular or will be popular, and based on that determination, pre-delivering or “pre-positioning” media content files to user devices automatically and without intervention from users so that the media content will be already stored on users' devices when... Agent: Opanga Networks, Inc.

20130117355 - Apparatus and method for transmitting data in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and method transmit data using a relay server in a mobile communication system. The apparatus includes a server controller, a connection check unit, and a communication unit. The server controller receives data, requested by a portable terminal, from a data server. The connection check unit checks a heterogeneous... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130117361 - Automated content submission to a share site: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for remotely submitting content to a website without navigating to the website are provided. The website is a content-sharing website that accepts public content submissions and makes the content available to multiple users. Initially, a client application may download remote-content-submission instructions from the website.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117359 - Capturing and restoring session state of a machine without using memory images: System and method for capturing and/or restoring session state of a machine without using image files. Session state information for a first computer system may be captured in a structured state capture file (SSCF) using metadata to represent the session state and steps or actions which produced the session state,... Agent: Clearcube Technology, Inc.

20130117354 - Client device, method and computer program for playing media content: Client device for playing media content, comprising: a connection interface for establishing a connection with a server and for receiving a media content from the server via the connection; a detector for detecting, whether the media content is to be continued beyond a termination of the connection with the server,... Agent: Cinemo Gmbh

20130117353 - Computer implemented methods and apparatus for configuring and performing a custom rule to process a preference indication: Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable media for processing a preference indication for a feed item of an information feed. In some implementations, a preference indication associated with a feed item is received. In some instances, it is determined whether the feed item is associated with a custom rule,... Agent: Salesforce.com, Inc.

20130117360 - Content delivery server, communication terminal, content delivery system, content delivery method, content delivery program, terminal control program and storage medium containing the program: There are provided a server machine and communication terminals communicatively connected to each other over a communication network. The server machine delivers software to a communication terminal. The server machine again delivers to the communication terminal delivered software which was delivered at least once to the communication terminal. Each communication... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20130117357 - Control device, control target device and method of transmitting content information thereof: A method of controlling a control device and a server is provided. The method of transmitting content information, the method comprising: transmitting an aggregation mode obtaining action to a media server; receiving information on the aggregation mode corresponding to the service description request signal transmitted from the media server; determining... Agent:

20130117351 - Efficient transfer of web content to different user platforms: Web content for different user platforms is provided in an efficient way. A request is received for an identified page of content from a client device, through a communication network, at a computer system configured as an application server. The user platform implemented by the client device is identified, from... Agent: Cellco Partnership D/b/a Verizon Wireless

20130117358 - Method of identifying remote users of websites: A method of identifying a remote user connecting to a website from terminal equipment is described. The method includes a step of dectecting a set of values each corresponding to one of a plurality of configuration parameters of the terminal equipment and a step of comparing the set of values... Agent: Perferencement

20130117352 - Method to query the status of a live tv streaming device and let users make informed decisions for channel change: In embodiments of an object model for domain-based content mobility, a client object model architecture (146) is configured for scalable and adaptive implementation to interface a mobile client device (128) with a media server (126) for wireless, secure download of media content (136) to the mobile client device. The client... Agent: General Instrument Corporation

20130117362 - Server device, contribution information processing method, contribution information processing program, and recording medium: Contribution information is permitted to post such that a viewer can recognize a reliability of the contribution information. A server device to which a terminal device is connectable via a network includes a contribution information acquisition means that acquires contribution information from the terminal device, a terminal information acquisition means... Agent: Rakuten, Inc.

20130117356 - Storage device including software development kit that includes web service interface and terminal apparatus including the software development kit: A storage device including a software development kit that includes a Web service interface includes a communication unit, a conversion table, a reverse conversion unit, and a conversion unit. The communication unit transmits a request message to a Web service and receives a response message from the Web service. The... Agent: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

20130117350 - Systems and methods for providing modular applications: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing modular applications. A first module of multiple modules is received from a server system. Each module includes instructions executable by data processing apparatus to perform operations. Operations are performed by executing the first module. A request to the... Agent: Sap Ag

20130117371 - Apparatus for transmitting scheduled messages classified by transmission mode: An apparatus for transmitting a scheduled message classified by a transmission mode. The scheduled message is sent to a receiver via an optimized transmission mode that is automatically selected from among various transmission modes including an email, a text or multimedia message, a messenger service, a social networking service, and... Agent:

20130117367 - Content recommendation system, recommendation method and information recording medium recording recommendation program: There are included: a user mode presuming part 2 that presumes an individual reference value about a predetermined individual presumption item based on a user context which indicates a situation of a user and is included in a content recommendation request to calculate a user mode value; a recommendation part... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130117369 - Dynamic identification of other users to an online user: Informing a user of a large scale network dynamically of other network users includes determining dynamically an online context of the user. Other users presently within the online context of the user are identified and trait information is stored that is related essentially only to the user or to the... Agent: Facebook, Inc.

20130117370 - Engine, system and method for an adaptive search engine on the client computer using domain social network data as the search topic sources: An engine, system and method for a domain social network that interconnects Internet users with at least domains owned by or of interest to those Internet users, and that may obtain and/or forward obtained dynamic data regarding those domains automatically, such as by web service or email service. The dynamic... Agent:

20130117363 - Establishing social network service relationships: This present disclosure discloses techniques for establishing social network service (SNS) relationship. According to the techniques, online payment information of the first user and/or the second user are obtained from the database of the online transaction platform. Using this online payment information, it is determined whether the first user and... Agent: Alibaba Group Holding Limited

20130117365 - Event-based media grouping, playback, and sharing: Exemplary methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for capturing, organizing, sharing, and/or displaying media. For example, using embodiments of the disclosed technology, a unified playback and browsing experience for a collection of media can be created automatically. For instance, heuristics and metadata can be used to assemble and add narratives... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117368 - Online learning collaboration system and method: Systems and methods for associating cohorts in a social networking environment are provided. At least two users of a social network can be associated in a cohort based at least in part on a determined relationship between the at least two users. This relationship can be different from relationships defined... Agent: Epals, Inc.

20130117366 - Saving device for image sharing, image sharing system, and image sharing method: The saving device for image sharing saves images offered by a sharer of the images for image sharing and accessibly shares in an album form among at least one share. The device includes a sharee layout storing means configured to store first layout information of a sharee's album, a shared... Agent: Fujifilm Corporation

20130117364 - Social sharing and influence graph system and method: Sharing of content by users via the network is facilitated. Sharing suggestions are made to a user, the sharing suggestions including making a suggestion of one or more users with whom the user might wish to share content. A user's influence on other users and the user can be prompted... Agent:

20130117372 - System and method for immediate and delayed real-time communication activities using availability data from and communications through an external instant messaging system: A system and method for immediate and delayed real-time communication activities using availability data from and communications through an external instant messaging system, that operates to obtain aggregated user online presence information through its own client software, through interception of client-server communications between an external instant messaging client and server,... Agent: Devereux Research Ab LLC

20130117373 - Transmission management system and transmission system: A disclosed transmission management system includes a receiver unit to receive alteration information for altering a communication status of a first transmission terminal from the first transmission terminal that communicates with a second transmission terminal to exchange content data, a terminal management unit to manage first status information indicating the... Agent:

20130117376 - Document collaboration: One or more techniques and/or systems provide for an entity to receive collaboration context data regarding activities that have taken place with respect to a document when the entity views a reference to the document comprised within a communication directed to the entity. For example, a hyperlink related to a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117379 - Method and apparatus for file sharing of missing content between a group of user devices in a peer-to-peer network: A communication system includes a first user device and a group of user devices. A peer-to-peer network is formed from the group of user devices and the first user device. A content request is communicated to the group of user devices through a terrestrial network. At least one of the... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc.

20130117378 - Method for collaborative social shopping engagement: A method and system for soliciting shopping advice from social media friends by capturing and posting pictures or questions about desired consumer items to all or a select group of friends belonging to one or more social networks or who subscribe to particular applications. The method provides means to capture,... Agent:

20130117374 - Social network with blocked network users and accessible network users: A computer implemented method includes hosting a network service. A secure identifier constituting unreplicated information from a trusted resource is received from a user. The integrity of the secure identifier is verified. Additional identifiers are collected from the user. A blocked network is created. The blocked network constitutes a group... Agent: Dms Network LLC

20130117377 - System and method for augmented and virtual reality: One embodiment is directed to a system for enabling two or more users to interact within a virtual world comprising virtual world data, comprising a computer network comprising one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices comprising memory, processing circuitry, and software stored at least in part... Agent:

20130117375 - System and method for granular tagging and searching multimedia content based on user reaction: A system and a method for generating an emotional profile of the user and deriving inference from the analytics of generated emotional profile is provided. The method involves sharing media content or online event in a connected environment; capturing user's reaction to the said content or event; generating an emotional... Agent:

20130117398 - Annotating and routing message content: Methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business for improving communication, whereby message content is routed efficiently while allowing different recipients to receive different versions of the content. A portion of the electronic conversation in an instant messaging session (or of messages in other messaging systems) can be... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117386 - Control method for performing social media function by electronic device using remote controller and the remote controller thereof: A control method for performing a social media function by an electronic device using a remote controller and the remote controller thereof are disclosed. After issuing to the electronic device a command of playing media, the remote controller uploads a media play latest status data to a server. Then, the... Agent:

20130117381 - Controlling notification based on power expense and social factors: In one embodiment, a computer system determines a wireless transmit cost for each of one or more outgoing messages for a first user, and transmits to the first user's mobile device at least one of the one or more outgoing messages based on the mobile device's power state and respective... Agent:

20130117380 - Dynamic content generation in email messages: Certain embodiments enable improved email communications by including a dynamic-content section in an email where the dynamic-content section is updated with current values when the email is opened by a user. Both the user and the dynamic content may be selected based on network behavior of the user as well... Agent: Ebay Inc.

20130117400 - Electronic document distribution system and electronic document distribution method: The present invention relates to an electronic document distribution system and to an electronic document distribution method, which can construct an electronic document distribution system for providing not only enterprise/institutions with reliability, but also individuals and small companies.... Agent: National It Industry Promotion Agency

20130117393 - Email message handling based on data of non-email interactions: Systems, methods, and/or computer program products for handling email messages. In some embodiments, data relating to non-email interactions involving a user and one or more parties may be stored in memory. Therefore, in these embodiments it may be determined, at least partly based on this data, how to handle an... Agent: Activepath Ltd.

20130117390 - Local area social networking: A local area social networking server limits social networking activity to people likely to be in close physical proximity to one another and likely to be engaged in similar activities, even people previously unknown to each other, by only permitting social networking between computing devices that are connected to one... Agent:

20130117396 - Message filtering methods and systems: Methods and systems can filter messages, such as electronic mail (email) messages. According to one example, a method reads sender information for an electronic mail message, wherein the sender information comprises a domain name and a first IP address. The method determines a second IP address associated with a web... Agent: Hoshiko LLC

20130117391 - Messaging system: Disclosed herein is a messaging method for a recipient and a sender. Inputs for composing a first message are received from the sender. Inputs for a predetermined amount of time for the first message to expire are also received from the sender. The first message is sent to the recipient... Agent: Lavoult.com, LLC

20130117392 - Messaging system: Disclosed herein is a communication method between two or more users which involves using a single software application to switch between a first mode of electronic messaging and a second mode of electronic messaging. Both the first mode of electronic messaging and the second mode of electronic messaging are between... Agent: Lavoult.com, LLC

20130117388 - Method and system for creating multimedia message: The present invention provides a method for creating a multimedia message, including: receiving a request for creating the multimedia message; establishing a connection channel of a multimedia message resource pool and a module storing multimedia message content resources on a mobile terminal; storing a required multimedia message content resource into... Agent: Zte Corporation

20130117394 - Method for presenting information contained in messages in a multimedia terminal, a system for transmitting multimedia messages, and a multimedia terminal: A method for presenting information contained in messages in a terminal (MS). In the method, the message includes at least one component. The message is transmitted to a terminal (MS) in a system for transmitting multimedia messages. In the method, a presentation model (SMIL) is formed to contain information related... Agent: Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.

20130117385 - Personal area network of devices and applications: A device receives, by using a first communication technique, a message from a first user device. The device identifies a profile associated with the first user device or a user of the first user device. The device further identifies, in the profile, a relevant rule, based on the message, and... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing Inc.

20130117389 - Posted message providing system, posted message providing apparatus, posted message providing method, and computer program: Posted message providing systems, apparatuses, methods, and programs obtain a message posted on a computer network by a poster and location information associated with the posted message. The systems, apparatuses, methods, and programs obtain a poster location history that includes the specific locations of the poster in the past obtained... Agent:

20130117382 - Push messaging platform with high scalability and high availability: A push messaging platform includes a push server system having push engines (PE) for maintaining persistent connections with mobile devices, and push controllers (PC) for maintaining records of mobile devices' connections. The platform provides high scalability by including a load balancer for distributing connection requests received from mobile devices across... Agent: Cellco Partnership D/b/a Verizon Wireless

20130117399 - Reconfiguring an electronic message to effect an enhanced notification: An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition... Agent: Facebook, Inc.

20130117384 - Reconfiguring remote controls for different devices in a network: A control device transmits a first type of signal and a second type of signal as part of transmitting an instruction. An electronic device receives the first signal and determines the control device is paired with another device. The electronic device displays a notification indicating such as well as a... Agent: Echostar Technologies L.L.C.

20130117395 - Remote home/office monitoring and control using skype: Disclosed is a method for monitoring and control of local or remote premises using a peer-to-peer communication infrastructure. The method uses messages transmitted over the peer-to-peer communication infrastructure to relate various data and control signals.... Agent:

20130117397 - Stopping and remediating outbound messaging abuse: Systems and methods are provided for allowing subscriber message sending profiles to be maintained and used in conjunction with behavior-based anomaly detection techniques and traditional content-based spam signature filtering to enable application of appropriate message disposition policies to outbound subscriber message traffic. According to one embodiment, subscriber profiles are constructed... Agent: Mcafee Inc.

20130117383 - System and method for insertion of addresses in electronic messages: A system and method are provided for identifying suggested addressees of for messages being composed, based on keyword content of the composed message's subject line and/or message body. When a message is being composed at a messaging client, a request comprising at least a portion of the subject line or... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130117387 - System and method for verified contract acceptance: The invention provides a system and method for determining when a message is received by a recipient or an agent for the recipient. A link is activated at the recipient to provide an indication that the message has been opened by the recipient. The activation of the link may cause... Agent: Rpost International Limited

20130117401 - Preserving integrity of messages in a messaging oriented middleware system: Message integrity in a messaging oriented middleware system is preserved by determining a message producer's level of message integrity by examination of connection details between the message producer and a messaging engine. The message producer's level of integrity is stored in a memory of the messaging engine. The message is... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117402 - Method for selecting a master device in a coexistence system: Disclosed is a method of selecting a master device for coexistence, the method comprising: identifying devices to be used in at least one network capable of coexisting without cooperation; selecting a master device among the identified devices; and controlling, by the master device, other network and device.... Agent: Lg Electronics Inc.

20130117404 - Hardware task manager: A hardware task manager for managing operations in an adaptive computing system. The task manager indicates when input and output buffer resources are sufficient to allow a task to execute. The task can require an arbitrary number of input values from one or more other (or the same) tasks. Likewise,... Agent: Sviral, Inc.

20130117403 - Managing internode data communications for an uninitialized process in a parallel computer: A parallel computer includes nodes, each having main memory and a messaging unit (MU). Each MU includes computer memory, which in turn includes, MU message buffers. Each MU message buffer is associated with an uninitialized process on the compute node. In the parallel computer, managing internode data communications for an... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117405 - System and method for managing an object cache: In order to optimize efficiency of serialization, a serialization cache is maintained at an object server. The serialization cache is maintained in conjunction with an object cache and stores serialized forms of objects cached within the object cache. When an object is to be sent from the server to the... Agent: Recursion Software, Inc.

20130117413 - Content distribution device, content playback device, content distribution system, method for controlling a content distribution device, control program, and recording medium: A content distributing device in the present invention receives a request message to request to transmit content. Then, in a case where a device transmitted the request message is a relaying device for receiving the content thus requested and possessing and transferring the content to another device, the content distributing... Agent: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

20130117409 - Control device, control target device and method of transmitting content information thereof: A method of a control device and a control target device to transmit content information is provided. The method includes: transmitting a service description request signal to a media server; receiving a service description corresponding to the service description request signal transmitted from the media server; determining whether the media... Agent:

20130117407 - Emergency server access for offline users: A method and system for emergency server access to offline users may include one or more computing devices receiving a request for offline access of data. The request for offline access of data may contain information to identify the offline user and specific data. An action to provide the specific... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117412 - Management device, management method, and recording medium: A first acquisition unit acquires an event notification from an MFP and updates first device-status information. A transmission unit transmits the event notification and first reference-destination information. A switching unit switches a first access to the first reference-destination information to a second access to second reference-destination information. A second acquisition... Agent:

20130117408 - Method and apparatus for arbitration of time-sensitive data transmissions: The present disclosure describes techniques and apparatuses for arbitration of time-sensitive data transmissions. In some aspects a start of the first scheduled data transmission may be advanced effective to increase the duration of time between an end of the first scheduled data transmission and a start of a second scheduled... Agent: Marvell World Trade Ltd.

20130117411 - Quality of service support in a media exchange network: A method for controlling communication of media content by a network device in a communication network includes providing, by the network device, a plurality of quality of service options corresponding to at least one media file selected for communication to a remote user via a communication channel; receiving a quality... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130117406 - Synchronizing a video feed with internet content displayed on a second device: Synchronizing a video feed with internet content displayed on a second device is described. In some implementations, a first device (e.g., a set-top box) can receive a video stream, extract URLs from the video stream and transmit the URLs to a web server for storage. The web server can respond... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20130117410 - System and method for mapping concurrent readers of an electronic publication: A system and method for use in connection with a reader for digital publication, such as electronic books, eBooks, or electronic magazines or newspapers. The system and method determines readers that are currently reading a specific section of a specific electronic publication and determines the location of those readers, The... Agent: Barnesandnoble.com LLC

20130117415 - Adaptive content selection: An apparatus, method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided for enhancing the quality of content. A determination may be made that a portion of the content received using a base feed or bitrate completed early. In response to that determination, an attempt may be made to download that portion of... Agent: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

20130117417 - Data transmission system, method for transmitting data using the same and computer-readable storage medium storing program for executing the method: A method for transmitting data includes determining which one server has sufficient bandwidth to transmit data packets by a management module when the server needs to transmit the data packets; if the server does not has sufficient bandwidth to transmit the data packets, this server will transmit the data packets... Agent: Institute For Information Industry

20130117414 - Dynamic interface to read database through remote procedure call: Data read from a database may be transferred to an external system utilizing a dynamic interface, through a remote procedure call (RPC) communication mechanism. In particular embodiments within the SAP environment, data is transferred utilizing an executable program in a high level language such as Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP).... Agent: Business Objects Software Limited

20130117418 - Hybrid platform for content delivery and transcoding: The subject matter herein generally relates to transcoding content, typically audio/video files though not limited to such, from one version to another in preparation for online streaming or other delivery to end users. Such transcoding may involve converting from one format to another (e.g., changing codecs or container formats), or... Agent: Akamai Technologies Inc.

20130117419 - Mail object migration: A mail enabled object may be migrated from one hosting server to another by using a temporary buffer that may capture incoming mail during the migration operation. A new mail enabled object may be created and enabled on a target server, and the old mail object may be disabled and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117416 - Method and system for playing multimedia on virtual desktop, cloud-based system for providing virtual desktop and computer readable storage medium applying the method: A method for playing multimedia on virtual desktop includes the following steps: a cloud-based system receives a virtual desktop request from a client. The cloud-based system provides a virtual desktop to the client through a virtual desktop connection for the client to display. The cloud-based system receives a request of... Agent: Institute For Information Industry

20130117420 - Apparatus and method for setting data transmission path: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for setting data transmission paths. The disclosed apparatus for setting data transmission paths may include: a cluster grouping unit configured to classify a plurality of clusters into two or more cluster groups each containing one or more clusters based on a distance from a... Agent: Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University

20130117421 - Determining vlan-ids for a switched-based communication network of a process control system: A Process Control (PC) or Substation Automation (SA) system is disclosed with appropriate message filtering based on Virtual Local Area Network identifiers VLAN-IDs as communication sub-network identifiers. The VLAN-IDs are determined in order to optimize data flow in the sense that receiver IEDs only receive the intended messages, while at... Agent: Abb Technology Ag

20130117424 - Computer device and method of providing configuration files in a computer device: A computer device (200) includes a deployment unit (220) which deploys an application program (100) into a runtime execution environment (203) based on configuration information from a plurality of configuration files (120), including at least one base configuration file (122) and one or more supplementary configuration files (123), wherein a... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20130117422 - Hybrid configuration engine: A hybrid configuration engine and associated method for reducing the complexity and burden of configuring rich coexistence between an on-premise solution and a cloud-based solution is described herein and illustrated in the accompanying figures. The hybrid configuration engine determines the current state of the on-premise solution and the cloud-based solution... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117425 - Method and apparatus for updating a user terminal: A method and arrangement in a User Terminal (UT) for updating an operational parameter in the UT, the method is comprising: to register, for at least one software module in the UT, a corresponding validator and/or a corresponding consistency verifier to a proxy module in the UT, wherein the validator... Agent:

20130117423 - Methods for managing data synchronization and devices thereof: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus that manage data synchronization include obtaining one or more configuration rules and at least one value for one or more configuration parameters. One or more synchronization rules are generated based on the obtained one or more configuration rules and the one or... Agent: Infosys Limited

20130117426 - Programmatic instantiation, and provisioning of servers: A networked computing system is taught that may be operated as one or more provisioned servers, each of the provisioned servers including capabilities as identified by a corresponding set of specifications and attributes, according to various embodiments. Typically the specifications (or constraints) and attributes are specified with a Server Configuration... Agent:

20130117433 - Apparatus and method for providing application-related management object: A method for providing an application-related MO parameter value is provided. The method includes, as an application processing unit requests an application-related Management Object (MO) parameter value or requests a change thereof, directly creating an MO corresponding to the request through a Device Management (DM) client which receives the request,... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130117429 - Chassis controllers for converting universal flows: A network control system for generating physical control plane data for managing first and second managed forwarding elements that implement forwarding operations associated with a first logical datapath set is described. The system includes (1) a first controller for converting logical control plane data for the first logical datapath set... Agent: Nicira, Inc.

20130117427 - Computer system, and method for managing resource pool information: A computer system is provided that is capable of reducing an administrator's operational errors by connecting a new server to a SAN and automating a SAN boot setting, and capable of lightening the administrator's task of checking for a wrong connection by detecting a wrong connection made when a new... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20130117431 - Method and apparatus for providing device compatibility information: An approach is provided for determining device compatibility using alerts and information spaces. A link redirector receives a request from a device for a required type of service. The link redirector alerts the device compatibility service and the export control interface about the potential request or stores the request information... Agent: Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.i.

20130117432 - Method and device for desktop sharing processing: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for desktop sharing processing, comprising: receiving a sharing maintenance instruction; acquiring contents in a currently shared region according to said sharing maintenance instruction, and storing the contents, in order to provide the stored contents to other clients as shared contents. An... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130117430 - Method for providing wireless application privilege management: A method for providing an administration policy to a user device comprising a plurality of applications, the method comprising centrally generating the administration policy to be implemented in the user device, the administration policy comprising at least one of an application administration policy to be used by at least one... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130117428 - Physical controllers for converting universal flows: Some embodiments provide a network control system for generating physical control plane data for managing first and second managed forwarding elements that implement forwarding operations associated with a first logical datapath set. The system includes a first controller instance for converting logical control plane data for the first logical datapath... Agent: Nicira, Inc.

20130117446 - Address management in a connectivity platform: Disclosed are an approach form managing and assigning addresses in a connectivity platform that allows for proprietary connectivity modules (Providers) to plug into the operating system. In this disclosure, when a user/application/computing device, connects to another user on another computing device an address is generated for that user. However, because... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117436 - Automatic configuration consistency check: Reliability and performance of complex applications executed across workload groups of one or more host computer systems may be improved by automating the verification of consistent policies across the workload groups. An automatic verification process may be executed on a host computer system to identify workload groups that are not... Agent:

20130117447 - Computer-readable recording medium storing process for monitoring computer, its method and apparatus: For each group including a plurality of computers, a monitoring computer includes a storage storing a monitoring path which associates a monitoring-source computer that is an origin of monitoring with at least one computer that is both a monitored target and a monitoring source. When an instruction including specification information... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130117435 - Context-aware model-driven hierarchical monitoring metadata: Metrics are defined and collected for an application. The metrics are organized in hierarchical trees with metrics aggregated at each node in the trees. Each tree represents a different permutation of the metrics. A particular metric may occur in more than one tree. A user interface provides a default drill-down... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117444 - Load-balancing dynamic web services system and method: A Dynamic Web Service server may facilitate custom Enterprise Application interface development with little or no developer input by dynamically creating a web service for performing a particular transaction according to a transaction map. An Enterprise Application client device may create a transaction map by “recording” a transaction between an... Agent: Winshuttle, LLC

20130117439 - Method for discovering a dynamic address of a communication device: A method for discovering a communication device is disclosed. The method includes: receiving in the communication device a communication including a request for an address and an identification of an application, in response to receiving the communication, associating a dynamic address of the communication device with the identified application, and... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130117437 - Method for establising tcp connecting according to nat behaviors: The present invention is to provide a method for establishing TCP connection according to NAT (Network Address Translation) behaviors, which is applied to a network system having a NBA (NAT Behavior Aware Server) located in the Internet and connected to two NATs in two private networks respectively. The method enables... Agent: D-link Corporation

20130117443 - Method, apparatus and system for joint optimization: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus and a system for joint optimization. The method for joint optimization includes: decomposing the joint optimization of an entire network into the joint optimization performed in each sub-network, regarding a bandwidth requirement for a server off the sub-network as a... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130117438 - Methods for adapting application services based on current server usage and devices thereof: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus that monitor one or more capacity related factors of one or more servers providing one or more services to one or more client computing devices to obtain one or more values. An adaption factor for at least one of the one or... Agent: Infosys Limited

20130117442 - Network content monitoring: A set-top-box is provided for receiving broadcast media content and processing said content for presentation on a display. A processor 304 of the STB is configured to receive, from between a router circuit and a modem circuit, data packets sent over a local network. The data packets are sent to... Agent: Eldon Technology Limited

20130117434 - Service assurance using network measurement triggers: A method performed in a network element for reacting to communication performance measurements that fall outside of communication performance thresholds. The network element generates a communication performance measurement between a first endpoint and a second endpoint, wherein each endpoint is a point of communication in the network and at least... Agent:

20130117440 - Service collaboration device, service collaboration method, and computer-readable recording medium: A service collaboration device 1 includes: a first determination unit 21 that determines whether or not the message triggers an inflow excess state based on a data amount of the message received from the collaboration source server and a data amount of the message transmitted to the collaboration target server;... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130117445 - System and method for monitoring and maintaining a wireless device: A system is disclosed in which a wireless device is monitored and maintained over a network. One embodiment of the system comprises a wireless device including: a service to maintain data objects, provide messaging capability, and provide data access capability on behalf of a user of the wireless device; and... Agent: Good Technology Software, Inc.

20130117441 - Upgrading enterprise managers: Techniques are described for upgrading systems that include a first set of agents for collecting target data from a plurality of targets and sending the target data to a first management server. In an embodiment, a second set of agents is pre-deployed. Each pre-deployed agent is configured to, upon activation,... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20130117452 - Access control method, access control apparatus, and access control program: An object is to reduce the loads on resources and to flexibly handle increase in access. An access control apparatus 1a includes: session data 21a in which an identifier of a user terminal, session information, and an update time are associated with each other; update means 12 for, upon receipt... Agent: Kamome Engineering, Inc.

20130117450 - Arrangements and methods for access to stored data: An access server generates a handshake with storage servers resulting in more rapid access to the stored data, for example, video data, by a user. The handshake also results in load balancing effects.... Agent: Juniper Networks, Inc.

20130117449 - Border gateway protocol extension for the host joining/leaving a virtual private network: A method for performing an automatic join and leave function for either a host or network using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signaling, the method comprising, sending a BGP join request that indicates a request to join a virtual network, receiving a BGP join response that indicates either an acceptance or... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Co.

20130117451 - Method, device and system for controlling web page access: The present invention provides a method, device and system for controlling web page access. The method includes: receiving an access request message of a user, and obtaining an Internet access account of the user according to the access request message; obtaining a corresponding user rank identifier according to the Internet... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

20130117448 - Virtual private storage array service for cloud servers: A method for providing virtual private storage array (VPSA) service for cloud users over a computer network includes receiving parameters for the VPSA over the network and creating the VPSA from resources of server computers. Creating the VPSA includes allocating and exposing drives that meets or exceeds specified drive characteristics,... Agent: Zadara Storage, Inc.

20130117453 - Managing capacity in a data center by suspending tenants: A tenant comprising one or more users receives services from a cloud computing system (“CCS”). The CCS determines when a tenant is not using any services, and if so, the CCS initiates a tenant suspension process. The tenant suspension process involves suspending various asynchronous computing processes for the tenant, which... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117454 - Offline resource allocation algorithms: Various embodiments provide offline algorithms for resource allocation. A known set of “offline” requests may be matched to available resources using an online resource allocation algorithm that models the offline resource allocation problem as though the requests were received stochastically. Requests may be scaled and then sampled to provide random,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117456 - Method and apparatus for managing connection: A method and apparatus for managing connection is disclosed, which is capable of realizing an efficient management through a bi-directional connection, the method comprising pairing two uni-directional connections between a receiver and a transmitter, if Internet service to be provided requires bi-directional data delivery capability; and creating a second uni-directional... Agent: Posco Ict Company Ltd.

20130117457 - Methods and systems for facilitating transfer of sessions between user devices: Methods and systems for facilitating transfer of an active session from a first device to a second device associated with the same user. A network server is configured to enable the switching or swapping of an active session from one device to another device, where both devices are associated with... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130117455 - Splicing persistent connections: A method of connecting a client to a server by a load balancer associated with a plurality of servers. The method includes establishing a first connection for transmission of packets between the load balancer and the client, selecting a server to service the client, and splicing the first connection with... Agent: Avaya Communication Israel Ltd

20130117458 - Build a person from multiple contacts: A data structure that represents a person is created. The data structure comprises a person object. The person object comprises one or more contact objects. When it is determined that the person is a global address list contact, first contact information for the person is obtained from a global address... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117461 - Connection establishing management methods for use in a network system and network systems using the same: Connection establishing management methods for traversing network address translation (NAT) routers and firewalls between network terminal devices to establish a connection channel therebetween for use in a network system including at least first, second and third network terminal devices and a traversal server are disclosed. First, when traversal server receives... Agent: Quanta Computer Inc.

20130117460 - Data management methods for use in a network system and network systems using the same: Data management methods for use in a network system including at least first, second and third network terminal devices and traversal server are disclosed. First and second network terminal devices can traverse at least one NAT router and/or firewall to establish a connection channel between each other for data access... Agent: Quanta Computer Inc.

20130117459 - System and method of implementing aggregated virtual private network (vpn) settings through a simplified graphical user interface (gui): Systems and methods are provided for defining an operating system that automates setup and implements a virtual private network (VPN) on a network interface device such as a router. A graphical user interface module comprises instructions for electronically providing a graphical user interface including a plurality of interface elements to... Agent:

20130117462 - Method and apparatus for instant playback of a movie title: Techniques for fragmenting a file or a collection of media data are disclosed. According one aspect of the techniques, a file pertaining to a title is fragmented into a header and several tails or segments. The header is a continuous portion of the file while the segments are respective parts... Agent: Vudu, Inc.

20130117463 - System and method for providing random access to a multimedia object over a network: A system and method provide random access to a multimedia object over a network. One embodiment of the invention includes a streaming media server that is connected to a client computer over a network. The streaming media server includes at least one multimedia object that is adapted for transmission (“streaming”)... Agent:

20130117464 - Personalized media filtering based on content: Personalized media filtering for a mobile electronic device can be implemented. By supporting receipt of personal media filter criteria, flexible personalization options can be implemented. Personalized media filtering can allow for interactively receiving personal media filter criteria and applying the filter criteria to the media content during the media presentation.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117465 - Processing received data: A method for controlling the processing of data in a data processor such that the data processor is connectable to a further device over a data link. The method comprising the steps of receiving data at an element of the data processor and if a set interval has elapsed following... Agent: Solarflare Communications, Inc.

20130117466 - Splitting a network traffic flow: Systems and methods for splitting a network traffic flow in a data network are described. A flow of traffic between a source node and a destination node in the data network is split into a set of data paths. A data path includes one or more data links between nodes... Agent: Google Inc.

20130117467 - Method and system for forwarding a message in a session initiation protocol based communications network: Method and system for forwarding a message in a Session Initiation Protocol, SIP, based communications network, to a first and second SIP user equipment of a subscriber via a controller server and one of a plurality of traffic handler servers. The first user equipment may have first capabilities different from... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20130117468 - System and method for receiving and synchronizing content on a communication device: A system and method for receiving and synchronizing content on a communication device that includes a source configured to provide a first content to the communication device via a first channel; a host of the communication device configured to push a second content to the communication device via a second... Agent: Smart Hub Pte. Ltd.

20130117469 - Register access in distributed virtual bridge environment: Systems and methods to perform a register access are described. A particular method includes receiving a data frame at a bridge element of a plurality of bridge elements in communication with a plurality of server computers. The data frame may include a register access request and may be forwarded from... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation