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

20090164548 - Message transport manager and methods for using the same: Methods and systems consistent with the invention manage messages transported between a first computer system and a second computer system. For instance, in one embodiment, According to another exemplary embodiment, a method obtains a business object identifier that identifies a business object associated with a first message to be transported... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20090164549 - Methods and systems for determining interest in a cohort-linked avatar: Avatars, methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out receiving an indication of interest in at least one cohort-linked avatar attribute; and transmitting the at least one cohort-linked avatar attribute in response to the indication of interest.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090164547 - Providing zone indications for wireless networking: Methods and systems for communicating over a wireless network are described. A private access point sends indication information to a mobile station that includes available services provided by the private access point.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090164550 - Media monitoring: The present invention relates to providing monitoring agents in various elements of a switched digital media network. The monitoring agents may be placed in one or more of the following types of devices: customer premise equipment, access nodes, switching offices, hub offices, head end equipment, and the like. The monitoring... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20090164553 - Method and apparatus of accessing network storage device from different private networks through instant messenger: This invention is a method and an apparatus of accessing a network storage device in different private networks through an instant messenger, which is applied in a network system having a first private network including at least one NAT router and at least one computer, a second private network including... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090164552 - Novel system and method to push content from a website to a remote device: In the present invention, a system and method for pushing information from a host system to a remote device where the agent of pushing system recognizes any new content posted on the website and retrieve the new content to the host system and then redirected to the remote device is... Agent: Agnew International Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20090164554 - Novel system and method to push content from a website to a remote device: In the present invention, a system and method for pushing information from a host system to a remote device where the agent of pushing system recognizes any new content posted on the website and retrieve the new content to the host system and then redirected to the remote device is... Agent: Agnew International Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20090164551 - Sms and packet data performance monitoring: A system and method for monitoring data transfer performance between a central facility and a vehicle that includes calculating the message latency between the transmission and receipt of a message from a call center to the vehicle, or vice-versa. The information can be used to generate a latency map that... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20090164561 - Album creating system, album creating method and album creating program: An album creating system is provided for speedily creating an album in which images appropriate for the album are automatically laid out without selecting the images to be laid out in the album by a user. The album creating system according to the present invention includes: a low-quality image receiving... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090164569 - Apparatus and method for providing real-time event updates: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to collect information from a community of event updaters regarding an ongoing event. Media content associated with the ongoing event is received. The information and a link to the media content is sent to a recipient community of users that has requested... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090164562 - Contents recording and reproducing apparatus: An apparatus which enables the user to obtain desired contents through a network in real-time manner is provided. The contents recording and reproducing apparatus provides client's desired contents through a network, wherein a contents list to be provided to the client is always updated according to a present state of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090164570 - Data transmission and rendering techniques implemented over a client-server system: A technique is disclosed for generating formatted information for display on a computing device. The computing device may be configured to include at least one interface for communicating with a server computing device. A request is sent from the computing device to the server system. According to one embodiment, the... Agent: Ipventure, Inc.

20090164571 - Distributed request and response queues for service processor: Highly-available processing of an asynchronous request can be accomplished in a single transaction. A distributed request queue receives a service request from a client application or application view client. A service processor is deployed on each node of a cluster containing the distributed request queue. A service processor pulls the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090164567 - Information display system, information display method, and computer program product: A thumbnail image generating unit generates thumbnail images from a plurality of images having a sequential relation. A thumbnail image displaying unit displays the thumbnail images generated according to the sequential relation. A thumbnail image designating unit receives a designation of a thumbnail image from among the thumbnail images. An... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090164566 - Information providing system, method of providing information and program for providing information: Disclosed is an information providing system comprising a receiving unit that receives an information request from a requester, a data storage unit that stores data, a detection processing unit that analyzes the content of the information request and extracts provision candidate data corresponding to the information request from the data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090164555 - Initiating execution of server-controlled tasks: A method, computer program product, and system for initiating execution of server-controlled tasks are provided. The method, computer program product, and system provide for providing a server-controlled task, the server-controlled task being a task that is to be initiated by a server and executed at a client in communication with... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090164568 - Method for integrating management of posted articles and terminal for the same: There is provided a method for integrated management of posted articles and a terminal for the method. The method for integrated management of posted articles that is executed in a user terminal includes performing a login using an integrated ID when an integrated ID client module starts, having access to... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090164556 - Methods and apparatus for user persona management: Systems and techniques for managing a user persona presented in a communication session. In response to a request from an originating user for a communication session, a persona manager for the originating user is invoked, examining request details and the nature and context of the requested communication session and selecting... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Pg

20090164560 - Policy based content service: Serving user selected content in accordance with a service policy is disclosed. The user may select content from a content source to be accessed at a mobile device. The desired content is modified as necessary such that transmission of the content complies with a policy. Alternatively, only content that complies... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090164565 - Redundant systems management frameworks for network environments: A redundant systems management framework and method for managing a target system includes an active agent configured to receive instructions from an active central server to perform management tasks on the target system and a plurality of meta-agents provided on the target system. Each meta-agent is an endpoint on the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090164559 - System and method for the determination and assignment of a unique local channel identifier (ulci) to enable the multi-site and multi-user sharing of content: A system and method for the determination and assignment of a unique local channel identifier (ULCI) to enable the multi-site and multi-user sharing of content are described. Various embodiments allow sending by a primary user to a server an indication of one or more users to be invited to use... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090164564 - System and methods for mobilizing web content: Devices and processes allowing users to identify media content suitable for mobilizing to a mobile device and facilitating selection and portability of such media content to the mobile device. A user viewing a web page opens a bookmark including a short first instruction configured to load at least one other... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090164563 - Systems and methods for transparently accessing web applications remotely and locally: A method, computer program product and system for accessing a Web application. The Web application may be accessed by receiving a request for the Web application where the request includes an identifier of the Web application. In response to the identifier of the Web application, one of a local and... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090164557 - User vacillation detection and response: An embodiment of the present invention automatically detects when a user is in a state of vacillation based on user on-line behavior, records relevant parameters regarding the vacillation event, and then responds accordingly. This response may include providing relevant and/or targeted information that can be used by the user to... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090164558 - Xi monitoring in high load scenarios (monitoring cockpit): A monitoring “cockpit” for a message exchange system is presented. In general, the monitoring cockpit provides a set of aggregated views in a graphical user interface that present a direct and intuitive overview of the entire message exchange system. These views provide information about the current state of the message... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090164572 - Apparatus and method for content item annotation: An apparatus for content item annotation comprises a user group processor (105) for determining a group of communication identities associated with a group of users associated with a user of the apparatus. A user group communication processor (109) monitors user group communications within the group of users and generates first... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090164578 - Controlling instant messaging settings based on calendar application entries: A method for adjusting an instant messaging control mechanism can include the steps of determining a control setting for an instant messaging control mechanism based upon a calendar application entry, and responsive to the determining step, automatically adjusting the instant messaging control mechanism to the control setting. In one embodiment,... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090164577 - Dynamic generation, insertion or updating of electronic content based on determined location proximity: A method of providing electronic content to an electronic device by determining that an electronic device meets a proximity threshold with respect to a location. Electronic content is selected, and information is dynamically inserted or updated in the selected content based upon the location. Or, electronic content is dynamically generated... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20090164575 - Method and system for the establishment of complex network telepresence conference: A system and a method for dynamic establishment of telepresence conferences using standard protocol, such as SIP, for communications are provided. The method provides for negotiation of profiles of each location participating at the telepresence conference. The profiles provide information on the connectivity, positioning and configuration of the audiovisual elements,... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20090164573 - Method for forming ad hoc social networks in two dimensional collaboration: A method for networking and collaboration, the method includes: monitoring one or more communication systems for conversations of interest; identifying conversations of interest; introducing the user to the one or more conversations of interest; wherein the identification of one or more conversations of interest is made in response to parameters... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090164576 - Methods and systems for peer-to-peer systems: A variety of methods, systems, devices and configured storage devices are used in relation to peer-to-peer streaming system with a plurality of processing-circuit-peer nodes sharing streaming data by passing the streaming data from parent nodes to child nodes. According to one such system, computer-based nodes are configured and adapted to... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20090164574 - System and method for identifying transient friends: A system and method for identifying transient friends for a social network of a user are provided. A transient friend processing function obtains locations of a number of users or locations otherwise associated with the number of users. In order to identify transient friends for a first user, the transient... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20090164584 - Collaborative tagging systems and methods for resources: Collaborative tagging systems and methods for resources are provided. The system comprises a first client and a tagging index server. The first client extracts at least one first resource characteristic of a first resource, wherein the first resource characteristic comprises at least a first tag. The tagging index server receives... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090164582 - Jury system for use in online answers environment: A system for resolving disputes in an online answers community is disclosed. The system improves the system's ability to resolve reports of abuse.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090164579 - Method and apparatus for communicating between a user device and a gateway device to form a system to allow a partner service to be provided to the user device: A system and method of communicating between a user receiving device, a user locator module and a partner service provider includes a gateway device having a port configured to communicate with a user receiving device. The user receiving device registers with the user device locator module through the port. The... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090164583 - Method and apparatus for services sharing in a communications network: The invention relates to a method for services sharing in a communications network having the following steps. First, a server or a User Equipment (UE) creates a group of users and defines one or more services owned by one or more users of the group of users as services shared... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090164580 - Multimedia outbound notification: A device may include a memory and a processor. The memory may store first information relating to a trigger, second information relating to multimedia content, and a destination party identifier. The memory may further associate the first information, the second information, and the one or more destination party identifiers. The... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090164581 - System and method for synchronized co-browsing by users in different web sessions: A system and method for enabling co-browsing between two or more users accessing a website in separate sessions. Each of the users operates a web browser instance to browse the website. The website comprises one or more web pages, at least a portion of which includes embedded software code or... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090164590 - Apparatus and method for providing real-time event updates: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to collect information from a community of event updaters regarding an ongoing event. The information is sent to a recipient community of users that has requested ongoing event updates.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090164597 - Content restriction compliance using reverse dns lookup: A method for alerting Internet content providers of the age or other personal information of a computer user, which includes receiving a reverse DNS lookup query from an Internet content provider; and providing the age information of the computer user, in addition to a host name, from a reverse map... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090164593 - Deriving overlay information from a user input for a base message schema associated with a node in a message flow: There is disclosed a method, apparatus and computer program for deriving overlay information from a user input for a base message schema associated with a node in a message flow. The base message schema is presented to the user and has at least one variable portion. A user selection of... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090164588 - Email categorization methods, coding, and tools: An electronic mail management system is operable to receive electronic mail message components from a user. Prior to sending of the email message, a plurality of predetermined categories for classifying the electronic message are presented to the user. The email system receives a user selection from the predetermined categories. A... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090164596 - Image processing apparatus and data encryption communication system: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention transmits to a mail server a notification email inquiring to a client apparatus of an address whether encrypted data is to be received, and if a reply email is received from the mail server in response to the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090164594 - Instant messaging market interface: Enabling anonymous negotiations between counterparties via instant messaging protocols, without the need to use client based software, to occur on a fully anonymous basis, through the provision of counterparty credit intermediation and threading of conversations via a masking mechanism. In implementation, the instant message traffic is intermediated by an automated... Agent: Peter D. Aufrichtig Mccarthy Fingar LLP

20090164587 - Method and communication server for group communications: A method and communication server for creating a communication group are provided, wherein the server detects a group communication, such as for example, a text-based group communication, or a voice or video based group communications. The server not only sets up the group communication toward the participants, but also creates... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090164591 - Method and server for invoking application servers in a sip network: The invention concerns a method for invoking at least one service application server (AS) during a communication between an originating user agent (O_UA) and end user agent (T_UA). It consists at least in opening (A) two separate dialogues, between a service selecting function (SIF) and, respectively, the originating agent (O_UA)... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090164595 - Method and system for creating and sending handwritten or handdrawn messages via mobile devices: A handwritten or handdrawing messaging system employs a handwriting messaging component operable with a messaging client of a mobile device connected to the data transmission network to set up a handwriting data capture area in the messaging client into which the user can enter handwritten or handdrawn input through a... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090164586 - Method and system for managing the reception of messages in a communication network: A method and system for managing the reception of messages in a communication network (100) includes a first client node (102) polling (404) a server node (110) to check for the arrival of a first message that is related to a first message account at the server node (110). The... Agent: Motorola Inc

20090164592 - Network operating system: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090164598 - Program product and system for performing multiple hierarchical tests to verify identity of sender of an e-mail message and assigning the highest confidence value: The identity of the sender of an e-mail message is verified by performing a plurality of tests on DNS information. The DNS information is based on a client IP address or a sender address. Each test performed has a corresponding intrinsic confidence value representing the degree of confidence the test... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090164585 - Share web feeds through messaging: A method may include creating a message having a web feed uniform resource locator (URL), providing an indicator in the message that the web feed URL is included in the message, the indicator being in addition to the web feed URL, identifying that the message includes the web feed URL... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090164589 - Virtual electronic card based networking: The computer implemented method and system disclosed herein enables online networking based on exchange of virtual electronic cards between a plurality of users. An online networking environment is provided to a user. The user creates a personal profile in the online networking environment. Further, the user may create a company... Agent: Ashok Tankha Of Counsel, Lipton, Weiberger & Husick

20090164599 - Method and system for monitoring a supply-chain: A method of monitoring supply chain activity throughout a plurality of supply chain sites includes extracting, at each supply chain site, supply-related data to be monitored. The data is maintained in plural formats at the supply chain sites, and translated the data to a common format. The extracted data is... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090164600 - System and method for place-shifting media items: A system and method are provided for place-shifting media items. In general, a media zone broker operates to enable place-shifting of media items shared with the media zone by associated users among user devices of the associated users in such a manner that each media item is played by at... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20090164603 - Adaptive file delivery system and method: An adaptive file delivery system and method transmits a data file, such as an audio-video file, over a network or collection of networks in segments, each segment transmitted during a different time period. Each time period has a transmission portion to transmit its associated file segment and a wait portion... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20090164602 - Apparatus and methods for retrieving/ downloading content on a communication device: Apparatus, methods, processors, and computer readable media for receiving or transmitting content based on a presentation area size of a communication device are provided. In one aspect, the method includes obtaining a presentation area size of a display on a first communication device, and obtaining a first portion of content... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090164601 - System and method for providing a primary video stream with a secondary video stream for display on an electronic device: The disclosure related to a method and a server for providing a primary image file with another image file. The method comprises: providing to a network an access link for a resource that relates to the primary image file; receiving from a remote device in the network a request for... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20090164604 - Development and deployment of mobile and desktop applications within a flexible markup-based distributed architecture: A computer program product embodied in a computer-readable medium is configurable to accomplish execution of an application that is specified and encoded in a markup-based descriptor language. The product includes client runtime computer code configured to cause a client computer device to process the markup-based descriptor language to deploy an... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090164605 - Dynamic content management for wireless communication systems: A method and system for dynamically managing content provided to a mobile device. In one embodiment, the present invention begins by retrieving information from a network. In one embodiment the information is web-based content, and the network is the Internet. The present method and system then dynamically assesses the information... Agent: Palm C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090164607 - Prioritized content download for an entertainment system: Priority-based content retrieval mechanisms for digital entertainment devices are provided. In various embodiments, the download prioritizations may be interrupt-based, sequence-based, or a combination of the two. In interrupt-based prioritizations, a higher priority download request will interrupt a lower-priority download that is already in progress. In sequence-based prioritizations, a plurality of... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20090164606 - Web uploads: The disclosed embodiments relate to a method and apparatus that includes accessing at least one content item stored in a device, selecting a remote server to which to transfer the at least one content item, and transferring the at least one content item to the remote server.... Agent: Perman & Green

20090164608 - File sharing system and file sharing system setting method: The file sharing system of the present invention can collectively carry out the settings for a primary NAS and a secondary NAS by sending a plurality of pieces of configuration information to the respective NAS from a setting device. The configuration information setting device sends NAS configuration information, disk configuration... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090164609 - Method and apparatus for updating configuration attributes using fastrepage attribute in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for updating configuration attributes by transmitting a FastRepage Attribute in a wireless communication system is provided, comprising generating a FastRepage Attribute comprising an 8 bit Length field wherein the Length field indicates a value of length of the FastRepage attribute in octets excluding the length of... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090164610 - Method, gateway, client, software arrangement and computer-accessible medium for facilitating a handover between a wireless lan and a radio access network: Exemplary embodiments of method, gateway, client, software arrangement and computer-accessible medium are provided for a handover of a client from a local network to an access network. For example, information can be received from the client regarding the client's ability to connect directly to the access network, whereas the client... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090164611 - Method and system for managing an internet connection and informing a user about connectivity: A method is disclosed for managing an internet connection and informing a user about connectivity to the internet of a user terminal via a gateway, the gateway being connected to the user terminal via a local area network and to an internet service provider via a broadband line. The method... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090164612 - Terminal provided with networking module and method for receiving and transmitting data using the same: The present invention relates to a terminal provided with a networking module for sharing data with a counter terminal connected to the terminal and a method for receiving and transmitting data between two terminals. The terminal according to the present invention comprises a connection port 10 connecting the terminal to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090164615 - Continuous scheduling for peer-to-peer streaming: Apparatuses and methods for distributing and/or receiving buffer content advertisements continuously to and/or from a plurality of neighboring peer apparatuses joined in a network are described. The buffer content advertisements identify the stored packets of data in a packet buffer. The continuously distributed and/or received buffer content advertisements may include... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090164614 - Dns wildcard beaconing to determine client location and resolver load for global traffic load balancing: Techniques are described to determine clients residing behind LDNS resolvers. Web beacons instruct clients to retrieve zero-content images at unique hostnames. A request to the hostname is made by a client to an LDNS resolver. The LDNS sends the request to an authoritative server/beacon resolver for the hostname. The beacon... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090164619 - Management of virtual and physical network inventories: A method for managing a network element inventory for a video and data network is provided. The method includes self-discovering a physical network inventory of the video and data network. Additionally, a logical network inventory of the video and data network is self-discovered. Further, a planned network inventory of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090164613 - Method and system for improving client-servlet communication: A method comprises providing a one way communication path that initiates a request by a client for retrieving information from a Servlet, and sending a response by the Servlet containing at least one return code specifying success or failure of the request, and including the result of the request if... Agent: Edell, Shapiro, & Finnan, LLC

20090164620 - Method and system for streaming images to wireless devices: A method for interactively viewing raster images using scalable vector graphics (SVG), including receiving an SVG document, the SVG document including a reference to a raster image within the SVG document, the reference indicating a rectangular portion, a display width and height, and an IP address for a server computer,... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090164617 - Network apparatus having a database, management method and tangible machine-readable medium for managing internet protocol connection rules of the database: A network apparatus having a database, a management method and a tangible machine-readable medium for managing internet protocol (IP) connection rules of the database are provided. The database stores at least one first IP connection rule. The management method comprises the following steps: writing a second IP connection rule through... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090164618 - Network system and method of administrating networks: To provide a network administrating device assists in selection of an optimum system structure for performance necessary for actual operations and a method of administrating networks. A server (222) is installed with software functioning as an SNMP agent to a monitor unit (240). An administrating server (24) has the monitor... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090164616 - Token-based web browsing with visual feedback of disclosure: A data communications network may be browsed using one or more tokens by receiving an input keyword string from a user, determining whether there is a match between the input keyword string and a database of keyword strings, determining a category of the keyword string, rendering to the user at... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20090164628 - Circuit and method for setting data and their application to integrated circuit: An integrated circuit is disclosed, including at least one configuration pin, an interface circuit, a detecting circuit, a determining circuit and a storage unit. A physical layer circuit of the invention not only increases the flexibility of setting PHY addresses, but also reduces the number of configuration pins.... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090164627 - Data transmission/reception apparatus and method for inserting and extracting maintenance management data: A data transmission/reception apparatus including a network layer device section for performing a process corresponding to a physical layer of an OSI reference model is provided. The apparatus includes a maintenance management data insertion/extraction section for inserting maintenance management data into data to be transmitted, transmitting the data to be... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090164624 - Method and apparatus for acquiring content-based capital via a sharing technology: A server [115] or client-based content storage unit includes a communication device [300] to receive data corresponding to a transfer of at least one of media content and a link to the media content, from a first user [120] to a second user [125]. The communication device [300] also receives... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20090164621 - Method and system for monitoring rest web services: Generally, the present invention provides a method and computerized system for monitoring REST web services including generating a REST based web service client call operative to be used for monitoring web service activities. The web service client call is then deployed. The method and computerized system further includes monitoring the... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090164625 - Methods and apparatus for performing non-intrusive network layer performance measurement in communication networks: Methods and apparatus for performing non-intrusive network layer performance measurement in communication networks are disclosed. An example method to measure network layer performance between existing network nodes disclosed herein comprises coupling a first intelligent network interface (INI) to an available access port of a first existing network node providing access... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20090164626 - Methods and apparatus for performing non-intrusive network layer performance measurement in communication networks: Methods and apparatus for performing non-intrusive network layer performance measurement in communication networks are disclosed. An example method to measure network layer performance between existing network nodes disclosed herein comprises coupling a first intelligent network interface (INI) to an available access port of a first existing network node providing access... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20090164623 - Methods and systems for tracking event loss: Systems and methods for tracking event loss are set forth in this disclosure. More specifically, systems and methods for tracking event loss within a first time period and second time period are set forth in this disclosure.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090164622 - Monitoring instant messaging usage: A method of monitoring instant messaging usage can include identifying an instant messaging session between a plurality of participants, selecting a participant in the instant messaging session, identifying at least one attribute of the instant messaging session, and identifying at least one attribute of the selected participant. The method further... Agent: Cuenot, Forsythe & Kim

20090164629 - Utilizing a single agent on a non-origin node for measuring the roundtrip response time of web pages with embedded html frames: A computer-based system and article of manufacture utilizing a single response time monitor, located on a non-origin node of a public or private network, for measuring the total roundtrip response time of a set of requests resulting from an original request having embedded HTML frames. The response time monitor builds... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090164631 - Centralized services management (csm) system: In this presentation, we show a system and method for in-depth tracking and information, reporting capabilities, and maintaining a high level of availability for its customer information and tracking database facility. The purpose is to show an effective and economical way to automate and monitor/manage the whole operation for centralized... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting

20090164630 - Network adapter based zoning enforcement: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to enforcing zoning at a network adapter of an end point device. Thus, a network adapter can monitor the communications that are sent and/or received by the adapter and discard communications that are prohibited based on the zoning rules applicable to the adapter.... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090164632 - Web service multi-key rate limiting method and system: The present invention provides a method and computer system for limiting a number of web service programming calls including intercepting a web request for web service programming from a client and extracting call specific data from the web request. The method and computing system further includes transmitting call specific data... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090164634 - Automatic intranet and internet detection for enhanced browsing and information discovery within collaborative applications: A computer-implemented method of managing bookmarks within a collaborative application can include receiving a user input specifying a universal resource locator (URL) to be bookmarked and determining whether a bookmark record including the URL exists. Responsive to determining that a bookmark record including the URL does not exist, an address... Agent: Cuenot, Forsythe & Kim

20090164633 - Method of managing workloads: A method of managing software application workloads starts, on a machine, a software application from startup script. The startup script includes startup tasks. The machine includes an operating system. The operating system includes a kernel. The method requests an application group identifier from the kernel. The method associates the startup... Agent: Jonathan E. Jobe

20090164636 - Relay server and relay communication system: A relay server and a relay communication system can easily synchronize resource information with a resource when terminals share the resource. When an instruction to synchronize shared resource information is given, the relay server transmits the synchronization instruction to each resource sharing terminal based on the shared resource information. Having... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20090164637 - Relay server and relay communication system: A relay server that implements a virtual file sharing system includes shared resource and message information that can be managed in an integrated manner, and a user of a client terminal can be appropriately notified of changes of the shared resource, or the like. The relay server includes a shared... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20090164638 - System and method for uplink resource allocation in mobile internet: A system for uplink resource allocation in mobile Internet for remote-controlling robots includes a schedule policy table for storing therein priorities assigned to the robots to support required image qualities of images received from the robots and maximum allocatable uplink resource amounts for the robots; and a scheduler for allocating... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090164635 - Systems and methods for providing resource allocation in a networked environment: Methods and systems for allocating resources, such as computer controlled resources, in a networked system are described. An example system includes a network interface, an item database, a load balancer, a web proxy processor configured to selectively block or route an inbound user browser request, a cache cluster system configured... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090164639 - Integrated web portal for facilitating communications with an intended party: Described are a system and method for presenting, to a first user, information about a second user to enable the first user to select an appropriate communication means for communicating with the second user. A service node receives from a web browser executing at a communication device used by the... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20090164641 - Media toolbar and aggregated/distributed media ecosystem: A method and network architecture through which user-specific media profile data can be made available to third parties. A browser is optionally enhanced to facilitate playback and control of one or more media players, thereby allowing the user to play content via the browser. As the user plays content in... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090164642 - Method and internet protocol television (iptv) content manager server for iptv servicing: There is provided a method and an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) content manager server for IPTV service. The server comprises a Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) stack adapted to request an establishment of a first RTSP session with an IPTV media server responsive to an IPTV service request from an... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090164640 - Multimedia personal assistant: A system receives, when a multimedia component is operating in a first identity, a first communication request from a first user. The first communication request includes a voice session establishment request or a video session establishment request. The system provides, in response to receiving the first communication request, first multimedia... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090164643 - System and method for concurrently utilizing multiple system identifiers: System and method for providing access to multiple wireless service providers (WSPs) on a shared network infrastructure. The system includes a plurality of access points (APs) coupled to a network which may be distributed in airports, mass-transit stations, businesses, etc. The network may couple to a wide area network, such... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090164647 - Interface apparatus, exchange apparatus equipped with the interface apparatus and control method for use in the interface apparatus: According to one embodiment, an interface apparatus includes a connector capable of connecting a plurality of SIP terminals and a SIP network to a port, a first processor which executes an exchange processing to the plurality of SIP terminals, a second processor which executes an exchange processing to the SIP... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090164646 - Method for determining network proximity for global traffic load balancing using passive tcp performance instrumentation: Techniques are described for measuring TCP connection quality between a client and a plurality of data centers. A small amount of code, called a web beacon, is placed onto production web pages. When a client requests the production web page, the web page is served to the client. When the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090164645 - Real time communication between web and sip end points: Described are a service node and method for establishing a communication session between a non-SIP (session initiation protocol)-enabled computing device and a SIP-enabled communication device. The service node includes a web server component for establishing a web browser-based connection with a non-SIP (session initiation protocol)-enabled computing device over a first... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20090164648 - Reliable delivery of multi-cast conferencing data: Conferencing data is reliably delivered to computer systems participating in a hierarchically arranged multi-cast conferencing session. When a child computer system does not receive a multi-cast packet (e.g., an IP multi-cast packet), the child computer system sends a negative acknowledgment to a parent computer system. In response, the parent computer... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090164644 - Wireless security configuration system and method: A wireless network security method comprises a first communications device generating configuration settings for wireless access and transferring that information to a second communications device through a removable storage device or directly through a physical electrical interface.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090164649 - Access control unit: [Means for Solution] Access-control-rule application means (310), upon receiving an access request, refers to an access control rule DB (350) and resource information DB (360), to judge whether the attribute of a rule matched with the request is permitted, denied, or manual approval. The access-control-rule application means (310) requests manual-access-control... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090164650 - Arrangement in a multi-homed transport endpoint for selecting a source address based on source-destination address pair metrics: A multi-homed endpoint, having multiple interfaces with respective source addresses, selects a source address for transport of a message according to a prescribed multi-homed transfer protocol, based on source-destination address pair metrics, each source-destination address pair metric identifying link performance between a corresponding source address and a corresponding destination address.... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20090164651 - Communication apparatus, timer control apparatus, and timer control method: A communication apparatus comprises a processor, a memory configured to store timer information, a cache configured to store timer information, and a timer controller configured to store timer information regarding an established connection in the cache. The timer controller notifies the processor of a time-out of the timer information stored... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090164653 - Adaptive streaming for on demand wireless services: An adaptive media distribution system provides an on demand user experience across a limited throughput wireless network by selectively utilizing available storage on a handheld communication device, taking advantage of increased availability of extended memory solutions. Creation of an adaptable user interface (UI) widget (e.g., Trig) serves as a near... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090164654 - Iptv community based internet radio content proxy facility: A method and apparatus are provided for allowing one subscriber of an IPTV service to locate and pre-configure Internet-based IP radio channels of interest to others, and to invite the others to register for viewing the IP radio channels. The first subscriber browses the Internet for content of interest, invokes... Agent: Marks & Clerk

20090164656 - Method and apparatus for reducing delay of media playing: A method for reducing delay of playing media includes: a user node obtaining information on a list of nodes that can provide a desired program content; selects a best node among the nodes that can provide the program content corresponding to one or more time segments, wherein the program content... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090164652 - Methods and system for processing time-based content: A method of processing time-based content includes streaming the time-based content to a receiving device in a normal mode, evaluating a numerical difference between a program clock reference timestamp and a decode timestamp in the content at a transition out of said normal mode, streaming the content to the receiving... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090164655 - Real-time network transport protocol interface method and apparatus: An electronic device has a multimedia framework including an integration layer and a higher-level application layer. The integration layer includes predefined media processing components having an input/output interface configurable based on the type and format of media content delivered to the device during a streaming media session and that provide... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090164657 - Application aware rate control: A “communications rate controller” provides various techniques for maximizing a quality of real-time communications (RTC) (including audio and/or video broadcasts and conferencing) over multi-hop networks such as, for example, the Internet. Endpoints in such networks generally communicate via a segmented path that extends through one or more routers between each... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20090164659 - Communication system allowing reduction in congestion by restricting communication: A signal processing server apparatus compares a predetermined threshold value with the usage rate of a processor which processes a signal in Internet Protocol communication, determines, based on the comparison result, whether or not congestion has occurred, and gives an instruction to restrict the communication during occurrence of congestion. An... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090164658 - Method and apparatus for processing in a connected state by an access terminal and access network in wireless communication systems: A method and apparatus for processing on entering a Connected State by an access terminal and an access network is provided comprising issuing a ConnectedState.Activate command and an ActiveSetManagement.Open command, determining whether protocol receives an indication and determining whether protocol receives a Redirect message.... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090164660 - Transferring a logical partition ('lpar') between two server computing devices based on lpar customer requirements: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for transferring a logical partition (‘LPAR’) between two of a plurality of server computing devices based on LPAR customer requirements, the plurality of server computing devices connected together through a data communications network, the LPAR installed on one of the plurality of server computing... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090164661 - System and method for selecting an optimal authoritive name server: A system and method for selecting an optimal authoritative name server includes global authoritative name servers and regional authoritative name servers. The local name server receives a request for target objects from a client, The local name server inquires one of the global authoritative name servers about an IP address... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090164662 - Intelligent interactive mail opening tracking method and system: A method for tracking the opening of physical mail includes preparing a mail piece for delivery to a mailpiece recipient, the mailpiece having identifying information thereon, and communicating the mailpiece identifying information to a mail opening tracking organization. The mailpiece is delivered to the mailpiece recipient. The mailpiece is mechanically... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc.

20090164663 - Security modes for a distributed routing table: A mesh is joined by a node, wherein the mesh includes a Distributed Routing Table (DRT) for determining addresses of nodes in the mesh. A DRT message is processed in accordance with a security mode of the DRT.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090164664 - Secure federation of data communications networks: Techniques for secure federation of data communications networks are provided. The techniques employ an edge proxy server to route messages depending on a federation mode. In Direct federation mode, an edge proxy server of a network is configured to exchange messages with a specified set of entities, such as other... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090164665 - System and method for promoting messages to a plurality of websites from a centralized authority in response to a disaster or emergency event: A system and method for broadcasting messages to selected websites in order to provide emergency information to the U.S. populace, or zone applicable populace, from a central authority. This is achieved by implementing a “partial deflection” of a website altering the applicable zone file on a DNS server having authority... Agent: Maynard Cooper & Gale, PC

20090164666 - Method for creating bit planes using a digital signal processor and double index addressing direct memory access: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for creating bit planes from frame data for a digital mirror device is disclosed including forming data elements comprising bits of equal significance from a plurality of pixel data in the frame data, the forming including using dual index direct... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090164667 - Synchronizing of personal content: A method of synchronizing personal content between remote and local devices includes sending a PIM sync command with a last sync timestamp from the local device to the remote device and receiving at the local device a PIM change report. The PIM change report includes PIM changes in the remote... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090157793 - Apparatus, system and method of executing monolithic application programs on grid computing systems: An apparatus, system and method of executing a monolithic application program successfully on a grid computing system are provided. Before the program is executed on the grid computing system, the program is executed on a computer on which the program has previously been successfully executed. During its execution, the program... Agent: Ibm Corp. (aus) C/o Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C.

20090157792 - Content delivery to a mobile device from a content service: Systems and methods for delivering digital content to a mobile device from a digital content provider are disclosed. Digital content is selected using a selection interface on the mobile device. The selected content is then transferred to a computing device by the digital content provider and subsequently transferred to the... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090157796 - Cell-based computing platform where services and agents interface within cell structures to perform computing tasks: System and method for using cells as a type of managed container to control the operation of mobile software agents and the run-time invocation and use of services within distributed computing environments. The cell process initially starts out empty containing nether agents nor services. The cell discovers and loads published... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090157797 - Data distribution system: A data processing system for distributing a package of data from a source to a plurality of data processing machines arranged in a plurality of sites. The data is transmitted from the source to the plurality of data processing machines by means of a multicast. At each site, a local... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090157795 - Identifying highly valued recommendations of users in a media recommendation network: A system and method are provided for discovering new friends using recommendation paths in a media recommendation network. In general, media items are recommended among users in a media recommendation network. Use of media items by the users is monitored. If the use of a media item by a user... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20090157794 - Multiple application activation: A technique for multiple application activation is disclosed. The technique includes a client device receiving from a server an indication of applications available to purchase and a user selecting at least two of the indicated applications to be purchased. Then at least one of the applications is automatically received on... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090157809 - Communicating messages between components in a client/server environment using an object broker: In one embodiment, a method for communicating messages between components in a client/server environment comprises initiating, in response to a request from an application on a server system, a process for receiving messages from one or more first components associated with a client system, the process initiated using a generalized... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090157800 - Dynamically generating a proxy object in a client for dynamically created object on the server using retrieved class metadata of the object: A method, apparatus and program product retrieve, in the client, class metadata of an object that is used by the computer program from a remote service, including retrieving object type data of the object, and dynamically generate on the client a proxy object for the object on the server. The... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090157798 - Management of dynamic groups in a communication system: A communication system in which a communication service client unit specifies a criterion, with further communication service client units which meet the criterion being able to be participants in a communication service which is provided. A server unit is configured to produce a list of the further communication service client... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090157804 - Method and system for a context aware mechanism in an integrated or distributed configuration: A context aware platform including a context aware server, the context aware server including: aspects, the aspects being application level abstractions related to a context; policies associated with a context at a point in an application lifecycle, the policies specifying behavior or treatment of aspects; and rules and triggers providing... Agent: Moffat & Co

20090157802 - Method and system for data synchronization, and apparatus thereof: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a data synchronization method, system and apparatuses thereof. The data synchronization method includes the following processes: sending, by a client, a data characteristic verification message carrying one or multiple data characteristics for data in a client database, to a server; comparing, by the server,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090157806 - Method and system for delivering information with caching based on interest and significance: A method (200) for delivering information (for example, monitoring data) is proposed. The information is collected (235) on a central server (110) from remote sources (105), in order to be provided to multiple clients (120) in response to corresponding requests. In the method of the invention, an interest index is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090157805 - Method and system for specifying, applying and extending application related aspects through policies, rules and/or triggers: A method and system for the creation of aspects from a service or application, the method defining related service aspects; inserting or encapsulating service aspects as named aspects into an abstraction layer in an execution environment; and associating the named aspects with logic in the abstraction layer to support application... Agent: Moffat & Co

20090157803 - Method for capture, aggregation, storage, and transfer of internet content for time-shifted playback on a portable multimedia device: A method for capture, aggregation, storage and transfer of Internet content for time-shifted playback on a portable multimedia device utilizing a content time-shifter system which is programmed and maintained via a web-based maintenance server, and schedules capture of content via on-line schedule listing and media listing services.... Agent: Stainbrook & Stainbrook, LLP

20090157799 - Method for sharing service identity among multiple client devices in a real-time communications network: Methods for sharing service identity between client devices in a real-time communications network are presented including: registering a first client device with a server on the real-time communications network, the first client device registering with a shared service identity, where the first client device becomes an active client device; and... Agent: Kali Law Group, P. C

20090157808 - Personal access and control of media peripherals on a media exchange network: Methods are disclosed for indirectly monitoring and controlling at least one media peripheral device in a media exchange network by accessing a media management system (MMS) via a first media peripheral (MP) device (e.g., a TV screen) using a user control device (e.g., a remote control). An operation corresponding to... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090157801 - System and method for integrating external system data in a visual mapping system: The present invention provides an improved system and method for integrating external system data into a visual map. The visual mapping system of the present invention is based on a client-server architecture. A server in the visual mapping system communicates with one or more external systems to import data from... Agent: Tina M. Lessani Lessani & Lessani LLP

20090157807 - System and/or method for generating a script relating to a medical task involving motion with a device: A system for controlling a motion device. A motion control system comprises a motion control device, and a first user is associated with the motion control system. An output system is arranged to generate motion signals that may be perceived by the first user. A motion server system comprises a... Agent: Schacht Law Office, Inc. Roy-g-biv Corp.

20090157811 - Collaborative authoring modes: A collaborative authoring application provides an authoring environment in which two or more users can edit a document concurrently. Each user edits a copy of the document, sends updates to a master copy of the document, and receives updates from the master copy of the document. The authoring environment may... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090157812 - Managing structured and unstructured data within electronic communications: This disclosure provides various embodiments of systems, methods, and software for managing structured and unstructured data within electronic communications. In one implementation, software identifies an electronic communication associated with a user in an enterprise application; creates a link between an unstructured data element associated with the electronic communication and a... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090157814 - Method and apparatus for providing social networking service based on peer-to-peer network: A Peer-to-Peer (P2P) based social networking service method for providing a social networking service, includes transmitting a request to a peer group and performing a group-based social networking service; transmitting news or a question to peers in the peer group, and then receiving a response to the question; and storing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090157813 - Methods and systems for identifying an avatar-linked population cohort: Avatars, methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out presenting to at least one member of a population at least one avatar associated with at least one instance of media content; measuring at least one physiologic activity of the at least one member of the... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090157815 - Mobile device for providing blog service and method for providing blog service using the same: A mobile device for providing a blog service and a method and system for providing the blog service. The mobile device that operates as a blog providing server includes: a unit for obtaining raw data; a storage unit storing the raw data and blog information; and a blog editor generating/editing... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090157810 - Relevance-based expiration of data: Technologies are described herein for relevance-based expiration of data. An initial expiration time for the data is computed based upon an expiration duration associated with the data. The expiration time for the data is periodically re-computed in order to extend the expiration time. A relevance value for the meeting data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090157824 - Aggregate communications with intelligent sourcing: Selecting a source account for an outgoing communication content of a user is described. A collection of source accounts is associated with the user. Each source account has an individual content storage storing communication content associated with the corresponding source account. A user's authentication is validated for using the collection... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090157823 - Apparatus and method for facilitating secure email services using multiple protocols: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to identify when a security policy cannot be applied by a supported secure email machine to a received email message and thus the email message is routed to an auxiliary secure email machine. Secure email policies are applied to the email message... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090157830 - Apparatus for and method of generating a multimedia email: An apparatus for and method of synthesizing multimedia email including an audio file and a video file, and a computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program to execute the method. The apparatus for synthesizing multimedia email includes an email analysis unit to analyze the content of an... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090157838 - Electronic mail communicating method, apparatus and system using facsimile communication procedure: A safe electronic mail system for electronic mail communication, realizing connection between mail servers using a dial-up line not through the Internet. The transmitting party is provided with a transmission mail server, a transmission client for generation electronic mail information, and a transmission agent, which is a client for transmitting... Agent: David R. Irvin IBM Corporation T81/503

20090157820 - Email change tracking: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, an apparatus and a computer program product for email change tracking. In an illustrative embodiment the computer implemented method comprises receiving an email having an annotation defining an annotated portion within the email to form a received email. The received email is parsed... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090157832 - How to enable \"out of box\" messages tracking in messaging system: A tracking system includes a business system using a plurality of application modules each including a computer for processing a transaction including a plurality of steps. A messaging system includes a messaging computer program embodied in a computer readable medium in each of the computers for communicating between the computers.... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090157819 - Live connection of email threads to discussion forum: A method, apparatus and program product are provided for making a live connection between an email thread and a discussion forum thread. An email plug-in receives a nomination of an email thread for conversion to a discussion forum thread. The plug-in copies the emails in the email thread as a... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090157826 - Managing unused media streams: A content processing device is configured to selectively receive a media signal via a network. The content processing device is further configured to receive a bandwidth check request. The content processing device is further configured to receive a first status indicator, and determine if the streaming media signal is likely... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090157836 - Messaging proxy system: A messaging proxy system is disclosed for the purpose of delivering data in the form of a portable message format from a producer running on a mobile or non-mobile computer, over any wireless network, by passing this data through an intermediary proxy computer program, to one or more recipients running... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm, LLC- Softwired

20090157834 - Method and system for multi-level distribution information cache management in a mobile environment: Methods and systems for updating memory content in a mobile client are disclosed. For example, an exemplary method includes maintaining a list of first attributes relating to a set of first messages on the mobile client, wherein each of the set of first messages resides on the mobile client, maintaining... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090157818 - Method to identify and display contributions by author in an e-mail comprising multiple authors: A method, system and computer program product for displaying authorship and time stamp data within an electronic mail (e-mail) message comprising multiple contributors. The recipient of a multiple author e-mail may view an e-mail inclusive or exclusive of an author's comments. The e-mail client is capable of identifying the author... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090157831 - Method, apparatus and system for processing emails through data synchronization: The present invention discloses a method, a system, and an apparatus for processing emails through data synchronization. The email synchronization server receives an email or email status sent by the email server and synchronizes it to the email synchronization client; alternatively, the email synchronization server is adapted to receive an... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090157837 - Ndma socket transport protocol: Data transferred between devices 12/16 is formatted in accordance with a multi-layered data structure. One layer 66 of the multi-layered data structure includes a socket protocol. A layer 68 within the layer 66 includes a header. A payload layer 72 is included within the layer 68. The header includes information... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090157829 - Peer-to-peer service system and method using e-mail service: A peer-to-peer service method and system are provided. The peer-to-peer service method include advertising E-mail address information and service and sharing resource information through a peer-to-peer network at peers, determining whether a peer requesting a service and a peer providing the service are in online state or in offline state... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090157835 - Presence enabled instance messaging for distributed energy management solutions: A method and system is described for real time communication in a network of distributed energy resource management devices (EMDs). Presence-based real time communications are established between at least one distributed energy resource management device (EMD) connected to an electric utility grid and a network operations center (NOC) application.... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090157827 - System and method for generating response email templates: Disclosed is a method and system for generating a response email template from previously transmitted response emails for use in responding more efficiently to a client email. The response email template is generated by identifying text strings common to the transmitted response emails and creating the template from at least... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20090157822 - System and method for high efficiency tunnelling for agile meetings: A method and system provides sub-electronic meetings by: providing the main electronic meeting for a group of attendees over a first channel in a network, the main electronic meeting managed by a moderator; sending a request from the moderator to an electronic meeting service to create sub-electronic meetings for a... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20090157816 - System and method for instant message transmission in mobile communication terminal: Provided is a system for delivering an instant message in which instant messaging systems of different types interwork. The system includes a transmitter mobile communication terminal and an interworking server. The transmitter mobile communication terminal connected to a first instant messaging system transmits a request for an instant message receipt... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090157833 - System and method for sending emails: A method for sending email is provided. The method receives an email to be sent from a sender computer that is connected to an application server, sends a search instruction to email communication servers for obtaining a total number of emails to be sent in each of the email communication... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090157821 - System and methods to determine a recipient for ambiguously addressed mail: According to some embodiments a system and a method are provided to determine a correct mail recipient are disclosed. The method comprises receiving an incorrectly addressed mail piece from a sender, scanning the mail piece, analyzing the scanned mail piece to produce analysis results, determining a correct address for the... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20090157825 - Technique for providing a collapsible section in an instant message dialogue: A technique for displaying instant messages includes creating a collapsible section in an instant message dialogue. Information is incorporated into the collapsible section of the instant message dialogue. The information is then selectably displayed in the instant message dialogue.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090157828 - Techniques for specifying recipients in an electronic mail (email) system: Techniques for specifying recipients in an electronic email (email) system are presented. A sender of an email includes a rule in a sender field of the email, rather than a recipient address, an alias address book identifier, or a distribution list identifier. The rule is evaluated to dynamically identify multiple... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20090157817 - Using an unsynchronized event pool to improve performance of an event driven im gateway: The present invention discloses a solution for using an unsynchronized event pool in an IM gateway. In the solution, a set of object pools can be established, each including a set of event objects ordered relative to each other in a circular fashion. The IM gateway can detect an incoming... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. - IBM Cam

20090157839 - Networked series of sensors having distributed measurement and control for use in a hazardous environment: The invention is a networked system of devices positioned in a hazardous environment to monitor/control process conditions. The devices include sensors and controls such as valves. The sensors detect process conditions/control device settings and are monitored by a slave devices having, generally microprocessor controlled and having associated memory to receive... Agent: Fletcher Yoder (cameron International Corporation)

20090157840 - Controlling shared access of a media tray: Methods, apparatus, and products for controlling shared access of a media tray are disclosed that include monitoring communications between a virtualized media tray and a computing device currently connected to the virtualized media tray; receiving an access request from a requesting computing device not currently connected to the virtualized media... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090157841 - Encapsulation of online storage providers: A media publisher manager generates a plug-in for each of a plurality of providers. Each provider hosts a web space including a media object and implements a plurality of services related to the media object. Executing the plug-in causes at least one of the plurality of services related to the... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090157843 - Method and system for managing digital assets: The claimed invention enables digital asset management that is responsive to a user's interactions with digital assets. Based on the user's interaction, the invention generates a ranking of the digital assets that is intended to reflect the value of the digital assets to the user. The ranking is based in... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090157842 - System and method for using an aggregation server with client devices: In one embodiment, a system includes one or more client devices and a server. The client devices store media files and communicate selection information to the server. The server receives the selection information from the one or more client devices, selects media files for a playlist using the selection information,... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090157844 - Network automatic discovery method and system: The network automatic discovery protocol and device enables discovery of the state status information of network community members and detects when other community members enter or leave the community. The protocol maintains a sequence number at each node system that indicates a change in state to other nodes in the... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20090157847 - Picture display method and picture display apparatus: A picture display method comprises a step of downloading a content object according to push delivery and storing it in a predetermined region, a step of downloading according to push delivery or the like or otherwise inputting an electronic document for displaying a picture including a part obtained by the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090157845 - Sharing of multimedia and relevance measure based on hop distance in a social network: A method, system, and apparatus are directed to sharing information over a network. A request to share a multimedia object may be received. A relevance measure may be retrieved based on an identity of the multimedia object. Sharing the network of the multimedia object between an originating sharing member and... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090157846 - Storage system comprising function for migrating virtual communication port added to physical communication port: A switch unit, which is connected to one or more computers and one or more storage systems, comprises an update function for updating transfer management information (a routing table, for example). The storage system has a function for adding a virtual port to a physical port. The storage system migrates... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090157848 - Application server processing tcp/ip requests from a client by invoking an asynchronous function: An application server is disclosed for communicating with a plurality of clients. The application server executes code segments stored on a computer readable storage medium, such as on a disk storage medium, FLASH memory, etc. The application server initiates a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) object for processing a request... Agent: Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Attn: Lesley Ning

20090157850 - Content delivery network: A content delivery system for providing content from a content delivery network to end users may include a plurality of delivery servers that host one or more content items and an inventory server having an inventory of content. The inventory of content can indicate which of the delivery servers host... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090157849 - Systems and methods for photo management: A photo management system is described herein consisting of a server, a mobile device, and the internet; furthermore systems and software located on the server and the mobile device provide connectivity and functionality for the exchange of photos.... Agent: Joseph Curtis Edmondson

20090157854 - Address assignment protocol: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method comprising receiving, at a node, an address assignment message, allocating, by the node, a predetermined address interval of an available address space to a respective port of the node which predetermined address interval is defined in the address assignment message, and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090157852 - Flexible and scalable method and apparatus for dynamic subscriber services configuration and management: A method and apparatus is described for configuring a network element for providing services for subscribers by dynamically generating a set of one or more internal network attributes based on a set of relatively simple attributes passed from a server.... Agent: Matthew W. Hindman Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090157851 - Migrating port-specific operating parameters during blade server failover: Migrating port-specific operating parameters during blade server failover including querying, by a system management server of a data center, a switch for port-specific operating parameters of a first port, the data center comprising blade servers coupled for data communications to one another and to the system management server by a... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090157853 - Systems, methods and computer program products for capacity on-demand server mechanism for seamless 3d virtual worlds: Systems, methods and computer program products for a capacity on-demand server mechanism for seamless 3D virtual worlds. Exemplary embodiments include a method including, partitioning the 3D world into the domains, associating each of the domains with a server relating each of the partitioned domains to nodes of a graph, storing... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090157855 - Decentralized application placement for web application middleware: A decentralized process to ensure the dynamic placement of applications on servers under two types of simultaneous resource requirements, those that are dependent on the loads placed on the applications and those that are independent. The demand (load) for applications changes over time and the goal is to satisfy all... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20090157856 - Storage device system and storage device system activating method: A storage device system has a plurality of storage devices for storing information; a storage device control section that controls storage of information in the storage devices; and a connection unit connected to the storage device control section. Furthermore, the storage device system has a first communication control section that... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090157857 - Data management method and data management system using an external recording medium writing device: A data management system enables data on a network such as an internal LAN to be managed and is able to reliably prevent the data from leakage. The data management system has a network to which a management server for data management, a plurality of client PCs having a data... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090157860 - Disaggregated network management: Systems and methods for disaggregated management of a network fabric are presented. Network elements composing the network fabric can operate as a fabric manager with respect to one or more management functions while also continuing to operate as a communication conduit among hosts using the fabric. The roles or responsibilities... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20090157861 - Information communication apparatus, information communication system and information communication method: An information communication method includes: accepting first presence information transmitted from a first terminal device which is connected so as to be communicable through a network; specifying a second terminal device as a notification destination to which the first presence information is destined; mapping the notification destination to a transmission... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090157858 - Managing virtual addresses of blade servers in a data center: Methods, apparatus, and products for managing virtual addresses of blade servers in a data center are disclosed that include storing, by a blade server management module (‘BSMM’) in non-volatile memory of a blade server, a parameter block, the parameter block including one or more virtual addresses for communications adapters of... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090157859 - Methods and systems for accessing a resource based on urn scheme modifiers: Methods, systems and computer program products are described for accessing a resource identified in a URN based on URN scheme modifiers. In one aspect, a URI is received having a format that includes a URN scheme identifier for identifying a URN scheme, a scheme-dependent part for identifying a resource, and... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20090157862 - Storage system: In a storage system that manages update prohibition (WORM) information, when time management is not performed with precision, there arises a possibility that an update prohibition (WORM) attribute may be erased before a preservation period expires. This invention provides a storage system coupled to at least one of time servers... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090157863 - System and method of enforcing hierarchical management policy: A system and method for using hierarchical policy levels for distribution of software in a computer network. In one embodiment, computers of the network are arranged into a hierarchy. A management policy server with access to the network queries the hierarchy to identify computers at or below its own level... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090157864 - Grid computing control method for testing application program capacity of server and service method thereof: Disclosed is a grid computing control method for testing the application program capacity of a server and a method for providing a service based on the same. The grid computing control method includes the steps of providing a number of user clients with a capacity measurement program by a capacity... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090157871 - Information processing apparatus and wireless connection service availability notification method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a display device, an operation button, a wireless modem, and a control module. The control module determines, when the operation button is operated, wireless connection service availability in accordance with whether or not the wireless modem allows communication with a base... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090157875 - Method and apparatus for asymmetric internet traffic monitoring by third parties using monitoring implements: Disclosed is an internet traffic monitoring method. In the method, copied packets that are based on original packets sent from a user client are monitored for a web content request meeting certain monitoring selection criteria. Upon detection of a copied packet having a web content request meeting the selection criteria,... Agent: Robroy R Fawcett

20090157868 - Method and apparatus for checking the health of a connection between a supplemental service provider and a user device of a primary service provider: A system and method for communicating between a secondary content provider and a user device includes a user device locator module and a primary service provider providing primary service content to the user device. The user device communicates a user device identifier, an IP address and a port number to... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090157872 - Model-based composite application platform: Embodiments provide an architecture to enable composite, autonomous composite applications and services to be built and deployed. In addition, an infrastructure is provided to enable communication between and amongst distributed applications and services. In one or more embodiments, an example architecture includes or otherwise leverages five logical modules including connectivity... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090157874 - Monitoring and reporting system and method of operating the same: A monitoring and reporting system for use with an embedded computer of a hosted system and method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the monitoring and reporting system includes a device driver configured to monitor a status of a user subsystem of the embedded computer and generate a status... Agent: Chris Edgeworth Stragent

20090157870 - Resource-amount calculation system, and method and program thereof: A response-time-difference calculation/request-number converting means (523) calculates a change of throughput based on a response time monitoring result, a target value of the response time, a quantitative model and performance specification information. A server selection means (524) input the performance specification information in the quantitative model acquired to calculate a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090157867 - System and method for real-time graphic monitoring of differing graphics resolutions using a single graphics buffer: A system and method automatically scale the resolution of video output of a selected workstation blade so that an administrator can view the video output by the selected workstation blade in the same format as it is displayed at the user terminal associated with the selected workstation blade. The video... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090157865 - System and method of managing network connections using a link policy: A system and method of managing network connections using a link policy is disclosed. In one form, a network link management system can include a link control logic module operable to alter a first link data rate of a first link operable to communicate network traffic. The network link management... Agent: Larson Newman Abel & Polansky, LLP

20090157869 - Tracking content in communication networks: The present invention relates to methods of, and systems for, tracking content in communication networks by collecting content transmission information from the network. The collected content transmission is examined to identify discrete content items, and these are compared to predetermined content items. The result of the comparison is stored on... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20090157866 - Transparent auto-discovery of network devices logically located between a client and server: Discovery of intermediate network devices is performed using a technique that piggybacks upon the existing standard TCP (Transport Control Protocol) “SACK” (Selective Acknowledgment) option in a SYN/ACK packet so that discovery information may be shared between pair-wise-deployed peer intermediate devices when a TCP/IP connection (Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is first... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090157873 - Verifiable online usage monitoring: In the present invention, observed online CPD or CE activities must be within a designated envelope of acceptable behaviour for accredited activity to be recorded in a session log for that user. When a watcher program detects one or more loss of user focus on the activity, it alerts the... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090157878 - Method and system for connecting lower nodes to one another to increase scalability in zigbee network: Disclosed are a method and system for connecting lower nodes to one another to increase scalability in a ZigBee network. The method includes approving a participation request to excess lower nodes requesting participation in higher nodes where network addresses set with respect to the higher nodes are allocated to all... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090157876 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for managing user access to an electronic media sharing environment: Managing user access to an electronic media sharing environment is described. An account balance representing a data volume authorized for download via the electronic client is maintained for a user of an electronic client,. The account balance is increased/decreased by a predetermined amount as the electronic client uploads/downloads electronic data... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20090157877 - Sensing information management apparatus and method of sensor based home network system: An apparatus of managing sensing information for a sensor based home network and a method thereof are disclosed. The apparatus includes a sensor network to collect sensing information from multifunctional sensor nodes, a sensing information processing and managing unit for deciding the optimized context information through controlling and managing the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090157880 - Management system for quality of service in home network: There is provided a QoS (quality of service) management system in a home network. When a QoS service is provided in the home network consisting of hosts and bridges, a user provides a user identifier and authentication information and the QoS management system verifies the user identifier and authentication information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090157881 - Method and system for grouping storage system components: Methods and systems are provided for associating a storage system component, e.g. a server, client, machine, sub-client, or other storage system component, with one or more other storage system components into a group. Storage preferences are defined for the group which is automatically associated with each component in the group.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090157879 - System and method for providing web services with load balancing: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture web services provides web services with load balancing of image processing in a document processing environment. A Load Balancing Web Service hosted on a network connected server receives web services processing requests from application programs using a web services interface. The load balancing... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090157883 - Messaging proxy system: A messaging proxy system is disclosed for the purpose of delivering data in the form of a portable message format from a producer running on a mobile or non-mobile computer, over any wireless network, by passing this data through an intermediary proxy computer program, to one or more recipients running... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm, LLC- Softwired

20090157882 - Network connection failover during application service interruption: A system, method and computer program product for implementing network connection failover during application service interruption. While the application is quiesced, a network socket that terminates a network connection to a network peer is maintained on behalf of the application. The socket's network connection state information is sustained by providing... Agent: Walter W. Duft

20090157885 - Address managing method and communication apparatus: A communication apparatus (100) of the present invention establishes a one-way data connection and a connection to a network in which a message is transferred in two ways, and includes: a one-way data connection status detecting unit (101) which detects a connection validating request showing a communication apparatus on a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090157887 - Control for the interface for sending an sip reply message: In one embodiment a communication client, includes at least one sending interface to send a signaling message in accordance with the SIP protocol, towards a first interface of a communication server. The client and server are connected by a communication network. The communication client is suitable for inserting an indication... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090157886 - Dynamic ui system and method for remotely controlling legacy device: A dynamic user interface (UI) system and method is provided for remote controlling of a legacy device, which is not compatible with a peer-to-peer (P2P) middleware, through a P2P network. The dynamic UI system of the present includes at least one legacy device, a proxy for registering and managing the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090157884 - Generic remote connection to a command line interface application: A method to establish a generic remote connection to a command line interface (CLI) application is provided. A server is implemented. The server is configured with a data input channel, a data output channel, and an error output channel, each connected to the CLI application. A first socket is configured... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090157888 - Cooperative proxy auto-discovery and connection interception: In a network supporting transactions between clients and servers and proxies that are interposable in a network path between at least one client and at least one server, wherein a pair of proxies can modify a packet stream between a client and a server such that packet data from the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090157889 - Per-request control of dns behavior: In various embodiments, a user or subscriber of a domain name system (DNS) service that provides various DNS resolution options or features, such as misspelling redirection, parental filters, domain blocking, or phishing protection through the DNS process, can influence how requests for domain name (DNS) information are handled on a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090157890 - Device and method for transmitting real time data: The invention relates to a device for transmitting real time data. The device comprises an interface (2), via which the data to be transmitted is collected and transmitted to a laptop computer (4), without local buffering, by a single transmission operation using a mobile telephone (3), pocket PC, PDA, smart... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20090157892 - Media server device, media server control method, and program: A media server device (40) can reproduce each of music compositions held in a built-in storage device (45). Moreover, the media server device (40), while being connected, can stream-distribute a digital content to a network player (51) so as to be reproduced in the network player (51). Reproduced digital content... Agent: Eric Robinson

20090157891 - Method and apparatus for inserting time-variant data into a media stream: An on-demand streaming server includes a memory array for storing on-demand content. The streaming server also includes at least one stream server module for retrieving the content from the memory array and generating therefrom a plurality of asynchronous media streams to be transmitted to client devices in accordance with a... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090157895 - Method for synchronizing at least two streams:

20090157893 - Personal media relay for rebroadcasting streaming data: A Personal Media Relay (PMR) is used to retransmit data in a system for point-to-point data streaming over a TCP/IP network. It is “Personal” because it is downloadable by end-users will onto their own personal computers (PCs) in order to help their other devices (e.g. a mobile device) send or... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20090157894 - System and method for distributing multimedia streaming service request based on wide area network: Provided are a system and a method for distributing multimedia streaming service request based on wide area network which can efficiently support multimedia streaming service in wide area network. The system for distributing multimedia streaming service request based on wide area network includes a user terminal, a wide area server,... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090157897 - Content provisioning system and method: A network system comprises a content provider that provides content and client that acquires the content. The content provider attaches information on communication priorities to the content based on the content's importance which is determined from the meaning of the content's and sends the content to the client using a... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20090157898 - Generic format for efficient transfer of data: Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products, for transferring, receiving, and storing multiple element data in a string of characters. Multiple data elements are sent in a string of delimited characters and have respective project identifiers, data types, and index numbers used to extract and store the data elements... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090157896 - Tcp offload engine apparatus and method for system call processing for static file transmission: Provided are a TCP offload engine (TOE) apparatus and method for static file transmission. An apparatus for system call processing for static file transmission includes an application program block for generating a file transmission command upon a user's file transmission request, a BSD socket module for converting the file transmission... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090157899 - Content delivery network: A content delivery system for providing content from a content delivery network to end users may include a plurality of delivery servers that host one or more content items and an inventory server having an inventory of content. The inventory of content can indicate which of the delivery servers host... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090157900 - Method for ipv4 application transition over ipv6 networks: A network system adopting a first IP protocol is provided. The network system includes an address allocating server and a communication terminal supporting both the first IP protocol and a second IP protocol, wherein the address allocating server dynamically allocates an address of the second IP protocol to the communication... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20090157901 - System and method for using routing protocol extensions for improving spoke to spoke communication in a computer network: Systems and methods for using routing protocol extensions to improve spoke to spoke communication in a computer network are disclosed. Embodiments provide systems and methods to establish a tunnel between a first spoke and a hub, exchange routing information between the first spoke and the hub using a routing protocol,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090157902 - Virtual networks: A virtual network has a plurality of nodes. Each node has the capability to provide a service to another node. Each node maintains a list for storing entries each representing a link to another node; each entry contains the address of the other node and a label identifying a service... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090157904 - Analysis tool for intra-node application messaging: A method and apparatus for transforming message events between applications running on a computing device into a form that appears as network events between multiple virtual network access devices. These “network events” may then be processed by known network software protocol analyzers.... Agent: At& T Legal Department - Monka Attn: Patent Docketing

20090157903 - Methods and apparatus for trouble reporting management in a multiple system service environment: Systems and techniques for managing and acting on trouble reports. A system comprising a plurality of subsystems maintains a central exchange for mediating problem referrals and resolutions between subsystems. A subsystem receives a trouble report and creates a trouble ticket in its native format. To refer the trouble ticket or... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Pg

20090157905 - System and method for standardizing clocks in a heterogeneous networked environment: A system and method for standardizing clocks in the heterogeneous networked environment is provided. In one aspect the duration of time that a message takes to travel from a source machine to a destination machine is decomposed into actual duration time T for transmission,—and time difference. C between the source... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090150474 - Efficient object distribution: A method and apparatus for distributing objects over a network. In one embodiment, the method comprises sending a request from a first network entity to a second network entity, the request including a compressed representation of deployed objects that are currently deployed at the first network entity. The method further... Agent: Marina Portnova Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090150472 - Method for non-disruptively associating applications and middleware components with information technology infrastructure: A methodology is presented for discovering and storing end-to-end associations between different types of entities in a system configuration model of a distributed middleware system. First associations are determined, at each distributed system tier, between instances of data and data-container configuration elements. Those first associations point to logical subdivision of... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090150473 - System and method for business object sync-point and rollback framework: A method and system for allowing a rollback within a multi-object system infrastructure are provided. In embodiments, a rollback to a state of a software business object is effected. A sync point manager maintains, for example, a list of sync points and their respective associated identifiers and relationship data. When... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090150475 - Process control system and method: A process control system includes a network with sub-networks and one or more network servers coupled to these sub-networks via a router. Network users can access this network via network user terminals. The sub-networks include automation servers with peripheral devices coupled thereto. The automation servers control and configure the peripheral... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090150483 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus includes: an input unit; a storage unit; an edit unit that controls the storage unit to store an email address input according to a given operation at the input unit; an email send unit that controls the storage unit to store a destination address of an outgoing... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090150478 - Data transferring method and object tracking system using the same: A data transferring system and an object tracking system. The data transferring method includes generating messages based on the data, connecting the clients to the server, generating a plurality of event trigger thread instances, each of the instances being in communication with a corresponding one of the clients and sending... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090150487 - Digital information library and delivery system: A computer network based digital information library system employing authentication and encryption protocols for the secure transfer of digital information library programs to a client computer system and a mobile digital information playback device removably connectable to the client computer system. The present invention is a computer network based library... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090150477 - Distributed file system optimization using native server functions: In at least some disclosed embodiments, a method includes a) creating a first stub file on a target file server, b) creating a t-stub file at the location of the source directory, c) copying source data into a hidden directory on the target file server, thus creating target data, d)... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20090150484 - Medical device metadata: Methods and systems of patient treatment are disclosed. The methods and systems include use of medical device informatics to modify and validate therapies and drugs used in those therapies. In certain embodiments, a medical device, such as a medical infusion pump, interfaces with a server to administer the patient treatments.... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090150482 - Method of cloning a server installation to a network client: A medical data system wherein a server installation identifies configuration choices and creates a client installer that will install a cloned application on client machines that conforms to the configuration choices made during the server installation.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP / Roche

20090150481 - Organizing and publishing assets in upnp networks: System and computer program products for allowing a renderer in a UPnP network the capability of being able to render general Internet content of static or dynamic nature, which the renderer was not designed to render in the contents original data format and file type. The system queries all devices... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20090150480 - Publishing assets of dynamic nature in upnp networks: System and computer program products for allowing a renderer in a UPnP network the capability of being able to render general Internet content, which the renderer was not designed to render in the contents original data format and file type. The system queries all devices on the local network, queries... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20090150485 - Session management technique: Provided is a system including: a receiver for receiving, as a proxy for each of the plurality of server apparatuses, a request from the client apparatus to each of the plurality of server apparatuses; a determination unit for determining, upon receipt of the request from the client apparatus to any... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090150486 - System and method for delivering remotely stored applications and information: A method and system are disclosed for delivering interactive links for presenting applications and second information at a client computer from remote sources in a network-configured computer processing system. In one embodiment, the method includes retrieving over a first communication connection, in response to a request of a client computer,... Agent: Seth H. Ostrow, Esq. Dreier LLP

20090150476 - System and method for transmitting content from a network device to a target device: The invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting content, selected by a user at a network device, from the network device to a target device, wherein the user has user account data stored at the network device identified by a user account ID, and wherein the user... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090150479 - Web feeds for work list publishing: The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing web feeds for work list publishing. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may receiving, at a web feed generator, a request for a web feed including one or more tasks,... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090150491 - Information processing apparatus and method, program, and information processing system: An information processing apparatus used by a first user, includes a generating unit adapted to generate recommendation information at least including an identifier for uniquely identifying a content recommended on the basis of preference information of the first user, and a sending unit adapted to send the generated recommendation information... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090150492 - Initializing relationships between devices in a network: A relationship initiation between devices in a network is described. According to one embodiment, persona information is exchanged between devices in a network. Based upon the persona information, a user of a device may initiate a relationship with another device.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090150490 - Methods involving archiving chat sessions: An exemplary method for archiving chat sessions comprising, receiving text from chat sessions designated for archiving, requesting an identifier of a chat session archive file, receiving the identifier, determining whether a chat session archive file having the identifier exists in a memory, opening the chat session archive file having the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20090150489 - System and method for conditional delivery of messages: The disclosure describes systems and methods delivering communications associated with delivery conditions in which the occurrence of the delivery condition is determined by monitoring information received from a plurality of sources via multiple communication channels. The message delivery systems allow messages to be delivered to any “Who, What, When, Where”... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090150488 - System and method for managing multiple external identities of users with local or network based address book: A method and system for managing multiple external identities of users with a local or network based address book having the steps of: creating a set of address book field and value information, the set of address book field and value information being one or more external identities; and forwarding... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090150504 - Auto-configuration of an internal vlan network interface: Apparatus and storage media for auto-configuration of an internal network interface are disclosed. Embodiments may install an internal VLAN manager in a logically partitioned computer system along with network agents in each of the partitions in the logically partitioned system to facilitate configuring an internal communications network and the corresponding... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090150496 - Automated translator for system-generated prefixes: A method is provided for localizing a prefix in a subject header field of an incoming electronic message. The method comprises receiving a value string of a subject header in an electronic message; identifying a system-generated prefix in the value string by parsing the value string and accessing a database... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20090150495 - Chain-scoped dynamic electronic mail system and method: A method, system and program product allow an originator of an electronic mail message to create and attach different topics to messages. Recipients of messages can view different topics from an electronic mail message and can take actions on specific topics and related content. Electronic mail messages can be organized... Agent: Ibm-rochester C/o Toler Law Group

20090150505 - E-mail synchronization between heterogeneous mail servers: The invention provides for forward and/or reverse synchronization of e-mail messages. Optionally, the step of determining includes comparing message identifiers in the message identifier storage to message identifiers in e-mail received from the external e-mail server. Alternatively, the step of determining includes comparing the message identifiers of e-mail on the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090150497 - Electronic mail message handling and presentation methods and systems: Methods and apparatuses are provided for use with electronic mail messages. In one exemplary method, electronic mail messages may be presented in an order based, at least in part, on a presentation scores associated with each message. The presentation score may be based, at least in part, on presentation knowledge... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090150498 - Identifying a plurality of related electronic messages and combining the plurality of related messages into a composite view: A program product, an apparatus, and a method that identify a plurality of related electronic messages and combine the plurality of the related electronic messages into a composite view are provided. Also provided is a method that searches a first account of a first user to identify a plurality of... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090150494 - Just-in time mailing list traffic indicator: Traffic of email messages sent to an email list is monitored, and a number of email messages sent to the email list per day is determined. An average number of email messages sent to the email list per day is determined over a number of days. The determined average number... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20090150503 - Method and devices to seamlessly inject services in content flows: A method for automating service invocation in message flows between a client (2100) and a server (2104), includes a step of generating a message (2300) including content by said client (2100), a step of transmitting said message by said client (2100) via a network (2103) to said server (2104), wherein... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090150499 - Method for sharing information over an instant messaging network: A method for sharing information in applications via instant messaging (IM), the method includes: receiving a representation of an item in a first IM window on a sending device; recording metadata associated with the item with a sending plugin; sending the item and the associated recorded metadata to one or... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090150500 - System and method for automatically generating request-specific backup contact information in an out of office message: A system for automatically generating request-specific backup contact information in an out of office message that automatically generates an out of office message with specific backup contact information based on an automatically determined correspondence between the contents of a received e-mail message and one or more responsibilities of the user... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20090150501 - System and method for conditional delivery of messages: The disclosure describes systems and methods delivering communications associated with deliver conditions in which the occurrence of the delivery condition is determined by monitoring information received from a plurality of sources via multiple communication channels. The message delivery systems allow messages to be delivered to any “Who, What, When, Where”... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090150502 - System and method for hypertext transfer protocol publish and subscribe server: A system and method for providing a publish and subscribe server that includes channels to allow web based clients to send and receive asynchronous messages. In accordance with an embodiment, the system provides a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) publish and subscribe (pub/sub) server that includes a channels-based means to allow... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090150506 - System, method and device for implementing email notification: A system, method and apparatus for implementing email notification are disclosed. The system and method ensures that an email notification (EMN) generation module is able to generate refined email information for a received email according to a configured refined email information format and transmit the generated refined email information to... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090150493 - Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus, control method thereof, communication system, and program: A transmission apparatus transmits e-mail to a reception apparatus through a network by selecting one of a communication method via a mail server and a communication method without intervention of a mail server. This transmission apparatus generates the e-mail and transmits, to the reception apparatus, the e-mail and information representing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090150507 - System and method for prioritizing delivery of communications via different communication channels: The disclosure describes systems and methods for prioritizing delivery of a communication to a recipient via a first communication channel, such as email, voice, voicemail, IM, SMS, or even physical parcel. Prioritization is done by dynamically identifying one or more relationships between the recipient and information known about the communication,... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090150509 - Smart client-server socket: A smart client-server socket is disclosed, which comprises: a micro process unit, for signal and operation control; a communication unit, capable of receiving commands from a user for enabling the user to direct electric products connected to a server jack or/and client jacks of the smart client-server socket to enter/exit... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090150508 - System and method for operating a master unit and a plurality of slave units: System including at least one master unit and a plurality of slave units, wherein the at least one master unit includes means for transmitting control signals to the slave units via radio frequency channels. The slave units are provided with unique addresses and are each associated with a controllable device.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090150511 - Network with distributed shared memory: A computer network with distributed shared memory, including a clustered memory cache aggregated from and comprised of physical memory locations on a plurality of physically distinct computing systems. The network also includes a plurality of local cache managers, each of which are associated with a different portion of the clustered... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090150510 - System and method for using remote module on vios to manage backups to remote backup servers: A system, method, and program product is provided that receives a backup request at a virtual input/output server (VIOS) from a client of the VIOS. The backup request corresponds to a virtual nonvolatile storage that is used by the client. The VIOS retrieves data from the nonvolatile storage device where... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20090150513 - Method and system for gathering network data: A system comprises a portal which, for each of a plurality of requests for network data from a plurality of parties, is to: determine which server of a plurality of servers is responsible for gathering data from a network element that has the network data being requested, send a data-gathering... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lnap Attn: Patent Docketing

20090150512 - Method for presenting a catalog of multimedia contents to a terminal, corresponding server, terminal, request signal and computer program: A method is provided for presenting a catalog of multimedia contents transmitted by a server to a communications terminal, in response to a request sent by the terminal. The method includes adapting the catalog as a function of at least one first piece of information representing a current transmission channel... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090150516 - Method for providing data application in media reproduction apparatus of automobile: A method for providing a data application in a media reproduction apparatus of an automobile is disclosed. In accordance with the method for providing the data application in the media reproduction apparatus of the automobile, an additional data application associated with a base data application is dynamically received according to... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090150515 - Multi-interface storage device: A multi-interface storage device used in a computer under power off status is disclosed and adapted for transmitting data and communicating with an external electronic device remotely. The multi-interface storage device used in the computer under power off status comprises a transmission interface, an internet interface, a storage unit for... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090150517 - Mutlimedia file upload: A method of handling multimedia data, is described, in which packets of a multimedia file from a first computer are received by a second computer. In case, a sub-portion of the multimedia file, representative of the multimedia file, was received by the second computer, before the entire file was received... Agent: Alon Atsmon

20090150514 - System and method for contextual addressing of communications on a network: The disclosure describes systems and methods delivering communications based on contextual addresses. An address string containing two or more identifiers, which may not be unique identifiers, and at least one conditional operator are provided as the address for a message or communication. The system identifies contextual relationships between a plurality... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090150518 - Dynamic content assembly on edge-of-network servers in a content delivery network: The present invention enables a content provider to dynamically assemble content at the edge of the Internet, preferably on content delivery network (CDN) edge servers. Preferably, the content provider leverages an “edge side include” (ESI) markup language that is used to define Web page fragments for dynamic assembly at the... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20090150519 - Pseudo real time indexing of digital media files: The present disclosure relates to a digital media files and technique for pseudo real time indexing of digital media files. The technique includes capturing at least one digital media file using a network enabled image capture device, connecting the network enabled image capture device to an indexing server over a... Agent: Frank Pincelli Eastman Kodak Company

20090150520 - Transmitting assets in upnp networks to remote servers: Systems and computer program products for allowing a renderer in a UPnP network the capability of being able to render general Internet content of static or dynamic nature, which the renderer was not designed to render in the contents original data format and file type. The system queries all devices... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20090150523 - Configuration of ip telephony and other systems: The present specification provides a configurable end-user device comprising a computing environment comprising at least one central processing unit, volatile storage, non-volatile storage, and a network interface interconnected by a bus. The network interface is connectable to one or more other end-user devices via a local area network. The end-user... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20090150521 - Method and system for creating a virtual network path: In general, the invention relates to a method for creating a virtual network path. The method includes instantiating a number of virtual network interface cards (VNICs) on a number of virtual machines, where each virtual machines is located in one of the computers, each of the computers is connected using... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090150526 - Method and system for implementing configuration management of devices in network: A method for implementing configuration management of devices in a network, device and system thereof are disclosed. The system includes first and second devices corresponding to first and second configuration management servers respectively. The method comprises: determining, by the first configuration management server corresponding to the first device, that the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090150525 - Method and system for verifying and updating the configuration of an access device during authentication: A system and method is provided to verify configuration of a client access device requesting access to a network by establishing a communications link between a network access system and the client access device to authenticate and authorize the client access device and a user associated with the client access... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090150524 - Network configuration method and system: An administrator 4 (2) registers configuration files of compliant equipment 31 and noncompliant equipment 32 and a configuration script into a management server, and (3) sends the network equipment to a user 33. When the user 33 constructs the local network 3 by connecting the network equipment and turns it... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090150522 - Transparent configuration of a network appliance: A method and apparatus for configuring a remotely available service. In one embodiment, the method includes downloading configuration data for the remotely available service while running a current instance of the service, and invoking a new instance of the service without causing a current instance of the service to terminate.... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090150527 - Method and system for reconfiguring a virtual network path: In general in one aspect, the invention relates to a method for reconfiguring a virtual network path. The method includes populating a virtual switching table associated with virtual network interface cards (VNICs), implementing the virtual network path using the virtual switching table, where the virtual network path includes a first... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090150528 - Method for setting up failure recovery environment: A method for configuring failover environment, wherein the data on the configuration of the standby server device is obtained by transferring a program for obtaining configuration data to the standby server device; comparison is made in the configuration management table in the management server between the configuration of the standby... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090150531 - Data processing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium: A data processing apparatus includes a data storage unit configured to store data, an information storage unit configured to store identification information of an apparatus that has set a link to the data stored in the data storage unit and information indicating a link type of the link, a reception... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090150529 - Method and system for enforcing resource constraints for virtual machines across migration: In general, the invention relates to a method for migrating virtual machines. The method includes obtaining migration criteria for a first virtual machine (VM) where the migration criteria is a bandwidth constraint for the first VM. The method further includes sending a request comprising the migration criteria to a second... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090150530 - Server device, terminal device, content sender/receiver system, content sender/receiver method, and program: A server device configured to send a content to a terminal device when the server device and the terminal device are capable of connecting to each other, the server device includes a selected metadata receiver section configured to, when metadata concerning the content that is not stored in the terminal... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090150533 - Detecting need to access metadata during directory operations: In at least some disclosed embodiments, a method includes receiving a request to list information about data in a first directory, and searching for a unique symbol in the first directory based on the request. The unique symbol is associated with a stub file in the first directory. The method... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20090150535 - Generating and supplying user context data: Techniques are described for providing information about a context that is modeled with multiple context attributes. In some situations, at least some of the context attributes have values used by modules for generating values of other context attributes, and the providing includes determining that a first module is generating a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090150534 - Load balancing technique implemented in a data network device utilizing a data cache: Techniques for implementing a load balanced server system are described which may be used for effecting electronic commerce over a data network. The system comprises a load balancing system and a plurality of servers in communication with the load balancing system. Each of the plurality of servers may include a... Agent: Ipventure, Inc.

20090150532 - Methods and systems for client computer managing multiple servers: A method for a client computer managing a plurality of servers via a network is provided. The method comprises the following steps. A selection list of the servers supporting a keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) over IP (iKVM) function is displayed in the client computer in which the selection list provides information corresponding... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090150536 - Application layer congestion control: A method of managing congestion within a request-response system is disclosed. The method includes determining a response time that is directly or indirectly indicative of how long it takes a back end system to process a request received from a front end system and return a corresponding response. The response... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090150545 - Automatic collection and updating of application usage: A method and system providing automatic collection and updating of application usage on a large number of electronic devices without user intervention. The electronic devices may be a palm-sized computer systems, personal digital assistants (PDAs), or wireless telephones. On an electronic device, application usage statistics, for example, the number of... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20090150543 - Communication system and communication device: A communication system includes a communication device and a communication network configured to communicate with the communication device. The communication network includes a storage unit configured to store first communication information related to a communication to the communication device that is generated when communications with the communication device are unattainable;... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090150537 - Data communication method for a set of hard-real time applications within a network: A data communication method for a set of hard real-time applications with an associated set of predefined network requirements (PNR) is provided. The method comprises configuring the physical layer of the network with a set of static modulation parameters (SMPs) to guarantee the PNRs are met at worst-case operating conditions... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20090150544 - Information processing device and information processing method: An information processing device and an information processing method are provided which can provide services to all clients (users) at a certain service level while preventing a server from being overloaded by reducing concentration of access from some clients without requiring special processing on the client side. The server monitors... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090150542 - Management computer, computer system and method for monitoring performance of a storage system: To solve a problem in that reliable detection of a performance problem caused by a configuration change needs detailed performance information, which is costly to keep and analyze, a management computer which manages a computer system having a host computer and a storage system is provided. The management computer is... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090150538 - Method and system for monitoring virtual wires: In general, the invention relates to a method for monitoring virtual wires. The method includes selecting a first virtual wire to monitor, wherein the first virtual wire connects a first virtual network interface card (VNIC) located on a first computer to a second VNIC located on a second computer, where... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090150540 - Method for identifying components in a network: A method of identifying components in a network path by defining a role for a component from a rule governing another component or the network path, and identifying an instance of such first component from a data base listing instances of the component and associations of such component with other... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090150546 - Protecting encrypted files transmitted over a network: An improved system and approaches for protecting secured files when being used by an application (e.g., network browser) that potentially transmits the files over a network to unknown external locations are disclosed. According to one aspect, access to secured files is restricted so that unsecured versions of the secured files... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090150541 - System and method for dynamically generating user interfaces for network client devices: A system and method for dynamically generating user interfaces for client devices in an electronic network includes a network server and a network of client devices. Each of the client devices monitors and compiles client statistics regarding usage characteristics for various elements of corresponding user interfaces. A recommendation engine of... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20090150539 - Webpage domain monitoring: Webpage domain monitoring is described. In an implementation, one or more web pages are obtained at a client, with each said web page including a plurality of content that is provided, respectively, via a plurality of domains. The plurality of domains that were used to provide the plurality of content... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090150548 - Management of network-based services and servers within a server cluster: Techniques are described to manage network-based services and servers within a server cluster. In an implementation, a plurality of sub-groups is formed of servers included in a server cluster. Network-based services are assigned to each of the sub-groups such that at least two of the sub-groups have matching deployments of... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090150547 - Method and system for scaling applications on a blade chassis: In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method for scaling an application. The method includes executing a first instance of the application on a first computer in a chassis, where the first instance of the application is associated with a first VNIC and a second VNIC executing... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20090150549 - Dynamic communication stack: A method of facilitating communication between a resource and a computer is described. The computer employs a software application that allows the computer to communicate with the resource. The resource may comprise a medical device such as a blood glucose meter or an insulin pump. In order to facilitate communication... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP / Roche

20090150550 - Local device redirection: A system for redirecting a local device to a remote system includes a proxy configured to communicate with a remote access module. The remote access module is configured to establish a remote access connection between a system and a remote system. The proxy is configured to receive socket connection information... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090150551 - Method and system for cookie expiration based on user idle and presence detection: Detecting Internet web navigation and web browsing idle conditions using cookies during navigating and browsing sessions, is accomplished by receiving in a local computer, from a server, a cookie that has at least one policy that causes the cookie to have either an active or expired status, based on either... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Research Triangle Park

20090150552 - Method and apparatus for management and transmission of classified conditional access application to provide downloadable conditional access system service: A method and apparatus for management and transmission of a classified conditional access application to provide Downloadable Conditional Access System (DCAS) service according to disclosed embodiments is an effective managing method according to a type of a conditional access module in a software version in the DCAS. In particular, it... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090150553 - Method and system for use in coordinating multimedia devices: Some embodiments of the present invention provide methods for use in playing back content. Some of these methods access a content package comprising media content to be locally played back; detect, as defined by the content package, whether a remote secondary device is available with which a connection can be... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20090150554 - Digital media communication protocol: A digital media communication protocol structured to selectively transmit one or more digital media files between a media terminal and a media node via a communication link on an interactive computer network. The communication link is initiated by the media terminal, wherein the media terminal is disposed in an accessible... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul LLP Attn: Steven M. Greenberg, Esq.

20090150557 - Dynamic bit rate scaling: The invention provides for a download agent executing on a computing device to dynamically select between media files with different media quality for delivery of media content provided by a media content provider. The download agent may select between different media files with similar content but different quality based on... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20090150555 - Memory to memory communication and storage for hybrid systems: The present invention relates to memory to memory communication and storage for hybrid systems. Under the present invention, a data stream is received on a first computing device of a hybrid system. An attempt is made to store the data stream on the first computing device up to a per... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090150556 - Memory to storage communication for hybrid systems: Under the present invention, a hybrid system having multiple computing devices and storage devices is provided. The “multiple computing devices” typically include at least one server and at least one processor, both of which include local memory. Thus, the hybrid system will typically have at least two different types of... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090150558 - Method and system for distributed streaming service of portable devices: A method and a system for a distributed streaming service of portable devices forming a short-distance communication network. A buffer size and a priority of each of the portable devices are determined according to their remaining memory capacity, respectively. Each portable device calculates a buffering time using the buffer size... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090150559 - Providing content synchronized with a production: A solution for providing content synchronized with a production is provided. The solution obtains a plurality of possible start times for the production, the plurality of possible start times being based upon at least one of: a length of the production or a broadcast schedule policy; and repeatedly initiates a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090150560 - Real-time mining and reduction of streamed data: A stream data node receives real-time streamed data from one or more input devices, dynamically filters the streamed data to reduce the streamed data, and delivers the reduced data when requested. By providing real-time filtering of the data, the amount of data that must be stored in a database may... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090150561 - Modulator timing for quantum key distribution: Methods for establishing modulator timing for a QKD system (100) having QKD stations (Alice, Bob) with respective modulators (MA, MB) are disclosed. The timing method includes exchanging non-quantum signals (P1, P2) between the two QKD stations and performing respective coarse timing adjustments by scanning the modulator timing domain with relatively... Agent: OpticusIPLaw, PLLC

20090150562 - Apparatus and method for directing a communication session to a communication device of a group of devices having a common registration identity: An apparatus, and an associated method, for directing communications of a communication session to a selected communication device, or devices, of a group of commonly-registered devices. A device-direction policy is created and stored at a network entity. The policy identifies preferred devices to which communications of a communication session are... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090150563 - Control path i/o virtualisation:

20090150564 - Per-user bandwidth availability: A system for calculating bandwidth availability for best servicing a user is disclosed. The system optimizes network performance and network utilization by making use of routing table information and bandwidth utilization information between the servers and the user.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090150565 - Soa infrastructure for application sensitive routing of web services: Various exemplary embodiments are a system and related method for application sensitive forwarding of a request for a web service including a broker that manages the forwarding of the request, a metric table that stores statistics for the web service, and a database storing the metric table and least one... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090150566 - Virtually synchronous paxos: A variant of Paxos is referred to as Virtually Synchronous Paxos (VS Paxos). VS Paxos is a self-reconfigurable protocol that allows for delay only for reconfiguration decisions, without placing an artificial limit on regular decisions. In an implementation of VS Paxos, subject to any restriction on reconfiguration decisions, a leader... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090150567 - Address translator, message processing method and equipment: An address translator includes an SIP message detecting function. Upon detection of an SIP message, the address translator sends the SIP message to an SIP address translator. The SIP address translator extracts addresses for translation, and makes a query to the address translator. The SIP address translator translates an IP... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090150568 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing between a centralized system and a decentralized system: Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system for synchronizing between a decentralized computing system and a centralized computing system. In some embodiments, a decentralized record may be received from a computing platform, wherein the decentralized record may be created when the computing platform communicates in a decentralized pattern. Information may be... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090150569 - Synchronization system and method for mobile devices: Mobile synchronization systems are provided for synchronizing user data objects among user devices. In one embodiment, mobile devices are provided with a synchronized environment to a user desktop, having either synchronized copies of the data objects, or a shortcut to a system peer storing the data object. Another embodiment provides... Agent: Nathan Calvert

20090150570 - Sharing assets between upnp networks: Systems and computer program products for allowing a renderer in a UPnP network the capability of being able to render general Internet content of static or dynamic nature, which the renderer was not designed to render in the contents original data format and file type. The system queries all devices... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20090144355 - Exchange of management information via application messages: A message addressed to an application operating on a destination machine is received at an intermediate machine. Management information is attached to the message, the management information including operating statistics of the intermediate machine. The message is forwarded to the destination machine.... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090144356 - Method and service server for correlative processing of service information: The present embodiments disclose a method and a service server for correlative processing of service information. The method includes receiving the service information; obtaining a correlative relation among information of each service; and performing a correlative processing on the service information according to the correlative relation. A correlative processing may... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090144358 - Decentralized processing apparatus, program, and method: A decentralized processing apparatus comprising: an executing unit to execute processing of an assigned first job; a receiving unit to receive a request for transferring a processing result of the first job, which is obtained by executing the processing of the assigned first job; a specifying unit to specify, based... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090144357 - Use of template messages to optimize a software messaging system: A method uses template messages to optimize software messaging system. A message is decomposed into a template message portion containing message content, and a field message portion. A correlation identifier identifies a template message and only those template messages with unique correlation identifiers are stored or forwarded. A field message... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090144359 - Mobile access to internet-based application with reduced polling: Providing a service in user equipment (UE) that operates within a mobile telecommunications system involves running a client application instance (CAI) in the UE, wherein the CAI interacts with a remotely-located server application via a network by means of a protocol that includes polling. A message is sent to the... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090144361 - Multimedia administration, advertising, content & services system: The invention relates to multimedia, and more particularly to systems and methods for providing multimedia administrative, advertising, content and services. According to aspects of the invention a method of accessing data by a user at a client system comprises: reading user specific information from a first smart card by a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090144360 - Network device, method of controlling the same and network system: A method and apparatus for mitigating traffic increase due to both a proxy server and a network device transmitting response packets to a search request by multicast. The network device transmits to the proxy server information required for a client apparatus to communicate with the network device. When the proxy... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090144364 - Smart nodes for web services: A smart node is integrated with each Web service in a Web service application chain to automatically supply compatible features, missing functionality. and orchestration of the processes in the application, without coordination by an orchestration engine, in an embodiment. A smart node is a software program that systematically specifies the... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20090144363 - System and method for registration of valuable items: A system and method are provided for keeping track of the ownership of unique items in a system including a server computer connected to a database and at least one client computer connected to the server computer over a network. In operation information concerning the item is entered into the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090144362 - Systems and methods for providing desktop messaging and end-user profiling: This application relates to systems and methods for providing desktop messaging and end-user profiling in a computer environment. Generally, implementation includes delivering imaged-based content (including advertisements) and/or multi-media messages to an end-user on a periodic basis. In some cases, the content is conveyed from a server software application to a... Agent: David B. Tingey

20090144366 - Incorporating user emotion in a chat transcript: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to chat transcript generation for instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for emotional state transcription for chat sessions. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for emotional state transcription for chat sessions... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090144367 - Information processing system, its control method, information processing apparatus, and program: An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus which can share display data. The first information processing apparatus includes a first transmission unit to transmit display data to the second information processing apparatus configured to display the display data, an input unit... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090144365 - Method and system for providing a collaboration service in enterprise business software: Disclosed is a method and system for creating a first collaboration service node for a first software object node and linking the first collaboration service node to a second collaboration service node hierarchically to represent a link structure between the first software object node and a second software object node.... Agent: Sap Ag

20090144368 - Clipboard for application sharing: A software application can be shared by multiple users. A system clipboard of a first computing system is synchronized with a system clipboard of a second computing system when the user of the second computing system is in control of the shared software application. Information contained in the system clipboard... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090144369 - User-calibrated activity newsfeed on a social network: Calibration and publication of user activity on a computer implemented social network is provided. Activity signals of user activity is measured by an activity monitor and calibrated by the user. The calibration includes assigning an activity signal with a personalized identifier for the activity for comparison with future measured activity... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090144370 - Active polling technique: Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for soliciting and facilitating a response to an electronic communication. According to one embodiment, a method of soliciting and facilitating a response to an electronic communication can comprise receiving from an originator a request for the electronic communication with one or more recipients.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090144376 - Adding tiles to a graphical user interface: A software application having a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays content tiles along with the use of an electronic device to add tiles to the GUI is described in this disclosure. A predefined key on an input device is selected to indicate to display available tiles. One of the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090144383 - Apparatus and method for providing remote access redirect capability in a channel adapter of a system area network: A method and apparatus for providing remote access redirect in a host channel adapter of a system area network are provided. The apparatus and method provide a mechanism by which a host channel adapter, in response to receiving a marker message, places selected channel(s) of the host channel adapter in... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090144372 - Correlating messaging text to business objects for business object integration into messaging: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090144384 - Domain managing method, domain extending method and reference point controller electing method: A method of managing a domain, a method of extending a domain, and a method of selecting a reference point controller are provided. The method of operating the domain includes: receiving a request for authenticating a reference point controller from a reference point controller candidate; invalidating a membership of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090144373 - Indexing a messaging session for business object integration into messaging: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090144381 - Method and system for data formatting: A system includes a data store and a server in communication with the data store. The server includes formatting modules having a plurality of formatters, validation modules having a plurality of validators, and a streaming module. The server is configured to receive messages containing financial transaction data from one or... Agent: Lehman Brothers Inc. C/o Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP

20090144382 - Method for certifying and unifying delivery of electronic packages: A method of verifiably transmitting an Electronic Package such as an email and associated attachments, from a sender to a recipient through a system that utilizes a certifying authority via a communications network. The certifying authority consists of trained personnel capable of verifying the authenticity and detailed history of the... Agent: Patwrite LLC

20090144375 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for transmitting maps by multimedia messaging service: Methods, systems, and computer program products for transmitting maps via multimedia messaging service (MMS). The methods, systems, and computer program products include acquiring a map, displaying the map on a display screen of a device, initiating an MMS formatting application to format the map in an MMS format, and transmitting... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090144380 - Peer-to-peer email: A peer-to-peer email system and methods are provided for distributed email distribution, prevention of SPAM, and efficient email storage. Each email client also serves as a node in the peer-to-peer system, relaying email messages and/or attachments. Large attachments may be transmitted directly from sender to receiver, and if the receiver... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20090144385 - Sequential message transmission system: A computer system transmits a sequence of messages to multiple users. The first user subscribes to the sequence at a first time. In response, the system transmits each message in the sequence to the first user in sequence and at predetermined intervals (e.g., every month), beginning at the first user's... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20090144377 - Social news forwarding to generate interest clusters: Embodiments are directed towards managing messages based on generated interest clusters. A message may be analyzed to determine one or more interest clusters associated with the message. The message may be automatically sent to members within the determined interest cluster(s), or if no members are in the interest cluster(s), to... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090144371 - Split transcript view for business object integration into messaging: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090144374 - System and method for unsolicited electronic mail identification and evasion: A method and system are disclosed for the identification of and avoidance of unsolicited email or Spam mail. The present invention is a system and method for channeling email to prevent unsolicited email and to identify the sources of unsolicited email by creating a new layer to a common email... Agent: Andrew G. Vicknair Shields Mott Lund, LLP

20090144379 - Systems, methods and computer program products for the delivery of email text messages and audio video attachments to an iptv display device: The present invention relates to a method for the delivery and display of an email text message and audio/video attachment to an IPTV enabled display device. The method comprises retrieving an email message and at least one audio/video attachment from an email account, and saving the email message and one... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090144378 - Systems, methods and computer program products for the delivery of email text messages and image attachments to an iptv display device: The present invention relates to a method for the delivery and display of an email text message and image attachment to an IPTV enabled display device. The method comprises retrieving an email message and at least one image attachment from an email account, and saving the email message and at... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090144386 - Business object action justification for business object integration into messaging: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090144387 - Methods and systems for targeted messaging and group based media management: A method for sending a single alert to a plurality of recipients based on the properties of each of the recipients and of the respective receiving devices of the recipients, where each of the recipients is assigned to a media class and one or more recipient groups, comprising the steps... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20090144388 - Network with distributed shared memory: A computer network with distributed shared memory, including a clustered memory cache aggregated from and comprised of physical memory locations on a plurality of physically distinct computing systems. The clustered memory cache is accessible by a plurality of clients on the computer network and is configured to perform page caching... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090144389 - Virtual computer system and virtual computer migration control method: A migration source virtual server and a migration destination virtual server respectively include a volume information management unit for associating and managing volume identifying information for identifying the logical volumes and the logical volumes managed by the management OS of the migration source virtual server and the management OS of... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090144391 - Audio sharing: One aspect of the disclosure relates to obtaining at least some audio information, at least partially at a shared audio device. The aspect of the disclosure also relates to temporally coordinating transmitting at the shared audio device the at least some audio information and at least some temporally-associated dissimilar-media information... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090144390 - Optimizing network resources usage within an administrative boundary: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises logic for optimizing network resources usage. The logic is operable to store IGP information, where the IGP information includes a set of attribute values associated with each of a set of content servers. When the logic receives a request for content from a remote... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090144392 - Sharing digital content on a social network: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for more effectively and easily sharing on a social networking system digital content obtained from an external system. In one embodiment a user selects a control for sharing content from the external system that causes a sharing request to be sent. The sharing request... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090144393 - Method and apparatus for locating candidate data centers for application migration: When an application running at a first data center needs to be migrated to a different data center, the first data center is able to automatically locate an appropriate target data center from among multiple other data centers for receiving the migration of the application. The first data center ensures... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090144394 - Method of preparing and distributing board papers: A management system including a conversion system, a central system and one or more access points connected to the central system by a network; wherein said conversion system includes a scanning device and file conversion means configured to take a physical or electronic board paper and convert it to a... Agent: John Alexander Galbreath

20090144398 - Content distribution over a network: Methods, systems, and computer program products for using a transport function to provide and receive identifications of content available over a network and to provide and receive user-selected content over the network.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090144396 - Preloader employing enhanced messages: A disclosed method of serving web page requests includes detecting a client request for a web page that contains an object. A preloader application is invoked to execute while the object is downloading to the client. The preloader application displays a preloader message during at least part of the downloading... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20090144397 - Service provisioning in a communication system: The invention relates to a service provisioning method in a communication system. In the method information regarding a communication control entity capable of servicing a user of the communication system is received at a first entity associated with the communication system from a storage entity. Based on said information, an... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090144395 - System and method for optimizing content retrieval over a data network: A method is described comprising: receiving a request for content stored on a network site from a data processing device, the request including and address for the content and first version information usable to identify a version of the content previously-downloaded to the data processing device; transmitting a first request... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090144400 - Delivery server, content delivery method of delivery server, booster server, content delivery method of booster server: A delivery server includes a content output unit configured to output content, a delivery request reception unit which receives a delivery request transmitted from a client terminal connected to a network, a determination unit which determines whether the content is to be delivered to the client terminal in response to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090144399 - Setting a preliminary time on a network appliance using a message received from a server: A method and system for setting a time on a network appliance. The method may include attempting to establish a secure connection with a backend server using a certificate issued for a network appliance, and determining that an attempt to establish a secure connection has failed. The method may further... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090144401 - Technique for communicating by utilizing communication setting information: A communication device is configured to connect with a network including a plurality of types of external devices. The communication device is provided with a spec storage device, a type obtaining device, and a communication attempt device. The spec storage device is configured to store an association of a type... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090144402 - Storage management for renderfarm: Systems and methods for storing assets in storage systems external to asset management systems while still allowing the asset management systems to track the stored assets are disclosed. One method begins by first receiving an asset to be stored in an asset management system. Next, a first location on a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP/pixar

20090144405 - Apparatus and method for presence service on inter-domain: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for presence service on inter-domain. The apparatus comprises an enhanced inter-domain presence (EIP) module and an enhanced inter-domain presence authorization document (EIPAD) module. When at least a watcher requests a presence subscription to a foreign domain, the EIP module dynamically aggregates the foreign domain... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090144406 - Communication control apparatus and method: A communication control apparatus includes a registration request signal receiver, a registration section, a transmitter, a group communication control signal receiver, and a group communication controller. The request signal receiver receives, from at least one terminal differing from a plurality of group communication terminals that is performing or is to... Agent: Ntt Mobile Communications Network I/bhgl

20090144407 - Domain managing method, domain extending method and reference point controller electing method: A method of managing a domain, a method of extending a domain, and a method of selecting a reference point controller are provided. The method of operating the domain includes: receiving a request for authenticating a reference point controller from a reference point controller candidate; invalidating a membership of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090144404 - Load management in a distributed system: A technique for load management in a distributed system that includes multiple physical nodes is disclosed. The load management technique includes mutably assigning a number of virtual nodes to each physical node of the multiple physical nodes. A total number of virtual nodes assigned to the multiple physical nodes is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090144403 - Management of topology changes in layer two networks: In one embodiment, a method for managing topology changes in a Layer 2 network is provided. The method may comprise receiving a change notification at a provider edge bridging device and associating the change notification with a customer service. The method may further comprise identifying at least one destination provider... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090144413 - Communications enterprise server monitor: A system includes one or more wireless handheld devices, one or more enterprise servers in communication with the one or more wireless handheld devices, and an enterprise server monitor in communication with the one or more enterprise servers to collect communications performance data from one or more of the one... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090144415 - Detecting automation cheating in online applications: In general, in one aspect, a method is described that includes monitoring data received from input devices. The received data from the input devices associated with an application is copied when the application is active. The data is converted to user commands. Commands used to update the application are received... Agent: RyderIPLaw C/o Cpa Global

20090144408 - Detecting relayed communications: Methods, apparatus and computer readable code for determining whether a potential relay device is a relay device are provided herein. In some embodiments, first and second information elements are received from a potential relay device, which is an original source of the second information element. In order to determine whether... Agent: Mark M. Friedman C/o Polkinghorn

20090144420 - Efficient monitoring of heterogeneous applications: A heterogeneous environment having applications and application enablers operating on application servers organized as a cluster is managed. The application servers are managed by a cluster management application. A system management application permits access to computing performance data provided by an operating system and reported to the system management application.... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja (austin)

20090144419 - Ip network management: Methods and apparatus are provided for managing an IP network interconnecting a plurality of network hosts (2). Status information, indicative of status of a host, is automatically acquired from each host (2). The status information, such as MAC address, security and/or operational information, acquired from a host (2) is automatically... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20090144412 - Method and apparatus for the delivery of digital data: A method and apparatus for the delivery of digital data to an end user (902) from a network (900) comprising at least two different data sources (912a, 912b) is disclosed. Each of the at least two different data sources (912a, 912b) can deliver the digital data to the end network... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090144416 - Method and system for determining an optimally located storage node in a communications network: A method for locating an optimum storage node for serving a data file request received via a communications network, includes: receiving a file request from a user device coupled to the communications network; determining a geocode value based on a communications network address associated with the user device, wherein the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090144411 - Method and system for evaluating and selecting traceroutes to be used in determining the geographic location of a network block: Described herein are a method and system for evaluating and selecting traceroutes to be used in determining the geographic location of a network block. A particular embodiment of the system includes a set of traceroute feature vector extractors, each traceroute feature vector extractor being associated with at least one of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090144414 - Method for summarizing flow information from network devices: A method for aggregating network flow information within a relational database relates to by maximizing concurrency between insertion and analysis of database records. In particular, data is generally stored according to the network devices associated with the flow records. Then, the flow records for the separate devices may be aggregated... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090144409 - Method for using dynamically scheduled synthetic transactions to monitor performance and availability of e-business systems: A method and apparatus is provided for monitoring operations of a specified transaction server that has an associated network topology. One embodiment comprises the steps of defining a plurality of zones within the network topology, and assigning one or more monitoring agents to each of the zones, wherein each agent... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090144418 - Methods and systems for enabling analysis of communication content while preserving confidentiality: Disclosed are methods and systems for enabling analysis of communication content while preserving confidentiality. In one embodiment, communication content is processed to increase the similarity of superficially dissimilar instances of communication content and/or to increase the distinctiveness of superficially similar instances of communications content. In this embodiment at least part... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090144410 - Monitoring network traffic by tracking data packets on a per process basis: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture directed to the monitoring and visualizing of network traffic are disclosed. The network monitoring can include tracking data packets on a per process basis. As a data packet traverses a communications interface, it can be correlated with the process responsible for that data... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute Attn:IPServices, K1-53

20090144417 - Resilient service quality in a managed multimedia delivery network: A managed multimedia delivery network (1) for providing a multimedia service with resilient service quality is disclosed. The network comprising a plurality of caching nodes (3) for caching multimedia data segments; an edge caching node (4) for colleting requested multimedia data segments from the caching nodes (3) and for serving... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090144421 - System and method for user behavioral management in a computing environment: A system and method for user behavioral management in a computing environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a computer having computing resources including, for example, a plurality of applications installed thereon. A monitoring module is associated with the computer in order to monitor a plurality of utilization... Agent: Scott T. Griggs

20090144422 - Global load based file allocation among a plurality of geographically distributed storage nodes: A method for balancing loads on a plurality of geographically distributed storage nodes coupled to a communications network, includes: receiving a request from a user device to download a data file; identifying all storage nodes from a plurality of geographically distributed storage nodes containing the requested data file; selecting a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090144426 - Method and device for user management in presence system and presence system: To reduce traffic between multiple servers in a presence system and improve the performance of the presence system, a method and device is provided for user-management in a presence system, and a presence system. The presence system comprises multiple presence servers communicating through a network, and said device for user-management... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20090144427 - Method and system for optimally allocating a network service: A network service allocation device is disclosed. The device comprises a probe, a module, and an engine. The device collects performance data relating to the physical characteristics of a distributed data processing system. The module utilizes the performance data to identify two or more node clusters on the distributed data... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090144424 - Network bandwidth detection and distribution: In a node configured to communicate with one or more other nodes over a network, available bandwidth for network traffic may be distributed among two or more distinct channels of communication within a single application running on the node. An available bandwidth may be detected for communication between the first... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20090144425 - Network bandwidth detection, distribution and traffic prioritization: Network bandwidth detection and distribution and prioritizing network traffic among two or more distinct channels of communication within a single application in a node configured to communicate with one or more other nodes over a network is disclosed. For a particular time quantum, a bandwidth quantum may be distributed amongst... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20090144423 - Network traffic prioritization: Prioritizing network traffic among two or more distinct channels of communication within a single application in a node configured to communicate with one or more other nodes over a network is disclosed. For a particular time quantum, a bandwidth quantum may be distributed amongst two or more communication channels according... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20090144431 - Guaranteed quality multimedia service over managed peer-to-peer network or ngn: Methods and systems are provided for guaranteed quality multimedia service over managed peer-to-peer networks (also known as super peer-to-peer, sP2P, networks). A managed peer-to-peer network (1) for providing a guaranteed quality multimedia service is disclosed. The network comprises at least one caching node (3) for caching multimedia data segments; an... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090144429 - Method and apparatus for identifying an ims service: An apparatus and method for indicating the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) services to which a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message relates. One or more communication service identifiers are added to the SIP message as a Feature Tag.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090144428 - Method and apparatus for multimodal voice and web services: This invention is based on being able to locate a voice server, temporarily allocate it, send it the audio of you saying “When is flight 683 due to arrive?”, getting the results of what you said back in the browser, and deallocating the voice server for use by the next... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090144430 - System and method for dynamic negotiation of device name with wildcard character: A method and system for dynamically negotiating a device name for establishing a communications session between a host computer and a client computer are provided. A host computer receives from a client computer, a device name that includes as part of the device name at least a wildcard character. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090144432 - Enabling remote locale specific operations in multiple locale and user environments: A computer-implemented method of negotiating locale settings among a plurality of users communicating over a communication network can include determining a locale for each of a plurality of remotely located users, identifying at least one locale setting for each of the plurality of users according to the locale of each... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20090144435 - Method and apparatus for sharing data in near field communication network: A method for managing data between a plurality of electronic devices in a Near Field Communication (NFC) network in which a first electronic device initially establishes a communication link with at least one of the plurality of electronic devices. The desktop configuration information is then exchanged with at least another... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090144434 - Method for device capability negotiation, method, system and device for synchronization: Method for device capability negotiation, and method, system and device for synchronization. The synchronization system includes a synchronization server and a synchronization client. The synchronization server or the synchronization client is adapted to skip the device capability negotiation and directly perform a synchronization with the synchronization server and the synchronization... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090144433 - Traffic differentiated network services: A method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided for efficiently providing network services to client devices based on the network traffic to be communicated between the device and the network. A system is provided that includes a number of home agents configured to provide network services to mobile nodes. The... Agent: Sprint Communications Company L.p.

20090144436 - Reverse network authentication for nonstandard threat profiles: A client-server communication protocol permits the server to authenticate the client without requiring the client to authenticate the server. After establishing the half-authenticated connection, the client transmits a request and the server performs or responds accordingly. A network management system and environment where this protocol can be used is also... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090144437 - Securing a server in a dynamic addressing environment: A dynamic address router may provide dynamically updated routing to a device with a dynamic network address as well as provide a security certificate for the device. The device may be routed using a subordinate domain name. The principal domain name and a security certificate may be held by a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090144438 - Standards enabled media streaming: A system and method are provided for streaming media from a media device to a client device using a standards platform, as opposed to a proprietary platform. In one example, the method involves sending an invite for communication to the media device, receiving an acceptance of the invite for communication... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090144439 - Method and system for streaming images to wireless devices: A method for interactively viewing raster images using scalable vector graphics (SVG), including receiving an SVG document, the SVG document including a reference to a raster image within the SVG document, the reference indicating a rectangular portion, a display width and height, and an IP address for a server computer,... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090144440 - Transaction acceleration using application-specific locking: A data access request from an application for access to a data resource is received from a first application. The data access request is analyzed to identify application-specific behavior indicating a type of data access for the data resource. The WAN acceleration functionality of a first device is configured for... Agent: General - Law Office Of Jonathan Hollander PC

20090144441 - Method and system for peer to peer wide area network communication: A method and system for peer to peer wide area network communication is provided. A peer in the network receives one or more media and one or more associated control signaling from any one of a plurality of Logical Media/Control Channels, wherein each Logical Media/Control Channel is associated with a... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090144442 - Access network system with separated control and bearer and method thereof for achieving communications: An access network system with separated control and bearer includes an access network control plane and an access network data plane for achieving separation of control and bearer. The access network control plane receives the control information separated from the access network data plane, exchanges the control information with a... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090144443 - Differentiated routing using tunnels in a computer network: In one embodiment, one or more tunnel mesh groups may be established in at least a portion of a computer network, where each tunnel mesh group corresponds to a differentiated routing profile. Traffic may then be received at the portion of the computer network, the traffic indicating a particular differentiated... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090144444 - Technique for addressing a cluster of network servers: A single firewall or cluster of firewalls with a public IP address is interfaced to an internet public subnet to receive service requests for a cluster of network servers. A first private subnet with a plurality of private IP addresses is interfaced to the single firewall or cluster of firewalls... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090144445 - Method for transmitting messages: In order to provide a method for transmitting messages between a number of nodes (1, 2, 3, 4) of a network over two channels (A, B) which ensures reliable message transmission even in the event of a failure of one of the two channels (A, B), it is proposed that,... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090144446 - Remediation management for a network with multiple clients: An exemplary method directs client devices client devices in a computing network to a remediation node. A subset of the client devices to receives remediation services is identified with a single common label. Upon determining that one of the client devices originating a communication request packet is identified by the... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20090144447 - Resource identifier personalization: A uniform resource locator (URL) including an identification of a network resource and one or more tag-variable sets may be determined. One or more variables associated with the URL may be determined based on the tag-variable sets, wherein each tag-variable set may include a variable and a corresponding tag. A... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090144448 - Enhanced method and apparatus for selecting and rendering performance data: Enhanced methodology and apparatus for use in a multi-player video game for generating a array of user selectable options for choosing real or computer generated users to play with and/or compete against. For example, in a simulated multiple driver racing game application, the user of a computing device is presented... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20090144449 - Service oriented integration server architecture: An integration server architecture (ISA) that facilitates communication between processes that do not share a common message format or use a common communication protocol. The ISA comprises a combination of adapters and a Queuing and Translation Engine (QTE). Every process that uses the ISA must have an adapter designed to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090144450 - Synching multiple connected systems according to business policies: Apparatus and methods are described for synching data of multiple connected systems according to business policies utilized for common computing goals, such as identity management. A plurality of connectors interface with a corresponding one of the computing systems and have at least one object or attribute indicative of a status... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20090144451 - Synchronization of locally and remotely stored browser data: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for displaying information within a browser. Server browser information is stored on a web server. The server browser information includes a set of first category categories and a set of second category categories. An indication of whether a user is on... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090144452 - Implementing conditional packet alterations based on transmit port: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing conditional packet alterations based upon a transmit port. A selection mechanism is provided for implementing packet alterations. A sequence of frame alteration instructions and transmit port numbers associated with a packet being transmitted is applied to the selection mechanism.... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917