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

20080104166 - Mobile operation support center: Modular mobile operation support center for supporting oilfield operations is disclosed that overcomes the lack of mobility or quick-response capability of existing solutions and well as other problems. The modular mobile operation support center comprises one or more portable, self-contained modules or stations, each module or station capable of providing... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20080104165 - System and method for providing network connectivity and computer status information: The present system and method for providing network connectivity and computer status information is displayed to a user and presents useful troubleshooting information related to various networks and computer status information. The present system includes means for determining at least one of the group consisting of a computer's IP address,... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080104168 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for displaying high resolution content related to the exploration and production of geologic resources in a thin client computer network: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for displaying high resolution content generated by a securely hosted application program for the exploration and production of geologic resources on a thin client system in a client/server computer network. A user interface is presented for accessing the application program which is hosted... Agent: Merchant & Gould P.C.

20080104167 - Systems and methods for conducting internet content usage experiments: A system and method for efficiently executing a plurality of live parallel Internet content usage experiments using a large pool of randomly selected participating users (separated into control and test groups) while minimally disturbing offered content is provided. In an illustrative implementation, a content provider communicates the parameters for a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080104170 - Collaborative networks for parallel downloads of content: Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) are described herein that relate to parallel downloads of content using devices. The tools for parallel downloading may cause a first device to request that a second device collaborate in downloading the content from a server. The tools may also cause the first device to... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080104172 - Content delivery in virtual social networks: Systems and methods for content delivery in virtual social networks are provided. Content may be provided to the virtual social network by users of the virtual social network, professional content developers, etc. Any content provided to the virtual social network may be stored in a content database and tagged based... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104169 - Processing initiate notifications for different modes of communication: A method and system for processing initiate notifications for a mode of communication received during a conversation of a current mode of communication is provided. A conversation system coordinates a real-time conversation for a current mode of communication. When the conversation system receives an initiate notification that a user requests... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080104171 - Method and apparatus for automatically data streaming a multiparty conference session: A system, method and computer program product having instructions stored thereon for automatically data streaming a multiparty conference session comprises receiving an Internet-based interface at a session moderator, said Internet-based interface configured for said session moderator to enter a request for data streaming a multiparty conference session, automatically establishing a... Agent: West Corporation C/o Michele Zarinelli

20080104173 - Third-party application chat integration: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to persisting threads of conversation from a messaging system and provide a method, system and computer program product for third-party application chat integration. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for third-party application chat integration can be... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080104174 - Method and apparatus for remote processing of image data: A technique is provided for collaboratively processing and/or analyzing a set of image data. The technique provides for the initiation of a collaborative session by an application server. One or more collaborative workstations may join the collaborative session, providing common access to an image data set and to tools for... Agent: Ge Healthcare C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20080104175 - Automatically transmitting e-mail to specified backup address for out-of-office recipient: An Out-of-Office utility provides a notification reminder to an email sender and automatically populates the address field with an email address of a specific backup recipient when the sender composes an email to an out-of-office recipient from whom the sender had previously received an automated out-of-office reply. When an automated... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080104181 - Electronic mail processing system: Systems and methods for processing electronic messages are described. One embodiment of the invention includes a message processing system connected to a network and the message processing system includes a mail processing unit connected to the network and a mail server connected to the mail processing unit. In addition, the... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20080104183 - Graphical presentation of e-mail: The invention relates to presenting e-mails to a user in a manner that graphically depicts topic threads between the e-mails and enables the user to pursue a particular thread to view associated e-mails.... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080104179 - Intelligent physical mail handling system: A system and method for handling unwanted physical mail pieces having a sorter and imager which intercepts one or more pieces of physical mail, which produces an electronic image of a front panel of each piece of mail, and which physically retains pieces of mail in temporary physical storage, and... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20080104176 - Intelligent physical mail handling system for conducting a mailing campaing with a virtual mail preview: A method of controlling bulk mail processing equipment through previewing bulk mail to intended recipients. Intended recipients view proposed mail piece front panel information prior to the actual production of the mail pieces. Intended recipients indicate which pieces of a mail are acceptable to receive, and which would be rejected... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20080104178 - Intelligent physical mail handling system with bulk mailer notification: A system and method for notifying bulk mail senders of unwanted and rejected pieces of physical mail, including a sorter and imager which intercepts one or more pieces of physical mail, which produces an electronic image of a front panel of each piece of mail, and which physically retains pieces... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20080104177 - Method to facilitate sender notification of out-of-office status of e-mail addressee: A method, system and computer program product for providing an out-of-office notification reminder to a user composing and sending emails from an email account is presented. In particular, an Out-of-Office utility provides a notification reminder to an email sender if the sender composes an email to an out-of-office recipient from... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080104180 - Reputation-based method and system for determining a likelihood that a message is undesired: A system and method for providing a reputation service for use in messaging environments employs a reputation of compiled statistics, representing whether SPAM messages have previously been received from respective a selected set of identifiers for the origin of the message, in a decision making process for newly received messages.... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080104182 - Server apparatus and method of preventing denial of service attacks, and computer program product: A server apparatus receives a query message, calculates an identifying data based on an address and a query name containing in the query message, creates a response message containing the identifying data for requesting a redirect reply or a response message containing an answer to the query name, determines whether... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080104186 - Automated whitelist: A system and method are disclosed for maintaining a whitelist, including: obtaining message data based on an email message sent by a user; extracting recipient information from message data; updating the whitelist using the recipient information.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104188 - Message challenge response: A system and method are disclosed for registering a email sender for the purpose of sending an email message to an email receiver including receiving a challenge message wherein the challenge message includes a machine answerable question; processing the challenge message to determine that it is a challenge message sent... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104185 - Message classification using allowed items: A system and method are disclosed for classifying a message. The method includes receiving the message, identifying all items of a certain type in the message, determining whether each of the items meets a criterion, and in the event that all the items are determined to meet the criterion, determining... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104187 - Message testing: A system and method are disclosed for routing a message through a plurality of test methods. The method includes: receiving a message; applying a first test method to the message; updating a state of the message based on the first test method; and determining a second test method to be... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104190 - Method of managing e-mail messages: In a data processing system (100) supporting an electronic mail messaging system, a method of managing e-mail messages comprising, under the control of a mail user agent of a message sender user (QRS): keeping a list (455,450) of messages sent by the message sender user; enabling the sender user selecting... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080104184 - Using distinguishing properties to classify messages: A system and method are disclosed for classifying a message. The method includes receiving the message, identifying in the message a distinguishing property; generating a signature using the distinguishing property; and comparing the signature to a database of signatures generated by previously classified messages.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104189 - Web interface to a device and an electrical network control system: A method and interface module for communicating messages with a remote location and to provide access to an at least one intelligent electronic device (IED) operably connected to a communication network. The interface module is comprised of a central processing unit and an operating system operating the central processing unit.... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group (b&w)

20080104191 - Intelligent physical mail handling process: A method of generating revenue in return for a service of handling unwanted physical pieces of mail such as letters, flyers, pamphlets, and catalogs, through notifying bulk mail senders of unwanted and rejected pieces of physical mail, including a sorter and imager which intercepts one or more pieces of physical... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20080104192 - Method and system for negotiating interface data path establishment: A method and system for negotiating interface data path establishment is provided in the invention, including: making a decision, by Target ASN-GW, on whether to establish an R4 data path or an redirect R3 data path, and sending a corresponding request to the Anchor ASN-GW according to the decision; and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080104193 - Clustered storage system with external storage systems: A data storage system comprises a first platform storage system including a first network interface to communicate with a host computer, a first storage unit to provide storage volumes, a first storage controller to control the first storage unit, and a first memory to store a first control program to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080104194 - Content request optimization: Content item requests are identified in a web page source document. For each request, it is determined if a content item request has been generated, and if a content item request has not been generated, a content item request for all requests in the web page source document is generated.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080104198 - Extensible cache-safe links to files in a web page: Linking content and functionality files in a cached client-side web page to a corresponding server-side web page is provided so that a client-side browsing application is notified of changes made to the server-side web page to allow the client-side browsing application to retrieve a server-side web page or server-side web... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080104199 - Identity and preference management via universal identifier: A system is disclosed for utilizing a universal identifier (“ID”) that allows for access to information associated with the ID. The ID may be a substitute for a variety of information, such as contact information. When a user requests information for a given ID, an ID server may provide that... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080104197 - Method and apparatus for distribution of data among computing resources: A method and apparatus for distribution of data among computing resources are disclosed. A data provider system architecture for “grid” computing resources can include a plurality of data providers. At least some of the data providers each have an associated cache for storing data to provide the data to the... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Bofa

20080104196 - Network access device capability alert mechanism: A system on a computer network device for managing a network access device capability arranged to alert a computer network administrator if a network access device lacks the capability to implement a user access profile.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104195 - Offline execution of web based applications: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for offline execution of Web based applications. Embodiments of the present invention facilitate the local storage of Web based executable instructions and data at a computer system. The Web based executable instructions and data can be used to locally... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080104200 - System and method for wireless data terminal management using telecommunication signaling network: A method, system, and computer program product that provides the capability to manage, control, and reconfigure wireless devices remotely over a wireless network with acceptable reliability and security. A method for remotely managing a wireless device over a telecommunications network comprising a server and the wireless device, the method comprises... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080104201 - System and method for utilizing mobile station information in a communication system: A system and method for utilizing MS information in a communication system are provided, in which an MS, an MS information server stores MS information about the at least one MS, a content server receives the MS information from the MS information server, upon receipt of the request for the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080104204 - Method and apparatus for power-managing storage devices in a storage pool: A method for power-managing storage devices in a storage pool involves monitoring the storage pool to determine whether a storage management policy is satisfied, where the storage pool comprises a first storage device that is powered up and a second storage device that is powered down, powering up the second... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080104202 - Multi-dvr media content arbitration: Multi-DVR (digital video recorder) media content arbitration is described. In an embodiment, client devices are each a node of a multi-DVR system where the nodes are implemented for communication with each other. An arbitration algorithm can arbitrate media content rendered by the client devices so as not to exceed a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080104203 - Viewing digital information over a network: Methods and systems described herein provide a name-based access mechanism that can enable name-based requests to be generated and sent to a server to retrieve correspondingly named parts of a document. In at least some embodiments, a resource designator associated with the document is wrapped or encapsulated using a special... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080104205 - Method and system for providing media content over a computer network: A method and system to provide a media file appropriate for playback. The system identifies an ability of a computer system to playback media content locally by querying a computer system over a network to assess a local playback capability of the computer system. Next, the system creates the media... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080104206 - Efficient knowledge representation in data synchronization systems: An efficient way is provided to represent and exchange knowledge across nodes when synchronizing between any two nodes. A first node sends a second node its knowledge, including objects and versions of those objects. The second node compares its knowledge with the knowledge of the first node, and then sends... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080104207 - Use of configurations in device with multiple configurations: The invention relates to a method for arranging use of configurations in a device with multiple configuration data sets manageable by one or more external managing entities. The device comprises access control information originated and/or controlled by an external managing entity for defining a right to access a configuration data... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20080104208 - Appliance network with a client driver: A network includes an appliance with a node on the network. The node has a unique software architecture that enables the node to expose its functionality to the network. A client has a driver to enable communication with the node so that the client can affect a cycle of operation... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20080104209 - Network based device for providing rfid middleware functionality: Some embodiments of the present invention provide middleware functionality integrated into a module of a network device, such as a router or switch, that is configured to provide application-oriented network (“AON”) services. Some preferred implementations of the invention provide policy-based application services for RFID data, such as conditional routing, security... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080104211 - Remotely-controlled imaging system: A remotely-controlled imaging system for capturing and transmitting images and videos from an image capturing device to a Web portal on the World Wide Web. The Web portal is capable of storing, organizing and presenting those images and videos to Web users. The image capture device's operating parameters may be... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20080104210 - Systems and methods for signal reduction in wireless communication: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for managing wireless communication sessions with reduced signaling. A system of the present invention includes an Access Gateway (AGW) system configured to interface with at least one radio access network and at least one packet data network, wherein the AGW system... Agent: Wilmerhale/dc

20080104212 - Software architecture system with embedded virtual router: The invention relates to a network system of at least two appliances, each appliance configured to perform a cycle of operation on an article, and each appliance having its own software architecture. An embedded virtual router enables communication among appliance components independent of the architecture of the software.... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20080104219 - Content sharing system, content management server, client station, method for managing content, method for acquiring content, and program: A content sharing system includes a plurality of client stations, each including a content acquiring unit, and one or more content management servers that manage a plurality of content items. The content management server includes a storage unit that stores meta data of the content items, a tree structure generating... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080104220 - Identity migration apparatus and method: An identity migration program provides interfaces for a user to manage operations for migrating locally-managed identities to centrally-managed identities. The provided interfaces include a project management interface, an identity selection interface, a migration rule editor interface, and a project scheduling interface. In certain embodiments, the identity migration program includes a... Agent: Utah Valley Patent Services, LLC

20080104214 - Message dissemination: A method of generating a message by providing on a communication channel an indication of a message identifier, the combination of communication channel and identifier uniquely indicating a message for any specific destination.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080104217 - Method and system for executing and undoing distributed server change operations: A method and system for executing and undoing distributed server change operations for a collection of server objects across multiple target servers in a transaction-safe manner is provided. In one embodiment, server change operations for a collection of server objects, such as files and configuration file entries, are specified in... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080104216 - Method and system for managing and monitoring virtual storage servers of a hosting storage server: A storage management application is provided to manage and monitor virtual storage servers in a hosting storage server. In addition, in order to facilitate virtual storage server management and monitoring, a virtual storage server administrator role is provided. The role is allowed to access details of the virtual storage server... Agent: Network Appliance/blakely

20080104215 - Method and system for managing server configuration data: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions for managing server configuration data by configuring a first server using local server configuration data, where the local server configuration data is stored on the first server and as shared server configuration data by a first directory service instance operating on the first... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080104218 - Methods and apparatus for membership management of network nodes: Techniques for managing membership of a network of nodes are provided. Nodes of the network are organized into a tree structure having a plurality of vertices. Each vertex of the tree structure comprises a group having a plurality of nodes. Membership information is maintained at each node. The membership information... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080104213 - Network administration systems and methods: Network administration systems and methods are disclosed. In an exemplary implementation, a method of administering a computer network may include listening to inter-switch communication at a server computer in the computer network. The method may also include parsing the inter-switch communication. The method may also include extracting data about the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104221 - Method and system for simple network management protocol based data management: A method and a system for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-based data management are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a network element, a data management control message from a network manager through a data management node set in an SNMP Management Information Base (MIB); and implementing, by the network... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080104222 - Application usage metering management system: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for managing an application usage metering system are disclosed. Embodiments of the method may include initiating discovery agents for one or more server resources and interrogating by the discovery agents the one or more server resources to discover a plurality of discrete server processes... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080104224 - Method and apparatus for determining application responsiveness over a network: Application responsiveness over a network, such as for a web site or web-based application, is monitored and optionally recorded by tracking actual end users interacting with the application and the time it takes for their requested web pages to load. The process involves a web server that sends instrumented web... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080104230 - Method and system for monitoring performance of a client-server architecture: An arrangement which jointly exploits an agent component installed in a server-side portion of client-server architecture for emulating requests of actual clients of the client-server architecture and measuring a server execution time indicative of a time elapsed between reception of an emulated end-user request at a server component and generation... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080104228 - Method and system for providing recommendations for internet content providers: A user's content presentation device automatically measures the technical objective quality of an Internet video stream and/or estimates the perceived subjective quality of the stream, and provides feedback to the user regarding one or both of these estimates.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080104236 - Network management method and network management program: Blade enclosures are connected to storage devices through FC switches, and management blades and FC switches are connected to a SAN management device. Automatic setting modular program displays an input screen on a display. A manager inputs IP addresses of FC switches so as to be associated with IP address... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080104231 - Network monitoring system and method: A method for monitoring a wireless channel or wireless network. Preferably, the method and system monitors a web-based network. Active data probing is used to estimate bandwidth availability when no a-priori knowledge of the current channel or network condition is available, and passive monitoring is used to track ongoing web... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080104223 - Plug-in accelerator: A system and method for accelerating the execution of applications in computing environments. The method includes receiving a request for execution of a plug-in of a computing application and analyzing a network for accelerators for executing the plug-in. The method further includes identifying a designated accelerator residing on a device... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080104227 - Searching and route mapping based on a social network, location, and time: A device, system, and method are directed towards providing location information from a social network. A GPS coordinate and a search criterion are received from a client device associated with a member of a social network. The social network is searched for another member associated with a location name based... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080104232 - System and method for preventing unauthorized bridging to a computer network: The invention provides a system and method for enhancing the security of a computer network by automatically preventing unauthorized bridging to the network. In several embodiments, software operative on the network allows activation of only a single communications adapter while inactivating all other communications adapters installed on each computer authorized... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20080104229 - Systems and methods for managing event messages: In one embodiment a method for managing event messages includes predicting an event message arrival rate, determining a current capacity of an event message repository in which received event messages are stored, and calculating a time at which to perform event message deletion relative to the predicted event message arrival... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104226 - Using feed usage data in an access controlled team project site environment: Feed usage information can be generated. Entries within an existing server log can be identified. The entries can correspond to user requests for a feed from a selected Website. Feed usage data from the identified entries can be identified. The feed usage data can be stored within the selected Website.... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20080104225 - Visualization application for mining of social networks: A social network visualization and mining system that includes a visualization application for mining social networks of users in an online social network. This visualization can be used to mine the social network for additional information and intelligence. The social network is displaying in graphical form, such as a node-link... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080104234 - Distinguishing between live content and recorded content: Distinguishing between live and recorded content in a network comprising a rendering device, an access device, and a storage device. The rendering device broadcasts a message requesting devices in the network to respond if they diffuse a content, and sets a timer. The devices respond if they diffuse the content.... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080104235 - Message classification: A technique for classifying a message is disclosed. The technique includes determining the domain from which the message is purported to be sent, determining an IP address from which the message was relayed at some point in its transmission, associating the domain with the IP address, and classifying the message... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080104233 - Network communication method and apparatus: A networked computing platform implements an opportunistic data communication method. The computing platform creates, at the instigation of at least one application executing on the platform, data packets for transmission over a network. The packets are created using a hierarchy of programs (‘stack’) implementing a corresponding hierarchical suite of network... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104237 - Auto-generation or auto-execution of web service description language call flow implementation: Development tooling receives the extended Web services description language with call flow interactions. The development tooling allows the user to select trivial message exchanges in the call flow. The development tooling may generate servlets for the selected message exchanges automatically to form a template form of the application that will... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080104238 - Extending web service description language for sip/call flow interactions: An extended Web services description language (WSDL) is provided to allow for the merging of call flow XML with the interface description. This is accomplished through additional WSDL bindings for operations that associate an operation with segments or message points within the call flow. In addition, the extension to WSDL... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080104239 - Method and system of managing accounts by a network server: Methods and systems of managing accounts by a network server. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are network server devices comprising a processor, and a non-volatile storage device coupled to the processor. The network server device does not support a directly coupled display device. The processor receives account information... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104240 - Method of cascading transfer of authorization rights for file access: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for transferring authorization rights to access a file. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: designating a location to store the file; creating a file-transfer-reference for the file based on the location; creating an... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080104241 - Terminal device management system, data relay device, internetwork connection device, and quarantine method of terminal device: A proxy server includes a harmful site information memory portion storing source site identification information for identifying a Web site that provides harmful data, an access log memory portion storing a data obtaining log indicating which terminal device has obtained which data, an access control portion making the terminal device... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080104242 - Balancing wireless access based on centralized information: A method and apparatus for managing and balancing wireless access based on centralized information is provided. A request to provide service to a wireless client is received from a first access node in a plurality of access node. An access policy, applicable to the first access node, is selected from... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080104247 - Adaptive management of computing resources: A method of managing a plurality of computing resources including obtaining a first load threshold and a second load threshold, obtaining a first load value and a second load value, comparing the first load threshold and the second load threshold with the first load value and the second load value,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080104248 - Computer system and method for monitoring performance of the computer system: Provided is a computer system including a host computer, a storage system connected to the host computer via a network, and a management computer connected to the host computer and the storage system, in which the management computer obtains performance information indicating performance of resources contained in at least one... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080104250 - Identity migration system apparatus and method: An identity migration agent operating on a local identity server and/or user computer retrieves locally managed identities for an identity migration server. The migration server merges the locally managed identities with centrally managed identities according to a plurality of rules, and creates an identity map that maps the locally managed... Agent: Utah Valley Patent Services, LLC

20080104249 - Method and apparatus for preventing duplicate saving of resource between universal plug and play devices providing content directory service: A method and apparatus for preventing duplicate saving of a resource between universal plug and play (UPnP) devices, which provide content directory service during content synchronization, are provided. The method includes receiving a change log including metadata about a changed resource from a UPnP device of a transmitter, determining whether... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080104246 - Method and apparatus for tagging content data: An apparatus for tagging and provisioning user generated content in an intuitive-associative manner, comprising: a content item receiver, configured to receive at least one user generated content item from a first user, a content tag assigner, configured to assign at least one tag to at least one of the received... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080104244 - Provisioning of resources in a computer network: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for selectively and programmatically provisioning resources on a computer network. A role-based access manager discovers one or more network resources. A provisioning manager then provisions the discovered network resources.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080104243 - System and method for dynamic allocation of information handling system network addresses: Network addresses are dynamically allocated to blade information handling systems supported by a blade chassis having plural blade slots. A network address seed stored in memory associated with the blade chassis is retrieved by a management controller of a blade information handling system and applied by a network address generator... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080104245 - System and method for selectively controlling the addition of reserve computing capacity: In one embodiment, a system and method is disclosed for changing the resource availability of a particular user in a manner calculated to add the least cost to the user. A cluster of partition servers are arranges, in one embodiment, with a master controller for keeping track at any point... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104251 - Method for realizing dynamic qos in wimax system and a wimax system: Embodiments of the invention disclose a method for realizing WIMAX dynamic QoS and a WIMAX system. The method includes: a media gateway making awareness of the type of a service requested by a user terminal, and notifies a subscriber station to establish a corresponding connection with a base station; the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080104253 - Obje network device service apparatus and method in upnp network system: An Obje network device service apparatus in a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) network system, the apparatus including: an information providing unit which discovers an Obje device, and provides information about the discovered Obje device; and an Obje service generation unit which generates a UPnP device, a counter Obje component,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080104252 - Resuming a computing session when rebooting a computing device: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for transparently resuming the network connection after a reset or reboot. In one aspect a data processing apparatus comprises an operating system unit configured to create and store state information comprising one or more parameters for a network connection between a first computing device and... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080104254 - System and method for establishing and maintaining a voice over internet protocol connection between wireless devices: A system and method for establishing and maintaining a voice over internet protocol connection between wireless devices, in one example embodiment, may comprise a receiving module to receive a communication device identifier, and a request to establish a communication data link to another communication device. The communication device identifier may... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080104261 - Method to configure a network device, service providing system, service providing device, and computer usable medium therefor: A method to configure a service providing system having a service providing device and a service requesting device in a network is provided. The method includes steps of obtaining function parameters, which indicate specific values configurable in the service requesting device for receiving the data processing service, when the service... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080104259 - Methods and systems for communicating with storage devices in a storage system: Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for communicating with storage devices in a storage system. One embodiment includes calculating a time for a host computer to abort data requests in a storage network; receiving a data request at a storage device from the host computer; and sending the host computer... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080104255 - Sharing state information between dynamic web page generators: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for sharing session state information between the web page generation infrastructures. A web page generation infrastructure receives a request for a web page from a client computer system, where the request is directed to one of the other web... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080104256 - System and method for adaptively refreshing a web page: An improved system and method is provided for adaptively refreshing a web page. A base version of the web page may be partitioned into a collection of fragments. Then the collection of fragments may be compared with the corresponding fragments of a recent version of the web page to determine... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080104258 - System and method for dynamic data discovery in service oriented networks with peer-to-peer based communication: A method and apparatus for dynamically discovering and communicating data in a communications network are described. A broker in a communications network receives a communication from a first service provider over the communications network, the broker comprising a metabroker and a service broker. The metabroker communicates messages to the service... Agent: Jones Day

20080104257 - System and method using a refresh policy for incremental updating of web pages: An improved system and method is provided for adaptively refreshing a web page. A base version of the web page may be partitioned into a collection of fragments. Then the collection of fragments may be compared with the corresponding fragments of a recent version of the web page to determine... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080104260 - Systems and methods for information exchange using object warehousing: Embodiments of the present invention improve information exchange, and in particular, the exchange of data objects between different software systems. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of exchanging information comprising receiving a first transport request, the transport request comprising one or more first transport attributes, wherein the... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group P.C.

20080104262 - Method for minimizing denial of service attacks on network servers: A method for providing communications network security can include receiving a round-trip network latency for a client specifying an open port duration. A port can be opened to receive a request from the client. The port can be closed when an amount of time at least as great as the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080104264 - Load balancing in a storage system: Link level load balancing is provided based on time utilization of a link or workload utilization of a device. Time utilization achieves load balancing by giving each device the same amount of connection time to perform Input/Output tasks. Workload utilization achieves load balancing by managing a number of frames or... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080104265 - Method and system for string preferences extension for media transfer protocol: In a method and system for indicating a string preferences extension for the media transfer protocol (MTP), a preferred string format for string transfers to and/or from a device that communicates via said MTP may be specified in one or more extensions of the MTP. The preferred string format for... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080104266 - Reliable messaging using message streams in a high speed, low latency data communications environment: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reliable messaging using message streams in a high speed, low latency data communications environment that include: receiving, in a transport engine of a message receiving device from an active message sending device, active transport packets on an active message stream established from the... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080104267 - Systems and methods for reducing display latency between streaming digital media: A client-side device is able to request streaming media from a server over a network connection. In one embodiment, the client device sends streaming media requests to the server and, in response, a streaming media connection is established between the client-side device and the server in accordance with an appropriate... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080104268 - Controlling subscriber information rates in a content delivery network: A plurality of content providers provide multiple resources to multiple clients. At least some of the resources are to be served to clients from a shared content delivery network (CDN) formed by a plurality of repeater servers. Each content provider provides at least some resources via one or more content... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080104269 - Method and apparatus for web browser page fragmentation: A method, in a web page fragmentation server proxy having a processor, communication means and memory, of providing new and updated fragments to a mobile device, the mobile device requesting a web page with the request including identifiers for fragments of the web page already stored by the mobile device,... Agent: Moffat & Co

20080104270 - Method and apparatus for communicating information about a data reception environment: A method and apparatus for communicating data. The method of receiving data by a first device from a second device includes generating a session initiation protocol (SIP) message including information on a data reception environment of the first device; transmitting the generated message to the second device; and receiving data... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080104271 - Method and apparatus for providing an integrated network of processors: A novel network architecture that integrates the functions of an internet protocol (IP) router into a network processing unit (NPU) that resides in a host computer's chipset such that the host computer's resources are perceived as separate network appliances. The NPU appears logically separate from the host computer even though,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080104272 - Method and system for routing a message over a home network: A method and system are described for routing messages over a home network. In one aspect of the subject matter disclosed herein, a method for routing a message over a home network is described. The method includes establishing a relationship between a home network appliance class and a home network... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080104273 - Distributed traffic controller for network data: A distributed gateway for controlling computer network data traffic dynamically reconfigures traffic assignments among multiple gateway machines for increased network availability. If one of the distributed gateway machines becomes unavailable, traffic assignments are moved among the multiple machines such that network availability is substantially unchanged. The machines of the distributed... Agent: Law Offices Of Barry N. Young

20080104274 - Name service in a multihop wireless ad hoc network: A naming service in a multihop wireless ad hoc network having a plurality of network nodes. A database in each node stores information associating user information with network information. The stored user information may include user identifications, available services, authority levels of users, and network addresses. When changes occur to... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080104275 - Visual guidance and verification for interconnecting nodes: Systems, methods, and software for guiding electronic connections between nodes of a computer system are disclosed. A system includes a plurality of servers, each having a plurality of connection ports and a service processor in electronic communication with the connection ports. A plurality of selectively-operable visual indicators are included, each... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/nc) C/o Streets & Steele

20080104276 - Real-time identification of an asset model and categorization of an asset to assist in computer network security: A unique identifier is assigned to a network node and is used to obtain an “asset model” corresponding to the node and to determine whether the node is a member of a particular category. An asset model is a set of information about a node (e.g., the node's role within... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080104277 - Method, system, client and server for implementing data sync: This invention discloses a method for synchronizing a plurality of devices, including: obtaining, by a first device, an extended address of an informational node of a plurality of informational nodes of a second device, the plurality of informational nodes arranged in a hierarchical tree structure; and utilizing the extended address... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080104278 - Port configuration: Methods, computer readable media, and device embodiments are provided for port configuration. One method embodiment includes defining a number of ports for which a number of port configuration properties are to be configured, grouping the number of ports into one or more port configuration groups, and defining the number of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080098059 - Distributed data handling and processing resources system: The distributed data handling and processing resources system of the present invention includes a) a number of data handling and processing resource nodes that collectively perform a desired data handling and processing function, each data handling and processing resource node for providing a data handling/processing subfunction; and, b) a low... Agent: William C. Anderson Boeing Management Company

20080098060 - Methods and systems for presence-based telephony communications: A system and method can enable a user of a communications network, such as a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), wireless and/or voice over IP network to participate in Presence Availability Management (PAM) and Instant Messaging (IM) activities of a PAM/IM network. In response to phone network triggers, a phone... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080098058 - Online ranking protocol: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for exchanging information in accordance with a protocol. In one aspect, signals reporting user actions related to resources and ranking data ranking the resources based on the signals are exchanged in accordance with a protocol. The protocol defines types of user actions... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080098061 - System and method for portable multimedia network learning machine and remote information transmission thereof: A kind of portable multimedia network learning machine, includes a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor, input unit and display, communication and download module, multimedia driving device and multimedia player. The said communication and download module are used for communicating with the calculator connected to the hand-held multimedia... Agent: GlobalIPServices

20080098063 - Method and device for controlling floor in push to service: A PT (e.g., Push-To-Talk, Push-To-View or Push-To-Data) service, and more particularly, to a method and device for controlling a floor (talk burst authority, permission to send media burst, etc.) in a PT service, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method for controlling a state of a Push-To (PT) server,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080098065 - Network robot system and method of communication therein: A communication method in a network robot system having a middleware processing communication between a plurality of sensors, a server, and a robot, the method including: setting previously a communication framework of the middleware for distributed processing of function of the robot by using the plurality of sensors and the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080098062 - Systems and methods for managing and monitoring mobile data, content, access, and usage: A system, method, and process for managing and monitoring mobile data, content, access, and usage of mobile devices are provided. The described exemplary system, method, and process provide an infrastructure for managing and monitoring various applications and services of mobile devices such as Internet access, voice, messaging, gaming, music, and... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080098064 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for transmitting virtual world content from a server system to a client: Virtual world content is transmitted from at least one server to at least one client computer by defining a camera position on the client computer and projecting a geometrical shape from the camera position in the direction of a viewing vector. This geometrical shape defines a subsection of the virtual... Agent: Eugene M. Cummings, P.C.

20080098067 - Method and system for eliminating time lost in initial stages of a web conference due to participants not being in-place on-time: A system for eliminating the time lost in initial stages of a Web conference due to participants not being in-place on-time is disclosed. The system enables automatic steps to be taken at the server to pull conference participants into a conference based on their acceptance of an invitation to the... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080098066 - System and method for implementing latest edition notification for messages of data processing systems: A computer-implementable method, system, and computer-readable medium for implementing latest edition notification for messages on a data processing system. An e-mail client receives from a server a first message in a conversation thread, wherein the conversation thread includes a collection of messages. In response to receiving a command from a... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080098069 - Dynamic creation of mail aliases usable in electronic communications: Mail aliases are dynamically created in response to replies of an electronic mail (e-mail) communication. An e-mail communication is sent to a plurality of recipients, and one or more recipients of the e-mail communication respond to the e-mail. In response to receiving the replies, one or more mail aliases are... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesitti P.C.

20080098073 - Email generation method and system: An email generation method and system. The method comprises receiving and storing by a computing system, a first data object. The computing system comprises XML files. Each XML file comprises email templates. The computing system receives language identification data identifying a first XML file of the XML files. The first... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080098072 - Method and process to add recipients to an on-going electronic message thread: A method, article, and system to implement software for enabling recipients to be added to an electronic message thread, while providing for the new recipient to receive previous messages within the electronic message thread. In addition, members that are currently a part of the message thread are notified of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080098071 - Method and process to unsubscribe from on-going electronic message threads: A method, article, and system to implement software for enabling recipients to unsubscribe from an electronic message thread, in which case, the electronic message will not be delivered into the recipient's box, and therefore will not be utilizing any of the recipient's inbox space. The message server will hold the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080098068 - Space-time communication system: A technique for performing message communications while assigning a space and respective time periods or time points at present, in past and in future is disclosed. A space-time object intercepts a message. Alternatively, this object per se executes the processing for immediately transmitting a message to a target object under... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080098076 - System and method of sharing contents using messenger: The present invention provides to a system and method of sharing contents using a messenger program, The system includes a device server which registers Consumer electronic (CE) devices of the same user and CE devices of different users, and generates a messenger account; a messenger server which registers the generated... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080098070 - System for adding new recipients to e-mail thread: A system for adding new recipients to an e-mail thread. The system includes a server device configured to administer an electronic mail (E-MAIL) application. At least one client device being operably associated via a network with the server device. The at least one client device configured to add new E-MAIL... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20080098077 - Authenticating electronic communications: A method includes generating an authenticity indicator for an electronic communication based on a comparison of domain name data and purported sender data associated with the electronic communication, the authenticity indicator indicating a likelihood that the electronic communication was sent from a purported sender of the electronic communication. The authenticity... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080098074 - Method and apparatus for motivation enhancement: An automated method for boosting and/or maintaining a sense of well being of a person an automated method and apparatus assists individuals in regularly breaking out of immediate stressful situations which may otherwise contribute to long term deterioration in their health, well-being and/or vitality. The method is implemented by a... Agent: Unilever Intellectual Property Group

20080098075 - Method and system for providing electronic communications with dynamically provided content to third party mail transfer agents: A system provides individualized communications to each user, based on data corresponding to each user, for placement into electronic communications by a sending party, that may not be related to the party providing the content. The content provided to the electronic communications may be generated at least in part when... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080098078 - System and method for forwarding full header information in email messages: Systems and methods for selectively forwarding full header information in email messages are presented. When an email message is received by a user, and the user chooses to forward the received email message, an option is provided to the user to either include the full header information of the received... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080098079 - Instant messaging system configured to facilitate event plan management: An instant messaging service is operated in cooperation with an event plan manager system. Information is received regarding a planned event from an instant messaging client with which an event organizer is associated and, based thereon, information is provided indicative of the planned event to the event plan manager system.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/yahoo

20080098080 - Extending functionality of workflow applications using instant messaging (im): Plug-ins for instant messaging (IM) systems are described. By using plug-ins in conjunction with IM systems, the functionality of IM systems may be greatly extended. Specifically, in business applications, such as workflow processes, IM provides a more reliable approach to determining actual delivery of messages.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080098081 - Moving image displaying method and system: A moving image displaying method to be executed in a network computer system having an operating-side computer and an operated-side computer coupled through a network, the operating-side computer coupling with the operated-side computer for performing input operation to the operated-side computer, and an operation result view appearing on the operated-side... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080098085 - Service enabled tagged user interfaces: In one aspect, in a computer-implemented method it is determined whether a placeholder corresponding to a service includes an identifier similar to a tag associated with an element of a user interface. The placeholder is replaced with a value of the element associated with the tag based on the results... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20080098083 - System and method for data de-duplication: A method of processing a file includes receiving a request to store the file, receiving the file, determining whether a database already contains the file, and storing the file in the database if the database does not already contain the file. A method of processing a file includes receiving a... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080098082 - Systems and methods for data transfer: A computer system is disclosed. The system comprises a connection interface, a download device and at least one first computer device. The first computer device generates a script file. The download device, coupled to the first computer device via the connection interface, comprises a processing unit, a network interface and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080098086 - file distribution system in which partial files are arranged according to various allocation rules associated with a plurality of file types: In a distributed file system, when a user requests a computer to create a distributed file, a management computer acquires a list of computers complying with an allocation rule selected by the user from allocation rules taking the performance, security level, reliability level and utility rate into consideration. When the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080098084 - Communicating additional information in a dns update response by requesting deletion of a specific record: A technique is performed within a DNS server to respond to a DNS message. The technique includes receiving the DNS message from a requesting device (e.g., a DHCP server), and generating a search result based on a search of a portion of the DNS message for a request to delete... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080098087 - Integrated electronic invitation process: A method and system to generate an electronic invitation are provided. The system may include a display module, a communications module and an invitation engine. The display module may be configured to display an invite control viewable with a member profile section. The member profile section may display a profile... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080098088 - Communication system, terminal device and communication device: A communication system including: a terminal (121); and a device (111), a device (112), and a device (113) existing within a LAN (110) connected to the terminal (121) through the Internet. The terminal (121) includes: a representative device preference storing unit (14) that stores information about processing performed by plural... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080098090 - Computer implemented system and methods for mapping using web-based content: Computer implemented systems and methods for mapping using web-based content is provided. In one embodiment, a computer implemented system for mapping over the Internet is provided, comprising: a computer for receiving a map request and a content request from a client computer, the map request including a request for location-based... Agent: Kalow & Springut LLP

20080098089 - Method and apparatus for retransmission request reduction in a network: A telecommunications system includes a connectionless network for distributing content which supports broadcast or multicast. The system includes a video server in communication with the network. The system includes a plurality of set-top boxes in communication with the network through which the set-top boxes receive packets from the server and... Agent: Ansel M. Schwartz Attorney At Law

20080098091 - System and method for providing personalized multimedia broadcasting over a mobile telecommunications radio area network: A system and method of providing personalized broadcast transmissions Broadcasting-Party-Designated Recipients over a mobile telecommunications Radio Area Network is provided. The Broadcasting Party can send multimedia content for a personalized broadcast to an IMS Application Server in a SIP Message and broadcast the multimedia content to the mobile telecommunications terminals... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080098092 - Microorganism separation system: when the microorganism detection sensor judges that a microorganism has passed, supply of the sample solution is stopped, the detected microorganism is discharged together with the sample solution, and then the solution starts to be injected into the receiver; and, the number of times microorganisms are detected during the time... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080098093 - Offline automated proxy cache for web applications: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for managing content updates for web-based applications. In one set of embodiments, a configurable proxy cache is provided that executes rule-based content updates of web content on the behalf of an application (e.g., web browser) while the application is not running. This allows... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080098094 - Automated operating system device driver updating system: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for updating device drivers of an operating system for a server computer system are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for updating device drivers for a server computer system by a build server. Embodiments of the method may include determining whether device drivers for... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080098095 - Adaptive integrated circuitry with heterogeneous and reconfigurable matrices of diverse and adaptive computational units having fixed, application specific computational elements: The present invention provides an adaptive integrated circuit. The various embodiments include a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network. The plurality of heterogeneous computational elements include corresponding computational elements having fixed and differing architectures, such as fixed architectures for different functions such as memory, addition, multiplication,... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080098097 - Method and apparatus utilizing protocol hierarchy to configure or monitor an interface device: A method and apparatus for establishing a communication means for an interfacing device that utilizes a communication means hierarchy to decipher a communication means to be used by other hardware devices so that they may operative cooperatively. Particularly, a controlling device queries an interfacing device for the manufacturer of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080098096 - Systems and methods for sharing information between a user group and associated document: Systems and methods of the present invention connect a group of users who are involved in a common project. The information on this project will be stored in an electronic document. Each member of the group has an exact copy of the document and the method of this invention is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080098098 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus includes a search unit which searches for a network device having a function of communication by the first communication protocol and a network device having a function of communication by the second communication protocol, and a setting unit which, when a network device detected by the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080098099 - Facilitating deployment of customizations of enterprise applications: A management system facilitating deployment of customizations of an enterprise application, with the enterprise application containing software modules pre-installed on a set of servers. In an embodiment, the management system first receives a set of deployment units each containing data defining a manner of configuration affecting the operation of at... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080098100 - System for and method of streaming data to a computer in a network: A system for and method of rapidly streaming data to one or more client devices, such as personal computers (PC's) from a server employing virtual disk emulation and broadcasting or multicasting of data residing on a network server. In some embodiments, the streamed data includes files necessary to boot and... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20080098104 - Image forming apparatus, image forming system and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit, an interface unit to communicate with a network server through a network, and a controller to store a registration reservation information in the storage unit to register with the network server, and controls the interface unit to transmit the registration reservation information.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080098103 - Methods and apparatus for tunneling legacy network management messages through snmp (simple network management protocol): Software and/or hardware modules enable secure management of legacy network products. In an illustrated example, if a network device is managed using unsecure SNMPv1 or SNMPv2, the invention acts as an intermediary and applies SNMPv3 security, without the need to migrate the existing network management code to SNMPv3. The invention... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20080098101 - Peer-to-web broadcasting: A system for peer-to-web media broadcasting, including a plurality of publisher computers, for broadcasting media over the Internet, each publisher computer including a video transcoder, and an image processor, a plurality of HTTP web client computers for viewing broadcasted media, an application server for transmitting web page content to HTTP... Agent: Soquel Group, LLC

20080098102 - System and method for scalable internet helpdesk automation: User computers are enrolled in a management system over the Internet only at such time as a help request is tendered, and once the request is resolved, a user computer is disenrolled, facilitating use of a manageably small help resolution database and reasonable performance from the management system.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080098106 - Apparatus and method for managing a plurality of kinds of storage devices: A storage system including a memory unit having a disk management program, plural disk controllers each having a SAS port which can be attached to either a SAS disk drive or a SATA disk drive, and a LAN port which communicates with a user interface program in a management console.... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080098105 - Method, apparatus, and system for communication-information management, wireless-communication device, and relay device: An access-point device authenticates a cellular phone capable of peer-to-peer communication, and connects the cellular phone to the Internet. The access-point device relays data communication between the cellular phone and a contents-provider server or a company server when a communication-information management apparatus permits the data communication. The communication-information management apparatus... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080098108 - End-to-end tracking of asynchronous long-running business process execution language processes: Computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for end-to-end transaction tracking of long-running processes such as a Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) process in a data processing system, such as a data processing system implemented in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). A computer implemented method for tracking and correlating... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080098109 - Incident resolution: According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided apparatus for obtaining resolution information related to an incident report related to a monitored object in an IT infrastructure comprising: an incident report analyser for identifying an object identified in the report relevant to the incident and for identifying... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080098107 - Method for notarizing packet traces: A system and method for capturing non-forgeable packet traces. Upon start-up of a sniffer, a first quote of Platform Configuration Register (PCR) values in a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) utilized by the sniffer is obtained, wherein the first quote comprises a list of starting values in the PCRs and is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080098110 - Method for analyzing performance information: A performance information display method using a computer, includes the steps, in the computer, of reading out information data of a storage device previously stored in a storage device and information data of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device, displaying an identifier of the storage device and identifiers... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080098111 - Integrated application access: An application portal selectively provides a user access to items of a plurality of remote applications. At least one of the items is related to more than one of the remote applications. An authorization layer is included in the portal and includes a map indicating that the user is permitted... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080098112 - Systems and methods of network operation and information processing, including engaging users of a public-access network: Systems and methods are disclosed for network operation and information processing involving engaging users of a network. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method of engaging users of a public-access network. Moreover, the method includes associating a processing component with the public-access network; transmitting a request for authorization... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080098113 - Stateful firewall clustering for processing-intensive network applications: A system and method for balancing network traffic that includes a master node addressable by an external device, at least one slave node addressable by the master node, at least one filter running on the master node and the at least one slave node, and a clusterware application running on... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20080098114 - Fencing of resources allocated to non-cooperative client computers: Techniques are provided for processing an Input/Output (I/O) request in which an identification message is received from a client computer. It is determined whether the client computer is a rogue client based on whether a current operations record exists for the client computer.... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080098115 - Method and apparatus for dynamic content generation: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for synthesizing a data stream includes retrieving meta data from at least one decision tree, the decision tree comprising a plurality of interconnected nodes, and generating the data stream in accordance with the meta data.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080098117 - Method, apparatus, and computer product for setting transmission path: A communication state between a session initiation protocol server and another session initiation protocol server to be a destination for transmitting a request message is determined. When it is determined that the communication state is in a communication unavailable state, a subsequent session initiation protocol server of the session initiation... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080098118 - Computer system and method for transmitting user status information: A computer system enabling mutual exchange of information between users and digital content, in a manner corresponding to each individual disk, comprises a plurality of computers each capable of being loaded with a disk having a unique disk ID, and a verification server capable of being connected with the computers... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080098116 - Method for establishing a multimedia connection: In one aspect, a method for establishing a multimedia