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

20090276482 - Automated offloading of user-defined functions to a high performance computing system: Technologies are described herein for the automated offloading of the execution of a user-defined function (“UDF”) to a high performance computing (“HPC”) system. When a request is received to calculate a workbook that references a UDF, a spreadsheet application program determines, based upon a tag set by the UDF, whether... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276479 - Distributed execution model for cross-organizational declarative web applications: A system and method for distributed computation includes providing a first service of a first computation node in a network of nodes, the first service having a first resource, the first resource including one of references to data and other resources. In a second service on a second computation node,... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090276483 - Java virtual machine having integrated transaction management system: A computing system comprises a plurality of computing nodes and is configured such that each computing node includes a processor configured to execute JAVA computer program instructions. The computing nodes cooperate to form a cluster, wherein the JAVA computer program instructions being executed by the plurality of computing nodes collectively... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090276481 - Message receipt version management in network: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for message receipt version management in a distributed computing environment including a plurality of nodes is provided. At least one translation vector is received in at least one additional node of the plurality of nodes from a first node. The translation vector provides... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090276480 - Message send version management in network: An apparatus, method, and computer program product for message send version management in a distributed computing environment including a plurality of nodes is provided. A message is sent from a first node of the plurality of nodes to at least one additional node of the plurality of nodes. At least... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090276484 - Software platform for radio network: A pervasive computing system comprises a set of client devices and a network of small computing units, referred to as nodes. The client devices and nodes run programs that communicate with each other to solve a given problem, but the client devices and the nodes use different software execution environments... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090276486 - Apparatus and method for creating configurations of offline field devices in a process control system: A method includes receiving a first proposed value or attribute for a parameter associated with a field device. The field device is or will be used in a process control system. The method also includes determining whether the first proposed value or attribute is valid using a device description associated... Agent: Anthony Miologos Honeywell International Inc.

20090276489 - Automated incident response method and system: An automated emergency response method and system to remotely and timely update emergency response protocols, such as Emergency Medical Dispatch Protocol Reference Systems (EMDPRS), is provided. A method and system to remotely and timely update the EMDPRS in a controlled, consistent and timely manner is also provided. A method that... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090276488 - Extensible, asynchronous, centralized analysis and optimization of server responses to client requests: An optimizer for messaging systems learns the purpose and context of each message and combines that information with knowledge of the specific client that will be rendering the response, such as a specific HTML browser. Any of a number of optimization factors can be applied, singly or in any combination.... Agent: Raubvogel Law Office

20090276487 - Interactive web based system in support of bariatric procedures: The present invention is directed to a computer-based weight loss system for supporting bariatric treatment of obesity that is accessible to both the patient and the medical practitioner. The system has a central server maintaining a library of information related to the treatment of obesity and a patient interface and... Agent: Welsh & Flaxman LLC

20090276485 - Method of playing back digital content, and an appliance and a server for implementing such a method: depending on the user profile, sending at least one address of digital content present on a content supplier site from the server to the playback appliance connected to the network, thereby enabling the playback appliance to recover and play back said digital content via playback means.... Agent: O'brien Jones, PLLC

20090276490 - Transparent request routing for a partitioned application service: Systems and methods for providing an efficient partitioned resource server. In one embodiment, the partitioned resource server comprises a plurality of individual servers, and the individual servers appear to be equivalent to a client. Each of the individual servers may include a routing table that includes a reference for each... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090276491 - Management method for remote digital signage: A management method for a remote digital signage provides communication between a web server and the digital signage to make the web server collect a system information from the digital signage. The management method includes the steps of: transmitting a heartbeat every period to the web server by the digital... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090276494 - Mutual scheduling of events on handheld computers: An embodiment of the invention provides a method for scheduling an event. The method includes signaling a request from a first computer to schedule an event to a second computer. A schedule is then received from the second, the schedule includes indicators of available time periods in the calendar period... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090276493 - Service processing system and service processing method: In a case where a service for performing specified processings of document data as one job is processed in a cooperative manner on a network, a service processing state is exhibited in a proper notice form in each job unit and in each processing unit in the job, so that... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090276492 - Summarization of immersive collaboration environment: A system (and corresponding method) that enables automatic (and/or manual) summarization of significant events that occur within a collaborative discussion is provided. The summarization promotes efficient review and asynchronous participation where a user can trigger playback of a series of events that occurred within a discussion. The system can automatically... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090276495 - Chat system, chat device, chat server control method, and information storage medium: Provided are a chat system, a chat device, a chat server control method, and an information storage medium for realizing sound communication between users. When a message transfer unit (11a) receives a message, the message is transferred to a game terminal of a transmission destination and a stop limit unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090276497 - Click to create meeting makers from electronic messages: A method and system for generating meeting maker requests as efficiently and with as few steps as possible. Here, a software API or program automatically generates and populates a meeting maker request by using information already located within an electronic message, such as an e-mail, to compose the meeting maker... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090276499 - Interworking method for message systems and message interworking gateway: An interworking method for message systems and a message interworking gateway are provided. When a session initiation protocol (SIP) message system sends a message to a non-SIP message system, the message is first sent to the message interworking gateway through a message session relay protocol (MSRP) channel established between the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090276500 - Microblog search engine system and method: A method, system and an apparatus of Microblog Search Engine and method are disclosed. In one aspect, a computer implemented method includes accessing a Short Message between a Broadcaster and a follower through a first Microblog Server and processing the Short Message through a Microblog Search Engine. The processing of... Agent: Raj Abhyanker LLP

20090276498 - Specifying during meeting establishment when respondents are to be prompted for attendance intentions: A meeting initialization request for a meeting can be identified. The meeting initialization request can specify a prompt time for attendance intentions. A programmatic trigger, referred to as a prompt trigger, can be established for the prompt time. A firing of this prompt trigger can occur when a current time... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090276501 - Storage device, storage system and control thereof: The present invention discloses a storage device connected through an internal network with an external network. The storage device includes a storage medium for storing files and an access unit for carrying out data communication of an e-mail with an attached file for accessing the storage medium with a terminal... Agent: Yokoi & Company U.s.a., Inc.

20090276496 - Systems, methods and computer program products for building a user's buddy list through public group membership: Systems, methods and computer program products for hardware assists for building a user's buddy list through public group membership. Exemplary embodiments include identifying a member from the user's buddy list, identifying a skill possessed by the member of the user's buddy list, searching for a group having the skill, selecting... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20090276502 - Network switch with shared memory: A network switch that incorporates memory that can be shared by computers or processors connected to the network switch is provided. The network switch of the present invention is particularly suitable for use in a computer cluster, such as a Beowulf cluster, in which each computer in the cluster can... Agent: Rene A. Vazquez

20090276503 - System and method of collecting, correlating, and aggregating structured edited content and non-edited content: Edited and non-edited multimedia content from a plurality of sources is formatted as a standardized data feed. The standardized data feed is correlating with a syndicated data feed as an aggregated data feed. The aggregated data feed is presented for display at a device.... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Gb Attn: Patent Docketing

20090276504 - Dynamic networking system: In a method of managing interactions between a first entity and a second entity, an indication of information requirements that the first entity requires from the second entity to establish a link is received from the first entity. The second entity transmits: a first set of information corresponding to the... Agent: Bryan W. Bockhop, Esq. Bockhop & Associates, LLC

20090276505 - Web service control apparatus and method: A computer readable storage medium stores a Web service control program that allows a computer to execute a process comprising: receiving from a consumer of a reservation request for a reservation which reserves the Web service and defines a condition; acquiring a state of a server; determining whether to accept... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090276508 - Automatic address assignment apparatus, control method, and program: When an automatic address assignment apparatus is operating in a network, another automatic address assignment apparatus stops the automatic address assignment service thereof. When a wireless LAN access point which functions as an automatic address assignment apparatus (DHCP server device) sends a DHCP discover message on the network and a... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090276506 - Generating document templates that are robust to structural variations: A template or wrapper tree for a document such as a web page is generalized from the bottom up (from leaf toward root of a logical tree structure of the template). At a given level in the tree, sub-trees are clustered and the clustered sub-trees are generalized, and the process... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090276509 - Method and apparatus for operating a host computer in a network environment: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus that utilize a portable apparatus to operate a host computer in a network environment. The portable apparatus including an operating system and a list of software applications are installed in a removable data storage medium. The basic input/output system (BIOS) of... Agent: Invent Capture, LLC

20090276507 - Peer-to-peer (p2p) network system and method of operating the same: A peer-to-peer (P2P) network system and a method of operating the P2P network system are provided. The P2P network system includes at least one edge peer storing resources and at least one super peer sharing and managing resource information corresponding to the resources of the at least one edge peer.... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090276510 - System and method for network design: A system and method for network design are disclosed. In one embodiment of a method incorporating teachings of the present disclosure, embedded network information describing at least one existing network element and a plurality of physical locations available for locating new network nodes may be received. A demand forecast for... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090276511 - Controlling method, computer system, and processing program of booting up a computer: A computer system having computers executing programs, a management computer managing said computers, and a storage system which can be accessed from said computers via a network, wherein said management computer includes: a storage unit for storing network identity information of said network which is allocated to said computers, application... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090276512 - Bios selection for plurality of servers: A method for selecting a basic input output system (BIOS) and an operating system (OS) for a server managed by a controller in communication with a plurality of servers is provided. The server is detected. A map describing a relationship between the server and the plurality of servers is consulted.... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090276514 - Discarding sensitive data from persistent point-in-time image: A network storage server implements a method to discard sensitive data from a Persistent Point-In-Time Image (PPI). The server first efficiently identifies a dataset containing the sensitive data from a plurality of datasets managed by the PPI. Each of the plurality of datasets is read-only and encrypted with a first... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090276515 - Multi-modality network for improved workflow: Described herein are systems and methods for multi-modality networks that provide access to different medical devices though a common operator interface. In an example embodiment, a multi-modality network comprises a host computer and a plurality of medical devices. The medical devices may support different diagnostic and/or therapeutic modalities. The host... Agent: Boston Scientific Corporation Darby & Darby P.C.

20090276513 - Policy control architecture for servers: A system for implementing and controlling a plurality of server-specific policies for a plurality of servers using a management module in communication with the plurality of servers is provided. A policy controller module is operational on the management module. The policy controller module is adapted for defining a first policy... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090276522 - Cooperative monitoring of peer-to-peer network activity: Particular embodiments include cooperative monitoring of peer-to-peer activity on a network including maintaining communication between a local monitoring process and a network monitoring process such that a process can use both network monitoring and local monitoring. The cooperative monitoring includes monitoring a local peer using local monitoring of a point... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20090276517 - Download and data transfer gaming method: A download and data transfer gaming method utilizes a hybrid peer-to-peer, segmented file distribution protocol to vastly improve the download capabilities of a gaming system by improving the upload cost burdened by the download host. The method redistributes this cost to the download clients by allowing clients on the gaming... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20090276516 - Download and data transfer gaming system: A download and data transfer gaming system utilizes a hybrid peer-to-peer, segmented file distribution protocol to vastly improve the download capabilities of a gaming system by improving the upload cost burdened by the download host. The system redistributes this cost to the download clients by allowing clients on the gaming... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson, LLP

20090276523 - Expression-based web logger for usage and navigational behavior tracking: Configurably storing data in a plurality of files based on expressions and conditions associated with the data. Logging software enables tracking of the navigation pattern of users for selected network properties under specified conditions. The logging software is configurable such that most current and future logging specifications may be fulfilled... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090276521 - Judicial monitoring on peer-to-peer networks: The invention relates to a procedure for judicial monitoring in peer-to-peer networks, in which participants to be monitored are marked, and in which furthermore upon setting up a peer-to-peer communication with a marked participant the connection is diverted via a monitoring server and access to the communication data takes place... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090276525 - Method and apparatus for integrating heterogeneous sensor data in ubiquitous sensor network: Provided is an apparatus and method for integrating heterogeneous sensor data in a ubiquitous sensor network. The method includes steps of receiving an integrated query for heterogeneous sensor networks from a sensor network management system, disintegrating the received integrated query to be suitable for each sensor network and transmitting the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090276520 - Method and apparatus for server election, discovery and selection in mobile ad hoc networks: A method and apparatus for server election, discovery and selection in mobile ad hoc communication networks is disclosed. The server election method may include a server node that may elect itself as a server in network if the received server capabilities, network server lists and network specific parameters allow its... Agent: Prass LLP

20090276519 - Method and system for achieving better efficiency in a client grid using node resource usage and tracking: A system, method and computer program product for distributing task assignments on a computer network comprising a client grid having at least one server coupled to at least one client node and a plurality of client computers coupled to the client node through a plurality of monitoring agents. Each monitoring... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20090276518 - Technique for regulating link traffic: A system which regulates communication with a server is described. During operation, the system determines a retransmission rate of data packets during a first set of conversations between a group of users and the server via a peering link. Next, the system compares the retransmission rate and an historical retransmission... Agent: Google Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090276524 - Thin client terminal, operation program and method thereof, and thin client system: A thin client terminal 1 that can be connected to a thin client operation management server 3 includes: a memory 12 capable of storing system data for mobile environment used when the thin client terminal 1 is not connected to the thin client operation management server 3; and a controller... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090276526 - Access control list endpoint implementation: A method, system, and computer program product for providing direct communications between FCoE endpoint devices within the same fibre channel network zone. A direct fibre channel (DFC) utility provides an FCoE stack with an exclusive ability to define an Ethertype within an ethertype field of an Ethernet packet with “FCoE”.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090276527 - Light weight process abstraction for distributed systems: Methods and apparatus provide for a Process Descriptor to obtain an identity of an entity controlling resources of a plurality of computer systems linked via a network which access a common set of network file systems. Via a process abstraction, the Process Descriptor allows a user to describe a run-time... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20090276528 - Methods to optimally allocating the computer server load based on the suitability of environmental conditions: A method includes generating a space information value for each of a plurality of spaces based on at least one environmental condition measurement for the corresponding space. Each space includes one or more computing devices. The space information value includes information regarding the relative suitability of a corresponding space for... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090276529 - Connecting external devices to a gaming voice chat service: Voice chat enhances the game playing experience by allowing gamers in different locations to have conversations within the gaming environment. Functionality can be implemented within a gaming system to send an external invitation a user who is logged out of the game system to participate in a voice chat and/or... Agent: Ibm Raleigh Iplaw (dg) C/o Delizio Gilliam, PLLC

20090276530 - Devices, systems, methods and software for computer networking: A method of accessing content from a server using a client device, the client device having at least first and second connections to one or more remote computers. The method includes testing the performance of the first connection, testing the performance of the second connection and selecting, in response to... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20090276531 - Media file sharing, correlation of metadata related to shared media files and assembling shared media file collections: The present invention provides for systems and methods for communicating media files and creating a collection of media files, also referred to herein as a master media file. In addition, the systems and methods of the present invention provide for the creation of automatic metadata and compilation of metadata associated... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090276532 - Reducing occurrence of user equipment registration expiry during calls: Methods, systems, User Equipment (UE), and computer readable medium for reducing the occurrence of UE registration expiry are provided. A method of reducing the occurrence of UE registration expiry during calls includes registering a UE with a network for a registration period, determining a re-registration threshold time period, comparing a... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090276533 - Authentication option support for binding revocation in mobile internet protocol version 6: A network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising sending a message comprising an authentication mobility option to a mobile node, wherein the message is configured to revoke a mobility binding for the mobile node is disclosed. Also disclosed is a system comprising a home... Agent: Futurewei Technologies, Inc. C/o Conley Rose, P.C.

20090276534 - Enterprise device policy management: Methods and systems for managing policies of portable data storage devices in conjunction with a third-party service are disclosed. One or more candidates of a plurality of members in an enterprise may be identifying via the third-party service. Each of the plurality of members may be associated with a respective... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090276535 - Media streaming of web content data: Methods for streaming web content data via a computer-readable medium. The web content data comprises one or more media samples. The media samples are encoded in a streaming media format as a web component stream. The web component stream is combined with other component streams comprising additional data other than... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090276536 - Distribution method, preferably applied in a streaming system: The invention relates to a data live streaming system comprising at least one data live streaming broadcaster LSB and at least two live streaming recipients LSR, said at least two live streaming recipients LSR forming at least a part of a peer-to-peer streaming network and said at least two live... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090276537 - Mechanisms for role negotiation in the establishment of secure communication channels in peer-to-peer environments: A method of establishing secure communication channels in peer-to-peer environments is provided, that includes eliminating a role conflict between at least first peer and a second peer, determining which the peer will act as a client and which the peer will act as a server in a secure connection handshake,... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090276538 - Devices and methods for providing network access control utilizing traffic-regulation hardware: Disclosed are devices and methods for providing network access control utilizing traffic-regulation hardware, the device including: at least one client-side port for operationally connecting to a client system; at least one network-side port for operationally connecting to a network; a logic module for regulating network traffic, based on device-related data,... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090276539 - Conversational asyncronous multichannel communication through an inter-modality bridge: A communications apparatus is configured to bridge modalities and different communications formats. The apparatus may include a bridge to receive an input through a modality gateway and to deliver an output through an output channel, a communication engine configured to manipulate the input into the output, a router configured to... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090276540 - Peer-to-peer (p2p) network system and method of operating the same based on region: A peer-to-peer (P2P) network system and a method of operating the P2P network system based on region are provided. If an edge peer storing a resource information list of a super peer migrates to a different super peer and is registered and connected with the different super peer, the edge... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090276541 - Graphical data processing: A method and system 13 for processing graphical data for transmission to a remote computer 15 via a data network 17, the graphical data representing an image or graphical model the display of which can be manipulated from the remote computer in real-time in accordance with control commands, for example... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090276542 - Method and apparatus for time and frequency transfer in communication networks: A timing system for time synchronization between a time server and a time client over a packet network. The timing system includes a time server for generating current timestamp information and a time client having a phase-locked loop driven client clock counter. The time client periodically exchanges time transfer protocol... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20090276543 - Peer to peer broadcast content synchronization: A method and apparatus for synchronizing recorded broadcast content on a peer to peer system, in which portions of the content are synchronized between the peers by referring to program clock reference values.... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20090271468 - Complex event processing cloud: P

20090271466 - Data logging with network interfacing feature: A data processing network includes data sourcing entities, data logging entities that log data provided by the data sourcing entities, and a data transport network that supports data transport between the data sourcing entities and the data logging entities. The data logging entities and the data sourcing entities are interfaced... Agent: Norris, Braden, Melton & Gregersen, P.l.l.c.

20090271469 - Method and apparatus for ims support for multimedia session, recording, analysis and storage: A system comprising a first network element, a second network element and a communication device. The first network element is communicatively coupled to the second network element and the communication device. The communication device sends multimedia session information to the first network element. The first network element analyzes the multimedia... Agent: Carmen Patti Law Group, LLC

20090271467 - Preventing traffic flooding to the root of a multi-point to multi-point label-switched path tree with no receivers: A method is provided for pruning an MP2MP tree. The method includes (a) in a first node of an MP2MP LSP tree, the MP2MP LSP tree including a plurality of nodes, determining whether the first node has only a single replication branch for the MP2MP LSP tree, the single replication... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20090271473 - Communication terminal, wireless communication network system and content distribution method: A wireless communication network system includes a reproducing device reproducing a predetermined content, a first communication terminal, and a second communication terminal. The first communication terminal has a receiving section receiving predetermined data by wireless communication, a first storage section storing therein a software that enables acquiring data of the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Hug LLP

20090271474 - Method and apparatus for reliable mashup: A method and apparatus for reliable mashup. The method includes the steps of: intercepting a data update request submitted by a client browser to one or more of a plurality of services for providing mashup page data; performing consistency validation on the data update request using consistency rules; and, in... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090271475 - Methods of providing published content: Methods of providing published content are presented. Content providers, including advertisers, can have their network addresses become black listed through no fault of their own. Content providers can utilize one or more intermediary providers each having their own distinct network address, possibly a registered domain name. An advertiser or other... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20090271470 - Network equipment system: This network equipment system is a system of a functional processing system, and is configured so that each network device performs a function assigned to itself whereby the whole system performs the predetermined action. Each network device has a function memory part 10, a variable memory exchanger 11, an execution... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090271471 - Providing services for multiple business consumers: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing services to business organization clients involve receiving a request for a particular service, identifying configuration data relating to the request, sending a service request to a service provider of the service, and providing the service to a service consumer in... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090271472 - System and method for programmatic management of distributed computing resources: Systems and methods for providing a development and deployment platform for Software as a Service (SaaS) providers are disclosed. The platform may provide an application programming interface (API) through which customers may configure virtualized grids of language-level virtual machines (VMs), networks, and storage resources. A grid may be horizontally scalable... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20090271477 - Digital photo frame framework controlled by computer and synchronously updated with remote server: A digital photo frame framework controlled by a computer and synchronously updated with a remote server comprises a digital photo frame; a computer that is connected with the digital photo frame and has a network connection device, and is provided therein with operating software for generating an identification code and... Agent: Wang Law Firm, Inc.

20090271476 - Method for reducing transmitted data: Red Line is an extension of a traditional web proxy for reducing the transmitted amount of data to an end user while also giving said user the opportunity of retrieving an original without damaging the original shape of a web page.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090271478 - Web service control apparatus and method: A computer readable storage medium stores a Web service control program that allows a computer to execute a process comprising: receiving from a consumer of a Web service a reservation request for a reservation which reserves the Web service and defines a condition, the condition including a shortest time interval... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090271480 - Electronic document confidentialy and tracking system: Method and apparatus to identify document properties by use of the Internet or other networking system.... Agent: Kevin Flynn

20090271481 - Online idea collaboration: A computing device for online idea collaboration includes a processor, and a computer readable storage medium. The processor creates a publishing module programmed to allow authors to publish ideas, the publishing module including an interface that requests various information regarding each of the ideas. The processor creates a ratings module... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090271479 - Techniques for providing presentation material in an on-going virtual meeting: A technique for providing presentation material in an on-going virtual meeting includes converting a real-world (RW) presentation into a virtual-world (VW) presentation. A media format of the VW presentation corresponds to a media format utilized by a target VW. The VW presentation is then stored in an RW media repository.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090271490 - Communication protocols based on mutuality: A communication system that conditions initiation of communication and delivery of messages on party mutuality, and optionally, other mutuality conditions such as topic mutuality. One of the advantages of the present system is its ability to deliver messages otherwise undeliverable due to the lack of a unique and specific recipient... Agent: Keybridge Law Office, Lc

20090271489 - Electronic mail system and method: An electronic mail server processes large numbers of electronic messages. The server includes software which detects various status conditions relating to each message. One or more user-defined software modules are attached to the server software, such that upon detection of a given condition, the associated module is executed. Thus, the... Agent: William H. Eilberg

20090271484 - Facemail: Systems and methods are provided for generating, sending, and delivering a message addressed using an image of an intended message recipient of the message. In one embodiment, a sending user captures or otherwise obtains an image of an intended message recipient. A message to the intended message recipient is then... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20090271485 - Load balanced storage provisioning: Available performance capacities of storage servers and storage devices in a storage infrastructure are determined using a plurality of metrics, wherein each of the storage devices is managed by one of the storage servers. Each aggregate is hosted by a storage server and includes multiple storage devices. A relationship between... Agent: Sheryl Sue Holloway Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090271482 - Message character string output system, control method thereof, and information storage medium: A message string output system which can prevent users from feeling uncomfortable due to repeated input of a particular string by another user is provided. A judging unit (36) judges whether or not a message string which is input by an input unit (30) contains a specific string. An input... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090271486 - Messaging device for delivering messages to recipients based on availability and preferences of recipients: A messaging device facilitates delivery of messages to recipients based on availability and preferences associated with recipients. In some embodiments, messages are composed by a user via a touchscreen display. Icons representing potential message recipients are displayed, and the user may deliver a message to a recipient by associating the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090271483 - Method for republication of published messages as appends on a separate retained topic: A method for republication of published messages includes receiving a published message on a topic from a publisher, storing the published message as an appended retained message, republishing the appended retained message on a history topic, receiving a request from a subscriber to view at least a portion of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20090271488 - Method, system, and computer program product for managing foreign holidays for a computer application based on email: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for managing foreign holidays. The system includes a processor configured to receive email information relating to foreign countries that a user communicates with, calculate based on the email information a respective count for each foreign country, and compare the respective count... Agent: Michael Shane Lofgren

20090271487 - Systems and methods of automatic retransmission of electronic mail: Disclosed are systems and methods of automatic retransmission of electronic mail.... Agent: Jackson Patent Law Office

20090271492 - Real-time communications over data forwarding framework: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for real-time communications over data forwarding framework. A framework includes a group of interconnected computer system nodes each adapted to receive data and continuously forward the data from computer memory to computer memory without storing on any physical storage device in response to... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090271491 - System and method to control wireless communications: A method of controlling wireless communications is provided. A first call is received at a first distributed mobile architecture (DMA) server from a first mobile communication device. The first DMA server communicates with the first mobile communication device via a first wireless communication protocol. A second call is received at... Agent: Toler Law Group

20090271493 - System and apparatus for managing social networking and loyalty program data: A system for managing and sharing social networking and loyalty program data that includes a quick-transfer device. The quick-transfer device can be in any number of forms that are readily portable such as a keychain, wristwatch, accessory for a mobile phone or music player or similar form. The quick-transfer device... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090271494 - Method, system and program product for providing server security via a security sensor application shared by multiple operating system partitions: When a hypervisor in a computer server receives input/output (I/O) data traffic, the hypervisor sends the I/O data traffic to a security sensor application shared by multiple operating system (OS) partitions. If the security sensor application indicates that the I/O data traffic meets pre-defined security standards in the security sensor... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090271496 - Information recommendation system based on biometric information: State information of a user is detected via a biometric information sensor (21) and so on and the state information is accumulated in a nonvolatile memory (14) by associating it with a content ID of content that is being used. A recommendation request including the state information detected at that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090271495 - Transport independent redirection: Transport independent redirection. If a client computing system were to request a service from a service computing system, the service may determine whether or not the client should request the service from yet another service. If the client should request the service from the other computing system, the original service... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090271497 - Affiliate program redirection system: A system, method, and computer readable medium for affiliate redirection. There are process steps and modules for receiving a first URL request, recording request information regarding the first URL request; making the request information available to a merchant; and redirecting the URL request to a second URL having no variables,... Agent: Advantia Law Group

20090271502 - Data distribution method, data distribution system and relevant devices in edge network: A data distribution method, a data distribution system and relevant devices in an edge network are provided. The method includes: obtaining a data download request from a client, and obtaining a content ID of data under a certain protocol, where the content ID is carried in the download request; and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090271500 - Method and apparatus for resource transfer: A method and apparatus for transferring resources from a server to a client, wherein the resources are for an object in an application. According to the present invention, resources needed by the object are determined. Resources which have usages that are less than a threshold according to statistics are removed... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090271499 - Software and method for monitoring a data stream and for capturing desired data within the data stream: Software stored on a computer-readable storage medium at a user station provides a plurality of functions including an online service selector function that enables a user at the user station to select any one of a plurality of available online service providers, and a communications function that establishes a communication... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090271501 - System and method for building and execution of platform-neutral generic services' client applications: A system and method of building component applications are provided. Component applications are executed on terminal devices, which communicate with a schema-based service via a network and the Internet. The component applications comprise data components, presentation components, and message components, which are written a structured definition language such as XML... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP (rim)

20090271498 - System and method for layered application server processing: A system and method for layered application server processing. Embodiments of the system are particularly useful in extreme transaction processing (XTP) environments to support hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users, and perhaps millions of simultaneous transactions. Applications can be built from service components. Mashups can be performed on applications, services,... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090271503 - System and method for customizing settings in a communication device for a user: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a method, apparatus, and computer program product for customizing settings in a communication device for a user. In one illustrative embodiment, the process identifies a user profile to which a user belongs. The process identifies a set of custom communication device settings associated with... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090271505 - System and method for executing third party module with web servers: A computer-implemented system that can support executing a third party module with Web Servers comprises one or more web server instances, a third party module that interacts with the one or more web server instances, and an execution environment that contains a web server wrapper instance that can encapsulate a... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090271504 - Techniques for agent configuration: Described are techniques for monitoring the performance, security and health of a system used in an industrial application. Agents on components included in the industrial network report data to an appliance or server. The agents on a component may include a configuration agent and one or more other agents. The... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20090271506 - Management apparatus and management method: Proposed are a management apparatus and a management method capable of facilitating resource management With the provided management apparatus and management method for managing a resource allocated to a virtual node that provides a file sharing service to a client in units of a resource management group configured from a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090271511 - Automatic context-based baselining for transactions: Application health is determined by calculating baseline deviation for one or more transactions based on past data having the same context as current data being examined. The performance data is generated in response to monitoring one or more applications that perform transactions during a time period. The performance data may... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20090271508 - Method and apparatus for providing a measurement of performance for a network: A method and an apparatus for providing a measurement of performance for a network are disclosed. For example, the method sends a plurality of multi-objective probes on a path, and receives one or more of said plurality of multi-objective probes for the path. The method then determines a plurality of... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20090271513 - Method and system for adaptive data transfer over packet networks: There is provided a method for adaptive data transfer over packet networks. The method comprises selecting a first communication path for transferring the data to the second computer, starting to transfer the data over the first communication path to the second computer, monitoring transfer characteristics of the first communication path... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090271510 - Network state platform: A network state platform for managing a network having a number of network nodes is disclosed. A user provides a policy layer a high level instruction indicative of the desired network performance. The policy layer parses the high level instruction to generate a number of configuration instructions for the network... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090271509 - Probabilistic aggregation over distributed data streams: In one embodiment, a method of monitoring a network. The method includes, at each node of a set, constructing a corresponding vector of M components based on a stream of data packets received at the node during a time period, the set including a plurality of nodes of the network,... Agent: Mendelsohn, Drucker, & Associates, P.C.

20090271507 - System and method for assisted administration of remote device updates: The subject application is directed to a system and method for assisted administration of remote device updates. Device data is first received for each networked document processing device that includes data representing the current state of the hardware and software associated with each of the networked document processing devices. Update... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090271514 - System and method for monitoring user interaction with web pages: Systems and methods for monitoring usage of an electronic device are disclosed herein. A client component in stalled in a client device is operative to monitor usage of the client device in accordance with a monitoring profile, and to generate corresponding usage data. The monitoring profile typically includes information specifying... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090271512 - Transmission control protocol/internet protocol (tcp/ip) packet-centric wireless point to multi-point (ptmp) transmission system architecture: The first data network includes at least one of: a wireline network; a wireless network; a local area network (LAN); and a wide area network (WAN). The second network includes at least one of: a wireline network; a wireless network; a local area network (LAN); and a wide area network... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090271515 - Method and apparatus for load balancing in network based telephony application: Techniques are disclosed for load balancing in networks such as those networks handling telephony applications. By way of example, such techniques direct requests associated with calls to servers in a system comprised of a network routing calls between a plurality of callers and at least one receiver wherein a load... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090271516 - Unicast/multicast architecture: A system and method for providing content to users including a multicast sub-system providing content to multiple users and a unicast sub-system providing content to individual users. The multicast sub-system being operative to push to each of a plurality of user communities, content relating to the community and the unicast... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090271518 - Ethernet extensibility: A networked computer with a networking framework that can operate in accordance with a standard protocol or may be configured to perform one or more functions that alter or extend processing according to the standard. The framework includes extensibility points and a mechanism to receive plug-ins that may perform extensibility... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090271517 - Method and apparatus for wireless device reconnection handling: An apparatus and method for wireless device reconnection handling are disclosed involving a keep-alive request being sent from a wireless device to a server based on a first keep-alive time interval. At least one indicator that the keep-alive request has failed is received. A second keep-alive time interval different from... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20090271519 - Method and system for facilitating group organization using mobile devices: Method and system for facilitating group organization using mobile devices and near field communication (NFC). Such a method in one aspect comprises the steps of selecting a first member of a group to create resources for the group, creating the resources by the first member using a mobile device belonging... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20090271520 - Method, system and apparatus for logging date with low latency: A system, method and apparatus for logging data are provided. Network data is acquired in transmission to a destination. The network data is converted to loggable data. The loggable data is output in a machine readable format. As a result, the system, method and apparatus provides for low latency acquisition... Agent: Clark & Brody

20090271521 - Method and system for providing end-to-end content-based load balancing: Methods and systems for providing end-to-end content-based load balancing are described. A Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection is accepted from a client and a request is received from the client. The request is processed, a target stack is selected, and the TCP connection is transferred to the selected target stack... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20090271522 - System, method and apparatus for on-demand recording of a communication session: A method for on-demand recording of a communication session according to one embodiment includes establishing a communication session between a first communication device and a second communication device. The method further includes receiving a request to initiate recording of the communication session at a network server in response to a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090271523 - System, method and software for using one computer network to bypass a portion of another computer network: A bypass computer network allows data communications between a client computing device and a remote content source to be selectively routed around a portion of the public Internet (or other computer network(s)) via the bypass network without requiring a physical connection between the bypass network and either the client computing... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20090271524 - Associating user comments to events presented in a media stream: In one embodiment, a method comprises collecting, by a server from a user device, a comment input by a user into the user device, the collecting including identifying a time that the user generated the comment; associating, by the server, the comment input by the user with an identifiable addressable... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20090271525 - Rtsp-based progressive streaming method: Provided is a real-time streaming protocol (RTSP) based progressive streaming method. The progressive streaming method based on a real-time streaming protocol, wherein a server transfers SDP information and performs streaming of a contents file to a client connected, the method including the steps of: a) if a “pause” request message... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090271526 - Data transfer method and proxy server, and storage subsystem: A proxy server 10 transfers, when a protocol header and content specified in a distribution request from a client 18 are not stored in a storage device 28, the distribution request to an origin server 12; stores the protocol header and content, which have been transmitted from the origin server... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090271527 - Caching signatures: The performance of a network system having one or more requestor nodes, one or more provider nodes, and one or more intermediate nodes is improved by determining the digital signature of a received file, looking up the digital signature in an index of signatures, and forwarding a previously compressed version... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090271528 - Efficient chunking algorithm: The present invention provides a method for chunking an object. The method is arranged to provide efficient chunking of objects such that objects can be efficiently updated between a remote machine and a local machine over a network. The chunking algorithm is applicable in networked application such as file synchronization... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090265412 - Plural computer system: A plural-computer system for operating more than one computer comprising an enclosure a plurality of computers contained within the enclosure, each computer having a processor, memory, information storage, an operating system, a network interface, an user input socket and a user output socket and sufficiently interconnected to enable each computer... Agent: Charles L. Riddle, Esq.

20090265413 - Communication apparatus, communication method, flow control apparatus, control method, and computer program: An apparatus (102) receives a request (S101) from an apparatus (901), and transmits information (WSDL) describing an interface of a data transmission service in response to the request (S101). The apparatus (102) receives a request (S104) from an apparatus (103), and transmits data by the data transmission service in response... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090265415 - Computerised system and method for optimising domain parking pages: The present invention relates generally to domain parking services, and in particular to the management and optimisation of advertising links presented in a domain parking page by domain parking services.... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20090265414 - Mechanisms for transparently converting client-server software agents to peer-to-peer software agents: A method of converting client-server software agents to peer-to-peer software agents coupling a client to an adaptor software module is provided. The method includes directly coupling a client in software to an adaptor software module, wherein said adaptor software services underlying traffic from an unmodified agent and relays it on... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090265416 - Aggregating media collections between participants of a sharing network utilizing bridging: Systems and methods are provided for aggregating a local media collection of a user with one or more shared media collections shared with the user to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. In general, one or more shared media collections shared with the user are first discovered. Optionally,... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20090265417 - Aggregating media collections to provide a primary list and sorted sub-lists: Systems and methods are provided for aggregating a local media collection of a user with one or more shared media collections shared with the user to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. In general, one or more shared media collections shared with the user are first discovered. Optionally,... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20090265419 - Executing applications at servers with low energy costs: Embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for managing and executing applications in a clustered server system. In one embodiment, an application may be installed at an application server having the associated lowest energy cost of maintenance, thereby lowering the cost of operating the system. In... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090265421 - Internet measurement system application programming interface: Systems, application programming interfaces, and other embodiments associated with internet measurements are described. Example systems and methods facilitate requesting that a control server acquire internet measurements from a set of distributed measurement points. One example application programming interface (API) includes a list request interface to provide a list request to... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay

20090265424 - Log collecting/analyzing system with separated functions of collecting log information and analyzing the same: A log collecting/analyzing system has a log collection terminal device as a client terminal device which collects logs and transmits the collected logs to a log server via a network. The log server receives the transmitted logs and stores the received logs for analysis. According to this configuration, it is... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090265422 - Method and apparatus for providing and receiving user interface: In a method of providing/receiving a user interface between a user interface client and a user interface server, when the user interface server encodes information on a plurality of user interface scenes in a multimedia data format and transmits the encoded information to the user interface client. The user interface... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090265423 - Method and system of mobile application implementation on network server: The invention discloses a communication system having mobile applications implemented on a server. The disclosed system has a server component, a client component and a communication component. The server component facilitates atleast one of: creation, installation, upgradation, distribution, customization, maintenance, removal or discovery of the mobile applications on the server.... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090265420 - Method of rendering at least one element in a client browser: “The invention relates to a method of rendering at least one element E in a client browser CB at a client CL, where the element E is defined at an intermediate web server IWS by element representative data ERD and where the element is obtained from at least one data... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090265425 - Phased rollout of version upgrades in web-based business information systems: A method, system, computer program product, and related business methods for phased rollout of an upgraded version of a web-based business information system are described. URLs associated with client requests remain the same even where the target subscriber accounts have been upgraded. Client requests for both upgraded and non-upgraded accounts... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090265418 - Pruning an aggregate media collection: Systems and methods are provided for aggregating a local media collection of a user with one or more shared media collections shared with the user to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. In general, one or more shared media collections shared with the user are first discovered. Optionally,... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20090265428 - system and method for social networking in a virtual space: Social networking in a virtual space over a network is facilitated. Subscriber computing devices each operated by a subscriber are associated with a subscriber identifier. Each computing device is connected to the network. A subscriber profile is created in a profile datastore, wherein the subscriber profile comprises information about the... Agent: The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

20090265429 - Communications framework using hand held devices: A hand held communication device, a server and a system and method for a communications framework is disclosed. The hand held communication device includes a client capable of communicating with a server, the client with a user interface, the user interface is capable of displaying at least one receiver and... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090265426 - Method and system for aggregating media collections between participants of a sharing network: Systems and methods are provided for aggregating a local media collection of a user with one or more shared media collections shared with the user to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. In general, one or more shared media collections shared with the user are first discovered. Optionally,... Agent: Withrow & Terranova Ct

20090265427 - System and method to create and find online communities: A method and system are directed towards defining user Communities based on prospective member's eligibility criteria. Community eligibility profiles of the Communities in a collective set of Communities are applied towards prospective member's (user) profile information. The system allows users to create their own Communities by entering a Community eligibility... Agent: Schein & Cai LLP James Cai

20090265430 - System for analyzing user activity in a collaborative environment: A system is described for analyzing user activity in a collaborative environment. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a plurality of data items. Each data item may be related to at least one other data item. The processor may receive a... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090265432 - Communication system and communication terminal: There are provided a communication terminal and a communication system as follows. In a communication network connected to the communication terminal having an address book, an access right to a content disclosed on the network by a user of the communication terminal is judged according to the address book data... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090265436 - Data through community feedback: A method, system and computer program product for providing a framework to enable a builder to construct a situational application, wherein the framework provides access to one or more background data sources. A graphical user interface is displayed to receive feedback inputs, including one or more inputs which describe the... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090265439 - E-mail repeater and relay method of the same: To grant an access permission to an attached file of an e-mail stored in a file server. An access permission to the attached file is set based on information included in a first e-mail. The attached file is stored in the file server. The second e-mail that is the first... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090265435 - Email server cooperative management for automatic routing of emails based on preferences: Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for managing the routing of an email at the server level to an email client by preferences set in a routing application located on the server. One embodiment includes querying, by a routing application located on a server and associated with an email system,... Agent: Ibm Corporation (end Ny) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090265431 - Endorsing e-mail messages using social network verification: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for e-mail message endorsement in an e-mail management system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for e-mail message endorsement in an e-mail management system can be provided. The method can include comparing a sender and... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090265433 - Message notice reply system and method thereof: A message notice reply system and a method thereof are disclosed. A message reply scheme functioning a deadline, address and verification for replying is introduced into an electronic mail system. As a sender transmits the message, a message-to-reply field will be incorporated to the message, and a reply field will... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090265442 - Method and device for hiding messages: Based on user configuration, a main messaging user interface screen on a messaging device either presents a list of references to messages stored on the device based on a complete index of references to the stored messages or based on a filtered index of references to the stored messages. References... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20090265440 - System and method for billing only for e-mails actually delivered to recipients' inboxes: A method for conducting an e-mail campaign is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) sending e-mails to a plurality of intended recipients; (b) determining a number of the e-mails that have been indicated as nondeliverable; (c) determining a number of the e-mails that have been identified as bulk... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090265437 - System and method for identifying and modifying influencers and stressors: The present invention is directed to a method and system of managing stress comprising identifying factors with which a user interacts; listing the factors with which the user interacts into an inventory form; making notations and/or making journal entries into a journal form regarding experiences with the factors; entering the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090265438 - System and method for providing messaging services in a multi-function peripheral device: A multi-function peripheral device (MFP) is configured to receive messages from a mobile device such as a mobile phone. The messages may be received via a network interface on the MFP which communicates with a mobile telephone network. The messages may be text messages which are delivered by the MFP... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090265441 - System, method, and program for filtering emails: [Solving Means] An email client includes an operation reception unit 110 for receiving an operation performed by a user and a processing unit 130 for performing a process according to this operation on an email. The email client also includes a detection unit 121 for detecting that the operation reception... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090265434 - Systems and methods for dynamically adaptive multi-way message conversion: Multilateral, dynamic and coordinated message conversion between different messages composed using different protocols, e.g., Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) are described. For each message pattern or set of messages between coordinated peers, a conversion session is established. Incoming messages are correlated to their respective conversion... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090265443 - Network apparatus, content distribution method and computer program product: This network apparatus includes a confirmation unit for confirming an appliance connected to a network in a certain area at predetermined time intervals, a transfer unit for transferring a content retained in the appliance from the appliance connected to the network to a storage apparatus outside of the area, a... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090265445 - Discount and/or loyalty reward system and retail apparatus therefor: Discount and/or loyalty reward system is arranged to provided discounts to users on the basis of user ids communicated from a user agent to a point of sale terminal. The point of sale terminal requests a list of discounts applicable to the received user id from a discount administration system.... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20090265444 - Maintaining corporate identity in syndicated content: User selected content and content provider defined content may be received by a web widget. The user defined content and the content provider defined content may be provided via a third party web site.... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090265446 - Content delivery apparatus and content delivery method using the same: A content delivery system includes a delivery server, a storage apparatus having a logical unit for storing data regarding content items, and a management apparatus having a content management unit for managing a delivery server. The delivery server includes a conversion unit and a delivery unit. The conversion units acquires... Agent: Juan Carlos A. Marquez C/o Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090265447 - Method and system for providing content: A method for providing content through a content providing system, including permitting access to the system through a media device; outputting a screen including a plurality of menu items including a view brand content item; when the view brand content item is selected by a user, outputting a screen including... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20090265448 - System and method for viewing choices and making selections: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect an input; display a plurality of selections; detect a location of a first segment relative to the plurality of selections; highlight a particular selection from the plurality of selections when the first segment is within an area of the particular selection; and... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090265449 - Method of computer clustering: A method for clustering comprising acquiring the required number of nodes for cluster formation based on node selection criteria; electing a cluster coordinator; and assigning the packages on the member nodes. The cluster coordinator is elected based on the mean time between failures value of the member nodes which may... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090265452 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for characterizing user-defined areas: A method of specifying a boundary for an area is provided, which includes receiving a first input from a first user regarding a first configuration of a boundary of an area. The first input may serve to establish an area of arbitrary and possibly irregular configuration, such as an area... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090265451 - Assisted application definition: A system and a method for characterizing an application the method including one or more of monitoring installation of an application and recording information relating to one or more file system, registry and database resources created or modified during installation of the application, monitoring an application run and recording information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090265450 - Method and apparatus for managing computing resources of management systems: A method and apparatus for managing resources of a management system is provided. The management system is adapted for managing a network having a plurality of network devices. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of grouping the network devices into a plurality of network device groups based on... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090265454 - Absence assistance system for multimedia-enabled communication systems: The absence assistance system for at least one multimedia-enabled communication system comprising a plurality of packet-oriented client communication systems, in which the packet-oriented client communication systems support at least in part different multimedia services and at least one multimedia service of a packet-oriented client communication system is in each case... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090265455 - Method of resolving duplicate mac addresses, network device management system, server, and information device: MAC addresses of information devices on a network are collected using a broadcast frame or multicast frame of Ethernet®. If duplicate MAC addresses are detected, an Ethernet® frame, including a device identifier of information device and a MAC address to be set, is sent by broadcast transmission or multicast transmission.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090265453 - Network managing method and network managing apparatus: In order to verify if upper-level router information, or ULRI (information on the upper-level router with respect to a predetermined node) is valid, MN (Mobile Node) 220 associated to ULMR (Upper-Level Mobile Router) 210 acquires ULRI such as the address of ULMR (310), inserts ULRI into a BU (Binding Update)... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090265457 - Communication system, communication apparatus, and display method for the same: The device configuration of a communication system capable of wireless data communication between a plurality of terminal apparatuses is confirmed, together with the operating condition of each of the terminal apparatuses and the channel condition of wireless data communication. Whether a service that can be provided as a communication system... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090265458 - Dynamic server flow control in a hybrid peer-to-peer network: Technologies are described herein for providing dynamic flow control of requests to a server in a hybrid peer-to-peer network. The server collects a number of metrics related to its current stability and the throughput of requests from peer-to-peer devices. These metrics, along with associated trend data, are used by the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265465 - Footprint-providing device and footprint-providing system: A footprint-providing device which can put footprints on Web pages provided by various Web servers. The footprint-providing device is connected via a network to a client terminal that views a Web page with a browser. The footprint-providing device sends footprint data, which can be written on one part of the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090265461 - Method and system for characterization of online behavior: Data about computer network traffic is collected as user website visit recording sessions. The data captured is analyzed and organized with sufficient level of detail or granularity to determine a single request from a server. Each data request is analyzed to determine if it comes from a server with which... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090265456 - Method and system to manage multimedia sessions, allowing control over the set-up of communication channels: Managing multimedia sessions including surveying anomalies representing illicit uses of a determined signalling protocol, determining reactions in relation to the identified anomaly, collecting all requests exchanged between a client terminal and a proxy server, analysing collected requests for detection of anomalies, through the use of a plurality of indicators each... Agent: Perman & Green, LLP

20090265463 - Method of non-intrusive analysis of secure and non-secure web application traffic in real-time: Provided is a method and system for monitoring and analysis of networked systems, that is non-intrusive and real time. Both secure and non-secure traffic may be analyzed. The provided method involves non-intrusively copying data from a communication medium, reconstructing this data to a higher level of communication, such as the... Agent: Kokka & Backus, PC

20090265462 - Monitoring apparatus and storage method: A monitoring apparatus receives information about a storage condition of monitoring data from a management apparatus via a network, and acquires at least one of image data and audio data as the monitoring data. The monitoring apparatus detects a communication state with the management apparatus, and performs control to store... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090265459 - Providing apparatus of service information and providing method thereof: A providing apparatus of service information provided over a network collects service information and/or service components provided over a network and is triggered by setting of a scenario (such as content such as a combination of service components or service information) to extract available service components for the scenario from... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090265464 - System and method for alerting on open file-share sessions assosciated with a device: A method and system for detecting an active file-share session on a monitored device associated with a client device, alerting the user of the client device, and enabling them to terminate the file-share session, are disclosed. In accordance with the disclosed method and system, when a remote device (e.g., on... Agent: Atida LLC Attn: Steven Rueben

20090265460 - System and method for tracking user identity and/or activity across multiple websites: A method of tracking a user and the user's activities on a telecommunications network. The method includes receiving a notification from a first web server that the user has accessed a first webpage on a first website, wherein the notification is received via a user tracking server operated by a... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20090265466 - Data providing system, data providing method, server, network system, and program: [Means to Solve the Problems] A server preserves a template having an extension tag constituting a Web page transmitted to the mobile terminal and a data history together with an ID in a cache, at the time of transmitting information to the mobile terminal, makes a reference to the information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090265468 - Fair bandwidth redistribution algorithm: A process of managing bandwidth in a computer network having normal users and users that consume a disproportionate amount of bandwidth includes creating bandwidth gates for m users causing disproportionate traffic on the network, each bandwidth gate providing a bandwidth of y, and setting m to a minimum and y... Agent: Fsp LLC

20090265467 - Method and system for load balancing over a cluster of authentication, authorization and accounting (aaa) servers: A method and system for load balancing over a cluster of authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) servers. The method performs a distribution of AAA requests among AAA servers having an active AAA connection with an AAA client. The method includes establishing TCP connections with a plurality of AAA servers, using... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090265469 - Method, apparatus, and software for identifying a set of options for the provision of a service: A method, apparatus and software is disclosed in which options for the provision of a service are each identified by an option identifier for use in determining the applicable options for a given service request.... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090265470 - Gesturing to select and configure device communication: Described is a technology by which a gesture made with a source device (e.g., a cellular telephone), such as a throwing or pointing motion, is used to automatically set up a connection with another device to which the gesture is directed. Audio signals output during the gesture, e.g., such as... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090265471 - Method, system, server and terminal for processing message: A method, a system, a server, and a terminal for processing message are described. The method includes the steps as follows. A notification message for requesting to establish a session sent by a session requester is received, in which the notification message carries session management information related to the session.... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090265472 - Method, system, and apparatus for system level initialization: m

20090265473 - Topology management in peer-to-peer content distribution clouds: A topology management process is implemented in peer-to-peer content distribution clouds using tracker nodes. Tracker nodes have information about available peers and assist peers in finding other peers to connect to. Various algorithms for use at the tracker nodes are described for selecting which peers to return as potentials for... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090265474 - Interoperability of a network interface protocol with an internet interface protocol: A method for interoperability of a network interface protocol with an Internet interface protocol begins by receiving a scan channel request of a plurality of channels that are in accordance with the network interface protocol. The method then continues by determining whether an Internet packet is being received via one... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20090265475 - Content delivery method, content delivery server, communication terminal apparatus, and content delivery system: A content delivery system wherein an occurrence of a traffic, the value of which is below a predetermined threshold value, can cause stream data to permeate all of the nodes in a community in a given time. In this system, a communication terminal apparatus uses a control part to determine,... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090265479 - Dual-type of playback for multimedia content: Using multimedia data for both continuous playback and streaming playback purposes, including: encoding an elementary stream of multimedia content into a fixed length of a group of pictures; multiplexing the encoded multimedia content into a transport stream; locating data offsets of each GOP header inside the transport stream; and uploading... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090265478 - Method and apparatus for data stream analysis and decoding apparatus: If a variable length data stream is transmitted, ignoring a data alignment in a client using a network, the present invention provides a mechanism to analyze the data stream and generate a data stream that can be used by an existing AV equipment. A data stream analysis apparatus includes a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090265476 - Method and arrangement for establishing communication relations: The invention relates to a method and a system for establishing communication relations (stream1, stream2, stream3) via a communication medium, at least one communication relation (stream1, stream2) being established via said communication medium. According to the invention, information on queries for establishing one respective communication relation (stream1, stream2, stream3) is... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090265477 - Method of communicating between several terminals: The invention relates to a method of communicating between at least two devices, comprising in particular the following steps: a step of hooking up a first device and at least one second device, and a step of transferring a first multimedia stream from the first device to the second device,... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090265480 - Method for determining complementary data regarding at least one piece of content, method for transmitting said complementary data, associated processing device and application server: e