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

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

20090259710 - Content distribution: A method and apparatus is configured to generate a first message including a portion of a media stream or a portion of a data file. The method and apparatus also generates a second message including the first message, for sending to one or more addressees. The second message also includes... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090259712 - Distributed processing device, distributed processing method, and program: A distributed processing device provided in association with a first computer, the distributed processing device comprising: a communication delay measuring unit that measures, as first communication delay time, a communication delay time between first program operating on the first computer and second program operating on second computer connected with the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090259713 - Novel massively parallel supercomputer: A novel massively parallel supercomputer of hundreds of teraOPS-scale includes node architectures based upon System-On-a-Chip technology, i.e., each processing node comprises a single Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). Within each ASIC node is a plurality of processing elements each of which consists of a central processing unit (CPU) and plurality... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090259711 - Synchronization of media state across multiple devices: Media state synchronization across multiple devices can include detecting an event relating to a user's access of content on a first device, determining state information relating to an access state of the content corresponding to the detected event, and transmitting the determined state information to a remote location for use... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090259717 - Acquiring and processing data associated with an incident among multiple networked computing apparatuses: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for acquiring and processing incident data among multiple networked computing apparatuses. A method involves provisioning an interface associated with a mode of service of a computing apparatus, receiving incident data via the interface, and analyzing the data received according to rules associated with the... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Mmm

20090259714 - Handheld client framework system: A handheld client framework system provides a server proxy client that services client requests for network accessible information and determines the server that is most appropriate to supply the requested information and sends information request packets to that server across the Internet and/or intranet. Server responses to information requests are... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090259716 - Information processing system: Provided is an information processing system, in which: a server (2) transmits processing result identification information to a client (3), and records the transmitted processing result identification information as transmitted identification information; the client (3) receives the processing result identification information from the server (2), records the processing result identification... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090259715 - System and method for client interoperability: Disclosed herein is a system and method for client interoperability. In one embodiment, a method for client interoperability comprises establishing a network connection between a client and a proxy. The client requests a connection factory from the proxy. The proxy then obtains the connection factory from an application server using... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090259718 - Collaborative accountability in meeting workflow: A computer program product provides collaborative accountability in meeting workflows by including appropriate notification and endorsement of workflow events by an accountability network which includes supervisors in an organizational hierarchy. Workflow events may include invitations to attend meetings, delegations of those invitations, meeting attendance, and action items generated within meetings.... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090259719 - Data communication: A computer voting system arranged to receive votes from one or more mobile communications devices through a wireless personal area network in order to select content stored on the system, each mobile device comprising a mobile device name that can be edited by a user to include a user-entered vote,... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090259720 - Method and apparatus for utility computing in ad-hoc and configured peer-to-peer networks: Executing a program structure by leveraging a peer-to-peer network comprises generating a program structure comprising a plurality of program instructions. A first of a plurality of network peers then executes a portion of the program instructions which initiates the execution of code hosted by said first network peer, where said... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper LLP (us)

20090259723 - Caching and exposing pre-send data relating to the sender or recipient of an electronic mail message: Technologies are described herein for caching and exposing pre-send data relating to the sender or recipient of an e-mail message. A mail client program is configured to cache recipient and configuration mail tips at a client computer. The configuration mail tips may be retrieved from a server computer and cached... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090259728 - Computer-automated system and method of assessing the orientation, awareness and responses of a person with reduced capacity: A system and method for scheduling, and reminding people receiving care (PRC) about upcoming events uses a remote computer-based interface that allows a Caregiver at a remote location to schedule the events for the PRC. The PRC has in their residence (or other location) a device that prompts the PRC,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090259727 - Delivering electronic content: Delivering electronic content includes providing instructions that might cause a computer to collect information including a network address and transmitting the collected information to a receiving computer. The computer that receives the transmitted information selects electronic content based on the received information and sends the selected electronic content to the... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20090259725 - Email consumer reputation: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with email address consumer reputation are described. One example method includes detecting a provision of an email address to an email address consumer. The example method may also include warning a user that the email address consumer may be associated with undesirable email traffic... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay

20090259721 - Ims quietude manager: IMS Quietude Manager is a method and device for unifying reaction to an undesired contact regardless of communication means. In the preferred embodiment, the methodology involves utilizing a quietude key integrated in the IMS client that activates a quietude manager of an IMS. The quietude manager is capable of accessing... Agent: Alcatel-lucent

20090259722 - Method and system for previewing of forwarding file attachments received during a chat session: A method and system for improving the functionality of real-time messaging (chat) applications and services. The method and system may use temporary storage directories to enhance user experience and provide new functionalities, such as instant previewing and forwarding of electronic files received via the chat application.... Agent: King & Spalding

20090259724 - Method of organizing and displaying e-mails: A method of organizing and displaying e-mails. The steps of the method include providing a computer having a server that receives e-mails from a remote server and providing software on the computer that collects the e-mails received by the server into an e-mail account. The next step is organizing the... Agent: Zarley Law Firm P.L.C

20090259726 - Remote electronic mailbox access: An apparatus for retrieving electronic mail messages via a wireless network. The apparatus comprises a gateway for sending an electronic mail retrieval reply message to a wireless device in response to receiving an electronic mail retrieval request message from the wireless device. The apparatus further comprises an application module. The... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090259729 - Secure transfer of data files: The secure transfer of data files between secure environments (202, 211) is disclosed. At a source environment (202) a user issues a request via a first local terminal (205J) to transmit one or more selected data files (101) to a specified recipient (211) by identifying the data files and the... Agent: Arthur Jacob

20090259730 - Content accumulating system, user terminal apparatus, content accumulating method,content accumulating program and storage medium: A content storing system for allowing a storing apparatus, which has a limited size of storage capacity, to be effectively used to record content data. The content storing system includes a user terminal apparatus that records content data received from an external apparatus; and a server that is connected to... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090259731 - Inserting a multimedia file through a web-based desktop productivity application: Technologies are described herein for inserting a multimedia file through a web-based desktop productivity application. A request for the multimedia file is received from a client computer over a network. A request for the multimedia file is transmitted to a server computer over the network. The request for the multimedia... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090259733 - Mail magazine distribution system: A mail magazine distribution system includes an information receiver side including a terminal having transmission and reception functions, and an information provider side including a server which in turn includes a database in which accumulated information is stored and a transmission unit for transmitting the accumulated information from the database... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090259732 - Video upload systems and methods: Video upload systems and methods are provided. The system comprises a video capture unit and a management module. The video capture unit captures a video. The management module stores registration data. The management module automatically links to a website according to the registration data, and uploads the video to the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090259735 - Cookie management systems and methods: A cookie management system serves as a central storage location for information and other data on users. A user's machine contains a cookie having a key and the cookie management system associates user information with this key. Upon receiving a request from a user, a web site retrieves the key... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090259734 - Distribution management method, a distribution management system and a distribution management server: A distribution management system is provided which can have a high software distribution efficiency by using client terminals substituting for software distribution relay and can reliably collect distribution results without depending upon the statuses of client terminals. A distribution management server groups a plurality of representative clients in charge of... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090259737 - Administration system and administration method for computers: Reconfiguration plans that cope with various events are produced for a computer system. An administration system for computers and an administration method for computers in accordance with the present invention have a constitution described below. A server system includes plural servers, and a management server that administers the server system... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090259736 - Label-based target host configuration for a server load balancer: A method for configuring a server load balancer comprises receiving a user command defining a load balancing group capable of representing a plurality of target host servers within a network, and receiving user commands adding the target host servers to the load balancing group, wherein the user commands include configuration... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.a

20090259738 - Online resource server for allowing device control and access to digital content through pluggable user interfaces: An online resource server for allowing device control and access to digital content through pluggable user interfaces (PUI). Features of various embodiments of the system can also include: a system of access rights for resources; user types and their meaning; determination of mandatory and optional properties of resources; an algorithm... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090259742 - Concurrent igrs-upnp: The claimed invention disclosed is used in consumer electronics device interoperability. Systems, apparatuses and methods for processing a concurrent IGRS-UPnP architecture 201 for both IGRS and UPnP standards conformance.... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090259741 - Grid computing implementation: A method, apparatus, and program product that facilitates the implementation of grid or distributed network computing by automatically organizing a group of computers into a hierarchical, or tree networked system. The computer servers are selected into subgroups with each subgroup selecting a server to act as its leader. The leader... Agent: Ibm-rochester C/o Toler Law Group

20090259740 - Managing overlapping address spaces: A network management method and system. The method includes identifying by a computing system, overlapping address spaces between networks. The computing system generates virtual servers associated with the overlapping address spaces. The computing system determines and configures a routing technique for routing the virtual servers to the overlapping address spaces.... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090259739 - System and method for remote management of a computer: There is provided a system and method for remote management of a computer. The method includes establishing a connection between a remote console and a managed server. Additionally, the method includes detecting a change in the status of the connection and issuing commands to lock the managed server if a... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090259749 - Computer system input/output management: The collection of performance data at multiple servers in a SAN and forwarding that data to a centralized server for analysis is disclosed. Remote agents and a central server application collect specific interesting negative event data to enable a picture of the operational health of the SAN to be determined.... Agent: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation C/o Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090259743 - Dynamically calculating an inbound blocking factor using operating-system-level conditions: A current value of a changing operating-system-level condition can be determined, wherein the operating-system level condition is a condition of a host related to an operating system resource utilization or an operating system experienced latency. The operating-system level condition can be a condition of a layer of the OSI model... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090259747 - Information collecting system: A method for connecting a storage device to an information generating device includes transferring an identifying message from the storage device to a control server via a computer network. The identifying message includes a unique identifier uniquely identifying the storage device, matching a registered information generating system to the unique... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090259750 - Method of and apparatus for communicating data structures between devices in a networking environment: The invention is an architecture, a system and a method for monitoring data structures over an IEEE 1394-1995 serial bus network. The data structures are portions of entries that are posted and stored to a descriptor mechanism. Preferably, the entries are schedule entries posted and stored to an AV/C resource... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20090259751 - Methods and apparatus for monitoring and/or control of process control apparatus: A system for process control comprises a server digital data processor and a client digital data processor that are coupled by a network, such as the Internet or an Intranet. The server digital data processor, which is additionally coupled to a control/sensing device and any associated interface equipment (collectively, referred... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20090259745 - Methods and apparatus for nonintrusive monitoring of web browser usage: Methods and apparatus for nonintrusive monitoring of web browser usage are disclosed. An example method for monitoring web browsing disclosed herein comprises obtaining a video signal from a video output of a device implementing a web browser, processing a video image obtained from the video signal to identify a region... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090259746 - Network management apparatus, network management method, and monitoring system: A network management apparatus includes: an information acquisition section obtaining path information and link quality information from a plurality of wireless terminals operating in an ad hoc mode; and a display-information generation section generating a network configuration diagram showing a link state between the wireless terminals from the obtained path... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090259748 - System and method for network vulnerability detection and reporting: A system and method provide comprehensive and highly automated testing of vulnerabilities to intrusion on a target network, including identification of operating system, identification of target network topology and target computers, identification of open target ports, assessment of vulnerabilities on target ports, active assessment of vulnerabilities based on information acquired... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20090259744 - System and method for running a web-based application while offline: A system and a method for executing a web-based application on a client computer system without a network connection to an application server that hosts the web-based application is presented. In these embodiments, the web-based application can provide functionality substantially similar to the functionality of the web-based application when the... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090259752 - Dynamic distributed adjustment of maximum use of a shared storage resource: A method, system, computer program product, and computer program storage device for dynamically adjusting a maximum limit of concurrent service requests directed to a shared storage resource that can be issued by a plurality of host devices is disclosed. The method, system, computer program product, and computer program storage device... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090259753 - Specializing support for a federation relationship: The invention provides federated functionality within a data processing system by means of a set of specialized runtimes, which are instances of an application for providing federation services to requesters. Each of the plurality of specialized runtimes provides requested federation services for selected ones of the requestors according to configuration... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090259754 - Method for ip cameras connection: The present invention relates to a method for IP Cameras connection, which comprises the following steps: registering a presetting identification code of a IP Camera and an IP address onto a global service system server; transferring one identification code to the global service system server by one user device; making... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20090259755 - Method for setting up a communications path in an extended communications network, computer-readable storage medium and corresponding tunnel end-points: e

20090259758 - Method and system for session migration: A method for session migration includes: sending a request for transferring a session from a source terminal to a target terminal; receiving, by a media transfer controller, the request; and transferring, by the media transfer controller, the session to the target terminal by negotiating with the media relay. A system... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090259757 - Securely pushing connection settings to a terminal server using tickets: Systems and techniques for securely pushing connection settings to a terminal server using tickets are described. In one embodiment, a request is received at a first network component from a client for access to a second network component. A ticket associated with one or more connection settings is created and... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090259756 - Transmitting media stream bursts: Mechanisms are provided to transmit media stream bursts upon recognizing that a device buffer is low or empty. In particular examples, a content server transmits 6 seconds of video in 2 seconds in order to quickly replenish a device buffer so that the device can start playback sooner. Content server... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090259759 - Terminal device, network connection method, and computer readable medium having program stored therein: A virtual machine system including a user virtual machine for operating a user environment, and a service virtual machine for controlling the user virtual machine, and performing network connection is constructed on a terminal device capable of being connected to a network, and the service virtual machine controls the network... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090259760 - Storage characteristic identification: In an embodiment, a method is provided that may include generating, at least in part, at least one packet. The at least one packet may include an indication that the at least one packet comprises a control protocol packet. The at least one packet also may include, at least in... Agent: The Law Offices Of Christopher K. Gagne C/o Cpa Global

20090259766 - Client capability adjustment: Mechanisms are provided to detect device client capabilities associated with screen size, video and audio codec support, bandwidth limitations, and memory limitations. A content server can intelligently select a media stream for transmission to the device using the client capability information for the device. In some instances, the content server... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090259765 - Content server media stream management: Mechanisms are provided to manage media stream transmissions at a content server. A content server detects that a user on a device such as a mobile device has stopped playing a live media stream. The content server maintains information associating the user with the media stream and time information. When... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090259767 - Content server media stream management: Mechanisms are provided to manage media stream transmissions at a content server. A content server detects that a user on a device such as a mobile device has stopped playing a live media stream. The content server maintains information associating the user with the media stream and time information. When... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090259762 - Distributed and scalable content streaming architecture: A distributed and scalable content streaming architecture includes a plurality of controllers and a plurality of servers. The controllers are operable to establish Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) sessions with individual devices. A controller selects a server to provide a requested media stream to a device. The server may be selected... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090259763 - Fast setup response prediction: Mechanisms are provided to accelerate Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) setup messages. A client transmits an RTSP request to a server. The server responds to the request and preemptively responds with acknowledgements for messages not yet received. For example, a server responds to an RTSP describe message with an RTSP describe... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090259764 - Intro outro merger with bit rate variation support: Mechanisms are provided to support intro stream merger and outro stream merger into a live stream without disrupting application operation. An intro merger stream corresponding to a requested live stream including multiple packets is obtained. The intro merger stream is transmitted to a device. Time and sequence number information is... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090259761 - Method and system for real-time accessing of digital data stored on a remote terminal: The present invention relates to a system and method of providing at least one digital content item substantially in real-time from at least one user's terminal to another user's terminal over a data network, said method comprises: (a) indexing at least one digital content item provided from at least one... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090259768 - Application load distribution system in packet data networks: The present invention routes an application request to at least one of a plurality of sites in a packet data network. Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) messages that establish initial dialogs and SIP messages that are stand-alone requests are sent from a call session control function system to a SIP application... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20090259769 - Dynamic component placement in an event-driven component-oriented network data processing system: Method, system and computer usable program code for dynamic component placement in an event processing system having producers, consumers, a plurality of nodes between the producers and the consumers, and a flow graph representing computational components to be executed between the producers and the consumers. A description of a change... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090259770 - Method and apparatus for serializing and deserializing: A method and apparatus for serialization of a transmitted data stream and deserialization of data on a single die chip 105, including a plurality of processors 110 on a single chip 105. The processors on the chip 105 are connected by single drop busses 120 and act as individual processors... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20090254599 - Method and system of sharing content from a memory of a first receiving unit with a second receiving unit through a network: A method and system for providing content includes a network having a plurality of receiving units. The system further includes a first receiving unit of the plurality of receiving units that has a first memory storing content therein. The first receiving unit forms a first content list of content stored... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090254600 - Method and system of using idle receiving unit resources for receiving content and communicating the content to other receiving units in the network: A method and system for providing content includes a network having a plurality of receiving units. The system further includes a first receiving unit of the plurality of receiving units that forms a recording request, when the first receiving unit includes unavailable resources and communicates the recording request through the... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090254601 - System for sharing data objects among applications: System and method for sharing data objects among applications. A portion of the data messages includes data objects. A client library is coupled to a requesting application. A client library requests data objects of a data-object set. Requests from the client library are received and parsed by a set of... Agent: Leason Ellis LLP

20090254602 - Network device and control method thereof and network system: If an instruction of a predetermined function is given at a device A in a network, the device A issues a notification request for inquiring whether or not it is possible to execute the function to devices B, C and D in a list of devices capable of cooperating with... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090254603 - Access server for certifying and validating data in a processing network: An access server at individual issuer sites in a processing network facilitates communication with a processor. The processing network is a closed network under the control of the processor. The access server receives data from data providing entities for data certification and validation before the data is forwarded to the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20090254612 - Calendar alarms via session initiation protocol event packages: A method is presented for a user to receive an alarm about a pending calendar event, or an overdue to-do, from an electronic calendar system that serves the user. The user accesses a network that connects the user terminal to a calendar system. The user sends a subscribe request for... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090254607 - Characterization of content distributed over a network: A client device, a computer implemented method for modifying content for a media player associated with the client device, a content characterization server, a computer implemented method for characterizing content for a media player associated with a client device, as well as a system and method involving the client device... Agent: Joshua D. Isenberg Jdi Patent

20090254604 - Method and system for enabling a consumer of a media content to communicate with a producer: There is provided a method of enabling a consumer of a media content to communicate with a producer of the media content, comprising receiving an originating message concerning the media content from the consumer, assigning metadata to the originating message based on the media content or the content of the... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090254613 - Method, apparatus, and system for acquiring and providing cpe function configuration information: A method for acquiring customer premises equipment (CPE) function configuration information includes: setting up a CPE WAN Management Protocol (CWMP) session between an automatic configuration server (ACS) and a CPE; sending, by the ACS, a command to request the CPE to upload the CPE function configuration information to a specified... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090254609 - Methods and systems for improved throughput performance in a distributed data de-duplication environment: In accordance with some embodiments, of the systems and methods described here a data storage system that may include data de-duplication may receive a stream of data and parse the stream of data into a block at a local client node. Additionally, in some embodiments, a code that represents the... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090254606 - Network management filter system: A device associated with a network receives, from a requestor, a request for managed object information filtered based on a managed object attribute, and identifies a managed object based on the request. The device identifies, based on the request, the managed object attribute from the identified managed object, and provides... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090254610 - Network operating system: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090254605 - Server method and system for executing applications on a wireless device: A server implemented method for facilitating execution of an application for a wireless device. The server selects a plurality of scene components. The scene components comprise at least one functional unit operable to execute functions associated with the scene components. The functions of said functional units are a portion of... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes, LLP

20090254608 - Service communication list: A system for aggregating communication events is provided. The communication system includes a communication device and a server. The server is operable to combine communication events from one or more services associated with the communication device into a communication events list. Each communication event is a past, present, or future... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090254611 - System and method for platform and language-independent development and delivery of page-based content: A system and method for platform and language-independent delivery of page-based content. Content defined in a relatively abstract format is rendered into multiple platform formats in client-side applications' user interfaces in multiple human languages. The relatively abstract format is a subset of XML and is used to define user interface... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090254615 - Apparatus, system, and method for managing collaborative sharing by invitees to a meeting of their meeting status: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for allowing a particular invitee to a meeting to control the distribution of information about the particular invitee's posture with respect to the meeting that determines a plurality of invitees to the meeting from a meeting invitation, selects invitees to the meeting from... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090254617 - Method and apparatus for navigation and use of a computer network: The system provides a method and apparatus for navigation and use of a computer network. The system allows multiple users to simultaneously explore a network in groups of two or more. This capability allows one of the users to be a leader of the exploration and the leader can change... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20090254614 - Sharing content using selection and proposal: A system may facilitate “almost automatic” sharing of content by regularly selecting content to be shared, and by publishing the content to certain entities if a person agrees, or does not object, to the sharing. A content item may be selected based on a criterion. A proposal to share the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254616 - Simultaneous instant messaging in single window: Providing integrated multi-session instant messaging in a single instant messaging window. A user interface has an instant messaging window for displaying a plurality of conversation panes representative of concurrent instant messaging sessions between a local user and a plurality of remote users. Each conversation pane represents one of the messaging... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090254624 - E-mail message management system: An e-mail program having a message deferment feature for postponing the time for taking action on incoming mail message until a specified future time, an auto-filing feature, a find similar feature, a message tokenizing features, and a suggest reply feature.... Agent: Stainbrook & Stainbrook, LLP

20090254622 - Electronic mail receiving apparatus: In an e-mail receiving apparatus, a user management table arranged to include each combination of a user ID that is used for identifying a plurality of users and a unique ID that is newly set each time a new user is registered in an S/MIME gateway apparatus. A received e-mail... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20090254623 - Messaging device and system: A display device configured to display and/or playback information received from a remote computer over a network. The device includes a processor coupled to a visual display and a memory storing computer-executable instructions and a device identifier. The device is coupled to the network by a network interface configured to... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20090254618 - Method and system for real-time/dynamic retrieval of information related to an on-going instant message communication: A method, system and computer program product for enabling retrieval and display from an information resource of additional information corresponding to topics within current, real-time communication between an instant message (IM) contact and a local user. Content is dynamically (or manually) retrieved from the contact's IM message during an ongoing... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090254625 - Method for discouraging unsolicited bulk email: A protocol-based method for email forwarding by an email server is performed as follows. An initial email is received from a sender, and checked to ensure that the initial email includes a reusable electronic paying means. If the initial email carries a reusable electronic paying means, the initial email is... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090254628 - Method, system and apparatus for instant messaging: The present invention discloses a method and a system for implementing instant messaging using a browser. The method includes: a browser logs in an instant messaging background server, when receiving an instant message sent from a user, the browser establishes an HTTP link with an access server to send the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090254627 - Method, system, and data structure for providing a general request/response messaging protocol using a presence protocol: A method and system are described for providing a general request/response protocol using a presence protocol. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method is described for using the presence protocol for receiving from a requesting entity a descriptor of a resource associated with a responding entity and a request related... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20090254626 - Network invitation arrangement and method: Method and arrangement for enabling communications between an entity operating a network including a first user, and a second user includes sending a message from the first user to the entity informing the entity of identification information of the second user interested in joining the network, sending from the entity... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090254620 - Notifying co-recipients of others currently replying to communications: A mechanism for notifying co-recipients of a communication that other recipients are currently composing a reply to the received communication is provided. The notification may be provided regardless of which type of communication application is being used to reply to the communication. With this mechanism, attribute information for a communication... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090254621 - Peer-to-peer messaging of facsimile messages: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for peer-to-peer fax messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a multi-modal peer-to-peer messaging method can include receiving in a processing node a job request to process a message by way of an ingress node from one... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul LLP Attn: Steven M. Greenberg, Esq.

20090254619 - Status-based filtered email alerts: The disclosure is directed to status-based filtered email alerts. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: obtaining a current availability status of a user; determining whether an email filter is associated with the current availability status of the user, the email filter comprising at least one condition; determining, when... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090254629 - Method of defining email importance based on recipient: A system and method for efficient electronic communication, which allows the user to address an electronic communication to a plurality of recipients each having a corresponding email address, wherein each of said recipients is assigned to one of a plurality of categories of recipients, and assign a delivery priority to... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090254630 - Storage control method for managing access environment enabling host to access data: A computer system wherein a first access environment program converts an application data created by the first application program, according to access environment information, and sends the converted application data to a first volume, wherein a management computer stores the access environment information, and relationship between the second volume and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090254631 - Defining clippable sections of a network document and saving corresponding content: A system and a method may be provided. The system may include a server and one or more user processing devices. The user processing devices may execute an application, such as, for example, a browser. Via the application, a user may define clippable sections of a network document without executing... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254632 - Methods and apparatus for delivering auxiliary data to device: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for delivering auxiliary data to a wireless or other device. Content, such as audio, video or textual content, can be hosted by a server for delivery to the device. The content can have associated resources, for example icons, barkers, intros, and outros that are... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090254633 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for distributing profile-based advertisement content and user identification-tagged media content: Methods, systems, and computer program products for distributing profile-based advertisement content and user identification-tagged media content are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method of distributing media content and profile-based advertisement content to a user device includes receiving, from a first user device, media content identifier, an address associated with... Agent: Bentley J. Olive

20090254635 - Method and system for processing published content on the internet: The invention is a method for processing content published on-line so as to identify each item in a unique manner. The invention includes software that receives and reads an RSS feed from a publisher. The software then identifies each item of content in the feed and creates a unique identifier... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090254634 - Method of displaying selected data: In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method of displaying selected media is disclosed. The method comprises registering a key on a user computer; accessing a key server via the Internet when the key is pressed; and displaying selected media on the user computer. In preferred embodiments of... Agent: Aaron Weeks Apt #1

20090254637 - Coding method of vector network address: A coding method of vector network address (VNA), which encodes the VNA according to output port names (OPN) of one source device and the forwarding devices along the Data Transmission Path (DTP). Each OPN acts as a component address, and all component addresses compose a sequence in the order along... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20090254639 - Configuring network settings using portable storage media: A portable computer-readable media device and method of use enable automatic configuration of a computing device, such as a conventional network device or a thin client device, for operation in a network. Configuration information, including network settings and security information, is incorporated in an XML file written to the portable... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20090254638 - Topology aware content delivery network: A method of assigning a server to a client system includes determining an ingress point of the client system and identifying possible egress points for the client system. The method further includes selecting the server from a plurality of servers to reduce network cost and delivery time.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lna Attn: Patent Docketing

20090254636 - Virtual array site configuration: A method, system, and computer program product of configuring a virtual array site on a remote storage server is provided. The virtual array site provides on-demand storage capacity to a local storage server of a customer. The method includes creating a virtual array. The virtual array incorporates an attribute selectable... Agent: Griffiths & Seaton PLLC (ibm)

20090254640 - Method and apparatus for hba migration: In one implementation, a system includes multiple SCSI nodes configured to perform a SCSI target function. Each of the multiple SCSI nodes includes a host bus adaptor configured to connect the SCSI node with a Fibre Channel fabric. The host bus adaptor being assigned a world wide name and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090254641 - Network card capable of remote boot and method thereof: A network card capable of remote boot and method thereof. The network card, installed on a client which connects to a server via internet and receives a plurality of boot image files from the server for booting the client. Then, a plurality of boot image files is received from the... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090254642 - System and method for providing data and application continuity in a computer system: A system and method for providing or maintaining data and application continuity in a computer system. According to an embodiment, the system comprises a communication interface for a client system, a network layer for receiving data from the client system, a hardware infrastructure for creating instances of the client system... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP

20090254648 - Method and system for using presence in a system management environment: Method, system and computer program product for communicating information regarding a managed resource in a network data processing system. A method, in a network data processing system, for communicating information regarding a managed resource includes receiving management information regarding at least one managed resource. The received management information is converted... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090254646 - Milarrs systems and methods: An add-on module provides extrinsic management functionality to legacy and other devices. Contemplated modules include: (a) a state agent that provides at least one of the MILARRS function, and (b) a product agent that communicates with the device using at least one serial interface. Implementations are contemplated for both legacy... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP.

20090254645 - Server-managed power saving method for automated tape libraries and drives: A system of controlling tape drives within a tape drive library where a backup server utilizes client backup schedules and pending client restore requests to efficiently control the powering on and off of tape drives within a tape drive library.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090254643 - System and method for identifying galleries of media objects on a network: Collections of media objects may be aggregated from network resources available over a network. An embodiment provides that a network resource is accessed at each of a plurality of network locations. The network resource is analyzed at each network location to determine whether the network resource includes, or provides access... Agent: Mahamedi Paradice Kreisman LLP

20090254647 - System and method for network interfacing: Systems and methods for network interfacing may include a communication data center with a first tier, a second tier and a third tier. The first tier may include a first server with a first single integrated convergent network controller chip. The second server may include a second server with a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090254644 - System of managing connection to web services and method thereof: The present invention relates to a system and method for managing connection between web services. The system includes an external web service connection setup server for determining an external web service to which connection is to be made, and establishing and verifying connection rules, and an external web service connection... Agent: Lrk Patent Firm

20090254657 - Adaptive bitrate management for streaming media over packet networks: A method including providing pseudo-streaming media data to a terminal; receiving a transport control protocol (TCP) acknowledgement from the terminal; estimating one or more network conditions of a network based at least in part on the TCP acknowledgement; determining an optimal session bitrate based on the estimated one or more... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090254654 - Computer network: A peer-to-peer network operating in accordance with a service-oriented architecture is disclosed. The peers in the network request services from one another and each keep a record of the quality of service they receive from the other peers. The peers can operate in two modes of service provider selection. In... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090254655 - Generation and control of network events and conversion to scada protocol data types: A system and method is disclosed for receiving a network event in a network format, mapping the network event into a format expected by a central monitoring system, and communicating the mapped network event to the central monitoring system. The system may employ a variety of communication protocols and physical... Agent: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Richard Edge

20090254649 - High availability of internet protocol addresses within a cluster: A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product manage network layer addresses in a cluster multi-processing environment. Network address assignment in a cluster multi-processing environment is monitored. A network address currently assigned to a first network interface is determined, in response to monitoring network address assignment, to have... Agent: Fleit Kian Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090254656 - Method and apparatus for custodial monitoring, filtering, and approving of content: The system provides a method and apparatus for a parent or other custodian or guardian to monitor, filter, and approve of content to be accessed by a child or children on a network. In one embodiment, the system logs all activity on a network by a child and sends regular... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20090254652 - Resource correlation prediction: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to resource mapping in a change configuration and systems monitoring solution and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for predictively mapping automatically discovered resources in a monitored system with a manually specified resource... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090254653 - Service utilization route output system, management server, service utilization route output method, and service utilization route output program: A service utilization route output system wherein an integrated search system comprises: a search execution history table storing, in a memory part, access information included in a request sent from a client PC to a search system cluster being service providing servers; a utilization route extracting part extracting a service... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090254650 - Traffic analysis for a lawful interception system: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for analyzing data traffic captured by a lawful interception system. A first record, one or more intermediate records, and a second record are received. Each of the records contains a record of test traffic, such as a website, transmitted across a broadband network. The... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hbh Attn: Patent Docketing

20090254651 - Verifying a lawful interception system: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for verifying a lawful interception system. A first file and a second file are received. The first file is formed by recording data traffic at a computer as the data traffic generated at the computer is transmitted from the computer to a remote network... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hbh Attn: Patent Docketing

20090254658 - Access control device, and access control method: An access control unit and an access control method are provided for controlling an access to a secure host efficiently by reducing the consumption of resources such as a memory. In this access control device, an access control unit (302) performs an access control in accordance with whether the target... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090254659 - Delayed downloading video service using peer-to-peer (p2p) content distribution network: A system and method for downloading content in a peer-to-peer network are described including receiving, by a first peer, a list of content available in the peer-to-peer network, requesting, by the first peer, content availability information for a unit of content and receiving, by the first peer, content availability information.... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090254661 - Handling long-tail content in a content delivery network (cdn): A content delivery network has at least a first tier of servers. A content delivery method includes, at a first server in the first tier of servers, obtaining a request from a client for a resource. If the resource is available at the first server or at a peer of... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey, LLP Attn: Brian Siritzky, Ph.d.

20090254660 - Systems and methods for coordinated management of power usage and runtime performance in performance-managed computing environments: Systems and methods are provided for dynamically controlling application placement and server resource allocation in a distributed system wherein a performance manager and power manager collaborate during run-time execution of data processing tasks to coordinate management and control of workload placement and server usage and dynamically determine a tradeoff between... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090254662 - Method for updating connection profile in content delivery service: A method for updating a connection profile in a content delivery service by a dynamic content delivery (DCD) terminal, comprises: receiving, from a server, a connection profile update message including a connection profile; transmitting, to the server, a connection profile update confirmation message in response to the reception; transmitting, to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090254663 - Prioritizing network traffic: Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors for prioritizing transmission of communications associated with an entity based upon reputation information associated with the entity.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090254664 - Session management system and method of controlling the same: A session management system enabling network resources to be efficiently utilized or saved when communication addresses are assigned to a network interface. The system manages sessions between a server having a plurality of addresses and a client. It is determined, in a case where an application provided with the client... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090254665 - Trigger-based session completion using external parties: A method for performing Internet call processing related to the completion of session initiation requests is provided. The session initiation requests include one or more triggers. Based on the detection of one or more triggers, a call processing entity involved with processing the session initiation request transfers call processing to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090254666 - Method and devices for enabling a multi-mode device to establish a session through multiple networks: A method, device, and computer-readable storage element enables a multi-mode device to establish a session through multiple networks in a communication system. The method includes registering, at the same time, each of a plurality of sub-clients of a single multi-mode device with a single application server, wherein each sub-client is... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090254667 - Method for eliminating redundant connections: A method and system for eliminating redundant connections, including transmitting a request to merge two connections, terminating a first portion of a first connection, terminating a first portion of a second connection, and merging a second portion of each of the first and second connections, are described. A method and... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090254668 - System and method for searching for session id in wireless mobile ip communication system: A system and a method for performing session setup in a wireless communication system that uses a Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP) are provided. In the method, when at least one Mobile Node (MN) requests registration, a Network Access Identifier (NAI) of the MN is determined. A session Identification (ID) is... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090254669 - Terminal and method for selecting secure device: A mobile terminal and method for selecting a secure device, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes acquiring secure device selection information for each of at least one secure device associated with the mobile terminal; receiving a request for establishing a communication connection with a secure device from... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090254670 - Providing access to network applications for standardized clients: A method for providing access to a network application for a standardized client. A hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request may be received from a standardized client. A resource request based on the HTTP request may be created. The resource request may be sent to the network application. A response may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090254671 - Remote control of a device by a terminal: A network entity connects the first and second networks. This network entity receives, from the terminal, a control message (31) conforming with the communication protocol. Then, it translates the control message conforming with the communication protocol into a translated control message (32) conforming with the control protocol adapted for controlling... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090254672 - Dynamic server-side media transcoding: Dynamic transcoding of media content based on transcoding parameters. Upon receiving a request for media content to be delivered to a client, various parameters for transcoding the media content are identified. Such transcoding parameters might be tailored to the particular capabilities of the client presentation system. It not already done,... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090254673 - Software downloading using a television broadcast channel: A software distribution architecture having a television broadcast system as its infrastructure. Software from a software repository (1600) is mixed into a television broadcast system and transmitted into one or more selected channels at prescribed dates and times. An at-home subscriber, capable of receiving with a receiver (1608) the one... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20090254674 - Session initiation protocol (sip) overload protection: A device receives a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) response that includes a load header associated with a downstream Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device. The device also determines an amount of traffic to send to the downstream Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) device based on the load header. The device further sends... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090254675 - Adaptive file delivery system and method: An adaptive file delivery system and method transmits a data file, such as an audio-video file, over a network or collection of networks in segments, each segment transmitted during a different time period. Each time period has a transmission portion to transmit its associated file segment and a wait portion... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20090254676 - Method for transferring data frame end-to-end using virtual synchronization on local area network and network devices applying the same: A method for transferring data frame end-to-end in a local area network is provided. In the method, a virtual synch frame shaper is loaded on a frame transmission layer structure provided in end stations in transmitting and receiving sides, which transmits data frame passing through a plurality of Ethernet switches... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090254677 - Discovery for fibre channel over ethernet devices: Techniques are provided for performing discovery in a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) network. An FCF discovers other FCoE Forwarders (FCFs) connected to its network segment by transmitting a solicitation message to the multicast MAC address “All-FCF-MACs”. All FCFs receive packets with this multicast MAC address including the solicitation message... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090254678 - Operating device for exchanging data with a field device in an automation system: An operator panel having a state unit is provided, wherein individual states of the state unit correspond to states of a state machine contained in a field device and which are synchronized by the state machine in such a way that the actual state of the operator panel corresponds to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090254679 - Connection apparatus and method for limiting signal transfer: A connection apparatus that is connected to a first network obtains function information from an apparatus that exists in the first network, and limits signal transfer between the first network and a second network in accordance with destination information included in the obtained function information.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division