Computer Network Managing

Computer Network Managing patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

10/19/06 - 20060235958 - System, computer program product and method for managing and controlling a local network of electronic devices
A method, control device and computer program product for remotely controlling wireless network devices broadcasting a wireless menu request from a control device to electronic devices connected to a wireless local area network (LAN), receiving a wireless menu response from one of the electronic devices, selecting the one of the ...

10/19/06 - 20060235957 - Connection management method, system, and program product
The invention provides a method, system, and program product for managing a connection. In particular, the invention manages connection information in memory based on an expected usage of the corresponding connection. Connection information can be stored in faster memory, such as cache memory, when the connection is expected to have ...

10/19/06 - 20060235956 - Information process distribution system, information processing apparatus and information process distribution method
An apparatus and method is disclosed wherein a process of information relating to a content which applies a high load to a CPU can be processed efficiently in a distributed manner. A request source information processing apparatus transmits a process type of the process to be executed, and receives identification ...

10/19/06 - 20060235955 - Method and system for remote server administration
Methods and systems for enabling remote server administration using a terminal device of a wireless network. The terminal device is hosted by an application gateway designed to mediate signalling between the terminal device and web services of a data network. A web service implementing administration functionality for one or more ...

10/19/06 - 20060235954 - Methods and systems for managing network information objects
Methods and systems that substantially reduce the burden of fulfilling network management request response details ...

10/12/06 - 20060230132 - System and method for selective installation of a network document processing device
A system and method for selective installation of a network document processing device. Data representing available networked document processing devices is first communicated to a network, whereupon a visual indication of one of the document processing devices is displayed on a thin client interface. The thin client interface then receives, ...

10/12/06 - 20060230131 - Information-processing device, information-processing method, recording medium, and program
There is provided a processing apparatus which increments and thereby restores a lendable number upon receiving a content returned from a portable device, and which confirms the return of the content and increments the lendable number even when the portable device does not have or deletes the content borrowed from ...

10/12/06 - 20060230130 - Apparatus and method for managing and controlling upnp devices in home network over external internet network
An apparatus and method for managing and controlling UPnP devices in a home network over an external Internet network. The apparatus comprises a client connected to the external Internet network, and a UPnP proxy server for controlling and managing the UPnP devices in the home network. The client includes a ...

10/12/06 - 20060230129 - Apparatus, method and computer program product to reduce tcp flooding attacks while conserving wireless network bandwidth
A method for operating a firewall includes: in response to the firewall receiving a TCP SYN request packet that is sent towards a first node from a second node, said TCP SYN request packet comprising a sequence value (“seq”), sending to the second node a SYN|ACK packet, said SYN|ACK packet ...

10/12/06 - 20060230128 - Method and apparatus interfacing for controlling a device between an application and a library of a master on home network
The present invention relates to method and apparatus for interfacing for controlling a device between various applications operated on a home network and a library to ensure their compatibility. In a method for controlling a device on a home network according to the present invention, an application calls a function ...

10/12/06 - 20060230127 - Methods and systems for auto-sensing internet accelerators and proxies for download content
The present invention allows for the downloading of content regardless of a computing device's configuration. Computer software is executed on the computing device to accommodate multiple download protocols and techniques. The present invention also works through problems associated with proxies, firewalls, and internet accelerators to download content from the internet. ...

10/05/06 - 20060224718 - Content providing system and information collecting device and program
A content providing system includes an information collecting device including a content collecting unit and a content providing unit, a plurality of relaying devices each configured to relay transmission of the collected contents provided by the content providing unit, and a terminal device connected to at least one relaying device ...

10/05/06 - 20060224717 - Management system for warranting consistency between inter-client communication logs
In inter-peer communication between an application server for providing service such as Voice over IP or contents distribution and a client using the service, the client or the application server notifies a log management server of a communication log by a log information process. The log management server verifies consistency ...

10/05/06 - 20060224716 - Digital content distribution system
In the setting of distribution contents and distribution time of digital content, data processing efficiency is increased and operability are improved for users. Distribution processing is efficiently executed according to, for example, a position of a portable terminal, and excellent usability is realized for digital content and advertisements. To solve ...

10/05/06 - 20060224715 - Computer management program, managed computer control program, computer management apparatus, managed computer, computer management system, computer management method, and managed computer control method
The present invention has been made to provide a computer management program, a managed computer control program, a computer management apparatus, a managed computer, a computer management system, a computer management method, and a managed computer control method allowing the management agent to easily perform autonomous communication frequency control. A ...

10/05/06 - 20060224714 - Display technique for displaying a layout of a print network system
A display terminal comprises a position storage, a status storage, a connection relationship storage, and a display device. The position storage stores a position of each of the terminals and the printers. The status storage stores a status of each of the printers. The connection relationship storage stores a connection ...

10/05/06 - 20060224713 - Distributed computers management program, distributed computers management apparatus and distributed computers management method
A distributed computers management program, a distributed computers management apparatus and a distributed computers management method can distribute a cryptography process among nodes and safeguard confidential information. The distributed computers management program for causing a computer to execute a distributed computers management method for managing distributed computers having a plurality ...

10/05/06 - 20060224712 - Device management in a communication system
A method delivers device management information in a communication system. The method includes discovering an active secure connection for data communication between a communication device and a private network. The method also includes performing at least one device management task using the active secure connection. Furthermore, a virtual private network ...

10/05/06 - 20060224711 - Self-learning server communicating values from a plurality of communicating devices of one communication network to a client of another communication network
A system includes a first communication network, such as the Internet, having a client; a second INCOM communication network including a plurality of communicating devices; and a server. The server includes a first Ethernet transceiver communicating with the Internet, a second INCOM transceiver communicating with the INCOM communication network and ...

10/05/06 - 20060224710 - Hall monitor-method and apparatus for providing contact information and communications capability for an organization
The invention comprises a computer-implemented “hall monitor” system. The hall monitor includes a centralized database of employee presence data, and server software that allows users to update and access employee presence data over a network through a custom interface. The invention allows organizations to manage employees and members working from ...

10/05/06 - 20060224709 - Network connectivity management
Network connectivity management can manage (e.g., harmonize) network connectivity services and network connectivity modules. By way of example only, network connectivity management is applicable to connections to a network through a network connectivity service via a network connectivity module. In a described implementation, network connectivity configuration information is scanned to ...

09/28/06 - 20060218265 - Optimized network resource location
Resource requests made by clients of origin servers in a network are intercepted by reflector mechanisms and selectively reflected to other servers called repeaters. The reflectors select a best repeater from a set of possible repeaters and redirect the client to the selected best repeater. The client then makes the ...

09/28/06 - 20060218264 - Communication processing apparatus, data communication system, and communication processing method
A communication processing apparatus that acts as a server for transmitting data to a client includes a data transceiver configured to carry out communications with the client; a rate controller configured to control a bitrate of data transmitted to the client; and a data processor configured to prepare data to ...

09/28/06 - 20060218263 - System and method to simulate a plurality of networked programmable logic controllers
A system and method for simulating a plurality of networked program logic controllers includes, in one aspect of the invention, determining if a configuration of networked program logic controllers exists; populating a configuration by creating a plurality of program logic controllers in a network if the configuration does not exist, ...

09/28/06 - 20060218262 - Multicast communication method, home agent, and mobile node
A multicast communication method is disclosed that includes the steps of: (a) transmitting a position registration request including multicast join request information from a mobile node to a network; (b) receiving the position registration request, performing position registration, and setting session information data for performing a multicast communication in a ...

09/28/06 - 20060218261 - Creating and removing application server partitions in a server cluster based on client request contexts
A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, determine an application server partition based on the context of a request from a client, and send the request to the application server partition if the application server partition exists. If the application server partition does not exist, the ...

09/28/06 - 20060218260 - Device and method for network information accessing
A network information access device is used for transferring information with an electronic device. The network information access device includes a memory unit, a receiving unit, a selecting unit, and a broadcast unit. The memory unit stores a plurality of Internet protocol information. The receiving unit receives a search signal ...

09/21/06 - 20060212565 - Information processing system, information processing method, and storage medium therefor
In an information processing system, when image data captured by a digital camera is to be stored on a remote HTTP server, a user stores the image data on a removable medium, for example, a memory card, and inserts it into a media drive of a local personal computer. In ...

09/21/06 - 20060212564 - Content management system and associated methodology
A communication system including a first apparatus having a first storage medium, and a second apparatus for transmitting data to the first apparatus. The second apparatus has a second storage medium for storing management information of data to be transferred to the first storage medium, a communicator for communicating data ...

09/21/06 - 20060212563 - Split socket send queue apparatus and method with efficient queue flow control, retransmission and sack support mechanisms
A mechanism for offloading the management of send queues in a split socket stack environment, including efficient split socket queue flow control and TCP/IP retransmission support. As consumers initiate send operations, send work queue entries (SWQEs) are created by an Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) and written to the send work ...

09/21/06 - 20060212562 - System and method for trap management and monitoring on wireless terminals
A wireless device and a method for providing remote trap management of the wireless device by which a management server remotely sets a trap whose trigger needs to be monitored. A method for providing remote trap management of a wireless device comprises receiving from a remote device a request to ...

09/21/06 - 20060212561 - Method and apparatus for controllable communication
Communication and a communications apparatus are controlled with a communication intermediating apparatus. Multiple methods of processing communication requests are provided. Decided rules comprising of pairs of identification information of communication requests and methods of processing are recorded beforehand. When a communication request is received, the identification of the communication request ...

09/21/06 - 20060212560 - Systems and methods for denying rogue dhcp services
Methods of controlling dynamic host control protocol (DHCP) communication on a network are presented including: receiving a data frame on a network switch; and if the data frame is a DHCP offer frame that is not received from an authorized DHCP server port, dropping the data frame. In some embodiments, ...

09/21/06 - 20060212559 - Data source access editor and network data management method
A data source access editor and a network data management method are disclosed. The method is carried out in a network within which at least one data service element interacts with services. The network has data access layers, an administrator user interface and different platform data sources. The method includes ...

09/21/06 - 20060212558 - Defining nodes in device management system
The invention relates to a method for defining the nodes of a management structure used in device management in a device management system. In the arrangement, case sensitivity information is associated with at least one node to define whether to distinguish between upper-case and lower-case letters. At least one node ...

09/21/06 - 20060212557 - Hmi system for operating and monitoring a technical installation by means of mobile operating and monitoring device and secure data transmission
Disclosed is an HMI system comprising at least one mobile operating and monitoring device for the automation components of a technical installation and a radio link for contactless data transmission between the mobile operating and monitoring device and the automation components. A first firewall is provided for securing data transmission ...

09/21/06 - 20060212556 - Centralized network control
A method of network control. The method includes collecting real-time operation information on one or more first network elements of a network, selecting a policy to be implemented by at least one second network element, different from the first network element, responsive to the collected real time information from the ...

09/21/06 - 20060212555 - Network analyzing method and a network analyzing apparatus
A network analyzing apparatus (100) and method for analyzing the network properties of a device under test (20) to which modulated signals are applied including modulating data contained in output signals (10) of the device under test (20), generating modulated signals (140) based on demodulated data and setting data supplied ...

09/14/06 - 20060206605 - Network system, method and apparatus for processing information, and control program
Property information of a driver is newly set or updated via a simple operation on a network. First, property information is created. When a driver is installed or updated, the created property information associated with the driver is transmitted from a server device to a client device, which in turn ...

09/14/06 - 20060206604 - Methods and systems for providing a communication manager for wireless wireline converged telecommunication services
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a communication manager. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving a request for a communication service. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include determining, from a plurality of servers based on the request, a first server capable of servicing the request ...

09/14/06 - 20060206603 - Integrated storage virtualization and switch system
A system integrates an intelligent storage switch with a flexible virtualization system to enable efficient service of file and block protocol data access requests for information stored on the system. A storage operating system executing on a storage system coupled to the switch implements the virtualization system to provide a ...

09/14/06 - 20060206602 - Network switch link failover in a redundant switch configuration
A method and system to quickly redirect traffic from a server blade to different access switches that provide data communication to a network is presented. Each access switch has external ports directed upstream towards the network, and correlated internal ports directed downstream towards the server blade. The server blade has ...

09/14/06 - 20060206601 - Method of designating a future network coordinator
A method (500) is provided for operating a network coordinator (110). The method includes receiving device capability information from a plurality of network devices (121-125), including whether each of the network devices can perform network control functions (520); determining whether any of the network devices is capable of performing network ...

09/14/06 - 20060206600 - Method of operating a video-on-demand system that prevents congestion
A video-on-demand (VOD) system utilizes an access platform that has a controller, and uplink and downlink cards that support a predetermined number of unicast and multicast data streams. When a VOD application server receives a request from an end user to receive a unicast data stream, the VOD application server ...

09/14/06 - 20060206599 - Dynamic service generation for legacy components
The present invention provides a mechanism that allows an administrative event to trigger or cause the generation of a dynamic web service during initialization of legacy application components. Similar to other types of static tooling approaches, the dynamic approach-as supported herein-uses available metadata describing an interface for communicating with legacy ...

09/07/06 - 20060200543 - Method and apparatus for tightly coupled interworking between cellular network and wlan network
When a terminal moves from a WLAN network to a cellular network after being allocated an IP address from a PDSN of the cellular network, a tightly coupled interworking method and apparatus between the cellular network and the WLAN network set up a temporary tunnel between the PDSN and an ...

09/07/06 - 20060200542 - Apparatus and method for network-aware power management
Apparatus and methods managing the power profile of a network of interconnected devices. In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided for managing the power consumed by a network of devices. The apparatus includes power management logic that is disposed within a plurality of the devices in the network. The power ...

09/07/06 - 20060200541 - Method and apparatus for implementing a mobile web server based system
A method and apparatus for facilitating access to mobile Web servers by any requesting entity from within a network. The mobile Web servers are allocated Uniform Resource Locators (URL), which are discoverable by the requesting entities through conventional use of search engines, service discovery mechanisms, registries, etc. A direct communication ...

08/31/06 - 20060195564 - Medical diagnostic system service method and apparatus
A system is provided for remotely servicing medical diagnostic systems. The diagnostic systems may include a range of modalities and system types. A remote service facility may be contacted by the diagnostic systems, or may contact the diagnostic systems via a network link. Service requests, messages, protocols, data and log ...

08/31/06 - 20060195563 - Peer-to-peer inventory management system
A software tool, message construction and peer-to-peer internet communication methodology by which otherwise independent retailers that sell the same product lines can cost-effectively equalize inventory, facilitating the movement of items from geographic markets in which the items are slow-moving to geographic markets in which the items are faster-moving. ...

08/31/06 - 20060195562 - System, software, and method for managing obsolescent high-technology inventory
A Business Method by which otherwise independent nodes of a distribution system can undergo confidential interactions via an internet website or other means to equalize inventory to their mutual benefit and profit, with the Business Method Practitioner operating the mechanism and retaining a percentage of each transaction as a fee ...

08/31/06 - 20060195561 - Discovering and monitoring server clusters
In a server cluster, multiple nodes may host one or more virtual servers. Virtual servers that may be hosted by particular nodes are identified. From the nodes, status is provided as to nodes that are actively hosting virtual servers and status of nodes whether they are actively hosting or not ...

08/31/06 - 20060195560 - Application of attribute-set policies to managed resources in a distributed computing system
An apparatus, program product and method utilize sets of attributes respectively associated with managed resources and policies to match managed resources with individual policies. Multiple managed resources are permitted to be matched with a specific policy, such that the policy applies to all matching managed resources. Furthermore, by providing multiple ...

08/31/06 - 20060195559 - Services for grid computing
A Grid management service for deploying legacy code applications on the Grid, without modification of the legacy code, the service having a three layer architecture that is adapted to sit on existing standardised Grid architectures, comprising a front end layer for permitting selection of a desired legacy code application, and ...

08/31/06 - 20060195558 - Redundant manager modules
A system comprises plural electronic modules, at least one interconnect structure and plural power supplies. The electronic modules communicate over the interconnect structure. The system further comprises plural redundant manager modules to perform management tasks with respect to the at least one interconnect structure and the power supplies. ...

08/24/06 - 20060190587 - Network topology management
In certain embodiments of the present invention, each of a plurality of switches in a network can independently develop an equivalent set of network attributes without referring to the network's topology. An equivalent set of network attributes can define the entire network's topology. Each switch can also independently maintain its ...

08/24/06 - 20060190586 - Distributed network communication system to provide wireless access to a computing device at a reduced rate
A system and method for providing access and/or roaming features on a network system. The network system includes a plurality of wireless and/or wired access points coupled to a network. Access points (APs) for the network may be widely distributed in various facilities, such as airports, mass-transit stations, and various ...

08/24/06 - 20060190585 - Status management device, status management method, and recording medium
A status management device includes one or a plurality of first application units for monitoring status information indicating a status of a management target, one or plurality of second application units for outputting first acquisition request information of the status information with identification information of the management target, a search ...

08/24/06 - 20060190584 - Method and system for automatically deciding what alarm, generated in an industrial plant, to hide or to present to an operator
A method and an alarm processing system for deciding what alarm, out of a number of alarms generated in an industrial plant or process, to present to a system operator. The method includes creating hiding rules, associating each hiding rule with a real-world object, storing these rules in a storage ...

08/24/06 - 20060190583 - Method, device, computer program and computer program product for controlling a digital information technology it infrastructure
Method, device, computer program and computer program product for the automated control of a digital information technology IT infrastructure comprised of a multitude of configurable IT components arranged for supporting processes to be executed by the IT infrastructure. The IT components in question are grouped, among other things, on the ...

08/24/06 - 20060190582 - Maintaining building serviceability information for geographic locations
Systems and methods are disclosed for maintaining building serviceability information for geographic locations. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving a request for communication services information for a geographic location, wherein a user enters location information specific to the geographic location into a communications service management system. Furthermore, the ...

08/24/06 - 20060190581 - Method and apparatus for updating application servers
An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing a set of servers. Responsive to an indication that an alteration of applications on the set of servers providing a service is to occur, a first group of servers and a second group of servers are created from the set of ...

08/24/06 - 20060190580 - Dynamic extensible lightweight access to web services for pervasive devices
A Generic Mobile Web Services (GMWS) manager provides mobile clients with access to Web Services. The GMWS manager provides an interface between Web Services and mobile clients (hand held PDAs for example). The GMWS manager maintains a registry of supported Web Services and metadata attributes about the Web Services and ...

08/24/06 - 20060190579 - Assisted command script template creation
A CLI command script template management system, tool, and human machine interface for script-based configuration management, service provisioning, operations and maintenance is provided. The system includes a CLI command dictionary repository, and means for loading a CLI command dictionary at run-time. Methods provide for obtaining a CLI command specification compatible ...

08/24/06 - 20060190578 - Method for implementing topn measurements in operations support systems
In an OSS, storing a plurality, typically less than all, of name-value pairs from a sample space and calculating a “representative” value based on values in the entire sample space. Optionally, a “remainder” value can be generated based on name-value pairs in the sample space that were not stored as ...

08/24/06 - 20060190577 - Content output device
An Internet radio device (10), when an N-th radio station server (200) is selected, receives streaming contents from five N−2-th to N+2-th radio station servers (200, 200, . . . ), writes them respectively into five buffers, and reads only the streaming content from the N-th radio station server (200) ...

08/24/06 - 20060190576 - Scheduling method of advertisement/broadcasting and management system and method
A scheduling method of advertisement/broadcasting of Integrated Broadcasting System based on network and a Centrally Controlled Management System using screen partition and a method thereof for control image transmitting of advertisement/broadcasting are disclosed. This invention interrupts broadcasting on playing now and broadcasts urgent broadcasting. After finish of urgent broadcasting interrupted ...

08/17/06 - 20060184657 - Service broker for processing data from a data network
A method and system for communication between server-less computing devices or clients in computers communicating over networks, such as the World Wide Web (WWW) using stateless protocols, e.g., HTTP. In this scheme there are two classes of clients which can operate independently or can be combined in computer communicating over ...

08/17/06 - 20060184656 - Proxy server caching
Providing an input-dependent output is disclosed. A received message is processed to determine if a previously cached output exists for the received message. If a previously cached output is found, the previously cached output is provided to a destination other than the sender of the received message as output for ...

08/17/06 - 20060184655 - Traffic analysis
A method, system and apparatus for traffic flow reporting for websites is provided. In one embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes receiving a request to review traffic of a domain. The method further includes accessing traffic information for the domain. The method also includes accessing link information ...

08/17/06 - 20060184654 - Server-functionality role extensibility model
Described herein are one or more implementations facilitating the extensibility of a tool for configuration and management of server-functionality role(s) of a network server. One or more implementations, described herein, provide an extensibility model that allows additional server-functionality roles to be included in the list of user-selectable server-functionality roles available ...

08/10/06 - 20060179135 - Data communication method, data communication system, and communication terminal
A portable telephone unit 10 receives management information comprising size information for contents data wanting to be downloaded, and adjusts an environment for receiving the object data, based on size information for contents data contained in the management information. To adjust the environment for receiving the object data it is ...

08/10/06 - 20060179134 - Device, method, and system for module level network supervision
Apparatus for module level management of a network having a plurality of network devices, comprises, supervisory layers at the module units on a plurality of network devices for supervising expected communication behavior thereat. Expected communication behavior includes protocol and interface definitions and the like. The supervisory layers detect deviations from ...

08/10/06 - 20060179133 - Method and system for centralized network usage tracking
In accordance with a method and system for centralized network usage tracking, documents on a network server include a reference to content on a centralized logging server. When one of the documents is accessed by a client computer, the process of rendering the content at the client computer includes requesting ...

08/03/06 - 20060173990 - Browser, method, and computer program product for managing documents
A browser, method and computer program product for managing documents. The browser can receive and process a request from an input device of a image processing device. Based on this processing, the browser can transmit information over a network to a document manager connected to the scanning device via the ...

08/03/06 - 20060173989 - Method for synchronization of policy cache with various policy-based applications
A hardware-based policy engine that employs a policy cache to process packets of network traffic. The policy engine includes a stream classifier that associates each packet with at least one action processor based on data in the packet, and the action processor further acts on the packets based on the ...

08/03/06 - 20060173988 - Network, network terminal device, ip address management method using the same, and program therefor
When a communication malfunction occurs in the transmission line between routers, and operation is carried out by a backup system control device, IP telephone terminals can connect to the backup system control device through the use of an IP address that is previously acquired from the address management device and ...

08/03/06 - 20060173987 - Method for performing a dynamic update of composed web services
A method performs a dynamic update of at least one composed web service within a web service environment. The composed web service relies on a set of component services which are linked to at least one goal of the composed service. The method includes publishing the at least one goal ...

08/03/06 - 20060173986 - Communication apparatus, electronic apparatus, imaging apparatus
A communication apparatus is disclosed that includes a transmission circuit configured to transmit transmission data to a communication counterpart; a reception circuit configured to receive reception data from the communication counterpart; a storage device configured as at least two buffers including a transmission buffer that stores the transmission data and ...

08/03/06 - 20060173985 - Enhanced syndication
A variety of tools and techniques are disclosed for managing, viewing, publishing, searching, clustering, and otherwise manipulating data streams. Data streams such as RSS data feeds may be searched, aggregated, and filtered into a processed feed. The processed feed, along with rules used to process the feed may be shared ...

08/03/06 - 20060173984 - Application governor providing application-level autonomic control within a distributed computing system
A distributed computing system conforms to a multi-level, hierarchical organizational model. One or more control nodes provide for the efficient and automated allocation and management of computing functions and resources within the distributed computing system in accordance with the organization model. A user, such as a system administrator, interacts with ...

08/03/06 - 20060173983 - Information processing system and method of controlling information processing system
The present invention provides an information processing system which comprises multiple processor nodes creating parallel computers, an information transmission line for connecting the processor nodes, and a separation switch provided on the information transmission line for separating the information transmission line so that the processor nodes create multiple parallel computers ...

08/03/06 - 20060173982 - Method, system, and computer program product for providing quality of service guarantees for clients of application servers
The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for providing quality of service guarantees at the application level for clients of application servers. The method includes: receiving a request for a transaction of type k; calculating a throughput rate λi of each type of transaction i, 1≦i≦n, ...

08/03/06 - 20060173981 - Secure web browser based system administration for embedded platforms
The invention provides a method for a web browser based remote administration system to maintain its security by utilizing an ActiveX control or a plug-in, without relying on HTTPS protection to transact management information. The invention does not burden the embedded system and thus is ideally suited for the remote ...

07/27/06 - 20060168189 - Advanced ipmi system with multi-message processing and configurable capability and method of the same
An advanced intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) system with multi-message processing and configurable capability, optimally used among message sources, the IPMI system is disclosed. The IPMI system includes a sensor unit having an electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) which stores a sensing event of a physical change in ...

07/27/06 - 20060168188 - Method and system for presenting events associated with recorded data exchanged between a server and a user
Events associated with recorded data exchanged between at least one user and at least one server are presented to a user. A set of events associated with the recorded data is defined, and each event within the set is represented by an event identifier, e.g., a time stamp. Each event ...

07/27/06 - 20060168187 - System and method for archiving within a client management tool
A method and system is provided for archiving data within a client management tool. The archiving methods include accessing a set of client management data and creating an archive file. The method may further include reactivating an archive file, deleting an archive file, and reactivating a deleted archive file. ...

07/27/06 - 20060168186 - Parental controls customization and notification
A method, system, and computer readable medium are provided for enabling a user and an administrator in a network environment to interactively customize administrator controls used to filter the user's online actions. The computer receives a user request to perform a blocked online action. The computer provides information about the ...

07/27/06 - 20060168185 - Collecting, analyzing, consolidating, delivering and utilizing data relating to a current event
Arrangements for collecting, analyzing, consolidating and delivering consolidated and enhanced data from a plurality of sources relating to a current event, to a third party, and reserving the consolidated and enhanced data for internal use so as to create a commercial proactive emergency management and disaster response information system that ...

07/27/06 - 20060168184 - Method of operating a network management station
A network management station connected to a network infrastructure is configured for the acquisition and registration of at least a [portion of the network infrastructure. A selected region only of the network infrastructure is displayed graphically on the screen of the network management station. ...

07/27/06 - 20060168183 - Determining differences between configuration diagrams
System and method for determining and/or merging differences between configuration diagrams. First information is received regarding a first configuration diagram comprising a first plurality of nodes and graphically representing a first system, and second information is received regarding a second configuration diagram comprising a first plurality of nodes and graphically ...

07/27/06 - 20060168182 - Determining and merging differences between configuration diagrams
System and method for determining and/or merging differences between configuration diagrams. First information is received regarding a first configuration diagram comprising a first plurality of nodes and graphically representing a first system, and second information is received regarding a second configuration diagram comprising a first plurality of nodes and graphically ...

07/27/06 - 20060168181 - System and method for transporting multiple client data signals via a single server signal
Systems and methods for conveying multiple low-bit-rate data streams over a data transport medium which is configured to transport data in a single, high-bit-rate data stream. In one embodiment, a plurality of low-bit-rate signals are received and a corresponding data rate is determined. Each of the signals is formatted in ...

07/27/06 - 20060168180 - Node discovery involving stealth node enumerators
A network node discovery method allows multiple enumerators to concurrently accept and interpret the same enumeration responses from responder nodes on a network. In this manner, the responder nodes do not have to issue individual responses for each enumerator. Each responder maintains a discovery state and one or more per-enumerator ...

07/27/06 - 20060168179 - Adaptive management method and system with automatic scanner installation
A self-adaptive resource management method (200) is proposed. The system is based on an authority (105) that publishes multiple rules into a corresponding repository (115). Each rule defines a desired target configuration for a category of subjects (110); each category is specified by one or more attributes that are evaluated ...

07/27/06 - 20060168178 - Platform-independent system for remotely controlling home devices and method thereof
A platform-independent system and method for remotely controlling home devices and a computer-readable recording medium in which a program capable of executing the method is recorded are disclosed. The method includes installing a device control application to be used for the management of a home device when the home device ...

07/27/06 - 20060168177 - Method and system for managing groups of networked heterogeneous devices
A system and method for managing a group of networked, heterogeneous devices, wherein the group of devices are regarded as a logically single “device”. This method separates the state management aspect from control aspect, such that applications using this method need not manage the devices and data directly, and as ...

07/27/06 - 20060168176 - Systems, methods, and media for detecting outbound nagling on a tcp network connection
Systems, methods and media for detecting outbound Nagling on a TCP network connection are disclosed. Embodiments may include creating by a sender computer one or more segments to be transmitted to a receiver computer and determining by the sender computer whether any of the one or more segments to be ...

07/27/06 - 20060168175 - Client registration for purposes of maintaining detailed client information at a web services registry
A method is described to implement a web services environment in which web based service providers can be discovered and accessed with a web based registry. The method includes forcing a client to undergo a registration process as a condition for the client's discovering and/or accessing a web based service ...

07/27/06 - 20060168174 - Grid application acceleration
A method includes, in a grid network, maintaining an application usage history by a grid manager or similar component, executing an application according to information contained in the application usage history prior to a user request to execute the application, caching results generated from execution of the application, and providing ...

07/27/06 - 20060168173 - Method and apparatus for conditional application of management commands
Device management commands are augmented with a condition that is evaluated prior to the command being executed at a managed device. If the condition is met, the command is executed; otherwise, execution of the command is rejected. An agent for operating a network device comprises a parser that receives from ...

07/27/06 - 20060168172 - Obtaining user input for inclusion in system management logs
An administrator may enter information related to a system event or system performance directly into systems management software. The systems management software includes at least a portion of the information entered by the administrator in a log, which may be provided to a second administrator using the systems management software. ...

07/27/06 - 20060168171 - 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 ...

07/27/06 - 20060168170 - System and method for analyzing information relating to network devices
A system for analyzing information relating to network devices comprises a computer readable storage medium and computer software stored on the computer readable storage medium. The computer software reviews message information generated by a plurality of network devices, stores event records associating events from the message information with the plurality ...

07/27/06 - 20060168169 - Dynamic domain administration utility
The Weblogic Tuxedo Connector is used to provide interoperability between Tuxedo and applications such as Weblogic Server. In one embodiment, WTC may implement operations such as list, start, or stop WTC Tuxedo session connections. In WTC, the configuration is set up so that multiple WTC-Tuxedo connections are defined as part ...

07/27/06 - 20060168168 - Assisted determination of data flows in communication/data networks
There is provided a method of determining data flow in a network, the method comprising: (a) selecting a location within the network for providing a data processing means adapted to process data pertaining to the network data flow; (b) determining the expense and/or level of data capture that would result ...

07/20/06 - 20060161646 - Policy-driven mobile forms applications
A system for capturing data via an extensible markup language form is disclosed comprising a policy-based mobile content engine, a mobile-forms application client, and a transport engine. The policy-based mobile content engine is adapted to process a plurality of definitions from one or more mobile-forms application definition files. The policy-based ...

07/20/06 - 20060161645 - Sensor network system and data retrieval method for sensing data
This invention enables to easily retrieve real-time information from a large number of sensors connected to a network. The sensor network system of this invention includes distributed data processing servers for collecting data from plural sensors at a predetermined frequency, a management server for maintaining a location of sensor data, ...

07/13/06 - 20060155838 - Program installation system and method using the same
A program installation system and method allowing a diskless computer device to perform program installation is proposed, the method comprising: establishing a booting unit and a memory section in the computer device, a DHCP server comprising a network information database for storing network setting information, and a storage server comprising ...

07/13/06 - 20060155837 - Diskless computer operation management system
The management and reliability of communications between computers and a storage system are improved. As between the primary and secondary communication ports of storage devices 20a, 20b, the system management server 10 sets the primary communication port as the current communication port as a default setting in each storage device. ...

07/13/06 - 20060155836 - Method of configuring network device
A method of configuring a network device based on an easy configuration protocol. The method includes: sending a discovery packet to discover the network device, wherein the discovery packet includes a port number, and a destination address for broadcasting; then, receiving a response packet if the network device recognizes the ...

07/13/06 - 20060155835 - Schedulable network-enabled device with internal data delivery unit for use with a visusal medium and methods of use thereof
The present invention generally relates to network-enabled devices, and particularly to a schedulable network-enabled device and methods of use thereof. The present invention is particularly adaptable to provide a fully self-contained device that can be scheduled by an operator that for some future time(s), to automatically connect to a remote ...

06/29/06 - 20060143288 - Information processing method and system for reserving an information processing apparatus having globally unique identification information
In the case where a reservation has been made via a bridge in, e.g., an IEEE 1394 serial data bus, and bus resetting has occurred in a bus connected to the reserve owner, it is desirable that another bus connected to the bridge is able to find the reserve owner. ...

06/29/06 - 20060143287 - Method for managing distributed system and distributed computer managing system
The object of the invention is to enter a job in accordance with the use ratio of a distributed computer system set by the manager of an organization within the range of an assigned authority. The distributed computer management system of the invention includes a PCU resource allocation setting feature ...

06/22/06 - 20060136579 - Method of executing test scripts against multiple systems
A method of executing a plurality of tests scripts or one or more test script sets against a plurality of systems to be tested. The method comprises providing an instance of a test script set on a server, writing an initial system value corresponding to an initial system to be ...

06/22/06 - 20060136578 - Monitoring the performance of a streaming media server using server-side and client-side measurements
Methods and systems thereof for monitoring the performance of a streaming media server are described. Server-side measurements are performed with the server operating under a load. Client-side measurements are performed along with the server-side measurements. Data from the server-side measurements and data from the client-side measurements are aligned by time. ...

06/15/06 - 20060129672 - Method and apparatus for network wide policy-based analysis of configurations of devices
A method and an apparatus for analyzing a network configuration against a corporate network policy and determining violation(s) against the corporate network policy. A report indicating the violation(s) can be generated indicating instances of the violation(s). An analysis platform reads in a network policy. The analysis platform collects configuration files ...

06/15/06 - 20060129671 - Methods and systems for adaptive delivery of multimedia contents
Methods and systems for generic adaptive multimedia content delivery are described. In one embodiment, a novel framework features an abstract content model and an abstract adaptive delivery decision engine. The abstract content model recognizes important aspects of contents while hiding their physical details from other parts of the framework. The ...

06/15/06 - 20060129670 - Method and apparatus for network wide policy-based analysis of configurations of devices
A method for a computer system includes determining network devices within a network topology, wherein the network devices includes a first application server hosting a first application, receiving a policy for the network comprising requirements of a first application server including a description of a set of required network traffic, ...

06/15/06 - 20060129669 - Transmitting setting data
A method of transmitting setting data from a terminal device to a plurality of target devices is provided. The method includes the steps of selecting the plurality of target devices from among a plurality of devices in accordance with a selection condition, preparing new setting data to be set to ...

06/15/06 - 20060129668 - Computer program product for managing connections
A computer program product for managing connections comprises a computer readable storage medium having the following computer instructions. The instructions cause a controller to perform: outputting an image including icons representing respective devices connected to an IEEE 1394 serial bus to display means; and establishing a logical connection between two ...

06/15/06 - 20060129667 - Method of and system for sharing access to cluster of computers
A method of sharing access to a cluster of computers begins with a step of identifying a particular user from within a group of users. The method continues with a step of loading a particular virtual node onto a first computer. The particular virtual node comprises one of a plurality ...

06/15/06 - 20060129666 - Selective device reset method for device sharing with fail-over
A device manager manages assignments of a plurality of devices by two or more device clients. To this end, the device manager detects an operational failure with a device client running an application based at least partially on an assignment of one or more devices among the plurality of devices. ...

06/15/06 - 20060129665 - Arrangement in a server for providing dynamic domain name system services for each received request
A Domain Name System (DNS) server is configured for dynamically selecting, for a client device, a selected resolution from available resolutions, the selected resolution identifying at least one destination for the specified service. The dynamic selection of the selected resolution is based on an attribute of the client device and/or ...

06/15/06 - 20060129664 - Method and apparatus for diagnosing a network
This invention allows a system to connect to a user's network and query one or more sources in order to access the identity and state of configuration of the computers connected thereto. In a preferred embodiment, the sources are tried in an order to provide the most usable information with ...

06/15/06 - 20060129663 - Computer-assisted production tracking system with production data traceability
A computer-assisted production tracking system for one or more machines, the machines having at least one primary real time system including at least one input which is connected to at least one machine and/or to at least one secondary real time system of the machine(s) and at least one output ...

06/15/06 - 20060129662 - Method and apparatus for a service integration system
A software-implemented, distributed service integration system which provides an open environment for the development of new services, and their integration with the existing network, with the integration being performed by the service integration system administrator, which is also responsible for the service development. Thus, the procedure of developing and integrating ...

06/08/06 - 20060123105 - Systems and methods for determining, collecting, and using geographic locations of internet users
A method of determining a geographic location of an Internet user involves determining if the host is on-line, determining ownership of the host name, and then determining the route taken in delivering packets to the user. Based on the detected route, the method proceeds with determining the geographic route based ...

06/08/06 - 20060123104 - Generic discovery for computer networks
A generic discovery methodology collects data pertaining to components of a computer network using various discovery technologies. From the collected data, the methodology identifies, filters and analyzes information related to inter-component communications. Using the communication and application information, the methodology determines reliable relationships for those components having sufficient information available. ...

06/08/06 - 20060123103 - Communicating network management information using session initiation protocol architecture
Communicating network management information includes registering a network device using a device user agent corresponding to a first protocol. A request message for network management information is received from a network management server. The request message is corresponding to the first protocol, and comprises a request corresponding to a second ...

06/08/06 - 20060123102 - System and method for allocating resources on a network
A system and method for allocating resources on a network, including a server and at least one client. The resources are associated within a single set, such that the number of resources within the network can be easily incremented or decremented. Flags are associated with each resource, where the flags ...

06/08/06 - 20060123101 - Application instrumentation and monitoring
A data processing application logging, recording, and reporting process and infrastructure. Compliance with regulatory directives such as HIPAA, internal organizational and corporate, personal information privacy, and other security policies can thus be enforced without the need to recode legacy application software. In one preferred embodiment, a core agent process provides ...

06/08/06 - 20060123100 - Read-copy update grace period detection without atomic instructions that gracefully handles large numbers of processors
A method, system and computer program product for avoiding unnecessary grace period token processing while detecting a grace period without atomic instructions in a read-copy update subsystem or other processing environment that requires deferring removal of a shared data element until pre-existing references to the data element are removed. Detection ...

06/01/06 - 20060117100 - Communication device and communication system capable of facilitating operations
A communication system enables even an operator other than experts to correctly perform operations for a communication device such as an operation for modifying the configuration of the communication device without fail through simple operations without taking a long time for the operations, and permits the operator to keep track ...

06/01/06 - 20060117099 - Truncating data units
A data unit is received in a first device via a network. A truncated copy of the data unit is generated. The truncated copy of the data unit is transmitted to a monitoring device through a link. ...

06/01/06 - 20060117098 - Automatic generation of mixed media messages
A method and apparatus are provided for processing a contact with a client of an organization. The method includes the steps of a contact processing resource of the organization detecting a contact with the client through a first communication channel operating under a first communication format, the contact processing resource ...

06/01/06 - 20060117097 - Service management apparatus, service management method, service providing system, service providing method
A service providing system is provided which enables the users of an information transmission service in which information is sent and received in real time over a network to recognize their respective environment and conditions for provision of their own information. The service providing system (1) includes a service provider ...

05/25/06 - 20060112176 - Domain name resolution using a distributed dns network
A distributed DNS network includes a central origin server that actually controls the zone, and edge DNS cache servers configured to cache the DNS content of the origin server. The edge DNS cache servers are published as the authoritative servers for customer domains instead of the origin server. When a ...

05/25/06 - 20060112175 - Agile information technology infrastructure management system
The agile information technology infrastructure management system and related methods and processes provide a solution with the required flexibility to effectively and efficiently monitor and manage a wide-variety of disparate information technology and network infrastructure deployed in businesses and enterprises throughout a region or the world. ...

05/25/06 - 20060112174 - Rule-based networking device
A networking system, device, and method are provided. The networking device typically includes a user-defined ruleset including HTTP request rules and HTTP response rules. The networking device may further include a request processor configured to receive an incoming HTTP request from the client, apply HTTP request rules to the incoming ...

05/18/06 - 20060106926 - System and program for detecting disk array device bottlenecks
A system is provided in which a server which provides a service to a client terminal, a disk array device upon which data used by the server is stored, and a monitor terminal which detects a bottleneck on the disk array device, are connected via a network. The disk array ...

05/18/06 - 20060106925 - Network management apparatus and method based on simple network management protocol
An apparatus and method is provided for managing a communication device using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). When a developer creates an SNMP interface header file through an application program at a compile time, an extractor generates a management information base (MIB) file and object identifier information (OIDInfo) on the ...

05/18/06 - 20060106924 - Data-processing device, communication method, and computer program
A data-processing device is provided which communicates with an external device through a proxy server. The device includes an acquiring unit that acquires sizes of data that can be transmitted through each of a plurality of transmission modes of the proxy server, a determining unit that compares the sizes corresponding ...

05/18/06 - 20060106923 - Dynamically managing the communication-parallelism trade-off in clustered processors
In a processor having multiple clusters which operate in parallel, the number of clusters in use can be varied dynamically. At the start of each program phase, the configuration option for an interval is run to determine the optimal configuration, which is used until the next phase change is detected. ...

05/18/06 - 20060106922 - Architecture and method for accessing services in a data center
An architecture, arrangement, system, and method for providing service access in a data center are disclosed. In one embodiment, an arrangement can include: an aggregation switch configured to transfer data between a network and an access layer; and service modules coupled to the aggregation switch, where each service module is ...

05/18/06 - 20060106921 - Method for data collection during manufacturing processes
The present invention discloses a new data collection method employed by a middle layer between the host and the equipment, which improves the speed and consistency of data collection. The middle layer incorporated with the proposed data collection method functions as a data format converter as well as a data ...

05/11/06 - 20060101138 - Network management apparatus and method
A network management apparatus and method are provided to easily manage devices that are dynamically added to a network and yet maintain an existing network management structure. The network management apparatus includes a device connection management unit which determines whether to extend a predetermined management information base (MIB) according to ...

05/11/06 - 20060101137 - Maintaining apparatus, apparatus-to-be-maintained, and maintenance system
An apparatus is maintained by a piece of equipment through a network. The apparatus includes a reading section and a controller. The reading section automatically reads an instruction file from the maintaining equipment. The instruction file contains an instruction necessary for maintenance of the apparatus. The controller outputs a reply ...

05/11/06 - 20060101136 - Information management apparatus, information management method, and program
An information management apparatus includes a management unit for managing the type of integrated circuit chip and the type of command to be executed by the integrated circuit chip in such a manner as to correspond to each other; an information obtaining unit for obtaining information on the type of ...

05/11/06 - 20060101135 - Network modeling systems and methods
Embodiments of network modeling systems and methods are disclosed. In one method embodiment, the network modeling method includes receiving multiple 4-port s-parameter measurements corresponding to an 8-port device and generating an 8-port model from the multiple 4-port s-parameter measurements. ...

05/11/06 - 20060101134 - Apparatus, method and article of manufacture for visualizing patterns of change and behavior on a compute infrastructure
Provided herein are exemplary techniques for visualizing patterns of changes and behavior on a compute infrastructure wherein a Differential View user interface provides for complete visualization of infrastructure change and behavior and further provides interactive filters that identify and display patterns of change and behavior, on a graduated scale, for ...

05/04/06 - 20060095556 - Method and apparatus for automating collaboration over communications devices
In one embodiment, a method for automating or arranging a group communication among at least two participants includes receiving a user request (e.g., from one of the participants) for the group communication and delegating at least a portion of the user request to at least one service provider for processing. ...

05/04/06 - 20060095555 - Workflow in a paperless office
A workflow system for a paperless office, an information processing apparatus, a method for simply defining a complicated workflow, for example, a workflow such as a circulation among a plurality of departments where the circulation route varies in each department, and a storage medium. A workflow system comprises: a manipulating ...

05/04/06 - 20060095554 - Computer network system and a method for monitoring and controlling a network
Discloses is a computer network system comprising a plurality of network management tools, a network segment comprising a plurality of hardware devices, and a proxy for interconnecting network management tools with the network segment. Each of the network management tools is assigned at least one functionality for monitoring and controlling ...

05/04/06 - 20060095553 - Storage system
In a storage system that manages update prohibition (WORM) information, when time management is not performed with precision, there arises a possibility that an update prohibition (WORM) attribute may be erased before a preservation period expires. This invention provides a storage system coupled to at least one of time servers ...

05/04/06 - 20060095552 - Preventing deadlock in a policy-based computer system
Methods and mechanisms for preventing deadlock in a policy-based computer system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes various machine-implemented steps, such as a step of receiving policy information based upon decisions about system configurations. At least one policy includes at least one action that has a post condition. ...

05/04/06 - 20060095551 - Extensible service processor architecture
Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a system and method for a service processor architecture. The service processor provides an extensible execution environment for a platform (or other device) that is accessible when the host system is non-functional. In an embodiment, the service processor has one or more ...

05/04/06 - 20060095550 - Method and device for the automatic generation of program code documentation text and management information bases using the data of a database
In a method for administration of at least one data object of a printer or copier, at least data of a data object are stored in a databank, and an identifier is associated with the data object. At least one first source code with a plurality of instructions is created ...

04/27/06 - 20060089983 - Method and apparatus for electronic document management
A method and apparatus for managing electronic documents within a network. A series of processes perform electronic document capture, indexing, and searching functions within a networked environment. A graphical web-based user interface is provided to facilitate user interaction with the apparatus. ...

04/27/06 - 20060089982 - Method, system, and computer program product for capacity planning by function
The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for capacity planning by function. The method comprises: periodically collecting metrics for a plurality of components in a dynamic system; periodically determining dynamic system membership for a function provided by the dynamic system; providing at least one summation formula; ...

04/20/06 - 20060085534 - Video monitoring application, device architectures, and system architecture
Systems and methods are provided for compressing and decompressing still image and video image data in mobile devices and monitoring applications. Corresponding mobile device and camera architectures, and service platform architectures for transmitting, storing, editing and transcoding still images and video images over wireless and wired networks and viewing them ...

04/20/06 - 20060085533 - Content search mechanism
An improved content search mechanism uses a graph that includes intelligent nodes avoids the overhead of post processing and improves the overall performance of a content processing application. An intelligent node is similar to a node in a DFA graph but includes a command. The command in the intelligent node ...

04/20/06 - 20060085532 - Remote management of communication devices
A canonical interface for remote interaction with communication devices in a network is described. The canonical interface supports interactions for communicating with remote devices for the configuration of router/communication software or devices; querying run-time information (dynamic and static) and statistics from router/communication software or devices; performing multi-system consistency checking; reporting ...

04/20/06 - 20060085531 - Active data transmission device and system
The present invention provides an active data transmission device and system. In the system, a portable electronic image-capturing/data-storage device is stored with data. An active data transmission device is connected to the portable electronic image-capturing/data-storage device for actively reading the data therein. A network server provides a dedicated storage space ...

04/20/06 - 20060085530 - Method and apparatus for configuring, monitoring and/or managing resource groups using web services
In one embodiment, methods and apparatus for configuring and/or monitoring a virtual machine in a resource group. In another embodiment, a method and apparatus for configuring and/or monitoring a resource group in accordance with a relocation policy that authorizes relocation of a resource from one cluster to another. In a ...

04/20/06 - 20060085529 - Method and system for streaming images to wireless devices
A method for interactively viewing raster images using scalable vector graphics (SVG), including receiving an SVG document, the SVG document including a reference to a raster image within the SVG document, the reference indicating a rectangular portion, a display width and height, and an IP address for a server computer, ...

04/20/06 - 20060085528 - System and method for monitoring network communications for pestware
Methods for monitoring network communications between a protected computer and a remotely-located computer such as a Web server are described. One embodiment is configured to intercept a data packet transmitted from a protected computer. This embodiment then compares the destination address of the data packet against a list of approved ...

04/13/06 - 20060080426 - Dynamic value sets in a service-oriented business framework
A method includes receiving a representation of a service, the service including handling of a request for a context-dependent data set derived from one or more collections of data elements. The representation includes a specification of a first data field, a specification of an input data structure including two or ...

04/13/06 - 20060080425 - Method and apparatus for remotely configuring network devices
A preferred embodiment apparatus for configuring network devices in a network includes a controller provided at a remote location on the network for receiving a configuration request from a user to configure a select user defined device. The controller translates the configuration request to another configuration request, and issues the ...

04/13/06 - 20060080424 - A generic framework for deploying ems provisioning services
A method and apparatus for deploying EMS provisioning services is provided. A communication to administer a particular service on a network element is transmitted from an EMS client to an EMS server. The communication contains service data that describes a particular service to be administered on the network element. The ...

04/13/06 - 20060080423 - System and method for a printer access point
Deploying a wireless local area network of plural information handling systems interfaced with each other and a printer is simplified by integrating printing and networking components in a common housing. For instance, a wireless access point, print server, router and modem are disposed in a printer housing and powered by ...

04/13/06 - 20060080422 - System and method for discovering communities in networks
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for discovering communities in networks. The system and method may include selecting a plurality of nodes from a network of nodes to serve as poles, setting weight values for the poles, applying a community-discovering algorithm based on the weight values, and ...

04/13/06 - 20060080421 - Method and system for automating membership discovery in a distributed computer network
A system and methods for automating membership discovery in a distributed computer network is presented. A first virtual circuit label switch path (LSP) associated with a first VPLS is established between a first multi tenant unit (MTU) and an attached provider edge (PE) device. A first label mapping message (LMM) ...

04/06/06 - 20060075084 - Voice over internet protocol data overload detection and mitigation system and method
A system and method is disclosed for detecting and/or mitigating an attempted overload condition targeting a voice over data or Internet protocol system, and the like. A network connection receives a plurality of VOIP or IPTV requests, for example. A processor detects whether two or more of the requests are ...

04/06/06 - 20060075083 - System for distributing information using a secure peer-to-peer network
A secure peer-to-peer network including servers and peer computers that are connected via a network are described. In one aspect of the invention, the reliability of information provided by one peer to another can be verified. One embodiment includes a server connected to a network and a first peer computer ...

04/06/06 - 20060075082 - Content distribution system and content distribution method
Individual clients 8 have a storage 85, a registration means which registers a part or all of the storage 85 in a local server 6 as a resource pool, and a requesting means which sends a distribution request for contents to the local server 6. The local server 6 has ...

04/06/06 - 20060075081 - Role grouping of hosts in computer networks
Techniques to assign nodes in a network to groups of nodes are described. The techniques include representing hosts in the network by property vectors that encode information about the hosts, identifying properties of the property vector by integers in the property vector for the host and determining proximity of hosts ...

04/06/06 - 20060075080 - Systems and methods for virtual host name roaming
The invention relates to systems and methods for providing a uniform network addressing scheme for a user accessing a network that is independent from the computer to which the user accesses the network. A virtual IP address can be assigned to a user, a user session or a program the ...

03/30/06 - 20060069765 - Data processing method, data processing apparatus, and recording medium
The present invention has enabled computing resources existing in domestic network systems to be utilized with a maximum efficiency. Actual condition of the connection of client apparatuses to a domestic network and overall computing resources of the domestic network are integrally controlled by a personal computer functioning itself as a ...

03/30/06 - 20060069764 - Computer switching device
The present invention is aimed at achieving a computer switching device for switching between a plurality of computers for the operation using common user interfaces. The computer switching device comprises an input device switcher for performing switching to a computer to be controlled by input user interfaces, an image processor ...

03/30/06 - 20060069763 - Queue management device
To make it possible to restrain a load of a server by setting a request in a standby status when the server has a high load and to restrain a halt of the request. A load of a server for providing a service in response to request information given from ...

03/30/06 - 20060069762 - Systems and methods for efficient discovery of a computing device on a network
Systems and methods for discovering a device on a computer network are disclosed. An exemplary method involves providing key data to be sent with an initiation message. The initiation message is sent by an origination device on a computer network to an undiscovered destination device on the computer network. The ...

03/23/06 - 20060064478 - Geo-locating load balancing
Methods and apparatus are provided for geo-locating load balancing. According to one embodiment, a communication network architecture includes multiple servers, multiple load balancers, and multiple geographically dispersed communication devices. The servers provide services to the communication devices within the communication network. The load balancers each service a shared virtual Internet ...

03/23/06 - 20060064477 - Mesh networked video and sensor surveillance system and method for wireless mesh networked sensors
A mesh network sensor and video surveillance system and method for providing communication between a base system having at least one wireless sensor capture device SCD and other SCD(s) and at least one input capture device ICD and other ICD(s), wherein the SCD(s) are capable of smart cross-communication with each ...

03/23/06 - 20060064476 - Advanced content and data distribution techniques
A method and apparatus for displaying locally stored content objects is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a message containing one or more parameters indicative of one or more characteristics of a client, and sending one of a plurality of groups of one or more content objects from ...

03/16/06 - 20060059253 - Architectures for netcentric computing systems
An execution architecture, a development architecture and an operations architecture for a netcentric computing system. The execution architecture contains common, run-time services required when an application executes in the netcentric computing system. The development architecture is the production environment for one or several systems development projects as well as for ...

03/16/06 - 20060059252 - Web service providing system, server device for the same, control method for controlling computer system as server device for web service providing system, program for executing the control method, and recording medium
Provided are a method, system, and program for processing call requests with respect to objects. A call request is received with respect to an object. Access authority for the object is require. An access authority set is read for execution of the call request with respect to the object. A ...

03/16/06 - 20060059251 - Method and system for request management processing
A system and method are provided for determining a processing engine to process a request from a client in a distributed client-server architecture. Requests from the clients are handled by a request management module, which determines a processing entity for each request. A processing entity may be one or more ...

03/09/06 - 20060053217 - Information processing apparatus, transfer program product, and transfer control method
An information processing apparatus from which setting information for setting up an operating environment is transferred to another information processing apparatus includes a logged-in user setting information expanding unit, and a non-logged-in user setting information expanding unit. The logged-in user setting information expanding unit reads setting information of a logged-in ...

03/09/06 - 20060053216 - Clustered computer system with centralized administration
Systems and methods for a computer cluster and for conducting user sessions in a managed enterprise computer network. A cluster includes multiple inter-connected nodes with specific roles. Master nodes administer and monitor slave nodes and the slave nodes are used to conduct user sessions with users through terminal nodes that ...

03/09/06 - 20060053215 - Systems and methods for providing users with access to computer resources
Systems and methods for providing multiple users with access to network resources including software applications. A system has an architecture that centralizes and manages computer nodes. The computer nodes include server computers and desktop computers. The centralized computer nodes support multiple instances of different operating systems and are accessed by ...

03/02/06 - 20060047801 - Snmp wireless proxy
Efficient network management techniques for use in wireless environments are disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, a network system includes a server-client architecture, where a number of mobile clients (e.g., cell phones, PDAs, smart phones) wirelessly access and interact with the system via jack service points. The server ...

03/02/06 - 20060047800 - Systems and methods for network management
An network management system (NMS) architecture is disclosed that takes advantage of intelligence capable network devices for network monitoring and control. NMS functions may be distributed where possible to intelligent devices where local storage and processing may be performed. Local collection and processing of monitoring information may reduce NMS-related network ...

03/02/06 - 20060047799 - Model-based operation support systems and related methods
Model-based operation support systems (OSSs) use generalized, normalized models capable of recognizing changes, etc., to any number of different network elements. The ability to recognize changes, modifications and extensions made to various network elements helps reduce the costs associated with OSSs. ...

03/02/06 - 20060047798 - System and method for automated capture, editing, replication, and deployment of server configurations
A system and method for the automated capture, editing, replication, and deployment of ser