Computer Network Monitoring

Computer Network Monitoring 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 - 20060235968 - Command line interface processor
A method of interacting with a managed data network entity is provided. The method includes a sequence of steps. A change in the operational state of the managed data network entity is detected. A CLI dictionary entry is retrieved form a CLI dictionary associated with the data network entity. Based ...

10/19/06 - 20060235967 - System and method for exchange of information amongst peers in a peer to peer wireless network
A method and system for exchanging information amongst a plurality of peers. A first peer collects environment data related to an environment proximate to the first peer, which may for example be associated with a traffic or weather condition proximate to the first peer. The first peer transmits the environment ...

10/19/06 - 20060235966 - Predefined live chat session
Directing qualified respondents into communication with a moderator of a chat session for collection of qualitative information, includes soliciting an audience for participation in an on-line survey which is conducted through a network with one or more client devices, gathering data from the audience during the survey, selecting qualified respondents ...

10/19/06 - 20060235965 - Method for quantifying the propensity to respond to an advertisement
A method of quantifying the propensity of a consumer to respond positively to an advertisement. The process begins by producing a set of training factors from the entire set of user data available, one set of such factors being associated with each advertisement under study to indicate the probability of ...

10/19/06 - 20060235964 - Policy based auditing of workflows
An auditing system is disclosed comprising a Policy Validation Mechanism Program (PVMP) that operates in conjunction with a Workflow Engine (WE), and a Policy Validation Server Program (PVSP) that operates on a Policy Validation Server (PVS) connected to the WE by a secure communication link. The PVMP converts a workflow ...

10/19/06 - 20060235963 - System and method for exposing a synchronous web service as a notification web service
A method for exposing a synchronous worldwide web service as a notification web service includes polling a synchronous web server at a predetermined frequency, and forwarding selected responses in notification messages to service subscribers. A system for performing the method may include a subscription manager that serves as a client ...

10/19/06 - 20060235962 - Model-based system monitoring
Model-based system monitoring includes accessing a model of a system that includes multiple components and executing a monitoring policy to monitor performance of the system. A notification of a problem is received from a first component. A determination is made regarding the cause of the problem. The determination is made, ...

10/19/06 - 20060235961 - System and method utilizing a single agent on a non-origin node for measuring the roundtrip response time of web pages with embedded html frames over a public or private network
A computer-based system and method utilizing a single response time monitor, located on a non-origin node of a public or private network, for measuring the total roundtrip response time of a set of requests resulting from an original request having embedded HTML frames. The response time monitor builds a relationship ...

10/19/06 - 20060235960 - Method for blocking network advertising
The present invention discloses a method for blocking network advertising, which comprises the steps of installing a blocking software program having at least one blocking module in the storage medium of an electronic device, each blocking module has different blocking conditions going with a corresponding processing condition respectively, such that ...

10/19/06 - 20060235959 - Network connection management method and electronic apparatus
Disclosed is a method for supervising the network connection employing an electronic apparatus employing in turn an OS (operating system) of a non-event driven system. The electronic apparatus includes a connector jack (11) for LAN, an access controller (12) for detecting that a LAN cable (22) has been connected to ...

10/12/06 - 20060230143 - Isdn disconnect alarm generation tool for use in voice over ip (voip) networks
An alarm generation tool that operates within a Voice over IP (VoIP) network environment to generate alarms based on ISDN disconnect cause codes. The tool examines call-specific usage records associated with VoIP traffic to detect ISDN disconnect cause codes and determines failure rate information from failure-type disconnect cause codes among ...

10/12/06 - 20060230142 - Contents sharing apparatus and contents sharing method
When a content is playbacked via a network, if a transmission-sided terminal of the content is under stopping condition, then a lengthy time is required until the content is playbacked. When an activation time of a recorder is measured and contents are recorded on this recorder, a content corresponding to ...

10/12/06 - 20060230141 - Method of routing and managing advertising feedback data
The action of impressing an advertisement within a virtual environment of a video game is stored in a log file. The log file has a public portion and a private portion. The log file is provided to a server that determines an appropriate destination for the log file based upon ...

10/12/06 - 20060230140 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
An information processing apparatus includes a first learning unit adapted to learn a first SOM (self-organization map), based on a first parameter extracted from an observed value, a winner node determination unit adapted to determine a winner node on the first SOM, a searching unit adapted to search for a ...

10/12/06 - 20060230139 - Method and apparatus for running a test program in a computer system
Method and apparatus for running a test program for an element of a computer system by detecting idle processor cycles in a processor in the system, selecting a test program for an element of the computer system; and running the test program for the element on the processor in response ...

10/12/06 - 20060230138 - I/o (input/output) device
An I/O device to be connected to a network, which is configured to input and/or output data, includes a self-address storing system configured to store the I/O device address, a receiving system configured to receive data whose destination is an address stored in the self-address storing system, the data being ...

10/12/06 - 20060230137 - Location or activity monitor
A Location or Activity or Presence Monitor enables a Providing Member to supply visibility in real-time to Requesting Members of their current location or activity, a literal or abstract description of their current location, the communications services available to them at their current location, and their willingness and ability to ...

10/12/06 - 20060230136 - Intelligent auto-archiving
Herein described is a method and system for archiving data files into a data storage device. The data storage device acts as a central depository where the data files may be archived by one or more data computing devices. The data storage device may be communicatively coupled to the one ...

10/12/06 - 20060230135 - Simplifying affiliated transactions through an auto-populating web page sub-window
A transaction web page method provides a transaction web page from a first server at a first service address to a user client computer where user-specific transaction information is incorporated into the web page in connection with a first transaction. A transaction sub-window is provided from the first service address ...

10/12/06 - 20060230134 - Network experience rating system and method
A network experience rating system and method determines a network connection quality for a computer by monitoring characteristics of data traffic through a connection with another computer on the network. The network experience rating system statistically analyzes the characteristic data and compares the statistically analyzed data to historical data gathered ...

10/12/06 - 20060230133 - On demand problem determination based on remote autonomic modification of web application server operating characteristics
A method, system and computer program product for selectively collecting problem determination data. In a preferred embodiment, the method begins when a request for an application server is received from a user. Once it is determined that the request should have triggers added, triggers are added. This modified request is ...

10/05/06 - 20060224734 - Failure analysis system, a disk array apparatus, a controller, a method for analyzing failure, and a signal-bearing medium embodying a program causing a failure analysis system to perform the method
A failure analysis system includes a controller A that sends a control command A, a looped interface A, the controller A being selectively connectable to the looped interface A, a node device A that is selectively connectable to the looped interface A, a node device B that is selectively connectable ...

10/05/06 - 20060224733 - Server system, server apparatus, terminal apparatus and method for connection acknowledgement
A server system is provided with a server apparatus and a terminal apparatus capable of logging in a predetermined mode of the server apparatus. The terminal apparatus comprises a transmitter for transmitting a connection acknowledgment signal at intervals of time to the server apparatus while remaining in a log-in state ...

10/05/06 - 20060224732 - Apparatus and method for monitoring a telecommunications network
A method and apparatus for monitoring telecommunications network elements, especially where direct access to those network elements is not available. The invention allows a network manager to build and maintain significant relationship information, as well as model the state of network elements with a high degree of accuracy, but based ...

10/05/06 - 20060224731 - Method for measuring server performance, system for measuring server performance and computer programs therefor
A server performance measurement system for efficiently measuring and collecting server performance differently depending on each business application in actual operation environment in which business applications are operated, includes a plurality of servers for processing requests from users, a load balancer for suitably distributing loads of the plurality of servers, ...

10/05/06 - 20060224730 - Apparatus and methods for determining network access performance of a wireless device
Apparatus, methods, processors and computer readable media for determining the wireless network access performance or capability of a wireless device. Embodiments include a wireless device having a computer platform with a processing engine operable to generate a plurality of network access performance data during processing activities on the wireless device. ...

10/05/06 - 20060224729 - Referral tracking
A computer system is configured as a referral-tracking system that responds to receipt of a listing from a recruiter by generating an identifier, associating it with that listing, and giving it to the recruiter. If, before the listing is withdrawn, the system thereafter receives from a requester a message offering ...

10/05/06 - 20060224728 - Failover method in a cluster computer system
In a high-availability computer system having a cluster configuration, a reset command issued from each of computers 0110 through 0140 to any of the other systems in a cluster is transmitted to a reset control unit 0190. A control module 0191 of the reset control unit 0190 makes a judgment ...

10/05/06 - 20060224727 - Image communication apparatus
There is described an image communication apparatus in which the transmission efficiency is as high as possible for the network conditions at the time of transmission, and transmission can be performed using method of coding in which there is little image deterioration. The communication apparatus includes: a checking section that ...

10/05/06 - 20060224726 - Monitoring system
A monitoring system of the present invention achieves highly reliable switching control by having a monitored response time creating/calculating unit calculate a maximum value and a minimum value between which a response time is judged as normal from a response time of the last measurement and from a response time ...

10/05/06 - 20060224725 - On-demand global server load balancing system and method of use
A method and system for measuring performance and balancing workload of sites, virtual clusters and servers within the virtual clusters is provided. A monitor measures and computes performance metrics at each level. Servers e.g., LDAP servers, are individually measured for performance, e.g., response time, and based on average response time ...

10/05/06 - 20060224724 - Latency free scanning of malware at a network transit point
In accordance with the present invention, a system, method, and computer-readable medium for identifying malware at a network transit point such as a computer that serves as a gateway to an internal or private network is provided. A network transmission is scanned for malware at a network transit point without ...

10/05/06 - 20060224723 - Data updating system and method
An data updating system and method are proposed. The data updating system and method are applicable to a at least a first server and a second server linked to establish a networking connection via a network system, and operation condition of each of the servers is determined to be normal ...

10/05/06 - 20060224722 - System and method for context-specific instant messaging
A system and method for context-specific instant messaging are presented. A user views a page of data that is segmented into regions. The user performs a user action (e.g., a mouse click) and, in turn, a message generator displays context-specific phrases for the user to select based upon the region ...

10/05/06 - 20060224721 - Referral tracking
A computer system is configured as a referral-tracking system that responds to receipt of a listing from a recruiter by generating an identifier, associating it with that listing, and giving it to the recruiter. If, before the listing is withdrawn, the system thereafter receives from a requester a message offering ...

10/05/06 - 20060224720 - Method, computer program product, and system for mapping users to different application versions
A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for mapping a user to an application in a data processing system network are provided. An application service request from a client is received. The request is directed to a first network address. A user identifier from which the request ...

10/05/06 - 20060224719 - Operator simulator and non-invasive interface engine
Information and data that is created, stored and operated on by various systems may be necessary for other systems but may not be readily attainable. A non-invasive interface engine is introduced that allows the data among various systems to be freely shared without the need for creating expensive and customize ...

09/28/06 - 20060218275 - System and method for searching peer-to-peer computer networks
A method and system for intelligently directing a search of a peer-to-peer network, in which a user performing a search is assisted in choosing a host which is likely to return fast, favorable results to the user. A host monitor monitors the peer-to-peer network and collects data on various characteristics ...

09/28/06 - 20060218274 - System and method for optimizing access to information in peer-to-peer computer networks
A method and system for intelligently directing a search of a peer-to-peer network, in which a user performing a search is assisted in choosing a host which is likely to return fast, favorable results to the user. A host monitor monitors the peer-to-peer network and collects data on various characteristics ...

09/28/06 - 20060218273 - Remote log repository with access policy
A method and apparatus for remote logging of access to and activity on a computerized network is provided. Logging information is transmitted to a remote log repository and is not maintained by the local log generating machine. After the logging information is stored in the remote repository, the access to ...

09/28/06 - 20060218272 - Image forming apparatus, management information processing terminal, and status information management system
When an inquiry of a device state is received at a first communication port from an information processing terminals, a corresponding printer determines whether a second communication port that is communicably connected to the information processing terminal is present besides the first communication port, and if the second communication port ...

09/28/06 - 20060218271 - Triggered statistics reporting
A system and method of triggering autonomous measurements on QoS streams is provided. A method in accordance with embodiments of the invention comprises determining whether triggered reporting should be used for a service/stream by the access point (AP); determining trigger thresholds for the service/stream with which triggered reporting is to ...

09/28/06 - 20060218270 - Method and apparatus for estimating demand, and computer product
An apparatus for estimating a demand for a service offered via a network includes an external-factor storing unit that stores an event for a case in which information relating to the service appears in a predetermined information source on the network, as an external factor affecting the demand; a demand-amount ...

09/28/06 - 20060218269 - Automatic power adjustment in powerline home network
Transmission power from a home entertainment system server to a client entertainment device in a powerline network is established such that SNR or other reception metric at the receiver is maintained between upper and lower thresholds. ...

09/28/06 - 20060218268 - Method and apparatus for extending service mediation to intelligent voice-over-ip endpoint terminals
In a VoIP network, based on a set of predetermined rules, a determination is made whether the running of an endpoint-hosted service on an intelligent VoIP endpoint and the running of a network-hosted service could cause a conflict to arise if both services were invoked during a call/session. If a ...

09/28/06 - 20060218267 - Network, system, and application monitoring
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for monitoring systems, networks, and applications. One method includes internally monitoring a network using a diskless and fanless hardware device. The method includes externally monitoring the network using a stateless connection and communicating internal network monitoring information to a third party data center using ...

09/28/06 - 20060218266 - Centralized plant-monitoring controller and method
An information network which connects a centralized interactive unit for monitoring and controlling the operation of a plurality of plants and an individual interactive unit for monitoring and controlling a plant is connected to a control network which connects a control unit and the individual interactive unit by gateway means. ...

09/21/06 - 20060212571 - Network apparatus and event processing method
For enabling to deal with various kinds of events, but without knowing the meaning of the event issued by network equipments, an event notifying equipment notifies URL for an event receiving equipment to access a HTML file corresponding to the event, in the form of an event parameter, thereby providing ...

09/21/06 - 20060212570 - Security system
A security system with processing optimized for monitoring the actions of a surveillance subject and detecting abnormal actions. The action record of an individual is monitored using a sensor network security system SNS, and the development of an action event is reported as an action, and the corresponding processing of ...

09/21/06 - 20060212569 - Dynamic discovery and reporting of one or more application program topologies in a single or networked distributed computing environment
Dynamic discovery and reporting of one or more application program topologies in a single or networked distributed computing environment allows IT professionals to maintain processes running on the network. In one embodiment, the dynamic discovery is performed by identifying one or more computers in a computer network, identifying one or ...

09/21/06 - 20060212568 - System and method for managing a computer network
A system and method for managing a distribution network is provided. A management system obtains a network topology of physical locations and usage data for each identified location. The management system displays a set of possible distribution configurations for each location. The management system generates configuration recommendations based upon the ...

09/21/06 - 20060212567 - Method and system for business activity monitoring
The disclosure is directed to an enterprise system including a message topic, a monitor definition, a monitoring manager, and an alert topic. The message topic includes a message associated with performance of a distributed computing application. The monitor definition includes performance rules for evaluating data associated with the message associated ...

09/21/06 - 20060212566 - Remote control method and device controlled from communicating terminals
The inventive remote control method includes opening a first communication session between a calling terminal and a centralized information system by a telecommunication network, transmitting the identifier of the calling terminal user to the centralized information system, the identifier of the information system being transmitted to a remote control by ...

09/14/06 - 20060206608 - User terminal management apparatus, user terminal management program, and user terminal management system
An apparatus, program, and system that manages user terminal in an integrated fashion is disclosed. User terminal management apparatus 20, for managing the plurality of user terminal group 10a-10n, comprised of information tables 203b, 204b for storing prescribed user terminal information for each terminal in user terminal group 10, interface ...

09/14/06 - 20060206607 - System and method for providing update information
A system and a method for providing update information. The system includes a client computer which is operably connected to a program information server. The program information server maintains one or more program information items. The system also includes a program selection server which allows the user to select which ...

09/14/06 - 20060206606 - Method and apparatus for providing dynamic traffic control within a communications network
A method and apparatus for providing traffic management through dynamic and granular definitions of route groups. Within a communications network, a traffic routing control unit (e.g., an intelligent route service control point (IRSCP)) creates route group assignments for each route within a customers network in accordance with a customer's routing ...

09/07/06 - 20060200560 - Tracking of containers
Monitoring device modules (10) in containers on a ship are polled by a tracking proxy (12). Monitoring data is thus captured, and the proxy 12 can ascertain in real time that the correct group of containers is present. The proxy (12) also transmits higher-value report messages with relatively low bandwidth ...

09/07/06 - 20060200559 - Preserving http sessions in heterogeneous wireless environments
Wireless internet in the in-vehicle environment is an evolving reality that reflects the gradual convergence of wireless and internet technologies. The present invention provides an application layer system that makes wireless internet access adaptive to dynamically changing heterogeneous network environments, by stressing carrier-independence and access transparency. To achieve these objectives, ...

09/07/06 - 20060200558 - Quick session setup for video on demand with information caching
A technique for managing session setup for video on demand sessions involves caching information related to session setup for a session manager and then utilizing the cached information to setup a video on demand session for a client in response to a session setup request that is received from the ...

09/07/06 - 20060200557 - Notification device interaction
Devices and methods are disclosed for establishing device interaction among electronic devices of a device environment and a notification device interfaced with the user. Notification devices allow the user to communicate directly with the device environment, such as by entering information in a mobile phone that has a wireless connection ...

09/07/06 - 20060200556 - Method and apparatus for identifying, extracting, capturing, and leveraging expertise and knowledge
The invention comprises a set of complementary techniques that dramatically improve enterprise search and navigation results. The core of the invention is an expertise or knowledge index, called UseRank that tracks the behavior of website visitors. The expertise-index is designed to focus on the four key discoveries of enterprise attributes: ...

09/07/06 - 20060200555 - System and method for using a browser plug-in to combat click fraud
Search engine click fraud can be combated by a new Click Per Action method. This uses a plug-in in a browser to detect when a transaction has occurred at an advertiser's website. Here the user was directed to that advertiser by a link on a search engine's web page. Since ...

09/07/06 - 20060200554 - System and method for prompting unnormal statuses of an operation system
A system for prompting unnormal statuses of an operation system includes a HTTP server (1). The HTTP server includes: a request receiving module (10) for receiving requests for reading an administration interface of web page; a detecting module (11) for detecting an operation system and determining whether any unnormal status ...

09/07/06 - 20060200553 - Path searching method of a wireless communication system and path searching apparatus thereof
A path searching method for detecting a plurality of received signals according to a multipath signal, wherein the multipath signal is received under a multipath propagation. The path searching method includes determining a first detected path according to a maximum peak value of the multipath signal, determining a second detected ...

09/07/06 - 20060200552 - Method and apparatus for domain-independent system parameter configuration
In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for dynamic domain-independent system parameter configuration. One embodiment of an inventive method for modifying a current system configuration to achieve a given system objective includes receiving a new system objective. The current system configuration is then modified to achieve ...

09/07/06 - 20060200551 - Method and apparatus for monitoring a connection in a peer-to-peer network
The status of an appliance may be monitored using promiscuous packets and network reads. In order to establish a peer-to-peer connection between two appliances, a connection manager may issue a communication to a first appliance to establish a connection with a second, remote appliance. The connection manager issues a similar ...

09/07/06 - 20060200550 - Real-time one-button integrated support for networked devices
A method and system for providing technical support for networked devices includes a first client component on a networked device having a conferencing application to enable communication exchange with a second client component. A server component is configured to distribute video and audio data streams to the first client component ...

09/07/06 - 20060200549 - Methods and apparatus for providing decision support
A method for providing decision support includes using a programmed computer to input a regression model specification, and to repeat the input a plurality of times to obtain and store a plurality of regression model specifications. The method further includes using the programmed computer to analyze selected regression model specifications ...

09/07/06 - 20060200548 - Automation engine and method for providing an abstraction layer
A system for monitoring constituents of a network is disclosed. The system includes an automation engine in communication with the constituent. Code written in a service description language contains extractable information to permit the automation engine to obtain raw operation data nascent from the constituent. The system also includes at ...

09/07/06 - 20060200547 - Methods, devices, systems and computer program products for providing secure communications between managed devices in firewall protected areas and networks segregated therefrom
Methods, devices, systems and computer program products for providing secure communications between managed devices in a firewall protected area defined by a firewall and a network management station (NMS) in a network segregated from the firewall protected area are provided. Management information associated with managed devices in the firewall protected ...

09/07/06 - 20060200546 - Reporting of abnormal computer resource utilization data
Identifying computer resource utilization issues includes accessing resource utilization data for a computer system for a particular period of time. The resource utilization data for the particular period of time is based on resource utilization data collected while processes were running on the computer system. The resource utilization data for ...

09/07/06 - 20060200545 - Multi-supplier multi-domain mediation element between an application service provider and resource provider in a telecommunication network
A mediation unit (2) for mediating between application service providers (1) and resource providers (3) in a telecommunications network, which mediation unit (2) comprises means for receiving a resource allocation request (a) from the service provider (1) and requesting the corresponding resource from the resource provider (3) and is characterized ...

09/07/06 - 20060200544 - Multi-supplier, multi-domain mediating element for event notification
A mediation unit (2, 3, 4, 5) in a telecommunications network for mediating between an application service provider (1) and a plurality of service providers (6), said unit (2, 3, 4, 5) comprising recovery means (2, 3) for recovering data concerning users from various service providers (6) and acquiring indications ...

08/31/06 - 20060195573 - System and method for creating resources in a connection pool
An improved resource pool is provided that provides for dynamic configuration and is comprised of code that is configured to be used for different subsystems, including JDBC, Connector, and JMS subsystems. Pool maintenance, resource object creation and timeout, multiple deque management, and pool state transition features are provided. An application ...

08/31/06 - 20060195572 - System and method for performing resource maintenance in a connection pool
An improved resource pool is provided that provides for dynamic configuration and is comprised of code that is configured to be used for different subsystems, including JDBC, Connector, and JMS subsystems. Pool maintenance, resource object creation and timeout, multiple deque management, and pool state transition features are provided. An application ...

08/31/06 - 20060195571 - System and method for performing resource pool maintenance
An improved resource pool is provided that provides for dynamic configuration and is comprised of code that is configured to be used for different subsystems, including JDBC, Connector, and JMS subsystems. Pool maintenance, resource object creation and timeout, multiple deque management, and pool state transition features are provided. An application ...

08/31/06 - 20060195570 - Anonymous location service for wireless networks
An anonymous location wireless network service for use in a wireless network that tracks the location and identity of network users, such as networks complying with enhanced 911 standards. The service provides content providers with the location of network users without revealing their identities. The service includes a wireless network ...

08/31/06 - 20060195569 - System and method for using self-learning rules to enable adaptive security monitoring
Rules “learn” what is typical or expected for a certain attribute of device data for a given location, premises, time period, etc. Using a rule for a standard deviation the variance between newly collected data and the data stored in a fact table is either ignored or an alert (or ...

08/31/06 - 20060195568 - Method of monitoring and configuring
A method for managing and monitoring communication devices in a firewall/NAT protected network from a Management system outside the firewall/NAT protected network includes periodically and at predefined events opening an http connection and transmitting a request from the respective communication devices to the Management system through a firewall/NAT installation protecting ...

08/31/06 - 20060195567 - Networked cash dispensing system
A networked cash dispensing system and a method for remote management of, and trend analysis for, networked cash dispensing systems is provided. The networked cash dispensing system comprises a casino transaction kiosk, a server, and a network. The casino transaction kiosk includes a central processing unit adapted to operate the ...

08/31/06 - 20060195566 - Method and system for taking remote inventory in a network
A method of monitoring a network is provided, the method comprising scanning hosts across the network for information related to functioning services and applications, wherein at least one host/device utilizes anti-virus software and other software; and gathering and summarizing information from the host. ...

08/31/06 - 20060195565 - Method and apparatus for routing a service request
A method and an apparatus for routing a service request in a telecommunications system. A location server (LS) stores a service identifier (SID) which identifies a service hosted in an application server (AS) and addressing information (AI) usable for routing a service request (f2,g3,h2) towards the application server. The addressing ...

08/24/06 - 20060190599 - Handling node address failure in a distributed nodal system of processors
Addressing failure is handled in a nodal system of processor nodes, which comprise at least one processor and at least one interface to a network. Upon detection of a node address failure of a processor node for the network, such as lack of a node address, or presence of a ...

08/24/06 - 20060190598 - Time-window-constrained multicast using connection scheduling
A method of reducing bandwidth limitations to send events to a set of interested clients within a pre-defined time period as quickly and fairly as possible. The clients can be re-distributed among the servers in a network such that the delay due to server overloading is minimized by moving clients ...

08/24/06 - 20060190597 - Remote terminal, processor-readable medium, and method for remote adjustment of a user profile
A method includes monitoring, using a customer profile monitor at a server, a customer performance parameter of customer premises equipment. The customer premises equipment includes a customer profile and is located remote from the server. The customer performance parameter is compared to a customer specific performance standard to determine a ...

08/24/06 - 20060190596 - Bottleneck detection system, measurement object server, bottleneck detection method and program
A bottleneck detection system, a measurement object server, a bottleneck detection method and a program capable of specifying a factor that causes a bottleneck on the occasion of concurrent processing of a plurality of transactions. A tracer collects execution histories of a measurement object server processing transactions with a specified ...

08/24/06 - 20060190595 - Device and method for processing data resource changing events in a mobile terminal
A device and method are disclosed for processing a data resource changing event in a mobile terminal by recommending a change from a specific, currently used data resource to a new data resource when the data resource has not been changed for a long time. The method for processing a ...

08/24/06 - 20060190594 - Method and apparatus for evaluation of service quality of a real time application operating over a packet-based network
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for determining the service quality performance of a real-time application, for example VoIP, video over IP or IPTV, operating over a path defined in a packet-based network. The present invention performs active probing of a path of the packet-based network by transmitting ...

08/24/06 - 20060190593 - Signaling buffer parameters indicative of receiver buffer architecture
The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for signaling parameters of multiple buffers by a terminal to a server and determining multiple buffer status of the terminal by the server using these parameters, e.g., for an adequate rate adaptation of multimedia streaming services provided ...

08/24/06 - 20060190592 - Communications state transition monitoring method and communications state transition monitoring device utilizing the same
It is an object of the present invention to provide a device for generating analysis object data that allows the simple setting of an intrusion detection policy, and more specifically, to allow policy setting that performs pattern matching with a plurality of signatures summarized as a single intrusion detection policy, ...

08/24/06 - 20060190591 - Method and system for supporting the communication of presence information regarding one or more telephony devices
A system for detecting and communicating the presence of one or more computing devices is presented. The invention also presents a method and system for aggregating presence information generated by multiple devices associated with a single user. A server acting as a presence agent on behalf of a first user ...

08/24/06 - 20060190590 - Home network system and method for providing information therein
A home network system and a method of providing information in the home network system, wherein the home network system includes a sensor network tracking the location of a user in real time and transmitting location information of the user, a plurality of information terminals providing predetermined information to the ...

08/24/06 - 20060190589 - Multimedia content delivery system
The multimedia content delivery system is a low-cost enabler for many MPEG-based applications enabling the subscribers to play multicast MPEG streams. A plurality of files with MPEG encoded multimedia content are stored at a server and streamed to the subscribers using a multithreaded processing system (or MPEG sender). The sender ...

08/24/06 - 20060190588 - System management method, system management device, system management program, and storage medium containing system management program
A system management method is disclosed for associating a process object and a process with each node in a tree structure, and operating each node based on the tree structure so as to manage the process object and the process, including: registering a registered user that performs operations for a ...

08/17/06 - 20060184671 - Method and apparatus for monitoring and transferring a client from a low priority access number to a higher priority access number during active internet and other wan connection-sessions
A network system is provided for enabling priority-based number switching from a lower priority access number to a higher priority access number during an active data session is provided. The system comprises, a CTI-switch for establishing call connections and performing call switching according to instruction, a network-hosted part of a ...

08/17/06 - 20060184670 - System and method for analyzing the performance of multiple transportation streams of streaming media in packet-based networks
Streaming media network parameters are measured using an electronic system and displayed directly to a user or transmitted via an electronic interface such as an existing system network conduit, either in or out-of-band. A scalable hardware and/or software compute engine filters and reduces network parameters to simplify tracking the instantaneous ...

08/17/06 - 20060184669 - Monitoring system-calls to identify runaway processes within a computer system
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that monitors system-calls to identify runaway processes within a computer system. First, the system monitors system-calls on the computer system during runtime, to generate a trace of system-calls made. Then, the system analyzes the trace to detect runaway processes. ...

08/17/06 - 20060184668 - System for modelling a process
A system of a plurality of interconnectable nodes for modelling states; wherein one predetermined node is configured to act as a master node, the master node being configured to instantiate a state by creating the state and distributing the created state to at least one of the nodes, the master ...

08/17/06 - 20060184667 - System and method to publish information from servers to remote monitor devices
To assist in monitoring the intelligent messaging network, a system and method for publishing logging and status information from the servers is provided. A list of available servers accessible for monitoring by persons, devices, and applications via a remote monitor device can be provided. The remote monitor device may forward ...

08/17/06 - 20060184666 - Anonymity service providing system, device, and program
Provided is an anonymity service providing system for authenticating an anonymous user device based on a group signature and providing service to the user device, the system comprising a group management institute device which manages a plurality of groups in the group signature system, a user device belonging to at ...

08/17/06 - 20060184665 - Method of acquisition and transmission of a network infrastructure
Network infrastructure and changes thereof are acquired and transmitted automatically to an entire process technology device for immediate display on an on-going basis. The transmission is effected by an ActiveX-Control protocol. ...

08/17/06 - 20060184664 - Method for preventing unnecessary retransmission due to delayed transmission in wireless network and communication device using the same
A method for reducing unnecessary retransmissions due to transmission delays in a wireless network environment, comprising: measuring a packet inter-arrival time with respect to a received data packet; transmitting an acknowledgement packet corresponding to the data packet received at the packet inter-arrival time in excess of a first threshold time ...

08/17/06 - 20060184663 - Communication system, mobile terminal, relay apparatus, and transfer route learning method
A communication system includes a relay apparatus which offers an access link to a mobile terminal, a layer 2 switch which relays data between the relay apparatus and a router on a next hop from a communication destination terminal of the mobile terminal, and a route information notification unit. The ...

08/17/06 - 20060184662 - Method and system of administration in a jmx environment comprising an administration application and software systems to be administered
A method of administration in a JMX environment of software systems to be administered, represented by first respective MBeans, and at least one administration application, in which the administration acts produce the exposure of MBeans in at least one MBeanServer server, characterized in that it is implemented by means of ...

08/17/06 - 20060184661 - Peer networking host framework and hosting api
A device hosting framework provides hosting for software-implemented logical devices (including peripheral devices bridges) on a computer to expose their services as controlled devices per a peer networking protocol. The device hosting framework encapsulates discovery, description and control protocol operations of the peer networking protocol, which frees the developers of ...

08/17/06 - 20060184660 - Scaling upnp v1.0 device eventing using peer groups
Disclosed is a method for scaling and extending the reach of UPnP device discovery and eventing by leveraging the use of a peer-to-peer network infrastructure. Peer-to-peer networking allows for the organization of a set of nodes into a group for efficient exchange of information and the group has an efficient ...

08/17/06 - 20060184659 - Method and system for extracting information from networked devices using multiple implementations of protocol access functions
A method, system, and computer program product for extracting, using a selected communication protocol, information related to a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network. The method includes retrieving, from a first memory, implementation identifiers, each of which identifies (1) a first access function configured to access the monitored device ...

08/17/06 - 20060184658 - System and method for tracing a data path across off-network distributions
A system and method for tracking data stores identification data on a portable storage device physically present at the point of delivery. The identification data, which is associated with an identification of the first recipient, is provided to the first recipient for delivery to an end-user on a portable storage ...

08/10/06 - 20060179137 - Method and apparatus for reducing spam on a peer-to-peer network
One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for reducing spam on a peer-to-peer network includes determining, in accordance with a list of known spammer nodes, whether a responding node offering data for download is a known spammer node. If the responding node is a known spammer node, communication from ...

08/10/06 - 20060179136 - Accuracy of the estimation of computer resource usage
The present invention provides a method and system (1) for improving the accuracy of an estimate of computing system resource usage, the method comprising the steps of obtaining utilization data of system resource and first transaction count data, obtaining further transaction count data and processing the transaction count data and ...

08/03/06 - 20060173998 - System, device and server for providing service
A service providing system including a client device and a server is provided. The client device includes a function execution unit that executes one of the functions of the image reading and printing units in accordance with an execution command from the server, an error notification unit that notifies the ...

08/03/06 - 20060173997 - Method and apparatus for remote management of a monitoring system over the internet
A Monitoring system and a method in a monitoring system comprising a public network, a private network, an access limiting device arranged to limit the access of the private network from the public network, and a control server connected to the public network. The monitoring system further comprises a monitoring ...

08/03/06 - 20060173996 - Multi-user computer system
A system for connecting multiple users to multiple computers uses a switch for making and breaking connections between individual computers and input/output devices such as display screens, keyboards and pointing devices at user locations. A supervisory computer system includes one or more helper computers which run programs to aid the ...

08/03/06 - 20060173995 - Processing method for sensing data
Detection of variations in a large quantity of sensing data connected to a network and prescribed processing corresponding to the variations are to be executed at high speed. An event-action controller for monitoring data collected from plural sensors and executing preset processing when the data has come to satisfy preset ...

08/03/06 - 20060173994 - Autonomic control of a distributed computing system using an application matrix to control application deployment
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 - 20060173993 - Management of software images for computing nodes of a distributed computing system
In general, the invention is directed to software image management within a distributed computing system. The distributed computing system includes a plurality of application nodes interconnected via a communications network, and an image repository storing a plurality of pre-generated software image instances. A control node may pre-assign a network address ...

08/03/06 - 20060173992 - Event detection/anomaly correlation heuristics
A system for detecting network intrusions and other conditions in a network is described. The system includes a plurality of collector devices that are disposed to collect data and statistical information on packets that are sent between nodes on a network. An aggregator device is disposed to receive data and ...

08/03/06 - 20060173991 - Security element commanding method and mobile terminal
The invention relates to a method for commanding a security element of a mobile terminal, and to a mobile terminal. An installed application of the mobile terminal issues a command to a platform library of the mobile terminal. Then the platform library reads information from an access control file of ...

07/27/06 - 20060168209 - Xdsl connection monitor
A system and method of maintaining communication between a computer and a server, the server being in communication with the computer via xDSL service or dial-up modem service, with xDSL service being the default mode of communication, the method including sending a request to the server via xDSL service to ...

07/27/06 - 20060168208 - System and method for network management
A part of the elements discovered in a network are chosen to be monitored, and a user such as a network administrator is allowed to appropriately monitor desired elements. A network management server collects information on elements in the network, and displays collected information on a GUI screen. The user ...

07/27/06 - 20060168207 - Network analysis system and method
A packet-based wireless network visualization system includes a data store, an input/output subsystem including a display device, and a processing subsystem. The system is configured to receive network topology data, packet flow record data, and measurements data over the input/output subsystem and store the network topology data, packet flow record ...

07/27/06 - 20060168206 - Network analysis system and method
A system for analyzing a packet-based network includes a wireless network analysis processing device that is configured to receive correlated packet records representative of the order in which corresponding packets are transmitted in a wireless network. The correlated packet records include media access control (MAC) layer data and network layer ...

07/27/06 - 20060168205 - Network analysis system and method
A system for analyzing a packet-based network includes a correlator processor that is configured to receive packet records corresponding to packets communicated over a network and store the packet records in a data store. The correlator processor is also configured to generate correlated packet records from the packet records stored ...

07/27/06 - 20060168204 - Mobile blocking indicators on a contact list
Techniques are described for forwarding an instant message addressed to an intended instant message recipient to the recipient's mobile telephone. Techniques are also described for prohibiting the forwarding of an instant message addressed to an intended message recipient to the recipient's mobile telephone. Further techniques are provided for updating an ...

07/27/06 - 20060168203 - Policy rule management for qos provisioning
Described herein is a policy-based Internet Protocol (IP) network wherein the Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning across various network devices is managed by policy processing via a user interface including a graphic user interface. The user interface incorporates information made available by a server, such as lightweight directory access protocol ...

07/27/06 - 20060168202 - System and method for deterring rogue users from attacking protected legitimate users
An active deterrence method and system deter rogue cyber activity targeting one or more protected legitimate users (PLUs). Methodologies and/or techniques are included to establish a PLU registry and/or enable a PLU to bear an identifying mark; detect rogue cyber activity; issue warnings to one or more rogue users (RUs) ...

07/27/06 - 20060168201 - Safeguarded integrated means for internet-based cm systems
An overall condition monitoring (CM) system with at least one CM center (60) and the respective CM systems (50, 52), which can be located anywhere, together with the associated LAN and/or Internet-data network structures is designed such that protocol-blocking logic or physical devices (PB5, PB6, PB8) monitor the data traffic ...

07/27/06 - 20060168200 - System and method for managing a flow of network status messages at a network operations console
A computer based system, computer program product, and method for managing network status message data flow. A computer based system, computer program product, and method are provided for managing the flow rate of network status messages to a remote network operations console. Detailed network status is abstracted into hierarchical levels ...

07/27/06 - 20060168199 - Method and apparatus for exposing monitoring violations to the monitored application
A method and system for exposing monitoring violations to monitored applications is provided. A monitored application may detect that a monitoring application has been applied to monitor a transaction. Based on a defined policy or a threshold within policy, the monitored application may determine if the transaction is in a ...

07/27/06 - 20060168198 - Web page browsing timer and method thereof
A web page browsing timing system and method thereof are disclosed for timing the web page browsing time of the user. When user login information is received, the server starts a first timing system according to the login information. Then, an inline floating frame updates regularly the first timing system ...

07/27/06 - 20060168197 - Monitoring device having a memory containing data representing access information configured to be used by multiple implementations of protocol access functions to extract information from networked devices
A method, system, and computer program product for encoding data representing access information configured to be used by a selected communication protocol to extract status information related to a monitored device among distinct devices communicatively coupled to a network, and a monitoring device having a memory containing data representing access ...

07/27/06 - 20060168196 - Automated provisioning of new networked devices
In one embodiment, a networked device includes a main platform having a processor, a memory and a basic input/output system (BIOS), and a management subsystem coupled to the main platform to provision the main platform irrespective of the presence of an operating system on the main platform. ...

07/27/06 - 20060168195 - Distributed intelligent diagnostic scheme
A system and methodology that employs an agent technology logic layer operating in connection with or integral to a controller is provided. The logic layer can be a functional extension of the controller's firmware that facilitates logical reasoning and decision-making with regard a network as a function of individual agent(s) ...

07/27/06 - 20060168194 - Method to effectively collect data from systems that consists of dynamic sub-systems
A method, apparatus and computer instructions are provided to improve the push/pull workload management model with intelligent routing to effectively collect data from systems that consist of dynamic sub-systems. The invention improves the push/pull model of the referenced invention with intelligent request routing to solve the above problem. An API ...

07/27/06 - 20060168193 - Methods, computer program products, and systems for detecting incidents within a communications network
Methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting an incident within a communications network are provided. A method involves establishing a fingerprint for at least one of the network elements associated with the communications network. Each fingerprint established includes at least one message signaling characteristic and/or at least one message ...

07/27/06 - 20060168192 - High availability for intelligent applications in storage networks
Methods and apparatus provide formation and management of intelligent application clusters in a storage area network. Disk arbitration mechanisms ensure that a cluster is owned by a single member. In the event of a network partition, each cluster member involved arbitrates to gain ownership of a cluster. High availability mechanisms ...

07/27/06 - 20060168191 - Power status notification
A computer program product is for use with a computer that includes a communication interface for sending and receiving information over a communication network and that is connected to an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) that monitors and supplies information regarding power status associated with the UPS. The computer program product ...

07/27/06 - 20060168190 - Telemetry system
In a remote monitoring system, a supervision terminal, 37, monitors the status of the communication link, 32, 34, 36, between the supervision terminal and each of a plurality of remote terminals, 33, connected to the supervision terminal via a data network, 35. The remote terminals may be used to emulate ...

07/20/06 - 20060161657 - Peer-to peer name resolution protocol (pnrp) security infrastructure and method
A security infrastructure and methods are presented that inhibit the ability of a malicious node from disrupting the normal operations of a peer-to-peer network. The methods of the invention allow both secure and insecure identities to be used by nodes by making them self-verifying. When necessary or opportunistic, ID ownership ...

07/20/06 - 20060161656 - System, performance monitor, server, and computer program
The invention relates to a system, performance monitor, server and computer product. The system comprises at least one user-specific performance monitor for registering training information, where the performance monitor communicates training information using a two-way wireless data transmission connection and is associated with a performance monitor-specific identifier. The system further ...

07/20/06 - 20060161655 - Method and a system to organize and manage a semantic web service discovery
An example embodiment refers to a method to organize and manage a semantic web service discovery within a network with a distributed architecture of multiple independent network nodes, each node being able to store a subset of semantic web service instances, wherein an assignment of each semantic web service instance ...

07/20/06 - 20060161654 - Facilitating property management via an internet web site
A system and method facilitate property management via an Internet web site. A property address is linked to the Internet web site via a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), where the URL includes at least a portion of the property address. A property management application is hosted via the Internet web ...

07/20/06 - 20060161653 - Network appliance for vulnerability assessment auditing over multiple networks
An apparatus, system, and method are directed towards enabling auditing of network vulnerabilities from multiple network vantage points virtually simultaneously. Multiple network vantage points may include, but are not limited to, remote/branch enterprise sites, devices on an enterprise perimeter, on either side of a security perimeter, and even through the ...

07/20/06 - 20060161652 - Network system
A network system automatically distributes management information to allow immediate monitoring. In the network system, the DHCP server of a network-information management server assigns information to a network-information management table when receiving an assignment request of IP information and network management information from a client. The DHCP client of the ...

07/20/06 - 20060161651 - Managing resources within a fault tolerant collaboration system
In one embodiment, the invention utilizes an application within a meeting zone; monitor usage within the meeting zone; detects a resource located outside the meeting zone; dynamically adds the resource within the meeting zone; and updates a database configured to track a status of the resource. ...

07/20/06 - 20060161650 - Apparatus and method for processing an application program-related event in a wireless terminal
An apparatus and method is provided for processing an application program-related event in a wireless terminal. In the apparatus, a memory stores character user interface (UI) images associated with application program-related events. An event collection part collects the application program-related events occurring in the wireless terminal, and generates an event ...

07/20/06 - 20060161649 - Communication control method, communication control apparatus and storage medium
Even if a communication is interrupted, a communication control module in a data terminal reestablish the communication without informing a communication module that the communication has been interrupted in a case where it is possible to reestablish the communication. The communication control module determines that the communication can be reestablished ...

07/20/06 - 20060161648 - System and method for statistical performance monitoring
A method using statistical parameters (e.g. mean, standard deviation, exceptional values) of performance monitoring metrics to substantially reduce the quantity of performance monitoring data collected and reported, make system performance monitoring scalable and enhance the readability of the system performance display. The number of metrics monitored may be reduced by ...

07/20/06 - 20060161647 - Method and apparatus providing measurement of packet latency in a processor
A latency measurement unit, which can form part of a processor unit having multiple processing elements, includes a content addressable memory to store packet ID information and time information for a packet associated with at least one selected source and at least one selected destination. ...

07/13/06 - 20060155849 - System and method for implementing polling agents in a client management tool
A method and system is provided for implementing a variety of polling agent functions in a client management tool. Users at a central manager are prompted to select either a central polling function or a resident polling function for the collection of client management data from a number of computer ...

07/13/06 - 20060155848 - Workflow decision management including identifying user reaction to workflows
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for workflow decision management. Embodiments typically include maintaining a device state history; identifying a device usage pattern in dependence upon the device state history; identifying a derived scenario in dependence upon the device usage pattern. In typical embodiments the derived scenario has ...

07/13/06 - 20060155847 - Deriving scenarios for workflow decision management
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for deriving a device usage scenario. Embodiments include maintaining a device state history; detecting a device usage pattern in dependence upon the device state history; detecting a device usage scenario in dependence upon the device usage pattern; and assigning a tolerance to ...

07/13/06 - 20060155846 - Method and system for extracting status information from networked devices using the snmp protocol
A method, system, and computer program product for extracting, using an SNMP protocol, information associated with a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network. The method includes the steps of (1) accessing a first memory to obtain access information for accessing the monitored device, the access information including (a) a ...

07/13/06 - 20060155845 - Method and system for initializing an internal storage table containing access information used by multiple implementations of protocol access functions to extract information from networked devices
A method for managing information configured to be used by a selected communication protocol to extract information related to a monitored device among distinct devices communicatively coupled to a network. The method includes the steps of (1) retrieving, from a first memory, a plurality of implementation identifiers, wherein each implementation ...

07/13/06 - 20060155844 - Log-in resource release system
A log-in resource release system includes a set of lists for managing log-in requests to a processing cluster input/output port from host server input/output ports. Host servers that have been granted memory structures within a memory storage device (“configured hosts”) are granted priority access to a storage processing device's input/output ...

07/13/06 - 20060155843 - Information transportation scheme from high functionality probe to logic analyzer
A method is described that comprises transporting information that was captured from a point-to-point link by dividing the information into separate pieces and sending each of the separate pieces over its own point-to-point link toward a logic analyzer host. The point-to-point link is part of a link based computing system. ...

07/13/06 - 20060155842 - Method for control of personal data
The invention relates to end user controlled handling of personal data on e.g. the Internet. Web services are offered in a controlled manner from a service broker (250) provided with appropriate security mechanisms. The broker contains end user controlled policies related to personal data/services, while the actual data is arranged ...

07/13/06 - 20060155841 - Information transmission system, information transmission method, electric device communication device, information communication device, communication control program
The present invention relates to information transfer system, an information transfer method, an electrical-equipment communication apparatus, an information communication apparatus and a computer-readable record medium with a communication control program. An information panel 1 which controls electrical equipment 3 includes a first transmission and reception section 11, a server 2 ...

07/13/06 - 20060155840 - Satellite communications system for providing global, high quality movement of very large data files
A system for providing communication services between geographically disbursed source and destination terminals includes at least one airborne or spaceborne wireless communication device, such as a satellite. The wireless communication device is configured to store and forward large data files of at least an aggregated 10 gigabytes. The wireless communication ...

07/13/06 - 20060155839 - Method and device for performing floor control
A method of controlling a floor controller (14) of a communications network (8) including a group of network components (14, 16) which receive a data stream (12) from a data source (10) is described. The method comprises the steps of selecting the network component (14, 16) which is to control ...

07/06/06 - 20060149840 - End-to-end publish/subscribe middleware architecture
Message publish/subscribe systems are required to process high message volumes with reduced latency and performance bottlenecks. The end-to-end middleware architecture proposed by the present invention is designed for high-volume, low-latency messaging by, among other things, reducing intermediary hops with neighbor-based routing, introducing efficient native-to-external and external-to-native protocol conversions, monitoring system ...

07/06/06 - 20060149839 - Network unit for exchanging a signal
Network units (1) for exchanging signals (20-70) comprising information (50) at layers (500) higher than internet protocol layers (300) comprise detector systems (2,3) arranged to detect fields of the information (50). To improve the detections of a status of priority, of fragmentation and/or of aggregation, the signal (20-70) is provided ...

07/06/06 - 20060149838 - System and method for logical modeling of distributed computer systems
A modeling system permits developers of applications for distributed computer system, such as those used in server data centers or Internet data centers (IDCs), to architect their hardware and software in an abstract manner. The modeling system defines a set of components that represent abstract functional operations of the application ...

07/06/06 - 20060149837 - Remote monitoring and diagnostics service prioritization method and system
A technique is disclosed for automatically prioritizing requests for service of systems. A service request is generated upon detection of an indicator of a potentially serviceable condition in the system. Based upon the service request, a knowledge base is consulted that may contain prioritization scores for particular indicators, conditions, systems, ...

07/06/06 - 20060149836 - Method and apparatus for operating a computer network
The discovery process comprises the device (10) generating messages (112, 120 126) which together have the purpose of identifying a predetermined number of devices which satisfy a test condition included in each message. These messages are sent respectively to the on-line devices (12, 20, 26) neighbouring device (10). To ensure ...

07/06/06 - 20060149835 - Data processing apparatus and data processing method, and computer program
This invention efficiently implements encoding processes corresponding to respective image processing functions while minimizing the memory use size in the apparatus in an image processing apparatus having many image processing functions. A data processing apparatus of this invention includes a data reception unit for receiving at least data of a ...

06/29/06 - 20060143291 - Analysis technique of execution states in computer system
An information processing method according to this invention is a method executed when one or a plurality of applications are executed in an arbitrary node in a computer system including a plurality of nodes, which comprises: obtaining data representing an execution state of an application for the plurality of nodes; ...

06/29/06 - 20060143290 - Session monitoring using shared memory
A system and method to monitor client sessions within a Java virtual machine. Client sessions are established within an application server instance to store session context data for each of the client sessions during the client sessions. At least two Java virtual machines are operated within the application server instance ...

06/29/06 - 20060143289 - User interface provisioning
A system for use with electric equipment includes a first input/output (I/O) device configured to couple to the electric equipment, a monitor coupled to the first I/O device and configured to determine information regarding the electric equipment, a second I/O device configured to communicate with a communication network, a memory ...

06/22/06 - 20060136589 - Automatic, personalized online information and product services
A method for providing automatic, personalized information services to a computer user includes the following steps: transparently monitoring user interactions with data during normal use of the computer; updating user-specific data files including a set of user-related documents; estimating parameters of a learning machine that define a User Model specific ...

06/22/06 - 20060136588 - User interface for configuring web services for remote portlets
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for improved event communications between producer(s) and consumer(s) of content to communicate regarding changes to a web portal framework. Methods and mechanisms providing improved event communications between producer(s) and consumer(s) can provide producers with the capability to detect event descriptions ...

06/22/06 - 20060136587 - System and method for improved remote portlet communications
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for improved event communications between producer(s) and consumer(s) of content to communicate regarding changes to a web portal framework. Methods and mechanisms providing improved event communications between producer(s) and consumer(s) can provide producers with the capability to detect event descriptions ...

06/22/06 - 20060136586 - Page-view recording with click-thru tracking
Page-view recording with click-thru tracking is described. In an embodiment, a tracking system receives a request for content that includes request-tracking information. The request-tracking information designates that the tracking system receive the content request before the request is communicated to a content provider. The request for content is communicated to ...

06/22/06 - 20060136585 - Resource reconciliation
A method to reconcile multiple instances of a single computer resource identified by resource discovery operations includes: (1) accessing information describing one or more resources; (2) identifying, via the accessed information, at least one resource that has been detected or discovered by at least two of the discovery operations; and ...

06/22/06 - 20060136584 - System, network entity, client, method and computer program product for managing a contact list
A system for managing a contact or buddy list includes a network entity, such as a game server, capable of providing a contact list identifying a plurality of members, where each identified member is associated with at least one criterion related to interaction of the member with the network entity. ...

06/22/06 - 20060136583 - Notification management for monitoring system
Some embodiments include an event detector to subscribe to solution members of a condition definition, to receive changes to the solution members, and to evaluate a state of the condition definition a subscription manager to identify users associated with the condition definition, and a notification manager to determine a notification ...

06/22/06 - 20060136582 - Performance monitoring within an enterprise software system
A large-scale enterprise system is described that includes a flexible and scalable performance monitoring software. The system comprises a plurality of enterprise software applications having one or more collector components that collect performance data from the enterprise software applications. A performance manager receives the performance data from the collector components ...

06/22/06 - 20060136581 - Strategies for configuring a server-based information-transmission infrastructure
Strategies are described for determining a configuration of information-transmission infrastructure. The information-transmission infrastructure includes a number of server modules for providing services to a collection of client modules. The configuration first involves determining whether a number of specified requirements can be satisfied using an input scaling equation. If so, the ...

06/22/06 - 20060136580 - Method of monitoring the communication in a network
Described is a method of monitoring the communication in a group of data processing units, wherein a data processing unit transmits data signals to other data processing units for carrying out certain operations. The remarkable thing about the invention is that, upon reception of a data signal from the transmitting ...

06/15/06 - 20060129674 - Monitoring system, apparatus to be monitored, monitoring apparatus, and monitoring method
The present invention is directed to enable a monitoring apparatus to reliably obtain information of an event which occurs in an apparatus to be monitored in a monitoring system employing a connectionless communication method. An apparatus to be monitored comprises: a first transmitting unit for transmitting first information as event ...

06/15/06 - 20060129673 - Method and system for providing entity status information in a communication network
A presence agent (101) receives a message with a request for a status of one or more entities. The presence agent (101) determines the status of the entities, and transmits a message with the status of the entities. Transmitting the message includes initiating a connection to a communication device (107). ...

06/08/06 - 20060123109 - Method for processing http requests and html pages transmitted or received by a navigator to or from at least one web server, and associated server
The invention relates to a method for processing HTTP requests and HTML pages transmitted or received by a navigator to or from at least one Web server such that all of the data-flows between the navigator and each Web server pass via an interposition server (P), comprising the steps of: ...

06/08/06 - 20060123108 - Embedding a unique identifier in asset information to identify the source of an event
In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides receiving an indication of one or more events generated by a component, creating an alert of the one or more events, the alert including a unique identifier, and transmitting the alert. Other embodiments are also disclosed. ...

06/08/06 - 20060123107 - Web link management systems and methods
Systems and methods for Web link management. A storage device stores a status record comprising link status information indicating whether a Web link is available. A processing unit periodically issues a Web page request to a Web server corresponding to the Web link, receives a Web page response from the ...

06/08/06 - 20060123106 - Method and system for communications monitoring
The present invention provides for a system, and related method, for use in the monitoring of communications traffic, comprising the step of recording the said traffic and storing the recorded traffic in an encrypted data format such that the data can be decrypted only by means of keys that exhibit ...

06/01/06 - 20060117102 - Apparatus and method for diagnosing network
A network diagnostic method and apparatus includes: a database adapted to store set data for diagnosis; a scheduler adapted to determine whether a condition to perform a diagnosis is satisfied, and to begin diagnosis when it has been determined that the condition to perform a diagnosis has been satisfied; and ...

06/01/06 - 20060117101 - Node discovery and communications in a network
Provided are a method, system and article of manufacture, wherein a plurality of broadcast messages are sent from at least one node of a plurality of nodes of a network. A node is discovered based on a received message. An entry is stored, wherein the entry corresponds to the node ...

05/25/06 - 20060112178 - Server architecture and methods for persistently storing and serving event data
A web site system includes an event history server system that persistently stores event data reflective of events that occur during browsing sessions of web site users, and makes such data available to other applications and services in real time. The server system may, for example, be used to record ...

05/25/06 - 20060112177 - Method and system for controlling access to presence information on a peer-to-peer basis
A presence information system allows access to presence information of a publisher to be controlled and enforced by the publisher on a peer-to-peer basis, rather than by a presence server. A subscriber sends to the publisher on a peer-to-peer basis a request to subscribe to the presence information of the ...

05/18/06 - 20060106930 - Method of querying for device location in a heterogeneous network
The present invention includes a method and system for providing network location information for real-time location-based services for parties communicating over networks from multiple carriers. Once a first party initiates a transaction over a public network, such as a telephone call (PSTN, cellular, VoIP) or a wireless Internet/Web transaction, the ...

05/18/06 - 20060106929 - Network conference communications
In some embodiments, two or more packets of a first protocol including data of a real time protocol (RTP) which is associated with audio and/or video conferencing information may be received at a first interface. Two or more data channels may couple the first interface to a second interface via ...

05/18/06 - 20060106928 - Computer implemented methods and systems for decoupling execution of an action from its trigger event
Systems and methods are disclosed for executing at least one action by a first server in a computer system. The action may be triggered and initiated by a predefined adjustable fulfillment level of at least one event or incident. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided, the method comprising: ...

05/18/06 - 20060106927 - Method and system for supervisor partitioning of client resources
A method for supervisor partitioning of client resources in a communications environment includes receiving, at a client node, an allocated set of resources over a communications network, and partitioning the allocated set of resources among one or more applications associated with the client node using a local authority. Following the ...

05/11/06 - 20060101141 - Expanded monitoring for a plurality of processes via agents
The invention concerns a method, a device and a system for monitoring for a plurality of processes via a central monitoring unit. The processes respectively comprise an agent that is assigned to receive signals from the process, to analyze these signals and—in the event that a predeterminable communication condition is ...

05/11/06 - 20060101140 - Ethernet extension for the data center
The present invention provides methods and devices for implementing a Low Latency Ethernet (“LLE”) solution, also referred to herein as a Data Center Ethernet (“DCE”) solution, which simplifies the connectivity of data centers and provides a high bandwidth, low