13th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 53 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100082736 | RECORDING AND/OR USE OF GENERATION INFORMATION - An object (e.g., a video, a widget, etc.) may carry generation information, indicating the length of the referral chain that led to the object's being downloaded. Some users become aware of the object through initial publicity. When these users download an instance of the object, that instance is a generation zero instance. The object may contain a mechanism (e.g., a link) that invites other users to download an instance of the objects. When a user follows such a link and downloads an instance of the object, the downloaded instance has a higher generation than the instance that presented the link to the user. For example, if a generation zero object refers a download, then the downloaded object instance may have generation one. Generation information may be collected and analyzed to determine how successfully an object propagates. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082737 | DYNAMIC SERVICE ROUTING - In an example embodiment, a first message is received on a service bus which supports a plurality of disparate client applications and a plurality of disparate services. The message may be parsed to determine a requesting client application from the plurality of disparate client applications where the requesting client application is associated with one or more of the plurality of disparate services. Metadata associated with the first message may be retrieved that indicates a program identification associated with the client application and the first message may be routed to a first service from the plurality of services based on the program identification. A response may be also be received from the first service and the response may be transmitted to the requesting client application. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082738 | Network Communication Method, Dispatch Server and Server - A network communication method comprises the following steps: a log-in account is acquired from a client; a server list is queried to obtain on-line data of a local server according to the login account, wherein the local server and the client are in the same domain; the client is directed to the local server according to the on-line data of the local server. Moreover, a dispatch server and a server are disclosed in specification. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082739 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER (MIH) SERVICES - A method for supporting media independent handover (MIH) services, preferably according to the IEEE 802.21 standard, wherein communication nodes ( | 2010-04-01 |
20100082740 | MOVING PICTURE FILE TRANSMITTING SERVER AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - A moving picture suitable for display on a mobile telephone is displayed comparatively quickly. When a moving picture is requested, a leading segment of the moving picture is converted. The leading segment has an amount of data which, after the conversion, is less than the amount of data that is displayable on the mobile telephone that issued the request. A succeeding segment, which can be converted while the leading segment is being transmitted to the mobile telephone and viewed by the user of the mobile telephone, is converted. If there is a request for the succeeding segment after the leading segment is viewed, the conversion of the succeeding segment will be finished by the time of the request for succeeding segment. As a result, the succeeding segment can be transmitted to the mobile telephone quickly, and it can be viewed rapidly. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082741 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a communication unit for performing communication with one or more external devices; a storage unit for storing device information containing first authentication information used for authentication to selectively perform a process related to transmission of content data on the external device to which the content data is transmittable; an authenticating unit for authenticating the external device that has transmitted a processing request based on second authentication information contained in the processing request transmitted from the external device and the device information; a processing unit for selectively performing a process corresponding to the processing request based on an authentication result in the authenticating unit; and a data transmitting unit for selectively transmitting content data to the external device, which transmitted the processing request and which is authenticated by the authenticating unit, based on a processing result of the processing unit. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082742 | Internet pet tracking system - A system for deterring and preventing theft of a pet from a system subscriber who affixes a location unit to the pet whose theft is to be deterred is disclosed wherein the location unit calculates the location of the pet at any given time. The system comprises a web host connected to a wide area web network, such as the Internet. The web host includes a computer readable medium and is accessible by the subscriber from a remote computer terminal. A computer program resides on the web host for receiving a tracking request from the subscriber and transmitting a tracking call to the location unit carried by the pet. The computer program includes instructions embodied in computer readable code for automatically transmitting the tracking call, receiving location data from the location unit in response to the tracking call, and transmitting the location data to the subscriber's terminal where the current location of the pet is displayed. In other aspects of the invention, a method of deterring theft of pets from pet owners is disclosed wherein the owners have computer terminals with displays. The method includes automatically receiving a tracking request at a web host initiated at the owner's terminal seeking the present location of a pet; transmitting a tracking call to a pet location unit in response to receiving the tracking request; receiving location data at the web host from the location unit in response to the tracking call; and transmitting the location data to the computer terminal of the owner for display of the current location of the pet on the owner's terminal display. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082743 | DIGITAL CONTENT DELIVERY AND VIEWING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A media distribution system is provided whereby devices on a network are provided with native-mode, optimized content viewers adapted to receive and present digital content provided elsewhere on the network. An agent is downloaded to a device, where it gathers information regarding the device environment and uses that information to identify the appropriate application for that device. The appropriate application for a particular device is then downloaded to the device to enable the device to present the content to a user. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082744 | Methods and Systems for Improved System Performance - Methods and systems are provided for improving system responsiveness while increasing efficiency and scalability of network communication by combining reliable and unreliable network transports. A method and system is provided for client polling a status server to see if there is new data, receiving a notification that there is new data, sending a client request to a server premises which retrieves the new data from a database and returns the new data to the client. Communication with the status server uses an unreliable packet or a reliable packet, whereas communication between the client and the server premises uses reliable transport. A redundant cluster of status servers and methods is provided. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082745 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING FEEDS FOR ENTITIES NOT ASSOCIATED WITH FEED SERVICES - A system is described for providing feeds for entities not associated with feed services. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface. The memory may store an identifier of an entity, an update condition and a feed. The entity may include content, and the update condition may describe an update to the content. The interface may communicate with a device of the user. The processor may receive the identifier of the entity and the update condition of the entity via the interface. The processor may generate a feed for the entity and the processor may add the content to the feed when the content is updated in accordance with the update condition. The processor may then provide the feed to the device of the user via the interface. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082746 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WEB SITE DRIVEN COLLABORATIVE WEB BROWSING - The invention provides a system comprising: a CPU; a memory in communication with the CPU; instructions stored in the memory and executable by the CPU to establish a collaborative web browsing session, the instructions further comprising: instructions enabling at least one peer device to join the collaborative web browsing session at a web site hosted by an automated peer. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082747 | REAL-TIME COLLABORATIVE BROWSING - A method, a system, and a computer-readable medium are provided which support a collaborative browsing session. A connection request is received at a first device from a second device. The connection request indicates a request for a collaborative browsing session between the first device and the second device. In response to the connection request, a web page is sent to the second device from the first device. The web page includes embedded computer-executable instructions to support the collaborative browsing session. A browser application at the first device is monitored for a change in state. An indicator of the change in state of the browser application is sent to the second device from the first device. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082748 | System and Method for Improving Scalability and Throughput of a Publish/Subscribe Network - Improving scalability and throughput in publish/subscribe messaging systems by allowing the spoke systems to vary the member of the hub collective that is attaches to. The scalability is improved because the spoke systems do not have to have a long lasting attachment to a specific hub system. Instead, the spoke systems can be redistributed more evenly when new spoke systems are added or removed. The throughput is increased by distributing workload and fan-out responsibilities within hub collectives. Availability is improved because single points of failure are removed. Ease of administration is also improved over a hierarchy by allowing child nodes to automatically change parent nodes if a parent node is modified or removed. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082749 | RETROSPECTIVE SPAM FILTERING - A mail system and mail delivery method wherein messages are tracked even after delivery and can be removed from a spam folder post delivery. In a disclosed embodiment mail features indicative of spam or normal email are analyzed and appended to the message header, which is later examined and used to move a reclassified message. False negative and false positive classification can be rectified. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082750 | DYNAMICALLY TRANSFORMING DATA TO THE CONTEXT OF AN INTENDED RECIPIENT - A sender can create a message for transmission to an intended recipient. During creation of the message, the sender may insert data into the message that is expressed with reference to the context of the sender. When the sender inserts data into a message that is expressed with reference to their own context, they may be asked whether the data should be dynamically transformed to the context of the intended recipient. If the sender indicates that the data should be transformed to the context of the intended recipient, the context of the intended recipient is determined. Once the context of the intended recipient has been determined, the data in the message is transformed to the context of the intended recipient and the message containing the transformed data is transmitted to the intended recipient. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082751 | USER PERCEPTION OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - Determining user use context for electronic messaging and disseminating a subset of the user use context to recipients and/or senders of such electronic message is disclosed herein. By way of example, the user use context can be based on a general context of recipients, such as speed with which a message is disseminated or consumed, number of child messages spawned, rate at which such messages are spawned, and so on. Additionally, user use context can also be based on individual context, by comparing individual interaction to a message (e.g., time to read, time to delete, number of child messages, etc.), with a baseline usage context determined for the individual. The context can be disseminated to recipients of the message or to the sender, to provide an overview of perception of the electronic message. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082752 | QUERY LOG MINING FOR DETECTING SPAM HOSTS - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for detecting spam hosts. In one embodiment, one or more graphs are generated using data obtained from a query log, where the one or more graphs include at least one of an anticlick graph or a view graph. Values of one or more syntactic features of the one or more graphs are ascertained. Values of one or more semantic features of the one or more graphs are determined by propagating categories from a web directory among nodes in each of the one or more graphs. Spam hosts are then detected based upon the values of the syntactic features and the semantic features. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082753 | ROLE-INDEPENDENT CONTEXT EXCHANGE - Technologies for conversations between various parties, the conversations including context information that can be persisted to maintain the conversation when the parties or the communications media they communicate over operate intermittently. In such a conversation, any party can embed its view of the context into a message and any party can send the next message regardless of role and regardless of the underlying network, transport, or application message exchange pattern. Such technologies provide for durable services. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082754 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INSTANT MESSAGES - Various aspects relate to using structured messages within one or more systems that implement instant messaging function in a distributed computing environment. In particular, structured information may be encoded and embedded in unstructured instant messages and communicated among one or more computer systems, networks, applications or other entities. In one aspect, instant messaging may be leveraged as middleware for application integration. Other aspects relate to using structured message information to perform functions in a distributed instant messaging system. For example, structured message information may be used to control the display of instant message information to a user, or may be used to control how the instant message information is distributed, processed, or otherwise handled by a receiving system, application or process. Other aspects relate to an interface for displaying information relating to a number of instant messaging conversations to a user. Further, aspects relate to using instant messaging in a trading environment. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082755 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INSTANT MESSAGES - Various aspects relate to using structured messages within one or more systems that implement instant messaging function in a distributed computing environment. In particular, structured information may be encoded and embedded in unstructured instant messages and communicated among one or more computer systems, networks, applications or other entities. In one aspect, instant messaging may be leveraged as middleware for application integration. Other aspects relate to using structured message information to perform functions in a distributed instant messaging system. For example, structured message information may be used to control the display of instant message information to a user, or may be used to control how the instant message information is distributed, processed, or otherwise handled by a receiving system, application or process. Other aspects relate to an interface for displaying information relating to a number of instant messaging conversations to a user. Further, aspects relate to using instant messaging in a trading environment. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082756 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INSTANT MESSAGES - Various aspects relate to using structured messages within one or more systems that implement instant messaging function in a distributed computing environment. In particular, structured information may be encoded and embedded in unstructured instant messages and communicated among one or more computer systems, networks, applications or other entities. In one aspect, instant messaging may be leveraged as middleware for application integration. Other aspects relate to using structured message information to perform functions in a distributed instant messaging system. For example, structured message information may be used to control the display of instant message information to a user, or may be used to control how the instant message information is distributed, processed, or otherwise handled by a receiving system, application or process. Other aspects relate to an interface for displaying information relating to a number of instant messaging conversations to a user. Further, aspects relate to using instant messaging in a trading environment. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082757 | ADDRESS QUALITY ENGINE - A method and system for communicating a message in an electronic messaging environment is provided. A method employed by the system may include generating a personalized communication model related to a user, determining the validity of a token associated with an intended recipient of the message based on information in the personalized communication model, extracting entities from the message, determining whether the entities extracted match the intended recipient, and indicating to the user whether the token is valid and whether the entities match the intended recipient. The tokens correspond to email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses associated with intended recipients. The personalized communication model includes the names and tokens associated with those individuals with whom the user communicates. The personalized communication model is seeded with information including social, spatial, temporal and logical information related to the user. The personalized communication model is generated by a network processor. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082758 | GLOBAL EMAIL ADDRESS REPUTATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods of filtering received messages to discard unsolicited messages using Silverlist filters and combinations of Silverlist filters and other types of filters are disclosed. In many embodiments, an appliance remote from a mail server is used to filter messages using at least a Silverlist filter prior to forwarding messages to the mail server. In a number of embodiments, a mail server applies a filtering process that includes a Silverlist filter and a challenge response filter. One embodiment of the invention includes a plurality of mail servers configured to maintain user mail accounts from which electronic mail messages can be exchanged via a network, a plurality of mail processing units connected to the network, where each mail processing unit acts as a gateway for at least one of the mail servers that filters incoming electronic mail messages, a global address reputation server connected to a global address reputation database and configured to communicate with the mail processing units via the network. In addition, at least one of the mail processing units is configured to track events associated with the filtering of electronic mail messages and forward tracked event information to the global address reputation server, the global address reputation server is configured to store event information received from the mail processing units in the global address reputation database, the global address reputation server is configured to develop sender reputation information concerning message senders from the event information stored in the global address reputation database, the global address reputation server is configured to provide sender reputation information concerning message senders to mail processing units, and at least one of the mail processing units that receives sender reputation information from the global address reputation server is configured to utilize the sender reputation information when filtering messages based upon the message sender. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082759 | COMMUNICATIONS GROUPED AS CONVERSATIONS - Described are embodiments for displaying groups of communications, such as messages, as a conversation. Conversations are groups of communications that can be traced back as related to an original communication. The embodiments allow a user to select a conversation mode for displaying communications, e.g., messages, as conversations. In response to the user's selection, embodiments provide for displaying a graphical element associated with a conversation. The graphical element can be selected to display the messages associated with the conversation. Additionally, embodiments provide for selecting a conversation and applying actions to the conversation, resulting in the application of the action to the messages that are associated with the conversation. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082760 | PERSONALIZED STORAGE ACCOUNTS IN AN ELECTRONIC FILE DELIVERY SYSTEM - An electronic file delivery system reduces the bandwidth an electronic mail server must dedicate to large files and decreases the storage space required for attachments in an electronic mail inbox. The system uploads the large file to the recipient's personalized storage account. The recipient receives an electronic notification of the file in their storage account. The recipient may access the file without additional burden on the electronic mail server resources. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082761 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADDRESS BOOK CONTACT MANAGEMENT - A method comprises receiving a notification to share contact information for a contact in an address book of a sender with a recipient; retrieving the contact information for the contact; and delivering the contact information to the recipient. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082762 | MESSAGE TYING PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - This message tying processing method include: extracting tying keys from a key definition database storing, for each protocol, tying keys included in messages relating to the protocol and used in a message tying processing, and generating data of a structure including nodes respectively corresponding to the extracted tying keys and links connecting between the nodes of the tying keys belonging to the same protocol: judging whether or not a loop is formed in the structure by the links; when it is judged that the loop is not formed in the structure, identifying, among allocation patterns that are combinations of allocation of the tying keys to each of plural tying processors, that respectively carry out the tying processing in cooperation with each other, an allocation pattern satisfying a first condition that a communication load between the tying processors is the minimum. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082763 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AN OPERATION ON A REMOTE SERVER ON THE BASIS OF A PHYSICAL ACTION EXERTED ON A DETERMINED ZONE OF A DOCUMENT - System for automatically controlling an operation determined at the level of a computer server ( | 2010-04-01 |
20100082764 | COMMUNITY CACHING NETWORKS - A system for sharing data within a network, the system including a first peer device coupled with the network that comprises local cache storage configured to store data comprising at least one entry designated as network accessible cache data and a cache control module operative to control access to the data stored in the local cache storage. The system further includes a second peer device coupled with the first peer device via the network where the second peer device is configured to request network accessible cache data stored in the local cache storage of the first peer device. Furthermore, the cache control module of the first peer device is configured to transmit at least a portion of the requested network accessible cache data to the second peer device in response to the request for network accessible data stored from the second peer device. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082765 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHUNK BASED TIERED STORAGE VOLUME MIGRATION - System and method for reducing costs of moving data between two or more of multi-tiered storage devices. Specifically, the system operates by moving only high tier portion of data and merely remapping the low tier data to migration target device, which eliminates a large amount of data movement (low tier) while maintaining the SLA of high tier data. Specifically, when a command to migrate a thin provisioned volume is received from a source primary storage device to another target primary storage device, the system doesn't copy all of the tier | 2010-04-01 |
20100082766 | RELIABLE RECEPTION OF MESSAGES WRITTEN VIA RDMA USING HASHING - In one embodiment, a first network system obtains from a second network system, as a result of an RDMA read operation or an RDMA write operation, a message and a hash of the message, contiguous thereto. The first network system generates a computed hash of the obtained message and compares the computed hash of the message with the obtained hash of the message. The first network system processes the obtained message according to whether the computed hash is equal to the obtained hash. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082767 | DISTRIBUTION OF DATA TO MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS - In a trading system market data from a matching engine is distributed by a broker to a plurality of trading floors repeatedly every T seconds, typically one second. This one second distribution period is divided into a plurality of time slots and each trading floor is randomly assigned to a slot. Data for a given trading floor is calculated and distributed during the time slot assigned to that floor. The position of a trading floor relative to others is varied by swapping a pair of adjacent time slots every J distribution periods. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082768 | PROVIDING COMPONENTS FOR MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS - Audio stems and video segments are downloaded and selectively included (e.g., through software) in a multimedia presentation. In some embodiments, a user may select lyric tracks for download and inclusion with the multimedia presentation. The video segments and lyrics tracks are synchronized with the audio stems within the multimedia presentation. Embodied services may include selectable and downloadable click tracks that having timing data that corresponds to other downloaded components. In some embodiments, audio stems are selectable according to a musical key. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082769 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SEPARATE WEB APPLICATIONS - A method of communication between a first application and at least one second application accessible on an Internet browser page. The method comprises: (1) a dynamic subscription step of said first application subscribing to at least one service of said at least one second application; and (2) an execution step of said first application dynamically executing at least one operation taking account of a value of at least one parameter generated by the execution of said at least one service and sent by said second application to said first application. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082770 | AGGREGATION SERVER WITH INFORMATION VISUALIZATION PANEL SUBSCRIPTION MODEL - A data aggregation system comprises an aggregation server. The aggregation server receives a remote request for a viewing session from a plurality of communication devices over a communication network. In response to the remote request, the aggregation server transfers a first data request to a Human-Machine Interface (HMI) for graphics data comprising a graphical representation of a portion of an industrial automation environment over an enterprise network. In response to the remote request, the aggregation server transfers a second data request to an operation data source for operation data associated with an operation of the industrial automation environment over the enterprise network. In response to the first data request, the aggregation server receives the graphics data from the HMI. In response to the second data request, the aggregation server receives the operation data from the operation data source. The aggregation server transfers the graphics data over the communication network to the plurality of communication devices, and transfers the operation data over the communication network to the plurality of communication devices. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082771 | MECHANISM FOR INSERTING TRUSTWORTHY PARAMETERS INTO AJAX VIA SERVER-SIDE PROXY - A system for retrieving information from a remote server is disclosed. The system includes a browser having a webpage executing JavaScript adapted to communicate a request with client identifying information to a first server. The first server has a proxy adapted to dynamically insert information into the request received from the client and communicate the request with inserted information to a second server, whereby the request with inserted information is trusted by the second server. The second server and first server are each adapted to also provide a response to the request. A method of communicating in a networked environment is also disclosed. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082772 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMPUTER USABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A communication device to communicate with a responsive server via a network to obtain the time information from the responsive server is provided. The responsive server is capable of responding to a request for time information issued by the communication device. The communication device includes a preliminary data transmitter configured to transmit preliminary data to the responsive server, prior to transmitting the request for time information, and a time information requester configured to transmit the request for the time information to the responsive server and receive the time information which is transmitted from the responsive server in response to the request. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082773 | SCREEN SCRAPING INTERFACE - An interface can serve as a client-mainframe interface, enabling clients to develop applications without a need to understand mainframe processes and screen flows. Extended Tool Command Language (Tcl) can define services that can include a series of interactions with a mainframe system and service definitions can be added or updated on the interface during operation of the interface without disrupting processing. The service definitions can enable the interface to receive XML requests from a client, parse the XML requests, execute the service scripts to interact with the mainframe systems, generate the result in a XML format and send the XML file back to the client. Fundamental Mainframe Interactions (FMI) commands can interact with the mainframe systems and enable the specification of the XML structure of the request and response. The interface can provide efficient connection pooling management and connection life cycle control to improve the performance of the mainframe system interactions. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082774 | Distributed File System Consistency Mechanism Extension for Enabling Internet Video Broadcasting - The consistency callback mechanisms employed by local file systems such as NTFS and distributed file systems such as DDS, NFS and CIFS are extended to provide a shared memory foundation for efficiently broadcasting real-time high definition video from a source object to large numbers of viewers via the Internet. Distributed applications such as video viewing client applications establish connections to a common distributed file system object, and then each application registers with the underlying distributed file system to receive notifications whenever the video source modifies the source object. The data required to update images maintained by viewing clients is included in notification messages. The distributed file system employs a network of proxy cache nodes. Proxy cache nodes receive notification messages (complete with image update data) and update their cached images of the source object and then retransmit the notification messages towards the viewing clients using IP multicast techniques. In this manner, the distributed file system's consistency mechanism efficiently employs network resources to enable the real-time distribution of video content streams. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082775 | Directed Media Based On User Preferences - A system for determining directed media for a user is provided. The exemplary system comprises a media selection optimizer which is configured to determine a directed media component based on a user profile associated, via a device identifier, with a network access device. The media selection optimizer may also utilize access point information, historic information, and access point location-centric information in its determination of the directed media component. The directed media component may then be forward to a media server which provides the corresponding directed media to the user. The directed media may comprise advertisement, coupons, video, music, or any other media which is customizable to the user. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082776 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STREAMING OF DYNAMIC WEATHER CONTENT TO THE DESKTOP - A method, system and program product for streaming of dynamic information content over an interactive media such as the Internet. The dynamic content, such as dynamic weather data, is collected from a plurality of collection sources such as geographically distributed local weather reporting stations. The data information can be relatively static or dynamic, constantly changing data. The dynamic content is stored in databases maintained on a direct access storage device at the dynamic content server. The selection of dynamic content to be transmitted to the end user client is based on a demographic profile that is completed at the time of end user client registration and which precedes delivery of any selected content in response to end user client requests. An application resident on the dynamic content server streams selected content simultaneously to a plurality of end user client devices for each end user client request. An application resident on each end user client device generates a plurality of processing threads for a series of independent commands, each of which is transmitted to the dynamic content server at specified preset intervals and generates a server-selected response. In a weather content collection and delivery embodiment, local, real-time weather data can be received continuously from thousands of weather reporting stations, and transmitted simultaneously by the weather content server to millions of end user desktop clients, with each user receiving current weather data that is generated from a nearby weather collection station. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082777 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING NETWORK ACCOUNTS AND CONFIGURING DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH - Creating service accounts involves receiving an account identifier entered by a user via a user interface to initiate registering a user device with a network account. One or more host names are determined based on a domain name portion of the account identifier. The one or more host names need not be preconfigured on the user device. Connections are attempted with each of the one or more host names. Each of the connection attempts uses one or more application protocols associated with a type of the network account. It is determined that at least one of the connection attempts results in a successful connection, and a user account is configured on the user device based on a host and protocol combination associated with the successful connection. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082778 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING A NETWORK OF AFFILIATED WEBSITES - A plurality of affiliated network of websites may be configured to log user interactions thereon. The respective logs may comprise user identification information to allow a profile aggregation service to correlate user interactions across the plurality of websites and to generate respective user profiles, which may be used to configure the websites. A context aware platform (CAP) website may be configured to provide web services for entities in a business hierarchy. The CAP website may capable of presenting content in one of a plurality of operational modes associated with a geographical granularity of the franchise hierarchy. In addition, the CAP website may be configurable according to a user profile generated using user interactions across a plurality of websites and/or on the CAP website. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082779 | METHOD OF ALLOCATING IP ADDRESS OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING DHCP, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM OF ALLOCATING IP ADDRESS USING DHCP - A method of allocating an IP address of an image forming apparatus using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and an image forming apparatus and system performing the method, the method including requesting a DHCP server to allocate an IP address to an image forming apparatus having a previously allocated IP address in response to the image forming apparatus being re-connected to a network, responding to the IP address allocation request by the DHCP server, declining to respond to the response of the DHCP server, and providing the previously allocated IP address to the image forming apparatus upon receiving no response from the image forming apparatus after a predetermined time. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082780 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING A WEBSITE HAVING A PLURALITY OF OPERATIONAL MODES - A plurality of affiliated network of websites may be configured to log user interactions thereon. The respective logs may comprise user identification information to allow a profile aggregation service to correlate user interactions across the plurality of websites and to generate respective user profiles, which may be used to configure the websites. A context aware platform (CAP) website may be configured to provide web services for entities in a business hierarchy. The CAP website may capable of presenting content in one of a plurality of operational modes associated with a geographical granularity of the franchise hierarchy. In addition, the CAP website may be configurable according to a user profile generated using user interactions across a plurality of websites and/or on the CAP website. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082781 | NETWORK CONNECTIVITY - A method for managing a computer or communication network by obtaining connectivity configuration information from a plurality of networked devices; analyzing the connectivity configuration information from the plurality of networked devices; and, determining a state of connectivity between any two of the plurality of networked devices. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082782 | PROVIDING PERIPHERAL DEVICE ATTRIBUTES TO A CLIENT FOR SELECTION - In an embodiment, a process for automated peripheral device selection implemented by a network host, typically a server. A client accesses the host and requests information about a particular type of peripheral device a user of the client desires to access. In response to the client's request, the host provides the client with a composite list of available attributes associated with the particular type of peripheral device requested by the client. The user selects the desired attributes for the type of peripheral device requested. The process for automated peripheral device selection then selects a peripheral device which most closely matches the user's selected peripheral device attributes. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082783 | Platform discovery, asset inventory, configuration, and provisioning in a pre-boot environment using web services - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for initializing a common information model (CIM) broker and a SLP service agent of a system in a pre-boot environment, transmitting a multicast request and receiving a unicast advertisement from a directory agent, registering a web-based enterprise management (WBEM) service to the directory agent, and configuring, provisioning, and/or performing asset inventory of the system in the pre-boot environment responsive to information from a resource manager. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082784 | System and method for simplified resource sharing - Systems, methods, and devices for simplified resource-sharing with electronic devices are provided. For example, a method for using at least one resource of a variety of electronic devices from another electronic device may include receiving resource-sharing information associated with a resource-sharing electronic device via near field communication, determining a resource-sharing scheme for using the resources of the resource-sharing electronic device based on the resource-sharing information, and sharing at least one resource of the resource-sharing electronic device using the determined resource-sharing scheme. The resource-sharing information may be received from a near field communication interface of the resource-sharing electronic device or from a radio frequency identification tag associated with the resource-sharing electronic device. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082785 | USER INTERFACE IN DATA FORWARDING NETWORK - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for data forwarding storage. A user system communicates with a network of interconnected computer system nodes. The user system includes an input/output device including a user interface to initiate the sending of a request from the user system to store data on the network of nodes; to control at least one function of storage of the data in the network of nodes, wherein the data is continuously forwarded from one node memory to another node memory in the network without storing on any physical storage device in the network; and to display information regarding file storage in the network. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082786 | Communication system, terminal apparatus, recording medium which records program of terminal apparatus and content information acquiring method - When acquisition processing of content information starts, a terminal apparatus executes acquisition permission determination processing of content information where permission probability is increased along with a lapse of time from starting of the acquisition processing of the content information for every predetermined period. When a result of the determination processing allows the acquisition of the content information, the terminal apparatus acquires the content information from another terminal apparatus. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082787 | Global server load balancing - A global server load-balancing (GSLB) switch serves as a proxy to an authoritative DNS and communicates with numerous site switches that are coupled to host servers serving specific applications. The GSLB switch receives from site switches operational information regarding host servers within the site switches neighborhood. When a client program requests a resolution of a host name, the GSLB switch, acting as a proxy of an authoritative DNS, returns one or more ordered IP addresses for the host name. The IP addresses are ordered using metrics that include the information collected from the site switches. In one instance, the GSLB switch places the address that is deemed “best” at the top of the list. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082788 | PROVIDING IMPROVED MESSAGE HANDLING PERFORMANCE IN COMPUTER SYSTEMS UTILIZING SHARED NETWORK DEVICES - In a massively parallel computer system embodiment, when receiving a message at a compute node from an input/output node, the compute node performs the steps of: obtaining a lock on a collective network device; checking a shared storage location for a message pending for a thread; if such a message is pending, receiving the message's remaining packets directly to a user's buffer, unlocking, and returning; if no such message is pending, receiving one packet from the network device; if the packet indicates that the message is for the thread, receiving the message's remaining packets directly to the user's buffer, unlocking, and returning; and if the packet indicates that the message is for another thread, updating the shared storage location with a thread id of the other thread, unlocking, waiting for a time out, locking, and repeating from the checking step. Accordingly, data copying is eliminated with an attendant performance benefit. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082789 | IP ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING IP SERVICE IN A ZIGBEE NETWORK SYSTEM - A ZIGBEE® network system and a method for assigning an Internet Protocol (IP) address in a ZIGBEE® network system are provided. The ZIGBEE® network system includes a client device for joining a ZIGBEE® network and being assigned an IP address used for transmitting and receiving data; a server device for assigning the IP address to the client device; and a ZIGBEE® coordinator for forming the ZIGBEE® network, storing server profile information for each server device that has joined the formed ZIGBEE® network, receiving client profile information for the client device from the client device, and determining a server device that will assign an IP address to the client device, using the received client profile information. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082790 | SERVER SCANNING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A technique for quickly locating, diagnosing and fixing problems with one or more servers is presented. The technique improves upon prior art techniques by providing a centralized utility by which multiple servers may be viewed and modified. More particularly, the technique allows a user to view, in a consolidated format, features of multiple servers and to modify parameters of such servers from a remote location. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082791 | Data transmission over a network with channel bonding - A system that transmits data over multiple networks receives data packets at a client node and forms a plurality of data aggregates from the data packets. The system then sends a request for a duplicate transmission to a coordinator node on a first network. In response to the request, the system receives a first transmission slot on the first network and a second transmission slot on a second network for transmission of the data aggregates. The system then splits the data aggregates among the first transmission slot and the second transmission slot and transmits the data aggregates on the first transmission slot and the second transmission slot. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082792 | PLUG AND PLAY ENERGY EFFICIENCY SOLUTION AND AUTOMATIC DATA-PUSH METHOD FOR SAME - An energy efficiency solution for automatically pushing data measured by IEDs in a utility system to an Internet server. Before the utility system is commissioned, the manufacturer pre-configures each IED to automatically push measured data to the server at regular intervals and associates each IED with a unique identifier that is transmitted with the data and with a customer who has purchased the solution. After commissioning, the IEDs come online and begin to automatically push their measured data to the server. The customer logs into the website via a manufacturer-provided access code to access the measured data instantly. Requests to change the type of data pushed from IEDs and other configuration changes can be made via the website. Periodically, the IEDs ask whether any configuration updates exist, and if so, the server makes available to the IEDs the updated configuration. By having IEDs initiate communications for data transmission and configuration updates, intervening firewalls are bypassed. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082793 | Server-Embedded Distributed Storage System - A server-embedded distributed storage system and methods are disclosed. An exemplary method may include presenting at least one virtual disk to a client computing device. The at least one virtual disk includes storage cells from direct attached storage (DAS) devices of a plurality of separate servers for high availability access to data stored on the at least one virtual disk. The method may also include continuing to provide access to the data stored on the at least one virtual disk even in the event an internal storage controller for at least one of the plurality of servers is unavailable for managing its DAS device. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082794 | HOME NETWORK VISUALIZATION - Intuitive visualization of a home network is provided by providing on screen images of devices in the network around an image of the TV, and by establishing sizes, motion, and other visualization features of the images to reflect selections, bandwidths, different sub-networks, etc. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082795 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - An information processor is connectable to a communication system containing a plurality of terminal devices. The information processor receives content holding terminal information for identifying a terminal device holding a content, calculates a content holding terminal number corresponding to the number of terminal devices holding the content on the basis of the received content holding terminal information, holds a determination reference serving as a reference for determining whether the content holding terminal number is below a predetermined threshold value, determines on the basis of the content holding terminal number calculated by the terminal number calculator and the determination reference whether the content holding terminal number concerned is below the predetermined threshold value, and transmits an extinction preventing instruction for making the terminal device holding the content concerned execute processing of preventing extinction of the content when determining that the content holding terminal number is below the predetermined threshold value. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082796 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - The signaling amount for acquisition of home addresses (HoA) and handover over the radio leg is reduced in a case where a mobile node (MN) requires multiple different communication IP addresses (Home address: HoA) for respective services. An AAA server holds service identifiers of all the services provided for the mobile node (MN) and home agent (HA) information, in addition to authentication information of the mobile node (MN). The AAA server also registers, for all the services provided for the mobile node (MN), an association of home addresses (HoA) used by the mobile node (MN) for the respective communication services with IP addresses (care-of address: CoA) having information of a network in which the mobile node (MN) resides, into the home agents (HA) associated with the corresponding service identifiers. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082797 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM USED THEREIN - A communication system includes an information processing apparatus and a communication apparatus. The information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to acquire a file that indicates feed location information and a title of a feed to be acquired in accordance with the feed location information. The controller controls the display to display at least one of the feed location information described in the file and the title described in the file, and to display at least one of the feed location information registered in a device management unit and the title registered in the device management unit. Moreover the controller registers, into the device management unit, feed location information or feed location information corresponding to a title displayed on the first portion of the display, which is specified by the user. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082798 | VIRTUAL UNIVERSE AVATAR ACTIVITIES REVIEW - Methods, services, program products and devices are provided for tracking avatar activities within a virtual universe domain. A proximity threshold of an avatar is defined with respect to proximity to an artifact located within a virtual universe domain. Activity by the avatar within the virtual universe domain is tracked, with activity data generated from the tracking. The activity data is analyzed to determine proximity of the avatar to the artifact within the proximity threshold, and a report is generated from the analyzing, the report noting a determined proximity of the avatar to the artifact within the proximity threshold. In one aspect, the report is provided to a supervisory entity. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082799 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING NETWORK CONNECTIONS IN A SOFTWARE PROVISIONING ENVIRONMENT - A provisioning server can manage network connections in the software provisioning environment. The provisioning server can maintain a network record of network configurations for the networks served by the provisioning server. The network record can include information describing the structure, hardware, software, and configuration of the networks served by the provisioning server. The provisioning server can manage and configure existing networks and instantiate new networks or sub-networks associated with the provisioning server. The network configuration module can retrieve the network configurations maintained in the network record to manage, configure, and instantiate existing or new networks. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082800 | CLASSIFICATION AND CLUSTER ANALYSIS SPAM DETECTION AND REDUCTION - Multiple features of email traffic are analyzed and extracted. Feature vectors comprising the multiple features are created and cluster analysis is utilized to track spam generation even from dynamically changing or aliased IP addresses. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082801 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK TO RECOMMEND BEST MODE FOR USER COMMUNICATION - The present disclosure generally provides techniques and apparatuses for producing, for an initiating end user, a recommended mode of communication corresponding to a targeted end user in a network environment, based on a plurality of network accessible or determinable inputs. For example, the identity of an initiating end user, the identity of a targeted end user, the current activity of the targeted end user, the communication preferences of the targeted end user, information from available databases, and other available or determinable data may be used by a contact liaison to produce a recommended mode of communication. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082802 | Stabilization of distributed systems - One or more embodiments, described herein, are directed towards a technology for analyzing a distributed system in order to determine one or more inconsistencies placing the distributed system in an unstable state. Once the one or more inconsistencies are determined, one or more operations reconciling the inconsistencies are defined in order to stabilize the distributed system. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082803 | FLEXIBLE COMPLIANCE AGENT WITH INTEGRATED REMEDIATION - A flexible compliance system is described herein that provides a deployable meta-agent and automated remediation of computer system compliance failures based on configurable compliance rules. An administrator defines one or more rules that represent compliance elements that the flexible compliance system will enforce. The flexible compliance system reads the rules defined by the administrator like a flexible set of conditions to check, and correlates the outcome of the conditions to the rules. The flexible compliance system may take various actions with respect to a computer system in violation of a rule, including attempting to resolve the violation or quarantining the computer system to avoid interaction with other computer systems. Administrators can use the flexible compliance system to define these and many other types of actions to automatically remediate non-compliant computer systems and protect the health of the organization's resources. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082804 | MEASURED CLIENT EXPERIENCE FOR COMPUTER NETWORK - Routing network traffic on a computer network is described. In one embodiment, a method is presented which includes transmitting instructions to a client, the instructions executable by the client to request content from two or more content servers, measure two or more network performance characteristics associated with the two or more different content servers, and issue a report to an administrative server. The report may include a first network performance characteristic and a second network performance characteristic. The method may further include selecting a target content server from one of two or more content servers based on comparison of the two or more network performance characteristics; and transmitting routing instructions to an intermediate routing system, the routing instructions executable by the intermediate routing system to direct subsequent content requests transmitted by the client to the target content server. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082805 | MICROCONTROLLER NETWORK DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM - A network diagnostic device is provided, which comprises a passive real-time measurement tool that is useful for, among other things, expediting fault identification, isolation, and repair of a communication network or bus. The device also facilitates prediction of failures by identifying marginal operating conditions. The device analyzes data flowing through the communication network, including through an analysis of variations in bit waveform shape carried by the network physical interconnect media. In one embodiment, an implementation of the network diagnostic device is particularly useful in a DeviceNet-compatible network or, more generally, a Controller Area Network (CAN). The device identifies faults by comparing measurements made on the actual DeviceNet bus with worst-case acceptable criteria. The device interfaces with a remote monitoring computer via an Ethernet compatible medium to display parsed bit-level waveforms, network warnings and errors, as well as an overall network health index. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082806 | STORAGE NETWORK SYSTEM, MANAGING APPARATUS, MANAGING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A storage network system includes computers, storage systems, connection devices that control connection relations between the computers and the storage system, and a managing device that manages the computers, the storage system and the connection devices. The managing device includes a control section that specifies connection ports of the computers, the storage system and the connection devices that compose the storage network system. Further, the control device of the managing device displays on a display section a data traffic amount at each of the connection ports for each connection path from the computer to the storage system. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082807 | CONTINUITY CHECK METHOD, MAINTENANCE END POINT AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A continuity check method includes the following steps. A maintenance domain (MD) group is maintained in a network, in which the MD group includes a plurality of maintenance end points (MEPs) in the network, and an MD group information base is configured, and the MD group information base stores information about the plurality of MEPs. According to the information stored in the MD group information base, a continuity check message is initiated, and then, the continuity in the network is determined according to information returned from the plurality of MEPs in the MD. An MEP network system is further provided. Through the method and the system, no mis-check of the continuity will occur when the MEPs in the MD group initiate the continuity check. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082808 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DELIVERING RELEVANT INTERNET CONTENT - This invention discloses a system and method for automatically delivering relevant Internet content to a browser, the system comprises a webpage embedded with a generic pixel tag stored in a first server, the generic pixel tag being configured to cause a retrieval of at least one predetermined attribute of the webpage from a browser that is viewing the webpage; and a rule engine residing in a second server for determining one or more Internet contents based on the predetermined attribute for being sent to the browser, wherein linkages between the webpage and the one or more Internet contents are not hard coded in the webpage. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082809 | Network system, information processing device, information processing method, and recording medium - A network system is provided in which a plurality of information processing devices are mutually connected through a network. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082810 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING A COMMUNICATION SESSION - A method and system for transferring an ongoing communication session from one application server (AS) to another is described. Multiple ASs are monitored and serviced by a Transfer Management Module (TMM). Each of the ASs serves a different network and each network includes various end devices. During an ongoing communication session, whether the session is to continue using the current AS is determined based on a set of rules. If the session is to be transferred, an alternative AS that provides the same application as the current AS is selected using a set of conditions. Upon selection of the alternative AS, the current AS transfers the control and/or media state of the ongoing session for one to all users through the TMM to the selected AS, and the session is continued. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082811 | Filtering unwanted data traffic via a per-customer blacklist - Traffic flow from a traffic source with a source IP address to a customer system with a destination IP address is filtered by comparing the source IP address to a customer blacklist. If the source IP address is on the customer blacklist, then traffic to the customer system is blocked; else, traffic to the customer system is allowed. The customer blacklist is generated from a network blacklist, comprising IP addresses of unwanted traffic sources, and a customer whitelist, comprising IP addresses of wanted traffic sources. The customer blacklist is generated by removing from the network blacklist any IP address also on the customer whitelist. The network blacklist is generated by acquiring raw blacklists from reputation systems. IP addresses on the raw blacklists are sorted by prefix groups, which are rank ordered by traffic frequency. Top prefix groups are selected for the network blacklist. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082812 | RAPID RESOURCE PROVISIONING WITH AUTOMATED THROTTLING - Resources are rapidly provisioned using a repeatable, error free deployment technique. The technique includes an automatic throttle of a build management node to conform to existing network limitations in order to maximize the number of build operations which can be performed concurrently, while queuing up remaining requests to be executed, in response to sufficient network bandwidth becoming available. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082813 | Multiple Parallel User Experiences Provided By a Single Set of Internet Hosting Machines - This disclosure describes techniques of using a hosting device to provide multiple versions of a single web application. As described in detail below, the hosting device stores resources associated with different versions of the web application in different subdirectories. When the hosting device receives a request associated with the web application, the hosting device automatically identifies one of the versions of the web application as an applicable version of the web application. The hosting device rewrites a pathname in the request to include a subdirectory name of the subdirectory that stores the applicable version of the web application. The hosting device then dereferences the resource identified by the rewritten pathname. In this way, the hosting device uses the resources of the applicable version of the web application to process the request. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082814 | SELF-ARBITRATED RESOURCES FOR INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS - An industrial control system is provided. The system includes two or more industrial control resources that are employed to operate a control process. This includes at least one arbitration component installed with each of the industrial control resources, where the arbitration component is employed to resolve priorities between the industrial control resources. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082815 | Assignment And Failover Of Resources - Included are embodiments for assignment and failover of resources. More specifically, at least one embodiment of a method includes assigning, to a user of an access device ( | 2010-04-01 |
20100082816 | VIRTUALIZE, CHECKPOINT, AND RESTART POSIX IPC OBJECTS DURING CHECKPOINTING AND RESTARTING OF A SOFTWARE PARTITION - A WPAR is migrated. Responsive to starting a checkpoint process, data and control information is collected and stored for IPC objects in the WPAR. Responsive to receiving a request to restart the WPAR, a type of IPC object is determined. Responsive to a determination that the IPC object is not an IPC shared memory object, a kernel handle that a process wants to be used for a new IPC object is registered. A request to create a new IPC object comprising a name uniquely associated with the IPC object and a WPAR identifier is issued. An entry that matches the name and WPAR identifier is identified and a virtual kernel handle is retrieved. The new IPC object is created. The virtual kernel handle is mapped to a real kernel handle and returned to the process. Data and control information is retrieved and overlaid onto the new IPC object. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082817 | METHOD OF DISPATCHING APPLICATION MESSAGES - A method for dispatching a plurality of messages incoming into a dispatching server, each incoming message being issued by a source application and targeted to at least a destination application, the source application, the destination application and the dispatching server residing within a server-client network. The method includes the steps of defining a maximum rate of incoming messages per second, choosing an appropriate message rate reduction policy out of a first and of a second message rate reduction policy, starting a process which periodically determines a current rate of incoming messages per second, dispatching the message in case the current rate is smaller than the maximum rate, activating the appropriate message rate reduction policy in case the current rate of incoming messages is higher than the maximum rate, monitoring a result of the process and adapting a totality of parameters for the appropriate message rate reduction in case the current rate of incoming messages has dropped below the maximum rate. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082818 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF DATA IN A DATA NETWORK - A dynamic data management and distribution system to interact with network computing devices of a user is provided. The user has memory allocated in the system. The system includes an ingest module for automatically uploading content from every network computing device and storing the content in the memory allocated to the user. Further, the system includes a sourcing module to retrieve information from user subscribed external information management services and storing the information in the allocated memory. The system includes a share module to share data with one or more users from a contact list of the user. Data includes part or whole of the information and content. The system also includes a self adaptive module, for proactively transferring data to one or more users from the contact list of the user based on the past behavior of the user. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082819 | NETWORK BRIDGING APPARATUS FOR STORAGE DEVICE AND DATA STREAM TRANSMITTING METHOD THEREOF - A network bridging apparatus for a storage device and a data stream transmitting method thereof are provided. More particularly, a chip embedded with ATA over Ethernet (AoE) technology is incorporated into the network bridging apparatus. By which the independent-external storage device can be shared over a network. According to a preferred embodiment, a bridging module having the technology of AoE is included for converting either network packets or data being compatible with some standard data transmission formats. Preferably, one end of the apparatus is equipped with a network interface unit for connecting to the network, and further, the other end of the network bridging apparatus is connected to a storage device via a transmission interface. Therefore, the storage device using a standard transmission interface, such as USB, IEEE1394. eSATA or the like, can be shared with other computer systems within the local area network. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082820 | System and Method for Off Route Processing - A system and method for off route processing is disclosed. The system and method can be used to provide information when an off route condition occurs. The system and method can include provisions to make modifications in the way navigation information is displayed. The system and method can also provide a selectable re-route mode and selectable re-route information. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082821 | Device-to-device workflows - Systems, methods, and devices are provided for performing a workflow with two or more electronic devices. Embodiments include an initiator electronic device that may function to control the workflow and send instructions for executing the workflow to a target electronic device. The initiator device may generate instructions for the workflow based on properties received from the target device. The instructions generated by the initiator may allow both devices to accomplish a shared goal, such as exchanging contact information. In some embodiments, the initiator device may include a graphical user interface for creating workflows, downloading workflows from a web service, and entering preferences governing the performance of the workflows. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082822 | TECHNIQUE FOR REALIZING HIGH RELIABILITY IN INTER-APPLICATION COMMUNICATION - A storage medium storing a program, in inter-application communication that is performed between a first application operating on a first node and a second application operating on a second node, for making the first node perform processes by transmitting a same packet simultaneously to all the communication paths, the processes including: a trouble monitoring session establishing process in which, whether or not a trouble monitoring session has already been established between a first communication control unit and a second communication control unit is checked; an inter-application communication session establishing process in which, a request for establishing the inter-application communication session is performed to the second application and the inter-application communication session is established; and a trouble monitoring communication process in which trouble monitoring communication is performed using only necessary information for trouble monitoring in the trouble monitoring session and at a shorter interval than an interval between retransmission processes. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082823 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEPARATING HTTP SESSION - A method and system for separating hypertext transfer protocol session. The method includes: detecting at the client a condition that a server is to be requested to instantiate same application during same hypertext transfer protocol session; obtaining from the server another hypertext transfer protocol session identifier corresponding to a service instance to be instantiated and setting the hypertext transfer protocol session identifier in the current session as a hypertext transfer protocol session identifier corresponding to a service instance that is to communicate with the server. The system includes: a session manager configured to detect a condition that a server will be requested to instantiate an application during a current HTTP session and a session agent configured to: (i) obtain from the server a second HTTP session identifier and (ii) set the second HTTP session identifier in the current session as a HTTP session identifier. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082824 | PROGRAM NETWORK RECORDING METHOD, MEDIA PROCESSING SERVER AND NETWORK RECORDING SYSTEM - A program network recording method is provided. The method includes setting up a session control channel and a media transport channel with a user terminal, receiving media control information from the user terminal via the session control channel, receiving media data collected and transmitted in real time by the user terminal via the media transport channel, and executing a recording operation on the media data according to the media control information. A media processing system and network recording system are also provided for implementing at least portions of the provided method. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082825 | INTEGRATING ENTERPRISE IDENTITY AUTHORIZATION IN CONFERENCES - Disclosed herein are embodiments for validating a user joining a conferencing session. According to various embodiments, a first identifier is received. A user is identified from a plurality of users based at least in part on the first identifier. A second identifier is received that corresponds to the first identifier and the user and the user is validated based on both the first identifier and the second identifier. The user may then join the conferencing session, with the user's identity being revealed to others attending the conferencing session. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082826 | NETWORK AUTHORIZATION METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF - A network authorization method is disclosed. The network authorization method includes the following steps. After a third server receives a client account from a client, the third server generates and replies a client session ID to the client. Transmit the client session ID to the client. After the client transmits a log-in session ID to a service server, receive the log-in session ID from the service server. Compare the client session ID with the log-in session ID. When the client session ID is the same with the log-in session ID, transmit an authorized signal to the service server to make the service server allow the client to log in. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082827 | Method and apparatus for access to a computer unit - A computer unit ( | 2010-04-01 |
20100082828 | NODE REPUTATION BASED ON KNOWLEDGE OF PSTN CALLS - A system may provide trust relationship information for a telephone number, where the trust relationship information may indicate whether one or more nodes consider a target node as including or as being associated with a VoIP call agent for the telephone number based on demonstrated knowledge of a PSTN call. The system may determine a target trust relationship to the target node based on the trust relationship information, where the target trust relationship indicates a level of trust a validating node has in the target node being associated with or including the VoIP call agent for the telephone number, and where validating node and the one or more nodes may be in different respective administrative domains of a network. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082829 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PEER-TO-PEER WIDE AREA NETWORK COMMUNICATION - A method of operating a peer to facilitate fast group communication between subscribers in a peer-to-peer wide area network is disclosed. In the peer-to-peer wide area network, each of the subscribers are affiliated to a talkgroup, and further registered to at least one peer within the peer-to-peer wide area network. In operation, the peer exchanges messages with other peers to determine that one or more peers listed in a talkgroup topology is still active. When the peer receives a media for a talkgroup from a subscriber affiliated to the talkgroup, the peer duplicates the media for the talkgroup, and unicasts the duplicate media to the one or more peers that are listed as active in the talkgroup topology to enable the one or more peers to deliver the media to the respectively registered subscribers affiliated to the talkgroup. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082830 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MESSAGES USING PLUGGABLE PROTOCOL PROCESSORS IN A SERVICE-ORIENTED PIPELINE ARCHITECTURE - A computer-implemented system and method for processing messages using pluggable protocol processors in a service-oriented pipeline architecture is disclosed. The method in an example embodiment includes receiving a message having a protocol-specific portion and a protocol-agnostic portion; determining a protocol compatible with the received message; activating one of a plurality of pluggable protocol processors compatible with the received message; processing the protocol-specific portion of the received message using the activated pluggable protocol processor; and processing the protocol-agnostic portion of the received message using a message processing pipeline, the message processing pipeline including a plurality of stages for processing the protocol-agnostic portion of the received message. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082831 | LOADABLE AND MODULAR CONDITIONAL ACCESS APPLICATION - A CAS device receives streaming media content encrypted utilizing a CAS, decrypts the received streaming media content utilizing a CAS module associated with the CAS, and transmits the unencrypted streaming media content to a rendering device. The CAS device may be operable to receive and store an additional CAS module associated with an additional CAS. The CAS device may also be operable to receive unencrypted streaming media content, encrypt the streaming media content utilizing a CAS module, and transmit the encrypted streaming media content. In another embodiment, the CAS device receives streaming media content encrypted utilizing a first CAS, decrypts the received streaming media content utilizing a first CAS module, transmits the unencrypted streaming media content from the first CAS module to a second CAS module, encrypts the unencrypted streaming media content utilizing the second CAS module, and transmits the encrypted streaming media content to a rendering device. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082832 | STREAM LOGGING OUTPUT VIA WEB BROWSER - Methods and apparatus for transmitting stream logging data via a web browser are disclosed. A client device that implements a web browser may open a time-limited socket that remains open for a predetermined period of time. The client opens a socket to a server for bidirectional communication, which the server can transmit data across. The server sends streaming logging data to the client via the client-side socket and server side socket. Upon occurrence of an event, the server sends instructions that cause the client to keep the client-side socket open. Upon receipt of the instructions from the server the client resets a timer associated with the time-limited client side socket to keep the client-side socket open for an additional predetermined period of time. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082833 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CONTENT REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An electronic apparatus includes a reception section, a buffer section, a reproduction section, an operation reception section, a transmission section, and a control section. The reception section receives data of a content transmitted through streaming from a transmission apparatus. The buffer section buffers the received data. The reproduction section successively reads out and reproduces the buffered data. The operation reception section receives a pause operation and a resume operation regarding reproduction of the data. The transmission section transmits, in response to the pause operation and the resume operation, a pause request and a resume request regarding the reproduction to the transmission apparatus. The control section controls the buffer means to discard data overlapping data received after the resume request among the data buffered by the buffer means and buffer data identical to the discarded data, that is received after the resume request. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082834 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication network are provided, in which a terminal includes a transmitter for determining a video rate using at least one of collected radio channel information and a streaming parameter received from a corresponding terminal, converting video data included in multimedia data to video streaming data using the determined video rate, and transmitting streaming data including the video streaming data, and a receiver for receiving a streaming parameter as a feedback for the transmitted streaming data from the corresponding terminal. | 2010-04-01 |
20100082835 | Methods for Transmitting Multimedia Files and Advertisements - The invention is directed to a method of transmitting a file having an advertising portion and a requested portion different from the advertising portion. The method includes receiving a request to transmit the file, via a streaming protocol allowing non-sequential access, transmitting the advertising portion of the file, receiving a request to transmit a portion of the requested portion of the file prior to completing transmitting the advertising portion of the file, completing the transmission of the advertising portion of the file, and transmitting the requested portion of the file. | 2010-04-01 |