18th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 62 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090112981 | Database end-user identifier - A user identifier relay, comprising control logic adapted to relay an identifier of an application server user to a database associated with said application server, wherein said relay is performed via a transaction request from said application server to said database. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112982 | Automatic management of associations between users - Automatically associating users of a communication system, without using an invitation or affirmative permission. In one embodiment, a first user submits contact information about a second user to a relationship system, which stores the information in the first user's contact list. Similarly, a second user submits contact information about the first user to the relationship system, which stores the information in the second user's contact list. The relationship system detects the cross reference in the two contact lists, and stores a first degree relationship between the two users. One of the users submits a request to the relationship system to enable an operation with any other user that was associated with the submitting user. Associations can also be selectively higher degrees with other users. The submitting user need not know which other users will participate in the operation, and the other users need not know the submitting user's identity. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112983 | FLOOR CONTROL IN A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM | 2009-04-30 |
20090112984 | MEETING INVITATION PROCESSING IN A CALENDARING SYSTEM - Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, an apparatus and a computer program product for meeting invitation processing in a calendaring system. In one embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises receiving a meeting invitation request from a user, wherein the meeting invitation includes a set of attributes and analyzing the set of attributes of the meeting invitation request. The computer implemented method further comprises selecting a process from a set of predefined processes comprising a pending meeting indicator process, a multiple meeting display process, an availability probability process, and a prioritized list process to create a selected process, and selectively modifying the selected process to create a modified process. The computer implemented method then invoking the modified process to process the meeting invitation request, and notifying the user. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112985 | SUPPORTING SERENDIPITOUS GROUP INTERACTION BASED ON USER ACTIVITIES - The disclosed functionality enables non-sessions users of an activity session to be provided awareness of the session. The non-sessions users are made aware of the session and can then choose to join (or not join) the session in an ad hoc manner based on the exposed session information. This functionality encourages serendipitous group interactions (or participations) that might not otherwise occur, does not require that all relevant and/or interested people be identified, and removes the overhead of explicitly inviting everyone who might be interested in the activity and managing responses received from each of the users. Rather than requiring an explicit invitation to join as in conventional applications systems, users can implicitly invite friends to join an activity. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112986 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PUBLISHING AND SUBSCRIBING TO CALENDAR EVENTS INFORMATION VIA CATEGORICAL MAPPING METHODOLOGY - A system, method and program product for publishing and subscribing to calendar events publication are disclosed. In one aspect, method and system for providing a publication of calendar events for one or more computer-based devices having a calendaring system capable of operation therein, is disclosed. The method and system comprises defining one or more calendar publication definitions. The definitions comprise an identifier for the publication and a set of criteria for qualifying calendar events from a calendar database for inclusion in and/or exclusion from the publication. The method and system include activating a publication agent for processing each publication definition by applying the qualifying criteria to the calendar database to create a subset of qualified calendar events from the calendar database to be included in the publication. Furthermore, the method and system include aggregating the qualified calendar events into a single identifiable calendar publication making the calendar publication available. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112987 | Method and system for establishing commonality between members in an online community - A method, system and computer program product for establishing commonality between a plurality of members and deriving an opinion of a dignitary on one or more issues in an online community is disclosed. A questioner poses a questionnaire, which includes one or more questions on the issues in the online community. The method includes receiving one or more responses to the questions from the members. The responses are processed to derive the attributes of each of the members. A commonality indicator indicating a commonality between the members is derived based on the attributes of the members. Further, a normalcy indicator between a member and the plurality of members is derived. Further, the opinion of the dignitary is derived based on the responses of the plurality of members. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112988 | METHOD AND INSTANTANEOUS MESSAGING SYSTEM FOR MOBILE TERMINALS EQUIPPED WITH A VIRTUAL PRESENCE SERVER ALLOWING AN INSTANTANEOUS MESSAGING SESSION TO BE MANAGED AUTOMATICALLY - The invention relates to an instantaneous messaging system for mobile terminals comprising one or several instantaneous messaging servers (S | 2009-04-30 |
20090112989 | TRUST-BASED RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS - Systems and methods that analyze aggregated item evaluation behavior of users, to suggest a recommendation for the item. An analysis component forms a collective opinion by taking as input votes of users and trusted relationships established therebetween, to output an evaluation and/or recommendation for the item. Accordingly, within a linked structure of nodes, personalized recommendations to users (e.g., agents) are supplied about an item(s) based upon the opinions/reviews of other users, and in conjunction with the declared trust between the users. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112990 | PRIVATE VIEWS OF DATA AND LOCAL CALCULATIONS DURING REAL TIME COLLABORATION - Techniques for performing a process during a real time collaboration by multiple users or clients on a spreadsheet file are disclosed herein which may permit calculations to be performed locally by at least one of the clients. By doing so, increases in performance are realized since only data updates need to be provided to the host machine. As such, a determination is preferably made whether calculations performed locally can result in different data. If conflicting data is a possibility, then the calculations for the spreadsheet file will usually be performed remotely by a host machine. If not, then each client capable of doing so will perform the calculations locally and then provide only the updated data to the host machine. The determination of whether to perform the calculations locally or not may also be made dynamically, such as when one or more new formulas are added to the spreadsheet file. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112991 | INSTANT CONVERSATION IN A THREAD OF AN ONLINE DISCUSSION FORUM - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to discussion forum management and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant conversations in a thread within a discussion forum. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for instant conversations in a thread within a discussion forum can be provided. The method can include providing a discussion forum and initiating a thread in the discussion forum and measuring a temporal proximity of postings between two or more users in the thread. In response to determining a close temporal proximity, an instant messaging session can be launched between the two or more users and entries in the instant messaging session can be inserted as responses to the thread in the discussion form. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112992 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REQUEST PROCESSING - The invention relates to a method for request processing. The method includes receiving an asynchronous request for a shared context from a first client, where a second client is subscribed to the shared context. The method further includes receiving a modification of the shared context from the second client and, determining, in response to receiving the modification, that the modification matches a criteria specified in a first request filter, where the first request filter is one of a number of request filters associated with the shared context. The method further includes obtaining the first request filter and after determining that a first condition specified in the first request filter is satisfied, initiating the transmission of the modification to the first client, where the modification is displayed at the first client. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112993 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING COMMUNICATION AMONG USERS - A system, method and computer program product for supporting communication among users. The system includes a storage device for storing, a search unit for searching, and a selection unit for reading and then selecting a communication means to be used in the communication between the first and second users. The method and computer program product for supporting communication among users includes the steps of searching, reading and then selecting a communication means to be used in the communication between the first and second users. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112994 | METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATING EMAIL RECIPIENT FIELDS IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device and a method implemented within the electronic device for disambiguating email recipient fields by extracting sufficient information from the domain portion of an intended recipient's email address to disambiguate between a personal and a business email address. An exemplary method includes parsing at least one of said multiple addresses in a recipient field of the email to extract information capable of distinguishing the at least one of said multiple addresses from at least another of the multiple addresses, and displaying the information in the recipient field of the email. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112995 | E-MAIL AND FILE TRACKER - A method, system, and computer program product for tracking e-mail and e-mail attachment usage information is provided. A request to track an e-mail is received. The recipients of the e-mail are determined. E-mail usage information for the e-mail is determined for each recipient. A determination is made as to whether the e-mail comprises at least one attachment. Responsive to a determination that the e-mail comprises at least one attachment, attachment usage information for the at least one attachment is determined for each recipient. Recipients are grouped based on a location of each recipient. Path information for the e-mail is generated. Data, comprising the e-mail usage information, the attachment usage information, the path information, and grouping information, is sent to a remote data processing system. A visual representation of the data is displayed at the remote data processing system. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112996 | Determining Presence Status of End User Associated with Multiple Access Terminals - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving presence data associated with a plurality of access terminals associated with an end user. The method includes combining the presence data associated with the end user. The method includes associating a single presence status with the end user based on the combined presence data. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112997 | Utilizing Presence Data Associated with Web Item - In one embodiment, a method includes subscribing to a web item, extracting presence data from the web item, receiving the presence data originating from the web item. The method includes updating status associated with the web item based on the presence data and displaying the updated status associated with the web item. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112998 | Method and Apparatus for Controlling Dissemination of Enterprise Information - Information dissemination in an electronic messaging system is controlled by presenting, to a user, first and second user-action elements. The first element is indicative of whether the first message is to be sent to all recipients in the first distribution list, while the second element is indicative of whether the message is to be sent to a subgroup of the recipients in the first distribution list. If the second element is activated, any recipients that are not also included in a pre-defined set of the recipients are removed from the first distribution list to obtain a second distribution list. If the first element is activated, the message is sent to recipients in the first distribution list. If the second element is activated, the message is sent to recipients in the second distribution list. In one embodiment the first element is a ‘Reply All’ button and the second element is a ‘Reply Subgroup’ button. | 2009-04-30 |
20090112999 | System and Method for Handling E-Mail Attachments in Data Processing Systems - A system and method for handling e-mail attachments in a data processing system. A client receives at least one message in a message database stored in a system memory, wherein the at least one message includes at least one attached file. The client displays a main preview of the at least one message, wherein the main preview of the at least one message includes an indicia that represents the at least one attached file. The client expands the main preview of the at least one message into a first sub-preview and a second sub-preview, wherein the first sub-preview represents the at least one message, and wherein the second sub-preview represents the at least one attached file. The client selects the second sub-preview to perform a function on the at least one attached file independent of the at least one message. The client performs the function on the at least one attached file independent of the at least one message. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113000 | METHOD FOR REQUESTING THE TERMINATION OF A COMMUNICATION SESSION | 2009-04-30 |
20090113001 | PRE-SEND EVALUATON OF E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS - A system for identifying attributes associated with content of an e-mail message and alerting a user includes a client device programmed to allow a user to create an e-mail message including at least one recipient and a message content, a server programmed to check an attribute of the e-mail message, and to send the e-mail message, and one or more information stores in communication with the server, the information stores including information about the e-mail message. The server is programmed to query the information stores to obtain information about the e-mail message as the message is being composed by the user, and the server sends a mail tip to the client regarding the e-mail message. The client is programmed to provide the mail tip to the user, the mail tip being formatted and positioned by the client so that it is integrated within a header section of the e-mail message. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113002 | Electronic Message Attachment Options - Included are embodiments for providing an attachment for a message. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving a message from a sender, the message configured to be sent to at least one recipient, the message including an attachment and determining whether the at least one recipient is designated to receive the attachment. Some embodiments include determining a desired attachment representation for the attachment and in response to determining a desired attachment representation for the attachment, sending the message for delivery to the at least one recipient. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113003 | IMAGE SPAM FILTERING BASED ON SENDERS' INTENTION ANALYSIS - Systems and methods for an anti-spam detection module that can detect image spam are provided. According to one embodiment, an image spam detection process involves determining and measuring various characteristics of images that may be embedded within or otherwise associated with an electronic mail (email) message. An approximate display location of the embedded images is determined. The existence of one or more abnormal factors associated with the embedded images is identified. A quantity of text included in the one or more embedded images is determined and measured by analyzing one or more blocks of binarized representations of the one or more embedded images. Finally, the likelihood that the email message is spam is determined based on one or more of the approximate display location, the existence of one or more abnormal factors and the quantity and location of text measured. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113004 | System and method for distributing electronic information - The present system for distributing electronic information includes a central email client connected to an email sending server, the central email client connected to an addressee's computer operating an addressee's email client connected to a email receiving server, the email sending server and the email receiving server utilizing a common email system protocol to send an email over the network; and a first selectable link displayed on the email, the first selectable link associated with an Internet portal containing one of a second selectable link and a first set of information categories, the second selectable link and the first set of information categories stored on an Internet server connected to the network, the second selectable link and the first set of information categories displayed to the addressee's computer when the first selectable link is selected. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113005 | Systems and methods for controlling pre-communications interactions - The present invention can permit a communications request initiator to control pre-communications interactions. For example, the present invention can permit a communications request initiator to instruct a recipient communications device to present specific information to a communications request recipient when the initiator sends the communications request to the recipient. The present invention also can permit a communications request initiator to control the information presented to the initiator when he is waiting for a communications request recipient to respond to the communications request. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113006 | Method and apparatus for mutual exchange of sensitive personal information between users of an introductory meeting website - Methods for simultaneous exchange of sensitive personal information between two unrelated parties are disclosed, such as between two users of an online networking website or introductory meeting website, the information being mutually accessible to both users upon exchange. The invention allows for exchange of sensitive personal information between two parties only if both parties indicate a willingness to participate in such exchange. A host data server facilitates information exchanges, otherwise protecting the sensitive personal information. This invention is particularly useful for online dating websites, where the sensitive personal information may include personal photographs or phone numbers. In preferred embodiments, the exchange of sensitive personal information occurs simultaneously, and the sensitive personal information can be simultaneously presented to the two parties. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113007 | METHOD AND INSTANTANEOUS MESSAGING SYSTEM FOR MOBILE TERMINALS EQUIPPED WITH A VIRTUAL PRESENCE SERVER CONFIGURED TO MANAGE DIFFERENT CONTACT LISTS OF A SINGLE USER - The invention relates to an instantaneous messaging system for mobile terminals comprising one or several instantaneous messaging service servers (S | 2009-04-30 |
20090113008 | Systems and Methods to Exchange Patient Information and to Set Up and Trigger Healthcare Alerts - Systems and methods for sending health care alerts or reminders to patients, such as a reminder to visit the doctor, be vaccinated, or undergo a therapy. The alerts and reminders may be delivered to the patient's cell phone, PDA, or computer, for example. The system manages information of patients and/or caregivers who are eligible for a vaccine or therapy, but have not contacted their health care professional yet for an appointment or taken the vaccine. The system serves to increase the number of patients who will undertake a desired action to which the alert/reminder was directed, such as getting a vaccine, visiting the doctor, or obtaining the remainder of one's therapy, medication, or vaccine. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113009 | 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 to the environment. A device of the environment has a first transmitter and receiver for communicating with other devices, such as a notification device within the environment. In the instance where a notification device is located remotely, the device of the environment may also include a second transmitter and receiver for communicating with the remotely located notification device through a remote communications transport. A memory stores interaction rules and translation rules, and a processor implements the interaction rules and translation rules to establish interaction with the notification device. Methods may involve detecting a change of state at a device and then communicating with the notification device in accordance with the interaction rules and translation rules thereafter. Methods may also involve directing a message from a notification device to a device of the environment, such as through the remote communication transport, and then communicating from the device of the environment to additional devices. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113010 | Image Transmission System - Upon accepting, from a user B, a new registration of a configuration showing that the user B wishes to receive data via a FAX, a server sets a notification flag to an address book of a user A which includes an address of the user B. Upon accepting a login of the user A, an MFP displays a message to notify the user A of the new registration by the user B, based on the notification flag. The user A, who has notified of the new registration, can transmit the data to the user B with use of the new registration configured by the user B, namely via a FAX. Accordingly, the user B can receive the data via a FAX as the user B wishes. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113011 | Image processing system, image processing apparatus, mail server, and method of sending email - An image processing system includes an image processing apparatus and a mail server connected to the image processing apparatus through a network. The image processing apparatus includes a first communication unit for receiving a normal reception command from the mail server indicating that the mail server normally receives an email; and an invalidation request command generation unit for generating an invalidation request command for requesting invalidation of the email when the invalidation request command generation unit receives a direction for requesting invalidation of the email sent to the mail server after the first communication unit receives the normal reception command. The mail server includes a second communication unit for sending the normal reception command to the image processing apparatus after the mail server normally receives the email; and a mail deletion unit for deleting the email specified by the invalidation request command when the mail deletion unit receives the invalidation request command sent from the image processing apparatus. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113012 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SPOOFED EMAIL BY MODIFYING THE SENDER ADDRESS - A system, method and computer program product are provided for identifying spoofed emails. According to the method, an email addressed to a recipient in a first network is received, with the email including a plurality of headers, and at least one of the plurality of headers including a sender address. It is determined whether the sender address indicates a mailbox from within the first network, and the sender address is modified if it indicates a mailbox within the first network. The email with the modified sender address is sent to the recipient. In one embodiment, a second email is received that is from the recipient and that is addressed to the modified sender address, the modified sender address is modified so as to return it to its original form, and the second email is sent. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113013 | METHOD, SYSTEM, SERVER AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR OBTAINING DEFAULT NOTIFICATION MESSAGE - The present disclosure discloses a method, server, and UE, to be applied to a DVB-H system, for obtaining a default notification message. The method includes obtaining a data structure carrying a unique default notification access parameter corresponding to a default notification message, obtaining the default notification access parameter from the data structure, and obtaining the default notification message at the location indicated by the default notification access parameter. The method provided by the disclosure may enable a UE to obtain the unique default notification access parameter in a DVB-H system and obtain the default notification message based on the default notification access parameter. Moreover, because the default notification access parameter obtained by the UE is unique, the disclosure overcomes the problem in the prior art that default notification session access parameters may be inconsistent and no data redundancy will be caused in the UE. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113014 | Device, Method and Computer Program Product for Providing an Alert Indication - A method for providing an alert indication, the method includes: allowing a first user to define an alert to be generated in response to an availability of a second user to participate in an instant messaging session; and sending to the second user an alert indication indicative of the alert. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113015 | Remote Application Processing System - A remote application processing system is provided. The remote application processing system includes one or more remote terminals; and a server operable to process an application for one or more remote terminals having a server service session. The server is operable to transmit a status change from the server to the one or more remote terminals having a server service session. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113016 | Managing email servers by prioritizing emails - Disclosed are email server management methods and systems that protect the ability of the infrastructure of the email server to process legitimate emails in the presence of large spam volumes. During a period of server overload, priority classes of emails are identified, and emails are processed according to priority. In a typical embodiment, the server sends emails sequentially in a queue, and the queue has a limited capacity. When the server nears or reaches that capacity, the emails in the queue are analyzed to identify priority emails, and the priority emails are moved to the head of the queue. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113017 | Arrangements for A 3270 compatible terminal with browser capability - Disclosed herein is a system that includes a 3270 compatible terminal that can accept browser compatible languages in a 3270 format and process these languages and display such languages in graphical user interface format. In some embodiments it can appear that the browser performs as a “plug-in” to the 3270 application. As utilized herein, a plug is a software module that can “plugs in” to another application under current execution to give the currently running application specific additional functionality. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113018 | MOBILITY SERVICE CLUSTERING USING NETWORK SERVICE SEGMENTS - Described in an example embodiment herein is a Mobility Service Engine (MSE) cluster comprising an MSE Cluster Master and at least one MSE Cluster Slave. The MSE Master is configured to define Network Service Segments. The MSE Master of the cluster distributes the Network Service Segments to slaves within the cluster. The network is configured to forward data to the correct Network Service Segment. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113019 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING/RECEIVING NOTIFICATION MESSAGES VIA FILE DELIVERY OVER UNIDIRECTIONAL PROTOCOL - A method for transporting/receiving notification messages via File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport (FLUTE) includes: At the transmitting end, a server carries a notification content in a transport object and carries notification related information and a transport object identifier (TOI) of the transport object carrying the notification content in a first file description table (FDT), and then sends the first FDT and the transport object carrying the notification content in a FLUTE session; the receiving end obtains the notification related information and the TOI of the transport object carrying the notification content from the first FDT, and receives the transport object carrying the notification content according to the obtained related information and the TOI. A server for transporting notification messages via FLUTE, a FLUTE server, a content server and a terminal are also disclosed. With the present invention, the notification transport procedure is simpler and the reliability of notification transport is better. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113020 | UNSOLICITED AND UNCONFIRMED COMPUTING PLATFORM SERVICE INFORMATION - An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to receive solicited or unsolicited computing platform service information associated with services offered by a plurality of service points in a range area, store some portion of the received information, and periodically transmit, with or without confirmation, some portion of the stored information to one or more potential subscribers. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113021 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING FUNCTIONAL ADDRESSES - A plurality of networked devices on a communication network host services and instances of those services. These services and service instances are mapped onto destination addresses within a given address space. Thus, the destination addresses provide information about the location of the networked devices, as well as the functional topology of the network. Data packets may be routed to a desired service instance using these destination addresses. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113022 | FACILITATING MUSIC COLLABORATIONS AMONG REMOTE MUSICIANS - Disclosed are apparatus and methods for facilitating music collaboration between remote musicians (or the like) are provided. In general, mechanisms for facilitating live music collaborations or “jam sessions” over a computer network. These mechanisms allow musicians to perform from remote locations via one or more computer networks. Each musician is able to receive live video feeds from each of the other musicians during such jam session. Other computer users may form members of an audience who also receive such live video feeds from the musicians participating in the live jam session. The audience members may also receive a mixed audio feed of the audio streams from all of the participating musicians. Various features for enhancing such live jam session are described further herein. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113023 | Method and System for Transmitting Data between Digital Photo Frames - A method and a system for transmitting data between DPFs of which a first DPF has a first list configured for storing ID information of a second DPF includes transmitting directly image data from the first DPF to the second DPF when the first DPF detects the second DPF is online according to the ID information stored in the first list. It employs a more convenient way to transmit the image data between the DPFs. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113024 | Multicase Downloading Using Path Information - The downloading of content to a requesting client (A | 2009-04-30 |
20090113025 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY ACCESSING CABLECARD - A system remotely accesses information on a non-addressable access control module, such as a cablecard module, over a communications network. The system includes a host device configured to interface with a network server remotely located from the host device and the access control module. The host device includes a table populated by information provided by the access control module in response to host a query. The host device provides at least a portion of the table to the server through the communications network in response to a server query to a network address of the host device. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113026 | MACHINE READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING IN A COMPUTING SYSTEM - Provided are a computer readable medium and a system for communicating in a computing system. An example of the method includes establishing a local communications interface at a local site. This example also includes writing local site communication information to the local communications interface, which comprises storing the local site communication information on a first site storage device at the local site, and sending the local site communication information from the first site storage device, to a third site storage device at a remote site, wherein the local site communication information is sent using a remote data replication protocol. The remote site communications interface may read the local site communication information from a third site storage device, and may send the local site communication information to a remote application at the remote site. Similarly, the remote application may send information to a local application at the local site. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113027 | PERSONAL NETWORK MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PERSONAL NETWORK MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - A personal network management method wherein if an access request is received from a communication terminal exterior to a personal network and the association of communication terminal information of the access request with the corresponding terminal in the personal network has not been registered yet, then the registration as to whether the connection to the communication terminal is permissible can be dynamically performed, and wherein the procedure of a registration from a communication terminal exterior to a personal network is facilitated, and an access into the personal network also can be performed. In a network system ( | 2009-04-30 |
20090113028 | NETWORK-CENTRIC PROCESSING - In one aspect, a network-centric processing (NCP) system includes sensors configured to monitor activities associated with testing of an asset, a first system configured to provide the testing on the asset, a second system configured to provide training of personnel using the asset, a third system configured to record problems associated with the testing and the training of the asset as input for an acquisition process and a network connected to the first system, the second system, the third system and the sensors. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113029 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE PROVISION OF SECURE NETWORK BOOT SERVICES - A system and method for providing a network boot is provided in which the entire length of the communications link between the client computer and the boot server is secure. Because the communications link between the client and the boot server is secure, an identifier for that uniquely identifies the client can be passed to the boot server, and the boot server is operable to serve a boot image to the client computer on the basis of the uniquely identified client computer. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113030 | IP endpoint automated activation - The specification teaches a method for automated configuration and installation of IPEPs such as VoIP devices. Configuration may utilize a configuration server in communication with the IPEP through a WAN. The configuration process may temporarily utilize the MAC address of the IPEP during the configuration process. The IPEP may respond directly to commands from the configuration server or a configuration proxy server. The server stores information on a database and creates files upon request of an IPEP. The specification also teaches networks created by this method. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113031 | Method, Apparatus And Computer Program Product Implementing Multi-Tenancy For Network Monitoring Tools Using Virtualization Technology - Method, apparatus and computer program product manage a plurality of networks with a single tenant network management tool using virtualization and implement control plane virtualization of the single tenant management tool; data storage virtualization of a data storage apparatus and network address virtualization of an available address range. A virtual machine may be implemented for each network of the plurality of networks to contain an instance of the single tenant management tool. In one implementation, a proxy is used to implement data storage virtualization. In another implementation, separate data storage is maintained for each network and data storage virtualization is achieved by managing the network protocol stack virtualization. The network address virtualization may be implemented using machine-level virtualization or operating-system-level virtualization. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113032 | FEATURE SET BASED CONTENT COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In an exemplary system, a plurality of access devices comprising at least a first access device and a second access device is selectively and communicatively coupled to a profile management subsystem. The profile management subsystem is configured to maintain profile data representing a feature set of at least one of the plurality of access devices, receive a profile request signal representing a request for profile data corresponding to the second access device from the first access device, and transmit the requested profile data to the first access device in response to the profile request signal. The first access device is configured to transmit content to the second access device in accordance with a feature set represented by the profile data corresponding to the second access device. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113033 | Method and System for Managing Operations on Resources of a Distributed Network, in Particular of a Communication Network, and Corresponding Computer-Program Product - A system for generating instruction signals arranged in workflows or rules for performing interventions on equipment, such as equipment of a communication network, wherein the equipment may be associated with resource proxy agents, each responsible for managing a single equipment. The system includes a distributed architecture of intervention management proxy agents provided with respective workflow-based or rule-based engines to generate the instruction signals, each agent being associated with a terminal device. The intervention management proxy agents may be interactively coupled with the resource proxy agents or with a manager resource associated with the equipment, whereby the instruction signals are a function of the status of the equipment on which the interventions are performed. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113034 | Method And System For Clustering - A system and a method for automatic cluster formation by automatically selecting nodes based on a selection criteria configured by the user is disclosed. During a cluster re-formation process, a failed node may automatically get replaced by one of the healthy nodes in its network, which is not part of any cluster avoiding cluster failures. In case of a cluster getting reduced to a single node due to node failures and failed nodes could not be replaced due to non-availability of free nodes, the single node cluster may be merged with a existing healthy clusters in the network providing a constant level of high availability. The proposed method may also provide an affective load balancing by maintaining a constant number of member nodes in a cluster by automatically replacing the dead nodes with a healthy node. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113035 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A method for a network management apparatus configured to communicate with a peripheral device using a version of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) that requires key information during communication includes acquiring device-specific information from the peripheral device, generating a plurality of key information candidates using the device-specific information before performing a communication based on SNMP, acquiring an SNMP engine identification (ID) for the peripheral device, determining whether the SNMP engine ID corresponds to the device-specific information, and, if it is determined that the SNMP engine ID corresponds to the device-specific information, storing the SNMP engine ID and performing a communication based on SNMP using key information corresponding to the device-specific information and selected from among the plurality of key information candidates. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113036 | System and Method for Logging Communications - A method for logging communication includes determining when a target user is active and identifying an access device and private Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the target user when the target user is active. The method further includes causing the access device to provide traffic information associated with the target user to a logging device. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113037 | INTEROPERABLE NETWORK PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLER GENERATION SYSTEM - An interoperable controller operation system having a command module or processor, and input and output interfaces. The command module may have an application that is fixed, configurable or programmable. The module may be changeable on the fly. The input and/or output interfaces may be changeable on the fly. The module or processor may have a memory or be connected to one. The processor and/or memory may contain a function block engine. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113038 | Systems and Methods for Monitoring Performance of Field Assets - A system and method for monitoring performance of field assets are disclosed. A method may include transmitting packets on a shared bus located in a field asset may be captured. The captured packets may be analyzed to determine one or more operational parameters associated with one or more peripheral devices coupled to the shared bus. The one or more operational parameters may be analyzed to determine an operational efficiency of the field asset. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113039 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTENT HANDLING - Methods and systems for content handling mapping are described. A client profile may be accessed. The client profile may include a general usage pattern of an access device. A current usage pattern of the access device may be accessed. The current usage pattern may be based on a plurality of interactions between the access device and a network server during a current time period. A determination may be made of whether the current usage pattern is in accordance with the client profile. A throttle instruction may be provided to a networked device to throttle at least one additional interaction of a plurality of additional interactions between the access device and the network server based on the determining. The networked device may be on an access network with the access device and the network server. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113040 | COMMUNITY BASED MODERATION IN ON-LINE SESSIONS - Methods, apparatuses, and techniques for moderating activity in an online community are described. Aspects include a triggering mechanism being activated by a community member in response to inappropriate activity by another community member. Receiving a time based history of community members activity around a time of the triggering mechanism being activated. Recreating the community activity from the time based history. Evaluating activities of the community members to determine if there was inappropriate activity and if there is inappropriate activity by an offending community member taking appropriate action against the offending community member. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113041 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN INTELLIGENT WIRELESS NETWORK - A system and method is for identifying where an employee is located and which network services node, such as a printer, is near him/her through a access point. The system uses the connection between the access point to identify the location of the user and which printer he/she can use. The main network server transmits the information to the wireless router providing the network access to the user and updates the database with the user and localization. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113042 | METHOD FOR CORRELATING PERIODICALLY AGGREGATED DATA IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS - A computer-implemented method for computing distributed component lag times includes: determining a transaction path for groups of transactions in a plurality of transactions to be processed; determining a distribution of elapsed times from a start of work at each component to an end of work at each component for the plurality of work processing components in the transaction path; determining a distribution of the offsets between the completion of work at the last component of the transaction path and the time of reporting the work at the last component of the transaction path; and combining the distributions of component elapsed times and the distribution of component offsets to calculate the transaction lag for each component in the transaction path. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113043 | NETWORK LOCATION SERVICE - A method is provided for a network location service in which one or more packet forwarding devices in the network collect and maintain location data for the devices/users currently connected to a network. The data is maintained locally in each packet forwarding device and may be provided on demand to a network/business application, such as emergency 911 services or a location-based security or personalization system. The location data is provided in real-time or near real-time using an in-band channel communication and/or over the Internet using a standard transport protocol, such as HTTP/S and SOAP web services. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113044 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONFIGURING A NETWORK - Methods and systems for configuring a network are provided. A method may include monitoring properties of a connection between a computing device and a network. The method may also include detecting a change in the properties of the connection. The may also include verifying the connection to the network is provided by a service provider when the change in the properties is detected and providing network configuration options based on the change. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113045 | System and method for an integrated DSL/cable modem performance test - A modem, method, and system is presented for performing a data communications speed test or line speed test between a network node and a customer premises. The modem may be configured to perform calculations for determining the data communications speed without interference of network elements or overhead modules that cause data communications to be inaccurate or otherwise affected. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113046 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR UPDATING ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a server apparatus connected to a plurality of client apparatuses capable of sending out a message containing environment information to the server apparatus, the server apparatus has a storage for storing environment information in association with each of the client apparatuses and a processor for receiving a message including updated environment information indicative of addition of an interface device connected to the client apparatus from the client apparatus and for updating the environment information in the storage with the updated environment information. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113047 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LAST MESSAGE NOTIFICATION - An agent for generating a last message notification in an asynchronous message delivery environment, wherein messages received by a messaging server are routable to a messaging client through an API binding protocol, the agent comprising: a monitoring component for monitoring a message store to determine if there is a message stored for delivery to a message listener; and a message notification component for generating a message indicating that there are no further messages in the message store for routing to the messaging listener, in response to a negative determination by the monitoring component. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113048 | METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR MANAGING THE QUANTITY OF DATA TRANSMITTED BY A TRANSMISSION DEVICE OVER A TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - The invention relates to a method of managing the quantity of data transmitted by a transmission device over a telecommunication network, characterized in that the method comprises the steps, carried out by the transmission device, of:
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20090113049 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME FORECASTING AND PREDICTING OF ELECTRICAL PEAKS AND MANAGING THE ENERGY, HEALTH, RELIABILITY, AND PERFORMANCE OF ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS BASED ON AN ARTIFICIAL ADAPTIVE NEURAL NETWORK - A system for utilizing a neural network to make real-time predictions about the health, reliability, and performance of a monitored system are disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, a power analytics server and a client terminal. The data acquisition component acquires real-time data output from the electrical system. The power analytics server is comprised of a virtual system modeling engine, an analytics engine, an adaptive prediction engine. The virtual system modeling engine generates predicted data output for the electrical system. The analytics engine monitors real-time data output and predicted data output of the electrical system. The adaptive prediction engine can be configured to forecast an aspect of the monitored system using a neural network algorithm. The adaptive prediction engine is further configured to process the real-time data output and automatically optimize the neural network algorithm by minimizing a measure of error between the real-time data output and an estimated data output predicted by the neural network algorithm. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113050 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED SESSION RESOURCE CLEAN-UP IN A DISTRIBUTED CLIENT-SERVER ENVIRONMENT - A system and method of automatic session resource clean-up resulting from a client-server session wherein the client has requested use of server resources during the session. During each session, a list of the resources allocated to that session and associated with the client is maintained and, when the session terminates, either naturally or unnaturally, the allocated resources are released or freed up, allowing later use of the same resources by a different session, either with the same client or with a different client. A session may terminate naturally because a program which is using the resource (such as a database) has completed its operation and ended normally. A session may also terminate unnaturally, e.g., because the connection between the client and the server has been broken for some reason or because a program has aborted or become hung in an inoperative state. Because such unnatural terminations do not normally provide a farewell message from the client to the server—only silence, from the lack of further processing messages—there is no way for the server to release the resource and no naturally occurring message to the server that the client is not present. The present invention overcomes these disadvantages by determining when a session has ended and releasing the resources associated with the client. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113051 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HOSTING MULTIPLE, CUSTOMIZED COMPUTING CLUSTERS - A computer system for hosting computing clusters for clients. The system includes clusters each including a set of computing resources and each implemented in custom or differing configurations. Each of the configurations provides a customized computing environment for performing particular client tasks. The configurations may differ due to configuration of the processing nodes, the data storage, or the private cluster network or its connections. The system includes a monitoring system that monitors the clusters for operational problems on a cluster level and also on a per-node basis such as with monitors provided for each node. The system controls client access to the clusters via a public communications by only allowing clients to access their assigned cluster or the cluster configured per their specifications and performing their computing task. Gateway mechanisms isolate each cluster such that communications within a cluster or on a private cluster communications network are maintained separate. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113052 | Troubleshooting of Wireless Client Connectivity Problems in Wireless Networks - A troubleshooting system. In particular implementations, a method includes receiving a request for troubleshooting, where the request comprises identifying information for a wireless client having a connection problem. The method further includes identifying network nodes that are sources of log data associated with connection activity of the wireless client, and invoking troubleshoot logging on one or more central controllers for the wireless client. The method further includes polling the identified network nodes for the log data, and identifying one or more potential causes of the connection problem based on correlating the data logs. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113053 | AUTOMATED REAL-TIME DATA STREAM SWITCHING IN A SHARED VIRTUAL AREA COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT - In one aspect, one or more real-time data stream connections that deliver a set of real-time data streams to a given network node are determined based at least in part on bandwidth capabilities of the given network node. In another aspect, for each of one or more recipient network nodes, a respective link over which to transmit a respective transmission set of one or more real-time data streams is determined. For each of the links, the respective link bandwidth is apportioned between one or more channels that are respectively allocated to the one or more real-time data streams in the respective transmission set. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113054 | Threshold-Based Normalized Rate Earliest Delivery First (NREDF) for Delayed Down-Loading Services - A content delivery system comprises at least one content server that servers a number of client requests. The content server uses a Threshold-Based Normalized Rate Earliest Delivery First (TB-NREDF) scheduler. The TB-NREDF scheduler imposes a threshold value, or limit, on the number of rescheduling requests. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113055 | Method and apparatus for fulfilling information requests in a networked environment - Method and apparatus for fulfilling information requests (such as information retrieval or consolidation and name address translation) that adapts to a highly scalable server and/or network architecture. Used for determining the location of a server and/or services based on an account number, a phone number, a service identifier or any other identifier or a combination of such identifiers. The services could be voice mail, email, speech to text, conference calling, video and/or some other type of customer based feature service such as sending commands to customer specified devices located on their LAN/WAN or some other accessible LAN/WAN. Use of a directory name server (DNS) or any other address translation service (e.g., a DB service) is not required. The name translation is done autonomously within a process by a modulus operation of identifiers and network components associated with the information request. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113056 | COMPUTER RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION METHOD BASED ON PREDICITON - A resource distribution method capable of lending surplus resources among a plurality of services and reducing the maintenance cost of the surplus resources is provided. Computer resources in the standby system have a dead standby state in which at least an application is not installed. A plurality of services or a plurality of users share the computer resources in the standby system. As a result, improvement of the utilization factor of idle computer resources and server integration are implemented, and the cost required to maintain the computer resources is reduced. Furthermore, load prediction is conducted as regards individual services by using past operation history. Idle computer resources secured from services having surplus and maintained are thrown in according to a result of the prediction. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113057 | Proximity Routing For Session Based Applications Using Anycast - Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a method, which can comprise automatically providing content to an information device from a content distribution node of a plurality of content distribution nodes. The information device can be adapted to send a request for the content from the first content distribution node utilizing an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the content distribution node. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113058 | Terminal server draining - Techniques are described for managing and controlling connections of server sessions, including systems and methods for managing and controlling connections to a server computer. Connections are monitored to a server computer depending on a “drain state” of the server computer. If the server is in drain mode, requests to initiate a fresh session with the server computer are rejected, or deferred until the server computer comes out of the drain state. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113059 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PEER TO PEER LINK ESTABLISHMENT OVER A NETWORK - A method and apparatus for linking to a Peer-to-Peer (“P2P”) network for VOIP communications. An intermediary peer creates a map to link peers together in the P2P network. A series of messages are generated to open the ports of one peer to be accessible to other peers on the P2P network. Peers are then enabled to communicate directly with other peers. Steward peers can assume the functionality of the intermediary peer. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113060 | Systems and Methods for Seamless Host Migration - Systems and methods of the present invention for maintaining network data distribution are provided. Network data may be distributed in such as manner as to allow a network session to weather interrupted communications between host and clients without significant loss of data. Embodiments of the present invention provide for one or more clients to serve as backup host(s) for the network session. When the other clients transmit data to the host, they may also transmit the data to one or more backup hosts if there are any indications of interrupted communication. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113061 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATIONS PARAMETERS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Disclosed are methods of establishing communication parameters for communicating between a first electronic device and a second electronic device, and corresponding computer apparatus and computer-readable medium. The embodiments store a device driver indicator on the first electronic device, the device driver indicator for indicating a driver for driving the first electronic device using one of a plurality of different operating systems, determine configuration information for the first electronic device, receive a removable computer-readable medium at the first electronic device, the removable computer-readable medium received from a user of the second electronic device, and transfer the device driver indicator and the configuration information to the removable computer-readable medium. The transferred device driver indicator and the configuration information are installable from the removable computer-readable medium to the second electronic device to establish the communication parameters to allow the second electronic device to communicate with the first electronic device. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113062 | Efficient network monitoring and control - In one embodiment, a method for monitoring traffic associated with users in a network includes assigning a trust level to each of the users, monitoring traffic associated with each of the users, and analyzing the monitored traffic. A level of monitoring is based on the trust level of the user. A user's trust level is modified if the analyzed traffic indicates that the user is operating outside of specified network usage parameters. An apparatus for monitoring traffic associated with users in a network is also disclosed. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113063 | AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING TICKET-GRANTING SERVICE INTO SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL - In an authentication method for integrating ticket-granting service into session initiation protocol, a server provides session initiation protocol and ticket-granting services between a calling facility and a called facility, and the method includes enabling the calling facility to obtain a first ticket from the server, and subsequently issue an INVITE message containing the first ticket attached thereto to the server. If the server verifies that the first ticket be issued by the server itself, the server examines the registration status of the called facility in the server. If the status of the called facility is registered, identity authentication of the calling facility and called facility proceeds according to a predetermined ticket authentication procedure. If the authentication is successful, the called facility can establish a communication session with the calling facility. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113064 | CONVERTER FOR CONVERTING COMMUNICATION METHOD AND/OR COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL - This is a converter which converts communication methods and/or protocols in order to enable communications between at least one medical equipment (ME) and a medical support control device (MSCD), comprising: a first communication interface corresponding to a communication interface of the MSCD; a plurality of second communication interfaces corresponding to a communication interface of each piece of ME in order to connect the MSCD and a plurality of pieces of ME whose communication methods and/or protocols are different; a determination unit for determining whether a communication connection can be established between each of the plurality of pieces of ME connected through the second communication interface and the converter; and a communication control unit for obtaining a difference between the communication program corresponding to the ME and the connection program and converting the communication protocols of the ME and the MSCD with each other. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113065 | Integrity mechanism for file transfer in communications networks - A method, a system and a computer program product for file transfer between a source node and a target node in a communications network are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of generating and storing a first hash product of a file; sending the first hash product to the target node via the communications network; receiving the first hash product as a second hash product from the target node via the communications network; generating a third hash product of the file; comparing the first, second and third hash products; and sending the file to the target node via the communications network if the first, second and third hash products match. Optionally, the method comprises the further steps of sending the matching hash product to the target node as a fourth hash product; receiving, from the target node, a result of a comparison between the second hash product, the fourth hash product and a fifth hash product generated at the target node from the file; and determining an integrity of the transferred file based on the result. The method is applicable for integration with the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). | 2009-04-30 |
20090113066 | AUTOMATED REAL-TIME DATA STREAM SWITCHING IN A SHARED VIRTUAL AREA COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT - Switching real-time data stream connections between network nodes sharing a virtual area is described. In one aspect, the switching involves storing a virtual area specification. The virtual area specification includes a description of one or more switching rules each defining a respective connection between sources of a respective real-time data stream type and sinks of the real-time data stream type in terms of positions in the virtual area. Real-time data stream connections are established between network nodes associated with respective objects each of which is associated with at least one of a source and a sink of one or more of the real-time data stream types. The real-time data stream connections are established based on the one or more switching rules, the respective sources and sinks associated with the objects, and respective positions of the objects in the virtual area. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113067 | COMMUNICATING A SELECTION OF A POTENTIAL CONFIGURATION - In an example embodiment, a first streaming media device, such as a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone initiates a communication session with a second streaming media device. An offer is sent to the second streaming media device comprising a plurality of potential configurations. The second device selects one of the plurality of configurations and communicates the selection to the first device during connectivity checks, for example during an Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) connectivity checks. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113068 | Content delivery system, cache server, and cache control server - In a cache control assuming plural user terminals accessing identical content, cache delete priority assignment is performed from a position where a user finished playback based on whether the user intends to view the content later. A cache control server is provided, and a cache delete inhibit span is determined based on a playback stop position or a normal speed playback time. A cache server deletes the cache based on the delete inhibit span received from the cache control server. Traffic of the core network due to re-cache can thus be reduced. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113069 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CONGESTION MEASUREMENT IN A NETWORK - Example embodiments of a system and method for providing a congestion measurement in a network are disclosed. In an example embodiment information is received at an information transfer rate, from a source network device. A sample of the information may be taken before the information is transmitted to a destination network device. In an example embodiment, a congestion measurement value is computed that corresponds to the sample and represented with at least two bits. A multi-bit indicator of the congestion measurement value is then transmitted to control the information transfer rate of information arriving in the future. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113070 | ENHANCE FAULT TRACING IN MULTI-TIERED ETHERNET/MPLS NETWORK - Techniques for providing connectivity fault management (CFM) for a multi-tiered network are described herein. In one embodiment, a link trace message (LTM) is received at a provider edge (PE) router and originated from a first Ethernet node and destined to a second Ethernet node, where the PE router interfaces an Ethernet and a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network. In response, the PE router initiates an MPLS trace session, including generating an MPLS trace message based on the LTM message to one or more MPLS nodes along a path between the first and second Ethernet nodes within the MPLS network. Subsequently, in response to one or more MPLS trace reply messages from the MPLS nodes of the MPLS network, the PE router generates a first link trace reply (LTR) message and sends the first LTR message to the first Ethernet node over the Ethernet. Other methods and apparatuses are also described. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113071 | Methods and Systems for Providing Efficient Provisioning of Data Flows - A system and method may include receiving a new flow request, the new flow request for requesting provisioning of a flow between a computer and the server, identifying a path of one or more network elements between the computer and the server, and determining whether provisioning the flow between the computer and the server violates a constraint. The system and method may further include updating an oversubscription factor and available bandwidth for an interface of each of the one or more network elements in the event the constraint is not violated, and determining whether a second path exists between the computer and the server in the event the constraint is violated. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113072 | Hot-swappable services in distributed computing - A message directed to a first version of a service is received at a content based router in a distributed computing system. The message is transmitted to a second version of the service instead of the first version of the service if the message is compatible with the second version of the service. The message is transmitted to the first version of the service if the message is not compatible with the second version of the service. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113073 | REMOTE ACCESS SYSTEM AND ITS IP ADDRESS ASSIGNING METHOD - An IP address assigning method for assigning a fixed address to a user terminal apparatus through a network in a system for remote accessing to the network to which a tunneling apparatus belongs from the user terminal apparatus. The user terminal apparatus connected to a first network requests a setting of a communication tunnel to the tunneling apparatus for remote accessing a second network. The tunneling apparatus receiving the request sends a DHCP message including a MAC address assigned to a physical NIC of the user terminal apparatus to a DHCP server connected to the network. The DHCP server sends a DHCP message including a fixed IP address corresponding to a preset MAC address. The tunneling apparatus assigns the IP address included in the received DHCP message to the user terminal apparatus. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113074 | Variable DNS responses based on client identity - An address resolver such as a DNS service may use the identity of a requesting client device to determine a response of a network address for a hostname in a request. A requesting client device may transmit a hardware or user identifier to an address resolving server in order to authenticate the client. The server may determine if the requesting client is authorized to have access to the requested hostname, and respond with the network address when the client is authorized. The address resolver may be used to limit access for users to various devices or hosts across a network and in some cases may track which users are accessing which hosts. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113075 | Server and Method for Managing Domain Names in a Network - A domain name server includes a zone file containing partitioning rules that define the partitioning of all subfolders of this domain into subzones. The DNS data of each of these subzones is hosted by a partition server that is able to obtain from the zone file information for identifying the partition server able to respond to a query sent by a client to obtain a DNS folder. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113076 | Hierarchical file synchronization method, software and devices - A method of maintaining a computer file in synchrony between multiple computers is disclosed. The multiple computers may comprise at least one ancestor, a descendant of the ancestor, and a subsequent descendant of the ancestor. A local copy of the computer file may be stored at the ancestor, the descendant and the subsequent descendant and a change log may be maintained at the ancestor, the descendant, and the subsequent descendant, with each change log reflecting changes to local copies of the computer file. The descendant may pass entries in its change log to the subsequent descendant. These entries may be consolidated with the subsequent descendant's change log and may be passed to the ancestor. Changes to the local copies of the computer file at the descendant and the subsequent descendant may be synchronized with the local copy of the file at the ancestor using change log entries received from the subsequent descendant. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113077 | Service discovery associated with real time composition of services - Real-time service composition is provided by a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) transport binding for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) messages. A SOAPAction header and SOAP envelope can be included in a SIP message to identify a requested service. The SIP message recipient can parse out the SOAP envelope and forward same to a corresponding Web Service. An intermediary node, including a SIP Proxy, can evaluate incoming SIP/SOAP messages and provide requested services to which they have access. Service discovery is facilitated by adding Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) services requests and responses. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113078 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING MEMORY ENABLED SYSTEMS USING MASTER-SLAVE ARCHITECTURE - Embodiments of the invention generally provide a system, method, and memory device for accessing memory. In one embodiment, a first memory device includes command decoding logic configured to decode commands issued to the first memory device and a second memory device, while command decoding logic of the second memory device is bypassed. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113079 | COMPUTING DEVICE LOCATION - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to computing device location and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for visually locating a computing device. In one embodiment of the invention, a computing device location method can include establishing filter criteria grouping different computing devices by common characteristic, wirelessly broadcasting the filter criteria in a discovery request to in range peripheral locators coupled to computing devices, aggregating a list of discovered peripheral locators meeting the filter criteria, selecting at least one of the peripheral locators in the list, and interrogating the selected peripheral locators to retrieve data provided by corresponding ones of the computing devices. Additionally, a display element in each of the discovered peripheral locators can be illuminated upon discovering the peripheral locators. Likewise, a display element can be illuminated in the selected peripheral locators upon selecting the peripheral locators. | 2009-04-30 |
20090113080 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEAMLESS MANAGEMENT OF MULTI-PERSONALITY MOBILE DEVICES - A system and method for managing multi-mode mobile devices from a personal computer (PC) in which the two devices are communicating over a point to point connection such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) or TCP/IP and provides a mechanism to remotely control the personality of the device over the communications link. Furthermore, the system and method allows the user of the PC to control when the personality change occurs and also allows specific system events to control personality changes automatically on the user's behalf. Additionally, the system and method controls the user experience on both the mobile device and PC to ensure that the appropriate application is available to accept a connection to the new personality on both the mobile device and the PC. | 2009-04-30 |