| 27th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 70 |
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| 20090172098 | Automatic rating system using background audio cues - Methods and systems for capturing, transmitting and processing data for generating ratings relating to multimedia programming based on passively obtained user cues are disclosed herein. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172099 | FREIGHT BACKBONE MESSAGING ARCHITECTURE - A messaging architecture extends the communication capability of complex systems in existing enterprises. The architecture implements sophisticated messaging capability between typically disparate order management and shipping systems. As a result, the messaging architecture greatly streamlines order processing and shipping, increases productivity, increases system uptime and provides a baseline solution for customers that desire integrated order processing and shipping. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172100 | DERIVING AND COMMUNICATING ATTENTION SPANS IN COLLABORATIVE APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to collaborative computing and provide a method, system and computer program product for deriving and communicating attention spans in a collaborative computing environment. In an embodiment of the invention, an attention span management method can be provided for a collaborative computing environment. The method can include monitoring computer activity for a collaborator to a collaboration, computing an attention span based upon the monitored computing activity, and generating an alert in the collaboration if the attention span crosses a threshold boundary indicating an unacceptable level of distraction for the collaboration. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172101 | GESTURE-BASED COLLABORATION - Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to interpret or translate the application code written in an XML programming language into code that is suitable for execution across computer platforms. Moreover, the XML virtual machine supports the Model View Controller (MVC) design paradigm that facilitates true data abstraction from applications to a common data model. Multi-instance applications, with each instance potentially supporting multiple views, may be created and executed. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172102 | PROCESSING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES WIRELESSLY SENT TO A VEHICLE - A processing system and method for controlling the distribution of certain types of electronic messages, such as SMS messages, instant messages, emails, etc., that are wirelessly sent to a vehicle. In one embodiment, a messaging application installed on a communication device diverts to a call center outgoing messages destined for the vehicle. Once the electronic message is properly checked and authenticated at the call center, it is wirelessly forwarded on to the vehicle where its contents can be displayed to the passengers. By controlling the distribution of these types of electronic messages to the vehicle, the processing method can reduce or mitigate the effects of unauthorized third party communications. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172103 | EVENT BASED INSTANT MESSAGING NOTIFICATION - A message is received in a device, the message is analyzed to determine a type of a content of the message, and a notification is provided to a user of the device, the notification being dependent on the type of message. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172104 | INSTANT MESSENGER SUBSET MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant messenger subset management. In an embodiment of the invention, an instant messenger subset management method can be provided. The method can include selecting a set of names for different open chat sessions of an instant messenger, providing a single responsive posting to the selected set, and persisting the set for subsequent processing. Additionally, the method can include annotating the single responsive posting in a chat log to indicate the names in the selected set having received the single responsive posting. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172105 | Roaming Instant Messaging - A computer-implemented method of instant messaging can include determining location information for at least one user of an instant messaging system, determining when the user is no longer proximate to a home instant messaging client, and determining when the user is proximate to a guest instant messaging client. The computer-implemented method also can include dynamically updating a status of the user within an instant messaging system according to the proximity of the user to at least one of the home instant messaging client or the guest instant messaging client. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172106 | Method and Apparatus to Facilitate Provision and Use of a Media Source Bundle - One provides ( | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172107 | PROXY CONTENT FOR SUBMITTING WEB SERVICE DATA IN THE USER'S SECURITY CONTEXT - A computer implemented method provides a web service to a client. A document request identifying a web service on a web service server is sent from the client to an application server. The document request is stored at a first location. The application server then sends a proxy document request back to the client, wherein the proxy document request identifies the first location. The client then forwards the proxy document request to a web service. The web service generates a web service response, by resolving the proxy document request to the first location. The web service response is stored at a second location. A proxy web service response can then sent from the web service back to the client, wherein the proxy web service response identifies the second location. The client then forwards the proxy web service response to the application server. The application server generates a document response, by resolving the proxy web service response to the second location. The application server then forwards the document response to the client. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172108 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A TELEPHONE-ACCESSIBLE MESSAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods are provided for providing voice access to an electronic-mail system. A voice command is received from a call-center user to compose an electronic-mail message. The call-center user is prompted to begin vocally recording an electronic-mail message. The electronic-mail system records the vocal message recited by the call center and translates the recorded vocal message to a text message. The electronic-mail system sends an electronic-mail message to an electronic-mail address containing the translated text message. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172109 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENFORCING SINGLE-THREADED CONVERSATIONS - A method and computer program product for enforcing single threaded conversations includes defining a single threaded status for an email chain including one or more emails. If a received email belongs to the email chain, the single threaded status of the email chain is enforced. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172110 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IDENTIFY INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL EMAIL - A system may include reception of an internet electronic mail message, parsing of a header of the internet electronic mail message to identify zero or more routing devices from which the internet electronic mail message was received, and a determination to accept or to reject the internet electronic mail message based on the identified zero or more routing devices. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172111 | INSTANT MESSAGING TRANSCRIPT SHARING FOR ADDED PARTICIPANTS TO AN INSTANT MESSAGING SESSION - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant messaging transcript sharing for added participants to an instant messaging session. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for instant messaging transcript sharing for added participants to an instant messaging session can be provided. The method can include establishing an instant messaging session as between a set of initial parties, aggregating postings from the initial parties into a transcript, adding a new party to the instant messaging session, and sharing at least a portion of the transcript in a transcript view for the new party. Optionally, an ability of the new party to log shared portions of the transcript can be limited or prohibited. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172112 | INSTANT MESSAGING BASED SOCIAL INTRODUCTIONS - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant messenger based social introductions. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for instant messaging based social introductions can be provided. The method can include selecting contacts from a buddy list of an instant messenger, retrieving attributes for each of the selected contacts, and generating introduction text for each of the selected contacts. Specifically, the introduction text can introduce a particular one of the selected contacts and can incorporate attributes for the particular one of the contacts. Finally, the method can include instant messaging the introduction text for each of the selected contacts to another of the selected contacts. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172113 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLIENT-SIDE INTERRUPTION MANAGEMENT - A method and computer program product for determining that a user of a client electronic device is in do-not-interrupt mode. A message directed to the user is routed to a client-based storage queue for subsequent delivery. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172114 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVER-SIDE INTERRUPTION MANAGEMENT - A method and computer program product for determining that a user of a client electronic device is in do-not-interrupt mode. A message directed to the user is routed to a server-based storage queue for subsequent delivery. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172115 | NAME RESOLUTION IN EMAIL - An email recipient input name is received. It is determined if the email recipient input name is ambiguous. If the email recipient input name is ambiguous, one or more employee attributes of a plurality of possible intended email recipients are compared with one or more employee attributes of an email sender to determine a probable intended email recipient. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172116 | MAINTAINING COMMUNICATION CONTINUITY - On a client electronic device, a message in a first format configured to be communicated over a first communication channel. The message in the first format is modified, on the client electronic device, to form a message in a second format, in which the message in the second format is based upon the message in the first format. The message in the second format is transmitted, from the client electronic device, over a second communication channel. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172117 | METHODS FOR USING MESSAGE QUEUING TELEMETRY TRANSPORT FOR SENSOR NETWORKS TO SUPPORT SLEEPING DEVICES - Methods support a sleep mode for an embedded device. Embedded devices like sensors and actuators used in wireless sensor networks have a limited power supply. To conserve energy and thus increase the lifetime of these devices, the devices should be put into a stand-by mode (also called sleep-mode) when they are not used. These methods support the sleep mode at a higher level than the MAC layer, thus avoiding the problems of prior art approaches. Methods are exemplarily described for the case of the message queuing telemetry transport protocol for sensor networks. They can easily be adapted to other protocols. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172118 | Conditional communication - Conditional communication settings may be defined by a user of a communications device to be transmitted with a communication to a receiving device, where the receiving device may be restricted from performing a user-specified type of communication operations with a user-specified contact until the conditional communication settings are satisfied. The conditional communication settings may include a condition value setting, which may be a task to be performed by a recipient, a date and/or time, a location, an operation to be performed by a third party contact, or other suitable criterion. The receiving device may detect whether such condition value setting has been satisfied. Unless the condition value setting has been satisfied, the receiving device may be prevented from performing the user-specified type of communication operation with the user-specified contact. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172119 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSAGING USING APPROPRIATE COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL - The invention relates to a low latency transport of an Internet message over a connection from an Internet message-sending node to an Internet Message-receiving node. Said Internet Message-sending node determines the size of the Internet message ( | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172120 | MANAGING PARTICIPANTS IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING MEETING - There is disclosed a system and method for managing participants in an instant messaging meeting. In an embodiment, the method comprises: scheduling an instant messaging meeting in a calendar module; communicating information about the scheduled instant messaging meeting to an instant messaging module including information necessary to contact confirmed participants; and at a specified time, signalling the instant messaging module to automatically start the instant messaging meeting by initiating contact with the confirmed participants. In an embodiment, the method further comprises defining an instant messaging meeting group containing the information necessary to contact the confirmed participants. The method may further comprise linking the instant messaging meeting group to its corresponding scheduled event in the calendar module. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172121 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, E-MAIL TRANSMISSION CONTROL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - In an information processing system which includes a transmitter terminal and an E-mail transmission control apparatus, the transmitter terminal sets an application classification of an E-mail to be transmitted, and transmits the E-mail to which the set application classification has been added, to the E-mail transmission control apparatus. Further, the E-mail transmission control apparatus receives the E-mail to which the application classification has been added, from the transmitter terminal, identifies, from approval request information in which the application classification and an approval request destination are made corresponding to each other, the approval request destination corresponding to the application classification added to the received E-mail, and transmits an approval request to the identified approval request destination. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172122 | Message Transmission Method, Message Transmission Device, and Storage Medium Recorded with Message Transmission Program - Provided is a method of transmitting a message in a business process management system that includes a service execution device providing services and a business process management device. The business process management device executes a business process defined by combining the services, the business process includes a definition of the message transmitted to the service execution device, the business process management system includes preceding transmission part management information that includes a preceding transmission part which is a part or an entirety of the message that can be divided and transmitted and information for identifying a processing in which contents of the preceding transmission part can be determined, and after the processing in which the contents of the preceding transmission part can be determined has been executed, according to the preceding transmission part management information, before the service is called, the preceding transmission part is transmitted to the service execution device. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172123 | PROVIDING APPLICATION-LAYER FUNCTIONALITY BETWEEN ONE OR MORE DATABASE CLIENTS AND ONE OR MORE DATABASE SERVERS - One embodiment includes a system providing application-layer functionality between one or more database clients and one or more database servers. The system includes one or more decoders residing at a decoding layer above a network layer. The decoders reside at a first network location between one or more database clients residing at one or more second network locations and one or more database servers residing at one or more third network locations. The decoders receive database messages communicated from the database clients and intended for the database servers and database messages communicated from the database servers and intended for the database clients, decode the database messages, and extract query-language statements from the database messages. The system also includes an application residing at an application layer above the decoding layer. The application resides at the first network location. The application receives and processes query-language statements extracted at the decoders. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172124 | Method and Apparatus of Multimedia Data Sharing for a Multimedia Processing Device - A method for sharing multimedia data in a multimedia processing device includes generating a web address corresponding to a remote multimedia device, and transmitting an indication message according to the web address for notifying the remote multimedia device to receive the web address. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172125 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MIGRATING A COMPUTER ENVIRONMENT ACROSS BLADE SERVERS - A method and system for migrating a computer environment, such as a virtual machine, from a first blade server to a second blade server includes storing data generated by the first and second blade servers on a shared hard drive and transferring a logic unit number from the first blade server to the second blade server. The logic unit number identifies a location of the shared hard drive used by the first blade server to store data. Additionally, the state of the central processing unit of the first blade server may be transferred to the second blade server. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172126 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTROLLED ACCESS TO A FUNDS DISPENSING DEVICE FROM EXTERNAL PROCESSORS - Systems and methods for providing controlled access to value dispensing devices are described and in certain examples, systems including those for providing controlled access to a postage meter from multiple programs executing on an external collocated processor are described. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172127 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING NETWORK CONTENT BASED UPON SOCIAL NETWORKING - A system, apparatus, and method for recommending network content based upon shared preferences among members of a social network is provided. The method can be a computer-implemented method that includes determining a membership of a user in at least one social network in response to the user accessing a communications network. The method can further include identifying network content associated with other members of the at least one social network. Based upon the shared preferences, a list can be generated and transmitted to the user, the list comprising at least one network site for accessing the identified network content. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172128 | Internet Linking from Audio and Image Content - An internet linking method includes providing plural-bit sampled values representing media content at a user's computer. This digital data is passed to a processing system, and an identifier of the media content derived from the sampled values is returned from that system. This derived identifier is used to index a database, from which a corresponding URL address is obtained. A link can then be established to that URL address, and information obtained from that address can be presented to the user. A steganographic decoding technique can be used in the processing system to derive the media content identifier. A variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172129 | Automatic Multimedia Upload For Publishing Data And Multimedia Content - Disclosed herein is a method and system for utilizing a digital data capture device in conjunction with a Bluetooth (BT) enabled mobile device for publishing data and multimedia content on one or more websites automatically or with minimal user intervention. A client application is provided on the BT enabled mobile device. In the absence of inbuilt BT capability, a BT communication device is provided on the digital data capture device. The BT communication device is paired with the BT enabled mobile device to establish a connection. The client application detects capture of data and multimedia content on the digital data capture device and initiates transfer of the captured data, multimedia content, and associated files. The digital data capture device transfers the captured data, multimedia content, and the associated files to the client application. The client application automatically publishes the transferred data and multimedia content on one or more websites. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172130 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR DOWNLOADING DATA - A method of and apparatus for downloading data. The method includes: connecting the downloading apparatus to a server via a communication network and downloading data from the server; generating download information on the data downloading; when connection to the server is interrupted and the data downloading is discontinued, reconnecting the downloading apparatus to the same server using the download information; and downloading data from the server. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172131 | Emergency Information System - A method and system for intelligently detecting an emergency situation through Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) notification and providing first responders with vital information to respond and mitigate the emergency situations comprising the following steps: acquiring subscriber information; storing the subscriber information electronically within an information company's secure server; linking the server with a communication device of the PSAP; communicating to the server from the PSAP that an emergency situation has occurred at a specific location when an emergency is reported to the PSAP; searching the server for the subscriber information that matches with the emergency location and sending the matched subscriber information from the server to an appropriate first responder. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172132 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING IMAGE RICH WEB PAGES FROM A COMPUTER SYSTEM OVER A NETWORK - The present invention is related to a computer system that provides a web page to a requestor over a network. Aspects of the present invention include receiving by the computer system a request to access a web page and in response, determining whether a descriptor for the requested web page is in a session memory. If the descriptor is not in the session memory, it is retrieved from a database and the stored in the session memory. From there, the descriptor is used to determine whether the web page should be retrieved and returned to the requestor. By storing the descriptor in session memory, additional accesses to the database can be avoided when the descriptor is used for subsequent tasks. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172133 | CONTROL POINTS FOR CONTROLLING DEVICES IN A NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method for a control point of initiating actions on a device in a communication network comprising at least two control points both adapted to control said device. Further, the present invention relates to a method for a device of initiating actions on said device in a communication network comprising at least two control points both adapted to control said device. Further, the present invention relates to a control point of initiating actions on a device in a communication network comprising at least two control point both adapted to control said device. Further, the present invention relates to a device in a communication network comprising at least two control points both adapted to control said device based on action requests received from a control point along with control point identification. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172134 | AUTOMATED PROVISIONING SYSTEM - An automated provisioning system for provisioning a service or device in a communications network, which system comprises a listener ( | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172135 | PRE-BOOT RETRIEVAL OF AN EXTERNAL BOOT FILE - Embodiments of methods for more securely booting an apparatus into an operational mode, using a boot file disposed in a network boot server are disclosed herein. In embodiments, the name and location of the boot file is placed into a storage location of a manageability engine of an apparatus. The manageability engine is separated from the application execution environment of the apparatus. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172136 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF CONFIGURATIONS TO CLIENT COMPUTERS - A method for distributing computer configurations to at least one client from a server, comprising the following steps: Network-booting a first operating system for the clients from a server, automatically loading a virtual machine having an elective second operating system on the basis of the booted (first) operating system while taking into consideration one or more of the following parameters: user login, network address. Consequently, providing a full fat client (standard PC) functionality under an elective operating system on a (diskless) client hardware by using exclusively volatile storage media (on the new thin client system). | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172137 | Apparatus, system and method for configuration of adaptive integrated circuitry having heterogeneous computational elements - The present invention concerns configuration of a new category of integrated circuitry for adaptive or reconfigurable computing. The preferred adaptive computing engine (ACE) IC includes a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network. The plurality of heterogeneous computational elements include corresponding computational elements having fixed and differing architectures, such as fixed architectures for different functions such as memory, addition, multiplication, complex multiplication, subtraction, configuration, reconfiguration, control, input, output, and field programmability. In response to configuration information, the interconnection network is operative to configure and reconfigure the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements for a plurality of different functional modes, including linear algorithmic operations, non-linear algorithmic operations, finite state machine operations, controller operations, memory operations, and bit-level manipulations. The preferred system embodiment includes an ACE integrated circuit coupled with the configuration information needed to provide an operating mode. Preferred methodologies include various means to generate and provide configuration information for various operating modes. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172138 | USING DOMAIN NAME SERVICE FOR IDENTIFYING A HOME DOMAIN OF A ROMAING DEVICE - A method, information processing system, and wireless communication network determine a domain name associated with at least one device for providing services to the at least one device in a network. A service request ( | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172139 | BALANCED CONSISTENT HASHING FOR DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - A method, system, computer-readable storage medium and apparatus for balanced and consistent placement of resource management responsibilities within a multi-computer environment, such as a cluster, that are both scalable and make efficient use of cluster resources are provided. Embodiments reduce the time that a cluster is unavailable due to redistribution of resource management responsibilities by reducing the amount of redistribution of those responsibilities among the surviving cluster members. Embodiments further provide redistribution of resource management responsibilities based upon relative capabilities of the remaining cluster nodes. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172140 | NETWORK DEVICE - A Network Attached Storage Device (NAS) that is configured to receive at least one webfeed and display information derived from the webfeed on a display. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172141 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD IN STORAGE SYSTEM - Provided is a storage center including a storage subsystem for storing content data to be used by the user's home server, and a center server for controlling the storage subsystem. The center server aggregates the content recording reservation requests sent from several home servers, obtains content data from a content server and stores the content data in the storage subsystem at a designated recording start time, and notifies the user's home server that the recording reservation is complete. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172142 | System and method for adding a standby computer into clustered computer system - There is provided a method of adding a new computer as a standby computer to a computer system that includes an active computer for performing service processing and a standby computer for storing replica of data stored in the active computer. The replica of the data stored in the standby computer is updated when the data stored in the active computer is updated. The method comprising the steps of: selecting the standby computer from the computer system; transferring the replica of the data stored in the selected standby computer to the new computer; and transferring update information on data updated in the active computer after the transferring the replica of the data is started, to the new computer. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172143 | Information-Processing Apparatus and Program Thereof - An information-processing apparatus which is capable of transmitting device identifiers of devices connected with LANs to terminals without using a broadcast command is provided. A server is connected with a World Area Network. A managing terminal and printers are connected with a LAN. The server receives a device identifier of the printer connected with any one of the LANs. The server receives an inquiry for a device identifier from a terminal connected with any one of the LANs. The server stores appended information, which is appended to the device identifier while the device identifier is transferred to the server, in a manner that the appended information is associated with the device identifier. The server transmits to the terminal the device identifier whose appended information as stored in a storage coincides with the appended information that is appended to the inquiry while the inquiry is transferred to the server. The managing terminal can obtain the device identifier of the printer connected with the same LAN as the managing terminal itself by transmitting the inquiry to the server. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172144 | ID COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM OF COMPUTER - An ID collection and management apparatus which manages identifiers of computers in a computer system including said computers and a storage system which provides said computers with a storage volume, including: a first ID acquisition unit which acquires first IDs which are IDs of a data port for said computers to transmit/receive data with said storage volume; a second ID acquisition unit which acquires second IDs to be recognized as the IDs of said computers by said storage system; and an ID management unit which manages said first IDs and said second IDs in a corresponding manner for each of said computers; wherein a first communication protocol for communication with said computers is different from a second communication protocol for communication with said storage system, wherein the first IDs are based on requirements of the first communication protocol, and the second IDs are based on requirements of the second communication protocol, such that the first IDs and second IDs differ from each other. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172145 | INTEGRATED POINT OF PRESENCE SERVER NETWORK - A network of point of presence servers allows a customer to organize their web site by functions where functions are mapped into domain names. The functions have requirements that define what is needed by a server to satisfy the function. The domain names are mapped into resources or servers that can be addressed by the domain name and that satisfy requests for the function that domain name has been defined to support. This method of organization allows individual elements of a web page to be retrieved from different resources and gives the name server the control to direct users to an available and optimal server for a given resource. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172146 | Media Playlist Construction for Virtual Environments - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for generating song playlists for use in an immersive virtual environment. Generally, playlists may be generated based on stored music preference data. The music preference data may be generated by storing user interactions with specific songs. The user interactions may be associated with characteristics of the user's situational context within the virtual world. The music preference data may be indexed by song name, and/or by musical properties. Subsequently, the music preference data may be used to generate a playlist adapted to the user's current situation within the virtual world. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172147 | BALANCED MANAGEMENT OF SCALABILITY AND SERVER LOADABILITY FOR INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) AUDIO CONFERENCING BASED UPON MONITORED RESOURCE CONSUMPTION - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to audio stream management in an audio conferencing server and provide a method, system and computer program product for balancing audio server loadability and audio server scalability based upon monitored resource consumption. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for balancing audio server loadability and audio server scalability based upon monitored resource consumption can be provided. The method can include monitoring computing conditions in an audio conferencing server receiving encoded audio packets from coupled Internet Protocol (IP) audio clients and routing the encoded audio packets as audio streams to the IP audio clients, and responsive to detecting deteriorating computing conditions in the audio conferencing server, reducing a number of the audio streams forwarded to the IP audio clients by the audio conferencing server. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172148 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND ANALYZING OF IP NETWORKS ELEMENTS - Exemplary embodiments include methods and systems for monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting of control plane dynamics of a network including collecting state data from the one or more routers of one or more protocols at discrete time intervals, the state data being associated with one or more routers of a network, analyzing corresponding state data collected at two or more discrete time intervals, and outputting a result of the analysis of the state data collected from the one or more routers of the network. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172149 | REAL-TIME INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENTS - Real-time data of business applications of an Information Technology environment is monitored to obtain information to be used in managing the environment. A business application includes processing collectively performed by a plurality of components of the environment. A component includes one or more resources, and therefore, in one example, the real-time data being monitored is associated with those resources. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172150 | COORDINATED DEEP TAGGING OF MEDIA CONTENT WITH COMMUNITY CHAT POSTINGS - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to deep tagging of media content and provide a method, system and computer program product for coordinating deep tagging of media content with chat postings. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for coordinating deep tagging of media content with chat postings can be provided. The method can include monitoring a group chat of participants co-browsing media content, identifying a token in the group chat appearing a threshold number of times within a temporal window, and creating a deep tag in the media content in association with a portion of the media content played back concurrently with the temporal window. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172151 | DYNAMIC NETWORK CONFIGURATION - In one embodiment, determining a default gateway of a network, determining a MAC address and an IP address associated with the default gateway of the network, updating a table of one or more MAC addresses and corresponding one or more IP addresses based on the detected MAC address and the IP address of the default gateway, detecting in the table of one or more MAC addresses and the corresponding one or more IP addresses, a further MAC address associated with the IP address of the default gateway, determining a port associated with the further MAC address and with the IP address of the default gateway, and disabling the port, are provided | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172152 | REAL-TIME MONITORING OF A ROUTING SERVER - Calculating the roundtrip delay between first and second computers due to the latency of a routing server. The first computer receives an incoming message from the second computer via the routing server. The incoming message includes incoming time information indicative of processing time at the second computer and outgoing time information indicative of a time when a first outgoing message was sent by the first computer. The first computer calculates an observed roundtrip time indicating the routing server latency for a first outgoing message and the incoming message as a function of a time when the first computer received the incoming message, the outgoing time information, and the incoming time information. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172153 | HETEROGENEOUS TWO-PHASE COMMIT TEST ENGINE - A computer-implemented method, information processing system, and computer program storage product validate a two-phase commit process. First information is received that indicates a plurality of web services to be tested. Each of the web services are associated with a different resource manager. Second information is received that indicates a plurality of application servers for performing the web services. A global transaction is created that includes a plurality of transactions based on the first information that was received. A two-phase commit process is initiated at one of the application servers for performing the global transaction. After the two-phase commit process has ended, results of the global transaction that include information regarding each of the transactions within the global transaction are displayed. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172154 | METHOD FOR AUTONOMIC DETECTION AND REPAIR OF BROKEN LINKS IN WEB ENVIRONMENTS - A method for implementing autonomic detection and repair of broken links in Web environments includes receiving a request for additional Web content in a server in response to a link present in an originating Web content held on a host server; determining the present state of the received link; wherein the server performs in response to the received link: returns the requested additional Web content to a user; returns a Web content not found notification to a user; returns a Web content has moved notification with a valid link; wherein the notifications are digitally signed by the server; wherein in response to the returned notifications, the user's browser sends the notifications to the host server; and wherein in response to the reception of the notifications the host server notifies a content manager of the link state, stores the notification in a database, and repairs the link. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172155 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING, COMMUNICATING, AND HANDLING A DEGRADED ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEM - A system and method in accordance with the present invention provides a 3-phase commit client-server protocol that allows the EIS server to detect the sick-but-not-dead situations, identify the resources involved, determine its degraded level, take the actions if needed, and send out a degraded status information message to the client. In a system and method in accordance with the present invention an internal availability monitor analyzes the resources that have not been externalized, such as storage pools, control blocks, etc, and are therefore not available to external monitors. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172156 | ADDRESS SECURITY IN A ROUTED ACCESS NETWORK - In one embodiment, providing multi-layer address security incorporating Layer 2 Media Access Control (MAC) addresses and corresponding Layer 3 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for host machines on a routed access network is provided. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172157 | Method and Device for Content Transmission on P2P Network - This invention discloses a method and device for content transmission on P | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172158 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPEN PLATFORM - The present invention relates to a memory management system and method for open platform. The memory management system and method of the present invention utilizes the main spirit of sharing service in open platform. When the used memory in local open platform exceeds an upper limit, the standard service bundle access interface is used for accessing the standard service bundle in remote open platform. Therefore, the standard service bundle in local open platform can be off-loaded to release the memory space so as to resolve the memory shortage problem. The stability of the whole system can be maintained. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172159 | Web Page Link-Tracking System - A link-tracking server receives a request for a Web page or an image and stores link-tracking information in one or more link-tracking files to create a record of link-tracking information. The link tracking files may later be accessed by a link-tracking subscriber, such as by logging onto the link-tracking server. A content provider embeds link-tracking code in each Web page where link-tracking information is desired to be captured. Such Web pages embedded with such link-tracking code are then stored in a content provider server, which then serves such tracking-enabled Web pages to users on the network. When a user requests a tracking-enabled page, the link-tracking code sends one or more requests to a link-tracking server to record link-tracking information. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172160 | LOADING OF SERVER-STORED USER PROFILE DATA - One or more computer-implemented methods provided by computer-readable media for providing and loading user profile data from a server computer system to a client computer system may be used together with the server and client computer systems. The client computer system may be caused to initiate a login process for a user on the client computer system and to send login information to the server during the login process. After reception of the login information from the client, the server evaluates the received login information to obtain user information corresponding to a user identified in the login information. Based on the obtained user information, the server finds user profile data stored on the server computer system. Finally, metadata relating to the user profile data may be determined by the client computer system by pulling corresponding data from the server computer system. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172161 | System and methods for web-based interactive training content development, management, and distribution - System and methods for integrated web-based interactive training content development, management and distribution including a network for remote access by users to a content distribution server having privilege-based user access to content in at least one delivery format, wherein the content is stored on a content server in a format-neutral manner and delivered to the users in dynamically recombinable formats based upon user profiles. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172162 | Method of throttling unwanted network traffic on a server - The invention provides a method and device for limiting unwanted network traffic, including unwanted emails. The method proceeds by assigning at least one network address to a category of network addresses based on a level of trust of the network address. Connection resources are allocated to the category. When a connection is received from a network address to which the category has been assigned, a portion of the allocated resources in the category are provided to the network address. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172163 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ON-DEMAND WAKING OF COMPUTERS - The invention is directed to systems and methods of on-demand waking of computers from a reduced power state, whether they are on standby, hibernating, or off. The invention may use multiple redundant proxies capable of receiving commands and waking computers within a broadcast domain to wake computers that may not be able to directly broadcast to one another as part of a Wake on WAN (WOW) system. Accordingly, the invention may monitor proxies and computers and determine whether a computer is part of a broadcast domain. The WOW system may select new proxies as needed or desired according to a method of selecting preferred proxies. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172164 | Data distribution system - A data distribution system can select paths easily with flexibility when paths are generated. In the data distribution system, a management device includes a node bandwidth information acquisition unit to acquire and hold information on data transmission-enabled bandwidth of each of the plurality of nodes on the network; a content rate acquisition unit to acquire and hold a bandwidth for content to be distributed; a bandwidth splitting information acquisition unit to acquire and hold bandwidth splitting information, which is a splitting ratio to split the content to be distributed into a plurality of bandwidths; and a connection destination decision unit to determine a connection destination of the content to be distributed, which is split based on the bandwidth split information being held in the bandwidth splitting information acquisition unit. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172165 | Information Processing Apparatus and Information Processing System - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a monitor module configured to control and simultaneously operate a plurality of software resources executed on the operating system on one hardware resource, one of the software resources is a server software resource operated as a server, a one of the software resources is a client software resource utilizing service of the server software resource, the hardware resource has a user disk space in which data used by the client software resource is stored, and the server software resource has an access right control module which attempts to communicate with a management server connected via a network when the client software resource is started, acquires an key from the management server, authenticates the acquired key, and provides a right of access to the user disk space for the client software resource when it is determined that the key is valid. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172166 | RELAY SERVER AND RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A relay server can collectively copy a plurality of shared resources separately held by client terminals to a terminal that belongs to the relay server by performing a simple operation. The relay server includes a shared resource information registration unit. The shared resource information registration unit stores shared resource information when a resource is shared among a plurality of client terminals. The shared resource information includes resource information, hierarchical structure information regarding a hierarchical structure of the resources, and account information of a resource sharing terminal that is a client terminal that shares the resource. When the shared resource information is specified by the resource sharing terminal such that the resource included in the prescribed shared resource information may be output to an output destination in accordance with the hierarchical structure information, the relay server transfers the resource that is included in the specified shared resource information and that can be handled by another resource sharing terminal to the resource sharing terminal. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172167 | System and Method for a CDN Balancing and Sharing Platform - A method for managing content distribution resources for a customer, including: providing a CDN (content distribution network) center for managing content distribution; providing a plurality of CDNs; providing content of the customer to be distributed; and selecting at least one of said plurality of CDNs for distributing the content by said CDN center. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172168 | PROGRAM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATING SERVERS TO TARGET SYSTEM - Server management data describes observed operating condition of a pool of spare servers. Based on a demand forecast of a specific target system, a dynamic allocation period is determined as a period during which the target system needs additional server resources to handle an expected demand. Based on the dynamic allocation period and server management data, a set of allocation candidates are nominated from the spare server pool, by eliminating therefrom spare servers which are likely to fail during the dynamic allocation period. An appropriate allocation candidate is then selected for allocation to the target system, such that the selected candidate will satisfy a specified requirement during its allocation period. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172169 | SECURE PROXIES FOR FLAT NETWORKS - A proxy is in communication with an internet protocol network and a mobile operator network. The proxy receives first communications from access points via the internet protocol network, transmits content from the first communications to the mobile operator network, receives second communications from the mobile operator network, and transmits content from the second communications to the access points via the internet protocol network. The proxy may perform operations based on the first and second communications received from either the access points, or from the mobile operator network. The operations performed by the proxy may include modifying the communications, saving certain information regarding the communications, performing authentication, encryption, or decryption of the communications, determining a destination for the communications, or sending the communications to a destination. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172170 | ESTABLISHMENT OF MEDIA SESSIONS WITH MEDIA ADAPTATION - The present invention relates to a method and terminal for reporting media format adaptation resources to convert a media format of a media stream of a media session to be established between terminals through a packet switched communications network towards a requesting terminal. The invention further relates to a method and NSIS router for reporting media format adaptation resources for converting a media format of a media stream of a media session to be established between terminals. To allow terminals to establish a media session utilizing media adaptation, the invention provides a NSIS (Next Step In Signaling) based signaling framework facilitating the detection and reservation of media adaptation resources on (and off) a media data path on which media data are transported utilizing a media transport protocol among terminals participating in the session. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172171 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR DISGUISING DIGITAL CONTENT - A method for establishing a disguised communication session between communicating user terminals. The method comprises at a first communicating user terminal, providing data for a communication session with a second communicating user terminal, distributing the data among a plurality of proxy network nodes, and using the plurality of proxy network nodes for forwarding a plurality of flows to the second communicating user terminal, each the flow comprising a portion of the data. The distributing and forwarding is performed so as to disguise at least one characteristic of the communication session from at least one inspection entity probing the plurality of flows. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172172 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION AMONG VISITORS TO A COMMON WEBSITE - In one aspect, a method for methods and systems for enabling peer-to-peer communication among visitors to a common website includes determining, by a server unaffiliated with a first URL, that a first computer is accessing the first URL via a first web browser. The method includes determining, by a server, that a second computer is accessing a second URL via a second web browser, the second URL sharing at least a hostname with the first URL. The method includes sending, from a server to the second computer, address information identifying the first computer. The method includes establishing a connection between the second computer and the first computer. In one embodiment, the method includes displaying, to a user of the first computer, a three-dimensional environment incorporating the first web browser. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172173 | Method for the Management of Flows Between Appliances of a Telecommunications Network - This method is for managing flows between a first appliance and at least one second appliance, these appliances being designed to operate according to the so-called SIP protocol on a telecommunications network, wherein, the second appliance being preferably registered with the first appliance. The method comprises upon reception of a notifying message related to the loading state of said first appliance sent according to the SIP protocol, the implementing a procedure for spacing communications sent from the second appliance to said first appliance as a function of the loading state of the latter. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172174 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-SERVICE ACCESS - A control and bearer separating system for the multi-service access includes: at least one access node for receiving the message of the user, separating the control flow and the service flow of the message, transmitting the control flow to the controller, and transmitting the service flow to the corresponding edge node, based on the control of the controller; the controller for processing the control flow to control the access node to transmit the service flow to the corresponding edge node, and control the corresponding edge node to process the service flow; and at least one edge node for transmitting the received service flow to the corresponding service provider node, based on the control of the controller. Furthermore, there is a method for connecting the user to the networking using the above control and bearer separating system, and a control and bearer separating method. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172175 | Data Providing System and Data Providing Apparatus - A data providing system is provided with a data providing apparatus, a data utilizing apparatus configured to be connected with the data providing apparatus in a communicable manner, and a communication apparatus configured to be connected with the data providing apparatus in a communicable manner. The data utilizing apparatus sends an identification information-sending request to the data providing apparatus, outputs identification information sent from the data providing apparatus, sends the identification information to the data providing apparatus, and utilizes data sent from the data providing apparatus. The communication apparatus allows a user to input the identification information, sends the input identification information, and allows the user to disconnect a communication session with the data providing apparatus. The data providing apparatus sends the identification information to the data utilizing apparatus in accordance with the identification information-sending request sent from the data utilizing apparatus, stores the sent identification information, and sends data to the data utilizing apparatus on a condition that the identification information sent from the communication apparatus is being stored, and that the identification information sent from the data utilizing apparatus is received during a communication session with the communication apparatus. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172176 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILTERING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A method is provided for filtering electronic messages such as unsolicited bulk email. The method includes establishing a communications connection with the remote server under the Simple Email Transfer Protocol or other suitable protocol; accepting session data from the remote server; and determining if the session data meets criteria associated with legitimate messages. If the data pertaining to the connection does not meet the criteria associated with legitimate messages, then one or more stimulus signals are sent to the remote server. If the server responds to the stimulus signal in the manner required by the communications protocol, then the session can be added to a database of known sessions. The session is then terminated by responding to the server with a temporary error message in accordance with the protocol. If the remote server is a legitimate server complying with the STMP, it will resend the message after a prescribed time period. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172177 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA TRANSMISSION - A data transmission system includes a sending device and a receiving device. The sending device includes an image receiving unit that indicates the order of reception of the blocks using version numbers, a first database for storing the version numbers of the blocks, a transmitting unit which transmits the blocks to the receiving device using User Datagram Protocol, a determination module which determines whether a block requires resending, an updating unit for updating the version numbers in the first database, and a notification unit for notifying the receiving device of the latest version number of the block at each position using Transmission Control Protocol. The receiving device includes a second database, a receiving unit for receiving blocks using User Datagram Protocol, a display unit for determining the version numbers of the blocks and for displaying the blocks, and a processing unit for sending a request to the sending device. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172178 | TRANSMIT SCALING USING MULTIPLE QUEUES - According to some embodiments, it may be determined, at a first processing element of a device with a plurality of processing elements, that first data is to be transmitted in association with a first network connection. A first entry associated with the first data may then be stored into a first of a plurality of transmit queues. It may subsequently be determined, at a second processing element of the device, that second data is to be transmitted in association with the first network connection. A second entry associated with the second data may then be stored into a second of the plurality of transmit queues. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172179 | Networked Transmission System And Method For Stream Data - Disclosed is a networked transmission system and method for stream data. The system comprises a network, a streaming server and an ordered series of a first up to n-th cooperative-sharing groups. There is a cooperative relationship among all users' terminals in a cooperative-sharing group. The streaming server provides a plurality of programs with stream data, each program being divided into one or more audio/video clips by a time-slot unit. The streaming server transmits the one or more audio/video clips to the leader node of the first cooperative-sharing groups. The leader node of each cooperative-sharing group transmits the currently received audio/video clip to the users' terminals within the same cooperative-sharing group, and passes the received audio/video clip to the leader node of the next cooperative-sharing group after one time slot. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172180 | Apparatus And Method For Transmitting Streaming Services - Disclosed is a system and method for transmitting streaming services. The system may comprise a service agent having a service list. The service list records the contact addresses and priority for one or more nodes that can provide streaming services. The priority for a node represents the level that the node belongs to a path for transmitting streaming data. When a client node requests the service agent for the nodes, wherein the nodes may provide a specific streaming service, the service agent searches for the service list and responds the search result to the client node. Therefore, the client node may get the streaming data directly from the nodes being found, and these nodes form a peer-to-peer network system. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172181 | MULTIMEDIA DATA SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOST NETWORK - A multimedia data sharing system and method for a MOST network is disclosed. The system provides a service management module, a data link control module, and a protocol conversion module. The service management module provides state analysis and management for all services of the multimedia data sharing system and records analyzed service states and configuration results in a service management list. The data link control module performs a control and management process for system data streams based on information stored in the service management list. The protocol conversion module retrieves data from a channel register, based on the information stored in the service management list, to perform a MOST link management operation and implements a packaged or an unpackaged operation to data packets for access of the MOST network. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172182 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIMEDIA STREAMING SERVICE - A system and a method for a multimedia streaming service in a mobile communication device are provided for reducing power consumption. The mobile communication device determines a buffering size of a buffer according to characteristic information of the streams. The device receives the streams from the server, stores the streams in the buffer and plays the buffered streams. The mobile communication device requests a stream pause and the server stops a stream transmission. The server then sends a keep-alive request message to the device. The communication device then sends a keep-alive response message to the server when a keep-alive critical period expires. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172183 | MANAGEMENT OF NETWORKED RESOURCES ON DIFFERENT PLATFORMS WITH A COMMON INTERFACE - A system and method to manage networked resources from a central management node. The management node is exposed to a common web services interface for a plurality of managed nodes having different system stacks. The management node and the managed nodes employ a schema to encode arbitrary data corresponding to management requests and responses into web services messages. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172184 | TCP burst avoidance - A computer-implemented method including providing, at a first device, a packet scheduler layer between a network layer and a transport layer; receiving, at the packet scheduler layer, one or more transmission control protocol (TCP) packets from a sending layer on the first device, wherein the sending layer is one of the network layer or the transport layer; smoothing delivery of at least one of the one or more TCP packets by delaying the delivery; and sending the one or more TCP packets to a receiving layer, wherein the receiving layer is one of the network layer or the transport layer that is not the sending layer. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172185 | UNIFIED CONNECTOR ARCHITECTURE - A system, device, and method are disclosed. In one embodiment the system includes a first host controller that utilizes a first protocol. The system also includes a second host controller that utilizes a second protocol. The system also includes a unified connector port. Finally, the system includes a router that is coupled to the first host controller, the second host controller, and the unified connector port. The router is functionally capable of encapsulating a physical layer packet from the first host controller into a first unified connector protocol frame and then transmits the new first frame to the unified connector port. The router is also capable of encapsulating a physical layer packet that it receives from the second host controller into a second unified connector protocol frame and then transmits the second frame to the unified connector port. The first and second protocols are not the same protocol. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172186 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LATENCY SIGNATURES - A system and method for providing latency signatures including a transmitter to transmit a request for one or more latency signatures from one or more servers, a receiver to receive one or more latency signatures from the one or more servers based on the request, and one or more processors to compare the one or more latency signatures in the event there is more than one latency signature for determining optimum connectivity between the one or more clients. The one or more latency signatures provides positioning information of one or more clients relative to the one or more servers in a network. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172187 | TECHNIQUES TO ENABLE FIREWALL BYPASS FOR OPEN MOBILE ALLIANCE DEVICE MANAGEMENT SERVER-INITIATED NOTIFICATIONS IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising enabling firewall bypass for open mobile alliance device management (OMA DM) server-initiated notifications in WiMAX wireless networks by requiring that a certain OMA DM packet is captured by a WiMAX modem associated with a OMA DM client and routed via a predetermined driver interface. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172188 | FAST PATH MESSAGE TRANSFER AGENT - A method of providing a fast path message transfer agent is provided. The method includes receiving bytes of a message over a network connection and determining whether the number of bytes exceeds a predetermined threshold. If the number of bytes is less than a predetermined threshold, then the message is written only to memory. However, if the number of bytes exceeds the predetermined threshold, then some of the bytes (e.g. up to the predetermined threshold) are written to memory, wherein the remainder of the bytes are stored onto the non-volatile storage. If the message was received successfully by each destination, then the message is removed from the memory/non-volatile storage. If not, all failed destinations are identified and the message (with associated failed destinations) is stored on the non-volatile storage for later sending. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172189 | RADIO FREQUENCY LOCAL AREA NETWORK - An apparatus and a method for routing data in a radio data communication system having one or more host computers, one or more intermediate base stations, and one or more RF terminals organizes the intermediate base stations into an optimal spanning-tree network to control the routing of data to and from the RF terminals and the host computer efficiently and dynamically. Communication between the host computer and the RF terminals is achieved by using the network of intermediate base stations to transmit the data. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172190 | LINK STATE PROTOCOL ROUTING MESSAGE CONTAINMENT - In one example embodiment, a system and method are shown that includes calculating a first SPF tree for a first device, the first SPF tree including a root node and a first child node, the first device being the root node of the first SPF tree. Additionally, the system and method may include calculating a second SPF tree for a second device that is a neighbor of the first device, the second SPF tree including a root node and a first child node, the second device being the root node of the second SPF tree. Further, the system and method may include building a set of interested nodes including the second device, if the first child node if the first SPF tree and the first child node of the second SPF tree are distinct. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172191 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING SERVICE REQUESTS - A computer-implemented method routes service requests to services in a service framework provided by a plurality of hosts. The method comprises receiving a service request for a service in the service framework and discovering a plurality of candidate hosts that host the service. The plurality of candidate hosts are a subset of the plurality of hosts. The method further comprises selecting a candidate host from the plurality of candidate hosts based on measured latencies for the plurality of candidate hosts and routing the service request to the selected candidate host. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172192 | Mapless Global Traffic Load Balancing Via Anycast - Techniques are described for directing connections between clients and the closest web server. Authoritative DNS resolvers of a network are placed at edges of the network. Using anycast, the authoritative DNS resolvers advertise routes of their destination netblock to the Internet. A request from a client to connect to the network is routed, based upon BGP tables, to the closest particular authoritative DNS resolver. Once the request is received, a response is sent to the client with the IP address of the closest web server. The closest web server is determined through in-network health check measurements, with the authoritative DNS resolvers dynamically selecting IP addresses closest to themselves. Routing protocols that directed the packet to the closest authoritative DNS resolver also dictate the route of subsequent traffic to the network. Thus, the closest web server selected by the authoritative DNS resolver is also the closest web server to the client. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172193 | Cable Redundancy with a Networked System - Aspects of the invention provide apparatuses, systems, and methods for supporting cable redundancy in a network connecting a network controller ( | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172194 | Method and System for Propagating Statistics between Federated Contact Center Sites for use in Event Distribution - A routing system includes a router, a statistics server (Stat Server) coupled to the router, receiving, processing and storing statistics related to event handling, and providing information regarding the statistics for use by routing intelligence in the router, and a first proxy data server coupled to the Stat Server and to a second proxy data server at a remote contact center over a network. The system is characterized in that the Stat Server receives event statistics regarding the local queue, and through the coupled first and second proxy data servers, event statistics regarding the remote queue, provides information related to the statistics to the router, and the router determines to route incoming events to local queue or to the remote queue based on the information provided. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172195 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE CONFIGURATION OF MANAGED NODES - A method and system may send a first data packet on a network from a client node to a management server. The first data packet may be formatted to include a client Internet Protocol (IP) address field, a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) request flag, a client UUID field, a client hardware address, and a first port number. The client node may listen for a second port number on the network and may receive a second data packet. The second data packet may have the same format as the first data packet and may include the second port number. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172196 | System and Method For Protecting Content Transferred Between Devices - A method of modifying a series of packets of a content for transmitting to a user over a network includes providing a key that includes at least one aspect of at least one of the packets of a content that is to be modified; and modifying the content based on the key to thereby provide a modified content. A method of rendering a series of packets of a content and a system for modifying a series of packets of a content for rendering by a user are also presented. | 2009-07-02 |
| 20090172197 | CREATING AND EDITING MEDIA OBJECTS USING WEB REQUESTS - A computer-readable medium, apparatus, and interface are provided for constructing an edit decision list that specifies media content to be included in a composed media object. The edit decision list is constructed by generating at least one media portion specifier, wherein the at least one media portion specifier identifies at least a portion of at least one first media object, and generating the edit decision list, where the edit decision list includes a network address and the at least one media portion specifier, and the edit decision list is in the form of a network resource locator string, such as a URL, suitable for transmission in a network request to the network address to cause the composed media object to be generated. The edit decision list may be transmitted in a single Hypertext Transfer Protocol request to the network address. | 2009-07-02 |
