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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080294664 | MECHANISM FOR SUPPORTING INDEXED TAGGED CONTENT IN A GENERAL PURPOSE DATA STORE A schema identifies a field in a document as a key field. Using an XML schema, the key field can be identified by attaching a property to the element or attribute to be used as a key field (if the XML schema standard is modified to support properties). Otherwise, attrib... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080288278 | System and Method for Expressing and Evaluating Signed Reputation Assertions A method for expressing and evaluating signed reputation assertions is disclosed. In one embodiment, a first entity receives a request to generate a signed assertion relating to a piece of content. The first entity generates a reputation statement about a second entity ... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080246636 | OPTIMIZED DECOMPRESSION USING ANNOTATED BACK BUFFER A system and method for decompression optimization employing a data input and a dedicated back buffer and data parser. The system and method also relate to accelerating the parsing process during decompression of a block of data by taking advantage of those naturally oc... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080229398 | FRAMEWORK AND TECHNOLOGY TO ENABLE THE PORTABILITY OF INFORMATION CARDS When a user connects a pluggable card store to a machine, the machine plugs a pluggable card provider into a card provider registry. The pluggable card store can be an object portable to the user, or can be a remote store available via some connection, such as an FTP co... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080229383 | CREDENTIAL CATEGORIZATION The user can associate metadata with information cards. The metadata can include, among other possibilities, string names, icons, user policies, containers, and hierarchies. The metadata is stored by the computer system. The metadata can then be used to filter the set o... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080225837 | System and Method for Multi-Layer Distributed Switching A system and method for multi-layer distributed switching is disclosed. In one embodiment, the distributed switching system comprises an external network connection connected to a plurality of computing nodes such that data signals can be sent to and from the computing ... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080225726 | System and Method for Selfish Child Clustering A system and method for selfish child clustering are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a selfish node; and a plurality of servicing nodes each connected to the selfish node, wherein the selfish node selects a first one of the servicing nodes to service ... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080229384 | POLICY-BASED AUDITING OF IDENTITY CREDENTIAL DISCLOSURE BY A SECURE TOKEN SERVICE A user defines an audit policy. The audit policy identifies one or more triggers that, when related information is included in a security token, trigger the performance of the audit. The audit can include notifying the user in some manner that the trigger occurred. The ... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080229411 | CHAINING INFORMATION CARD SELECTORS A machine includes card stores to store information cards. For each card store, one or more card selectors can be provided. When performing a transaction involving information cards, a generic card selector, using a selector policy engine, can identify a card selector t... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080229410 | PERFORMING A BUSINESS TRANSACTION WITHOUT DISCLOSING SENSITIVE IDENTITY INFORMATION TO A RELYING PARTY A user engages in a transaction with a relying party. The relying party requests identity information from the user in a security policy and identifies transaction elements for an on-line business transaction. Typically, the security policy and transaction elements are ... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080222425 | System and Method for Expressing and Evaluating Signed Reputation Assertions A method for expressing and evaluating signed reputation assertions is disclosed. In one embodiment, a first entity receives a request to generate a signed assertion relating to a piece of content. The first entity generates a reputation statement about a second entity ... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080201709 | System and method for automated provisioning of FMware image instances A system and method for provisioning virtual machines for a demonstration are described. In one embodiment, the system comprises a scheduling server for enabling a user to schedule a demonstration by selecting a demonstration set and related details using a scheduling w... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080195717 | System and method for providing an importance filter for electronic mail messages A system and method for implementing an importance filter in an electronic mail message system are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an incoming email message; rating the received email message in accordance with at least one criterion; and re... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080189651 | Plug-in architecture for window management and desktop compositing effects A system and method that relates to a plug-in architecture that enables accelerated rendering and compositing of one or more graphical effects instantiated by one or more separate visual effect plug-ins. The plug-in architecture enables setting up visual effects, accept... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080178270 | System and Method for Implementing an Extended Authentication and Authorization Credential Store A system and method for consumer-side authorization and authentication is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a request for a credential from a business-side party, matching the credential request to a set of available credentials, the available... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080168532 | ROLE POLICY MANAGEMENT In various embodiments, techniques for role management systems are provided. According to an embodiment, a method is provided to allow a role management system to be configured, modified, and restricted. Specific roles assignments may be decorated to be meaningful to an... | 07/10/2008 |
| 20080155211 | System and method of imaging a memory module while in functional operation A memory module (e.g. a hard drive, an optical drive, a flash drive, etc.) associated with a computer system may be imaged without substantial interruption to the operation of the overall system. The imaging may include applying an image to the memory module while execu... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080148000 | Techniques for data replication with snapshot capabilities Techniques for data replication are presented. A snap shot request is processed within an environment associated with a local volume by flushing pending Input/Output (I/O) operations into an event packet. The event packet is sent to a replicated volume and processed aga... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080147584 | Rule Location, Ordering, and Combining in a Polyhierarchical Environment System and method for rule location, ordering, and combining in a polyhierarchical environment are described. In one embodiment, a polyhierarchical environment contains at least one rule, at least one logical structure representable by a graph and at least two connectio... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080133914 | AUTHENTICATION CACHE AND AUTHENTICATION ON DEMAND IN A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK ENVIRONMENT A computer receives a request for authentication from a client. The computer forwards the authentication request to an authentication source. Once the authentication source has validated the authentication request, the computer requests authentication and cache control ... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080126829 | Simulation of failure recovery within clustered systems Failure recovery within clustered systems is simulated. For each of a number of failure conditions for an initial state of a number of computing elements of a computerized system, a failure state of the computing elements is generated that corresponds to the failure con... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080120412 | System and method for providing a hypertext transfer protocol service multiplexer A system and method for registering one or more services at a location where clients can access the services both locally and remotely is provided. A HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) service multiplexer (HSM) may be accessed at a recognizable location, which may be an... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080114873 | Event source management using a metadata-driven framework A system and method that relates to managing multiple network device connections and/or collectors for collecting event source data from one or more network devices, filtering event source data, continuously monitoring connection status to the one or more network device... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080104132 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPLITTING A REPLICATED VOLUME At least two replicated instances of a source volume are split while allowing clients to access data moved during the split. Clients are redirected to the first replicated instance of the source volume. The first replicated instance is split by first moving files in a s... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080086518 | Session sensitive data backups and restores Techniques for the session sensitive data backups and restores are presented. Data having a plurality of hard linked file references are backed up and restored once during a backup operation. Any modifications to the backed up data are noted as session-specific versions... | 04/10/2008 |
| 20080072276 | System and method for applying security policies on multiple assembly caches The invention relates to a system and method for providing multiple assembly caches for storing shared application resources. Each assembly cache may be associated with a different security policies, locations, internal structures and management. An application may be d... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080066063 | System and method for preparing runtime checks System and method for allowing embedded devices, even with a limited amount of CPU power and limited memory, to run code more efficiently by eliminating all or most of the runtime checks, while retaining the benefits of runtime checks. The runtime checks may be moved or... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080066060 | Redirection interface system and method for CIM object manager provider System and method are described for an I/O redirection provider for rapidly adapting legacy services, such as Linux services, into CIM management space. In one embodiment, a method of implementing an I/O redirection provider in a management system including a Common Inp... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080060037 | WEB-ENHANCED TELEVISION EXPERIENCE A television (TV) broadcast signal is received and routed to a TV display. An audio data stream or ancillary data stream in the TV broadcast, (such as closed-captioning), is scanned to determine if a uniform resource locator (URL) is included in the TV broadcast. If a U... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20080052706 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A PATTERN INSTALLATION BY CLONING SOFTWARE INSTALLED ANOTHER COMPUTER A customized installation is created by allowing a user to select a pattern of software. Then software that is installed on another user's computer is identified. If the identified software belongs to the selected pattern, then an installation of the software is obtaine... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20080048980 | Detecting movement of a computer device to effect movement of selected display objects The systems and methods of the invention relate to providing a computer device, having a display unit, with an accelerometer (or other motion sensor) to detect movement of the computer device (and/or an associated display unit) and generate movement data. An acceleromet... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20080046961 | System and method for network permissions evaluation The invention is a system and method for delegating security permission evaluation from a client computer to remote network service (e.g., a security server). The centralization of permission evaluation allows performance enhancements using rules compilation and better ... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20080040395 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING A CACHE USING A GATING MECHANISM AND EVENTS A client caches objects from a data set on a server. The client registers to receive notification of events that occur to cached objects. As events occur to cached objects, the client determines if a specified time interval has elapsed since the cached objects were last... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080040191 | Event-driven customizable automated workflows for incident remediation The invention relates to a system and method for customizing and storing workflow processes for use in remediation incidents such as security events. One aspect of the invention relates to providing tools to enable creation of customized workflow processes for event dri... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080028461 | System and method for dynamic optimizations using security assertions The invention relates to a system and method for efficient security runtime. If the same security demand for permissions occurs twice during the same code path (i.e. execution stack) the latter can be automatically turned (optimized) into a security assertion based on t... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20080021716 | Administrator-defined mandatory compliance expression A system and method for conforming a decision to a compliance expression is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an intermediate conclusion generated by a decision system as a result of a policy evaluation performed based on at least one of a pre... | 01/24/2008 |
| 20070277222 | System and method for executing a permissions recorder analyzer System and method for accurately determining security policy for an application based on dynamic code analysis of application runtime execution(s). A dynamic recorder, dynamic code analyzer and security policy analyzer can evaluate and determine the security decisions a... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070266006 | System and method for enforcing role membership removal requirements System and method for enforcing role membership removal requirements are described. In one embodiment, the method includes, responsive to receipt of a removal request, performing a role evaluation of the removal request to generate a policy request; performing a policy ... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070240165 | System and method for aggregating data from multiple sources to provide a single CIM object Method and system for aggregating data regarding a system component from multiple data sources to provide a single aggregated Common Information Model (“CIM”) object are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises requesting data regarding a system component ... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070233626 | METHOD FOR CONSENSUS DECISIONMAKING IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM A method for consensus decision making in a distributed system. Upon the detection of a system parameter change, the method specifies the communication of decision premises from one node to another node in the system. Consensus decision premises are determined by evalua... | 10/04/2007 |
