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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7444519 | Access control for federated identities An authentication process in a network environment provides a remote user with secured access to an enterprise network based on recognition of a third-party security token. The method includes authenticating the user against a plurality of third-party security token... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444310 | Automatic model maintenance through local nets A model maintenance method is provided. If accuracy of prediction by a current model through consultation with new data is determined to be below a predetermined threshold, a compound model is formed by supplementing the current model with a local net trained with t... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7434109 | Network fault manager for maintaining alarm conditions A computer-implemented method for detecting alarm conditions, the method involving receiving at a first time a trigger notification describing a monitored occurrence on a network; setting a redundancy window to begin at the first time and to end at an expiration tim... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430594 | Method and apparatus for distributed systems management A method and system for managing a distributed computing system relying on the discovery and analysis of dependency data. The implemented system and method utilizes an agent that can detect dependency configuration data stored on network management elements to deter... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424609 | Method and system for protecting against computer viruses A method for delivering an update to at least one user, including creating an electronic communication including an update and a unique signature identifying, the electronic communication as including the update and sending the electronic communication to the user. | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421704 | System and method for identifying and generating business events A system for identifying business events is provided. The system includes a store of business process policies, and a business process manager operative to define and process the business process policies. The system further includes an event manager. The event mana... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421495 | System and method for monitoring network devices A method and system for monitoring hardware information associated with a network device in an enterprise system are provided. In one embodiment, a method for monitoring hardware information associated with a network device in an enterprise system includes retrievin... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418695 | System and method for providing integrated impact analysis data Methods, systems, apparatus and computer-readable media are disclosed for providing cross-platform software dependency information. A first exemplary method is disclosed that includes receiving a request for software dependency information relating to a number of pl... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415671 | Interactive hierarchical status display The invention features a method and apparatus for displaying the status of networked resources, including rendering in a fishbone layout a hierarchy that includes a plurality of resource profiles and a plurality of dependency relationships among resource profiles in... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7389292 | Systems and methods of information backup A system for backing up and restoring information includes at least one storage device, a primary server for granting and denying a global lock to devices requesting access to the at least one storage device and at least one secondary server including internal table... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386613 | System and method for measuring middleware response time System and method for monitoring middleware performance is described herein. A route time for a sample message transmitted along a predetermined network route is determined and at least one queue residency time is determined. The at least one queue residency time re... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386586 | System for scheduling and monitoring computer processes A job scheduling device providing a consistent set of application programming interfaces (APIs) compiled and linked into an individual or suite of programs to provide scheduling services on a single computer or across multiple computing platforms, includes a GUI API... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383569 | Method and agent for the protection against the unauthorized use of computer resources Method and agent for preventing a hostile use of computer resources by an application running on a workstation. A list of services that are not allowed for access by unspecified applications is determined, and when such unspecified application runs on the workstatio... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383532 | System and method for client-side locale specific numeric format handling in a web environment A system and method permits client-side locale specific numeric format handling in a web environment for software applications supported by programming languages. The system and method enable a software application supported by the programming language to perform cl... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379962 | Spatialized audio in a three-dimensional computer-based scene A system and method for enabling an audio conference server (ACS) to provide an application program with multi-point weight controllable audio conferencing. The ACS manages a plurality of audio conferences, receives audio data from a plurality of audio clients, mixe... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379961 | Spatialized audio in a three-dimensional computer-based scene A system and method for enabling an audio conference server (ACS) to provide an application program with multi-point weight controllable audio conferencing. The ACS manages a plurality of audio conferences, receives audio data from a plurality of audio clients, mixe... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7356833 | Systems and methods for authenticating a user to a web server A method and system for automatically and transparently providing access to resources associated with a web server which requires authentication. A server is provided for a web browser, which intercepts and responds to authentication requests from web servers. The m... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356816 | Method and apparatus for multiplatform migration A method and system for migrating a computing environment from a source computing platform to a destination computing platform. A script defines at least one software system or application stored on the source computing platform. The script is parsed by a scripting ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356522 | System and method for building a rulebase A method for building a rulebase includes receiving a plurality of rulebase components. The method also includes merging the rulebase components to create a consolidated rulebase. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353510 | System and method for comparing objects A method for comparing objects includes selecting a first object and a second object, each object associated with an instance of at least one primary parameter and an instance of at least one secondary parameter, each secondary parameter associated with one of the p... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353506 | Accessing information at object creation A system is disclosed for accessing information about an object, where such information is available at the time of creation of the object but not necessarily available at all times later. In one embodiment, existing object code is modified to add the ability to acc... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350235 | Detection of decryption to identify encrypted virus A method of detecting decryption of encrypted viral code is provided. Executable code in a subject file is emulated by a code emulator. A memory monitor monitors memory access information supplied by the emulator. A memory area that is read during emulation of an in... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346647 | System and method for interfacing with existing system management products or software solutions A system and method for providing a consistent interface with different system products or software solutions includes one or more system units or machines wherein the different system products or software solutions (instruments) reside. A service request can be mad... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342581 | Method and apparatus for displaying 3-D state indicators A method for presenting a user selected status of an object in a three dimensional graphic display is disclosed. The method includes the step of receiving a request to select a property of an object for display. The method further includes the step of displaying at ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340598 | Method and system for monitoring a computer system for dynamic reconfiguration A method of monitoring a computer system for reconfiguration includes defining at least one platform on the computer system, monitoring the platform to gather information related to multiple predefined attributes, analyzing the information related to the multiple pr... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334188 | System and method for generating HTML based on common XSLT A method for generating HTML based on common XSLT includes retrieving XML data from a data provider in response to a request from a client, the XML data comprising at least one dataset associated with at least one SVG tag or at least one table tag. The retrieved dat... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331018 | System and method for customizing a data display using a presentation profile A method for customizing a data display using a presentation profile comprises retrieving extensible Markup Language (XML) data in response to a request from a client. A presentation profile is loaded based on at least one characteristic of the client. The XML data ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7321879 | Using neural networks for data mining A data mining system and method are provided. The system includes at least one client and a service broker configured to include an interface to receive a consultation request from the client. The service broker forwards the consultation request to a Neugent to invo... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320005 | System and method for managing native application data Methods and systems are disclosed for migrating data between a legacy application data repository and an enterprise database. One exemplary system includes a legacy application data repository, an enterprise database, an export module for exporting data from the rep... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318092 | Method and apparatus for remote discovery of software applications in a networked environment Tools (in the form of methods, apparatus and system) are provided for discovering software applications in a networked environment. A host machine in the networked environment is scanned for attributes that match one or more application fingerprints, in order to det... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315893 | Method and apparatus for filtering messages based on context A method for reporting alert conditions is disclosed which includes defining alert filter criteria, identifying an alert condition, analyzing one or more properties of the alert condition based on the alert filter criteria, and determining whether to report the aler... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315860 | Directory service system and method with tolerance for data entry storage and output A method and apparatus for applying an application of a data service, such as X.500 and LDAP, to a relational database, a database design and use of the database to perform such directory services. Specifically addressed is the problem of achieving efficient searchi... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313279 | Hierarchical determination of feature relevancy Methods for feature selection based on hierarchical local-region analysis of feature relationships in a data set are provided. ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310590 | Time series anomaly detection using multiple statistical models A time series is analyzed by multiple functions simultaneously to identify an anomaly for a data point in the series. Data point values are predicted by the multiple functions. An anomaly occurs when an actual data point in the series differs significantly from the ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310777 | User interface for viewing performance information about transactions Data about a transaction is accessed. The transaction has a set of components. A graphical representation of the components of the transaction is displayed such that the graphical representation includes a time axis and a call stack position axis. In one embodiment,... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305703 | Method and system for enforcing a communication security policy A method for enforcing a security policy for selectively preventing the downloading and execution of undesired Executable Objects in an individual workstation, comprising the steps of, (1) providing a security agent suitable to be installed in an individual workstat... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7298906 | Hierarchical determination of feature relevancy for mixed data types A method for feature selection based on hierarchical local-region analysis of feature characteristics in a data set of mixed data type is provided. A data space associated with a mixed-type data set is partitioned into a hierarchy of plural local regions. A relation... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7290208 | Executing a dialog using one or more XML components and one or more embedded scripts In one embodiment, a system for executing a dialog using one or more Extensible Markup Language (XML) components and one or more embedded scripts includes an XML engine that parses an XML component describing a dialog. The XML component includes elements describing ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287192 | Identifying a failed device in a network A failed device is identified in a network that includes plural devices. To begin, an attempt is made at communication with a target device. If the attempt at communication with the target device fails, it is determined if the target device has an active neighbor. I... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281170 | Help desk systems and methods for use with communications networks A network management system includes a fault diagnosis system, a topology mapper, an impact analyzer and a help desk system. The a help desk system includes a user interaction module, and a fault diagnosis interaction module. The user interaction module is construct... | 10/09/2007 |
