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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7840855 | System and method for capturing significant events at web portlets System and method for logging significant events occurring at a web site portal includes a base class portlet service including a significant event catcher method having a register method and a record method, a portlet action table, and an action description table. ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7827329 | Character interactive input/output A system and method for supporting character interactive input/output operation in a half-duplex block-mode environment including a workstation and a server. Keystrokes at the workstation received into an auto enter, non-display entity on the workstation display are... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7751391 | Virtual private network and tunnel gateway with multiple overlapping, remote subnets Local gateway support for multiple overlapping remote networks. The local gateway includes a pool of unique, internally routable system-wide addresses, an address bind table, a filter rules table, and a collection of security association databases. A plurality of ov... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7668819 | System and method for database query with on demand database query reduction A database is queried with on demand database query reduction A query document includes global variables selectively set off by first tags identifying a first global variable as a complete replacement variable and by second tags identifying a second global variable ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7509325 | Synchronization of configuration values between a data base and its input utility A system, method, and computer program product are provided for synchronizing configuration values between a database and a remote input utility by configuring the database for remote input and loading the configuration values to a control file at the server, and co... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7475143 | Server display confirmation record response in a connection oriented client/server protocol A system and method for operating a Telnet client to establish a network connection with a Telnet server. Environment parameters are negotiated for establishing a connection-oriented connection of the client to the server, the parameters optionally including a reque... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7441057 | System and method for providing character interactive input/output A system and method for supporting character interactive input/output operation in a half-duplex block-mode environment including a workstation and a server. Keystrokes at the workstation received into an auto enter, non-display entity on the workstation display are... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7403903 | System and method for ongoing supporting a procurement and accounts payable system A system for deploying to a client accounting installation a general procurement and accounts payable application specifically configured for the client by an enterprise includes a database server for (1) maintaining on a storage device a database of templates descr... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7401354 | System and method for network address translation integration with IP Security IP security is provided in a virtual private network using network address translation (NAT) by performing one or a combination of the three types of VPN NAT, including VPN NAT type a outbound source IP NAT, VPN NAT type c inbound source IP NAT, and VPN NAT type d i... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7356496 | System and method for synchronizing ledger accounts by company group A system and method for keeping ledger accounts in synchronization between a back-end procurement system and a front-end requisition and catalog system. An extract utility extracts a file of general ledger (G/L) accounts, including account code, description, and com... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7340496 | System and method for determining the Nth state of linear feedback shift registers The Nth state of an n-stage linear feedback shift register (LFSR) used to generate pseudo random binary sequences or patterns, and which may be configured as a multiple input signature register (MISR) or single input signature register (SISR) to compress data and ge... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7308580 | System and method for ensuring security with multiple authentication schemes System for authenticating a user for logon to a content manager running on top of a database manager. A connect procedure connects the user to a database manager; and then a logon procedure logs on the user to the content manager selectively responsive to the user c... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7124218 | System and method for providing character interactive input/output A system and method for supporting character interactive input/output operation in a half-duplex block-mode environment including a workstation and a server. Keystrokes at the workstation received into an auto enter, non-display entity on the workstation display are... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120665 | System and method for dynamic negotiation of device name list System and method for client selection of a virtual device in a system including a server and a client provides for establishing a network connection between the client and server; establishing agreement between the server and client to negotiate Telnet options; com... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7107614 | System and method for network address translation integration with IP security IP security is provided in a virtual private network using network address translation (NAT) by performing one or a combination of the four types of VPN NAT, including VPN NAT type ‘a source-outbound’ IP NAT, VPN NAT type ‘b destination-outbound, VPN NAT type ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107540 | System and method for displaying text and graphics in frame borders Information is presented to a computer user by a graphical user interface including a frame border incorporating textual and/or graphical data. Frame borders are provided with text or graphics which present to the user information indicating which direction a frame ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103609 | System and method for analyzing usage patterns in information aggregates System and method for evaluating an information aggregate. A metrics database stores document indicia including document attributes, associated persons and usage metrics. A query engine collects a plurality of documents having non-unique values on a shared attribute... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099319 | Virtual private network and tunnel gateway with multiple overlapping, remote subnets Local gateway support for multiple overlapping remote networks. The local gateway includes a pool of unique, internally routable system-wide addresses, an address bind table, a filter rules table, and a collection of security association databases. A plurality of ov... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099914 | System and method for variable size retrieval of webpage data A user desiring to retrieve any multimedia document (such as image, sound, audio, video, text) is provided the ability to select the size of the document desired. The HTTP protocol HEAD method is used for extracting content length and content type from the server. W... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7098523 | Controlled leakage CMOS decoupling capacitor for application specific integrated circuit libraries A decoupling capacitor includes a fixed resistance in series with the capacitor, the resistance formed by contacts connecting a polysilicon layer to metal and a diffusion layer to metal; the contacts being of location and quantity sufficient for limiting defect curr... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7089231 | System and method for searching a plurality of databases distributed across a multi server domain A system is for searching a plurality of project databases, including a service including a plurality of project database servers; a multi server single server signon processor for authenticating access by a user to a plurality of the project databases; a domain cat... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7089296 | System and method for caching and validating user and command specific server response messages A system and method is provided for user and command specific place based caching with cache validation, including a server; a database; a server cache; the server responsive to receiving a request message for generating a user-specific cache file name, accessing th... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7080082 | System and method for finding the acceleration of an information aggregate Information in a database collection of knowledge resources is evaluated by collecting a plurality of documents having non-unique values on a shared attribute into an information aggregate; assigning to each document an usefulness value; and calculating and visualiz... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7065532 | System and method for evaluating information aggregates by visualizing associated categories System and method for evaluating an information aggregate by analyzing categories into which each document of the aggregate is placed. A metrics database stores for each document indicia including associated categories. A query engine is responsive to a user request... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7055109 | System and method for business process space definition A method and system for representing business processes such as in a workflow model. Each of a plurality of processes is defined as a 3-tuple including a noun, a verb and an attribute, and a selected process is displayed as a point in navigation space. In this manne... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7028262 | Method and system for designing a theme and associating it with a collaboration space user interface A theme is defined and associated with a collaboration space user interface. The theme includes a predetermined set of files including a cascading style sheet and a predetermined set of layout files, with a layout file for each of a plurality of view modes of operat... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7020686 | Method and system for providing synchronous communication and person awareness in a place Collaboration space object model provides for a place consisting of rooms created by users interacting with a client browser. A skin (i.e., theme) may be used as template for creating places. PlaceBots (i.e., agents) provide for accessing, processing and managing da... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6996780 | Method and system for creating a place type to be used as a template for other places Collaboration space object model provides for a place consisting of rooms created by users interacting with a client browser. A skin (i.e., theme) may be used as template for creating places. PlaceBots (i.e., agents) provide for accessing, processing and managing da... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6978308 | System and method for nesting virtual private networking connections with coincident endpoints A communication network includes a plurality of nodes, selectively including a client, a remote gateway Internet service provider, the Internet, a local enterprise gateway, and an enterprise internal network. A local coincident endpoint is established at a first nod... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6973618 | Method and system for importing MS office forms Collaboration space object model provides for a place consisting of rooms created by users interacting with a client browser. A skin (i.e., theme) may be used as template for creating places. PlaceBots (i.e., agents) provide for accessing, processing and managing da... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6963885 | System and method for identifying invoices that may be duplicate prior to payment A system and method for identifying duplicate invoices among multiple systems, the method including the steps of loading first invoices having an index number into a database during a first predetermined time period; for each invoice having said index number, search... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6950981 | Method and system for providing task information in a place Collaboration space object model provides for a place consisting of rooms created by users interacting with a client browser. A skin (i.e., theme) may be used as template for creating places. PlaceBots (i.e., agents) provide for accessing, processing and managing da... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6941371 | System and method for enabling graphic applications in an interactive programming model Graphics enabled applications run on a text-based host server by allowing a client application running at a workstation to inform the server of this session (1) that it, the client application, is graphics capable and (2) the IP address and port(s) it is waiting on;... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6904439 | System and method for aggregating user project information in a multi-server system A system for aggregating user information on a plurality of projects and servers includes a project catalog; a project catalog server; a plurality of project servers; a plurality of project databases; a project database being associated with each project server; an ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6901558 | System and method for displaying status of background worker threads A system for displaying the status of a plurality of threaded tasks operating in the background includes a status bar; a progress control bar in the status bar for a primary task operating in the background and including a progress bar and first and second action bu... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6854016 | System and method for a web based trust model governing delivery of services and programs A workflow, enterprise, and mail-enabled application server and platform supports distributed computing and remote execution of web applications. Lotus Domino Offline Services (DOLS) is used by a web site administrator to configure Internet Notes (iNotes) clients to... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6851062 | System and method for managing denial of service attacks A system and method for monitoring and controlling the total number of SSL port resources that are allowed to be tied up by a malicious or inept client making multiple requests from a single IP address. Smart SSL handshake timeout detection is used to track and deny... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6845383 | System and method for managing concurrent scheduled or on-demand replication of subscriptions A workflow, enterprise, and mail-enabled application server and platform supports distributed computing and remote execution of web applications. Lotus Domino online services (DOLS) is used by a web site administrator to configure Internet Notes (iNotes) clients to ... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6832322 | System and method for network address translation integration with IP security IP security is provided in a virtual private network using network address translation (NAT) by performing one or a combination of the four types of VPN NAT, including VPN NAT type a source-outbound IP NAT, VPN NAT type b destination-outbound, VPN NAT type c inbound... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6807577 | System and method for network log-on by associating legacy profiles with user certificates System for connecting a client system to a server system includes a client database of certificates; a user access panel for receiving user authentication indicia; a program interface for authenticating a certificate in the client database with respect to the indici... | 10/19/2004 |
