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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185415 | Methods and systems for comparing employee insurance plans among peer groups The present invention is directed towards methods and systems for a benchmark based comparison of an employee insurance plan of an organization to employee insurance plans from other organizations in a peer group. The present invention enables a user to enter detail... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180720 | Content delivery network (CDN) cold content handling A method of content delivery in a content delivery network (CDN), where the CDN is deployed, operated and managed by a content delivery network service provider (CDNSP). The CDN comprises a set of content servers and a domain name system (DNS) associated with a CDN ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177662 | Golf club head weight with seal and vibration dampener A metal golf club head that allows a user to customize the location of the center of gravity. The metal golf club head comprises a hollow body with a weighting port. The weighting port allows a user to place weighting material inside the hollow body, customizing the... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170017 | Reliable, high-throughput, high-performance transport and routing mechanism for arbitrary data flows The present invention leverages an existing content delivery network infrastructure to provide a system that enhances performance for any application that uses the Internet Protocol (IP) as its underlying transport mechanism. An overlay network comprises a set of ed... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166079 | Dynamic content assembly on edge-of-network servers in a content delivery network The disclosed technique enables a content provider to dynamically assemble content at the edge of the Internet, preferably on content delivery network (CDN) edge servers. Preferably, the content provider leverages an “edge side include” (ESI) markup language tha... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165996 | Policy-based management of a redundant array of independent nodes An archive cluster application runs in a distributed manner across a redundant array of independent nodes. Each node preferably runs a complete archive cluster application instance. A given nodes provides a data repository, which stores up to a large amount (e.g., a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164420 | Transient state information display in an RFID tag having a charge-induced pigment release medium An RFID tag includes a sensor for determining a transient state or condition of a product to which the tag is associated, and a display. The tag may be passive, semi-passive, or active. In response to receipt at the tag of a read signal that includes a first value a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8151317 | Method and system for policy-based initiation of federation management A method, a system, an apparatus, and a computer program product is presented for performing federation protocol operations within a data processing system. A message is received. In response to a determination that subsequent processing of the message requires exec... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150850 | Multiple dimensioned database architecture A database management system stores data form a plurality of logical tables as independent copies in different format. In one specific example the system organizes tables into table groups and de-normalizes the table in each table group. It also organizes data in a ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8141139 | Federated single sign-on (F-SSO) request processing using a trust chain having a custom module Federated single sign on (F-SSO) uses a token service that fulfills requests by executing a module chain comprising a set of modules. F-SSO runtime processing is enhanced by enabling a federated entity user to define a custom module to include in the chain. The cust... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140643 | Managing user personal information across web sites A method of managing user personal information across a set of service provider sites is implemented, preferably as a web browser plug-in function. As a user navigates to a service provider web site and performs an interaction involving user identity attribute data,... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135855 | Method and system for enhancing live stream delivery quality using prebursting The subject matter herein relates to a method to “accelerate” the delivery of a portion of a data stream across nodes of a stream transport network. A portion of a live stream is forwarded from a first node to a second node in a transport network at a high bitra... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135827 | Distributed capture and aggregation of dynamic application usage information A web-based hosted solution through which application developers create, manage and monitor application usage analytics in an online manner. Preferably, an application under test is one of: application software, a script-enabled web application, or a rich Internet a... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131835 | Method of load balancing edge-enabled applications in a content delivery network (CDN) A method and system of load balancing application server resources operating in a distributed set of servers is described. In a representative embodiment, the set of servers comprise a region of a content delivery network. Each server in the set typically includes a... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122138 | Method and system for user-determined attribute storage in a federated environment A system is presented for facilitating management of user attribute information at one or more attribute information providers (AIPs), which can manage the user's attribute information in accordance with user-selected or administratively-determined options, includin... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122102 | Content delivery network (CDN) content server request handling mechanism To serve content through a content delivery network (CDN), the CDN must have some information about the identity, characteristics and state of its target objects. Such additional information is provided in the form of object metadata, which according to the inventio... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117545 | Hosted video discovery and publishing platform A hosted system provides any Internet user with the ability to quickly set up and customize a video channel, preferably as a web page or site that can be reached from any Internet-accessible device having a web browser. The solution includes tools for use by channel... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112423 | Fast primary cluster recovery A cluster recovery process is implemented across a set of distributed archives, where each individual archive is a storage cluster of preferably symmetric nodes. Each node of a cluster typically executes an instance of an application that provides object-based stora... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108929 | Method and system for detecting intrusive anomalous use of a software system using multiple detection algorithms A target software system is instrumented to generate behavior data representing a current observation or observation aggregate. A method then determines whether the current observation or observation aggregate warrants a second level examination; preferably, this de... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108507 | Content delivery network service provider (CDNSP)-managed content delivery network (CDN) for network service provider (NSP) A CDN service provider shares its CDN infrastructure with a network to enable a network service provider (NSP) to offer a private-labeled network content delivery network (NCDN or “private CDN”) to participating content providers. The CDNSP preferably provides t... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107952 | Mobile device with an obfuscated mobile device user identity A mobile device identifier (such as an MSISDN) that typically accompanies a mobile device request is replaced with an “enriched” identifier that exposes the mobile device user's home operator but obfuscates the mobile device's (and, thus, the device user's) iden... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103618 | Hosted system for enabling enterprises to build and operate online communities A system that enables enterprises to design, create integrate and operate online communities. The system operates as an on-demand hosted platform (software-as-a-service) that provides a secure and reliable architecture on which enterprises can safely and securely de... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095658 | Method and system for externalizing session management using a reverse proxy server A method, system, and computer program product is presented for providing access to a set of resources in a distributed data processing system. A reverse proxy server receives a resource request from a client and determines whether or not it is managing a session id... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086740 | Method and apparatus for remotely controlling a computer with peer-to-peer command and data transfer A remote access session is established between client and host computers with the assistance of a gateway. The gateway requests the host computer to send a plurality of data packets to different external addresses and monitors the network ports used for these outgoi... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082109 | Computer-aided discovery of biomarker profiles in complex biological systems The invention relates to computational methods, systems and apparatus useful in the analysis of sets of biomolecules in an accessible body fluid or tissue sample from a patient, which biomolecules collectively or individually are candidates to serve as biomarkers, i... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073961 | Global hosting system The present invention is a network architecture or framework that supports hosting and content distribution on a truly global scale. The inventive framework allows a Content Provider to replicate and serve its most popular content at an unlimited number of points th... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065724 | Computer method and apparatus for authenticating unattended machines An unattended computer-based machine is authenticated by the present invention method, system or apparatus. The subject machine may be an auto-restarted machine or similar machine configured to be unattended. Upon receipt of initializing input from a user at a subje... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060632 | Method and system for user-determined attribute storage in a federated environment A system is presented for facilitating management of user attribute information at one or more attribute information providers (AIPs), which can manage the user's attribute information in accordance with user-selected or administratively-determined options, includin... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055285 | Mixed-mode interaction A user of a wireless device, such as a mobile phone, can make purchases or obtain information via a network, such as the Internet, using both voice and non-verbal methods. Users can submit voice queries and receive non-verbal replies, submit non-verbal queries and r... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050955 | Method for forecasting and managing multimedia contacts Multimedia contacts are forecasted, propagated, and managed for each period in a range. The number of contacts received in a period is forecasted using historical methods and is propagated to succeeding periods based on the business goals, such as how quickly a cert... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8042162 | Method and system for native authentication protocols in a heterogeneous federated environment A method is presented in which federated domains interact within a federated environment. Domains within a federation can initiate federated single-sign-on operations for a user at other federated domains. A point-of-contact server within a domain relies upon a trus... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041809 | Method and system for providing on-demand content delivery for an origin server An infrastructure “insurance” mechanism enables a Web site to fail over to a content delivery network (CDN) upon a given occurrence at the site. Upon such occurrence, at least some portion of the site's content is served preferentially from the CDN so that end u... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8010861 | System for fast recovery from losses for reliable data communication protocols Fast recovery from losses is an important problem for reliable data communication protocols. The Internet standard TCP protocol (Transmission Control Protocol) implements two algorithms for that: an original one based on a special timer, and a later addition to TCP ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8006289 | Method and system for extending authentication methods A method is presented for managing authentication credentials for a user. A session management server performs session management with respect to the user for a domain that includes a protected resource. The session management server receives a request to access the... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000262 | Method for identifying network similarity by matching neighborhood topology A method of computing a measure of similarity between nodes of first and second networks is described. In particular, sets of pairwise scores are computed to find nodes in the individual networks that are good matches to one another. Thus, a pairwise score, referred... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996533 | HTML delivery from edge-of-network servers in a content delivery network (CDN) A content delivery network is enhanced to provide for delivery of cacheable markup language content files such as HTML. To support HTML delivery, the content provider provides the CDNSP with an association of the content provider's domain name (e.g., www.customer.co... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996531 | Content delivery network map generation using passive measurement data A routing method operative in a content delivery network (CDN) where the CDN includes a request routing mechanism for routing clients to subsets of edge servers within the CDN. According to the routing method, TCP connection data statistics are collected are edge se... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987252 | Method and system for constraining server usage in a distributed network A “velvet rope” mechanism that enables customers of a shared distributed network (such as a content delivery network) needing to control their costs to control the amount of traffic that is served via the shared network. A given server in the distributed network... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7958249 | Highly scalable, fault tolerant file transport using vector exchange A file transport mechanism according to the invention is responsible for accepting, storing and distributing files, such as configuration or control files, to a large number of field machines. The mechanism is comprised of a set of servers that accept, store and mai... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7946474 | Method of and apparatus for forecasting cash demand and load schedules for money dispensers A method of and apparatus for forecasting cash demand for an automated teller machine (ATM) or any other cash dispensing devices for individual days, weeks and multi-day load periods. In one embodiment, an expected value of withdrawal for any particular period, as w... | 05/24/2011 |
