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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7657779 | Client assisted autonomic computing A method, system and apparatus for server failure diagnosis and self-healing in a server farm. An autonomic server farm which has been configured in accordance with the inventive arrangements can include a multiplicity of servers enabled to respond to requests recei... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7644050 | Method and apparatus for annotation-based behavior extensions A method and apparatus is provided for annotation-based behavior extensions. A primary contributor is identified based on a first attribute. Behaviors from a secondary contributor are linked to the primary contributor once a second attribute is examined. Finally, on... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7516819 | Self-checkout system with plurality of capacity-detecting loading stations A system and method for scanning goods and loading the goods into receptacles by a user includes a scanner and a plurality of loading stations. The scanner scans the goods, and the scanned goods are placed on the loading stations. Each loading station separately obt... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7512881 | Tool-tip for multimedia files A tool-tip presentation system for multimedia files. The tool-tip presentation system can be configured to respond to proximity events associated with a selected entry in a list of multimedia files such as screen captured images or complete audio files. Based upon t... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7499879 | Cooperative e-business complex A cooperative e-business complex. The cooperative e-business complex can include one or more electronically accessible e-business complex management services configured to handle e-business processing in the e-business complex on behalf of electronically associated ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499726 | Computer phone A computer integrated cordless phone. The phone can include a cordless handset transceiver configured for coupling to an antenna shared with a wireless network adapter through a multiplexer/demultiplexer so that both of the cordless handset transceiver and the wirel... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7467390 | Enhanced staged event-driven architecture The present invention is an enhanced staged event-driven architecture (SEDA) stage. The enhanced SEDA stage can include an event queue configured to enqueue a plurality of events, an event handler programmed to process events in the event queue, and a thread pool co... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7454779 | Method, system and computer program for controlling access in a distributed data processing system Controlling access to information in a distributed data processing system. The distributed data processing system has a server, which stores the information and also further comprises a logging tool for creating a log file. The distributed data processing system als... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454009 | Ring-tone identification of urgent phone calls A method for activating a distinctive ring-tone can include the steps of extracting caller identifying data from an incoming phone call; comparing the caller identifying data to data in a caller list; determining whether the caller is authorized to activate a distin... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7426515 | Edge deployed database proxy driver An edge-deployed database proxy. A database access system which has been configured with the database proxy can include a universal database connectivity driver having a first exposed interface through which access to a database server can be provided; a database pr... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426642 | Integrating legacy application/data access with single sign-on in a distributed computing environment The present invention provides methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business whereby legacy host application/system access is integrated with single sign-on in a modem distributed computing environment. A security token used for signing ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7386847 | Task roster A task roster. A task roster can include a visual list of component tasks, the component tasks collectively forming a high-level task; a specified sequence in which the component tasks are to be performed; and, one or more visual status indicators, each visual statu... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7370730 | Self-checkout system with plurality of capacity-detecting loading stations A system and method for scanning goods and loading the goods into receptacles by a user includes a scanner and a plurality of loading stations. The scanner scans the goods, and the scanned goods are placed on the loading stations. Each loading station separately obt... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7353235 | Content filtering, ordering by relevance, and caching There is disclosed a technique for organizing a plurality of content items. In an embodiment, the technique comprises assigning to each content item a content item array or bit string, wherein each unique ordinal or bit position indicates a characteristic of the con... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7330933 | Application cache pre-loading The invention reduces the system processing and user response time spikes normally associated with cache flushes and adds to the effectiveness of the cache returned to service through pre-loading of cache data on a staging server. Statistical data is captured repres... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7322031 | Remote Web service cloning and instantiation The present invention is a method for cloning an instantiating a Web service from a calling process to a target host. The method can include expanding an application archive to a Web application container in the target host. The archive can include at least one oper... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7299229 | Grid quorum The present invention is a grid quorum system, method and apparatus. In a cluster of resources in a computing grid, a resource locking method can include acquiring a temporally limited lock on a grid service in the computing grid. Upon expiration of the temporally l... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7287179 | Autonomic failover of grid-based services A grid coordinator which has been configured for autonomic failover can include a monitor communicatively linked to a multiplicity of grid hosts in a services grid. A metrics store can be coupled to the monitor and configured to store service metrics for individual ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7271715 | Personal articles tracking A personal articles tracking system, method and apparatus. In the system of the invention, a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader can be coupled to a tracking processor. A data store further can be configured to store tag data from corresponding RFID tags. F... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266542 | Enforcement of service terms through adaptive edge processing of application data An adaptive data replication and caching system configured to enforce service terms at the network edge. Service terms can include, but are not limited to established quality of service (QoS) terms, as well as the terms of a service level agreement (SLA). This syste... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7256736 | Location system with swept digital beacon A detection system includes a fixed-position transmitter and a mobile unit. The transmitter digitally transmits a data packet including angle information associated with the transmitter, and the mobile unit includes a receiver for receiving the transmitted data pack... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7249178 | Non-intrusive recursive dispatching of nested service collections for aggregating web services The present invention is a method and system for non-intrusively dispatching service requests in a service node nested in a service topology. The method can include receiving a service request in the service node and identifying a requested operation and correspondi... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7236577 | Call screening system and method A call screening system and method. The method can include receiving an inbound telephone call destined for a called party. Associated caller identification data can be identified from the inbound telephone call. The associated caller identification data can be comp... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7171691 | Content sanitation via transcoding A content sanitization process performed via a transcoding engine. The transcoding engine can include one or more patterns, each pattern identifying malicious content in a well-formed document. The transcoding engine also can include an annotation processor configur... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171470 | Grid service scheduling of related services using heuristics A method and system for creating service instances in a computing grid. The method can include scheduling a service in the computing grid to process at least a portion of a requested transaction. At least one additional service related to the scheduled service can b... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7155478 | Selectively handling data processing requests in a computer communications network A system and method for selectively handling requests for dynamic data processing. In the system and method, requests for dynamic data processing can be received in an origin server, but the dynamic data processing can be deferred to an edge server in those circumst... | 12/26/2006 |
