Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131083 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASYNCHRONOUS NOTIFICATION USING HTTP Methods and apparatus for asynchronous notification using HTTP. An application server configured to host one or more web applications and process HTTP requests associated with the one or more web applications includes a long polling mechanism configured to maintain an o... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131084 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING NEW DATA WITH A DIGITAL MAP The present invention describes a method for associating new data with a digital map which is available, preferably locally, in a vehicle, having the following steps: at least one new data value is received from a transmitter which is an element of a vehicle-to-vehicle ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127183 | Distribution Processing Pipeline and Distributed Layered Application Processing The present invention contemplates a variety of improved methods and systems for distributing different processing aspects of layered application, and distributing a processing pipeline among a variety of different computer devices. The system uses multiple devices reso... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110054 | Information Provision System, Information Provision Method, Program, and Server Device When continuous user biometric information is transmitted to a server device continuously from a handheld device used by a user, the server device can be caused to receive a required measurement value efficiently at a required time, select information desired by the use... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110651 | Granting Access to a Cloud Computing Environment Using Names in a Virtual Computing Infrastructure Access to resources in a cloud computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes is described. A group of users is defined within the cloud computing environment. A first name is assigned to the group. At least one subgroup of users is defined from within the ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110056 | Organizing Data in a Virtual Computing Infrastructure Organizing data in a cloud computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes is described. An authorization to service a request is received. The request may be from a user for launching an instance. In response to receiving the authorization and based on the ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110057 | METHOD AND NODE FOR LOCATING OBJECTS IN A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK This invention includes a method and a node (302) for locating objects in a structured overlay peer-to-peer network (500). Known distributed hash table DHT algorithms are not well suited for wild card searches. This problem has been solved by the current i... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110053 | ELECTRONIC COMMERCE INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM A networked commercial interaction management method assembles information into bundles that include a data element reference and meta data describing the data element. The method distributes the meta data and the data element reference from the bundles through the netw... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110055 | Building a Cloud Computing Environment Using a Seed Device in a Virtual Computing Infrastructure A cloud computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes is described. A seed device is connected to a network. From the seed device, a launching of a cloud computing management configuration is initiated. The seed device includes a repository of software. Fr... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110052 | SOCIAL CIRCLES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving first user input, the first user input provided by a user of a computer-implemented social networking service and indicating first digital content that is to... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084337 | VIRTUAL JAVASCRIPT OBJECT NOTATION A client receives an object definition defining an object and an array of elements from a server. Each of the elements in the received array includes data representing objects associated with a data store of the server. The client instantiates a plurality of objects bas... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069389 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM According to an aspect of the invention, an information processing system includes a control device, an information processing apparatus, a control target device. The information processing apparatus is connected to the control device. The control target device is conne... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072307 | PROVIDING A MARKETPLACE FOR SOFTWARE SERVICES A marketplace machine may provide a marketplace for the software service developed by a developer. The marketplace machine may register a software service, configure a server to provide the software service, and advertise the software service to potential consumers (e.g... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072479 | INTELLIGENT ESTABLISHMENT OF PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION A device may receive, from a first peer in a network, a request for a list of one or more candidate peers from which the first peer can obtain a resource. In addition, the device may obtain the list in response to the request, determining a set of costs based on the lis... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072478 | Content Discovery and Transfer Between Mobile Communications Nodes Content discovery and content transfer between mobile communications nodes is often required, for example, to synchronize maps, traffic hot spot information and the like for vehicle mounted satellite navigation devices, pedestrian hand-held personal digital assistants a... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072477 | Method and Apparatus for Polymorphic Serialization Polymorphic serialization is disclosed. In one embodiment polymorphic serialization may include generating a first reply in response to receiving a first request from a first device, the first reply including first content in a first serialization format. The first repl... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054273 | WEB SERVICES-BASED COMMUNICATIONS FOR USE WITH PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS A web services-based communication system and technique uses an information server to facilitate the communication of process control data and analysis results between a plurality of web services coupled to a communication network. A graphical user interface coupled to ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054258 | System and Method for Transmitting a Control Channel A system and method for transmitting a control channel are provided. A method for communications controller operations includes generating a first control message from a first group of information, where the first control message occupies two transmission resources, and... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047195 | Identifying Relevant Data from Unstructured Feeds A system and method of providing data to a mashup application may involve receiving a request from a mashup application and supplying first data to the mashup application in response to the request. Mashup information can be received from the mashup application, wherein... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047196 | Sharing Media Content Based on a Media Server A media server is hosted in a service provider's network so that media content can be stored from or rendered to a private network such as a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) network. Media content may be stored directly by accessing the media server or by download... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120040657 | Distributing an Application A network node comprising an input, a processor and an output, the processor being coupled to the input and the output; the input and output both being connected to at least one network; in which the processor is arranged so as to receive from the input an executable ap... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120041998 | Network Interface for Accelerating XML Processing Described embodiments provide a method of processing data packets received at a network interface of a host device. The network interface detects whether a received data packet is an XML packet. If the data packet is an XML packet, the network interface provides the XML... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042000 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOCIABLE COMPUTING IN AD-HOC AND CONFIGURED PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS Executing a program structure for spanning a thread of control and a thread of execution across multiple peers in a peer-to-peer network comprises generating a program structure comprising a plurality of program instructions. A first of a plurality of network peers then... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120041999 | NETWORK TYPE CONTENT REPRODUCING SYSTEM A network AV system comprises a controller, a client connectable to the controller via a network, and an AV equipment connectable to the client. The controller includes a first transmitting unit transmitting a command for controlling a controlled element of the AV equip... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036176 | APPARATUS CONNECTED TO NETWORK AND METHOD FOR REQUESTING ANOTHER APPARATUS TO PERFORM PROCESSING VIA NETWORK A second apparatus, which is connected to a first apparatus and a third apparatus via a network, transmits a signal to the third apparatus for preventing the third apparatus from stopping an operation in a case where the second apparatus requests the first apparatus to ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036483 | DEVICE, METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A CHANGE FROM A FIRST PICTURE TO A SECOND PICTURE ON A DISPLAY, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT A device is described having a memory storing data specifying a change animation between pictures to be displayed successively on the display, a setting circuit configured to store a setting specifying that a change animation between pictures to be displayed successivel... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120016662 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING BIOMETRIC INFORMATION USING DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATION An approach is provided for providing biometric information processing using distributed computation. A biometric information processing infrastructure determines to receive an input including, at least in part, biometric information. The biometric information processin... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011193 | System And Method For Dynamically Switching Between Mouse Modes A local computing device determines that multiple mouse modes are supported by both the local computing device and a remote computing device with which the local computing device is connected. The mouse modes are connection protocols for a cursor connection, the connect... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011188 | Distributed processing system A distributed processing system includes a plurality of information processing apparatuses, each of the information processing apparatuses including a transferring unit that divides data to be processed including data elements for each of which one of the information pr... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120005250 | Systems and Methods for Recording Communication Sessions A system for recording a communication session is disclosed. The system includes an edge device configured to receive a message that includes information about the communication session, determine whether to record the communication session based on at least one criteri... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005252 | EVENT NOTIFICATION IN INTERCONNECTED CONTENT-ADDRESSABLE STORAGE SYSTEMS Some of the embodiments herein provide a seamless cloud of storage. This storage may be content-addressable storage. An end application may or may not be exposed to the fact that content-addressable storage is used. Various embodiments herein provide event notification,... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005251 | Method and Apparatus for Network-Friendly Collaborative Caching An apparatus comprising a first content oriented network architecture (CONA) node configured to couple to at least one second CONA nodes and implement collaborative caching in accordance with criteria comprising at least one content caching objective and at least one ne... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005253 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DISTRIBUTED DATA Some embodiments are directed to processing content units stored on a distributed computer system that comprises a plurality of independent nodes. The content units may be processed by determining which content units are stored on each node and identifying which content... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005254 | USING DISTRIBUTED QUEUES IN AN OVERLAY NETWORK The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for using distributed queues in an overlay network. Embodiments of the invention can be used to replicate queue state (e.g., inserted and/or deleted messages) within an overlay network and ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110321100 | Systems and Methods for Producing Processed Media Content A method for producing processed media content includes receiving media content at a network computing device. The media content is obtained from a media source at a scheduled time via a public network based on a user recording request received from a user device associ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320517 | MULTIMEDIA MESSAGE GATEWAY AND A METHOD FOR REALIZING THE GATEWAY FLOW CONTROL The present invention relates to a multimedia message gateway and a method of the gateway for realizing flow control, wherein the multimedia message gateway comprises a gateway configuration station and service processor(s); the gateway configuration station configures ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320515 | Medical Imaging System A medical imaging system, a computer program product and method of processing a medical image, wherein the medical imaging system comprises a first module and a second module for processing the medical image, the first module being operably connected to the second modul... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320516 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSTRUCTION AND AGGREGATION OF DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATIONS An approach is provided for construction and aggregation of distributed computations. A distributed computation construction infrastructure identifies an execution context bound to a user context at a device, the execution context corresponding to one or more processes ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314075 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATIONS WITHIN A COMPUTATION SPACE An approach is provided for providing operations for manipulation of distributed computations. A computations closure management infrastructure determines to receive a request for specifying one or more operations to perform on one or more computation spaces, wherein th... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314389 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATION OF AN APPLICATION RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT INTO A USER COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT Systems and methods for creating application runtime environments or application environments that can be downloaded and integrated into the computing environment of a computing device are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes a computing device on which a... | 12/22/2011 |
