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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131085 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO A WORK A method for providing access to a work at a preferred device includes: receiving, from an entity, a request to send a copy of a work to a preferred device; sending a query to a database to determine whether the entity is permitted to access the work; receiving a respon... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131086 | Method and Apparatus for Distributing Virtual Goods Over the Internet A Virtual Collectible Distribution Network generates and distributes Virtual Collectible objects, each potentially possessing unique properties, over a computer network such as the Internet, to a group of users. The Distribution Network utilizes a client-server system. ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131360 | PATH CHARACTERISTIC BASED ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES Associating service agents in communication over a network to one or more respective clients coupled to the network at respective ports of the network is described. At a first service agent, a first signal is received from a first client coupled to the network at a firs... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120084339 | Method, System, And Computer Program Product For Creating Smart Services A method, system, and computer program product are described for creating smart services. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method for creating smart services includes defining a service associated with a service agent on a smart services platform. The service is ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084338 | PROCESSING RECURRING EVENTS WITHIN PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CLIENTS A computer-implemented method of processing recurring events within personal information management (PIM) clients can include executing a plug-in component within a PIM client. The method can include receiving, within the PIM client, an event update including a recurrin... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072480 | ELASTIC MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK A framework for building an adaptive management system is described herein. Tools for building customized Agents that communicate by way of an interface abstraction over many mediated and non-mediated communications channels are described herein, wherein such tools allo... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054260 | ASYNCHRONOUS DATA STREAMING IN A PEER TO PEER NETWORK A method of data streaming over a Peer-to-Peer network including server agents and client agents is provided. The method includes: assigning, responsive of a client agent request for a specified file, a sub streams set, being a set of server agents configured each to pa... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054259 | NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM WITH HIGH RELIABILITY A network service providing system with high reliability includes a cloud service platform and an agent system. The cloud service platform is connected to the Internet and is for providing a network service. The agent system is connected to a network linked with the Int... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047198 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING A PROVIDER'S ONLINE STATUS IN A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK A system manages communications between a provider and a requestor in a distributed network. A requestor is implemented on a computing device and provides a stay online binding. The stay online binding identifies a binding that is desired by the requestor. A provider is... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047197 | ARCHITECTURE FOR A SYSTEM OF PORTABLE INFORMATION AGENTS A method and system for providing enhanced intelligent agents that are moveable by a user from a browser application to a desktop. In specific embodiments, agents provide advanced interactive graphics and communications back to a server.... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120041859 | System architecture and methods for experiential computing The present invention contemplates a variety of improved methods and systems for providing an experience platform, as well as sentio or experience codecs, and experience agents for supporting the experience platform. The experience platform may be provided by a service ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042001 | TECHNIQUES TO POLLUTE ELECTRONIC PROFILING Techniques to pollute electronic profiling are provided. A cloned identity is created for a principal. Areas of interest are assigned to the cloned identity, where a number of the areas of interest are divergent from true interests of the principal. One or more actions ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036177 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTENT CATEGORIZATION Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for content categorization, where the method comprises transmitting, by a content categorization request entity, a categorization ability negotiation request to a content categorization providing entity to request t... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030271 | Distributed Hardware/Software System for Managing Agent Status in a Communication Center An agent presence application for monitoring target agent resources and rendering agent states to subscribing applications is provided. The presence application has at least one first portion for collecting data regarding states of activity of the target agent resources... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023151 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOME AUTOMATION AND SECURITY A home automation and security system is provided in which a home automation and security controller in a customer premises is coupled with a remotely located central control facility using a continuous connectivity access line providing a data channel separate from a v... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023150 | METHOD FOR PUBLISHING INFORMATION A method for controlling a host apparatus is provided. The method checks whether or not an external storage device is connected to an asserted connection port, first. When the external storage device is connected to the asserted connection port, a data transmission link... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023558 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN EXTENSIBLE AUTHENTICATION FRAMEWORK The present disclosure describes systems and methods of an authentication framework to implement varying authentication schemes in a configurable and extendable manner. This authentication framework provides a level of abstraction in which requirements for credential ga... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120016925 | MILARRS SYSTEMS AND METHODS An add-on module provides extrinsic management functionality to legacy and other devices. Contemplated modules include: (a) a state agent that provides at least one of the MILARRS function, and (b) a product agent that communicates with the device using at least one ser... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016924 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMAIL ANALYTICS An email campaign is analyzed by sending an email message including a tracking code that requests content from an initial-engagement location (e.g., a server). The tracking code requests the content from the initial-engagement location when the email message is opened b... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011189 | Apparatus and Method For Matching Users For Online Sessions An apparatus, method, and machine-readable medium are described for establishing peer-to-peer (“P2P”) communication channels. In particular, in one embodiment, a matchmaker service performs a series of operations to service match requests received from a group of mo... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011190 | BROKERED CLOUD COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE A cloud broker receives a request for processing resources from one of a plurality of cloud management infrastructures (each of which correspond to one of a plurality of clouds). The cloud broker selectively enables access to the clouds associated with each cloud manage... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120004976 | Dynamic Internet Advertising System Methods and apparatus are provided for the dynamic placement, management and monitoring of Internet advertising. A provider of Internet content distributes the Internet content by embedding an advertisement placeholder in the Internet content; and provides the Internet ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320519 | METHOD, DATA TRANSFER ARRANGEMENT, SERVER AND TERMINAL DEVICE FOR UPDATING INFORMATION IN A TERMINAL DEVICE The invention relates to a method and data transfer arrangement for synchronizing information comprised by an application program in a client device. In the method, information comprised by an application program in the client device is updated from a media server maint... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320518 | INTELLIGENT AGENT FOR DISTRIBUTED SERVICES FOR MOBILE DEVICES Mobile devices, mobile device systems and methods applying to mobile devices are provided that employ intelligent agents in combination with a wide array of remote utilities and information sources to facilitate improving a mobile device user's experience. By collecting... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110314080 | Method for Providing Control Information for a Distributed Operation in an Automation System, Computer Program and Automation System A distributed operation in an automation system is performed using at least one first and second computer-based object. The control information is used to influence or determine a property, a function of the first and/or second computer-based objects. The control inform... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314382 | SYSTEMS OF COMPUTERIZED AGENTS AND USER-DIRECTED SEMANTIC NETWORKING A system, method and computer program product in which semi-autonomous agents interact with a semantic network. In a basic embodiment of the system, a data structure providing a semantic network is provided in a non-transitory, computer-readable medium within a computer... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314079 | AGENT SYSTEM FOR REDUCING SERVER RESOURCE USAGE A method, data processing system, and computer program product for processing information. A server-side agent running on a server data processing system monitors for a selected event for processing by the server-side agent. In response to detecting the selected event f... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314078 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR IDENTIFYING A CONTACTEE IN A COMMUNICATION Methods and systems are described for identifying a contactee in a communication. A first alias is received identifying a contactor communicant in a network-based communication. The contactor communicant is represented by a contactor communications agent. A communicatio... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314077 | IDENTIFICATION OF COMPATIBLE PRODUCTS FOR USE WITH MOBILE DEVICES The present provides an automated technique for identifying compatible products and components of a mobile, wireless Internet enabled device. In an embodiment of the invention, a user of the wireless device requests a web page of an appropriate web site, e.g., a web sit... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307538 | NETWORK BASED PEER-TO-PEER TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION A peer-to-peer accelerator system is disclosed for reducing reverse link bandwidth bottlenecking of peer-to-peer content transfers. The peer-to-peer accelerator system contains a peer-to-peer proxy which resides in the core of the network. When a peer-to-peer bootstrap ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307539 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Providing a Remote Non-IP-Addressable Device with an IP Stack A system for dynamically provisioning a remote device with an Internet Protocol (IP) stack using a custom IP agent is disclosed. The system includes a Master Catalog storing a profile identifying an operating system and a native protocol of the device. The system also i... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110302573 | METADATA DRIVEN AUTOMATIC DEPLOYMENT OF DISTRIBUTED SERVER SYSTEMS Automatic and reliable deployment of system topology to computing devices within an enhanced communication system is provided. Specific roles and features associated with individual devices such as servers are defined in a centrally managed topology document, which is r... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110302233 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ENHANCE THE PERFORMANCE OF WEB BROWSERS OVER BANDWIDTH CONSTRAINED LINKS Increasing the performance of a browser while operating over bandwidth constrained links by pre-fetching of web objects to increase the level of concurrency. Using an agent or a gateway to speed up its Internet transactions over bandwidth constrained connections to sour... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110295925 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING AN ALTERNATIVE COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE The present disclosure is directed to, among other things, a method that includes accessing a first server in a first computing infrastructure to obtain data about a configuration of the first computing infrastructure and use of the first computing infrastructure. The m... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295926 | MONITOR DEVICE FOR COLLECTING AUDIENCE RESEARCH DATA A monitor (10) for capturing audience research data from a computer (2-8) having AV presentation capability is attached to the computer by a connector (12). The connector (12) allows to download software stored in the monitor (10 | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295924 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PREVENTING PROCESSING OF AN HTTP RESPONSE Methods and systems are described for preventing processing of an HTTP response. In one aspect, first command information identifying a first command for sending in an HTTP request to a server is received from a user agent. A determination is made that no command respon... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110289133 | NODE PROCESSING DEVICE AND ITS PROCESSING METHOD When the multiple sensors monitored by a sensor management unit, input sensor information into the entrance node, a sensor type identifier unit utilizes a buffer management table to buffer the data according to the sensor type. A start decision unit utilizes a processin... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110282928 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NEGOTIATING A NETWORK CONNECTION A system and method for automatically negotiating Internet access between a user and one of a plurality of Internet connection providers.... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110283138 | Change Tracking and Management in Distributed Applications A monitoring and management system for distributed and interacting systems stores configuration settings after a successful installation or modification and compares values to the stored configuration settings. When a discrepancy is found, a messaging system may relay t... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110276618 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF DISTRIBUTING FILES A system for and method for distributing data to a plurality of work stations is presented. The system and method may include determining reception of new or updated data, initiating a first data distribution session to distribute the new or updated data to a first work... | 11/10/2011 |
