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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131087 | CONCURRENTLY APPLYING AN IMAGE FILE WHILE IT IS BEING DOWNLOADED USING A MULTICAST PROTOCOL A system and a process for deploying a computer file involves a client computer applying the computer file concurrently with downloading the computer file from a file server. The concurrent operations can be performed even when the data of the computer file is downloade... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130807 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SELF PLACEMENT MEDIA ENHANCEMENT WIDGET The present invention is and includes a device, system and method for providing an image enhancement widget. The device, system and method include a javascript component that, upon execution, obtains at least one subject of primary content on a networked page, and at le... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130971 | Systems and Methods to Play Media Cotent Selected Using a Portable Computing Device on a Display Device External to the Portable Computing Device A particular method includes identifying, at a portable computing device, media content that is accessible from a remote computing device via a network. The method includes receiving user input associated with a particular media content item of the indentified media con... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131089 | COMMUNICATION SERVICES AND APPLICATION LAUNCH TOOL Resources in a communication system are associated based on a query by receiving the query from a client device, generating requests based on the query, each request being formatted in a different message format, transmitting each of the plurality of requests to at leas... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131473 | SCRIPTING WEB SERVICES A process performed on a server includes configuring the server to enable script for a Web service to be defined dynamically, where the Web service includes an application program interface (API) for enabling access by, and interaction with, a computer program executing... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131096 | User Control Over Content Delivery Novel tools and techniques for Internet service providers to enable enhanced user control over content delivery. In an aspect of certain embodiments, these tools can allow the customer to select, on a variety of different bases, whether content should be obtained from t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131091 | IDENTIFYING COMPATIBLE WEB SERVICE POLICIES Methods, systems, and devices are described for identifying compatible web service policies between a web service and a web service client. A first and second set of one or more identifiers linked to web service policies supported by the web service and web service clie... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130819 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED CONTENT USING EMOTIONAL PREFERENCE A system and method for providing customized content using emotional preference is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a web analytics server, at least one website server and at least one user device all communicating through a network. The web analytics ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131098 | REMOTE CONTROL ARRANGEMENT The present invention relates generally to an arrangement for delivering information to the user of a mobile device where the information presented to the user is associated with information that has a temporal or contextual or location based association with other info... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131095 | OPTIMIZATION OF RESOURCE POLLING INTERVALS TO SATISFY MOBILE DEVICE REQUESTS Systems and methods for optimizing a polling interval to capture new or changed content at an application server in a wireless network are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for polling... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131088 | MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM WITH PROGRESSIVE FEATURE SELECTION AND SUBMISSION A system and method for information retrieval comprises a computing device with a client and a progressive feature server coupled by a network. The client includes a feature extraction module, a progressive sending module, a sampling module and a feedback receiver. The ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131093 | CONNECTION DISTRIBUTION FOR LOAD BALANCING IN A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE An information processing system includes a number of database servers deployed onto a number of physical nodes in a distributed manner. Among the database servers, at least two servers taking care of data different from one another are deployed onto the same physical n... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131099 | MANAGING ATMOSPHERE PROGRAMS FOR ATMOSPHERE CREATION SYSTEMS The invention relates to the management of atmosphere programs including lighting scenes for lighting systems, audio, video, scent or any combination of the above, particularly to a user interface for comfortably selecting an atmosphere program to be created by an atmos... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131097 | ISOLATION VLAN FOR LAYER TWO ACCESS NETWORKS In general, techniques are described for providing an isolation virtual local area network (VLAN) for layer two access networks. A server comprising an interface and a control unit may implement the techniques. The interface receives a message that initiates a request f... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131092 | SERVER DEVICE AND PROGRAM PRODUCT According to one embodiment, a server device connected to a client device by way of a network includes a receiving unit, a first detecting unit, a cycle changing unit, a second detecting unit, and a transmitting unit. The receiving unit receives operation data through t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131090 | DISTRIBUTED REGISTRY FOR DEVICE DISCOVERY USING QUORUM CONSENSUS PROTOCOL A distributed hierarchical registry provides services, such as registry services, including client device discovery and communication services. The distributed hierarchical registry comprises a plurality of registry groups where a registry group comprises a plurality of... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131094 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INDIRECT CONTROL OF A WEBSITE A method for indirectly controlling a website using a user communication device is disclosed. A unique machine-readable code is displayed on a display device, the unique machine-readable code being specific to the display device displaying contents from a website throug... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110070 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM An information processing system is disclosed. The system includes: a client that executes information display processing; and a server that creates a display structure description file applied in the information display processing, wherein the client acquires image dat... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110067 | REMOTE GRAPHICS RENDERING An example method for remote graphics rendering may comprise receiving a data request from the client device to display data stored in a remote web server. The data to be displayed may at least partially comprise graphics data. The method may further comprise determinin... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110069 | COMPUTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CHANGING I/O CONFIGURATION THEREOF A computing system includes: first and second I/O interfaces that are associated with a server; and an I/O management unit that connects the server with the first and second I/O interfaces. The I/O management unit includes: an I/O buffer; an I/O mapping unit that stores... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109741 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC CONTENT Methods and apparatus for dynamic content according to various aspects of the present invention may be implemented in conjunction with a method for displaying an overlay object fixed in position and anchored to at least one side of a content area, sending a request for ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110058 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM A determination of whether or not an application is accessible is made on the basis of an evaluation result collected from a client terminal, and the determination result is provided to the client terminal. A client requests usage of an application to a management serve... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110066 | IMAGE INPUT METHOD, CONTENT ITEM SERVER, AND RELAY SERVER An image input system includes a client, a content item server, a relay server, and an image input apparatus. When the client receives an instruction to input an image, the client transmits a first input request including the address of the content item server to the re... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110061 | LOAD REDUCTION AND RESPONSE TIME REDUCTION FOR WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS A device may send a resource from a server device to a proxy device and store the resource on the proxy server as a copy. The device may configure the server device to send a replacement document in place of a web document to a client device in a network when the server... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110060 | NETWORK STATION SYSTEM WITH FUNCTIONS OF MEDIAL REGISTER NUMBER AND MEDICAL MESSAGES INFORMING A network station system with functions of medial register number and medical messages informing comprises a server having a memory, a CPU, and input/output devices; at least one electronic device of a medical organization; the electronic device being connected to the s... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110062 | DATA DELIVERY Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for support dependent post delivery. In one aspect, a method included generating transmission data for a web page served by a first server and rendered on the client devic... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110063 | TECHNIQUE FOR STATELESS DISTRIBUTED PARALLEL CRAWLING OF INTERACTIVE CLIENT-SERVER APPLICATIONS A distributed computing system includes worker nodes and a master node including a processor coupled to a memory. Each worker node crawls a portion of an interactive client-server application. The memory includes a master state graph, including the results of crawling. ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110068 | INTERACTIVE SERVER SIDE COMPONENTS Server side internet applications are created by placing interactive server side components (ISSC's) on internet pages. ISSC's encapsulate dynamic page functions including processing of user responses on the server and thus can be reused, which drastically reduces progr... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110064 | CONTENT SHARING INTERFACE FOR SHARING CONTENT IN SOCIAL NETWORKS Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting a graphical representation of a content sharing interface of a social networking service on a display, receiving first user input to the content sharing int... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110059 | UNIFIED POLICY OVER HETEROGENOUS DEVICE TYPES A system and method are disclosed for enforcing a normalized set of policy-based behaviors across two or more disparate client devices. The policy definition can be a common description of expected behavior, while a client-side policy engine interprets and implements pl... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110065 | CONTENT OUTPUTTING METHOD, CONTENT SERVER AND MEDIATION SERVER A content outputting system includes a client, a content server, a mediation server and an outputting apparatus. Upon reception of a request for outputting content data, the client transmits a request for outputting, which includes a storage location of the content, to ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084850 | TRUSTWORTHY DEVICE CLAIMS FOR ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS Embodiments of the invention enable a client device to procure trustworthy device claims describing one or more attributes of the client device, have those device claims included in a data structure having a format suitable for processing by an application, and use the ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084131 | Data communication system The present invention relates to systems for communicating data. In particular, systems for communicating data to and from mobile devices are described. One system involves the use of a server to store the association between a shortcode and the data. A user device can ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081749 | NETWORK SYSTEM, CLIENT AND CLIENT CONTROL METHOD A network system has a printer with an internal web browser connected to a web server. The printer has a request unit that sends an HTTP request with printer status information embedded in the URL to the server, a data acquisition unit that gets HTML data from the serve... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084516 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DATA RESOURCE PROVISION Methods and apparatuses are provided for data resource provision. A method may include receiving a request for a first data resource. The request may include an indication of an additional data resource that may be requested in a future request. The method may further i... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084351 | SERVICE COLLABORATION SYSTEM A user interaction type service collaboration system, in which a user terminal calls Web service provisioning servers in sequence via a Web portal server and a service scenario execution server, and each Web service provisioning server carries out interaction processing... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084350 | Adaptive distributed medical image viewing and manipulating systems A pure web browser based medical imaging system that requires no installation of application software or any browser plug-in and functions in the same way as traditional full blown medical imaging PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) viewer fat clients. In... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084352 | USER TERMINAL DEVICE AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF A user terminal device and method for providing a service in the user terminal device is provided. The user terminal device includes a location calculation unit that calculates location information of the user terminal device, a storage unit that stores a service hub pr... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084348 | Facilitation of user management of unsolicited server operations A trust architecture, including an intermediary for use therewith, which may be referred to as a Personal Privacy Stronghold (“PPS”), is disclosed which facilitates user management, including control, enablement, extension and augmentation, of unsolicited server ope... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084347 | PRESENTING MODULES IN A BROWSER Module management software receives a request from the browser for a presentation composed of at least one module. The module management software transmits a request for module data associated with the module to a first server that caches the module data after retrievin... | 04/05/2012 |
