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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130823 | MOBILE MATCHING SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method for matching is disclosed. User profile information, location information and event information are stored in a database. First and second electronic check-in information representing that a first user and a second user have checked-in to an event is... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131109 | HIDING EMAIL IDENTIFICATION USING A CONFIGURABLE SET OF DOMAINS A method of delivering an electronic mail message. A mail server receives and stores a rule from a first user. Thereafter the mail server receives the electronic mail message from a second user comprising a sender. The mail server compares the rule with an email address... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131120 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVISION OF CONTENT DATA A computer-based method and system for content data management and provision. The method may include receiving a content request message from a registered user. The content request message may be addressed to an address associated with a broadcast entity. An identity of... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131117 | HIERARCHICAL BITMASKS FOR INDICATING THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF SERIALIZED DATA FIELDS Disclosed are systems and methods for communicating with a sender machine and a receiver machine, and analyzing a bitmask associated with a message to be sent from the sender machine to the receiver machine, such that the bitmask comprises one or more presence bits and ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131112 | System and Method for Automated Responses to Information Needs on Websites Systems and methods are provided to automatically respond to questions on websites. An electronic communication comprising words is received over a network. In some embodiments, the electronic communication could comprise a message posted by a user on a social networkin... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131111 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR POINT-AND-CLICK MESSAGING Methods and systems are provided for communicating with elements of a complex system displayed on a web page comprising a electronic map and a plurality of icons disposed on the electronic map, each of the plurality of icons representing an element of the complex system... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131108 | INTELLIGENT OFFLOAD OF WORK TO HANDLE PEAK ACTIVITY IN AN ENTERPRISE EMAIL SYSTEM A method and system for sending a message are disclosed. The method involves receiving a message at a mail server and determining that a load of the mail server exceeds a threshold. If it is determined that the load of the mail server exceeds a threshold, then the metho... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131119 | MESSAGE CLASSIFICATION USING LEGITIMATE CONTACT POINTS A system and method are disclosed for classifying a message. The method includes receiving the message, identifying all items of a certain type in the message, determining whether each of the items meets a criterion, and in the event that all the items are determined to... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131121 | MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS MESSAGE VERIFICATION OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS A system and method for verifying a secure transaction by evaluating the transaction, generating a first verification value for the transaction, sending an electronic mobile message to a wireless device associated with the transaction, receiving a response from the wire... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131659 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM INCLUDING PROTOCOL INTERFACE DEVICE FOR USE WITH MULTIPLE OPERATING PROTOCOLS AND RELATED METHODS A communications system may include a plurality of data storage devices each using at least one of a plurality of operating protocols. The system may also include a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices for accessing the data storage devices, and each may ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131118 | SIGNATURE GENERATION USING MESSAGE SUMMARIES Systems and methods for processing a message are provided. A message may be processed to generate a message summary by removing or replacing certain words, phrases, sentences, punctuation, and the like. Message signatures based upon the message summary may be generated ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131116 | CONTROLLING DATA TRANSFER ON MOBILE DEVICES A communication system can provide one or more mechanisms for controlling data transfer on a mobile device. A technique based on such a mechanism includes receiving a request to transfer data to an application, accessing a first service identifier associated with the da... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131113 | FILE SHARING METHODS A file sharing method for sharing data in a local area network includes obtaining information pertinent to one or more file(s), transmitting the information pertinent to the one or more file(s) in the local area network, selecting one or more of the one or more file(s) ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131114 | Method and system for transmitting large message mode CPM messages The disclosure discloses a method and system for transmitting a large message mode CPM message, both of which enable the respective establishment of Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) links between a CPM client of a sender and an originating participation function en... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131115 | TRANSACTIONAL MESSAGING SUPPORT IN CONNECTED MESSAGING NETWORKS A method and system are provided for transactional messaging support in connected messaging networks. A first messaging network is provided which does not support transactional processing and a second messaging network is provided which does support transactional proces... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131107 | Email Filtering Using Relationship and Reputation Data The subject disclosure is directed towards reducing the amount of resources needed to scan email messages for spam. In general, the previous email relationship between a sender and recipient, if any, may be considered in determining how aggressive the filtering level is... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131110 | Shared Multimedia Experience A method includes receiving a request to establish a group presence session between at least a first device associated with a first network and a second device associated with a second network. During the group presence session, multimedia content is provided to the fir... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110672 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLASSIFICATION OF MESSAGING ENTITIES Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors for biasing a reputation score. A communication having data that identifies a plurality of biasing characteristics related to a messaging entity associated with the communication is received. The identif... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110395 | MESSAGE COMPOSITION MANAGEMENT FOR FATIGUED COMPOSERS Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for message composition management for fatigued composers of electronic messages. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for message composition management for fatigued compo... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110681 | SYSTEMS FOR EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS Systems and methods are provided for email communications between senders and receivers. In accordance with one implementation, a computerized method is provided that allows composing an email by a sender in Send Location of Send City at Send Time through the sender's m... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110102 | Data Distribution Method and System A self-distribution method and system for distributing information content among network connected devices includes receiving a query having a code against a database from a wireless communications device, the code uniquely representing one of an advertising campaign, a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110103 | SYSTEM AND METHOD EMPLOYING AN AGILE NETWORK PROTOCOL FOR SECURE COMMUNICATIONS USING SECURE DOMAIN NAMES A network device comprises a storage device storing an application program for a secure communications service and at least one processor. The processor is configured to execute the application program enabling the network device to (a) send a request to look up a netwo... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110104 | MESSAGE SCREENING SYSTEM A message screening system includes routing to a supervisory recipient an electronic message directed to an intended recipient. The supervisory recipient then is allowed to screen the electronic message by approving or rejecting the electronic message. The electronic me... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110099 | Chat System, Server Device, Chat Method, Chat Execution Program, Storage Medium Stored with Chat Execution Program, Information Processing Unit, Image Display Method, Image Processing Program, Storage Medium Stored with Image Processing Program A matching server, when a chat room specified by participation request information received from a client terminal device is registered in a room storage region, associates and registers that client terminal device to the chat room, and when the chat room specified by t... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110100 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM An apparatus to communicate with a partner includes a transmission unit configured to directly transmit address information of the apparatus to the partner, a reception unit configured to receive data from the partner connected to the apparatus via a relay apparatus, us... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110098 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF E-MAIL APPENDED DOCUMENT IN THAT INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF An e-mail message to which a document is attached is received, and it is determined whether or not a digital signature is appended to the e-mail message. The document attached to the e-mail message is saved as an approved document, which is approved for printing, when i... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110095 | ACCURATELY ACCOUNT FOR TIME ZONE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN STOCK BROKERS AND CLIENTS IN REPLYING MESSAGING COMMUNICATION Systems and methods are provided for accurately accounting for time zone differences in replying messages between stock brokers and clients. In accordance with one implementation, a system is provided that include an electronic messaging system comprising a processor, a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110105 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RETRIEVING ELECTRONIC MAIL A communications system and method includes a mobile device having a mail user agent. A mobile office platform as a server includes a mail agent that is operative with the mail user agent for accessing one or more electronic mailboxes of the mail user agent using at lea... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110092 | EMAIL THREAD MONITORING AND AUTOMATIC FORWARDING OF RELATED EMAIL MESSAGES A computer system can implement a mechanism for email thread monitoring and automatic forwarding of related email messages. In one embodiment, a first email message is provided from an email application of a computer system to a plurality of email addresses. An indicati... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110096 | SOCIAL CIRCLES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting contact data for displaying graphical representations of contacts for display to a user, the contacts being contacts of the user within a computer-impleme... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106801 | VEHICLE TRACKING AND LOCATING SYSTEM A vehicle tracking and locating system provides information to a user about a vehicle of interest, and includes a database controller in operative communication with a database, and configured to receive data corresponding to vehicles from a plurality of client sources,... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110097 | Forwarding E-Mail Message Attachments From a Wireless Device A system and method of forwarding an e-mail from a wireless device is provided. The wireless device receives the e-mail message in portions as needed, the portions having the attachments contained therein. The portions of the e-mail message containing only a subset of a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109757 | SPONSORED STORIES AND NEWS STORIES WITHIN A NEWSFEED OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM A social networking system generates socially-relevant stories for a user based on actions taken by other users to whom the user is connected. The social networking system may receive a request for a sponsored story for a viewing user and may select information about on... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110101 | METHOD FOR EFFICIENT CREATION OF E-MAIL TRAFFIC A method for efficiently handling e-mail traffic using an e-mail system includes sending an e-mail and a weighting and status table stored with the e-mail to a recipient. The weighting and status table includes a weighting, entered and selected by the sender, that perta... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110090 | Reducing Email Message Size A method, system and computer program product for supporting email message size reduction. Example operations may include identifying a first email recipient that is to receive a full version of an email message (full email message), identifying a second email recipient... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110091 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WELDER WITH HELP REQUEST FUNCTIONALITY A welder includes a network interface configured to connect to a network. The welder includes a user interface that indicates to a user entities to whom help requests may be sent and receives from the user a selection of an entity to whom to send a help request. A data ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110093 | SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE VERSION AND DEPENDENCY CONTROL This disclosure is directed to techniques for providing version control functionality for web services of one or more service oriented architecture (SOA) systems. According to these techniques, a version control service (VCS) may receive an indication of a version updat... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110094 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGING SYSTEMS SUPPORTING PROVISION OF ENTIRE FORWARDING HISTORY REGARDING THE SENDING, RECEIVING, AND TIME ZONE INFORMATION, OF AN EMAIL AFTER THE EMAIL IS FORWARDED BY A NUMBER OF USERS Systems and methods are provided for supporting provision of forwarding history of email information. In accordance with one implementation, a system is provided that includes supporting provisioning of entire forwarding history regarding the sending and receiving time ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084370 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCOURAGEMENT OF DATA SUBMISSION IN ONLINE COMMUNITIES The invention relates to systems and methods for behavioral modification of users in an online community where users store or share data to help one another reach informed decisions. One aspect of the invention provides a method for encouraging active participation in a... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084371 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR USER CONTROLLED POLICY SHARING According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for user controlled policy sharing. The method includes receiving, from a first user device, a request to share with a second user device a policy attribute associated with the first user dev... | 04/05/2012 |
