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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120129510 | METHODS FOR REMINDING A USER OF A TASK ASSOCIATED WITH A COMMUNICATION Methods for reminding a user of a task associated with a communication are disclosed herein. One example of the method involves reminding the user of a task associated with an incoming communication, and another example of the method involves reminding the user of a tas... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120047460 | MECHANISM FOR INLINE RESPONSE TO NOTIFICATION MESSAGES In response to a first message received at a desktop of a data processing system from a message source, at least a portion of the first message is displayed in an area along an edge of a desktop screen presented by the desktop. In response to a first signal indicating t... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047219 | Systems and Methods for Social Media Data Mining Systems and methods are provided to collect, analyze and report social media aggregated from a plurality of social media websites. Social media is retrieved from social media websites, analyzed for sentiment, and categorized by topic and user demographics. The data is t... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120030303 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR PRIORITIZATION IN A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK The present invention relates to nodes and methods for use in connection with a peer-to-peer network for sharing of data content. A priority mechanism is introduced by means of which a serving peer may select which requesting peers to serve based on their need for data ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120016948 | SOCIAL NETWORK ACTIVITY MONITORING AND AUTOMATED REACTION Methods and systems provided herein provide an enterprise with the ability to detect the occurrence of an event and quickly respond to the same. In particular, events can be detected by analyzing multiple messages which were retrieved from social media networks and conv... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110320555 | PRIORITIZATION OF PROTOCOL MESSAGES AT A SERVER System(s) and method(s) are provided for prioritizing protocol messages received at a server. A client generates a request message and incorporates a data unit therein in order to indicate type of service application that triggered generation of the request message. The... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110302264 | RFID NETWORK TO SUPPORT PROCESSING OF RFID DATA CAPTURED WITHIN A NETWORK DOMAIN RFID data can be received by a RFID data mediation service operating upon a RFID network data server. The received RFID data can be categorized based upon contents of at least one of a data store containing previously categorized RFID data and at least one categorizatio... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110295966 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROCESSING A COMBINED COMMAND RESPONSE BASED ON A MARKUP ELEMENT Methods and systems are described for processing a combined command response based on a markup element. In one aspect, a resource is sent including a markup element identifying combine-request information. The combine-request information is received in a first request m... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110282961 | ADVERTISEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NOTIFICATIONS USING EXTENSIBLE AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL (EAP) METHODS An Authorization, Authentication and Accounting (AAA) server acting as a first Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) peer advertises the availability of notifications, and this advertisement may be received and interpreted by a mobile station acting as a second EAP p... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110270940 | MULTIMEDIA ALERTING A method, system, apparatus, and device provides alert information to a user of a device. In response to an alert notification of an alert, one or more alert geographical tiles of interest that are affected by the alert of a plurality of geographical tiles are determine... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264757 | NOTICE OF RESTORED MALFUNCTIONING LINKS Embodiments include devices, systems, methods, and articles of manufacture that facilitate sending notices that a previously identified malfunctioning link or pointer has been restored or otherwise rendered useable. Embodiments can include systems with a registry wherei... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110258280 | GENERAL PURPOSE MESSAGING Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for enabling entities, such as issuers, merchants, payment processing networks, and mobile-network operators, to send account-related messages and marketing messages to a user's mobile device in response... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258279 | Asynchronous Future Based API An apparatus and a method for operating on data at a cache node of a data grid system is described. An asynchronous future-based interface of a computer system receives a request to operate on a cache node of a cluster. An acknowledgment is sent back upon receipt of the... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110246595 | Sustaining Session Connections In an embodiment, techniques for sustaining session connections are provided. The techniques send heartbeat messages when not sending a message may cause the session connection to close because of a timeout condition. Heartbeat messages are valid transport layer message... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110239116 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS WITH TOUCH SCREEN USER INTERFACE Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for using and operating electric vehicle charging stations (“EVCSs”) or electric vehicle supply equipment (“EVSE”) having a touch screen. The touch screen display device can be us... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110225255 | Discovering A Resource In A Distributed Computing System Sending, by a node requesting information regarding a resource to one or more nodes in a distributed computing system, an active message to perform a collective operation; contributing, by each node not having a resource, a value of zero to the collective operation; con... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110225256 | Video Synchronization with Distributed Modules A digital system is provided that includes a number of hardware accelerators. Each hardware accelerator is paired with a synchronization module that is configured to determine when a scheduled task can be started. Each synchronization module includes a network interface... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110225258 | Handheld Electronic Device and Associated Method Providing Time Data in a Messaging Environment An improved handheld electronic device and an associated method are provided in which time data regarding certain aspects of a messaging conversation on a handheld electronic device are made available to a user. Such time data is provided, for instance, in situations wh... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110225257 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ITINERARY MESSAGING SERVICE Messages are targeted to travelers based on travel itineraries. Targeting may also be based on real-time travel status information. The targeted messages communicate their purpose and priority to respective travelers within the context of the travel itineraries. A discl... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110219093 | SYNCHRONIZING SERVICES ACROSS NETWORK NODES A network-enabled device is synchronized with other nodes. Services are run on the device, including at least a node service and a service repository service. Peer nodes on a network are accessed, and a service list which includes services available locally at the netwo... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110208826 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATION OF NETWORK ALARMS USING A PLURALITY OF DISTRIBUTED LAYERS A method is disclosed for providing notification of network alarms using a plurality of distributed layers. A message is received that indicates an event occurred at a primary entity. The event is bound to a managed object, which represents the primary entity, to create... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110202624 | TECHNIQUES FOR SHARING CONTENT Techniques for receiving and organizing electronic greetings utilizing resources of an electronic social network. The different greetings may be exchanged between users to communicate a variety of different expressions. A sender may customize the greeting to include tex... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202623 | ACCELERATED SOCKETS Disclosed herein is an improved method of using sockets in connection with TCP over certain local networks, such as the enhanced Ethernet. In particular, an accelerated socket protocol is provided to enhance data communications between different host computer systems co... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110185029 | Identifying and Presenting Reminders Based on Opportunity for Interaction A method and apparatus are provided for presenting a reminder for a PIM record when there may be an opportunity for personal interaction regarding the PIM record. The opportunity for personal interaction regarding the PIM record may be identified in response to a trigge... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110173285 | CHANNEL STATUS MESSAGE FOR VIRTUAL NIC A network device comprises a processor and storage coupled to the processor. The storage contains firmware that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to implement a plurality of virtual devices. Each virtual device is configured to receive packets in a c... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110173286 | All Hazards Information Distribution Method and System, and Method of Maintaining Privacy of Distributed All-Hazards Information An information distribution method includes: gathering all-hazards information into an information exchange from a first information source; gathering all-hazards information into the information exchange from a second information source; distributing the all-hazards in... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110166975 | MONITORING IN AN AUTOMATED CLEARING HOUSE PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT Systems, methods, and computer program products provide for monitoring activities related to Automated Clearing House (ACH) processing and, in specific embodiments, monitoring activities related to ACH in processing in shared ACH processing environment in which two or m... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110161452 | COLLABORATIVE MALWARE DETECTION AND PREVENTION ON MOBILE DEVICES The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus for collaborative threat detection on mobile devices. A mobile device may comprise a processor, secure memory, and secure circuitry. The processor may be coupled to host memory and may be configured to execute a se... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110161435 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEFERRED TRANSMISSION OF ATTACHMENTS A first message may be received, wherein the first message may include a message body and an attachment. The first message may be processed to generate at least a second and a third message, wherein the second message may be generated based, at least in part, upon the m... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110161206 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTION OF DATA RELATED TO THE SALE OF A VEHICLE Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related data collection system including one or more of the following: receiving, at the data collection system, a first message from a DMS (Dealer Management System), the first message including a Vehicle Identificat... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110161434 | SITUATION BASED PRESENCE NOTIFICATION LEVERAGING Presence messages are managed for one or more members of a pre-defined group of e-mail users. An unavailability time period, during which a pre-defined group of e-mail users will be unavailable in the future, is established. A notice, which notifies the pre-defined grou... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110161454 | REPAIRING CALENDARS WITH STANDARD MEETING MESSAGES Calendar repair using a standard message may be provided. Calendar events, such as appointments and meetings, may be created and copied to a plurality of attendee calendars. A first copy of the event may be compared to a second copy of the event to determine whether pro... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110161215 | Method and System for Tracking Billing Information Described herein are systems and methods for tracking, monitoring, projecting and reporting billing information. One embodiment is related to a computer readable storage medium including a set of instructions that are executable by a processor, the set of instructions b... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110161397 | METHOD FOR PRESENCE NOTIFICATION BASED ON A SEQUENCE OF EVENTS A client entity generates a subscription to a presentity that includes a sequence of events which define a trigger that controls when a presence server sends a notification to the client entity; and the subscription further indicates a time period parameter for the sequ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110161453 | CALENDAR REPAIR ASSISTANT Calendar repair may be provided. Calendar events, such as appointments and meetings, may be created and copied to a plurality of attendee calendars. A first copy of the event may be compared to a second copy of the event, and an event property of the second event may be... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110153767 | RECOGNITION OF AND SUPPORT FOR MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF AN ENTERPRISE CANONICAL MESSAGE MODEL A method of recognizing and supporting multiple versions of a canonical message model in a service oriented architecture industry model repository comprising determining differences between at least one first version of a message model and at least one other version of ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110153717 | CLIENT MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION IN A DISTRIBUTED DIRECTORY BASED ON LANGUAGE AND CHARACTER SETS A proxy server distributes client messages to backend servers based on language. An incoming client message to the proxy server specifies a language to use for queries and other transactions with the backend servers. The proxy server determines a backend server that sup... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110153768 | E-MEETING PRESENTATION RELEVANCE ALERTS Electronic meeting relevance alerts that include receiving, by a processing device, metadata related to an electronic meeting, comparing, by the processing device, the metadata with preferences of an attendee invited to the electronic meeting to determine a relevancy of... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110153766 | NETWORK ALARM MESSAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS Exemplary network alarm message processing systems and methods are disclosed. In an exemplary method, a network alarm message processing system receives a network alarm message provided by a network element of a wide area network, the network alarm message being in a fi... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110153754 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING TIME-SENSITIVE ALERTS IN A MOBILE DEVICE In various embodiments, a method for receiving alerts through a network includes providing a device having a pop-up management module and a display; providing a communications interface between the device and one or more database systems located outside the network; pro... | 06/23/2011 |
