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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20060080659 | System and method of provisioning software to mobile devices A system of provisioning software comprises a server operable to communicate wirelessly with a plurality of mobile devices, a data storage accessible by the server and operable to store device characteristics and device type of the plurality of mobile devices, and a use... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20060070064 | Computer apparatus on which download board can be mounted When a CPU senses a connect signal output from a signal generating unit to detect connection between a download board and a socket, the CPU assigns a control program, which is specified by a signal for specifying a sector CS0 area switched to be output from a swi... | 03/30/2006 |
| 20060048146 | Forcibly downloading program in mobile communications terminal The present invention relates to forcibly downloading a program in a mobile communications terminal. Preferably, a memory of the terminal is divided into a boot binary region and a main binary region. A boot program and a main program of a binary program are then downlo... | 03/02/2006 |
| 20060037016 | Methods and systems for modifying nodes in a cluster environment Various embodiments of the invention provide solutions to allow more efficient management of clustered environments. Merely by way of example, some embodiments provide a framework for the relatively automated management of clusters, including the addition, deletion and/... | 02/16/2006 |
| 20060031833 | Methods and apparatus for a web application processing system A software system is provided to allow a computer to install and process web applications according to the invention. Such web applications are written as web pages that have access to the full range of operating system resources, including those not accessible through ... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20060026569 | Portion-level in-memory module authentication Dynamic run-time verification of a module which is loaded in memory (in whole or in part) for execution is enabled by using pre-computed portion-level verification data for portions of the module smaller than the whole (e.g. at the page-level). A portion of the module a... | 02/02/2006 |
| 20060020938 | Method, article of manufacture and apparatus for updating software in a consumer device A method for updating a plurality of software objects 62, 64 associated with a first consumer device 14 is operable in a broadband communication system 10 having a server 24 responsive to a plurality of consumer devices via a network. The met... | 01/26/2006 |
| 20060015864 | System and method for downloading ROM image to wireless terminal Embodiments of a system and methods can download a ROM image to a wireless terminal. The system can include a host system for providing the ROM image and at least one wireless terminal for downloading the ROM image provided from the host system. The host system can incl... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20060010438 | Method and system for configuration and download in a restricted architecture network A method and system are provided for updating software configurations of line-replaceable unit (LRU) computers in a restricted architecture network such as an in-flight entertainment system (IFES). Operating in an efficient and parallel manner, each of the LRUs independ... | 01/12/2006 |
| 20050273781 | Service software acquiring method, system and electronic communication device used therefor An object is to provide a method for making it possible to exchange information between a local host and a remote host even if necessary software is not previously prepared. A local host (1) requests a service administration host (4) to start a desired rem... | 12/08/2005 |
| 20050257218 | Method for automatically downloading and installing driver of peripheral A method for automatically downloading and installing a driver of a peripheral is used on a computer connected with the Internet. First, a driver download IP address is stored in a peripheral to form a virtual driver. When a user installs or connects the peripheral to a... | 11/17/2005 |
| 20050246704 | Registry emulation A method for running a software application on a computer having an operating system that provides a local database containing consistent configuration data to be accessed by programs running on the computer. The method includes providing a file containing further confi... | 11/03/2005 |
| 20050235283 | Automatic setup of parameters in networked devices Various aspects of the invention provide one or more systems and methods that allow a user to efficiently setup and configure a data processing device. The various aspects of the invention facilitate ease of configuration by providing a user interface that allows a user... | 10/20/2005 |
| 20050235282 | System and method for downloading software and services A system and method for downloading substantially up to date versions of selected software from a plurality of software vendors over a network and for installing the software to a hardware unit includes a first software handling machine in the network configured to exec... | 10/20/2005 |
| 20050223375 | Controlling a GUI display for a plug-in Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for controlling a GUI display for a plug-in in an application supporting plug-ins. Embodiments include receiving, at run time, in the application from the plug-in a request to display a GUI object; responsive ... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050216912 | System and method for remotely building an information handling system manufacturing image An information handling system image builder server associated with a manufacturer supports remote access by customers through networked communications, such as the Internet, to create images for loading on information handling systems manufactured for the customers. An... | 09/29/2005 |
| 20050210466 | Autonomous adaptive software loading for a data collection device A scalable and adaptive technique determines which particular software features should be installed in a device (such as a data collection device) without having to rebuild the operating system of the device. The device stores a product configuration matrix (PCM) that p... | 09/22/2005 |
| 20050198631 | Method, software and system for deploying, managing and restoring complex information handling systems and storage A system, method and software are provided for the automated deployment of complex server and standalone server, server-to-storage, SAN and/or standalone storage solutions. After collection of information identifying hardware to be included in a site deployment as well ... | 09/08/2005 |
| 20050193390 | Program downloading method, program switching method and network apparatus A program downloading method downloads a program from a host unit to a plurality of network apparatuses. The program downloading method includes sending a configuration file comprising a main configuration file and a plurality of configuration files from the host unit t... | 09/01/2005 |
| 20050193066 | Data protection for applications on a mobile electronic device A method and system for data protection for applications that includes registering applications with a storage cleaning mechanism so that the registered applications can receive notification of impending storage cleaning operations. Upon receiving notification of an imp... | 09/01/2005 |
| 20050188371 | Method and system for selecting a program for download A system selects an application program for download. The system includes a host system, such as a personal computer, having a disk sub-system storing a plurality of application programs. The disk sub-system includes a file storing a plurality of identifiers, with each ... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050172075 | Alternative user-interface A system for programming a programmable device having an interface for a portable memory medium has an interactive interface executable on a stand-alone computer appliance for creating a program for the programmable device, a portable memory medium, and a downloading me... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050160418 | Embedded system using binary position information and software downloading method therein An embedded system using binary-position information and capable of updating software more promptly is disclosed. The embedded system includes a server for receiving software-version information from a target system for a comparison of a binary image associated with the... | 07/21/2005 |
| 20050160420 | Method and apparatus for distribution and installation of computer programs across an enterprise The invention comprises a method and apparatus for the remote installation of software from one or more central locations to a plurality of remote machines. A centralized database, remote to the user, is maintained that includes characteristics of users and/or their mac... | 07/21/2005 |
| 20050144620 | Software download system for controller A GPS receiver is provided within a controller. When the customer orders the option software, the ID information identifying the controller and the positional information acquired by the GPS receiver are transmitted to a management apparatus on the controller maker side... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050132361 | Application display apparatus and application display system The application display apparatus includes a connection terminal to which an electronic device having means for loading contents is connected, and the application display apparatus is an information device having a function for reproducing the contents stored in the ele... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050125525 | Method, system, and storage medium for providing intelligent distribution of software and files Exemplary embodiments of the invention relate to a method, system, and storage medium for providing software and file distribution management. The method comprises loading a user profile for a client system into a server via an intelligent agent. The profile contains cu... | 06/09/2005 |
| 20050120343 | Method and system for firmware downloads A method and system for downloading firmware by a device controller from a data source while connected to a host. The device controller connects to the host and waits for a signal or communication from the host. The device controller responds to the signal or communicat... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050120384 | Methods and systems for enabling software and firmware downloads to high definition television appliances The present invention enables software and firmware downloads to high definition television (HDTV) appliances via a television terminal. A download control message received at the terminal may comprise: (i) a first version identifier identifying a version of an availabl... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050108708 | Method to install software via a network and network apparatus thereof A network apparatus to install software via a network, where the network apparatus includes a software storage unit, a software retrieval unit, and a software installation unit. The software storage unit stores at least one software program. When information of a hardwa... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050097550 | Token-based linking A system links architecture neutral code downloaded to a resource constrained computer. The code may be separated into one or more packages having one or more referenceable items. The system maps the one or more referenceable items into corresponding one or more tokens;... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050097549 | Location sensitive software download A method and system for managing a download of software from an application server to a client computer depending on a physical location of the client computer. The client computer transmits a real-time Global Position System (GPS) coordinate to the application server. ... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050076101 | Apparatus for downloading control frequency code data An apparatus for downloading control frequency code data, a multi-purpose remote controller, and a mobile communication terminal used as the same, for downloading control frequency code data with respect to each of electronic equipment sets, loaded in a server, and auto... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050060701 | Communication system, communication method, server apparatus, and client apparatus The present invention is intended to lighten the user load for the distribution of content in an album form. In order to look at/listen to album content, a user executes album content purchase operation. In response to a request for the distribution of a first item of c... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050044546 | Method of allowing printing from a network attached device A system for enforcing license terms between the creators of software applications running on virtual machines in network-attached embedded systems, and the users of these software applications, allows trial and demo versions of the software applications, where the user... | 02/24/2005 |
| 20050022182 | System, and associated method, for downloading an application A method for facilitating the downloading of an application from a server computer to a client device, whereby the client device generates to the server computer an initiation request for information describing available applications. In response to receipt of the initi... | 01/27/2005 |
| 20050010917 | System and method for executing wireless communications device dynamic instruction sets A system and method are provided for executing dynamic instruction sets in a wireless communications device. The method comprises: forming the system software into symbol libraries, each symbol library comprising symbols having related functionality; arranging the symbo... | 01/13/2005 |
| 20050005270 | Service platform application distribution manager A service distribution system configured to provide initial and follow-up services to a local device over a distributed data connection. Initial services include downloading software packages and installing them on the device that is remote with respect to the service d... | 01/06/2005 |
