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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7412044 | Instant messaging to and from PBX stations The present invention is directed to a message interfacing agent 224 enables a circuit-switched communication device 106, such as a telephone, to receive and respond to electronic messages and the feature server 228 enables external endpoints to... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412478 | Rich media file format and delivery methods A rich media file is a self-contained file, including both the information to be viewed by a user and the viewer that displays the information to the user. The information can be formatted however the client likes: for example, the information can be split across se... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409462 | Packet communication control device and packet communication control method A packet transmission control device includes a socket detecting system that detects addresses and ports of a first device and a second device, which perform a packet communication in a network by transmitting/receiving data packets, a socket storing system that sto... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403986 | Method for synchronizing circuit related objects between network management systems and network control processors A method is provided for synchronizing circuit related objects between a network management system (NMS) and a network control processor (NCP). In one example, the method translates data for the circuit related objects from binary data to ASCII data in the network c... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7401338 | System and method for an access layer application programming interface for managing heterogeneous components of a storage area network Embodiments of an application programming interface (API) for a Storage Area Network (SAN) access layer. A SAN may include a SAN access layer as an interface between SAN components and client applications. A SAN access layer API may be provided which enables a clien... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7401111 | Instrument setup utility program A method of configuring a hand-held instrument (10) for determining the concentration of a medically significant component of a body fluid or a control comprises providing a configuring computer (14) having a first port (18) for transmitting ins... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397575 | Communication apparatus and method having electronic mail communication function, and program There are provided a communication apparatus and method that enables the retransmission of an electronic mail if an error occurs in the transmission of the electronic mail due to its excessive data size, by reducing the data capacity of the electronic mail without t... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395309 | Modem activity detection A method for reducing Internet bandwidth used for data transfer between an originating modem and an answering modem over a VoIP connection is provided. Idle data received from the originating modem is detected by an Internet node. The Internet node does not forward ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395353 | Method and apparatus for processing internet site names through regular expression comparison A method and apparatus is presented where similar Internet site names are handled in an improved manner at a Domain Name Server. In one example, a first site name from a computer system coupled to the Internet is compared to a variety of site names through a regular... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395536 | System and method for submitting and performing computational tasks in a distributed heterogeneous networked environment System and method for submitting and performing computational tasks in a distributed heterogeneous networked environment. Embodiments may allow tasks to be submitted and run in parallel on a network of heterogeneous computers implementing a variety of operating envi... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7395537 | Administering the workload of a database system using feedback In a method, computer program and process for administering the workload of a database system as it executes one or more requests the one or more requests are sorted into one or more workload groups. Each workload group has an associated level of service desired fro... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392279 | Network traffic shaping using time-based queues A time-based buffering system buffers data based upon how long the data should be held in order to comply with a traffic shaping policy. The data's source or destination need not be considered in determining where to buffer the data. The time-based buffering system ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389318 | Data processor capable of preventing data overflows and underflows A data processing apparatus constituting a low-cost audio/video data transmission and reception system is disclosed. A reception buffer monitoring circuit 21 monitors the size of receiver data being accumulated in a reception buffer 6. When the size of... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7389202 | Modular system and process for obtaining measured data and for forwarding them in a radio-based manner A modular system and process for obtaining measured data and forwarding them in a radio-based manner is based on a plurality of modules. The modules contain at least one device (31) for obtaining measured data, a device (32) for transmitting the measur... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7389416 | Method of verifiably sharing a secret in potentially asynchronous networks In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a method for sharing a secret value x among n participating network devices via an asynchronous network. The n participating network devices comprises t faulty devices and k sub-devices capable of reconstru... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386585 | Systems and methods for storage area network design Systems and methods for designing storage area network fabric. Preferably included are an arrangement for collecting user requirements on data flows to be supported by the fabric, an arrangement for grouping the data flows into flow groups according to at least one ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386584 | Intelligent computer switch An intelligent computer switch is described. The intelligent computer switch has an automatic detection capacity to control a plurality of computers with at least one keyboard, at least one mouse and at least one monitor. The intelligent computer switch comprises an... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383297 | Method to use acoustic signals for computer communications A method of communicating with an electronic device, comprising: providing a computer having an audible sound receiving and generating sub-system including a microphone; transmitting from a source at least one ultrasonic acoustic signal, encoded with information to ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7380124 | Security transmission protocol for a mobility IP network The present invention supports a secure transmissions protocol for information packet transmission between a Mobile Node and a Foreign Agent. The information packets are encrypted and decrypted using an integrated software client that combines mobile IP communicatio... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7380245 | Technique for detecting corruption associated with a stack in a storage device A technique for detecting corruption associated with a stack in a storage device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the technique is realized by having a processing device insert a quantity of information adjacent to the stack in the storage device, wherein the quanti... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379884 | Power on demand tiered response time pricing Methods, articles of manufacture, and systems for determining a fee to be charged for requests processed in a grid computing environment based. In one embodiment the fee may be determined based on the time it takes to process a request and/or pricing schedules that ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376692 | Method and system for receiving and framing packetized data In accordance with a specific aspect of the present invention, a compressed video stream, such as an MPEG-2 video stream, is received by a transport demultiplexor, synchronized, parsed into separate packet types, and written to buffer locations external the demultip... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7371219 | Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus operable in doppler mode An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes a probe, a controller, a processor, and an output unit. The probe is configured to perform an interleaving scan in Doppler groups of ultrasound beam directions so as to acquire first and second Doppler-mode image frames. Th... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373372 | Method for accrediting event participants The present invention relates to the accreditation of participants to an event. Participants are invited to register, allowing an accreditation system (300) to collect information (325 and 320) from each of the participants. The accreditation sy... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373605 | Presentation system for displaying data A method of displaying data includes defining a primary display screen having a data display area and at least one linking area. At least one secondary display screen is also defined. At least one of the linking areas is associated with at least one of the secondary... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373598 | Method and apparatus for facilitating globalization of voice applications One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that generates voice output for an application. During operation, the system receives a symbolic representation of data to be outputted from the application, wherein the symbolic representation is locale-inde... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373416 | Method and system for constraining server usage in a distributed network A “velvet rope” mechanism that enables customers of a shared distributed network (such as a content delivery network) needing to control their costs to control the amount of traffic that is served via the shared network. A given server in the distributed network... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373401 | Label switched path OAM wrapper Methods and devices for logically segmenting an LSP so that OAM DTUs may be used to determine the performance and/or the status of LSP segments. To segment a previously determined LSP, a dedicated subpath (a logical LSP) within that predetermined LSP is defined betw... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373442 | Method for using an expander to connect to different storage interconnect architectures Provided is a system for interfacing with storage units, including a backplane, at least one slot in the storage enclosure for receiving one storage unit, and two physical interfaces on the backplane for at least one slot. The storage unit is capable of being positi... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369537 | Adaptive Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) testing and selecting transport including 3-way proxy, client-to-client, UDP, TCP, SSL, and recipient-connect methods A Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) system includes clients that make management connections to an external manager server using web-browsing protocols. A discovery process tests a variety of transport methods by sending packets using different protocols to severa... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370333 | Efficient processing of a convoy workflow scenario in a message driven process An XLANG/s compiler detects convoy scenarios during compilation and generates runtime directives to correctly correlate incoming messages with business process instances. A convoy scenario, present in event driven processes, is defined by a correlation set initializ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370280 | Apparatus, system, and method for defining a web services interface for MFS-based IMS applications An apparatus, system, and method are provided for defining a web services interface for an MFS-based IMS application. The apparatus, system, and method include a parser that parses an MFS-based IMS source file into one or more Message Input Descriptions (MIDs) and o... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370106 | Network revision system with local system ports A revision system for a network having a plurality of data ports, pairs of the data ports being connectable by a patch cord to place the pairs of data ports into communication with each other, the revision system including a computer processor, a scanner in communic... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370134 | System and method for memory hub-based expansion bus A system memory includes a memory hub controller, a memory module accessible by the memory hub controller, and an expansion module having a processor circuit coupled to the memory module and also having access to the memory module. The memory hub controller is coupl... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370334 | Adjustable mobile agent Each network-connected information processing apparatus stores restriction information defined for each agent in order to restrict the operation of the agent which moves to the self apparatus and runs. When the agent is to move from the first information processing ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369648 | Apparatus and method for PBX-integrated unified messaging services on a switched backbone PBX-integrated unified messaging capabilities are provided via a switched backbone (such as the Internet) without having to install or deploy on-premise unified messaging equipment. A Corporate Communication Platform (“CCP”) typically located within a corporate ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370032 | Data gathering A method for gathering data may include receiving query information in a first format related to a query, identifying a format-independent portion of the query information and a format-dependent portion of the query information, and translating the format-dependent ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370070 | Data sharing method, request processing method, program, and apparatus A data sharing apparatus shares first data with a communication partner. The data sharing apparatus obtains second data from third data by using server-aided computation, and generates fourth data to be used by the communication partner for obtaining the first data,... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369996 | System and method for voice based network management The present invention provides a system and method for voice based network management. A network management system uses voice based scripts that allow network management operations to be performed over a phone. In one embodiment, the voice based scripts use a Voice ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370006 | Method and apparatus for listing goods for sale A method for using a telephone to list a seller's good for sale on a website including the steps of receiving good-identifying information from a seller via a telephone and presenting the good for sale on a website. The good-identifying information may be received a... | 05/06/2008 |
