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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7328136 | Computer based method for finding the effect of an element in a domain of N-dimensional function with a provision for N+1 dimensions The method of the present invention quantifies the effect of an element present and absent in the set. This will enable the user to rate this element and place or rank it at the appropriate location. This enables for using ranking algorithms in vector functions too.... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327986 | System and method for vehicle delay notification using a mobile telecommunications network A system and method of vehicle delay notification. The method includes determining a vehicle delay, determining that the vehicle delay meets or exceeds a delay threshold, determining one or more affected mobile telecommunications subscribers, and sending a message t... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325127 | Security server system A security server system and method permitting participants acting as the source or destinations for a message or a conversation with multiple messages to securely communicate the messages. The messages have a message header and a message content. A message router c... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323970 | Method and system for remote interaction with a vehicle via wireless communication A telemetry system coupled to a vehicle can communicate with a remote site using the overhead control channels of a wireless network, such as a cellular mobile radiotelephone network. The telemetry system can monitor or control aspects of the vehicle's operations ba... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325188 | Method and system for dynamically capturing HTML elements Method and system for dynamically capturing elements from a target Web page and displaying the captured elements in another Web page. A user first opens a Web Capture Web Part dialog box in a browser application program. The user navigates to the target server hosti... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325060 | Management system for hardware network devices A management system for supporting management functions of managed network devices is formed by a backend management network providing processing capability to handle management transactions. In one embodiment, the management system is coupled to a first and a secon... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324811 | Method and devices for dialling services A method and devices for dialling services in a mobile telecommunication network include a set of stored character strings used for comparison with character strings entered by a subscriber to call a service is modified, if a mobile user equipment switches from or t... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325034 | Method and apparatus for scalable peer-to-peer inquiries in a network of untrusted parties A method and apparatus for scalable inquiries in a network of communicating peers are provided. The method and apparatus of the present invention make use of communal filters and randomization to determine which client devices will output a message that is to be bro... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325026 | Network communications analysis Network protocol communications used by an application are captured and analyzed. Routines corresponding to particular calls that an application invokes in implementing a targeted network communication protocol are hooked. A stub is called, which retains a current s... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325197 | Method and system for providing page control content A page is accessed in a computer-based environment. A user interface gallery that includes at least one computer-based module from a remote source is opened on or in the vicinity of the page. The computer-based module can be inserted on the page from the gallery. Th... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325234 | System and method for monitoring computer application and resource utilization A system and a method for monitoring computer application and resource utilization are presented. In one embodiment, a list of different users associated with different entities or customers of a shared computer is maintained. A second list of different applications... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321748 | Communication device with multiple communicators When a line for communication of audio signals between first and second portable-telephone devices through a first portable-telephone base station, a second portable-telephone base station and a portable-telephone line network has been connected, IP addresses are ex... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321562 | Packet transmission method, network element and arrangement A packet transmission method in a telecommunication network is provided. According to one embodiment, the method includes the steps of transmitting, estimating and controlling. The transmitting step transmits, in the network, packets of different priority on at leas... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321568 | Realtime management of processing resources The invention presents a software agent that optimizes processing resources for multiple instances of a software module that are executing simultaneously. The agent allocates and distributes processing resources, such as MIPS (millions of instruction cycles per seco... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321960 | Apparatus and method to adjust data transfer rate A method to adjust the data transfer rate for one of (N) primary backup appliances. The method forms by a first primary backup appliance at least one consistent transactions set. The first primary backup appliance receives the (n)th status signal, and the (n+1)th st... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320024 | System and method for providing contents on a network Disclosed is a contents-providing system for receiving contents from a web server and providing the contents to a portable terminal connected via a network that comprises: a user information database for storing user ID information; an authentication server for perf... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320016 | Method for visually programming instruction set for process A method for visually programming an instruction set for a process is proposed. The method is based on receiving a request to design the process, providing a process designer interactive display, storing a library containing at least one function, accepting via the ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319986 | Dynamic payment cards and related management systems and associated methods Dynamic payment cards and related dynamic payment card management systems and associated methods are disclosed that allow for the efficient management of corporate purchasing needs. The dynamic payment cards can be traditional payment cards with card control setting... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319744 | Unified messaging/call routing configuration using palmtop computer A method of routing telephone calls, emails and faxes using a palmtop computer. Using a date book forming a part of a personal information manager application of a palmtop computer, the user enters an appointment into the date book. Such an appointment has a startin... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319866 | Methods and apparatus for programming user-defined information into electronic devices A device for programming user-defined information into an electronic device is provided. The programmer allows a user to program customized information, such as user-selected audio, video, or Internet access information into his or her programmable device. Such elec... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319886 | Communication system In a communication of audio signals between first and second portable-telephone devices through a first portable-telephone base station, a second portable-telephone base station and a portable-telephone line network has been connected, IP addresses are exchanged. Th... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318097 | Security checking program for communication between networks A method for determining if a multiplicity of networks are authorized to communicate with each other and what IP protocol can be used for communication between each combination of two of the networks. For each network, a computer readable data base stores a record o... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317684 | Method and apparatus for optimizing elastic flows in a multi-path network for a traffic demand The present invention provides a method for optimizing elastic flows in a multi-path network for a traffic demand by jointly determining a bandwidth for each flow in a set of flows that realize the traffic demand and an optimized path for the traffic demand by maxim... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7316648 | Portable patient monitoring system including location identification capability A docking station advantageously provides a location identifier to a portable processing device which processes the location identifier to determine docking station location (and other information) and to upload settings and configuration information related to an i... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318074 | System and method for achieving deferred invalidation consistency In a system having a plurality of caches, a method for maintaining cached objects includes storing an object in a plurality of caches. In response to a request to update the object, a future invalidation time is determined when the object should be invalidated in ca... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315887 | Facilitating integration of communications network equipment inventory management A physical asset management system as disclosed herein is capable of carrying-out a method for facilitating integration of communications network equipment inventory management. In at least one embodiment of the method for facilitating integration of communications ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315889 | Printer server and print system A printer server 20 periodically grasps a communication performance between the printer server 20 and printers PT1 through PT5 and generates a communication performance list LS10 which is sorted in the order of the good communicati... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315893 | Method and apparatus for filtering messages based on context A method for reporting alert conditions is disclosed which includes defining alert filter criteria, identifying an alert condition, analyzing one or more properties of the alert condition based on the alert filter criteria, and determining whether to report the aler... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315888 | Network management system Data communication is carried out between nodes each not having a global address. In a network management system in which a first network and a second network which have the different address systems are connected to each other through an address translator, each of... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315258 | System and method for programming a code of an emergency call transmitter A system for programming a code for a wireless short range RF transmitter, for example, an emergency call transmitter or keyless entry, has a RF transmitter that transmits an RF signal containing a code. A code receiver receives a signal containing a code and a proc... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315910 | Techniques for handling lock-related inconsistencies Techniques are described herein for handling lock-related inconsistencies. As mentioned above, such inconsistencies occur when two or more sets of lock information, relating to the same resource, convey inconsistent information about locks requested and/or granted o... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315980 | Method and apparatus for generating electronic document definitions A method of automatically creating an electronic document definition can include querying an application using a meta data interface of the application to obtain meta data describing at least one other interface of the application. The meta data can be received resp... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7314178 | Method of and apparatus for controlling the selection, initiation and execution of computer programs automatically and directly in response to the remote (or proximal) scan of special barcodes or other coded indicia, in direct response to receiving the barcode scan signals from the reader, and without other human intervention A technique for automatically controlling a computer by the remote (or proximal or local) scanning of special coded-indicia to execute computer-stored programs directly and automatically in response to computer-translated instructions represented by the scanned code... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313596 | Multicast data communication method, multicast data communication system, repeater, repeating method, and medium for storing repeating programs A multicast data communication system is provided that has high security, and prevents problems such as an attack by a malicious user creating a great number of meaningless tables at nodes in the network. Clients regularly transmit request packets toward a server; a... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313617 | Methods and systems for a communications and information resource manager Methods and systems for managing the communications and information resources of a user. A manager interfaces with communications systems such as a telecommunications and/or data network. The manager allows a user to participate in, keep track of, log, monitor, and ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313622 | Online system and method for dynamic segmentation and content presentation An on-line system and method assembles, stores, and administers all of a company's merchandising content in a single location, and optimizes the effectiveness of the content by determining the content and format most likely to be of interest to the consumer. General... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313529 | Portable extender for data transmission within a medical device communication system Apparatus and method for managing chronic home care of patients with one or more implanted medical devices (IMDs) includes a mobile portable device for use by a visiting nurse. Specifically, the portable device integrates various systems to enable the nurse to sched... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313588 | Locally executing software agent for retrieving remote content and method for creation and use of the agent A software agent is provided which executes instructions on a local user's computer to retrieve potentially changing information content from remote target sources, including web pages, over a computer network, such as the Internet. Different types of software agent... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313662 | Computer system A method include a configuration definition creation step of writing configuration information on a primary site into a storage subsystem; a data transfer step of copying the configuration information, which is written into a storage device, to a storage subsystem i... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313760 | Contact picker An interface for enabling a user to quickly access contact information automatically displays a list of expected contacts that are most likely to be selected by the user when attention is directed to a type-in line requiring contact information. When a contact is se... | 12/25/2007 |
