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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7627626 | System for restricting use of a grid computer by a computing grid A system is disclosed for restricting operations of a grid software application performing on a grid computer of the computing grid. The system includes a method that presents a user of the grid computer with an option governing use of the grid computer by computing... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7624141 | Deterministic rule-based dispatch of objects to code Deterministic rule-based dispatch of the data structure to a group of one or more methods. After accessing the data structure to be processed, a list of rules is evaluated to identify multiple rules that apply to the dispatch of the data structure. Each of these mul... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7624142 | System and method for processing packets according to user specified rules governed by a syntax An apparatus and method for enhancing the infrastructure of a network such as the Internet is disclosed. A packet interceptor/processor apparatus is coupled with the network so as to be able to intercept and process packets flowing over the network. Further, the app... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7620680 | Fast byzantine paxos A distributed computing system can operate in the face of malicious failures on the part of some of its constituent devices, and provide a minimum of message delays between receiving a client request and providing a response, when each device within the system verif... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7617271 | Integrated service management system The present invention provides techniques for creation, operation and management of network-based storage services. Specific embodiments provide improved efficiency of the service management tasks used for designing, operating and accounting the robust and profitabl... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7610329 | Method and apparatus for managing file systems and file-based data storage Embodiments of the present invention can comprise systems and methods for managing filesystems and can provide a programmable filesystem with active rules and policies, an n-tier network filesystem, stack mounting, a union filesystem with write-through semantics, a ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7610328 | Methods and apparatus for a multi-technology subscriber base for global roaming A method and a system for providing a connection to a subscriber having multiple subscriber devices utilizing different communications protocols are disclosed. The subscriber is associated with an address to which incoming calls are addressed. The method and system ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7610330 | Multi-dimensional computation distribution in a packet processing device having multiple processing architecture Flow-aware task distribution in network devices having multiple processor architectures. In one embodiment, the present invention can be used for high bandwidth network processing in an application and flow aware Quality of Service (QoS) network device. In some impl... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7606854 | Internal hardware firewalls for microchips A personal computer, comprising a microchip, the microchip comprising at least four microprocessors, exclusive of any digital signal processors (DSPs); a non-volatile memory component; a power management component; a internal firewall with a hardware component, the ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7603404 | Grid parallel execution A method includes, in a grid network, maintaining a store containing a history of specific application executions, maintaining a list of grid applications in parallel, executing an application capable of executing in parallel on one or more grid compute nodes contai... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7603405 | Information processing system, information processing method, and storage medium therefor In an information processing system, when image data captured by a digital camera is to be stored on a remote HTTP server, a user stores the image data on a removable medium, for example, a memory card, and inserts it into a media drive of a local personal computer.... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7603403 | Localization in distributed computer environments A method and system for providing client locale information to a server in a distributed computer enterprise. When a client generates a request to a remote server, the client's locale and time zone information, known as the international context, is associated with ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7596590 | Image communication apparatus and method Disclosed are a color facsimile apparatus and method in which when transmission information is added onto an image and then transmitted with the image, memory can be conserved and transmit processing shortened. A color image is read and image data represented the re... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7593980 | Application server system and method An application server system is provided having a core engine connecting one or more protocol providers to one or more applications. In a preferred embodiment, the one or more applications run on a respective one or more virtual machines having their own execution t... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7590679 | Managing multiple unit attentions A format is provided for a command signal from a target device comprising a bit field adapted for communicating a unit attention signal from the target device following a status changing event. A method is provided for managing a unit attention signal from a target ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7590680 | Extensible robotic framework and robot modeling Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that provide a framework for developing and deploying distributed robotic applications. The framework allows a robotic application to be distributed across robotic services. Communications with a robotic service are ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7584239 | System architecture for wide-area workstation management A system architecture for managing a group of heterogeneous workstations that may be widely dispersed geographically. A system according to the present teachings enables users to access remote workstations and run applications on the remote workstations transparentl... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7580969 | Method and system for information distribution A system and a method for distributing information from at least one Information Provider to at least one Customer device. According to the invention, the method comprises the steps of: sending information from at least one of the Information Providers to an Informa... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7571205 | Method and system for optimizing a software-defined radio system A method for optimizing a software-defined radio system comprising a plurality of processors is provided. The method includes, for each of the plurality of processors, (i) providing an input burst comprising a first specified burst size, M, of input words to the pro... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7565394 | Distributed report processing system and methods A distributed report processing system. The system includes a management server and a queue server in communication with the management server. The system also includes a plurality of report generators in communication with the management server and the queue server... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7565395 | Mechanism for preserving session state when using an access-limited buffer Preserving session state correlation in a distributed computing environment in which a service module instance receives messages from a general input buffer. The general input buffer is not accessed by a service module instance once the service module instance is de... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7562110 | File switch and switched file system An apparatus and method are provided in a computer network to decouple the client from the server, by placing a transparent network node, also termed a file switch or file switch computer, between the client and the server. Usage of such a file switch allows reduced... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7562111 | Multi-processor architecture with high capacity I/O Channelized I/O is provided for a data processing architecture. An application is executed on a data processor. Program instructions are executed in parallel, and independently of the data processor, to provide a plurality of data communication channels which can co... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7555516 | Fast Paxos recovery A distributed computing system can achieve consensus while introducing fewer message delays by using an algorithm that allows the constituent devices to vote on functions received directly from one or more clients. If a conflict occurs, a leader device from among th... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7555515 | Asynchronous pipeline A pipeline may include a first stage and a second stage for executing data processing services and a data host communicatively coupled to the first and second stages. The data host provides for storing and communicating data, wherein the storing and communicating ar... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7548945 | System, network device, method, and computer program product for active load balancing using clustered nodes as authoritative domain name servers A cluster of devices is provided that shares a domain name and functions as the authoritative name server for the domain. Each device or node in the cluster would typically repeatedly announce status information to all the other nodes in the cluster, such that all t... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7546334 | Data security system and method with adaptive filter A method, program and information processing system filters and secures data (security sensitive words-characters-data objects) in a source document. The adaptive filter uses a compilation of additional data (typically networked) and identifies the sensitive words/o... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7546335 | System and method for a data protocol layer and the transfer of data objects using the data protocol layer Presented are a system and method for sharing data objects among applications. Included is a data protocol layer that permits a flow of data messages among the applications, where a portion of the data messages include data objects stored in a data store. A client l... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7536432 | Parallel merge/sort processing device, method, and program for sorting data strings In the basic form of merge processing, that is sort processing, two sorted partial data string pairs are input, and one series of sorted data string is output as a whole. Conventionally, high parallelism of this processing has been considered difficult. A method for... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7523156 | Method and system for electronic scheduling for playback of media contents Methods of electronic scheduling for playback of media contents. Discrete items of content are scheduled for play back based upon a schedule created by the integration of five standard scheduling methods into a single scheduling algorithm. In the first scheduling me... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519651 | Information processing system, information processing method, and storage medium therefor In an information processing system, when image data captured by a digital camera is to be stored on a remote HTTP server, a user stores the image data on a removable medium, for example, a memory card, and inserts it into a media drive of a local personal computer.... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519652 | Distributed application server and method for implementing distributed functions The invention provides a distributed application server comprising a cluster of two or more nodes in a peer configuration. The two or more nodes are associated with at least one message stream comprising a plurality of messages propagated through the associated node... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7516176 | Distributed request and response queues for service processor Highly-available processing of an asynchronous request can be accomplished in a single transaction. A distributed request queue receives a service request from a client application or application view client. A service processor is deployed on each node of a cluster... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7516175 | Method of organizing and analyzing field warranty data A system and method for organizing and analyzing field warranty data including a warranty interface provided with warranty data from a warranty group. The warranty interface being capable of allowing a user to select prioritization data, and then displaying a list o... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512649 | Distributed identities In a system and method for the distribution of identities and reputation on a network, identity and reputation information may be distributed among nodes on a network (e.g. nodes on a peer-to-peer network). Embodiments may allow nodes on the network to evaluate othe... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509370 | Method for optimizing parallel processing of backend transactions by prioritizing related transactions The present invention provides a method for optimizing the processing of backend transactions by receiving related transactions for processing from a program executing on a computer, and prioritizing the related transactions by determining: a degree of necessity for... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7509369 | Balancing shared servers in virtual environments A system for organization of a service which provides computer hosting services to users is based on a virtual environment placed at the disposal of each user. The virtual environment is installed at an automated cluster of computers in a data center. Each virtual e... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7506020 | Global network computers An apparatus for a network of computers is presented. A plurality of inner firewalls operate within a personal computer. The personal computer operates in a network of computers and includes at least one microprocessor and at least two memory components. The plurali... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7506021 | Provisioning web services A web service provisioning system including a subscription system having a web service description data correlated to the at least one web service, and provisioning processes data correlated to the at least one web service. The provisioning system also includes an i... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7493358 | Apparatus, system and method of executing monolithic application programs on grid computing systems An apparatus, system and method of executing a monolithic application program successfully on a grid computing system are provided. Before the program is executed on the grid computing system, the program is executed on a computer on which the program has previously... | 02/17/2009 |
