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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180825 | Traffic differentiated network services Network services are provided to client devices based on the network traffic to be communicated between the device and the network. A number of home agents are configured to provide network services to mobile nodes. The system is configured in such a way that a mobi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176115 | Real-world representation system and language A real-world representation system includes a set of devices, each device being arranged to provide one or more real-world parameters, for example, audio and visual characteristics. At least one of the devices is arranged to receive a real-world description in the f... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171074 | Web service system, schedule execution apparatus and control method thereof A schedule execution unit accesses a storage unit for storing a call list registered in a database and determines whether or not there is a Web service call to be executed. If the presence of a Web service call to be executed is confirmed, the schedule execution uni... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171073 | Computer system connected to a data communications network A computer system connected to a data communications network, wherein the computer system is reliably protected against computer viruses, unauthorized access to internal data, and loss of data in the event of infection with computer viruses. The computer system has ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166100 | Cross site, cross domain session sharing without database replication A method of providing access to data via a public communications network includes the receiving a first data session request having a storage group mark, the storage group mark defining a server storage group, a load balancer route the request to a first server that... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166098 | System and method for dynamically capturing digital images from image capture devices An image capture device is wirelessly coupled to a network to facilitate distribution of captured images. The image capture device captures and stores digital images. The image capture device is adapted to determine whether there is an accessible network. If there i... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166099 | Method and apparatus for associating network entities A method and apparatus for associating network entities, such as devices and services have been disclosed. By utilizing context operational modifiers, such as context rules, context definitions, and context services, entities may be associated. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161097 | Aggregating mote-associated index data Methods and/or systems relating to mote networks having one or more mote-addressed content indexes. A part of the one or more mote-addressed content indexes are aggregated from a first set of motes. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156174 | Method and system for information exchange utilizing an asynchronous persistent store protocol Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method and system for facilitating the exchange of information between interconnected processors in environments requiring high performance and high reliability. In an exemplary embodiment, the source sends input to the target a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8145699 | Generalized proximity service A system and method for identifying network endpoints that provide a service of interest orders endpoints according to their network proximity to a requesting client. The requesting client may then contact the closest available providing endpoint, thus increasing th... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140615 | Consolidated business service for integrating service oriented architecture services with customer resources A Consolidated Business Service (CBS) manages an interface between Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) services and resources used by at least one enterprise customer. The CBS utilizes an Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) layer that includes: a bi-directional port... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140958 | Cyclical and synchronized multi-source spreadsheet imports and exports A system, method and program product for synchronizing spreadsheet data. A system is provided having: a scheduling system for scheduling a first import time, a second import time, a first export time and a second export time; an import system for obtaining a first s... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140614 | Distributed computing environment with remote data collection management Aspects of a distributed computing environment with remote data collection management include a management server, and a plurality of computer systems networked to and managed by the management server. Each of the plurality of computer systems includes a listening a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135770 | Processing recurring events within personal information management clients A computer-implemented method of processing recurring events within personal information management (PIM) clients can include executing a plug-in component within a PIM client. The method can include receiving, within the PIM client, an event update including a recu... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135771 | Digital signal processor clustering in integrated media-services gateways A Digital Signal Processor (DSP) cloud architecture for clustering DSP resources across multiple integrated media-services gateways. The control plane components use peer-to-peer overlay connections for DSP resource management. The data plane components use a Virtua... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131798 | Image processing system, information processing apparatus, control methods thereof, and program This invention provides an image processing system and information processing apparatus, which can improve user's operability upon execution of a workflow without causing any productivity or reliability drop, and control methods thereof. To accomplish this, an infor... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126958 | System and method for billing system interface failover resolution A determination is made whether a first application server of a group of N application servers, N being at least two, is a coordinator of the group. Responsive to determining that the first application server is the coordinator of the group, a connection to a billin... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126957 | Managing position independent code using a software framework An approach for managing position independent code using a software framework is presented. A software framework provides the ability to cache multiple plug-in's which are loaded in a processor's local storage. A processor receives a command or data stream from anot... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122081 | Method and apparatus for a portable information agent A method and system for providing enhanced intelligent agents that are moveable by a user from a browser application to a desktop. In specific embodiments, agents provide advanced interactive graphics and communications back to a server. ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117253 | Condition control system, device and process for message transmission The invention concerns in particular a system comprising: a first terminal (1); a second terminal (21 or 22 or 23); at least a first messaging system (31 or 32 or 33) able to transmit, to the second terminal, at least... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112471 | System and method for website performance optimization and internet traffic processing A system for optimizing the performance of a website that runs on one or more HTTP servers and is configured to receive HTTP requests from one or more clients via user agents and provide HTTP responses to the one or more clients includes an intermediary component co... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108456 | Method and apparatus for migrating the system environment on which the applications depend The present invention provides an effective method for migrating the system services on which applications depend, rather than all of the system services, from a source OS platform to a target platform, in order to provide a suitable and consistent environment for t... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108457 | Methods and apparatus to enhance the performance of web browsers over bandwidth constrained links Increasing the performance of a browser while operating over bandwidth constrained links by pre-fetching of web objects to increase the level of concurrency. Using an agent or a gateway to speed up its Internet transactions over bandwidth constrained connections to ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108455 | Mobile agents in peer-to-peer networks Embodiments of a mechanism for implementing mobile agents in peer-to-peer networks. An initiating peer may generate a mobile agent to perform one or more tasks on or gather information from other peers in the peer-to-peer network. The mobile agent may include an iti... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103715 | Approach for managing mobile agents in networks An approach for managing mobile agents in a network generally involves configuring a mobile agent in a secure manner such that the mobile agent will automatically terminate itself if the mobile agent cannot communicate with a specified entity before moving or the mo... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8090763 | Method and apparatus for cross-domain communication using designated response processing page Cross-domain communication between a sender domain and a receiver domain includes: receiving, in the receiver domain, a data request from the sender domain, the data request being directed to a designated request processing page in the receiver domain; processing th... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086662 | Distributed hypermedia method and system for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document A system allowing a user of a browser program on a computer connected to an open distributed hypermedia system to access and execute an embedded program object. The program object is embedded into a hypermedia document much like data objects. The user may select the... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086663 | Network device and control method thereof and network system If an instruction of a predetermined function is given at a device A in a network, the device A issues a notification request for inquiring whether or not it is possible to execute the function to devices B, C and D in a list of devices capable of cooperating with t... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082292 | Method and system for centralized user notification and application execution control A method for providing application-defined notifications to a user upon receipt of an event at a device is provided. A list of applications is centrally maintained, the list defining, for each application, event identification and corresponding event notification. W... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8082293 | Distributed hypermedia method and system for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document A system allowing a user of a browser program on a computer connected to an open distributed hypermedia system to access and execute an embedded program object. The program object is embedded into a hypermedia document much like data objects. The user may select the... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078667 | Method and system for data transfer, auxiliary server and examination device A system for data transfer comprises a server of a patient data system and an auxiliary server, which has installation data associated with at least one accepted device identifier available. The auxiliary server receives the identifier determining an examination dev... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8060552 | Self-organizing hive of computing engines A self-organizing hive of computing engines is used to process information. A network communicatively couples multiple of hive engines together. These hive engines are configured to self-organize into a cooperative hive for performing computing of client jobs, with ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055700 | Network test/measurement agent extensible with different types of network interfaces A system or method that extends a communication test/measurement agent by providing the communication test/measurement agent with built-in functionality to allow a central communication test/measurement system to generically communicate with and operate the agent, a... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051126 | Method and apparatus for providing an integrated network of processors A novel network architecture that integrates the functions of an internet protocol (IP) router into a network processing unit (NPU) that resides in a host computer's chipset such that the host computer's resources are perceived as separate network appliances. The NP... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046403 | Methods and systems for providing, by a remote machine, access to functionality associated with a resource executing on a local machine A method for providing, by a remote machine, access to functionality associated with a resource executing on a local machine includes receiving, by a remote agent executing on a remote machine, an identification of a shell extension associated with a resource provid... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8037123 | Securely and efficiently extending data processing pipeline functionality The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for securely and efficiently extending data processing pipeline functionality. Data processing agents register, potentially based solely on configuration data contained in the data proc... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037125 | Method for uniform network access According to some embodiments, a registry is displayed. The registry may, for example, indicate resources available from a plurality of remote network access devices via a communications network. Moreover, a personal network address may be associated with each avail... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037124 | System and method for describing and locating web services A system and method for describing and locating web services. The system may include a server and a proxy located at a front-end of the server. The server may have an associated Web Services Description Language (WSDL) that identifies web services on the server. The... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8028018 | System, device, and method for cooperative processing A cooperative processing system includes a first data processing component, existing on a first computer, that generates an output containing object having a function of outputting data contained therein to a stream, a pipeline section that causes the output contain... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019806 | Method and apparatus for displaying network fabric data The invention relates to graphical user interfaces for managing electronic networks, such computer networks, storage area networks (SANs), and the like. Specifically, the invention provides a simplified means of managing large numbers of parameters associated with d... | 09/13/2011 |
