Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7328366 | Method and system for reciprocal data backup Methods and systems for a reciprocal backup of data, including files, directories, and application data are provided. Example embodiments provide a Reciprocal Backup System (“RBS”), which enables users of two or more computer systems connected over a network to ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328243 | Collaborative content coherence using mobile agents in peer-to-peer networks A mobile agent may be provided for collaborative content control in peer-to-peer networks. A peer may launch a mobile agent including an itinerary of peers to be visited and indications of one or more documents that the peers are collaboratively editing. The mobile ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328282 | Aspect oriented web service invocation A web service request is received by an intermediary that performs a conversion of the requestor's service interface to the service interface supported by a service provider matching the requested service, then invokes that service. A reverse conversion is performed... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328248 | Method and apparatus for message transmission verification A method and apparatus improve the user-friendliness of messaging systems. A message sender is requested to create a message ID which is used to identify a message being sent by the message sender. At some later time the message sender can query the message center u... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328232 | Distributed multiprocessing system A distributed multiprocessing system includes a number of nodes 1-6 interconnected through a central signal routing hub. Each of the nodes 1-6 are preferably connected to an actuator and include a processor for processing information. The... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324528 | Remote access, emulation, and control of office equipment A business has a main office (13) which has a controller (225), a plurality of telephones, a plurality of computers, a PBX and/or an ACD (216), and a plurality of corporate resources (220) such as servers, hosts, applications, databases, ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324826 | Method and system for messaging across cellular networks and a public data network A method, system and computer program product for instant message communication in a wireless and non-wireless environment. A message is sent from a mobile unit device over a wireless communication network. The message includes a destination address, information ass... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324998 | Document search methods and systems Methods and systems are disclosed for retrieving records. In one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining a starting record from a data set, obtaining a value associated with a first attribute of the starting record and executing at least one search for additional... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325028 | Intelligent agent based e-mail notification system A method and a system for delivering a notice over a network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a mechanism creates a user profile database. After new information is obtained, a user profile from the user profile database is identified in response to the new informat... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325097 | Method and apparatus for distributing a logical volume of storage for shared access by multiple host computers A method and apparatus for use in a computer system including a plurality of host computers including a root host computer and at least one child host computer. The root host computer exports at least a portion of the volume of storage to the at least one child host... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325249 | Identifying unwanted electronic messages An unwanted message may be identified by inspecting the payload portion of a message being communicated, comparing the characteristics of the payload portion with stored data indicating characteristics of other messages, and identifying a security condition based on... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325251 | Method and system to prevent peer-to-peer (P2P) worms A call to a file system function is intercepted in the context of a caller, and stalled. A determination is made whether malicious code, such as a peer-to peer (P2P) computer worm, is detected based upon the call. Upon a determination that malicious code is detected... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325055 | Method and system for judging reliability of resources, and program for the same A method and system of examining resource reliability in which a data acquisition section collects a utilization performance record of a resource previously recorded in a utilization performance record storage and data on the resource stored in a Web server and stor... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7322013 | Launch and edit user interface improvements A system and method is described for editing, in its native application, a source file of an object or image in a first application, wherein the source file includes computer-readable code or script associated with the source file and editable in either the first or... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321437 | E-mail to job retention The present invention relates to a system and method for transmitting and storing print jobs sent via e-mail. A first embodiment entails sending a document to be printed as an e-mail attachment to an e-mail enabled printer. The printer extracts the document from the... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321901 | Application service provider model for manufacturers product specification data A business model is described in which one entity hosts, maintains, and provides a uniform interface for entering data into, a database of manufacturers product specification on behalf of a plurality of manufacturers. The entity then serves as an application service... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321941 | Network routing utilizing a product code A method for utilizing a product code having product information contained therein for interfacing over a network. The product information is extracted from the product code, which product code is disposed on or in close association with an associated product. In re... | 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 |
| 7320026 | Intersystem messaging using ENUM standard A system and method for transforming voice mail messages into a package capable of being parsed and read by different proprietary voice mail systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system and method that allows for intersystem messaging throug... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320030 | Remote health monitoring apparatus using scripted communications A system for remotely monitoring an individual. The system includes a server system for generating a script program from a set of queries. The script program is executable by a remote apparatus that displays information and/or a set of queries to the individual thro... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319882 | Messaging system involving wireless communications and methods therefor A messaging system (11) for conveying messages between a host server (15) and a client (13a) that is part of a GSM network and a method therefor. The GSM network includes an SMS facility to convey messages between its clients using an SMS... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320019 | Method and apparatus for automatically checking e-mail addresses in outgoing e-mail communications The present invention provides a system and method for detecting incorrect e-mail addresses in outgoing e-mail communications. In a first embodiment, a domain name database creates a table of domain names by automatically storing the domain names of e-mail addresses... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320017 | Media gateway adapter A method for communicating messages from a media gateway is disclosed. A thread pair comprising a communication protocol control stack thread and one or more media gateway adapter threads is assigned to a message from a media gateway. The thread pair is associated w... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320027 | System having generalized client-server computing A protocol provides generalized client-server computing by providing a server program that can utilize standard and non-standard ports for applications. ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318234 | Request persistence during session authentication A system receives a request from a client and verifies that the client is authenticated. If the client is not authenticated, the system maintains the request and directs the client to obtain authentication. After verifying that the client has obtained valid authenti... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318227 | Method for monitoring or installing new program codes in an industrial installation A method of installing a mobile program code for the control of an industrial automation system with a central computer and a plurality of actors and sensors coupled via a bus system with said central installation computer, has the steps of transmitting the mobile p... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317952 | Managing field devices having different device description specifications in a process control system According to an aspect of the present invention, device descriptions specified using different device description (DD) specifications are converted (represented) into a single format. In an embodiment, the single format corresponds to extended markup language (XML).... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315661 | Directional interpolation method using DCT information and related device The invention provides a method for interpolating a pixel within an image. The image has a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix format. The method includes detecting if there is an edge in a block of the image according to a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) data ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315849 | Enterprise-wide data-warehouse with integrated data aggregation engine An enterprise-wide data-warehouse comprising a database management system (DBMS) including a relational datastore storing data in tables. An aggregation module, operatively coupled to the relational datastore aggregates the data stored in the tables of the relationa... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315516 | Method for generating casting path among participants for multicasting A method of generating relay paths among a plurality of participants in multi-transmission is provided for transmitting predetermined data to the participants. The method includes a first step of analyzing access paths of the participants; a second step of generatin... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315861 | Text mining system for web-based business intelligence A text mining system for collecting business intelligence about a client, as well as for identifying prospective customers of the client, for use in a lead generation system accessible by the client via the Internet. The text mining system has various components, in... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315616 | System and method for maintaining real-time agent information for multi-channel communication queuing An apparatus and method for maintaining data for multi-channel communication queuing associated with different media formats such as telephone, email, and fax. A list of agent data includes information related to types of communication media an agent can access. The... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313619 | System and method for managing distributed objects as a single representation An architecture and method for managing at least two distinct machines (or objects) in which resources are shared as a single entity (or object) in an agent-based system. The agent-based system comprising a controller, a local agent coupled to the controller, and at... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313823 | Anti-alternation system for web-content An anti-alteration system for Web contents is described. A public-web-server computer stores safe web files encrypted from the original web contents, including static files (such as html, text, jpg, gif, wav, mp3, asp, exe, etc.) and dynamic files (such as php, perl... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313590 | Method and system for file server direct connection A system for directly establishing network connections between a client and server system by means of a single compiled file that does not require an additional network communications system such as a web browser or other supporting application. Specifically, by lau... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313614 | Switching system A system and method for provided a switch system (100) having a first configurable set of processor elements (102) to process storage resource connection requests (104), a second configurable set of processor elements capable of communications w... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313119 | System and method for supporting mobility of mobile node using regional anchor point in future internet A method for maintaining data transmission from a corresponding node when a mobile node moves from a first access router to a second access router in a network system, the method comprising: transmitting using the mobile node a home address of the mobile node and a ... | 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 |
| 7310668 | Remotely monitoring an individual using scripted communications A system for remotely monitoring an individual. The system includes a server system for generating a script program from a set of queries. The script program is executable by a remote apparatus that displays information and/or a set of queries to the individual thro... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310670 | Multi-channel power line exchange protocol A scalable networking protocol that allows multiple nodes to communicate via a multi-channel network medium is described. The networking protocol allows any node on the network to assign itself as the active network server. The active network server polls client nod... | 12/18/2007 |
