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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7853648 | System and method for providing interactive images A visual server system (10) includes a server (12) having a graphics application (20). The graphics application (20) generates image content and position information. The server (12) streams the image content and the position infor... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853642 | Network system and control method for recognizing variable IP address as fixed IP address A network system comprises at least one network unit having a variable Internet protocol (IP) address and unique identification information, and an agent server including a database for receiving and storing the variable IP address and unique identification informat... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853643 | Web services-based computing resource lifecycle management Particular embodiments facilitate life-cycle management and utilization of network resources, such as web or other application services. One embodiment provides instancing, virtualization, and dynamic provisioning functionality facilitating management and utilizatio... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853646 | Assured validation for facade method invocations A method and system for validating calling parameters of a method call. Validation conditions are evaluated utilizing original calling parameters provided by a validation method call by a client, where the call is required to initiate an activity. The evaluating fac... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853607 | Related actions server Methods and apparatuses enable providing an action related to a business object in response to receiving a request to access the business object. In one embodiment, a related action is identified based on a context of a work environment from which the request is gen... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853644 | Client-server system A client-server system includes a client personal computer and a plurality of printers, all connected to a network. One of the printers broadcasts a GET request using SNMP at a predetermined timing to the other printers to obtain model name, idle rate, and informati... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853645 | Remote generation and distribution of command programs for programmable devices A system for controlling a motion device. A motion control system comprises a motion control device, and a first user is associated with the motion control system. An output system is arranged to generate motion signals that may be perceived by the first user. A mot... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7849131 | Method of enhancing rendering of a content item, client system and server system A client system (200, 220) receives a content item. The user can mark the received content item as being of interest. In response to said marking, tracking means (204, 224) automatically provide identifying data for the marked content item to a remote ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7849133 | Systems and methods for providing resource allocation in a networked environment Methods and systems for allocating resources, such as computer controlled resources, in a networked system are described. An example system includes a network interface, an item database, a load balancer, a web proxy processor configured to selectively block or rout... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7849132 | Information processor and information processing system The information processor includes a device communication performance management module. The device communication performance management module includes: a communication performance evaluation unit that measures and evaluates the communication performance with respe... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7849134 | Transaction accelerator for client-server communications systems In a network having transaction acceleration, for an accelerated transaction, a client directs a request to a client-side transaction handler that forwards the request to a server-side transaction handler, which in turn provides the request, or a representation ther... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7849130 | Dynamic service-on-demand delivery messaging hub An infrastructure for on-demand service delivery receiving a request for a service to be performed from a service consumer with an information payload; decomposing requested service into essential or primitive functions; dynamically composing a sequence of a plurali... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7849055 | Method and system for limiting instances of a client-server program within a restricted distributed network The present invention provides a computer implemented method, data processing system and computer program product for limiting instances of a client-server program within a plurality of platforms in a restricted distributed network. The data processing system receiv... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7849069 | Method and system for federated resource discovery service in distributed systems Resources disposed within a plurality of distributed and autonomous computing systems, each of which may have its own legacy resource discovery service, are identified and allocated. Resource identification servers disposed within each one of the distributed computi... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7844636 | Systems and methods for client-side filtering of subscribed messages A message broker can allow any server in a cluster to publish to, and subscribe, to a message channel. A server subscribing to a channel can set up a message filter such that XQuery expressions can be used to filter against the messages arriving on the channel A mes... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7844661 | Composition of local media playback with remotely generated user interface A media server in a home entertainment network coordinates with a media player connected with the network to provide a media presentation with a combined user interface (UI) on an attached display device. Media content is sourced locally on a networked media player.... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7844660 | Method of discovery of a domestic network and device implementing the method The invention relates to audio and video interoperability over networks based on network technologies other than the 1394 bus. The invention relates more particularly to a method of discovery, by a device connectable to a communication network, of the other devices ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840888 | Architecture and methodology of redirection for dynamic new URL links An architecture and methodology of redirection for dynamic new URL Links uses a first server device to get information flow content from a second server device. By inserting an application into the information flow content retrieved from the second server device, th... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7840635 | Method and system for monitoring performance of processes across multiple environments and servers A method and system in accordance with the invention provides both real time and historical information regarding requests executed on a first server and on a second server. Applications running on two or more servers are monitored. Users are provided with informati... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7840634 | System and method for managing images over a communication network A system and method for creating an electronic icon containing information unique to a particular user including information allowing access with respect to a particular digital media file having the icon associated therewith over a communication network by a third ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7836033 | Method and apparatus for parallel updates to global state in a multi-processor system A method and apparatus for synchronizing updates to a large set of global counters are described. In one embodiment, the method includes making updates to a global state in response to a file system making changes to data in memory. In parallel, updates are made to ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7836018 | Simultaneously accessing file objects through web services and file services Accessing data file objects includes providing a file system interface on a client, where the file system interface allows an application running on the client to make file system calls to access the data file objects. A Web Services interface may also be provided o... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7836122 | Industrial controller interface providing standardized object access to proprietary software objects that interact with industrial controllers An interface for an industrial control system provides, at a server side, a set of objects for programmer use. Instances of object provider objects, linked to each of the software objects, provide a uniform interface for the software objects allowing software object... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7836123 | System and method for non-HTTP session based publish/subscribe support using pre-emptive subscriptions The invention includes a publish/subscribe system for publish/subscribe messaging utilizing pre-emptive subscriptions in a cluster of HTTP servers that includes load balancing. The system includes at least one HTTP client in a role of HTTP subscriber, and a set HTTP... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7836121 | Dynamic executable A system to identify and/or authenticate an entity includes a. client-side executable and an associated server-side executable, each of which may be dynamically generated. The server-side executable may be executed on a server to generate a first result. The client-... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831660 | System and method for contents upload using a mobile terminal The present invention relates to a network system providing a wireless website and method for providing and connecting the wireless website using the same, the network system including a contents providing system using a mobile terminal including at least one termin... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7831661 | Measuring client interactive performance using a display channel Methods, systems, and computer programs for measuring performance of virtual desktop services offered by a server computer are presented. The method includes receiving from a client computer an action request to be executed at the server computer, where the server c... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7831662 | Multi-user database system and method for resource usage tracking The disclosure is directed to a database system. In a particular embodiment, a database system includes a first processor configured to receive transactions, including session maintenance transactions and data requests, from one or more users. The database system al... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7831659 | Data providing system, server and program A data providing system of the present invention is provided with an image acquiring device, an area extracting device, a data storing device, and a data providing device. For each image data acquired by the image acquiring device, a storage destination specifying a... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7831655 | System and method for implementing a service adapter A service adapter can be used to connect a client application to an enterprise system, or to connect application components, that otherwise might be unable to communicate with each other. A service adapter can invoke a service in the enterprise system, and can allow... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7831656 | Effortless association between services in a communication system and methods thereof A communication system (100) includes a portal (110), a subscriber (108), a service processor (112), and a communication network (102-104, 107) for providing communication between the portal (110), the subscriber (... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7831657 | Electronic apparatus for identifying and utilizing external applications contained on external apparatuses An electronic apparatus for performing an operation by use of an application, which can communicate with a plurality of external apparatuses, includes an application registering unit to register one or more applications selected as available applications from applic... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7831658 | Generating landing page variants Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for showing different landing page designs to a user. One method includes displaying an advertisement on a starting page to a user interacting with a client, the advertisement having a hyperlink to... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7831641 | Large file support for a network file server A NAS switch provides large file support to a file server in a decentralized storage network such as a NAS (Network Attached Storage) storage network. For example, files greater than 2-GB can be stored on a 32-bit commodity file server. The NAS switch sits in the da... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827145 | Leveraging client redundancy on restore A computer system and method for performing restore operations. A computer system includes one or more hosts. At least one host includes a backup agent. In response to a request to restore a file to a first host, a backup component identifies copies of portions of t... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7827147 | System and method for automatically redistributing metadata across managers System and method for managing metadata. A computer system includes one or more hosts, each host having an associated backup agent. Each backup agent conveys data from its associated host to a storage pool and stores metadata associated with the data in a metabase. ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7827232 | Record button on a computer system A record button that facilitates audiovisual input into a computer system without requiring manual interaction (direct manipulation interaction) with software. The record button may be grouped with transport controls, a standalone button, or grouped with other contr... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7827220 | Image log recording system, control method therefor, and storage medium storing a control program therefor, that store image logs and control transfer settings for transmitting image logs to an image processing server An image log recording system which is capable of optimizing image log transfer. A plurality of log recording agents generate image logs. An image processing server performs image processing on the image logs transferred from the log recording agents. The image logs... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7827233 | Method and apparatus for an end-to-end send-to framework A method and apparatus for providing a send-to framework is described. The method enables a round-trip mechanism between a stateless device and a third party service provider. In one embodiment, the method includes interposing a central server between the stateless ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7827234 | Privacy entitlement protocols for secure data exchange, collection, monitoring and/or alerting Methods, systems and related computer products for providing entitlement controlled levels of collaborative exchange of data using a computer network of Subscribers and Publishers, are configured to: (a) define a set of different privacy levels, each privacy level h... | 11/02/2010 |
