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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8073901 | Information update method and information update system Information update technique where information held by every apparatus does not need to be updated at the same time. A first server is connected with a second server. The first server judges whether it is possible to access the second server. When a result of... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073898 | Display device, display method, and display control program The present invention provides a display device for retrieving and displaying the list information regarding the broadcast contents in which the list information corresponding to the program broadcast before or after can be displayed without making the complicate ke... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073902 | Method and computer-readable medium for delivering hybrid static and dynamic content The present invention relates generally to software functional modules and, in particular, to such modules used for delivering hybrid static and dynamic content. More particularly, there is described a computer-readable storage medium and corresponding method. The s... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069203 | Method for controlling digitally storable and predefinable events on a computer system A method for controlling digitally storable events on a computer system that can be accessed via the Internet, the events being predefinable by a user, includes receiving movement information of a user. Route information is recorded digitally in a user-specific mann... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069181 | Autodiscovery of business services An autodiscovery feature with an easy-to-use interface is provided to automatically collect metadata about electronic services for use within a business enterprise and to store that metadata in a metadata repository. The autodiscovery feature is used to create autod... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8069204 | Providing and receiving content over a wireless communication system Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing and receiving content over a wireless communication system, including off-line presentation of stored retrieved content is provided. The method includes receiving and storing an information object from a ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065358 | Proxied web access for control devices on industrial control systems An industrial control system includes a plurality of control devices providing control signals to direct an industrial process and a web access module including a web server, an Internet interface and a control network interface. Each of the control devices includes... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065359 | Integrated method and apparatus to manage mobile devices and services Disclosed herein is a method, a system, a network node and a computer program executable by a data processor or data processors to accommodate a non-IP OTA protocol using an end-to-end IP protocol. The method includes receiving a message from a non-IP entity; using ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065364 | Service to push author-spoken audio content with targeted audio advertising to users A particular method includes receiving, via an interactive voice response (IVR) unit, an audio content item during a first call. An indication of an insertion point at which to insert audio advertising in the audio content item is also received during the first call... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065360 | Acquisition and particular association of inference data indicative of an inferred mental state of an authoring user and source identity data A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring inference data indicative of an inferred mental state of an authoring user in connection with at least a particular item of an electronic message, acquiring source identity data providin... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065362 | System and method for processing and updating event related information using automated reminders There is provided a system for facilitating updating of stored event data of a scheduling device, the event data adaptable for use in generating an event reminder message for receipt by a client resulting in corresponding response data in response to the event remin... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065363 | Electronic mail communications system with client email internet service provider (ISP) polling application and related methods An electronic mail (email) communications system may include a mobile wireless communications device, a wireless communications network connected to the Internet, and an Internet Service Provider (ISP) server connected to the Internet for receiving emails for a give... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065361 | Apparatus and methods using a data hub server with servers to source and access informational content Apparatus and methods to engage in accessing informational content in a data hub server, where the informational content is identified as public or partially public to a group registered in the data hub server with permission to access the informational content made... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060561 | Locality based content distribution A system and method for content distribution are provided. A content provider generates a network topology having one or more subnetworks made up of content sources. The content provider segments content, such as applications, into segments for distribution. The con... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060557 | Application services gateway Application services gateways that execute electronic application programs/services allows the application programs/services to be managed and administered out of a network rather than locally. The application services gateways are elements in a services delivery sy... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060558 | Automatic annotation of audio and/or visual data Automatic annotation of data recorded by a device. A portion of an event may be recorded as an image, movie, sound byte, audio recording, etc., and contemporaneous to the recording, a time value (which may encode a calendar date) is determined. The time value is loo... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060559 | Systems, methods and protocols for securing data in transit over networks Methods, systems, and protocols are described for securing data in transit over networks. A communication session is initiated between a client and a server. One or more communication channels can be set up between the client and the server. Each established communi... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060556 | Service enabled tagged user interfaces In one aspect, in a computer-implemented method it is determined whether a placeholder corresponding to a service includes an identifier similar to a tag associated with an element of a user interface. The placeholder is replaced with a value of the element associat... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060560 | System and method for pervasive computing A method and system for pervasive computing are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises a server communicating with a first device in a cloud computing environment, wherein the first device can detect surrounding devices, and ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060471 | Updating display system of display list and method thereof An updating display system of a display list and the method thereof are provided. A first version information of the display list at a local end is checked against with a second version information on a server. If they are different, only a modification item file co... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060553 | Service oriented architecture for a transformation function in a data integration platform A transformation function of an extract-transform-load data integration process is deployed as a service in a services oriented architecture. A method includes providing a module for a data integration function, the module being a data transformation module; providi... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060554 | System and method for enabling asynchronous push-based applications on a wireless device There is provided a system and method of enabling asynchronous push-based applications on a wireless device in a system having an application gateway server including an application repository and a server proxy including an event sink for communicating between the ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060555 | Electronic content management systems and methods Electronic content management systems and methods are disclosed. Geographic locator addresses such as mailing addresses are associated with respective, unique, geo-specific electronic addresses. For example, unique electronic addresses may be generated based on info... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055703 | Method for verification via information processing Identification servers are small, perhaps embedded, systems that can be used as subsystems of a tracking and verification system. An identification server can obtain identification data when a trigger, called an identification event, occurs. The identification serve... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055701 | Interactive document information storage and delivery Indexing and storage of context of a plurality of interactive points within an interactive document is provided. The context of the interactive points within the document is stored in a server such that it can be located by the server via the index. Furthermore, inf... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055617 | Enterprise console A console for an enterprise suite is disclosed. The enterprise suite addresses the increasingly complex problem of keeping critical systems updated, compatible, and free of security holes. It uses Fixlet® technology to identify vulnerable computers on the network a... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055702 | System and method for caching network file systems A network caching system has a multi-protocol caching filer coupled to an origin server to provide storage virtualization of data served by the filer in response to data access requests issued by multi-protocol clients over a computer network. The multi-protocol cac... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055704 | Internet service for passengers on in-flight airplanes An exemplary method provides Internet Protocol (IP) devices of passengers of an in-flight airplane with terrestrial Internet IP communications. One airplane in a group of in-flight airplanes functions as a ground link airplane with a direct communication link to a g... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055992 | Method and apparatus for managing calendar information from a shared database and managing calendar information from multiple users A method and system for synchronizing and using calendar information from a shared database is disclosed. Calendar information can be stored in a shared database, e.g., on a server system and accessed and synchronized with one or more portable computer systems. The ... | 11/08/2011 |
| RE42904 | System and apparatus for dynamically generating audible notices from an information network An apparatus and method for converting information from a text format to an audio format using distributed processing. A first set of computer readable program instructions receive information from a data source, convert the information from the text format to an in... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055706 | Transparent request routing for a partitioned application service Systems and methods for providing an efficient partitioned resource server. In one embodiment, the partitioned resource server comprises a plurality of individual servers, and the individual servers appear to be equivalent to a client. Each of the individual servers... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055705 | Method and apparatus for enabling associated portlets of a web portlet to collaborate for synchronized content display The invention provides method and apparatus for collaboration between a plurality of associated portlets in a portal server including: associating each portlet with a portlet descriptor describing context names; forming collaboration groups of portlets having corres... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051127 | Systems and methods for identifying long matches of data in a compression history Systems and methods of storing previously transmitted data and using it to reduce bandwidth usage and accelerate future communications are described. By using algorithms to identify long compression history matches, a network device may improve compression efficient... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8051094 | Common interface to access catalog information from heterogeneous databases Various embodiments of a system and computer program product to access metadata from a plurality of data servers from a federated database management system are provided. In one embodiment, a request for metadata, from a client application, is received by the federa... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046407 | Method for processing a control message and a message processor, a media service, a media service system A method for processing a control message sent by a terminal is provided according to the present invention. The method includes determining whether or not to trigger a shortcut key analysis when the control message is sent from the terminal and accomplishing variou... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046404 | System and method for discarding frames of an image during transport across a network link An image pipeline (60) provides image data to a capture unit (61). The capture unit (61) generates a frame from the image data for compression by a compression unit (64). A frame spoiler (62) determines whether the frame is to be d... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046345 | Method and system for managing file metadata transparent about address changes of data servers and movements of their disks Provided are a method and a system for managing a file metadata, which are independent of a address change of a data server and movements of a disk by using a location of disk where data exists actually as a location information of a file data. The method for managi... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046405 | System and method for web-based imaging services within a client-based application This invention is directed to a computer-implemented system and method for providing web-based features in a client-based digital imaging application. An area of the registry is provided for a number of possible, future web-based features. The registry has the capac... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046406 | System for data logging A data logging system that utilizes a schedule of data transfer periods for transferring data from devices to a server. A communication of an actual data transfer size of stored data in a first device of the devices is obtained by the server from the first device. A... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041763 | Method and system for providing sharable bookmarking of web pages consisting of dynamic content A system that automatically obtains Web page-specific scripts to save and restore the state of a Web page. When a user bookmarks or copies a Web page URL to the clipboard, a function is called to create a page state file that is stored together with the current URL ... | 10/18/2011 |
