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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7991831 | System and method for speculative remote display Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for a system and method for network computing. In an embodiment, the system may include a storage unit for archiving historical user events and historical server events. The system may also include a processing un... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7991832 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer program An information processing apparatus, that obtains pieces of content information relating to content recorded in an information recording medium, includes a content identifier generation unit configured to read a content certificate which is recorded in the recording... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987162 | Data compression in a file storage system Embodiments of the present invention provide for compression of files in a filesystem. In embodiments of the present invention, a file is logically partitioned into chunks and each chunk is compressed, such that a request involving a portion of a file can be satisfi... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7987230 | Containment of network communication Invention selectively enables usage of services and communication conduits in a computer network, wherein the enablement is contingent on usage conditions, resulting in containment of the spread of unauthorized activity within a networked computer system and limitin... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983924 | System and method for third party custom offerings of electronic cards Apparatus (method implemented with a machine, the machine, and the method for making the machine, and products produced thereby). The computer system can, for example, be structured (e.g., including programmed) to carry a method including: controlling, with at least... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7984079 | System and method for electronically managing medical data files A network server arrangement including a processor with a machine readable storage encoded with software for execution by the processor. The network server arrangement is responsive to requests to access a medical record of an individual and generates summary medica... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7984097 | Methods for transmitting multimedia files and advertisements In one implementation a method of transmitting a file having an advertising portion and a requested portion different from the advertising portion is provided. The method includes receiving a request to transmit the file, via a streaming protocol allowing non-sequen... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7984096 | Service-oriented architecture for process control systems A service-oriented architecture for process control systems is disclosed. In one example, a method for conveying process control information between a client process and a server process in a process control system establishes a server process including a plurality ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979391 | Data management system, data management method, server apparatus, receiving apparatus, control program, and computer-readable recording medium recording same A server apparatus (1) includes a deletion information decision section (104) and a management information update section (105). The deletion information decision section (104) decides a file from among files of an AV content already stor... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979488 | Control system methods using value-based transfers A system for process control comprises a server digital data processor and a client digital data processor that are coupled by a network, such as the Internet or an Intranet. The server digital data processor, which is additionally coupled to a control/sensing devic... | 07/12/2011 |
| RE42548 | Contents distributing method and contents distributing program The purpose of the invention is to present advertisements properly to users. To realize this, a web server sends necessary related information, which includes links for download, to a client machine in accordance with a download request of the client machine. When t... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979412 | Object query over previous query results A method, apparatus and program product is provided for querying an object database. In response to performing a first query, a first set of query results is generated from an object database. Metadata associated with and describing the first set of query results is... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974876 | Method and system for creating advertisement-list which divides big advertiser's advertising information A method and system for creating an advertising list including a big advertiser's advertising information, which can prevent a big advertiser's advertising information, less associated with a content page, from being displaying only because the big advertiser purcha... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974947 | Incrementally sychronizing occasionally-connected mobile databases, preserving horizontal filter scope consistency by using client pre-image A system for synchronizing data on a first device with data at a second device, includes: determining a pre-image of the data on the first device according to a filter after a previous synchronization with the data at the second device; determining a current image o... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974983 | Website network and advertisement analysis using analytic measurement of online social media content Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for generating a website network graph to model one or more networks of websites relevant to subject matter of interest in a category, wherein generating the website network graph includes performing one or more sear... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975001 | Bi-directional communication in a parallel processing environment A computer-readable medium including executable instructions for performing parallel processing on behalf of a client operating a technical computing environment is provided. The medium may include instructions for receiving a request from the client. The medium may... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975002 | System and method for accumulating a historical context of interactions between components A system and method for accumulating a historical context of interactions between components is presented. A plurality of components that each have a component context and which include at least one of a requester component and at least one of a service component ar... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975008 | System for channel congestion management A system for managing data traffic in a multi-user multiple-simultaneous-access (MUMSA) environment, for example in a code reuse multiple access (CRMA) environment or other physical environment having true random access with more than one transmission present at the... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975000 | A/B testing of a webpage Performing A/B testing of content of a webpage includes selecting one of at least two different versions of the webpage to be displayed to a user through an interactive user interface (e.g., a web browser) based on an identification code, such as an Internet Protoco... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975007 | Method and system for facilitating marketing dialogues Systems and methods for carrying on marketing dialogues are disclosed. Specifically, embodiments of the systems and methods presented may allow marketing dialogues to be carried on with a set of participants by sending a communication to each of the participants. An... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975006 | Method and device for managing cluster membership by use of storage area network fabric Managing cluster membership and providing and managing locks in the switches forming the interconnecting network. To manage the cluster membership, a zone is created, with indicated members existing in the zone and the zone being managed by the switches. The nodes c... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975003 | Method for tracking payable media content transactions A method to facilitate determination of an extent to which payment should be exchanged between the access provider and the content provider for delivery of content items to the client stations. Each client station will be provisioned with a list of available content... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975005 | Using a proxy to redirect downloads One aspect of the present invention provides a system configured to enable a proxy to redirect downloads from a web server to one or more remote machines via a command issued from a local computer web browser. In one embodiment, a user accesses the web server with a... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7975004 | Method for the transmission of information with improved perenniality A method is provided for the transmissions of information between at least a first and a second communication means. The method includes in saving at least one set of information in an intermediate element. The method also includes defining a plurality of client gro... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970825 | Metasearching a client's request by sending a plurality of queries to a plurality of social networks for displaying different lists on the client A process and system for metasearching on a distributed network activated by a request executed on a client device to request a metasearch engine to send a plurality of search queries to a plurality of social network server devices, each of the plurality of search q... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970815 | Portable record and/or reproduce device, method of reproducing, and method of recording and reproducing A reproducing means for performing reproduction processing on digital data which is read out from a predetermined recording medium recording the digital data, a manipulating means for making an instruction of reproducing the digital data inserted in the recording me... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970817 | Information processing device, information processing method, and control program An information processing method includes a storing step of storing a correspondence between destination names and e-mail addresses in a storage unit; a setting step of setting a destination name to which a document is to be transmitted; and an upload step of upload... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970774 | Method, system, and storage medium for providing web-based electronic research and presentation functions via a document creation application An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system, and storage medium for providing web-based electronic research and presentation functions via a document creation application. The method includes scanning an active document on a computer to iden... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970816 | Client-side caching of pages with changing content The present invention relates to Internet based and web applications and the need to reduce page latency and bandwidth usage. The invention can achieve these goals by making use of the cache built in to standard web browsers. In one embodiment, the invention provide... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970820 | 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... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970821 | Device and method for updating code The invention is directed to a method for a software provider to enable a software-acquiring entity to arrive from an existent first signed piece of code at a second signed piece of code. Both pieces of code were generated at the software provider by use of a first ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970822 | Multimedia integration description scheme, method and system for MPEG-7 The invention provides a system and method for integrating multimedia descriptions in a way that allows humans, software components or devices to easily identify, represent, manage, retrieve, and categorize the multimedia content. In this manner, a user who may be i... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970819 | Methods and systems for transmitting digital images Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for communicating a recipient-selected customization of a digital image using an index file. The index file associates a customization characteristic with the segments of the digital image required to... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970775 | Method, system, and storage medium for providing web-based electronic research and presentation functions via a document creation application An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method and storage medium for providing web-based electronic research and presentation functions via a document creation application. The method includes scanning an active document on a computer to identify rele... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970824 | Capacity planning tool for the web The current invention is a Capacity Planning Tool for the Web. This tool is developed and integrated to be within an Internet browser tool. The tool is used as an XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations. It can be used to examine the capacity of ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970823 | System for sharing data objects among applications System and method for sharing data objects among applications. A portion of the data messages includes data objects. A client library is coupled to a requesting application. A client library requests data objects of a data-object set. Requests from the client librar... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970818 | Method and system for providing on-line interactivity over a server-client network Apparatus and a method for communicating media over a network including encoding the media into a server database at a server, downloading from the server database to a client database generally only those portions of the media which are necessary to satisfy user re... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966295 | System and method of mirroring a database to a plurality of subscribers A system and method for updating a plurality of subscribers served by a server. The system includes a server and a database coupled to the server. The database has link elements organized into a linked list. The link elements include a plurality of data link element... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966309 | Providing relevance-ordered categories of information A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes receiving from a remote device a search query, generating a plurality of different category-directed result sets for the search query, determining an order for the plurality of category-directed result ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966357 | Method, system, and apparatus for file server resource division Provided is a method including the steps of: storing multiple IP addresses and resource management information including correspondence relationships among the multiple IP addresses, multiple file cache regions and multiple virtual file servers; processing multiple ... | 06/21/2011 |
