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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7284035 | System for wireless push and pull based services The present invention relates to a method and system for providing Web content from pull and push based services running on Web content providers to mobile users. A proxy gateway connects the mobile users to the Web content providers. A prefetching module is used at... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283805 | Methods and systems for providing application level presence information in wireless communication Methods and apparatus for determining and maintaining user presence information include capturing user presence data with an application presence server. The application presence server can be configured to update user presence data as a user initiates or exits an a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281040 | Diagnostic/remote monitoring by email A network device for use in a communication system having a technical support center operated by a technical support staff, the technical support center being in communication with the network device through a packet switching network. The network device includes on... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7281170 | Help desk systems and methods for use with communications networks A network management system includes a fault diagnosis system, a topology mapper, an impact analyzer and a help desk system. The a help desk system includes a user interaction module, and a fault diagnosis interaction module. The user interaction module is construct... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7281038 | Dynamic binding of network services A method and apparatus for dynamic binding of network services is described. A network device comprises at least one processor, memory, I/O, and at least one virtual network machine in the memory, said at least one virtual network machine including a first network i... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7281245 | Mechanism for downloading software components from a remote source for use by a local software application A method and system are provided for downloading software components from a remote source to a software application for providing updates or additions to the application's functionality. All components and files that may be utilized to update or add to functionality... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278108 | System and method of displaying multiple pending notifications in a single window A system and method of displaying multiple, concurrent instant messaging (IM) sessions is described. The system and method includes providing multiple IM sessions, displaying a first one of the IM sessions in an IM session window. Representing each one of the IM ses... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277010 | Monitoring apparatus and method Monitoring apparatus and method including a processor, associated with a web site and capable of providing audio and video, which receives audio information recorded or obtained at a vehicle or premises. The processor, located remote from the vehicle or premises, re... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277195 | System and method for monitoring information delivered through an electronic delivery system A system and method are provided for monitoring information delivered through an electronic delivery system. One method for monitoring electronically delivering documents is provided which includes the steps of: creating log files for storing selected data related t... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277877 | System and method for selecting a music channel A system and method including an agent for selecting a song among simultaneously streaming songs based on user information is presented. ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277888 | Method for minimizing reintroduction of participants at successive social events A method for minimizing the reintroduction of two people at a successive social event comprises the steps of assigning each person wishing to attend the successive social event a unique identifier, obtaining characteristic information about each person wishing to at... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277919 | Relevance clause for computed relevance messaging The invention disclosed herein enables a collection of computers and associated communications infrastructure to offer a new communications process which allows information providers to broadcast information to a population of information consumers. The information ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275215 | System and method for managing contacts in an instant messaging environment A computer-implemented method is described for instant messaging comprising: categorizing two or more instant messaging contact names into a single meta contact; receiving a request to transmit an instant message directed to the meta contact; selecting one of the tw... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7275214 | Method of setting destinations of electronic mail An addition symbol to add two destinations selected from a list of destinations including a group name representing mail addresses of multiple members, and a subtraction symbol to subtract a mail address of an arbitrary member from a group destination are predefined... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7275082 | System for policing junk e-mail messages A system for policying an unsolicited e-mail communication. The system has a plurality of clients, each coupled together using a wide area network of computers, such as the Internet or an internet. Each of the clients is adapted to send an indication of an unsolicit... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274941 | Dynamic service binding providing transparent switching of information services having defined coverage regions It is determined whether a location of a mobile device is within a coverage region of a first information service. Communications for the first information service are redirected to a second information service when the location of the mobile device is not within a ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272853 | Origination/destination features and lists for spam prevention The present invention involves a system and method that facilitate extracting data from messages for spam filtering. The extracted data can be in the form of features, which can be employed in connection with machine learning systems to build improved filters. Data ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272634 | System and method for integrating multiple messaging systems A system and method for allowing a sender to use a generic message entry form for all messaging systems, including email, instant messaging, and the like. The user enters the recipient's name and the message, and a dispatch server intelligently routes the message to... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272653 | System and method for implementing a clustered load balancer A system and method of organizing a front-end load balancing function for implementing an Internet site so the transmission control protocol (TCP) connections, established between the front-end load balancing function and end-users, are spread over more than one ind... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272662 | Systems and methods for routing messages to communications devices over a communications network The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for routing a message to a communications device. These systems and methods may receive a message via a communications channel, convert the message into a uniform media format, identify at least one of the fo... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272614 | Computer-implemented method and system to support in developing a process specification for a collaborative process A computer-implemented method for a collaborative process of exchanging messages through an asynchronous messaging network. The method is embodied by a computer program that causes a computer system to retrieve information on local states and local state transitions... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272398 | Providing to sender of message an identifier of service provider associated with recipient of the message An apparatus in one example comprises a gateway component that provides an identifier of a service provider to a sender of a message through employment of a user address associated with the recipient of the message. ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272496 | Vehicle network and method of communicating data packets in a vehicle network A vehicle communication network (200) includes a plurality of network elements (202–212) and a plurality of communication links (214–230) communicatively coupling the network elements in a point-to-point configuration. At least a portion of ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272672 | High speed bus with flow control and extended burst enhancements between sender and receiver wherein counter is maintained at sender for free buffer space available In a networked system in which high speed busses interconnect sources and destinations of data, systems for and methods of flow control and extended burst transfers are described. ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271929 | System and method for integrated printing and assembly of electronic documents In one embodiment there is disclosed an application program in which a document is created containing complex rendering codes which codes identify locations within the document where material other than the basic medium is to be inserted or where special treatment i... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272378 | E-mail filtering services using Internet protocol routing information Disclosed are methods of managing the delivery, including in certain cases the blocking, of electronic messages based at least in part on an electronic message's IP routing information. Also disclosed are methods of managing electronic messages with an intermediate ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269629 | Method and apparatus for distributing notification among cooperating devices and device channels Methods and devices for networked applications are disclosed. In one embodiment, a device instructs a proxy server to receive traffic inbound for the device, and to notify the device when such traffic arrives. The device can then sleep, except for a notification cha... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269637 | Service provision method via a network and service provision system using the same A service providing method and system according to which a stable access condition is maintained, losses of service providing opportunities to users are reduced and a stable service is provided via a network are provided. When an access request is sent from a user t... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269627 | Routing messages using presence information Routing a message (e.g., text message, voice message, etc.) based on the accessibility of an intended recipient's associated communication channels (e.g., email, fax, instant message, cell, landline, etc.) may involve discovering information relating to an accessibi... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269638 | Display of service provider identity during download A mobile cellular telephone handset (1) is WAP enabled. Browser connection settings are configured so that whilst connection is being made to a WAP server, the user is provided with a graphical display that indicates the identity of the service provider for t... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269624 | Method and apparatus for dynamically managing electronic mail messages on a remote electronic mail messaging system A system and method for receiving email instructions allowing users to remotely manage email messages on a specially adapted email server. The adapted email server comprises a registration module and database and other programming logic for verifying the user and de... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269626 | Dynamic downloading of hypertext electronic mail messages The invention provides a method and system for dynamic downloading of hypertext electronic mail messages. The system includes a mail server for receiving electronic mail messages and their headers, and a mail client for downloading electronic mail messages and their... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266585 | Method and system for using screen names to customize interactive agents A method for using the screen names of users are used to appropriately tailor a service for the users. If the service is a restricted service, then the screen name is used as the basis for deciding whether access should be granted to ensure that access is granted to... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265663 | Multimedia racing experience system A multimedia racing experience system is provided including a plurality of input devices, such as cameras, microphones, and telemetry sensors. All input devices communicate with an on-vehicle processing unit for multiplexing the input data into a data stream. The da... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266583 | Method and system for providing contact management to chat session participants The present invention provides a method and system for providing contact management to participants engaged in a communication session. The invention permits chat session participants to a communication session to determine common contacts that exists between the ch... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266584 | Electronic mail distribution via a network of computer controlled display terminals with interactive display interfaces enabling senders/receivers to view sequences of only text from sequences of E-Mail having same headers A display interface at a sending/receiving display terminal including the conventional implementations for reading and sending E-Mail with an implementation for organizing the text content of a chronological sequence of E-Mail documents having the same subject ident... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260696 | Data reallocation among storage systems The present invention provides techniques, including a method and system, for relocating data between storage systems. In one embodiment of the present invention a host collects usage information from a plurality of storage systems, and determines the relocation des... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260623 | Remote services system communication module The invention relates to a remote services communication module which includes: a communication protocol and a communication encryption module. The communication protocol module provides support for an application level protocol used in a remote services system. The... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259881 | Method of monitoring multiple controller families A method is disclosed including the steps of submitting a print job to a network printer and identifying a specific printer controller governing the print job. The method further includes loading a set of identifiers respective to a specific printer controller and s... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260257 | System and method for whiteboard and audio capture A system that captures both whiteboard content and audio signals of a meeting using a digital camera and a microphone. The system can be retrofit to any existing whiteboard. It computes the time stamps of pen strokes on the whiteboard by analyzing the sequence of ca... | 08/21/2007 |
