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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7822823 | Systems for communicating current and future activity information among mobile internet users and methods therefor A computer-implemented method implemented via the Internet for coordinating a current or future event between a user of a mobile Internet device and other users communicating through the Internet. The method includes receiving the current or future activity informat... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7818386 | Repeatable message streams for message queues in distributed systems Techniques for propagating messages in a distributed system are provided. A set of messages enqueued in a source queue are sent to one or more destination queues. An acknowledgement is received from each of the one or more destination queues, where the acknowledgeme... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7814165 | Message classification system and method An automatic message classification system includes a set of stored messages. Each message contains address identifiers. An incoming message processor delivers incoming messages to the system, each containing incoming address identifiers. A list of address identifie... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7814167 | System and method for obtaining remote instant messages A system and method for retrieving instant messages includes establishing a first instant message (IM) session an then, establishing a second instant message session using a same account as the first instant message session. The first IM session is rendered dormant ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7814166 | Methods and apparatus for virtualizing an address space Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving a memory access request for data from a processor of a multi-processor system; determining whether the data of the memory access request is stored in a remote processing system coupled to the multi-processor system over a... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7801962 | Email collaboration manager A collaboration management system and method is provided for logging, monitoring, alerting, and striping attachments from communications to and from a client/contact into a single record. The collaboration management system receives electronic messages from the one ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7788333 | Systems and methods for providing critical information based on profile data Systems and methods for providing critical information to a user of a content providing service based on profile data associated with the user are disclosed. Such systems and methods can include storing a user profile that identifies a plurality of communication pat... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7788332 | Sensor-network processors using event-driven architecture Event-driven processor architectures are particularly suited for use in multiple sensor node networks and simulators of such networks. A first variation of the processor is particularly suited for use in a sensor node in a wireless sensor network. Through use of the... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7769817 | Assisting the response to an electronic mail message A method, article of manufacture and apparatus for assisting an electronic mail (e-mail) response message by providing e-mail messages related to an open e-mail message. Specifically, the method determines whether an available e-mail message is related to the open e... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7769816 | Method for tracking transmission status of data to entities such as peers in a network A method for tracking a transmission status of one or more data elements to one or more devices. In one example, the method includes providing a list including one or more devices and one or more data elements; processing the list to determine a data element of the ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7761527 | Method and apparatus for discovering network based distributed applications A method and apparatus for discovering applications having components distributed over a plurality of nodes in a network is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of obtaining information associated with at least one application, said information providing first ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756940 | Transaction processing system having service level control capabilities There is provided a transaction processing system for providing plural services according to service level contracts, the system comprising: an SLA database for storing contract conditions defined for each of the services provided; request queues for storing process... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7752278 | Instant message method to provide a delayed alarm/reminder A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for providing instant messaging users with an alarm to remind users of an event or to rejoin an instant messaging chat. An instant message that includes a request for a user to curre... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7752279 | System for facilitating thread-based message prioritization To perform thread-based message prioritization, metadata may be extracted from a received electronic message. Based on the extracted message metadata and accumulated metadata extracted from previously received messages, a message thread to which the received electro... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7743106 | Message dissemination system for nominating a trigger event to a specific destination based on communication channel and message identifiers A method of generating a message by providing on a communication channel an indication of a message identifier, the combination of communication channel and identifier uniquely indicating a message for any specific destination. ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7739346 | Method and apparatus for specification of transaction failures in a network management protocol Method and apparatus for managing a network using one or more diagnostic objects in a Management Information Base (MIB). The one or more diagnostic objects include a diagnostic table object for storing data, including diagnostic text information. The method includes... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7739347 | System, portable electronic apparatus and method for timely receiving and displaying electronic files A portable electronic apparatus for timely receiving and displaying electronic files is provided. An identification code of the electronic file indicates that the electronic file is an instant file or a common file. A receiving unit (21) of the portable elect... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7739345 | Alert notification engine Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for encapsulating functions to select or filter alerts relevant for messaging to specific recipients, to create appropriate alert notification messages and to actively send them through various... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734708 | Enabling identification of online identities between different messaging services A method and system for populating identities in a message service involves registering a user of a first messaging service with a second messaging service. User identities for users other than the registered user may be identified. These user identities may be asso... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734709 | Controlling computer response message traffic Electronic message response reception at a client computer in a conversation are throttled according to a predetermined critera in order to reduce the volume of messages the client is presented. Critera for throttling messages comprises only presenting messages in a... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734710 | Presence-based hybrid peer-to-peer communications A method and an apparatus are disclosed for improving the flow of data traffic between clients and servers by determining, in an enhanced hybrid peer-to-peer network, when a client telecommunications terminal should share its data with one or more peers, instead of ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7730151 | Methods and apparatus for maintaining online preferences At a service provider, a system receives recipient information containing preferences to be used in an online transaction. The recipient information is received from a client. At the service provider, the system associates the recipient information with the client f... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725553 | Mixed massaging mode for multiple points of presence A facility for providing an IM mixed mode operation by utilizing both page mode IM and session based IM jointly in the same IM conversation is provided. The facility initiates an IM conversation between an originating user registered at an originating device and a r... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720925 | Multiple message receive routine for network packets A method for receiving a plurality of messages that includes obtaining the plurality of messages, grouping the plurality of messages into a data structure, generating a system call from a user-level application to a kernel, wherein the system call includes a request... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7720926 | Information processing system, an information apparatus, macro executing method, and storage medium An information processing system in which a warning is generated in advance when a macro including unsupported functions is executed, realizing improved usability for users. A multi-function apparatus and a server holding at least one macro indicative of a procedure... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7720924 | System providing methodology for the restoration of original media quality in messaging environments A system providing methodology for the restoration of original media quality in messaging environments is described. In one embodiment, for example, deployed in a messaging system, a method of the present invention is described for restoring media items to original ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716299 | Determining the configuration of a data processing system existing at the time a transaction was processed The invention provides a method, system and computer program product for determining the configuration of a data processing system at the time a transaction was processed. A transaction is received from a client device and tracked through the data processing network... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7707262 | Negotiating content controls Access to an electronic conference may be administered by receiving an electronic instruction configured to establish the electronic conference, enabling more than one user to generate content restrictions that limit content rendered during the electronic conference... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702739 | Efficient transactional messaging between loosely coupled client and server over multiple intermittent networks with policy based routing Systems and methods are disclosed for reducing the cost of sending messages over an intermittent network of computing devices via multiple communication channels by creating a first message on a first device, the message intended to be sent to a second device over t... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7693952 | Availability and scalability in a messaging system in a manner transparent to the application Methods, systems, and computer program products that provide for a runtime messaging infrastructure, which abstracts send and receive operations for exchanging messages with partner endpoint. The messaging infrastructure improves availability and scalability of a me... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7693953 | Providing Web services for wireless communication devices A system and method are described for interfacing a wireless device with a plurality of web services including social networking web services. For example, a system according to one embodiment of the invention comprises a system for interfacing a wireless device wit... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7689659 | Method and system for detecting abusive email based on number of hops A classifier is implemented to determine the number of message transfer agents (MTAs) through which an email message has traveled. If the number of MTAs through which the email message has traveled is below a predetermined threshold and the email message is not othe... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7680895 | Integrated conversations having both email and chat messages Email and chat messages may be displayed as part of the same conversation, in an integrated conversation view. The conversation view would include items corresponding to email messages that are part of the conversation and chat messages that are part of the conversa... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7673007 | Web services push gateway A system and method for interfacing Web Services push applications and mobile terminals operable with one of a plurality of different mobile push technologies. A Web Services push gateway includes a Web Services endpoint to terminate Web Services protocols utilized ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668922 | Identifying and displaying relevant shared entities in an instant messaging system An apparatus, program product and/or method identify relevant shared entities and/or display shared entities in an instant messaging system. In particular, entities such as files, images, videos, e-mails, links, bookmarks, databases, transcripts of other instant mes... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664822 | Systems and methods for authentication of target protocol screen names A protocol management system is capable of detecting certain message protocols and applying policy rules to the detected message protocols that prevent intrusion, or abuse, of a network's resources. In one aspect, a protocol message gateway is configured to apply po... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7660865 | Spam filtering with probabilistic secure hashes Disclosed are signature-based systems and methods that facilitate spam detection and prevention at least in part by calculating hash values for an incoming message and then determining a probability that the hash values indicate spam. In particular, the signatures g... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660863 | Confidence communication method between two units A method for communication between a first unit and a second unit via a telecommunications network, wherein the first unit comprises a first family of applications and a second family of applications having communication capacities on the network extending beyond co... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660864 | System and method for user notification Systems and methods applicable, for example, in having a node inform its user of one or more events while the user interface of the node is in an idle state. The user might, for instance, be able to select one or more of the events of which she is informed for corre... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657605 | Presence enhanced online processes In some embodiments, a managed presence online processing system may include one or more of the following features: (a) a memory comprising, (i) presence information submitted from a user, and (ii) a presence online processing program that initiates online processes... | 02/02/2010 |
