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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7334217 | Ejection failure mechanism A system and method for an ejection failure mechanism is provided. The system receives a request to eject an ejectable resource, and, provides information associated with a failure of the ejection of the ejectable resource, if ejection of the ejectable resource is u... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334027 | Controlling method, computer system, and processing program of booting up a computer Respective WWNs (World Wide Names) which can be allocated to a plurality of computers, business application identity information of programs to be booted and area identity information, of areas in a storage system in which the programs are stored, are associated and... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333384 | Techniques for storing accurate operating current values Methods of configuring a system. More specifically, operating current values corresponding to respective memory devices of memory module may be stored in programmable elements, such as antifuses, located on the memory device, during fabrication. The operating curren... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330437 | Checking connectivity for point-to-multipoint connections A method and system thereof for checking connectivity between endpoints in a network are described. A message is sent from an originating endpoint to a terminating endpoint. The message directs the terminating endpoint to enable detection of continuity check cells u... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330881 | Music-data reproducing system using a download program A data card 101 with music data accumulated therein is inserted into a portable telephone 110 to fetch the music data into the portable telephone, and application software suitable for a music data format prescribed in association with the music data i... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330850 | Text mining system for web-based business intelligence applied to web site server logs A text mining system for collecting business intelligence about a client, as well as for identifying prospective customers of the client, for use in a lead generation system accessible by the client via the Internet. The text mining system has various components, in... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330913 | Method and apparatus for maintaining peripheral device support information A method and apparatus for maintaining a computing device is provided. An indication of an end of persistence for a peripheral device is received. Monitoring is performed for an event related to the end of persistence. Support information associated with the periphe... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330986 | Method and apparatus for implementing a sleep proxy for services on a network One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for implementing a sleep proxy. The system starts by receiving a request at the sleep proxy for information pertaining to a service provided by a device. In response to this request, the system determines if ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328046 | Communication system A communication system and a method and a server for a communication system is disclosed. The communication system comprises communication means for providing communication media for a plurality of user equipment, a storage entity (21) adapted to store inform... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328257 | System for automatically assigning a telephone number to an existing telephone after detecting a network connection of a portable computer An apparatus and method that allows a telecommunication identification number for a communication terminal to be determined upon a presence of a user at the network connected telecommunication terminal. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328270 | Communication protocol processor having multiple microprocessor cores connected in series and dynamically reprogrammed during operation via instructions transmitted along the same data paths used to convey communication data A communication protocol processor is presented including a transmit unit and a receive unit, each having multiple microprocessor cores connected in series. Each microprocessor core performs an operation upon a stream of communication data, conducted along a data pa... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328453 | Systems and methods for the prevention of unauthorized use and manipulation of digital content A number of systems and methods, alone, or in combination, achieve various levels of protection against unauthorized modification and distribution of digital content. This encompasses at least unauthorized study, modification, monitoring, reconstruction, and any oth... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325161 | Classification of recovery targets to enable automated protection setup In one embodiment, a recovery manager may define a plurality of recovery target sets. Each recovery target set comprises a recovery point target, a recovery time target, and at least one other property. The recovery manager also defines a plurality of recovery class... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325047 | Dynamic undeployment of services in a computing network Methods, systems, and computer program products for improving network operations by dynamically undeploying services (such as web services or other network-accessible services) in a computing network. A process is defined whereby conditions such as usage metrics for... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325194 | Method, system, and apparatus for converting numbers between measurement systems based upon semantically labeled strings Number conversion between different units of measurement in a document is enabled. A string of text entered into an application program is analyzed to determine whether it includes a number having an associated unit name. Found numbers with associated unit names are... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325026 | Network communications analysis Network protocol communications used by an application are captured and analyzed. Routines corresponding to particular calls that an application invokes in implementing a targeted network communication protocol are hooked. A stub is called, which retains a current s... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325048 | Method for automatically creating a modem interface for use with a wireless device A method for automatically creating a modem interface on a computer device for use with a wireless device. The method of the present invention creates a modem interface without requiring the user to execute a standard operating system's manual modem installation pro... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325046 | Method, system and program products for managing processing groups of a distributed computing environment The management and use of replicated distributed transactions is facilitated. A distributed synchronous transaction system protocol is provided to manage the replication of distributed transactions for client application instances. The distributed synchronous transa... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321944 | User programming system using web server for private branch exchange A user programming system using a web server for a PBX is provided. A user program is loaded in the web server via a LAN interface. When necessary, a client accesses the web server by a general web browser and updates the user program on line or off line. ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7322046 | Method and system for the secure use of a network service In a network, in particular an ad-hoc network AHN, having a blackboard on which all the usable services are entered, following detection of a service which has not yet been entered on the blackboard, a check is carried out to determine whether use of the service is ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321784 | Method for physically updating configuration information for devices in a wireless network A method for providing configuration information for use in installing a new wireless station to a wireless network that minimizes errors is presented. The configuration information is distributed by storing the configuration information onto a device with a memory ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321927 | Controlling method, computer system, and processing program of booting up a computer Respective WWNs (World Wide Names) which can be allocated to a plurality of computers, business application identity information of programs to be booted and area identity information, of areas in a storage system in which the programs are stored, are associated and... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321589 | MAC layer reconfiguration in a mobile communication system The invention relates to method and apparatus for reconfiguring a MAC entity of a MAC layer of the apparatus receiving protocol data units from a mobile terminal via on uplink upon reconfiguration of the uplink channel. Further, the invention relates to methods and ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320085 | Scalable, software-based quorum architecture A cluster of computers typically establishes a quorum, i.e., a software method for establishing agreement, to coordinate access to shared resources, such as a shared data store, in applications that must recover from the failure of one or more computers or their ass... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320019 | Method and apparatus for automatically checking e-mail addresses in outgoing e-mail communications The present invention provides a system and method for detecting incorrect e-mail addresses in outgoing e-mail communications. In a first embodiment, a domain name database creates a table of domain names by automatically storing the domain names of e-mail addresses... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320068 | Systems and methods to migrate a user profile when joining a client to a server and/or domain The present invention relates to systems and methods to generate accounts on a client when joining the client to a domain while preserving user profiles that were generated prior to joining the client. In general, a user with an account on a client can customize the... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319937 | System and method for programming measuring equipment offline A computer-based method for programming measuring equipment offline is provided. The method includes the steps of: setting a format for all output measuring dimensions of a product; receiving nominal scales and tolerances corresponding to the measuring dimensions; i... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319859 | Wireless LAN device The present invention provides a wireless LAN system 22 that causes a client 40 to display information of a local unit. A wireless LAN device 20 has a function of connecting the client 40 of a LAN with another network 50. Th... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320132 | Software methods of an optical networking apparatus with multiple multi-protocol optical networking modules An API is provided to an optical networking apparatus to facilitate uniform access, control or interaction with its multi-protocol optical networking modules (MPONM) by its applications. Each of the MPONM has a number of function blocks having corresponding service ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319866 | Methods and apparatus for programming user-defined information into electronic devices A device for programming user-defined information into an electronic device is provided. The programmer allows a user to program customized information, such as user-selected audio, video, or Internet access information into his or her programmable device. Such elec... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319664 | Redundant link management switch for use in a stack of switches and method thereof A stackable switch supporting redundant link and backup management. The stackable switch includes a stacking module, a processor and a management module. Several stackable switches can be stacked together in the form of a closed-loop link topology via the stacking m... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317694 | Method and apparatus for border node behavior on a full-duplex bus A method is disclosed for determining and communicating the existence of a hybrid bus. The method comprises the acts of determining whether the node has a connection to a Legacy link layer; if the node determines that it has a connection to a Legacy link layer, then... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318096 | Methods, devices and computer-readable storage media for passive optical network address association recovery Techniques for reestablishing network address associations upon recovery of a passive optical network (PON) disablement relay on storage address association information. A network node stores address association information in non-volatile memory upon detecting a ne... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318097 | Security checking program for communication between networks A method for determining if a multiplicity of networks are authorized to communicate with each other and what IP protocol can be used for communication between each combination of two of the networks. For each network, a computer readable data base stores a record o... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318101 | Methods and apparatus supporting configuration in a network A configuration server maintains configuration information associated with a given host computer. Thus, the configuration information is maintained at a remote location with respect to the given host computer. During operation, the configuration server may receive a... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317736 | Systems and method for delivering reliable datagram service through connection-oriented service A system and method for reliable delivery of datagram protocol data unit (PDU) packets generated by a network oriented application at a first computing network element to a second computing network element across a network. The method steps include: at the first com... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318084 | Communication device and method for controlling communication device A communication device includes a communication unit that can transmit and receive an electronic mail message via a network. The communication device also includes a control unit forming a device setting form-data described as a structured document, transmitting the... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318088 | Receiving data at a client computer and performing an operation on the data at the client computer based on information in the key file A method of receiving data at a client computer and performing an operation on the received data is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving a key file having a rule identifying the operation to be performed on the data received at the client computer; receiving t... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317734 | Method and apparatus for emulating ethernet functionality over a serial bus Applications can transparently use a bus, such as the IEEE-1394 serial bus, as if it were an Ethernet (IEEE 802.3). In a conventional Ethernet, each node is assigned a unique 6-byte MAC address in order to receive frames addressed to it over the LAN. According to th... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318093 | Method and apparatus for monitoring and controlling programs in a network A system for monitoring and controlling at least one program capable of being executed on any one of at least two workstations in a network. The network includes at least one agent module resident on each of the at least two workstations and a management console con... | 01/08/2008 |
