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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7203937 | Software installation and configuration with specific role for target computer and identity indicator for authorization for performance of features An implementation of a technology, described herein, for software installation and/or configuration. At least one implementation, described herein, provides for the installation, configuration, or uninstallation of software components on one or more target computing... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200649 | Adaptive method for duplicative IP address detection A method for detecting and preventing the use of duplicate IP addresses is provided. The method involves sending ARP probes onto a network to determine whether an IP address that a device desires to employ is a duplicate IP address. The method further involves deter... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200650 | Method and device avatar system for providing an electronic service for an electronic device The present invention includes a method and a device avatar system for providing at least one electronic service for a first physical electronic device associated with a first device avatar. In the system, an avatar hosting infrastructure includes at least the first... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200652 | Method and system for providing automatic notification of end of lease of computers and their locations A method and system for providing automatic notification of an end of lease of a computer system and its location within a computer network is disclosed. The computer network includes a server computer system and multiple client computer systems. A message is initia... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200598 | System and method for efficiently replicating a file among a plurality of recipients having improved scalability A method of distributing a file from a first node to a plurality of recipient nodes comprises logically organizing a plurality of recipient nodes to which a file is to be distributed into a plurality of groups of recipient nodes. The file is distributed to the plura... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200646 | System and method for on-demand node creation for fabric devices A fabric driver on a host system connected to a fabric may include an API for an administration application to query and obtain a list of devices connected to a fabric host adapter port(s). The fabric driver may execute this query and obtain the list of devices by q... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197536 | Primitive communication mechanism for adjacent nodes in a clustered computer system A circuit arrangement, node, clustered computer system, and method incorporate a primitive communication mechanism for use in exchanging data between adjacent nodes coupled via a point-to-point network. A plurality of network ports are used to couple a node to other... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197549 | On-demand address pools A method for on-demand management of Internet Protocol (IP) address pools includes allocating an unused IP address from a local IP address pool designated for a remote domain if a request to connect to the remote domain is received and deallocating an IP address bac... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197768 | Software modem for communicating data using encrypted data and unencrypted control codes A communications system includes a physical layer hardware unit and a processing unit. The physical layer hardware unit is adapted to communicate data over a communications channel. The physical layer hardware unit is adapted to receive unencrypted control codes and... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197037 | Device and system for message processing In a message processing system, a plurality of vehicles or other locations are equipped with message processing devices and transmit and receive a message. The message has a header and a body. The header includes a valid duration and/or a valid zone specified by var... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197608 | Software management method for a storage system, and storage system The storage system creates a volume for storing information specific to a user, and a volume for storing software shared by a plurality of users, links these volumes on the basis of the software usage status of the users, and virtually builds one region and supplies... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194564 | Method and apparatus for preventing loops in a full-duplex bus A method and apparatus is disclosed for preventing loops in a full-duplex bus. One method has the acts of: selecting at least two candidates to join said bus; establishing a dominant candidate from one of said at least two candidates; testing for loops in said bus; ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194619 | Remotely booting devices in a dense server environment without manually installing authentication parameters on the devices to be booted A method, system and computer program product for remotely booting devices. A deployment server may remotely transmit authentication parameter(s), e.g., public key, secret key, to a service unit configured to establish a private connection between server blades and ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194662 | Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing data path optimization The present invention is a method, apparatus and program storage device for providing data path optimization for redundant data paths. The present invention provides data path optimization that increases the data access throughput and availability to a device by usi... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194439 | Method and system for correlating job accounting information with software license information A job accounting and chargeback system for software products is comprised of a software license manager in the form of a software product use monitoring subsystem that handles requests for and grants rights to use software products, in such a manner that chargeback ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194464 | System and method for adapting an internet filter A system and method for updating a filtering system which controls access to a website/page between a local area network (LAN) and an Internet. The LAN includes an Internet gateway system coupled to a workstation and configured to receive a URL request. The system c... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194503 | System and method to query settings on a mobile device A provisioning system for receiving configuration changes to and queries of settings on a mobile device. The provisioning system may include a router, configuration manager and one or more configuration service providers. The router component is responsible for rece... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7193975 | Wireless LAN base station capable of carrying out automatic matching for radio channels A wireless LAN base station scans frequency channels available for use in a wireless LAN, detects a beacon signal of a near-by wireless LAN base station, and thereby the number of the near-by base stations in the wireless LAN is notified. The notified number of the ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194526 | Network device management method, and network devices There is provided a technique capable of easily and suitably setting or updating the setting information or the firmware of a plurality of network devices. According to a network device management method, a device information managing section transmits identificatio... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194530 | System for managing a network In an integrated management system for providing a network system having a plurality of computers with a security function and managing a plurality of target products, implementation of the management system itself is facilitated by providing the management system w... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191261 | System and method to use unmodified operating system on diskless computer A system and method for using a conventional, unmodified operating system that routinely issues disk I/O requests in a diskless network computer. An adapter receives the disk I/O requests and translates them to network I/O requests, transparently to the CPU. The req... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7191266 | Method and apparatus for supporting and presenting multiple serial bus nodes using distinct configuration ROM images A method and apparatus for presenting a plurality of link devices as separate nodes within a single serial bus module by generating individual or a distinct configuration ROM image for each link device in the module. Each configuration ROM includes an entry for a di... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7191227 | System for dynamically changing the communication means used for communication between two software agents A system and a method for changing the communication means used for communication between two software agents. Each software agent has a communication module, which gives the software agents access to the communication means. In addition, the software agents have me... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188201 | Storage system The present invention unitarily manages the configuration change of a storage system so as to know the latest configuration, and evaluates the reliability in advance when the configuration is changed so that the generation of a failure is suppressed. When the host | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188251 | System and method for secure message-based leasing of resources in a distributed computing environment A system and method for providing message-based leasing of resources in a distributed computing environment. Services may issue leases to clients and provide operations on those leases. The lease functionality of a service may be defined in an XML message schema. Ga... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188335 | Product configuration using configuration patterns In a particular embodiment, configuration patterns are used to provide solutions to configuration problems that repetitively occur. Use of configuration patterns in connection with a configuration model has many benefits. A configuration patterns is a parameterized ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188165 | Method of, and a heterogeneous network for, transmitting data packets A method of transmitting data packets in a heterogeneous network comprising first and second parts (10, 18) and an interface between the parts, comprises a device (16) in the first part (10) or interface determining the number of data packets be... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188240 | Method and system for encryption of web browser cache A user normally logs on to a distributed network, such as the user's Internet service, using the user's unique login name and password. The user must then be authorized to write to and read from encrypted information stored in the browser defined cache. The browser ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187265 | Equipment housing with interfacing computer An equipment housing is provided upon which heavy computing equipment, such as servers, routers, switches, and others may be mounted. A computing device is attached to the housing. The computing device is interfaced with the equipment on the housing, and also with a... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188148 | Information providing apparatus, information providing method, delivering apparatus, and delivering method An information providing apparatus for registering the delivery of content data including a storing section for storing content that is provided and a delivery designating section for designating a delivery condition for delivering the content, wherein a delivering ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188160 | Method and apparatus for updating network device configuration information in a network management system A managed network device maintains running configuration information, and changes the information in response to configuration change requests from a network management system (NMS) at a first interface and configuration change requests received from outside the NMS... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188161 | Method for configuring a network element at a customer premise via a mobile data terminal An enhanced network element and method for configuring and deploying computer network elements is disclosed. A customer orders a network element from an equipment provider. Upon receipt of the unconfigured network element, a Trusted Configuration Device (TCD) is shi... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7185070 | Generic quality of service protocol and architecture for user applications in multiple transport protocol environments A generic quality of service (“G-QoS”) protocol and architecture for applications executing in multiple transport protocol environments is provided. G-QoS negotiators establish a QoS level for user applications by communicating over a network and exchanging netw... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184445 | Architecture and API for of transport and upper layer protocol processing acceleration A network interface card comprising an upper layer protocol (ULP) handler, a TCP handler capable of interfacing with said ULP handler and, a link handler. The network interface card is adapted to take over and perform at least one session layer function of a host co... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184711 | Maintenance system for a telecommunication installation The invention provides a portable and autonomous assistance device to derive information on faults in a private telecommunication installation comprising particularly equipment units to assist the client owning the installation in maintaining the latter. A maintenan... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7185015 | System and method of monitoring and controlling application files A system and method for updating a system that controls applications requested for execution on a workstation. A workstation management module is configured to detect requested execution of an application. A workstation application server receives data associated wi... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7185074 | Method of discovering and installing clients for digital copier services The present invention is directed to a network in which a potential user may be notified of the presence of at least one intelligent peripheral device and, upon the potential user's request, his workstation may be configured to use the selected intelligent periphera... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7185275 | Method and computer system for enabling a user to construct a web-site navigation A computer system for generating web page navigations. A user interacts with an input form for creating a web page and accepting input that specifies inclusion of the page in a navigation and the hierarchical level of the inclusion. The specifications of the input f... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180870 | ISDN terminal equipment-resident mechanism for determining service profile identifiers and associated telecommunication switch protocol The inability of an ISDN equipment user to properly configure ISDN terminal equipment, even when provided with correctly assigned switch protocol, SPID and LDN parameters by a telephone service provider, is successfully remedied by a SPID/switch protocol detector. U... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181510 | Method and apparatus for creating a secure embedded I/O processor for a remote server management controller The present invention relates to providing a secure computing environment in a remote server management controller. The exemplary embodiment includes a hierarchy of register security levels restricting register access by communications interfaces shared by the remot... | 02/20/2007 |
