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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190740 | Systems and methods for dynamically provisioning cloud computing resources In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method comprising specifying configuration information for creating one or more software servers as images on a cloud computing system, specifying a processing load threshold, and continuously m... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190734 | System and method for network monitoring of internet protocol (IP) networks A system and method for implementing network monitoring with a unified IPv4+IPv6 address type. IPv4 network traffic and IPv6 network traffic are captured. IPv4 and IPv6 address patterns read from the captured network traffic are then encoded into a unified IPv4+IPv6... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190733 | Method and apparatus for virtual location-based services The present invention relates generally to the field of computer and network software, and more particularly it relates to a method and apparatus for providing virtual goods and/or on-line services based on a user's virtual location while surfing the web. According ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190737 | Device, method and system for detecting unwanted conversational media session Some embodiments of the invention relate to a method and a system for detecting unwanted conversational media session data. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a method of detecting unwanted conversation media session data according to some embodiments o... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190731 | Network statistics processing device A network statistics processing device comprises a port processing unit for determining an update from a forward statistic metric carried by an input PDU, an arbitration unit for placing the updates into a scheduled stream of updates, and a memory unit for storing s... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190738 | Detection of patterns in a data stream A system and method for hardware processing of regular expressions is disclosed. A register bank is loaded with state information associated with one or more states of a state machine. State information such as transitions and spin counts are updated as characters o... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190735 | Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method A first information processing apparatus receives file information from a second information processing apparatus when the information processing apparatus switches into a power saving state. If the first information processing apparatus receives, from a third infor... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190732 | Method and apparatus for providing information associated with service providers using a social network A method and apparatus for providing information associated with service providers using a social network is described. In one embodiment, a method of providing indicia of familiarity with the service providers comprises identifying one or more relationships between... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190736 | Reducing messaging in a client-server system A detection that a client-server system, which is operating in a first state mode, has switched from a first use case to a second use case for accessing a property of an object associated with a server. The first state mode during the first use case reduces messagin... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190730 | Location system and methods In one embodiment of the invention, a location system is provided using both RF and IR signals for the determination of an object. Another embodiment of the invention provides a direct network connection for a receiver. The direct connection may be provided for conn... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190739 | Method for lawfully intercepting communication IP packets exchanged between terminals A method for lawfully intercepting communication IP packets exchanged between terminals is provided. The method involves assigning an IP address associated with a telecommunication service provider to, for example, a sending terminal for use as its IP address in com... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185621 | Systems and methods for monitoring webpages Webpages at a universal resource locator (URL) address are compared at two different times. A request is received from a web browser for a first webpage at the URL. The first webpage is requested and received from the URL at a first time. A selectable webpage is cre... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185622 | Condition dependent data maintenance system for a plurality of functional entities The present invention is directed to a server system for supplying differing amounts of data into a database, wherein the system comprises the database and a data tracker device, wherein the data tracker receives data sent by a plurality of functional entities, pref... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185624 | Efficient on-demand provisioning of servers for specific software sets An administrator system provided according to an aspect of the present invention facilitates efficient provisioning of servers for specific software sets. In an embodiment containing clusters of servers requiring execution of corresponding set of software, an admini... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185623 | Selectively routing patient data between field devices and treatment center destinations Techniques for routing event data from a field device, such as an external defibrillator, to a selected subset of a plurality of possible destinations are described. The event data may include physiological data of the patient, such as a 12-lead electrocardiogram (E... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185618 | Dynamically responding to non-network events at a network device in a computer network A technique dynamically responds to non-network events at a network device in a computer network. According to the novel technique, one or more sensors automatically detect (sense) one or more non-network events, and notifications of the non-network events are then ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185619 | Analytics system and method An agentless software data collector in a customer computer network collects metrics data from managed devices on the network to provide to a remote data center accessed via a public wide area network (WAN) interface. The software data collector collects metrics dat... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185626 | Methods for transmitting multimedia files and advertisements The invention is directed to a method of transmitting a file having an advertising portion and a requested portion different from the advertising portion. The method includes receiving a request to transmit the file, via a streaming protocol allowing non-sequential ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185620 | Scalable systems management abstraction framework A system and method for scalable systems management where a plurality of devices in a system is managed with a systems management infrastructure. An abstraction layer software application is implemented overlaying the systems management infrastructure for managing t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185625 | Methods for transmitting multimedia files and advertisements The invention is directed to a method of transmitting a file having an advertising portion and a requested portion different from the advertising portion. The method includes receiving a request to transmit the file, via a streaming protocol allowing non-sequential ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185627 | System and method for sharing information based on proximity A method and system are provided for facilitating interaction between a device and a device environment. The system may include a detection module for automatically detecting proximity of a participant within the device environment. The system may additionally inclu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185550 | Systems and methods for event-based provisioning of elevated system privileges Methods and systems for providing elevated system access to users based on an alert from a monitoring tool or a request for change (RFC). Using the alert or RFC information, a provisioning server may reference the name of an impacted system against a database of pri... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180890 | Hypothesis based solicitation of data indicating at least one subjective user state A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: soliciting, based at least in part on a hypothesis that links one or more objective occurrences with one or more subjective user states and in response at least in part to an incidence of at least... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180889 | Supporting apparatus for analyzing computer operation status Processing time required from transmission of a request packet including a processing request from a client, until return of a reply packet in which internal information including an operation status of a plurality of servers is added to an execution result of proce... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180891 | Discovery, access control, and communication with networked services from within a security sandbox Particular embodiments permit a computer program running within a security sandbox to discover and communicate with networked services for example print servers, or remote control programming interfaces for TVs, stereos, and game boxes. The sandbox allows the comput... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180885 | Method and system for administering devices with multiple user metric spaces Method for administering devices, including creating a user metric vector including a plurality of disparate user metrics, creating a plurality of user metric spaces, each user metric space including a plurality of metric ranges, and selecting, from the plurality of... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180884 | Method and apparatus for monitoring, reporting and charging for services in an application network A method and apparatus is disclosed for the monitoring of active threads in a network service, such as a content transformation service. A network element periodically samples active threads that are indicative of an active session of a service being provided to a s... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180888 | Network mass operation infrastructure In various embodiments, a method for managing edge processors includes providing an interface that allows a user to define a network operation associated with a edge processor. A network operation is generated based on input received via the interface. An action def... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180886 | Method and apparatus for detection of information transmission abnormalities In one embodiment, a method for securing a network application is described. The method for securing a network application includes receiving network information within a network application and assigning a probability value to an independent aspect of the network i... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180892 | Apparatus and method for multi-user NAT session identification and tracking A method and apparatus are provided for identifying and tracking multiple computer user sessions associated with a network address translation (NAT) device coupled to a computer network. Data packets originating from the NAT device containing a request to a destinat... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180887 | Geolocation mapping of network devices A geographic location of a network device is determined using response delay times from internet servers used as landmarks. A coordination server provides to a client a list of area landmark servers (ALS) with known geographic locations. The client probes ALSs, meas... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180803 | Deterministic finite automata (DFA) graph compression An apparatus, and corresponding method, for generating a graph used in performing a search for a match of at least one expression in an input stream is presented. The graph includes a number of interconnected nodes connected solely by valid arcs. A valid arc of a cu... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180895 | Management of podcasts Improved techniques that facilitate the use of podcasts are disclosed. The improved techniques can pertain to publishing, hosting, accessing, subscribing, managing, organizing, searching, browsing, transferring, and/or playing podcasts. According to one aspect, tags... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180881 | Apparatus for analyzing the packet data on mobile communication network and method thereof A packet data analyzer on a mobile communication network for analyzing packet data traffic, monitoring services, generating billing information per data service, and monitoring the network based on a protocol analysis, comprises a packet data separator provided betw... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180883 | Method and system for processing directives included in management events A method and system for processing directives included in management events are disclosed. A method for handling management events includes detecting an event generated upon an occurrence relating to a device, such as a network device. The device related occurrence ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180882 | Distributed messaging system and method for sharing network status data A distributed messaging system and method allows servers in a network to share data, such as network status data associated with all of the servers in the network. In one embodiment, the distributed messaging system and method may be used in element management syste... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180893 | Component-level sandboxing Component-level sandboxing is implemented in the example context of an enterprise rights management system. A policy enforcement module monitors an application executing on a client to detect and evaluate data access requests in view of a rights policy. The policy e... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180729 | Data replication method To ensure data consistency for a new data replica created for a computing system, the transmission and receipt of messages altering the data are monitored and replication of the data is permitted when all changes to the data that have been transmitted to the data ha... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180894 | System and method for policy-based registration of client devices A system and method for policy-based registration of client devices is provided. Policy-based registration may use registration keys to register devices on a network. For example, registration keys may include policy assignments, folder assignments, group assignment... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176166 | Autonomic management of uniform resource identifiers in uniform resource identifier bookmark lists Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to URI management for bookmarks and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for autonomic management of URIs in a URI bookmark list. In one embodiment... | 05/08/2012 |
