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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7568031 | Printing method and device for receiving data from a plurality of data source apparatus A printing device for receiving data from a data source apparatus via a communication interface in which one of two connected communication apparatuses is a communication master and the other is a communication slave, the communication master being able to connect t... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7565430 | Firewall switching system for communication system applications A material content setting adjustment system (10) includes a computer (16) and an interface (14). The interface (14) facilitates communication between the computer (16) and a network (18). An interface mode adjustment switch... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7562141 | Using an information image to perform a predetermined action An information image utilization system and so forth by which it is possible to particularly set the access right and so forth relating to utilization of an apparatus information image and utilization of an apparatus through the apparatus information image to perfor... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7562142 | System and method for network connection A network connection system and a network connection method for facilitating the start of network access service without using information unique to subscriber terminal equipment. Having received a request for telecommunications service from one of subscriber termin... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7558853 | Internet-based education support system and methods A system and methods for implementing education online by providing institutions with the means for allowing the creation of courses to be taken by students online, the courses including assignments, announcements, course materials, chat and whiteboard facilities, a... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7555551 | Automatic controllable deployment of software updates Risk of inadvertent introduction of software bugs to a large number of users during a software update is minimized using an automatic mechanism controlling update release. A value-generating module generates a value for a computer, the value falling within a populat... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7555552 | Method and apparatus for policy management in a network device A method and apparatus for policy management in a network intermediary device. One embodiment of the invention, includes establishing a session between a client and an intermediary device on a network to enable processing of a communication between the client and th... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7552215 | Method, system, and computer program product for supporting a large number of intermittently used application clusters The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for supporting a large number of intermittently used application clusters without consuming all the resources needed to run server processes for all the application clusters all the time. ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7552214 | Systems and methods of information backup A system for granting or denying access to nodes on a network, includes a first node including a list of nodes that can be granted or denied access to the first node, and at least one other node. The first node and the at least one other node are connected across th... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548973 | Managing a high availability framework by enabling and disabling individual nodes A composite resource is established that includes a plurality of members. Each of the members is capable of providing a comparable service. A coordinator monitors a state of each member of the composite resource. A component requests the service from the coordinator... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548974 | Adaptively processing client requests to a network server In a computer network environment, a server protocol is provided to process read requests from clients. Rather than all read requests being processed synchronously or all read requests being processed asynchronously, an attempt is first made to perform a synchronous... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7543059 | Page-view recording with click-thru tracking Page-view recording with click-thru tracking is described. In an embodiment, a tracking system receives a request for content that includes request-tracking information. The request-tracking information designates that the tracking system receive the content request... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7539755 | Real-time heartbeat frequency regulation system and method utilizing user-requested frequency A system and method for regulating real-time the heartbeat frequency of the host according to the user-requested frequency, wherein the heartbeat frequency of the host is regulated through the service request signal sent from the user's end to the host by making use... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7536458 | Distribution of binary executables and content from peer locations/machines Binary executables are distributed in a distributed manner by equipping a server with a bootstrap program. The server provides the bootstrap program to a client computer in response to the client's request for the binary executables. The bootstrap program is designe... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536459 | Page-view recording with click-thru tracking Page-view recording with click-thru tracking is described. In an embodiment, a tracking system receives a request for content that includes request-tracking information. The request-tracking information designates that the tracking system receive the content request... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533172 | Advertisements for peer-to-peer computing resources A system and method for providing advertisements in a peer-to-peer networking environment is described. In one embodiment, the peer-to-peer protocols may use advertisements to describe and publish the existence of peer resources. An advertisement may be defined as a... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529832 | PPP domain name and L2TP tunnel selection configuration override Determining the domain name associated with a virtual circuit may includes receiving, at an Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) server, a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) authentication request comprising a unique identifier comprising a virtual channel... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529833 | Method, system, and web service broker for dynamic web service invocation A method, system and Web service broker with requester's explicit control for dynamic Web service invocation. In accordance with the method a Web service request is constructed by a Web service requester, in which invocation criteria customized by the requester are ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526549 | Cluster data port services for clustered computer system An apparatus, program product and method utilize cluster data port services within a cluster infrastructure to provide reliable and efficient communications between nodes in a clustered computer system. The cluster data port services present an abstracted transport ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526550 | Unified logging service with a log viewer An integrated tracing and logging system for an enterprise network. One embodiment of the integrated logging and tracing system has an object-oriented architecture which includes a controller class with two sub-classes: a tracing sub-class and a logging sub-class. I... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526548 | Distributing an information image A content information image and an information image utilizing system with an access right and an authentication function. In the information image utilizing system (100), copy information image data including identifying information (serial ID, master ID, pr... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526547 | Intelligent network charging edge A system and method for managing charging and billing for services on a network, where the network includes network elements that provide billable services, and charging elements that perform various charging and billing functions. Charging event are received at a n... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523200 | Dynamic access decision information module A dynamic information retrieval service is provided that can be configured to retrieve entitlement information from a plurality of providers. Any application that requires entitlement data may make a request for that information to the dynamic information retrieval ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7523199 | Distributing an information image There is provided an information image utilizing system for setting in detail access rights with respect to performing communications and sending and receiving information through a user information image, which specifies a communication destination user or the like... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7523201 | System and method for optimized lun masking A system and method for optimizing lun masking of a storage appliance is provided. Upon login, an initiator data structure containing a lun map is created and associated with each initiator connected to the storage system. When an initiator sends a message directed ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7523202 | Method, system, and storage medium for resolving contention issues during channel program execution An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system, and storage medium for resolving contention issues by a channel in a fiber optic switch environment that occur during channel program execution. The method comprises a channel receiving a status p... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519708 | Guest account life cycle The present disclosure provides systems and methods for managing accounts within a network community. Briefly described in architecture, some embodiments of such a system provide an account server to manage direct accounts for resident users of the network community... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7516219 | Consumer configurable mobile communication web filtering solution Consumer configurable mobile communications solution enabling web filtering based on policy-enforcement services allowing authorized users to define, manage and enforce restrictions for mobile web data and services of a secondary mobile device. ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7516218 | Network-based information management The invention relates to a network component comprising one, two or more server units 12, 14. Each server unit 12, 14 serves a group of distributed network components CC. The network component comprises a hosting unit for hosting for a specific group o... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7516220 | Method and system for detecting and deterring robot access of web-based interfaces by using minimum expected human response time The present principles provide systems and methods for detecting robot-access of a web-based interface by utilizing a minimum expected human response time (MEHRT) to complete a pre-determined task. After a user is prompted to complete the pre-determined task, a user... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512682 | Database cluster systems and methods for maintaining client connections Aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure include a highly available database cluster that can maintain a connection with potentially geographically remote client application programs, including non-fault tolerant application programs, even in the event of on... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509417 | Method for intelligently selecting a wireless communication access point A method and system for selecting and connecting to an access point in a wireless network of devices, such as a Bluetooth network. Initially, an initiator device is preconfigured with a list of available access point addresses. The initiator device broadcasts an inq... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7509418 | Automatic management of e-services A system for automatic management of an e-service which partitions an e-service life-cycle among operational functionalities and non-operational functionalities and tends to the operational functionalities, thereby reducing the development burden of an e-service and... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7509419 | Method for providing remote access redirect capability in a channel adapter of a system area network A method for providing remote access redirect in a host channel adapter of a system area network are provided. The method provides a mechanism by which a host channel adapter, in response to receiving a marker message, places selected channel(s) of the host channel ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7506054 | Local authentication of a client at a network device A method and apparatus that provide network access control are disclosed. In one embodiment, a network device is configured to intercept network traffic initiated from a client and directed toward a network resource, and to locally authenticate the client. Authentic... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7506055 | System and method for filtering of web-based content stored on a proxy cache server A system and method for filtering of web-based content in a proxy cache server environment provides a local network having a client, a directory server and a proxy cache server that caches predetermined Internet-derived web content within the network. When content i... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7506056 | System analyzing configuration fingerprints of network nodes for granting network access and detecting security threat Various embodiments of a method for detecting a trend in a computer network comprising a plurality of nodes are described. According to one embodiment of the method, network admission control is performed for each node in the network. One or more configuration finge... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7506053 | Software distribution system and method The present invention utilizes a comprehensive object oriented software architecture that is flexibly extendible to accommodate numerous features and activities associated software distribution including software development, management, marketing, selling and deliv... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7502855 | Wireless classroom system allowing user to access a particular classroom by selecting corresponding network from a list of wireless networks A wireless classroom response system includes multiple wireless networks, each serving a different classroom. Each network has a computer located proximate to the classroom that the wireless network serves. The computer executes a communications server and an applic... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502856 | Redirecting file access through a HTTP web server The present invention provides for a method redirecting file access through a web server through the use of a symbolic link file. This symbolic link file is modified to include connection and authentication information of a file stored on a remote system but is acce... | 03/10/2009 |
