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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6941468 | Hand-held device forgotten password notification There is provided a password manager for a hand-held device. The hand-held device is included in a system managed by an administrator and having a server and a network. The network is for synchronizing the hand-held device and the server. An input device receives a ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6938081 | Methods and systems for managing network infrastructure change including obtaining approval for the network infrastructure changes The systems, methods, and means described herein are designed to promote the efficient and prompt approval of proposed changes to a network and the effective implementation of customer notification of those proposed changes among other things. Specifically, the syst... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6934740 | Method and apparatus for sharing common data objects among multiple applications in a client device Disclosed is software architecture and method for sharing data objects among multiple applications in a client device. The architecture includes a server process in the client device for processing a template, such as a SHTML template for the Extended Markup Languag... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6922831 | Method and system for providing software utilizing a restore medium and a network The present invention is directed to a system and method of restoring an information handling system utilizing a restore medium and a network storage medium. In a first aspect of the present invention, a method of restoring an information handling system utilizing a... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6918112 | System and method to facilitate installation of components across one or more computers An interface is provided for identifying which components a user desires to install on one or more computers. An installation procedure is determined based on dependency requirements for components that are selected for installation. The installation procedure may d... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915337 | Method and system for updating the device driver of a business office appliance A method, system and program product for implementing communication to download a driver to a target device or business office appliance using an electronic network message or e-mail. A newest driver for the device/appliance may be downloaded from, for example, a se... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6912533 | Data mining agents for efficient hardware utilization A method, system, and computer program product for allocating data mining processing tasks that does not use complex internal schemes, yet results in better performance than is possible with general-purpose operating system based schemes. The present invention uses ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6912552 | Method and system for migrating stored data to a build-to-order computing system A method and system for migrating data to a build-to-order computing system is provided. The method comprises storing an image at a remote site. The image comprises data stored on a computing system. An order is received to provide a second computing system to a cus... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6912711 | Method of applying an update to a contained collection of program and data files based upon versions A method, system, and apparatus for updating code in a software program is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a patch is provided to a plurality of versions of a program, wherein the program is updated by an installation program and a plurality of versions of the ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6907546 | Language-driven interface for an automated testing framework To test the functionality of a computer system, automated testing may use an automation testing tool that emulates user interactions. A database may store words each having a colloquial meaning that is understood by a general population. For each of these words, the... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6904457 | Automatic firmware update of processor nodes Provided is a method, system, and program for updating the firmware in a nodal system. The nodal system includes at least two nodes, wherein each node includes a processing unit and a memory including code. The nodes communicate over a communication interface. At le... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6898705 | Automatic appliance server re-provision/re-purposing method Disclosed is a method for automatically re-provisioning an appliance server without significant user-interaction. The disk drive of a server to be utilized as an appliance server is partitioned into at least three partitions, including a systems partition, a network... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6892299 | Information processor, information processing method, information processing system, control program, and storage medium To allow an appropriate printer driver to be downloaded taking into consideration identification information for a printer, control information used to control a peripheral device is determined based on identification information for a terminal device and identifica... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6892216 | Common platform for use in automotive services A common platform is used in conjunction with a host computer to control various equipment sensors that perform different functions. In one aspect, the common platform is a micro-controller board, the host computer is a personal computer (PC), and the equipment sens... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6879988 | System and method for manipulating and managing computer archive files A computer program for managing and manipulating archive zip files of a computer. The program includes a system and method for opening, creating, modifying, and extracting zip archive files. The program is fully integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer and is acce... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6868448 | Resource locator A computing environment includes an application server code resident on a remote application server that can be distributed by a local server. A request for information by a client is serviced by a request handler on the local application server. If the information ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6854112 | System and method for the automatic installation and configuration of an operating system A system and a method for installing and configurating a package including an operating system, software products, and applications on end-user computers connected to server computers in a network. The method is based on a pull deployment model where installation is... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6854009 | Networked computer system A networked computer system has a plurality of servers and a plurality of distributed clients, which may be devices or computers. Each client has a boot operating system (OS). Upon startup, the boot OS in each client automatically initiates a connection to one of th... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6845394 | Software delivery method with enhanced batch redistribution for use in a distributed computer network A method, and associated computer system, for redistributing software packages in a distributed computer network after a failed distribution attempt is made in a distributed computer network by a master network device. The method includes determining which intermedi... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6836793 | Method of distributing data packets of system software where the receiving units acknowledge only proper reception In a point-to-multipoint system (SYS), particularly a video-on-demand system, comprising a send unit (SERVER) in the form of a server and a plurality of receive units (DEC) in the form of decoders, a new version of the system software for the decoders is to be trans... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6820260 | Customized applet-on-hold arrangement When a call to a call center is enqueued to await an agent or placed on hold by an agent, an applet customized to satisfy an in-queue experience selected by the caller is downloaded to and executed on the caller's terminal. The applet presents information to the cal... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6804710 | Configuration information management system, method, program, and program storage device A method for enabling logical configuration information to be divided into those in specific ranges, thereby making it easier to manage logical configuration information of each of distributed computers. The above method, which manages configuration information of e... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6775830 | Computer system and a program install method thereof A computer system including a plurality of computers, a management console operated by the operator to install a program in the computers and a storage subsystem coupled to the computers and the management console is disclosed. The storage subsystem includes a first... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6772192 | Software download and distribution via image building and multicast The present invention provides a method and apparatus for installing software on a computer. In one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided that includes building a disk image from requested software components distributed over a network. ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6769118 | Dynamic, policy based management of administrative procedures within a distributed computing environment An administrative management system comprising an administrative server and a client is disclosed. In response to a selection of an administrative procedure to be executed on the client, the administrative server determines if an execution of the administrative proc... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6766349 | Mechanism for obtaining a thread from, and returning a thread to, a thread pool without attaching and detaching A JAVA application is typically executed as follows. First, a thread from a thread pool is attached to the JAVA virtual machine (JVM). Then, that thread is used to execute the JAVA application. Once the execution of the JAVA application is completed, the thread is d... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6766366 | Method for loading a function provided by a first computer (server) onto a second computer (client) A function is to be loaded from a first computer onto a second computer via a network, preferably a computer network or a communication network. To that end, the second computer, in addition to containing an operating system, also contains a platform-independent sys... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6760761 | Systems and methods for standardizing network devices A system facilitates configuration of at least one of multiple network devices (130) of different types. The system includes a configuration database (310), a policies database (320), a configuration generator (330), and a protocol engine... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6757894 | Preprocessed applications suitable for network streaming applications and method for producing same An application is preprocessed for use in an application streaming environment by dividing each file in the application into blocks corresponding to the code page block size used by the operating system. Each block is compressed, and the compressed blocks from all o... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6754895 | Method and system for automatic firmware updates in a portable hand-held device A method for automatically updating firmware of a hand-held device. To initiate the automatic update, a reset of the hand-held device is detected. Once a reset is detected, an update application is executed, wherein the update application performs the required updat... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6754896 | Method and system for on-demand installation of software implementations A method and system for installing software implementations such as applications and COM classes as they are needed from an external source, such as a centralized network store. When a software implementation is needed, the system and method first look to the local ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6754848 | Method, system and program products for operationally migrating a cluster through emulation An updating capability updates a component of a computing environment, while maintaining the availability of the computing environment. In particular, a component of the computing environment which is associated with at least a portion of a unit of work is updated f... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6751794 | Intelligent patch checker A method to remotely update software for a plurality of client system is disclosed. A client system sends a request for an upgrade to a server system. The request includes a unique identification that is recognized by the server system as belonging to the client sys... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6738806 | Method and system of deploying an application between computers A method of deploying an application for shared execution between at least one alternate computing resource and a device interconnected by a communication medium. The method including the categorizing of the application into device objects and server objects, where ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6735625 | System and method for automatically determining whether a product is compatible with a physical device in a network A system and method for interfacing with a component located in a network environment is provided. A user in a network environment can connect to a device on the network and automatically learn at least one detail regarding the device software image details. Example... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6718548 | Method for embedding an operating system and an application program into a memory apparatus A method for embedding an operating system and application program into a memory apparatus. The operating system includes a boot file and a run control (RC) program and the method includes the steps as follows. First, source codes of the operating system are process... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6708333 | Method and system for reporting failures of a program module in a corporate environment A computer-implemented method and system for reporting failures in an application program module to a corporate file server. The failure may be a crash or a set-up failure. Once detected, the program failures are categorized, i.e. bucketed, and reported directly to ... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6704824 | Universal serial bus adapter with automatic installation A peripheral device and a method for operating the peripheral device for automatic installation, in which the method includes coupling the peripheral device to a computer and sending a first device identification from the peripheral device to the computer... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6697852 | Oneclick installation for client-server application package A method of installing a client-server application package from a server computer having a server program, a client distribution program, a client installation program and a client program to a client computer. The method comprises installing the server p... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6698018 | System and method of multiple-stage installation of a suite of applications A multiple stage installation system for the installation and setup of a suite of applications segregates and organizes the preparation, installation, clean up, optimization, etc. into functional groupings that define the multiple stages of the installati... | 02/24/2004 |
