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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190694 | Device centric controls for a device controlled through a web portal A system controls computer network communication devices in a background session in accordance with a control database. The system includes a computer network communication device having a non-volatile memory containing a unique device identifier and a communication... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190686 | Spam filtering for mobile communication devices A spam filtering system and method are disclosed for filtering spam destined for a mobile communication device. In the spam filtering system, a processing system receives a message destined for a mobile communication device through an interface. The processing syste... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190687 | Multimedia alerting and notification service for mobile users In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, an architecture and method is presented for proving multimedia emergency information. A platform is presented that separates content control and delivery control of emergency multimedia information to provid... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190693 | Reclaiming lost internet customers A system and method of reclaiming lost Internet customers may involve detecting an outage condition associated with a host of an electronic commerce (e-commerce) web site. Customer data can be extracted from packets destined for the host, wherein the packets could b... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190692 | Location-based messaging system, method, and computer program product A system, method, and computer program product are provided for location-based messaging. In operation, a message to be communicated to at least one recipient is received. Furthermore, the at least one recipient is selected from a plurality of recipient candidates, ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190691 | Terminal and method for distinguishing between email recipients using specific identifier Provided are a terminal and method for distinguishing between email recipients using a specific identifier. According to the inventive terminal and method, when email is desired to be sent to several recipients, it is possible to set an individual transmission confi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190689 | Selective attachment delivery A computer readable medium stores a program for controlling email attachment delivery. The medium includes an attachment recipient field generating code segment, an attachment recipient button generating code segment, an attachment recipient drop down menu generatin... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190688 | System and method of transmitting photographs from a set top box A method of emailing photographs from a set top box is disclosed and includes presenting a menu of photographs at a television coupled to the set top box. The photographs within the menu can be highlighted using a remote control device. The method further includes p... | 05/29/2012 |
| RE43436 | System and method for immediate and delayed real-time communication activities using availability data from and communications through an external instant messaging system A system and method for immediate and delayed real-time communication activities using availability data from and communications through an external instant messaging system, that operates to obtain aggregated user online presence information through its own client ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190567 | Method and system for providing one-to-one email collaboration A management application to synchronize e-mails sent or received from one application with e-mail logs of another application. If the groupware application receives an e-mail from a business partner, the e-mail may be stored in communication records maintained by th... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190690 | Communication apparatus, communication method, communication system, and storage medium Image data communication equivalent to facsimile communication using a public network is realized on e-mail communication. When a communication apparatus for transmitting/receiving e-mail data by connecting to the Internet is to communicate e-mail data having facsim... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190685 | Method for monitoring an application in a packet-switching network In order to monitor an application (AP1, AP2, AP3) in a packet-switching network (NW), the state of the application (AP1, AP2, AP3) is recorded by means of a monitoring instant (MC) and is transmitted to a Presence Applicati... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185589 | Presenting and manipulating electronic mail conversations The present invention extends to methods, systems, data structures, and computer program products for organizing electronic mail messages into conversations. Electronic mail conversation items store attribute values representing attributes of corresponding electroni... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185590 | System and method for replicating offline scheduling transactions from a client to a server A facility for replicating offline scheduling transactions directed to a server is provided. The facility is implemented as a client-side application that integrates with and utilizes components of a store-and-forward application, which is operable to execute on a c... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185593 | System and method for freezing portions of a chat conversation in an instant messaging system A system, method, and program product is provided that operates during an instant messaging session conducted between a first participant and a second participant. During the session, message sent to or from each participant are displayed in a first instant messagin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185591 | Systems and methods for viewing email attachments as thumbnails A method of displaying attachments associated with an electronic message includes, in response to a single user selection of a link to an electronic message, fetching from a document storage system an electronic message and attachment information associated with the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185592 | Method and program product for preventing distribution of an e-mail message A method and program product for preventing distribution of an e-mail message. The method includes generating an e-mail message to one or more recipients using an e-mail application installed on a sender e-mail client and selecting a non-distribution option provided... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185506 | Unified management method of various types of messages of a personal information terminal A mobile terminal includes a display and a controller. The display outputs a first input window configured to receive a first message. When input data is received into at least one message field of the first input window, the controller determines whether or not the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185596 | Location-based communication method and system A method for providing location-based messages comprises locating a suitable placeholder for a message within a physical surrounding using a handheld device provided with image acquisition apparatus, and associating a written or visual or audio message, or a combina... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185595 | Information processing apparatus and control method thereof This invention is directed to reduce errors which may occur upon moving link data referring to another electronic data. To accomplish this, an information processing apparatus includes a designating unit which designates electronic data to be moved or copied, a data... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185598 | Systems and methods for monitoring messaging systems Systems and methods for monitoring and/or auditing of events in an electronic messaging environment, such as Microsoft® Exchange, are described. One or more monitoring components are installed on messaging system servers to collect, in real-time, information on mes... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185594 | Real-time messaging system for an image display device A real-time messaging system for an image display device is provided. One disclosed embodiment includes an image display device including a light source and an image-generation device configured to receive light from the light source, and in response, generate an im... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185597 | Providing notifications to an individual in a multi-dimensional personal information network A method for providing notifications to an individual within a multi-dimensional personal information network includes obtaining itinerary information corresponding to a first individual within a multi-dimensional personal information network. A second individual th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180836 | Information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus for communicating a communication apparatus, includes: a transmitting unit configured to transmit a plurality of transmission mails to the communication apparatus; a receiving unit configured to receive a plurality of reception ma... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180835 | System and method for protecting mail servers from mail flood attacks Most unsolicited commercial email (UCE) countermeasures call for a message by message analysis. However, some UCE attacks occur when a single sender of UCE floods a mail transfer agent (MTA) with a number of copies of a UCE, in a mail flood attack. The attacks rarel... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180837 | Image spam filtering based on senders' intention analysis Systems and methods for an anti-spam detection module that can detect image spam are provided. According to one embodiment, an image spam detection process involves determining and measuring various characteristics of images that may be embedded within or otherwise ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180833 | Managing working set in an extensible message transfer system Within a mail transfer agent of a message transfer system, a message is received and if the recipient entity resolves to a number of recipients exceeding a specified quantity, the original message is not processed. Instead, at least two messages are created, with ea... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180834 | System, method, and computer program product for filtering messages and training a classification module The present invention provides systems, methods, computer program products, and combinations and subcombinations thereof for filtering received messages. The invention includes a client system having filtering logic, a statistical classifier module, and a classifier... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180838 | Efficiently managing modular data storage systems The management of a data storage system. The system may store data objects that are subject to change in container sets. The data storage system uses location maps to map the data objects to a corresponding container. When there has been, or will be, a change in the... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180839 | Method, system, and computer program product for synchronization of similar data objects with event information A computer-implemented method for receiving information at a first device is provided. The method includes storing a first data object on the first device in a first device-specific representation, receiving a batch of information in response to the first device tra... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176131 | Viral engine for network deployment A private network system operates over a public network to provide an asymmetric service to members with information from other members and non-members. The system includes central servers and databases connected via the public network to client systems of public ne... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176130 | Processing rules for digital messages Systems and methods for handling email messages are described. Some embodiments are directed to determining whether an email message meets a predefined condition, and executing an action in an instant messaging (IM) system in response to determining that the email m... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176132 | Messaging A device for transmitting a message for reception by another device, comprising: a processor for adding location information to the message, before transmission, wherein the location information identifies an area within which the message is to be hosted for recepti... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176129 | System and method of sending compressed html messages over telephony protocol A system and method for sending compressed html messages and, more particularly, a system and method for sending compressed html messages over a telephony protocol, the method comprises compressing an html message and sending the compressed html message via a teleph... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176127 | System and method for processing securities trading instructions and communicating order status via a messaging interface A system allowing traders, etc. to use instant messaging (IM) (or other non-FIX based) communications to input trading instructions directly into a broker's Order Management System (OMS) for managing/executing trades. Accordingly, trading instructions may be provide... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176133 | System and method for extracting and managing message addresses A system and method is disclosed for extracting and maintaining in a virtual address book one or more electronic mail addresses from one or more of the various address fields (e.g., “From,” “To,” “Cc,” “Bcc”) of one or more e-mail messages either tra... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176086 | Methods and apparatus for determining a presence of a user Methods and apparatus are disclosed for collecting presence information about a user from one or more presence sources associated with the user, such as applications, devices and locations. A presence agent is associated with each presence source; and the presence a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176134 | Method and system for managing message threads in converged IP messaging service A mechanism to enable multiple message threads management in the context of the Converged IP Messaging (CPM) service and in the context of CPM inter-working with SMS is provided. A CPM user can simply start a message-based conversation with another CPM or Short Mess... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176135 | Method and system for enhanced messaging Techniques for acquiring, sending, receiving or using status information from a remote location over a network are disclosed. The status information is transmitted over the network between or among electronic devices. The status information can be provided by one or... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176125 | Method and device for processing electronic mail undesirable for user Emails are received and the received emails are classified and accumulated based on relay path information contained in the header of each email. For each of the classified groups, a judgment is made according to a judgment rule including at least (1) the number of ... | 05/08/2012 |
