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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8117169 | Performing scheduled backups of a backup node associated with a plurality of agent nodes Provided are a system and article of manufacture for performing scheduled backups of a backup node associated with a plurality of agent nodes. Backup data sets on at least one machine in a network are associated with a backup node and a plurality of agent nodes in t... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117279 | System and method for detecting customer premise equipment behind a router on a data-over-cable system A system and method permits a network management agent executing on a customer premise equipment (CPE) component to determine whether a router is coupled between the CPE component and the cable modem through which the CPE component communicates with a data-over-cabl... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117277 | Component based infrastructure for sharing files An operating system to componentize file sharing is described, in which a file transport send object is executable on the operating system to designate a shared file for sharing, and in which a notification send object is executable on the operating system to notify... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117278 | Orchestration of components to realize a content or service delivery suite Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for orchestrating behavior of network resources to provide a content and/or service delivery suite. According to one embodiment, orchestrating behavior of network resources to provide a content and/or servic... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112494 | Systems and methods for provision of content data A method for content data management and provision. The method includes receiving a registration message from a user, the registration message containing user identification information. The user may registered, the registering including storing the received user id... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112496 | Efficient algorithm for finding candidate objects for remote differential compression The present invention finds candidate objects for remote differential compression. Objects are updated between two or more computing devices using remote differential compression (RDC) techniques such that required data transfers are minimized. An algorithm provides... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112495 | Transmitting information about distributed group memberships A method, system, and computer usable program product for transmitting information about dynamic group memberships of an entry stored in a computer memory are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A set of dynamic group filters is received from a server in a dis... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112493 | Programmatic role-based security for a dynamically generated user interface The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for programmatically applied role-based security in a dynamically generated user interface. In accordance with the present invention, a server page can be configured for processing by a server page engine. The ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112497 | Online educational software The invention relates to a method of educating a user about the use of a website. The method includes the step of obtaining interactive web content from the website, and displaying the interactive web content to the user, along with information educating the user ab... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108487 | Simulcast web page delivery A multimedia broadcast system provides program schedule information simulcast as a Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) data stream including commands and displayable, selectable indicia associated with the commands, along with programs for display. A set top box is ad... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108485 | Method and system for operating a communication system A method of operating a communication server system is provided. The method includes monitoring communications exchanged between a first communication device and a second communication device for a transmission of data from the first communication device to the seco... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108484 | Fingerprints and machine-readable codes combined with user characteristics to obtain content or information The present invention relates generally to processing audio and video data. One claim recites a method of accessing content stored in a remote database. The method includes: receiving video or audio data; decoding an auxiliary machine-readable code from the video or... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108486 | Remote copy system A remote copy system includes a first storage system including a first storage controller and a first data volume. The first storage controller is configured to control data access requests to the first data volume. The first storage system is configured to store wr... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108483 | System and method for generating a consistent user namespace on networked devices A system and method for implementing a consistent user name-space on networked computing devices is provided. When a network connection between a local or host computing device and one or more remote computing devices is present, remote items are represented using t... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108404 | URL document viewing through a plug-in application for a mobile browser on a wireless device A method is set forth of displaying a document identified by a URL on a mobile browser, comprising registering an attachment viewer plug-in to the mobile browser for a predetermined data stream content type, registering a mobile data service transcoder for predeterm... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103737 | System and method for previewing hyperlinks with ‘flashback’ images A system and method for previewing hyperlinks with textual abstracts. The system provides users with previews of previously visited hyperlinks through textual abstracts of the web destination pages. The textual abstracts provide visual cues to remind the user of a p... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103739 | Optimizing server delivery of content by selective inclusion of optional data based on optimization criteria Optimization constraints are used to select an appropriate content item from an available group of content items which are ordered in a specific manner to facilitate the proper selection of the content item, even if the exact item desired is not present. The server ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103740 | Cross-domain linking of data types In one implementation, a computer-implemented method can include receiving, at a first server corresponding to a first domain, a request from a client computer for a vector graphics file that includes instructions that implement a first method. The method can furthe... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103670 | Systems and methods for retrieving data in a computer network A data retrieval system comprising a first computing device communicatively coupled to a second computing device; the first computing device having a processor that supports operation of at least one software application that is used for retrieving data; the second ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103741 | Location based content aggregation and distribution systems and methods Location based content aggregation and distribution systems and methods are disclosed. An exemplary method includes a content hub subsystem receiving a content posting from an access device connected to a network. The content posting includes data representative of ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103738 | Micro-client for internet appliance The invention provides a method and system for providing features for internet access at an internet appliance which go beyond the resource limitations of the internet appliance. The desired features are primarily implemented on the server, and coupled to the intern... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099431 | Services for data access based on a data ownership directory in distributed system landscapes A directory includes information about various systems (e.g., applications, processes, tasks, objects, services) and data, and may include data ownership information. The directory may define existing systems, corresponding locations by address, and corresponding se... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099472 | System and method for a mobile cross-platform software system The present invention is a system and method for creating, developing and testing cross-platform software for mobile communications devices. The invention enables mobile device software that must be highly-integrated with the operating system on which it runs to be ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099474 | Hardware-accelerated high availability integrated networked storage system Disclosed is a system and methods for acceleration of the TCP/IP and the iSCSI protocols. The methods may be adapted to a wide variety of systems and applications that employ communications protocols including TCP, with or without iSCSI. Using a hardware-based accel... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099475 | Information terminal The present invention provides mobile terminals with various types of services such as electronic commerce service, music delivery service, and position information service. User applications required for the electronic commerce service, music delivery service, and ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099389 | Method and system for efficiently reducing graphical display data for transmission over a low bandwidth transport protocol mechanism The present invention improves the performance of distributed systems by reducing the amount of graphical data transmitted between an application server and a thin client. The encoding technique used for graphical data is adapted in response to the repetitiveness of... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099403 | Content identification and management in content distribution networks Peer-to-peer file sharing and uploading of content to content server systems is increasing in popularity on the Internet. Content signals can be edited and combined with other content programming, and or altered in ways that make it difficult to identify using conve... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099473 | Variant streams for real-time or near real-time streaming Methods and apparatuses for real-time or near real-time streaming of content using transfer protocols such as an HTTP compliant protocol. In one embodiment, a method includes dividing a stream of data, representing the contiguous time based content of a program (e.g... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095621 | Systems and methods for clickstream analysis to modify an off-line business process involving automobile sales Methods and systems are provided herein for the analysis of clickstream data of online users. The analysis methods and systems allow for the creation of new offline business methods based on online consumer behavior. In embodiments, the output file enables the third... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095620 | System and method for dynamic allocation of a resource The present invention relates to a system and method for dynamic allocation of a resource. In particular, it concerns a system to dynamically designate a priority for a resource request and to allocate a resource, partially filling or completely filling the request.... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090791 | Active requesting of information for pseudo-live performance Mass amounts of information, such as entire libraries of songs or movies, for example, may be stored locally near end-users, and this information may be accessed and reproduced in response to commands received from a transmitting station via a network. When a radio ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090699 | Automatic generation of application pod Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically uploading information about a program or blog, and allowing third parties to develop the program or blog and allow users in a mobile community to have access to the developed product. ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090792 | Method and system for a self managing and scalable grid storage The present invention generally provides a method for grid storage including balancing read and write requests from applications across a first group of nodes in a grid storage system for avoiding hot spots and optimizing performance through smart caching; balancing... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090793 | Methods and apparatus for making a hypermedium interactive A system and method of making a hypermedium page interactive. In one embodiment the system includes a hyperlink on the hypermedium page displayed on a client node; a hyperlink configuration file (corresponding to the hyperlink on the client node) located on a networ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090794 | Technique for customizing displayed content Embodiments of a computer system, a method, and a computer-program product (e.g., software) for use with the computer system are described. These embodiments may be used to customize displayed content in a document, such as a web page or a user interface in a softwa... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090797 | Methods and systems for launching applications into existing isolation environments Methods and systems that can launch applications into existing isolation environments do so by executing a run module on a computing machine to intercept requests to execute an application. A client communicating with the computing machine generates requests to exec... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090796 | Position identification method and system The present invention is directed to a system and method for collecting and maintaining an up-to-date database of points of interests, whereby agents of the points of interests, such as owners or operators of hotels or restaurants, can register their point of intere... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090795 | Systems and methods for distributing media content Various embodiments of the present invention relate generally to methods and systems for distributing media resources used for worship services. In particular, various embodiments provide systems and methods that include a library of diverse types of media resources... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086491 | Method and system for targeted content distribution using tagged data streams A method for targeting content to a user based on a user profile and content tags. All content is delivered to the user's computer system. Each unit of content has a tag uniquely identifying a classification of the content. The receiving computer recognizes and eval... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086696 | System and method for promoting intellectual property A method and system for the online promotion of intellectual property includes providing an Internet host station with at least one database that is connectable via the Internet to consumer stations and industry stations. The database includes a plurality of intelle... | 12/27/2011 |
