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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190707 | System and method for transferring data among computing environments Systems and methods for transferring data among computing environments include a method for transferring data items among a portion of a remote computing environment and a portion of a local computing environment using a presentation layer protocol. Data items are t... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185608 | Continuous usability trial for a website A continuous website trial allows ongoing observation of user interactions with website for an indefinite period of time that is not ascertainable at initiation of the trial. Users are randomly assigned to either a control group or one or more test groups. The contr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185609 | Method and apparatus for processing commands in an aircraft network A method, apparatus, and program code for processing commands in a network. A process creates a set of commands for an aircraft. The commands are in queues in a library in the network. Responsive to an event, the stored set of commands is sent to a proxy server appl... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180854 | Aspect services An aspect request associated with a web application is received by an aspect server, the web application being hosted by a web application server that is remote from the aspect server. Operations are performed according to the aspect request, the operations being as... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180852 | Apparatus for increasing social interaction over an electronic network In one embodiment, a system includes a server that hosts webpages facilitating user interaction between multiple endpoints. The system monitors for a user input requesting initiation of a happy hour, and when the input is detected, modifies the webpages to alert use... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180853 | Method and apparatus for transmitting data in a peer-to-peer network An apparatus for transmitting data which includes a management unit that manages network-topology information of clients participating in the P2P service, and an interface unit that provides to a first client a peer list including information of a client having the ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176144 | Pseudo real time indexing of digital media files The present disclosure relates to a digital media files and technique for pseudo real time indexing of digital media files. The technique includes capturing at least one digital media file using a network enabled image capture device, connecting the network enabled ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176089 | Efficient storage and manipulation of structured documents A method and system for efficient processing of structured documents is provided. The method includes creating fragments of the structured document. The method also includes creating an ordered list including a plurality of descriptors pointing to the structured doc... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176143 | Web service providing apparatus A Web service providing apparatus is disclosed for controlling a sequence of processes to cause a Web service providing apparatus to copy or print out a target document stored therein to another Web service providing apparatus in cooperation with the Web service pro... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171110 | Tools enabling a preferred placement service for domain registration websites The present inventions may be implemented by tools enabling preferred domain positioning on a registration website. An example may comprise a computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by a server, cause the server to receive a request (compris... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170993 | Page grouping for site traffic analysis reports Website administrators can specify page groups and/or single pages as checkpoint nodes for site analysis reporting purposes, and can configure the system of the invention to provide information as to a particular visitation path through the checkpoints. Any group of... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171109 | Mobile bookmarks A method and apparatus for updating bookmarks is described. In one embodiment, a server has a bookmark database and a bookmark synchronizer. The bookmark synchronizer is configured to receive a communication from a web browser of a client of a user, to collect a lis... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166061 | Searching recent content publication activity Collecting and distributing information related to recent content publication activity of an instant messaging (IM) user provides other users in a network with timely, relevant information about people known to the user or within the same social network. A user part... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161132 | Packet data network specific addressing solutions with network-based mobility A media access gateway includes a wireless network interface that establishes a wireless link with a wireless terminal. An address assignment module transmits N address assignment messages to the wireless terminal. The N address assignment messages include a plurali... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161131 | Dynamic media content for collaborators with client locations in dynamic client contexts Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for delivering dynamic media content to collaborators. Embodiments include providing collaborative event media content, wherein the collaborative event media content includes a grammar and a structured doc... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156199 | Centralized control of client-side domain name resolution using VPN services Techniques for centrally controlling client-side domain name resolution are described. A virtual private network (VPN) client installed on a client device may establish a VPN connection to a load-balancing server that balances load from client devices among a set of... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156198 | Live custom media play lists List processing functionality (LPF) is described for creating a play list that defines an order in which video media programs are to be presented. Different techniques are described for creating the play list, including various manual techniques and various automati... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150942 | Conveying access to digital content using a physical token An exemplary method for conveying access to digital content using a physical token comprises receiving a first identifier, receiving a second identifier, determining whether any of the first and second identifiers is associated with digital content, associating the ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150943 | Methods and apparatus for dynamically generating web pages One embodiment of the invention is directed to automatically populating the cache of a web server. A webcrawler may send a request for a web page to the web server and receive the web page in response. The webcrawler may locate a link to a second web page in the rec... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140643 | Managing user personal information across web sites A method of managing user personal information across a set of service provider sites is implemented, preferably as a web browser plug-in function. As a user navigates to a service provider web site and performs an interaction involving user identity attribute data,... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140642 | Network connection-independent updating system and method A system, method and computer program product are provided for communicating over a network without a direct connection to the network. A process is first initiated on a first computer without a direct connection to a network. In response to the process, a second co... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135735 | Computerized system and method for tracking the geographic relevance of website listings and providing graphics and data regarding the same A computer-implemented method includes the steps of accessing, using one or more processors, data relating to visitors who have visited one or more websites, determining, using one or more processors, geographic areas corresponding to locations of the visitors, rece... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131821 | System for publishing, organizing, accessing and distributing information in a computer network A method for searching documents including defining a plurality of dimensions with each having dimension values that define users, maintaining documents with each having sections, and determining a user coordinate having a specific set of dimension values. The metho... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131822 | Access of elements for a secure web page through a non-secure channel Particular embodiments generally relate to allowing access of non-secure elements through a non-secure channel when a top-level page was accessed through a secure connection. In one embodiment, a webpage is accessed over a secure channel. The webpage includes secure... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126988 | Public status determination and security configuration of a browser The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for dynamically identifying a publicly accessed system. A plurality of user profiles is generated for a plurality of users associated with a ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126869 | Automated client sitemap generation Methods and computer-storage media for automated generation of domain sitemap files are provided. A universal resource locator (URL) for a web site having a plurality of web pages associated therewith is received. Log files and permission controls are analyzed to as... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122100 | Multiple object download According to the invention, a system for downloading a plurality of content objects from the Internet to a computer of a user is disclosed. The system includes first and second web pages, a database and a media server. The first web page allows selection of the numb... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122099 | Image forming device that prepares and transmits formatted order data to web server When a user inputs a URL character string indicating data for an order document, the CPU receives data for the order document indicated by the URL and reading method data from the web server at the URL destination and prints the order document on a recording unit. T... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117281 | Using internet content as a means to establish live social networks by linking internet users to each other who are simultaneously engaged in the same and/or similar content A system and method that uses internet content and/or content metadata as a means to establish social networks. Examples include linking internet users, searchers, viewers and/or listeners of the same and/or similar internet content to each other via a platform that... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8117280 | Task computing An apparatus provides computing sources of functionality, each computing source of functionality presents a service and exists in any computing environment of the apparatus. The apparatus associates a semantic service description (SSD) with the service. The SSD has ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112500 | Technique of relaying communications between client apparatus and server apparatus A relay system for obtaining a program from a server and returning the program to a client by forwarding a message received from a client to the server. ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112498 | Mapping between objects representing different network systems To provide an easy and simple mapping between objects representing different network systems A and B. In the configuration where data of an object, a system component, is available in another system, it is provided with an intermediate model 102 which is mutu... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112499 | Administering devices in dependence upon user metric vectors Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for administering devices that include creating a user metric vector including a plurality of disparate user metrics, creating a user metric space including a plurality of metric ranges, determining whether the user metri... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103742 | Deferred and off-loaded rendering of selected portions of web pages to incorporate late-arriving service data A web server system that incorporates service data into web pages defers the task of generating a portion of a web page associated with late-arriving service data, and offloads this task to the web browser that requested the page. Upon receiving a page request that ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103743 | Method and system for enabling client-side initiated delivery of dynamic secondary content There is provided a method of enabling client-side initiated delivery of dynamic secondary content to a host page comprising running a dynamic secondary content delivery application, requesting a secondary content update to one or more items of existing secondary co... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095622 | Methods and systems for collecting information transmitted over a network The disclosure provides a transparent means of collecting context-dependent data nested in a client-server request/response paradigm. Through the use of an embedded web server, messages are terminated between the user and the disclosure wherein the disclosure takes ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090798 | System and methods for direct targeted media advertising over peer-to-peer networks An information handling system according to the invention comprises an input for receiving search requests seeking one or more specified files; a search engine for searching a database for names of files satisfying a received search request; and server logic for ser... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090799 | System and method for providing persistent advertising with third party content in a distributed internet access environment A method, system, and computer program product that enables persistent display of advertising and other service provider content during access via a gateway access system to third party content on a separate network. A connection is enabled between a personal comput... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086698 | Synchronizing configuration information among multiple clients A user of multiple client devices (clients) makes application configuration changes on the clients from time to time. The configuration changes are stored in a local event log on each client, as well as in a synchronization server. When one of the clients connects t... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086699 | Local directory network A strategy for developing an internet-based network of directory-style websites, where each site operates independently as a fully-developed portal for its local online community and concurrently functions as a portal for the network as a whole, providing access to ... | 12/27/2011 |
