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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190728 | Building automation system devices A building automation control system for use in a building having an IT network includes at least one BAS controller connected to the IT network and at least one BAS device located within the building and connected to the at least one BAS controller through the IT n... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190729 | Method for controlling network comprised of enormous nodes, and node and control program to perform said method A present invention provides a method for controlling roles of nodes in a network comprised of enormous nodes dynamically and distributed autonomously in such a way that the entire network can operate distributed autonomously. A method for controlling a field value ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190722 | Synchronization of timestamps to compensate for communication latency between devices Protocol analyzer systems enable synchronization of timestamps and the capture of data across serially chained boxes that are used together to monitor and capture network data. Through experiment, it can be determined how long it takes to propagate a signal to each ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190727 | Network management system for an aircraft A network management system in an aircraft for managing and maintaining a network. An aircraft maintenance computer communicates with a first device to be managed via the SNMP protocol. The first device to be comprises a description file. Within a subnetwork one or ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190726 | UPnP remote access server and method of supporting multiple remote accesses Provided is a communication method of a universal plug and play (UPnP) remote access server (RAS), the communication method including: accepting a plurality of remote access connections from UPnP devices of a plurality of remote networks; collecting device list info... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190724 | Systems and methods for establishing or maintaining a personalized trusted social network Automated systems and methods are provided for establishing or maintaining a personalized trusted social network for a community of users, with little or no input from any given user. To establish the personalized trusted social network, one or more trusted sources ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190725 | Standardized mechanism of remote management of embedded radio modules A standardized mechanism of remote management of mobile devices using Low Level Reader Protocol (LLRP) is disclosed. An LLRP provider application runs on a server. A remote management application runs on a mobile device. The LLRP provider application and the remote ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190723 | Method and system for automatically determining commands for a network element A method of automatically determining a set of commands that a network device supports comprises the machine-implemented steps of receiving a syntax definition for a command help syntax of a network device; sending a seed command to the network device; receiving and... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185615 | Message, control and reporting interface for a distributed network access system In a network access system including an external processor and a programmable access device, the external processor transmits a control message to the programmable access device to establish a configuration of the programmable access device. The programmable access ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185776 | System and method for monitoring an application or service group within a cluster as a resource of another cluster Various systems and methods for monitoring an application or service group within one cluster as a resource of another cluster are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method involves detecting an error indication generated by a first cluster (e.g., the error indication ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185617 | TCP-over-TCP using multiple TCP streams A system, apparatus, and method for managing TCP over TCP communications using multiple TCP network connections. A plurality of tunneled network connections may be established between network devices. The network devices may employ one of the tunneled network connec... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185616 | Route designing method A route designing method in which there is accepted an input of user information containing information about bandwidth of an access link serving as a link for connecting each of user sites to a relay node, and information showing the relay node connecting to the us... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180876 | Device manager and device management program A device manager and a computer readable medium storing a device management program are provided. The device manager includes a transmission unit that transmits, to devices connected to a network, a broadcast command which requests management information that is sto... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180874 | Facilitating defense against MAC table overflow attacks A method for defending against MAC table overflow attacks comprises a plurality of operations. An operation is performed for determining whether each one of a plurality of MAC addresses within a MAC table has one-way traffic or two-way traffic corresponding thereto.... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180878 | Methods and apparatuses for terminating an IP multimedia subsystem service when IP address is no longer allocated to the user A method and network node for terminating an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-enabled communication service involving a user terminal, which has been allocated an IP address by an access network used by the terminal to access the communication service. Upon determining... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180877 | Logically partitioned system having subpartitions with flexible network connectivity configuration A method of configuring a data processing system for facilitating network communications involves creating a primary logical partition (LPAR) in the data processing system, the LPAR configured to host a specified operating system. The method further includes creatin... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180749 | Systems and methods for presenting information The present invention provides systems and methods for presenting a quantity of information in a single tool. Such a tool includes a map of various objects, the objects having themes relating to a given overall concept, wherein at least one object contains informati... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180873 | Detecting fraudulent activity Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for subscribing to data feeds on a network. An user utilizes a transmitting device to transmit data packets that are split between a plurality of data centers for processing. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180875 | Ping-based communication system (PICS) A method of synchronizing clocks between local and remote unix-like computers comprising: sending internet control message protocol (ICMP) ping packets between at least two computers in a network; archiving ICMP echo-request and echo-reply packets from the networked... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180879 | Method and apparatus for persistent connections to a device through the use of multiple physical network connections and connection hand-offs between multiple bands, modes and networks Embodiments communicate messages between mobile devices and destination devices. An exemplary embodiment includes a first border server operable to establish a first communication connection to the mobile device over a first network operating under a first protocol,... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180880 | Active intelligent content Active intelligent content is aware of its own timeline, lifecycle, capabilities, limitations, and related information. The active intelligent content is aware of its surroundings and can convert automatically into a format or file type more conducive to the device ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180872 | Common data model for heterogeneous SAN components System and method for providing a common data model for SAN discovery and/or SAN monitoring information collected from heterogeneous SAN components. In one embodiment, a SAN management server may execute on a host computer and may translate data in one or more vendo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180871 | Dynamic redeployment of services in a computing network Methods, systems, and computer program products for improving network operations by dynamically redeploying services (such as web services or other network-accessible services) in a computing network. A programmatic replication or redeployment process is defined, wh... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180870 | Programmable access device for a distributed network access system A programmable access device for use in a network access system includes first and second network interfaces through which packets are communicated with a network, a forwarding table utilized to route packets communicated between the first and second network interfa... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176164 | Method and system for managing network traffic A system and method for directing network connections. The invention enables a network device to direct subsequent connections from a client to a server for accessing resources. A process extracts a persistence key from a received message, and employs the persistenc... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176158 | Information technology governance and controls methods and apparatuses Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for automated change audit of an enterprise's IT infrastructure, including independent detection of changes, reconciliation of detected changes and independent reporting, to effectuate a triad of contr... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176163 | Dual cookie security system One or more servers receive requests from clients and send responses. At least a subset of the responses including cookies produced by the one or more servers, and at least a subset of the received requests including cookies that were previously produced by the one ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176157 | Exceptions grouping Methods of experience-based exception grouping are described. A number of exceptions are read. The exceptions are intelligently associated with one of a number of exception groups. Each exception group corresponds to a common user experience. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176160 | Network management system accelerated event channel This invention relates to a network management system accelerated event channel. This invention also relates to a method and computer program product for controlling an accelerated event channel in a network management system. The network management system comprisin... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176161 | Method and system for content-based routing of network traffic A method, computer program product, and system for routing computer network traffic include associating, on a routing device, a unique identifier with at least one application server running an application. Network traffic that includes the unique identifier and an ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176155 | Remote network management system Disclosed is a remote network management system for coupling a series of remote domain servers, file/print servers, headless servers, network appliances, serial IT equipment, switches, routers, firewalls, security interfaces, application servers, load balancers, and... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176049 | Attributes of captured objects in a capture system Regular expressions used for searching for patterns in captured objects can be grouped into attributes. Such attributes can be associated with captured objects using tags stored in a database. In one embodiment, the present invention includes capturing an object bei... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176156 | Server identification assignment in a distributed switched storage environment A method and apparatus are provided for assigning/obtaining enclosure identification numbers in a distributed switch storage system. The method takes advantage a network topology wherein one port on the switch is always used as a downstream connection (towards a con... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176154 | Instantaneous user initiation voice quality feedback A system for providing a high communications quality is provided. The system comprises: (a) an input operable to receive a message from at least one of first and second network nodes 200 and 204, the first and second network nodes communicating with on... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176159 | Habit-based authentication A method for authentication is disclosed. During use, the observed usage of the device is compared to an expected pattern of usage of the device. Deviation between the observed and expected usage indicates that the user might not be authorized to use the device. If ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176162 | Email server system and method An email system comprises a plurality of email servers connected by a data communications network. The email system avoids single points of failure by employing multiple email servers which self configure, without requiring dedicated servers, through self addressing... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171125 | Scalable distributed storage and delivery Embodiments describe scalable distributed storage delivery method that can utilize commodity storage devices, thus there is little, if any, modification of the existing storage hardware or storage clients. According to an aspect is a system that can include a plural... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171122 | Visualization of web services distributed management (WSDM) resources An apparatus and method provides visualization of IT resources that are exposed as WSDM resources. A management system with a console provides visibility and functionality for WSDM resources by employing a visualization mechanism that processes standardized visualiz... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171123 | Network bandwidth detection and distribution In a node configured to communicate with one or more other nodes over a network, available bandwidth for network traffic may be distributed among two or more distinct channels of communication within a single application running on the node. An available bandwidth m... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171126 | Storage network system, managing apparatus, managing method and program A management computer includes a memory storing toplogical information including identifiers of ports of computers, storage apparatuses, and switches. The management computer includes a processor, which is configured to: collect a plurality of performance informatio... | 05/01/2012 |
