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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190640 | Group management using Unix NIS groups In one implementation, a system for managing Groups in a Unix environment includes a group management engine and an NIS converter. A group information database stores information about Groups and their Members. The group management engine receives commands from Admi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185629 | Access control for M2M devices in a mobile communication network A method of controlling an access to a public mobile communication network by a device for transmission of data is provided. The method comprises the step of accessing the mobile communication network by the device at a predetermined time and date. For this purpose ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185630 | Method for creating global distributed namespace One example embodiment includes a method for constructing a unified namespace carried out by a domain manager service executing on a domain node in a domain network comprised of domain nodes. The method includes establishing a single, hierarchical domain tree that e... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185628 | Enhanced policy capabilities for mobile data services A system and method for a mobile data access network to make policy control and charging decisions based on domain name queries. A mobile device sends a query about a domain name associated with a service a user of the mobile device wishes to engage. The access netw... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8176178 | Method for tracking machines on a network using multivariable fingerprinting of passively available information A method for tracking machines on a network of computers. The method includes determining one or more assertions to be monitored by a first web site which is coupled to a network of computers. The method monitors traffic flowing to the web site through the network o... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176177 | Methods and systems for reducing burst usage of a networked computer system Methods and systems for reducing burst usage of a networked computer system are described herein. In an embodiment, resource requesters can request, within a time window, resources over a computer network before the resources are available. The resources can then be... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171139 | Hierarchical load balancing Popular object requests are handled using a front-end cache, and hashing is applied only to the requests in the stream that were not handled by the front-end cache. A cache (e.g., a web proxy cache) is placed in front of a Level 7 switch and services the popular req... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171138 | System and method for applying flexible attributes to execute asynchronous network requests Flexible attributes are attached to network requests that may be executed asynchronously. Any number of criteria may be attached to network requests. The requests are queued until the associated criteria are satisfied. Once the criteria are satisfied, the request is... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166165 | Securing event flow in a user interface hierarchy In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a method for integrating separate software applications in an application execution environment, where the method includes providing a hierarchical structure of nodes cor... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161157 | Method for displaying web user's authentication status in a distributed single login network The invention provides a system and method for automatically displaying a user's logged-in status across an Internet based network of affiliated Web sites via a visual indicator such as a toolbar to help the user to be certain about his logged-in status when he stay... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161155 | Filtering unwanted data traffic via a per-customer blacklist Traffic flow from a traffic source with a source IP address to a customer system with a destination IP address is filtered by comparing the source IP address to a customer blacklist. If the source IP address is on the customer blacklist, then traffic to the customer... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161156 | Feature delivery packets for peer-to-peer based feature network A device communicates with feature peers, associated with a network, to obtain information associated with the feature peers, and receives a customer packet. The device also determines, based on the feature peer information, which of the feature peers support a feat... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161154 | Establishing a thin client terminal services session An encrypted credential is received from a client terminal, where the encrypted credential is based on encryption of an authentication credential input by a user at the client terminal for allocating resources from a central server, the resources to provide a thin c... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156223 | Distribution of binary executables and content from peer locations/machines Binary executables are distributed in a distributed manner by equipping a server with a bootstrap program. The server provides the bootstrap program to a client computer in response to the client's request for the binary executables. The bootstrap program is designe... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156008 | System and method for information provider communication with information requester The present invention provides a system and a method for an information provider communicating with an information requester. The system includes a messenger server for managing instant messaging, identifying whether the information provider registers a timing avail... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156224 | Integrated application access An integration portal provides a user with access to application entities of a plurality of remote applications. An authorization layer included in the integration portal includes a permission map indicating an association between the user and at least one of the ap... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150969 | Group access to IP multimedia subsystem service A method of facilitating access to services of an IP Multimedia Subsystem network by user terminals and services located behind an access point to said network. The access point is associated with a subscription to the IP Multimedia Subsystem network. The method com... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145756 | Dynamic network identity architecture In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides receiving indication of an event at a platform operating in shared address mode, the platform having an auxiliary entity, in response to the indication of the event, switching operation o... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145758 | Concurrent processing with untrusted beings This document describes tools for 1) structuring concurrent programming with untrusted beings; 2) creating multi-threaded programming in concurrent programming environments; and 3) creating a responsive feedback application model. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145755 | Terminal, terminal management apparatus and method thereof for enabling management of terminals including based on association to each other A ubiquitous communication system that can be used without changing a user ID etc. of a terminal of others or causing problems such as information leakage is provided. A terminal management apparatus for managing terminals on a ubiquitous communication system is pro... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145757 | Method for changing service quality of a content adaptively The present invention relates to a method for changing service quality of a content adaptively. When service quality updating action for a connection is received the present method invokes an action, used for requesting allowance of a new access to a network, to a d... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140675 | Content reproduction apparatus A content reproduction apparatus (1) which reproduces digital contents, and includes a device key storage unit (110) holding a device key (110a) specific to the content reproduction apparatus (1) in a manner that does not allow acc... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140676 | Data access in distributed server systems A logical network directory database compliant with the X.500 standard for a directory data system is disclosed. The network directory database provides a source of subscriber and service data accessible by various control and management processes that require subsc... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131853 | External processor for a distributed network access system An external processor for a network access system having a programmable access device includes a service controller that provides at least one service for network traffic, a message processor that processes network messages for service processing by the service cont... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131854 | Interfacing with streams of differing speeds A system processes packet data received in a number of incoming streams of variable speeds. The system includes an input interface, input logic, and one or more packet processors. The input interface receives the packet data and outputs the data using a first arbitr... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127009 | Renewable conditional access Included are systems and methods for providing access. At least one embodiment of a system includes a host configured to receive at least one tool for providing conditional access and a secure processor configured to receive conditional access logic. Some embodiment... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127008 | Method and apparatus for managing proxy and non-proxy requests in telecommunications network A method is disclosed for determining a location of a client session in a telecommunications network by comparing attributes of the client session connection to location definition information stored in a configuration file. A method of handling requests from proxy ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122128 | System for regulating access to and distributing content in a network There is provided a system for regulating access and managing distribution of content in a network, such as the Internet. The system includes communication gateways, installed at a subscriber site, internet control points, installed remotely, and various network ele... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122129 | Hash-based resource matching In various embodiments, techniques can be provided for identifying and filtering network resources. The filtering may occur not only on the type of network traffic (e.g., HTTP traffic) but also with resources identified by the network traffic. In some embodiments, o... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122130 | Access control system and method for wireless application provisioning A method for controlling access to content on a network, the method comprising the steps of associating access credentials with content to be published for download receiving a content download request from a mobile device, the content download request including acc... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117309 | Re-download management of previously acquired digital media assets Improved techniques that enable users to download digital media assets are disclosed. According to one aspect, digital media assets that a user has acquired from a remote media repository can be authorized for download multiple times. This, for example, allows a use... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112523 | Group access to IP multimedia subsystem service A method of facilitating access to services of an IP Multimedia Subsystem network by user terminals located behind an access point to said network. The access point is associated with a subscription to the IP Multimedia Subsystem network. The method comprises includ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108518 | Prioritization of third party access to an online commerce site Providing prioritization of user online access to an online commerce site. Third party applications using API function calls to access an online commerce site are restricted to specific services by an access rule. An access rule defines which API server on the onlin... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108519 | Secure inter-process communication for safer computing environments and systems Techniques for Inter-Process Communication (IPC) in a more secure manner are disclosed. A communication component operating outside of an operating system can obtain operating-system data pertaining to processes that also operate outside of the operating system. The... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103769 | Dynamic isolation of shared resources Shared resources can be isolated such that abuse of the resource by one user does not significantly affect the use of that resource by another user. A combination of access and flow control can be used, wherein a control gateway or other such component sits along a ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103768 | Network aware forward caching An Internet service provider includes a cache server and a network aware server. The network aware server is operable to determine an optimization between a cost of retrieving content from a network and a cost of caching content from the network at the first cache s... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103642 | Adaptive region locking A method and apparatus for managing locks in a database system is provided. A master node grants a lock on a first resource and a group of resources that includes the first resource to a first requester node. The requester node receives a mapping corresponding to th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103698 | Methods, apparatus and media for system management of object oriented information models A computer implemented method is disclosed including receiving a client request from a client within an object-oriented model and intercepting said client request with a client abstraction layer able to communicate with said client and a management layer database. T... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103767 | Method and apparatus for distributing requests among a plurality of resources The invention relates to a method and apparatus for distributing a request to one of a plurality of resources. A request is mapped to a location in circular mapping space using a hash function. Each of the plurality of resources is mapped to a respective location or... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103770 | System and method for performing application level persistence A method and apparatus for inserting and examining Cookies in the data streams of HTTP connections for the purpose of persistently directing HTTP connections to the same destination. A network device directs subsequent HTTP connections from the same client to the sa... | 01/24/2012 |
