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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190749 | Systems and methods for accessing an interaction state between multiple devices The present application discloses systems and methods for accessing digital content between multiple devices. The systems and methods may be directed to providing access to an interaction with a first application on a head-mounted display (HMD) to a second device. C... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190748 | System and method for router keep-alive control The real-time aspects of keep-alive generation are removed from the dynamic routing protocol (DRP) application and are embedded within a Unix-based operating system, which is programmed by DRP. A keep-alive control provides the ability to create a keep-alive message... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190747 | Mobile communications device and associated application for use thereon An application manager configured for use on a resource-limited device, the application manager including: an application engine configured to effect communications between a plurality of applications installed on the resource limited device and one or more external... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190746 | Explicit casualty control in a client/server system Embodiments of the present invention provide a protocol for ensuring data integrity of requests made by clients of a social network service. In particular, when a client gets a confirmation from an update request, the confirmation is accompanied by a token that prov... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185636 | Intelligent end user devices for clearinghouse services in an internet telephony system Clearinghouse services architectures that support the use of end user devices, such as personal computers, Internet Protocol (IP) phones, cable multimedia terminal adapters, and residential gateways, in an Internet telephony system. The innovative architectures incl... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185635 | Transport system for instant messaging An exemplary method involves creating a master session over a first connection through a server; and creating a virtual channel over the connection, the virtual channel operable to communicate a feature session. The method may involve establishing a direct connectio... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185637 | Control of session parameter negotiation for communication connection The invention relates to a session control entity, method and a computer program product for determining a first media type indicated for a session associated with a dialogue and determining a second media type indicated for an early media associated with the dialog... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185638 | Degrees of separation for handling communications A sender's degrees of separation from a recipient may be used to aid in spam filtering or to otherwise handle a communication. The “degrees of separation” represent a metric used to quantify whether/how the recipient is linked to the sender through intermediary ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180903 | Method, system, and storage medium for validating users of communications services and messages transmitted Exemplary embodiments of the invention relate to a method, system, and storage medium for validating users of communications services. The method includes generating records for communications service users by at least one service provider. The records store informa... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180901 | Layers 4-7 service gateway for converged datacenter fabric Layer 4 gateway for a converged datacenter fabric is described herein. According to one embodiment, a packet of a network transaction is received from a client over a first network for accessing a server of a datacenter having a plurality of servers over a second ne... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180898 | Method for distribution of data upon request and corresponding data network In one aspect, a data network is provided. The data network includes a first user and a second user, a central device, data and a spontaneous communication connection. The first and second users are each ad hoc capable. The central device provides a distribution of ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180899 | Apparatus and method for supporting broadcast/multicast IP packets through a simplified sockets interface A method for configuring an IP address to receive broadcast or multicast data flow which modifies the bind( ) Application Programming Interface (API) to survey available local interfaces to determine their ability to be configured to receive data from a particular I... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180897 | Apparatus and method for hardware implementation or acceleration of operating system functions An apparatus in one embodiment handles service requests over a network, wherein the network utilizes a protocol. In this aspect, the apparatus includes: a network subsystem for receiving and transmitting network service requests using the network protocol; and a ser... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180902 | Establishing network connections between transparent network devices Transparent network devices intercept messages from non-transparent network devices that establish a connection. Transparent network devices modify these messages to establish an inner connection with each other. The transparent network devices mimic at least some o... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180900 | System and method of managing information distribution to mobile stations A system and method for distributing information from a host service in communication with a computer network to a mobile station in communication with a wireless network is provided. A data item associated with the mobile station is received at the host service. Th... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176185 | Method of switching Internet personas based on URL A method of communicating with a remote site on a network by establishing different user personas respectively associated with different remote sites on the network, each user persona containing one or more attributes used in accessing the remote sites, and then acc... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176184 | Method and system providing a messaging service The invention is directed to a instant messaging method and communication system comprising one or more network elements, wherein a connection from one to another network element can be established using a protocol which allows the sending of one or more messages fr... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176183 | System and a method for accelerating communication of TCP/IP based content A technique for downloading multiple objects from at least one server in an accelerated manner. Typically, in a TCP/IP environment, a client is limited in the number of sockets that can be opened for a single server. A spoofer (410) is utilized to intercept t... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176182 | Portable terminal, program installed therein, communication method, and communication apparatus A portable terminal includes an access request receiving section for receiving an access request for accessing an IP push server via a communication apparatus which is installed as an external device at the portable terminal, wherein the access request is sent from ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171143 | Network device configuration A network device initially has no configuration data and is permitted only to query a known network address. From this address a server verifies the connection and authorizes another server to download to the network device the necessary configuration to carry out i... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171144 | AV server apparatus and connection management method In connection management by a conventional server apparatus using IDs, a client apparatus cannot know an attribute of a connection corresponding to an ID. A server apparatus (10) is an AV server apparatus that distributes content to a client apparatus request... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171145 | System and method for two way communication and controlling content in a game A method for two way communication and control of a game may include executing, by a host device in communication with a computer network, a game application within a web browser. A communication channel is established over the computer network and between the game ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166173 | Inviting assistant entity into a network communication session A method is provided for inviting an assistant entity, such as a customer service representative acting through a endpoint system, into an existing network communication session established by a service system. The service system controls the joining of endpoint ent... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166174 | Methods and systems for providing proprietary access to a server Systems and methods are disclosed for providing proprietary access to a server. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving a first service request from a client. The first service request may include a client identifier. Furthermore, the disclosed syste... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166176 | Context-aware migration of communication session Techniques and systems are disclosed for context-aware migration of a communication network session. For example, a system for migrating a communication session established between a first entity and a second entity in accordance with an application module includes ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166181 | System and method for two way communication and controlling content on a display screen A method for controlling content on a display device includes executing, by a host device coupled to a display, a browser application within a web browser for presenting content on the display device. A communication channel is established over a computer network be... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166182 | System and method for communicating with an electronic exchange in an electronic trading environment System and methods for a connection proxy server are described. According to an example method described herein, a connection proxy server stores subscription, product tables as well as other downloads that are provided to a client terminal during initialization sta... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166178 | Representation, decision models, and user interface for encoding managing preferences, and performing automated decision making about the timing and modalities of interpersonal communications The present invention relates to a system and methodology providing a user interface that can be employed by contactors and contactees in conjunction with a communications architecture for identifying and establishing an optimal communication based on preferences, c... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166179 | Media streaming through a network address translation (NAT) device A method and system for managing media streaming between clients on a client side of a network and stream servers on a stream server side of the network, wherein communications between the client side and the stream server side require a network address translation ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166175 | Sharing a port with multiple processes A port listening service operating in at system level is assigned to listen on a static port. The static port can index a plurality of unique IDs associated with a plurality of applications operating in a session level. The server application can then provide to a c... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166177 | Systems and methods for managing requests for connections to services on a computer system In an exemplary method, a resident agent receives multiple requests from one or more requesting processes for connections to services. The requested services are hosted by a fast service host. The resident agent establishes multiple connections to the one or more re... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166180 | Handing a request relating to a service In a multi-service communication environment, when a communication establishment request is received (8-4), the request containing a service identifier and relating to a service to be invoked between a sender of the request and a recipient to whom the ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161168 | JMS provider with plug-able business logic The invention provides plug-in framework, enabling embedding of content-based processes to in a messaging paradigm provider service. In the preferred embodiment, the messaging paradigm is JMS and the invention provides a plug-able framework embedded in a JMS Provide... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161169 | Connection manager capable of supporting both distributed computing sessions and non distributed computing sessions A method is described that involves establishing a connection over a shared memory between a connection manager and a worker node. The shared memory is accessible to multiple worker nodes. Then sending, from the connection manager to the worker node over the connect... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161162 | Remote computer management using network communications protocol that enables communication through a firewall and/or gateway The invention facilitates remote management of a computer via a network. Remote computer management in which communication between a managed computer and a remote computer management server is initiated by the managed computer is implemented so that the communicatio... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161164 | Authorizing service requests in multi-tiered applications Services of a multi-tier application can authorize (e.g., including authenticating) each other with one or more service access tokens provided by a security token service. In one implementation, an end-user can authenticate with the security token service to obtain ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161165 | Representation, decision models, and user interface for encoding managing preferences, and performing automated decision making about the timing and modalities of interpersonal communications The present invention relates to a system and methodology providing a user interface that can be employed by contactors and contactees in conjunction with a communications architecture for identifying and establishing an optimal communication based on preferences, c... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161166 | Information communication using numerical residuals Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for imparting information. In general, one or more aspects of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in one or more methods that include receiving (e.g.,... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161163 | Stateless distributed computer architecture with server-oriented state-caching objects maintained on network or client A stateless distributed computer architecture allows state-caching objects, which hold server state information, to be maintained on a client or network rather than on a server. In one implementation, the computer architecture implements object-oriented program modu... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161167 | Highly scalable application layer service appliances A highly scalable application layer service appliance is described herein. According to one embodiment, a network element includes a plurality of application service modules (ASMs), each providing one or more application services to network traffic, including layer ... | 04/17/2012 |
