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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7650423 | System and method for providing update information A system and a method for providing update information. The system includes a client computer which is operably connected to a program information server. The program information server maintains one or more program information items. The system also includes a prog... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7620728 | Method of monitoring the communication in a network Described is a method of monitoring the communication in a group of data processing units, wherein a data processing unit transmits data signals to other data processing units for carrying out certain operations. The remarkable thing about the invention is that, upo... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7610400 | Rule-based networking device A networking system, device, and method are provided. The networking device typically includes a user-defined ruleset including HTTP request rules and HTTP response rules. The networking device may further include a request processor configured to receive an incomin... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7603476 | Pseudo-synchronous messaging A system and method are disclosed for pseudo-synchronous communication in an asynchronous messaging network. The system includes a forward pipeline for transmitting asynchronous request messages from a sender system to the receiver system, and a backward pipeline fo... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7594026 | Method and apparatus for multi-phy communication without an ATM bus master A communication system includes a bus, first and second devices coupled to the bus, and a handshaking unit. The bus includes at least one data line and control lines. The data line is coupled between the first and second devices. The handshaking unit is coupled to t... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7584295 | DSL communication apparatus, and download method of DSL communication program A host manages a ROM that stores a handshake program for executing a handshake sequence and an initialization program for executing an initialization sequence. During the handshake sequence, the handshake program is retrieved from the ROM to download the program to ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7584296 | Asynchronous network stack operation in an operating system independent environment Techniques for operation of an asynchronous stack in a pre-boot environment. A token-based stack design may be used to support communications between network stack layers. ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7577753 | System and method for processing packets in a multi-processor environment A method for processing packets in a multi-processor environment, that includes receiving a set-up request packet for a communication session and directing the set-up request packet to a selected one of a plurality of processors. A set-up reply packet is generated a... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7565442 | Method and system for supporting distance extension in networks having Y-cable protection A method and system for communicating state information between a local device and a remote device across a transport network is disclosed. Each of the local and remote devices operate independently from one another and at least one of the devices is configured for ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7558873 | Method for compressed large send Method for Internet Protocol Payload Compression (IPComp) and Large Send is described. More particularly, a Large Send initiated by a computer is used to trigger an IPComp negotiation. After agreement on IPComp, data blocks for such a Large Send are compressed in ac... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558874 | Energy efficient ethernet via dynamic adapter driver link speed negotiation A method of reducing Ethernet power consumption in a network having an operating system by reducing an Ethernet link speed to a minimum rate required for current data link traffic, and automatically commanding an Ethernet adapter/cable to decrease or increase a link... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7519730 | Copying chat data from a chat session already active A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, determine whether a user at a first client has a chat session already active at a second client with a third client in response to a request for initiation of a chat session for the user ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519729 | Method and apparatus for monitoring remote devices through a local monitoring station and communicating with a central station supporting multiple manufacturers A method and apparatus for monitoring at least one network connected device (monitored device) using a controller is disclosed. Initially, the controller/monitoring system attempts to establish communication with the monitored device. If the controller cannot be con... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7490160 | Method of efficiently transmitting/receiving data using transport layer in a mobile ad hoc network, and network device using the method A method of efficiently transmitting/receiving data using a transport layer in a mobile ad hoc network, and a network device using the method. The method includes a first step of setting, by a sending host, a flag for requesting an ACK-response into a predetermined ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7483997 | Data distribution control device and data distribution control method A data distribution management device (10) is provided on a transmission route between a transmission device (C1) that requires a delivery acknowledgement corresponding to data transmitted and a receiving device (C2) in which a transmission dela... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7469299 | Bridging user agent and a proxy server for supporting network services An approach for providing voice processing over a packet switched network is disclosed. A communication system includes a special forking proxy server that receives a message for establishing a session between a calling user agent and a called user agent. The messag... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7444135 | Updating availability of an instant messaging contact A contact is determined to be unavailable if a predetermined period of time has elapsed since an instant message was sent to the contact and an expected notification for the instant message was not received during that predetermined period of time by the device that... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440465 | Home gateway for executing a function of a security protocol and a method thereof A communication connecting apparatus that is able to execute a function of a security protocol for home devices that lack the ability to process a security protocol. The communication connecting apparatus, according to the present invention, comprises a protocol det... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437470 | Tunneling IPv6 packets Methods, systems, and products are provided for tunneling IPv6 packets. Embodiments include receiving, by an origin IPv6 border router from an origin IPv6 host, an IPv6 packet having an IPv6 destination address; receiving, by an origin IPv6 border router from an ori... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433979 | Method and apparatus for input management having plurality of input provider types with third party listener access to staging area that includes stack of input events The present invention is directed to a method and system for use in a computing environment for managing input information. The system for facilitating input management in a computerized environment may include an input manager for processing events received from an... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430602 | Dynamically provisioned mobile station and method therefor Multimode mobile station includes mobile configuration manager, device interface, and network interface to dynamically provision network configuration for mobile TE2-type mobile terminals and accomodates multiple protocols over multiple carrier access methods over U... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430660 | Data transmission apparatus, system and method, and image processing apparatus A data transmission system where an image providing device and a printer are directly connected by a 1394 serial bus, a command is sent from the image providing device to the printer, then a response to the command is returned from the printer to the image providing... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428597 | Content-based routing system and method Systems and methods for routing messages between applications in a network are disclosed. Messages are routed from a sending application to one or more receiving applications according to one or more routing rules. Each routing rule is used for determining the one o... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7428598 | Infiniband multicast operation in an LPAR environment A method, computer program product, and data processing system for providing system-area network (SAN) multicasting functionality in a logically partitioned (LPAR) data processing system in which a channel adapter is shared among a plurality of logical partitions is... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426564 | Communication control apparatus transmitting a communication parameter to first and second communication apparatuses to enable them to communicate with each other, file transfer system and control method for communication control apparatus The invention realizes a simple and easy file transfer system by setting a communication parameter without requiring a manual input by a user and transferring a parameter indicating a file transfer job. A third communication equipment transmits a communicatio... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426549 | Mechanism for sharing web-based imaging information from a mainframe computing environment A method of providing distributed imaging capability to a user of a client device. Document creation, manipulation, editing, and output may be provided. Document design and image data may be associated with the originating user. Generic access instructions cause ass... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424433 | Method and system for dynamic conditional interaction in a VoiceXML run-time simulation environment A method and system for testing voice applications, such as VoiceXML applications, is provided. The system provides a run-time simulation environment for voice applications that simulates and automates user interaction. A user simulation script is provided in a cust... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421505 | Method and system for executing protocol stack instructions to form a packet for causing a computing device to perform an operation According to one embodiment, a first computing device receives first information that has been formed according to application software instructions. Independent of the application software instructions, the first computing device forms second information for causin... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418505 | IP address lookup using either a hashing table or multiple hash functions The present invention relates to an IP address lookup method and hardware architecture. There is provided an IP address lookup method using a hashing table, the hashing table being constructed with an SRAM, the hashing table including main tables and sub-tables corr... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415546 | Method and apparatus for interfacing a peripheral device corresponding to the detection of interface The invention relates to an apparatus for interfacing a peripheral device corresponding to the detection of interface, which comprises: a regulator, for regulating the working voltage of the circuit of the apparatus; an USB physical layer with switch controller, for... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412549 | Processing system and method for communicating data A method for communicating data between an initiator unit (INIT) which initiates the communication and a target unit (TRGT) is described. Therein the initiator unit (INIT) indicates a request (TID) to initiate a communication. In response the target unit (TRGT) prov... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7400425 | System and method for facilitating network printing A system for facilitating remote printing via a network. The system, in one embodiment, includes a first mechanism for receiving information with respect to the availability to print of one or more printers connected to the network, for selecting an available printe... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7401156 | Method using control interface to suspend software network environment running on network devices for loading and executing another software network environment According to the inventive method, a network, including its software environment, is suspended in a manner that completely preserves the previous running environment and frees the network to perform other tasks for a period of time, and then to resume the original t... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398317 | Thwarting connection-based denial of service attacks A system architecture for thwarting denial of service attacks on a victim data center is described. The system includes a first plurality of monitors that monitor network traffic flow through the network. The first plurality of monitors is disposed at a second plura... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397575 | Communication apparatus and method having electronic mail communication function, and program There are provided a communication apparatus and method that enables the retransmission of an electronic mail if an error occurs in the transmission of the electronic mail due to its excessive data size, by reducing the data capacity of the electronic mail without t... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395338 | Information processing apparatus and session management method An information processing apparatus is provided, in which information processing apparatus communicates with a terminal connected to a network by using an HTTP protocol and performs processes requested by the terminal, and the information processing apparatus includ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7376741 | System for aborting response to client request if detecting connection between client server is closed by examining local server information An HTTP server is programmed to detect timed-out client requests by inferring states of its client-server connections. These connections, being full-duplex, can each be viewed as including a client-to-server channel and a server-to-client channel. The state of the s... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373421 | Method and apparatus of preventing physical layer from establishing unsupported links Methods and apparatus for preventing unsupported links between a host device and a link partner over a network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a link control signal is employed to release the reset of the candidate PHY, place a candidate PHY of the host device in a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373449 | Apparatus and method for communicating in an integrated circuit An integrated circuit comprising a plurality of processing modules (M; I; S; T) and a network (N; RN) arranged for providing at least one connection between a first and at least one second module is provided. Said connections comprises a set of communication channel... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369824 | Receiver storage system for audio program A receiver contains a demodulator system that can deliver a stream of digital data comprising at least a first and a second set of audio data. In a first time interval, a memory is used to store either the first or the second set of audio data. In a subsequent time ... | 05/06/2008 |