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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6807537 | Mixtures of Bayesian networks One aspect of the invention is the construction of mixtures of Bayesian networks. Another aspect of the invention is the use of such mixtures of Bayesian networks to perform inferencing. A mixture of Bayesian networks (MBN) consists of plural hypothesis-specific Bay... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6792468 | Frame-accurate transport of media data across a data network A software architecture and control protocol that provides applications with control over the transport that is frame-accurate, random-access, real-time and stream-based. Conventional server-based data network where media data resides on the server does not provide ... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6763374 | Active stream format for holding multiple media streams An active stream format is defined and adopted for a logical structure that encapsulates multiple data streams. The data streams may be of different media. The data of the data streams is partitioned into packets that are suitable for transmission over a transport m... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6754713 | System and method of controlling communication sessions A session wall for a local area network is provided. This is a device connected to a local area network which listens passively to communications sent over the network. The device also sends data over the network which is interpreted by other devices connected to th... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6691147 | Method and apparatus supporting network communications One embodiment of the invention includes a method of managing network communications in a network device. The network device includes software components and modules. Some of the components control the interaction between modules, while other components p... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6691159 | Web-based method and system for providing assistance to computer users The system provides an integrated approach to providing users of the computer system with education, information and computer assisted help on a specific subject, problem or a project. The system further offers flexibility in providing direct human intera... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6684246 | Method and system for tracking clients A method and system for tracking access by clients to a server object of a server class. The client tracking system provides a derived client tracking server class that includes an overriding implementation of a query function of the server class. The ove... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6681259 | Method for coupling a wireless terminal to a data transmission network and a wireless terminal The invention relates to a terminal (A), which comprises at least one network interface card (NIC1, NIC2, NIC3) for setting up a data transmission connection to a communication network (NW1, NW2, NW3, MNW) for packet switched data transmission, and means ... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6678734 | Method for intercepting network packets in a computing device A method is provided for intercepting network packets in a computer system, where a number of functions are used to communicate network packets between a network adapter and a protocols entity. A first network adapter and a first protocols entity installe... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6678669 | Method for selecting medical and biochemical diagnostic tests using neural network-related applications Methods are provided for developing medical diagnostic tests using decision-support systems, such as neural networks. Patient data or information, typically patient history or clinical data, are analyzed by the decision-support systems to identify importa... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6678724 | Common namespace for internet and local filesystem objects The present invention provides a common namespace for Internet and local filesystem objects. In a preferred embodiment, the common namespaces constructed by first accessing a namespace definition table. The namespace definition table contains entries refe... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6671721 | Object oriented framework mechanism and method for distributing and managing heterogenous operations of a network application An object oriented framework mechanism for distributing and managing operations of a network application defines classes and class relationships that provide for easily extending the framework to define new heterogeneous operations in a network applicatio... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6671724 | Software, systems and methods for managing a distributed network Software, systems and methods for managing a distributed network environment including a plurality of computers interconnected by a network link, where at least some of the computers include a layered communications protocol stack for providing a data int... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668278 | Information retrieval system using an internet multiplexer to focus user selection The invention provides a method and system for receiving incoming information from multiple information sources, both interactive and passive, and for engagingly presenting that information to a recipient on a presentation interface. The system includes a... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6665733 | Network communication device including bonded ports for increased bandwidth A network communication device including port control circuitry for controlling packet flow between the ports of the device, where the port control circuitry includes a port manager that directs packets between the ports and port bonding circuitry that bo... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6665703 | Storage system with internal LAN A storage system is provided which includes an internal local area network. The local area network is achieved by providing a separate Ethernet bus as well as Ethernet hardware on each host and disk/tape controller within the storage system. Each host con... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6665724 | Method for automatically delaying initialization of a protocol stack within a network interface A network interface device that is capable of supporting a plurality of protocols on a heterogeneous LAN, and that triggers the initialization of at least one loaded, but uninitialized, protocol stack upon the automatic detection of a network communicatio... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6665708 | Coarse grained determination of data dependence between parallel executed jobs in an information processing system A computer system performs a coarse-grained dependency checking between concurrently executed jobs that share a memory. First and second jobs are defined, each having a set of shared individually addressable data items stored in a corresponding set of loc... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6662205 | Scaleable and extensible system management architecture with dataless endpoints A large distributed enterprise includes computing resources that are organized into one or more managed regions, each region being managed by a server machine servicing one or more gateway machines, with each gateway machine servicing a plurality of endpo... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6662216 | Fixed bus tags for SMP buses According to a first aspect of the present invention, a data processing system is provided that includes a communication network to which multiple devices are coupled. A first of the multiple devices includes a number of requestors (or queues), which are ... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6662206 | Method and apparatus for summarizing missing events using event stream interpretation A technique for optimizing published event message sequences destined for information subscribers in an information processing system. Subscribers specify event interpretation rules which map event message streams into states. The event interpretation rul... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6658483 | Electronic transaction system and method and storage medium storing therein control program for executing format conversion in electronic transaction A set-up supporting server stores a model table which is used for conversion of a translator of a client for order receiver and a set-up supporting tool for correcting the model table and setting up into the translator. A set-up processing module of the c... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6650327 | Display system having floating point rasterization and floating point framebuffering A floating point rasterization and frame buffer in a computer system graphics program. The rasterization, fog, lighting, texturing, blending, and antialiasing processes operate on floating point values. In one embodiment, a 16-bit floating point format co... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6651086 | Systems and methods for matching participants to a conversation Systems and methods for connecting two or more individuals to an Internet conversation based on their mutual interests, the current content they may be viewing and what they want to talk about at that time. The techniques of the present invention allow an... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6651107 | Reduced hardware network adapter and communication The present invention provides a network interface adapter for connecting a client computer to a computer network that includes a reduced hardware media access controller (MAC) coupled through a physical interface (PHY) to the network physical link. A sig... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6636890 | Stand-alone internet mailbox for cable subscribers A method for delivering electronic mail (e-mail) messages over a cable television distribution network comprises the steps of: accepting e-mail messages addressed to e-mail subscribers of the cable television distribution network; respectively associating... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6636897 | Selective information subset synchronization based on single user action An apparatus and method for selectively synchronizing a subset of objects of an object set between first and second object stores. A subset of objects is defined as a plurality of selected objects of the object set. A selection identifier corresponding to... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6633905 | System and method for accessing and operating personal computers remotely A remote access device is disclosed for capturing, digitizing and communicating video signals from a host computer to a remote computer. The remote computer returns keyboard and mouse signals through the remote access device to the host computer to contro... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6633915 | Personal information management apparatus and customizing apparatus The present invention suitably manages personal information of client users in a distributed environment in which clients to request resource service and servers to provide the resource service are connected via a network, and provides resources customize... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6633903 | Method and article of manufacture for seamless integrated searching A search system (10) employing a scheme of meta-folders (14) in which conventional objects (18) and search objects (20) may be stored in an intermingling manner. Upon opening a meta-folder (14) the search objects (20) are resolved into conventional static... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6631247 | Method and system for remote diagnostic, control and information collection based on various communication modes for sending messages to a resource manager A method, system, and program product for communicating with machines connected to a network. Information sent to or from the machines is transmitted using electronic mail or a direct connection. The electronic mail may be transmitted over the Internet to... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6629133 | Interactive doll An interactive doll is disclosed having one or more sensors contained therein. The one or more sensors are operable to trigger output of a signal from the doll in response to the one or more sensors being activated by physical stimuli of a user. A process... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6629135 | Affiliate commerce system and method The present invention is directed to an e-commerce outsourcing system and method that provides hosts with transparent, context sensitive e-commerce supported pages. The look and feel of a target host is captured for future use. The look and feel is captur... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6625641 | Method and apparatus for providing client support without installation of server software A method and apparatus for supporting a pure client. In an embodiment of the invention, a client process is executing on a local host machine, whereas server software for supporting the client is physically stored on a remote host machine. The remote host... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6625656 | Method and apparatus for continuous playback or distribution of information including audio-visual streamed multimedia An embodiment of the present invention is an apparatus for preparing media for playback which comprises: (a) a buffer which stores data corresponding to the media; (b) a time-scale modification system that time-scale modifies data output from the buffer a... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6625655 | Method and apparatus for providing continuous playback or distribution of audio and audio-visual streamed multimedia reveived over networks having non-deterministic delays An embodiment of the present invention is an apparatus for preparing streaming media such as an audio or audio-visual work for playback which comprises: (a) a buffer which stores data corresponding to the streaming media; (b) a buffer monitor which determ... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6621505 | Dynamic process-based enterprise computing system and method Computer processes for carrying out almost any process may be defined as a series of steps using a plurality of standardized user-interface screens. These standardized interface screens may be linked together in predetermined orders to implement on a clie... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6622164 | Mass storage device with network interface A network storage device having a network controller card and a data storage device is described herein the card and storage device are either enclosed in a small from factor unit or assembled together to fit within a standard hard disk drive bay in a com... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6618749 | Internet facsimile and e-mail reception method The failure mail identification section and delivery status notification mail identification section identify whether or not the received E-mail data is failure mail and delivery status notification mail, respectively. Based on the identification result, ... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6615267 | System and method for delivery of information over narrow-band communications links System and method for delivery of information over narrow-band communications links. The system has at least a browser (12), a mobile client (10), a fixed server (30) and an origin host (50). The browser (12) requests a resource. The mobile client (10) tr... | 09/02/2003 |
