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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095679 | Predictive transmission of content for application streaming and network file systems The performance and hence the user experience of just-in-time application streaming is significantly enhanced by predicting which sections of an application are likely to execute next, and transmitting those sections from the server to the endpoint. A control flow g... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086707 | Systems and methods for grid agent management Systems and methods utilize directory services snap-ins to create, maintain, and interpret policies for controlling the execution of grid applications. ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082292 | Method and system for centralized user notification and application execution control A method for providing application-defined notifications to a user upon receipt of an event at a device is provided. A list of applications is centrally maintained, the list defining, for each application, event identification and corresponding event notification. W... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8060652 | Extensible binary mark-up language for efficient XML-based data communications and related systems and methods An extensible binary mark-up language is disclosed that is compatible with existing XML standards yet provides significantly improved efficiencies for XML-based data storage and communications, particularly for narrow and low bandwidth communication media. A corresp... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7406541 | Accounting method and system in a packet communication network In an accounting system, an user 1, by the use of a terminal 2, transmits a transmission packet P1 to a reception destination 3, that is a server of an information service provider, and receives a reception packet P2 therefrom by w... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7305428 | Retrieval device, retrieval server, and retrieval system, as well as retrieval method and computer program with greater extent of retrieval conditions A retrieval system includes a retrieval server for providing retrieval service and a retrieval device accessible through a transmission medium by the retrieval server. The retrieval device is configured to modify a first retrieval condition with a first retrieving e... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7287052 | Challenge and response interaction between client and server computing devices A condition on a client that is communicating with a server is determined by issuing a challenge to the client, causing the client to produce a response indicative of the condition. The server compares the response to an expected response to determine if the conditi... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284068 | Technique for providing multi-homing capability in data networks Various aspects of the present invention are described herein for providing multi-homing capability to networks, subnetworks, and/or hosts through the use of a multiplicity of topologically correct IP addresses. For example, according to various embodiments of the p... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277951 | Omnimodal messaging system A messaging server application system handles message creation, receipt, and response for any sort of digitizable message in any format. It typically operates as a core application and application infrastructure in a communications network or networks in the multipl... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277929 | Network system including a network device having a function-categorized web page delivering system In network system includes a plurality of network devices interconnected with each other through a network, one or more network devices including a first network device have a plurality of functions. The network devices can deliver function-categorized web pages res... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275079 | Common application metamodel including C/C++ metamodel A method of and a system for processing an enterprise application request on an end user application and an application server. This is accomplished by initiating the application request on the end user application in a first language (such as a markup language) wit... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7275104 | Web-services-based data logging system including multiple data logging service types Methods, apparatuses, and systems allowing for configuration of message logging policy on a granular basis for web services networks. In certain embodiments, the present invention allows for an efficient data logging scheme where only messages, or message elements, ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7275100 | Failure notification method and system using remote mirroring for clustering systems A cluster computing system, comprises: a production host group; a standby host group coupled to the production host group by a network; and a remote mirror coupled between the production host group and the standby host group, the remote mirror including a production... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269632 | Networked computer system for communicating and operating in a virtual reality environment The present invention relates to interactive virtual reality networked computer systems and methods that facilitate communication and operation in a virtual reality environment. The virtual reality networked computer system has an infrastructure that includes a numb... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263560 | Decentralized peer-to-peer advertisement Embodiments of a shared resource distributed index mechanism that peers in a peer-to-peer network may utilize to distribute index entries corresponding to resources to indexes of shared resources among one or more other peers. These indexes may be used to direct que... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263554 | Method and system for performing resource pool maintenance by refreshing resources based on the pool resource test An improved resource pool is provided that provides for dynamic configuration and is comprised of code that is configured to be used for different subsystems, including JDBC, Connector, and JMS subsystems. Pool maintenance, resource object creation and timeout, mult... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260615 | Apparatus and method for analyzing remote data An apparatus and method for processing remotely located data is disclosed. The present invention comprises a computer software program that operates on a local machine and a remote machine. A user must first select a module to execute and specify the remote data. Th... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260648 | Extension of address resolution protocol (ARP) for internet protocol (IP) virtual networks A system for supporting translation of virtual IP addresses to Ethernet/MAC addresses in a multi-Virtual Network environment, in which address resolution tables are generated and maintained by Virtual Networking Devices. Virtual Networking Device (VND) sends and/or ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257644 | Systems and methods for providing presence tracking in a distributed computing system Providing presence tracking of nodes of a logical network in a distributed computing system. Each node in a logical network tracks the presence of all other nodes on the network. This presence information is used by the protocol to optimize bandwidth utilization of ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257612 | Inline compression of a network communication within an enterprise planning environment An enterprise business planning system includes a server to execute an enterprise planning session for a set of enterprise contributors in accordance with an enterprise model, wherein the enterprise model defines hierarchically arranged nodes and associates the ente... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254634 | Managing web tier session state objects in a content delivery network (CDN) Business applications running on a content delivery network (CDN) having a distributed application framework can create, access and modify state for each client. Over time, a single client may desire to access a given application on different CDN edge servers within... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254615 | Ad hoc telecommunications network management and routing An ad hoc telecommunications network comprises a plurality of mobile devices, cached data being distributed amongst the devices. A manager device is elected for example based on highest compared received signal strength amongst the devices to manage the distributed ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254606 | Data management method using network This invention has been made to manage data possessed by a user on a network. One of this invention is a data management method using a network system which includes a server and a client terminal, including the step of making a control server receive a user's data ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251675 | Meeting system and information storage medium In a meeting system, supplied-data which is convertible using a virtual machine is transmitted and received among a plurality of processing apparatuses interconnected via a transmission line, and meeting data is reproduced. At least two of the plurality of processin... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251697 | Method and apparatus for structured streaming of an XML document A method and apparatus are disclosed for streaming an XML document/content in a structured manner that allows the receiver to decode prioritized portions of an XML document. Document models, such as XML Schemas, are utilized in converting XML documents into prioriti... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249160 | Electronic mail processing system and mail server An electronic mail (email) processing system set up on the Internet includes terminals that send and receive email messages, cellular telephones that send and receive email messages by radiocommunication through base stations, a mail server that performs the overall... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249193 | SRDF assist Transmitting data from a source to a destination, includes receiving the data from the source and providing the data to the destination using a network, where the data is acknowledged to the source as being successfully received at the destination prior to all of th... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249200 | Process, communication device and communication module for determining communication identifiers The present invention is concerned with a process for determining communication identifiers for communication devices connected over a network, which have start identifiers assigned to them, as well as with a communication device and a communication module therefor.... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246176 | PDP context distribution among multiple GGSNs The previously described shortcomings are solved by a system and method herein that allows for the creation of scaleable wireless data packet networks notwithstanding capacity restrictions of routers used within the network. More specifically, a GGSN is formed to re... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243128 | Communication device for generating an electronic email including an original document and a reply document based on the condition to include the reply document in the electronic email among a plurality of reply documents To provide a communication device which can obtain information necessary at a transmitter without placing a burden on a receiver. The control unit prepares an original document by being scanned by the scanning unit, received by the facsimile communication unit, or r... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240099 | System and method for efficiently performing data transfer operations A system and method for efficiently performing data transfer operations includes a source device for providing transfer data through a communication path or network to a destination device. The source device has a transfer manager that determines various transfer pa... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240124 | System and method for transferring data on a network using a single route optimizer to define an explicit route and transfer the information related to the explicit route to a plurality of routers and a plurality of optimized routers on the network An apparatus and method for forwarding data on a digital data network are provided. The network includes optimized routers and a plurality of routers connected on the network. A route optimizer receives information from the optimized routers and plurality of routers... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240102 | System and method for providing web browser-based secure remote network appliance configuration in a distributed computing environment A system and method for providing Web browser-based remote network appliance configuration in a distributed computing environment is described. A query message is broadcast from an applet executing within a Web browser to one or more network appliances. The network ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237014 | System and method for in situ, real-time, supply chain, interoperability verification The present invention discloses a system and method for performing interoperability testing. The method comprises sending a command from a server module to a client module, receiving the command at an application under test module via a shared directory module betwe... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7237018 | Ordered writes for SRDF assist Transmitting data from a source to a destination, includes receiving the data from the source and providing the data to the destination using a network, where the data is acknowledged to the source as being successfully received at the destination prior to all of th... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7237005 | Job network setup method, job network execution method, job management system, management terminal and program A job network setup method in a job management system which controls execution of jobs according to a set job network and which allows setup for data transfer from a preceding job to a succeeding job comprises enabling specifying such that data can be transferred fr... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7237040 | Error recovery for SRDF assist Transmitting data from a source to a destination, includes receiving the data from the source and providing the data to the destination using a network, where the data is acknowledged to the source as being successfully received at the destination prior to all of th... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233997 | Data communications An authentication server (AS) is provided which stores authentication details of authorised users, and a list of currently-authenticated users. A number of application servers (APS) are connected to the authentication server (AS), to allow the application servers (A... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233979 | Instant messaging session invite for arranging peer-to-peer communication between applications Arrangements and procedures for arranging peer-to-peer communications sessions between applications are described. In one implementation, a first application executing at a first device utilizes online presence information of an instant messaging service to select a... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231455 | System monitoring service using throttle mechanisms to manage data loads and timing A system and method for throttling transmissions of gathered computer system monitoring and asset data within a customer's communications network. A relay is provided within the network with an interface for transmitting messages to a downstream device such as the I... | 06/12/2007 |
