http://www.freshpatents.com/Electrical-computers-and-digital-processing-systems--multicomputer-data-transferring-or-plural-processor-synchronization-dtnewntc709.php USPTO Class 709 - Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring or plural processor synchronization en-us Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 1000 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 141 31 http://www.freshpatents.com/index.php?rss=true http://www.freshpatents.com/images/freshpatentsnav_rss.gif http://www.freshpatents.com/Distributed-data-handling-and-processing-resources-system-dt20080424ptan20080098059.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 The distributed data handling and processing resources system of the present invention includes a) a number of data handling and processing resource nodes that collectively perform a desired data handling and processing function, each data handling and processing resource node for providing a data handling/processing subfunction; and, b) a low... http://www.freshpatents.com/Methods-and-systems-for-presence-based-telephony-communications-dt20080424ptan20080098060.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A system and method can enable a user of a communications network, such as a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), wireless and/or voice over IP network to participate in Presence Availability Management (PAM) and Instant Messaging (IM) activities of a PAM/IM network. In response to phone network triggers, a phone... http://www.freshpatents.com/Online-ranking-protocol-dt20080424ptan20080098058.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for exchanging information in accordance with a protocol. In one aspect, signals reporting user actions related to resources and ranking data ranking the resources based on the signals are exchanged in accordance with a protocol. The protocol defines types of user actions... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-portable-multimedia-network-learning-machine-and-remote-information-transmission-thereof-dt20080424ptan20080098061.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A kind of portable multimedia network learning machine, includes a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor, input unit and display, communication and download module, multimedia driving device and multimedia player. The said communication and download module are used for communicating with the calculator connected to the hand-held multimedia... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-device-for-controlling-floor-in-push-to-service-dt20080424ptan20080098063.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A PT (e.g., Push-To-Talk, Push-To-View or Push-To-Data) service, and more particularly, to a method and device for controlling a floor (talk burst authority, permission to send media burst, etc.) in a PT service, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method for controlling a state of a Push-To (PT) server,... http://www.freshpatents.com/Network-robot-system-and-method-of-communication-therein-dt20080424ptan20080098065.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A communication method in a network robot system having a middleware processing communication between a plurality of sensors, a server, and a robot, the method including: setting previously a communication framework of the middleware for distributed processing of function of the robot by using the plurality of sensors and the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Systems-and-methods-for-managing-and-monitoring-mobile-data-content-access-and-usage-dt20080424ptan20080098062.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A system, method, and process for managing and monitoring mobile data, content, access, and usage of mobile devices are provided. The described exemplary system, method, and process provide an infrastructure for managing and monitoring various applications and services of mobile devices such as Internet access, voice, messaging, gaming, music, and... http://www.freshpatents.com/Systems-methods-and-apparatus-for-transmitting-virtual-world-content-from-a-server-system-to-a-client-dt20080424ptan20080098064.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 Virtual world content is transmitted from at least one server to at least one client computer by defining a camera position on the client computer and projecting a geometrical shape from the camera position in the direction of a viewing vector. This geometrical shape defines a subsection of the virtual... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-eliminating-time-lost-in-initial-stages-of-a-web-conference-due-to-participants-not-being-in-place-on-time-dt20080424ptan20080098067.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A system for eliminating the time lost in initial stages of a Web conference due to participants not being in-place on-time is disclosed. The system enables automatic steps to be taken at the server to pull conference participants into a conference based on their acceptance of an invitation to the... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-implementing-latest-edition-notification-for-messages-of-data-processing-systems-dt20080424ptan20080098066.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A computer-implementable method, system, and computer-readable medium for implementing latest edition notification for messages on a data processing system. An e-mail client receives from a server a first message in a conversation thread, wherein the conversation thread includes a collection of messages. In response to receiving a command from a... http://www.freshpatents.com/Dynamic-creation-of-mail-aliases-usable-in-electronic-communications-dt20080424ptan20080098069.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 Mail aliases are dynamically created in response to replies of an electronic mail (e-mail) communication. An e-mail communication is sent to a plurality of recipients, and one or more recipients of the e-mail communication respond to the e-mail. In response to receiving the replies, one or more mail aliases are... http://www.freshpatents.com/Email-generation-method-and-system-dt20080424ptan20080098073.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 An email generation method and system. The method comprises receiving and storing by a computing system, a first data object. The computing system comprises XML files. Each XML file comprises email templates. The computing system receives language identification data identifying a first XML file of the XML files. The first... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-process-to-add-recipients-to-an-on-going-electronic-message-thread-dt20080424ptan20080098072.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A method, article, and system to implement software for enabling recipients to be added to an electronic message thread, while providing for the new recipient to receive previous messages within the electronic message thread. In addition, members that are currently a part of the message thread are notified of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-process-to-unsubscribe-from-on-going-electronic-message-threads-dt20080424ptan20080098071.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A method, article, and system to implement software for enabling recipients to unsubscribe from an electronic message thread, in which case, the electronic message will not be delivered into the recipient's box, and therefore will not be utilizing any of the recipient's inbox space. The message server will hold the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Space-time-communication-system-dt20080424ptan20080098068.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A technique for performing message communications while assigning a space and respective time periods or time points at present, in past and in future is disclosed. A space-time object intercepts a message. Alternatively, this object per se executes the processing for immediately transmitting a message to a target object under... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-of-sharing-contents-using-messenger-dt20080424ptan20080098076.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 The present invention provides to a system and method of sharing contents using a messenger program, The system includes a device server which registers Consumer electronic (CE) devices of the same user and CE devices of different users, and generates a messenger account; a messenger server which registers the generated... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-for-adding-new-recipients-to-e-mail-thread-dt20080424ptan20080098070.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A system for adding new recipients to an e-mail thread. The system includes a server device configured to administer an electronic mail (E-MAIL) application. At least one client device being operably associated via a network with the server device. The at least one client device configured to add new E-MAIL... http://www.freshpatents.com/Authenticating-electronic-communications-dt20080424ptan20080098077.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A method includes generating an authenticity indicator for an electronic communication based on a comparison of domain name data and purported sender data associated with the electronic communication, the authenticity indicator indicating a likelihood that the electronic communication was sent from a purported sender of the electronic communication. The authenticity... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-motivation-enhancement-dt20080424ptan20080098074.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 An automated method for boosting and/or maintaining a sense of well being of a person an automated method and apparatus assists individuals in regularly breaking out of immediate stressful situations which may otherwise contribute to long term deterioration in their health, well-being and/or vitality. The method is implemented by a... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-providing-electronic-communications-with-dynamically-provided-content-to-third-party-mail-transfer-agents-dt20080424ptan20080098075.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A system provides individualized communications to each user, based on data corresponding to each user, for placement into electronic communications by a sending party, that may not be related to the party providing the content. The content provided to the electronic communications may be generated at least in part when... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-forwarding-full-header-information-in-email-messages-dt20080424ptan20080098078.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 Systems and methods for selectively forwarding full header information in email messages are presented. When an email message is received by a user, and the user chooses to forward the received email message, an option is provided to the user to either include the full header information of the received... http://www.freshpatents.com/Instant-messaging-system-configured-to-facilitate-event-plan-management-dt20080424ptan20080098079.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 An instant messaging service is operated in cooperation with an event plan manager system. Information is received regarding a planned event from an instant messaging client with which an event organizer is associated and, based thereon, information is provided indicative of the planned event to the event plan manager system.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Extending-functionality-of-workflow-applications-using-instant-messaging--im--dt20080424ptan20080098080.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 Plug-ins for instant messaging (IM) systems are described. By using plug-ins in conjunction with IM systems, the functionality of IM systems may be greatly extended. Specifically, in business applications, such as workflow processes, IM provides a more reliable approach to determining actual delivery of messages.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Moving-image-displaying-method-and-system-dt20080424ptan20080098081.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A moving image displaying method to be executed in a network computer system having an operating-side computer and an operated-side computer coupled through a network, the operating-side computer coupling with the operated-side computer for performing input operation to the operated-side computer, and an operation result view appearing on the operated-side... http://www.freshpatents.com/Service-enabled-tagged-user-interfaces-dt20080424ptan20080098085.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 In one aspect, in a computer-implemented method it is determined whether a placeholder corresponding to a service includes an identifier similar to a tag associated with an element of a user interface. The placeholder is replaced with a value of the element associated with the tag based on the results... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-data-de-duplication-dt20080424ptan20080098083.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A method of processing a file includes receiving a request to store the file, receiving the file, determining whether a database already contains the file, and storing the file in the database if the database does not already contain the file. A method of processing a file includes receiving a... http://www.freshpatents.com/Systems-and-methods-for-data-transfer-dt20080424ptan20080098082.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A computer system is disclosed. The system comprises a connection interface, a download device and at least one first computer device. The first computer device generates a script file. The download device, coupled to the first computer device via the connection interface, comprises a processing unit, a network interface and... http://www.freshpatents.com/file-distribution-system-in-which-partial-files-are-arranged-according-to-various-allocation-rules-associated-with-a-plurality-of-file-types-dt20080424ptan20080098086.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 In a distributed file system, when a user requests a computer to create a distributed file, a management computer acquires a list of computers complying with an allocation rule selected by the user from allocation rules taking the performance, security level, reliability level and utility rate into consideration. When the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Communicating-additional-information-in-a-dns-update-response-by-requesting-deletion-of-a-specific-record-dt20080424ptan20080098084.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A technique is performed within a DNS server to respond to a DNS message. The technique includes receiving the DNS message from a requesting device (e.g., a DHCP server), and generating a search result based on a search of a portion of the DNS message for a request to delete... http://www.freshpatents.com/Integrated-electronic-invitation-process-dt20080424ptan20080098087.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A method and system to generate an electronic invitation are provided. The system may include a display module, a communications module and an invitation engine. The display module may be configured to display an invite control viewable with a member profile section. The member profile section may display a profile... http://www.freshpatents.com/Communication-system-terminal-device-and-communication-device-dt20080424ptan20080098088.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A communication system including: a terminal (121); and a device (111), a device (112), and a device (113) existing within a LAN (110) connected to the terminal (121) through the Internet. The terminal (121) includes: a representative device preference storing unit (14) that stores information about processing performed by plural... http://www.freshpatents.com/Computer-implemented-system-and-methods-for-mapping-using-web-based-content-dt20080424ptan20080098090.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 Computer implemented systems and methods for mapping using web-based content is provided. In one embodiment, a computer implemented system for mapping over the Internet is provided, comprising: a computer for receiving a map request and a content request from a client computer, the map request including a request for location-based... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-retransmission-request-reduction-in-a-network-dt20080424ptan20080098089.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A telecommunications system includes a connectionless network for distributing content which supports broadcast or multicast. The system includes a video server in communication with the network. The system includes a plurality of set-top boxes in communication with the network through which the set-top boxes receive packets from the server and... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-providing-personalized-multimedia-broadcasting-over-a-mobile-telecommunications-radio-area-network-dt20080424ptan20080098091.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A system and method of providing personalized broadcast transmissions Broadcasting-Party-Designated Recipients over a mobile telecommunications Radio Area Network is provided. The Broadcasting Party can send multimedia content for a personalized broadcast to an IMS Application Server in a SIP Message and broadcast the multimedia content to the mobile telecommunications terminals... http://www.freshpatents.com/Microorganism-separation-system-dt20080424ptan20080098092.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 when the microorganism detection sensor judges that a microorganism has passed, supply of the sample solution is stopped, the detected microorganism is discharged together with the sample solution, and then the solution starts to be injected into the receiver; and, the number of times microorganisms are detected during the time... http://www.freshpatents.com/Offline-automated-proxy-cache-for-web-applications-dt20080424ptan20080098093.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for managing content updates for web-based applications. In one set of embodiments, a configurable proxy cache is provided that executes rule-based content updates of web content on the behalf of an application (e.g., web browser) while the application is not running. This allows... http://www.freshpatents.com/Automated-operating-system-device-driver-updating-system-dt20080424ptan20080098094.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for updating device drivers of an operating system for a server computer system are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for updating device drivers for a server computer system by a build server. Embodiments of the method may include determining whether device drivers for... http://www.freshpatents.com/Adaptive-integrated-circuitry-with-heterogeneous-and-reconfigurable-matrices-of-diverse-and-adaptive-computational-units-having-fixed-application-specific-computational-elements-dt20080424ptan20080098095.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 The present invention provides an adaptive integrated circuit. The various embodiments include a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network. The plurality of heterogeneous computational elements include corresponding computational elements having fixed and differing architectures, such as fixed architectures for different functions such as memory, addition, multiplication,... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-utilizing-protocol-hierarchy-to-configure-or-monitor-an-interface-device-dt20080424ptan20080098097.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A method and apparatus for establishing a communication means for an interfacing device that utilizes a communication means hierarchy to decipher a communication means to be used by other hardware devices so that they may operative cooperatively. Particularly, a controlling device queries an interfacing device for the manufacturer of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Systems-and-methods-for-sharing-information-between-a-user-group-and-associated-document-dt20080424ptan20080098096.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 Systems and methods of the present invention connect a group of users who are involved in a common project. The information on this project will be stored in an electronic document. Each member of the group has an exact copy of the document and the method of this invention is... http://www.freshpatents.com/Information-processing-apparatus-information-processing-method-program-and-storage-medium-dt20080424ptan20080098098.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 An information processing apparatus includes a search unit which searches for a network device having a function of communication by the first communication protocol and a network device having a function of communication by the second communication protocol, and a setting unit which, when a network device detected by the... http://www.freshpatents.com/Facilitating-deployment-of-customizations-of-enterprise-applications-dt20080424ptan20080098099.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A management system facilitating deployment of customizations of an enterprise application, with the enterprise application containing software modules pre-installed on a set of servers. In an embodiment, the management system first receives a set of deployment units each containing data defining a manner of configuration affecting the operation of at... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-for-and-method-of-streaming-data-to-a-computer-in-a-network-dt20080424ptan20080098100.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A system for and method of rapidly streaming data to one or more client devices, such as personal computers (PC's) from a server employing virtual disk emulation and broadcasting or multicasting of data residing on a network server. In some embodiments, the streamed data includes files necessary to boot and... http://www.freshpatents.com/Image-forming-apparatus-image-forming-system-and-control-method-thereof-dt20080424ptan20080098104.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit, an interface unit to communicate with a network server through a network, and a controller to store a registration reservation information in the storage unit to register with the network server, and controls the interface unit to transmit the registration reservation information.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Methods-and-apparatus-for-tunneling-legacy-network-management-messages-through-snmp--simple-network-management-protocol--dt20080424ptan20080098103.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 Software and/or hardware modules enable secure management of legacy network products. In an illustrated example, if a network device is managed using unsecure SNMPv1 or SNMPv2, the invention acts as an intermediary and applies SNMPv3 security, without the need to migrate the existing network management code to SNMPv3. The invention... http://www.freshpatents.com/Peer-to-web-broadcasting-dt20080424ptan20080098101.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A system for peer-to-web media broadcasting, including a plurality of publisher computers, for broadcasting media over the Internet, each publisher computer including a video transcoder, and an image processor, a plurality of HTTP web client computers for viewing broadcasted media, an application server for transmitting web page content to HTTP... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-scalable-internet-helpdesk-automation-dt20080424ptan20080098102.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 User computers are enrolled in a management system over the Internet only at such time as a help request is tendered, and once the request is resolved, a user computer is disenrolled, facilitating use of a manageably small help resolution database and reasonable performance from the management system.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Apparatus-and-method-for-managing-a-plurality-of-kinds-of-storage-devices-dt20080424ptan20080098106.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A storage system including a memory unit having a disk management program, plural disk controllers each having a SAS port which can be attached to either a SAS disk drive or a SATA disk drive, and a LAN port which communicates with a user interface program in a management console.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-apparatus-and-system-for-communication-information-management-wireless-communication-device-and-relay-device-dt20080424ptan20080098105.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 An access-point device authenticates a cellular phone capable of peer-to-peer communication, and connects the cellular phone to the Internet. The access-point device relays data communication between the cellular phone and a contents-provider server or a company server when a communication-information management apparatus permits the data communication. The communication-information management apparatus... http://www.freshpatents.com/End-to-end-tracking-of-asynchronous-long-running-business-process-execution-language-processes-dt20080424ptan20080098108.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 Computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for end-to-end transaction tracking of long-running processes such as a Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) process in a data processing system, such as a data processing system implemented in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). A computer implemented method for tracking and correlating... http://www.freshpatents.com/Incident-resolution-dt20080424ptan20080098109.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided apparatus for obtaining resolution information related to an incident report related to a monitored object in an IT infrastructure comprising: an incident report analyser for identifying an object identified in the report relevant to the incident and for identifying... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-for-notarizing-packet-traces-dt20080424ptan20080098107.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A system and method for capturing non-forgeable packet traces. Upon start-up of a sniffer, a first quote of Platform Configuration Register (PCR) values in a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) utilized by the sniffer is obtained, wherein the first quote comprises a list of starting values in the PCRs and is... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-for-analyzing-performance-information-dt20080424ptan20080098110.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A performance information display method using a computer, includes the steps, in the computer, of reading out information data of a storage device previously stored in a storage device and information data of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device, displaying an identifier of the storage device and identifiers... http://www.freshpatents.com/Integrated-application-access-dt20080424ptan20080098111.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 An application portal selectively provides a user access to items of a plurality of remote applications. At least one of the items is related to more than one of the remote applications. An authorization layer is included in the portal and includes a map indicating that the user is permitted... http://www.freshpatents.com/Systems-and-methods-of-network-operation-and-information-processing-including-engaging-users-of-a-public-access-network-dt20080424ptan20080098112.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 Systems and methods are disclosed for network operation and information processing involving engaging users of a network. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method of engaging users of a public-access network. Moreover, the method includes associating a processing component with the public-access network; transmitting a request for authorization... http://www.freshpatents.com/Stateful-firewall-clustering-for-processing-intensive-network-applications-dt20080424ptan20080098113.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A system and method for balancing network traffic that includes a master node addressable by an external device, at least one slave node addressable by the master node, at least one filter running on the master node and the at least one slave node, and a clusterware application running on... http://www.freshpatents.com/Fencing-of-resources-allocated-to-non-cooperative-client-computers-dt20080424ptan20080098114.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 Techniques are provided for processing an Input/Output (I/O) request in which an identification message is received from a client computer. It is determined whether the client computer is a rogue client based on whether a current operations record exists for the client computer.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-dynamic-content-generation-dt20080424ptan20080098115.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for synthesizing a data stream includes retrieving meta data from at least one decision tree, the decision tree comprising a plurality of interconnected nodes, and generating the data stream in accordance with the meta data.... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-apparatus-and-computer-product-for-setting-transmission-path-dt20080424ptan20080098117.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A communication state between a session initiation protocol server and another session initiation protocol server to be a destination for transmitting a request message is determined. When it is determined that the communication state is in a communication unavailable state, a subsequent session initiation protocol server of the session initiation... http://www.freshpatents.com/Computer-system-and-method-for-transmitting-user-status-information-dt20080424ptan20080098118.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A computer system enabling mutual exchange of information between users and digital content, in a manner corresponding to each individual disk, comprises a plurality of computers each capable of being loaded with a disk having a unique disk ID, and a verification server capable of being connected with the computers... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-for-establishing-a-multimedia-connection-dt20080424ptan20080098116.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 In one aspect, a method for establishing a multimedia connection between at least one calling user and at least one called user via packet-oriented computer networks is provided. The users independently recognize contradictory requests of the calling user and the called user to each other and then send a request... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-analyzing-http-sessions-dt20080424ptan20080098119.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 Software intended to operate in a clustered environment can be tested for appropriate failover behavior through the use of an automated tool which allows failover to be simulated without requiring that the application be deployed in a cluster environment and observing the effects of actual failover. Such an automated tool... http://www.freshpatents.com/Authentication-server-auditing-of-clients-using-cache-provisioning-dt20080424ptan20080098120.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 Sharing resources on a network include, for example, a domain controller hierarchy scheme, which is used in some implementations to organize and share both secure and non-secure resources in an efficient manner. Using authentication information can be used to architect a trustworthy system to divulging sensitive client data (such as... http://www.freshpatents.com/P2p-sip-enabled-multimedia-network-communication-system-dt20080424ptan20080098121.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 A P2P SIP enabled multimedia network communication system is disclosed. The network communication system supports various application, such as IP-based audio, video and instant messages. The network communication system comprises a P2P network and a plurality of user terminals. The P2P network comprises a plurality of ADs acting as nodes... http://www.freshpatents.com/Methods-apparatuses-and-systems-facilitating-seamless-virtual-integration-of-online-membership-models-and-services-dt20080424ptan20080098122.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:59 -0700 Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating integration of the functionality associated with a first on-line service entity with the functionality associated with a second on-line service entity. Embodiments of the present invention allow a first on-line service entity having its own membership model to efficiently collaborate with a second on-line service... http://www.freshpatents.com/Hybrid-peer-to-peer-streaming-with-server-assistance-dt20080424ptan20080098123.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:00 -0700 Implementation of hybrid peer-to-peer streaming with server assistance is described. In one implementation, a media source is selected from amongst a plurality of media sources for retrieval of streaming media content. The selection might be based, for example, on an amount of the streaming media content received at respective time... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-apparatus-for-measuring-bandwidth-dt20080424ptan20080098124.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:00 -0700 For a network that connects several computers, a method of determining the network bandwidth between two computers. The method measures a first time interval between when one of the computers (1) sends a first data set to the other computer and (2) receives a first response. It also measures a... http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-managing-digests-comprising-electronic-messages-dt20080424ptan20080098125.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:00 -0700 A system and method for managing digests comprising electronic messages is presented. A selection criteria that defines message-based content for a digest is defined. Properties and characteristics of the content of the digest are defined. A delivery criteria that specifies periodic sending of the digest is accepted. The digest is... http://www.freshpatents.com/Network-secure-communications-in-a-cluster-computing-environment-dt20080424ptan20080098126.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:00 -0700 Secure communications are provided over a network in a distributed workload environment having target hosts which are accessed through a distribution processor by a common network address. Secure communications are provided by routing both inbound and outbound communications with target hosts which are associated with a secure network communication through... http://www.freshpatents.com/Associative-memory-having-a-mask-function-for-use-in-a-network-device-dt20080424ptan20080098128.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:00 -0700 An associative memory 4 for primary searching operation of an associative memory 23 supplies a valid state to a primary match line 13 corresponding to storage data coincident with search data 10 taking mask information into account, and supplies a value obtained from a result of a logical sum operation... http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-network-element-for-rerouting-traffic-while-maintaining-the-quality-of-service-in-networks-with-slow-route-convergence-dt20080424ptan20080098127.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:00 -0700 A route for routing traffic is established by the emission of a route announcing message to a network element of a network. The network element is then triggered in such a way as to route the traffic according to the route announced in a time-delayed manner by means of an... http://www.freshpatents.com/Compression-device-wherein-compression-is-adapted-as-a-function-of-the-transport-medium-and-associated-decompression-device-for-communication-equipments-dt20080424ptan20080098129.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:00 -0700 A device (D1) is dedicated to compression of streams of packets of data, for a communication equipment (E1) constituting a transmission end point in an Internet Protocol communication network (R), the packets of a stream each comprising, in particular, an IP header including a destination end point (E2) identifier, a... http://www.freshpatents.com/Synchronization-among-pluralbrowsers-dt20080424ptan20080098130.php Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:00 -0700 A technique for synchronizing a visual browser and a voice browser. A visual browser is used to navigate through visual content, such as WML pages. During the navigation, the visual browser creates a historical record of events that have occurred during the navigation. The voice browser uses this historical record...