03rd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 60 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100017396 | Related Information Presentation System, Related Information Presentation Method, and Information Storage Medium - In order to give a presentation of related information that unexpected a user, while maintaining some relevance to certain information, a method includes: a link information application step of applying any one of a plurality of link information items stored in a link information storage section for storing the plurality of link information items each associating one or more information items with one or more information items to select an information item related to a given information item; an information acquisition step of acquiring an information item which serves as a base point; a related information selection step of selecting, by repeatedly executing the link information application step a plurality of times, an information item which is indirectly related to the information item acquired in the information acquisition step; and an information presentation step of presenting the information item selected in the related information selection step to a user. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017397 | DEFINING A DATA STRUCTURE FOR PATTERN MATCHING - An information processing apparatus according to the present invention comprises a generation section configured to generate an ordered tree structure by defining transition edges between nodes using, as transition conditions, respective constraints from one or more constraint pattern each including plural constraints, a search section configured to search for a second substructure K similar to a first substructure P from a root node by determining a set relation between transition conditions of respective transition edges, and a transition defining section configured to define an additional transition link from a tail node s | 2010-01-21 |
20100017398 | DETERMINING RELEVANCY AND DESIRABILITY OF TERMS - A system and method to sort search results based upon a desirability value is illustrated. This desirability value may be based upon the difference between a demand value and a supply value. Demand may be based upon user activity such as click-throughs, purchases, price, or location. Supply may be based upon a supply of keywords that may be the number of times a word is used in search or item title. The system and method may include receiving a search query, associating a first numerical value with a keyword that is a part of the search query, tracking user activity associated with the keyword, associating a second numerical value with the keyword based upon the user activity, finding a difference value between the first and second numerical values, associating this difference value with the keyword, sorting keywords based upon the difference values, and returning the search results of the sorting. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017399 | TECHNIQUE FOR RECYCLING MATCH WEIGHT CALCULATIONS - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, recycling field value weights as computed for database linking purposes. Such field value weights may be used for a search operation. In some embodiments, such weights may be used for a search operation prior to their values stabilizing during an iterative linking operation. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017400 | Classification-Expanded Indexing and Retrieval of Classified Documents - Document classification systems are valuable tools for searching and retrieving classified documents but can be prohibitively complex and cumbersome for users. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017401 | RECORDING MEDIUM STORING SYSTEM ANALYZING PROGRAM, SYSTEM ANALYZING APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM ANALYZING METHOD - A system analyzing apparatus obtains a message group including a message ID, a protocol, a type, and a transmission time of messages transmitted/received in a system where a hierarchical structure of protocols is defined. The apparatus detects pairs of a request message and a response message of the same message ID from the obtained message group. The apparatus identifies a request time and a response time of each of the detected pairs. The apparatus searches for a child-layer pair that has a request time and a response time between the request time and the response time of a parent-layer pair arbitrarily selected from among the pairs and that has a protocol in a layer lower than the protocol of the parent-layer pair on the basis of the identified result. The apparatus outputs the found child-layer pair as a candidate pair having a call relationship with the parent-layer pair. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017402 | Method, Apparatus, and Data Processor Program Product Capable of Enabling Management of Athleticism Development Program Data - Various aspects of one or more methods, apparatuses and data processor program products capable of enabling management of data associated with an athleticism development program are disclosed herein. These various aspects include maintaining a database including subscriber performance data for a plurality of athleticism development program subscribers and facilitating preparation of a subscriber performance report for a specified one of the plurality of athleticism development program subscribers. The subscriber performance data is capable of enabling an attained standardized athleticism level to be determined for each one of the athleticism development program subscribers. The implementation of standardized athleticism levels is advantageous as it supports a measurable plan of progress for motivating a subscriber and trainer to meet their individual and mutual goals. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017403 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCOPING SEARCHES USING INDEX KEYS - A set of index keys is included in an index search system that are associated with the scope of the search rather than the content of the documents that are the target of the search. These scope related index keys, or scope keys allows the scope of the search to be selected, reducing the number of documents that a search is required to sift through to obtain results. Furthermore, compound scopes are recognized and stored such that an index of complex search scopes is provided to eliminate rehashing of the searches based on these complex search scopes. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017404 | Method and Apparatus to Elegantly and Automatically Track Emails and its Attachments for Enhanced User Convenience - An automated, embedded & intelligent E-mail Attachment Document manager automatically tracks email and their associated attachments and assists users in locating an email message (email-chain/thread) that is the original source from where the email attachment document. The present invention can perform the tracking action using the given name of the saved attachment file. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017405 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING NON-EXACT MATCHING SEARCH IN SERVICE REGISTRY SYSTEM WITH CUSTOM DICTIONARY - A system and associated method for searching a service registry system with a service name. The service registry system receives a request to search a service description with the service name. The service registry system first searches a registry for a service identifier that matches the service name in the request, and if there is no matching service identifier, the service registry system composes at least one candidate service name from synonyms of respective component words that are comprised by the service name. The service registry system performs another search in the registry with said composed candidate service name for all composed candidate service names and service descriptions associated with any match are returned. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017406 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A switching information acquiring unit | 2010-01-21 |
20100017407 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND INVENTORY SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A system recognizes an arrangement of an object and counts the number of objects, comprising: a sensor for measuring a distance between the sensor and an object; a moving mechanism for moving the sensor; and a computer that is connected with the sensor and includes an object information database, an object arrangement database; a sensor data integrating section; and the sensor an object comparison calculator adapted to create an object model based on the data. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017408 | Automatic Email Consolidation for Multiple Participants - The invention is a data processing means wherein human perceptible elements of electronic information are gathered, prepared, formatted, or otherwise processed in forming a unified collection of such information storable as a distinct entity. In particular, the invention is a process for composing and displaying a consolidated message document. The preferred embodiment of the invention is a computer program that configures a general-purpose computer to implement the inventive process. Responsive to a user's selection of a message, the inventive process identifies all related messages that the user has received, inserts the related messages into a consolidated message document, and displays the consolidated message document on the user's output device. The inventive process further comprises the steps of removing duplicate message content, sorting the related messages within the consolidated message document according to user-specified preferences, storing the consolidated message document, and marking the related messages for deletion. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017409 | Hybrid Locking Using Network and On-Disk Based Schemes - A method of acquiring a lock by a node, on a shared resource in a system of a plurality of interconnected nodes, is disclosed. Each node that competes for a lock on the shared resource maintains a list of locks currently owned by the node. A lock metadata is maintained on a shared storage that is accessible to all nodes that may compete for locks on shared resources. A heartbeat region is maintained on a shared resource corresponding to each node so nodes can register their liveness. A lock state is maintained in the lock metadata in the shared storage. A lock state may indicate lock held exclusively, lock free or lock in managed mode. If the lock is held in the managed mode, the ownership of the lock can be transferred to another node without a use of a mutual exclusion primitive such as the SCSI reservation. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017410 | TECHNIQUES FOR EXTENDING AND CONTROLLING ACCESS TO A COMMON INFORMATION MODEL (CIM) - Systems and methods for extending and controlling access to a Common Information Model (CIM) are presented. According to an embodiment, access requests for a CIM object manager (CIMOM) pass through a CIM file system (CIMFS) where each access requested is authenticated. The CIMFS maintains and manages a hidden file system representing CIM classes and a CIM class hierarchy on a volume of storage. The structure, metadata, and values for the CIM classes, CIM object, and CIM providers are maintained in a hidden directory on the volume. This information is accessible via the CIMFS to use existing file system management operations. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017411 | APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION AND A METHOD FOR SETTING ENVIRONMENT THEREOF - The invention provides an information processing apparatus and a system environment setting method thereof capable of changing over profiles flexibly and preventing failure to return to the original profile if the time zone desired to change over the profiles of the information processing apparatus is irregular or if the schedule is suddenly changed. The information processing apparatus of the invention includes a DB | 2010-01-21 |
20100017412 | Method and Apparatus for Sharing Concurrent Ad Hoc Web Content Between Users Visiting the Same Web Pages - A method and apparatus are provided for sharing concurrent ad hoc Web content between users visiting the same Web domain, sub-domain, section or page. In one example, the method includes associating a user with a current uniform resource locator and Web domain, sub-domain, section or page being browsed by parsing the current uniform resource locator of the current Web page, creating a Web content sharing group by identifying one or more other users with whom the user would like to share, saving current uniform resource locators of pages being browsed calculating a status of the Web content sharing group by determining if any users in the Web content sharing group are currently browsing on a same Web domain, sub-domain, section or page as the user, and communicating the status of the Web content sharing group with a front-end device. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017413 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFERRING VALUE - Systems and methods are provided for transferring value from a first user to a second user by using substantially random codes that are associated with the values to be transferred. A trusted authority enables users to create user accounts used to store value. A first user may request a payment code, which is associated with a specified value, and may be communicated to a second user, who may submit the payment code to the trusted authority. If the payment code is valid, the trusted authority debits the specified value from the first user's account and credits the specified value to the second user's account. Alternatively, the second user may request an invoice code, which is associated with a specified value, and may be communicated to the first user, who may submit the invoice code to the trusted authority. If the invoice code is valid, the trusted authority debits the specified value from the first user's account and credits the specified value to the second user's account. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017414 | SEARCH ACTIVITY ERASER - A system and method of data processing receives a query at a server computer system. The system and method utilizes the query to extract a search result from a data source. The system and method receives at least one search activity record and a user preference from a client computer system over a network at a server computer system. The server computer system stores at least one search activity record on the server computer system and deletes the at least one search activity record on the server computer system based on the user preference. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017415 | DATA ACCESS CONTROL METHOD AND DATA ACCESS CONTROL APPARATUS - A data access control apparatus and method acquires a user identification (ID) of a user who uses a client device based on a login request received from the client device, and a tenant ID for the user ID from a tenant ID management storage unit that associates user IDs with tenant IDs and records the association. An application software is activated depending on a processing request received from the client device and an access unit which receives an access request for a database from the application software and transmits the access request for a data area for the tenant ID among a plurality of data areas in the database to a database management unit based on the tenant ID recorded in the identification storage unit. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017416 | SERIALIZABLE OBJECTS AND A DATABASE THEREOF - A technique to communicate data between a management layer and an interface layer of a network device having traffic modules and compute modules includes using a converter to convert a serializable object between file formats. The management layer is executed on at least one of the compute modules and the interface layer is executed on the one of the compute modules. Data is communicated between the interface layer and the management layer via invoking the converter to convert the data from a first format used in the interface layer to a serializable object in the management layer. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017417 | Secure Downloading of a File from a Network System and Method - A download processor for secure downloading of a digital product file when ordered by a user. The order includes a file identifier related to the file and an order identifier related to the order. The download processor performs security checks related to the file, the order, and the user. The file identifier and order identifier are verified based upon information related to the file and the order, and information related to the user is also verified. Based upon the verifications, the download processor selectively permits or denies download of the file to a user machine. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017418 | METHOD OF PRESENTING A TOPOLOGY, USING A VISUAL OBJECT - The invention relates to a method of presenting a topology comprising a reference with at least one sub-reference, and an apparatus for presenting the topology. The method comprises the steps of: ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100017419 | Systems and Methods for Distributed Asset Management Having Tagging Capabilities - Distributed asset management may be achieved as described herein by representing within a computer database system a collection of distributed assets, and logging within the computer database system time-series data sent from different ones of the distributed assets. Input from authorized users is accepted and stored in the form of tags, each tag being associated with an asset or group of assets. Access is provided to the time-series data or data derived therefrom, and to the tags, by the authorized users. By providing tagging capabilities, diverse requirements of different audiences are supported, and a system can be created wherein the different needs and interests of the audiences are satisfied in such a way as to produce a multiplying beneficial effect. At the same time, complexities are minimized that would otherwise be introduced in order support different taxonomies within a changing heterogeneous environment. Tagging may include such examples as tagging of assets, of time-series data generated by assets, and of pre-defined envelopes of time-series data. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017420 | Performing An All-To-All Data Exchange On A Plurality Of Data Buffers By Performing Swap Operations - Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for performing an all-to-all exchange on n number of data buffers using XOR swap operations. Each data buffer has n number of data elements. Performing an all-to-all exchange on n number of data buffers using XOR swap operations includes for each rank value of i and j where i is greater than j and where i is less than or equal to n: selecting data element i in data buffer j; selecting data element j in data buffer i; and exchanging contents of data element i in data buffer j with contents of data element j in data buffer i using an XOR swap operation. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017421 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, METHOD AND MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - The current position of each node in a hierarchical structure is held, and the past position of each node in the hierarchical structure is held. The current position is displayed in correspondence with the past position in a first user interface. The past position is displayed in correspondence with the current position in a second user interface. When the past position displayed in the first user interface is designated, the second user interface displays the designated past position. When a current position displayed in the second user interface is designated, the first user interface displays the designated current position. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017422 | FILE SYSTEM INTERFACE FOR CIM - Systems and methods for managing systems using common information models (CIM) are presented. According to a method embodiment, CIM functions are provided, and a file system interface for the CIM functions is provided. An embodiment of a method receives file operation commands through a client interface and performs CIM functions corresponding to the received file operation commands based on a mapping of the file operation commands to the CIM functions. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017423 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFORMATION OF LOGICAL DATA OBJECTS FOR STORAGE - A method and system for transforming a logical data object for storage in a storage device operable with at least one storage protocol, creating, reading, writing, optimization and restoring thereof. Transforming the logical data object comprises creating in the storage device a transformed logical data object comprising a header and one or more allocated accommodation sections with predefined size; sequentially obtaining one or more data chunks corresponding to the transforming logical data object; verifying if obtained data chunks match certain criterion and processing the chunks in accordance with verification results thus giving rise to the processed data chunks, wherein, resulting from said processing, a processed data chunk holds transformed data if the criterion is matched and holds non-transformed data if the criterion is not matches; sequentially accommodating the processed data chunks into said accommodation sections in accordance with an order said chunks received, and facilitating mapping between the data in the logical data object and the data accommodated in the accommodation sections. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017424 | DATA COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION - Data decompression apparatus is disclosed which is arranged to act on compressed data comprising: an ordered stream of references to groups of previously decoded data items; an ordered stream of direct representations of data items to be decoded; and an ordered stream of flags indicating whether each successive decompression operation should act on a reference or a direct representation. The apparatus comprises an output memory area; a detector to detect the number n of consecutive flags indicating that a decompression operation should act on a direct representation; and a data copier for copying to the output memory area either a next referenced group of previously decoded data or a group of n consecutive direct representations from the ordered stream of direct representations. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017425 | Efficient Identity Mapping With Self-Correction for Cascaded Server Systems - A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and apparatus for identity mapping with self-correction for cascaded server systems is provided. A request to perform a business transaction is received. Responsive to performing a first server process of the business transaction, the servers necessary to perform the business transaction are identified, forming a set of identified servers. A user identity is retrieved for each server in the set of identified servers, wherein the user identity for each server in the set of identified servers is linked to a user registry of a server, forming a set of linked user identities. A data structure comprising the set of linked user identities is created. A user identity for a next server in the set of identified servers is retrieved from the data structure. In addition, the data structure is forwarded to a next server in the set of identified servers. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017426 | Form Attachment Metadata Generation - Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product for form attachment metadata generation. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method receives a request to attach an attachment to a document, and calls an attachment metadata generator to extract metadata from the attachment to form extracted data. The computer implemented method further generates an extensible markup language fragment from the extracted data, and inserts the extensible markup language fragment into the document. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017427 | Multilevel Hierarchical Associations Between Entities in a Knowledge System - A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for managing multilevel hierarchical structured information in disparate knowledge repositories. An association data structure is created for an entity as metadata in a metadata repository. The association data structure is populated with association information about the entity. A process data structure is created for the entity as metadata in the metadata repository. The process data structure is populated with process information about the entity. Information about a multi-phased process is then collected by extracting process information from each entity of the multi-phased process across the disparate knowledge repositories. The collected information comprising information about the multi-phased process is then stored in the process data structure in the metadata repository. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017428 | System, Method, and Computer Readable Media for Identifying and Rating Virtual Universe Objects - A system, a method, and a computer readable media for identifying and rating a VU object in a virtual universe are provided. The method includes displaying first and second VU objects in a region of the virtual universe on a display device at a first time for a first user. The method further includes identifying the second VU object which modifies a view of the first VU object. The method further includes inputting first rating information associated with the second VU object that identifies a user perception of the second VU object. The method further includes inputting user view preference information indicating rating information for selecting VU objects to be displayed in the region of the virtual universe to the first user. The method further includes displaying the first VU object in the region of the virtual universe on the display device for the first user at a second time after the first time, while not displaying the second VU object based on both the first rating information associated with the second VU object, and the rating information of the user view preference information. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017429 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DISTRIBUTING DATA IN PARTIONED DATABASES OPERATING ON A SHARED-NOTHING ARCHITECTURE - The invention relates to a method and apparatus of distributing data in portioned databases operating on a shared-nothing architecture. The invention provides two independent streams of data, where a first stream sends table data, and the second stream sends LOB data, to a receiving partition. The receiving partition re-couples the LOB data with the table data. Using two independent streams to distribute LOB data can increase data redistribution since large amounts of input/output is not performed to handle the sending of LOB data in a coupled fashion. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017430 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOCUMENT PROCESSING JOB MANAGEMENT BASED ON USER LOGIN - The subject application is directed to document processing job management. Login data is first received corresponding to an associated user. Electronic documents are then associatively stored with a user identifier in an associated data storage. A default menu is generated on a user interface associated with a document processing device, and an actively displayed default menu on the user interface is determined. Document set data is then generated corresponding to an association of electronic documents in the data storage and received login data based upon the correlation between the login data and the associated user identifier. Summary listing data is then generated that identifies each electronic document in the data storage based upon the generated document set data and upon the determination that a default menu is actively displayed on the user interface. Thereafter, a display is generated corresponding to the summary listing. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017431 | Methods and Systems for Social Networking - Provided are methods and systems for social networking. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017432 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNITY EXCHANGE - Systems and methods for computer-based community networking to facilitate the trade and exchange of goods and/or services between registered users are disclosed. In the disclosed systems and methods, a first registered user affiliated with a set of one or more community groups searches for an invitation to buy or sell a good or a service, and in response to the search, the disclosed systems and methods return a list of one or more invitations comprising at least one invitation associated with a registered user that is affiliated with at least one community group of the first set of one or more community groups. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017433 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING, ADDRESSING AND MODIFYING RELATED DATA - A method for creating a structured data collection comprising collecting at least two data components using a data capture device assigning the same unique identifier to all of the data components whereby the items of data identified by the same unique identifier form a bundle of data. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017434 | MECHANISMS TO SHARE ATTRIBUTES BETWEEN OBJECTS - Mechanisms for sharing attributes between objects are provided. An object includes a special designation for at least one component, which is identified as a shared attribute. Data associated with the shared attribute is populated and managed from a central location within a processing environment. Multiple instances of a same object or of entirely different objects can reference, declare, and use the data from the central location. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017435 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A document management apparatus performs a first process to delete an object that is not to be presented to a user from document information registered in a database. The document management apparatus then performs a second process to determine whether a vacant block created as a result of the deleting of the object can be filled with another object. If it is determined by a CPU of the document management apparatus that a proper object to be put in the vacant block is not found, a third process is performed to adjust a layout associated with the vacant block. The document management apparatus then performs a forth process to provide a preview of a document with an adjusted layout thereby allowing a user to confirm the adjustment. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017436 | Method and Apparatus for Extracting Information From a Database - Information is extracted from a database using a computer-implemented method that involves a sequential chain of main calculations, in which a first main calculation (P | 2010-01-21 |
20100017437 | Information management and entertainment system - An information management and entertainment system ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100017438 | Adaptive Display for Enhancing Audio Playback - An audio playback device and method searches initiates a web search for images related to music or other audio files being played, downloads images from selected web pages returned by the search engine, and outputs one or more images from the selected web pages on a display to enhance the user's listening experience. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017439 | Multimedia Data Streaming System and Method Thereof - A multimedia data streaming system and a method thereof are disclosed. The multimedia data streaming system is used for transmitting multimedia data to a receiver by means of a streaming server through a dynamic streaming process. The multimedia data streaming system includes a converting module and a scheduler module. The scheduler module is used to obtain the bandwidth condition between the streaming server and the receiver dynamically, it can then request the converting module to convert the original data into streaming chunks with the optimal bit rates in accordance with the bandwidth condition detected; the streaming chunks can then be transmitted to the receiver by means of the streaming server. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017440 | DIGITAL IMAGE FILE DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A digital image file display system includes a storage device and a DPF. The storage device includes a marking module, a first sending module, and a first receiving module. The DPF includes a display module, a second sending module, and a second receiving module. The marking module assigns digital image files not previously displayed by the DPF to a list. The first sending module sends notification about the list to the DPF. The second receiving module receives the notification, and the second sending module sends a request to the storage device to display the digital image files of the list. The first receiving module receives the request, and the first sending module sends the list to the DPF. The second receiving module receives the list, and the display module displays the digital image file of the list or properties thereof. A digital image file display method is also provided. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017441 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR MANAGING PERSISTENCE - Described are methods, apparatus and computer programs for managing persistence within a data processing system such as a messaging system, database system or file system. The method for managing persistence includes a deferred evaluation ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100017442 | Information Management Server, Information Processing System, Communication Method and Program - An embodiment of the invention includes an information management server with a registration unit that registers a status change condition of a database and a notification action so that they are associated with each other. Also, the information management server includes a communication unit that receives an acquisition request for a status change notification via database connection established with respect to a client and a change detection unit that detects a status change satisfying the condition of the acquisition request and invokes the notification action associated therewith. According to aspect of the invention, a notification unit causes the communication unit to send a notification including a result of the notification action via the database connection as a response to the acquisition request, and returns control of the connection to the client. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017443 | METHOD, TERMINAL, AND SYSTEM FOR SOFT-DELETING, RESTORING, AND SYNCHRONIZING DATA - A method, terminal, and system for soft-deleting, restoring, and synchronizing data are provided. The method for synchronizing data includes: synchronizing, by a server and a terminal, server data not marked as soft-deleted during data synchronization. The method for soft-deleting data includes: receiving, by a server, a soft deletion request from a terminal; and obtaining server data to be soft-deleted according to the soft deletion request and marking the server data as soft-deleted. With the embodiments of the present invention, the server marks the soft-deleted server data as soft-deleted. Thus, the server does not synchronize the soft-deleted server data back to the terminal during normal synchronization or slow synchronization. This avoids confused data management and ensures the normal running of the terminal. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017444 | Continuous Data Protection of Files Stored on a Remote Storage Device - Technologies are described herein for providing file-level CDP of files stored on a remote storage system. A client module executing on a client computer monitors for modifications made at the client computer to files or folders stored on a virtual storage volume provided by the remote storage system. Upon detecting a modification of a monitored file, the client module sends a message to the remote storage system identifying the file. A server module executing in the remote storage system receives the message identifying the modified file and copies a version of the file containing the modification from the virtual storage volume to a backup volume located in the remote storage system. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017445 | BACKUP CONTROL METHOD AND BACKUP CONTROL DEVICE - A backup control unit controls a normal backup process of backing up a file stored in a NAS device at file system level according to a task schedule set in advance, and controls a forcible backup process of forcibly backing up the file stored in the NAS device at file level upon being triggered by detection of file close of a file stored in a forcible-backup-target file list by an access monitoring unit. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017446 | File system configuration method and apparatus for data security and for accessing same, and storage device accessed by same - Provided are a file system configuration method and apparatus for data security, a method and apparatus for accessing a data security area formed by the same, and a data storage device accessed by the same. A method of configuring a file system comprising a general area in which general data is stored and a security area in which security data is stored, in a storage device, includes generating a first file system format corresponding to the general area to store the first file system format in a buffer; generating a second file system format corresponding to the security area and storing the second file system format in the buffer so as to allow an authorized user to read data stored in the general area and not to allow the authorized user to write data to the general area when the authorized user accesses the security area; and configuring the file system of the storage device by using the first and second file system formats stored in the buffer. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017447 | Managing Garbage Collection in a Data Processing System - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing garbage collection. Monitoring is performed for a garbage collection state in a virtual machine. Responsive to detecting the garbage collection state, a priority for a set of garbage collection threads is increased. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017448 | Bit selection circuit - A bit selection circuit that arbitrarily selects, from among (2 | 2010-01-21 |
20100017449 | PROGRAMMABLE PROCESSOR - A digital signal processor | 2010-01-21 |
20100017450 | ARCHITECTURE FOR VECTOR MEMORY ARRAY TRANSPOSITION USING A BLOCK TRANSPOSITION ACCELERATOR - A system and method for vector memory array transposition. The system includes a vector memory, a block transposition accelerator, and an address controller. The vector memory stores a vector memory array. The block transposition accelerator reads a vector of a block of data within the vector memory array. The block transposition accelerator also writes a transposition of the vector of the block of data to the vector memory. The address controller determines a vector access order, and the block transposition accelerator accesses the vector of the block of data within the vector memory array according to the vector access order. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017451 | Binary Number Multiplying Method and Circuit - A multiplier and a method multiply, using an array of adders, two binary numbers X and Y defining a matrix [E | 2010-01-21 |
20100017452 | MEMORY-BASED FFT/IFFT PROCESSOR AND DESIGN METHOD FOR GENERAL SIZED MEMORY-BASED FFT PROCESSOR - For a large size FFT computation, this invention decomposes it into several smaller sizes FFT by decomposition equation and then transform the original index from one dimension into multi-dimension vector. By controlling the index vector, this invention could distribute the input data into different memory banks such that both the in-place policy for computation and the multi-bank memory for high-radix structure could be supported simultaneously without memory conflict. Besides, in order to keep memory conflict-free when the in-place policy is also adopted for I/O data, this invention reverses the decompose order of FFT to satisfy the vector reverse behavior. This invention can minimize the area and reduce the necessary clock rate effectively for general sized memory-based FFT processor design. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017453 | PROGRAMMABLE SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF DEMODULATING - A programmable signal processing circuit has an instruction processing circuit ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100017454 | PROGRAM, COMPUTER TERMINAL, AND COMMAND EXECUTION METHOD - A program causing a computer to perform processing for executing a specific command under predetermined conditions independently of input information when automatic control information is set in association with a computer terminal and calculations are performed based on data of the computer terminal. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017455 | CUSTOMIZED MEDIA BROADCAST FOR A BROADCAST GROUP - Methods and systems are provided for delivering a customized media broadcast to a social group of users referred to as a broadcast group. In general, a broadcast group including a number of users is identified. User profiles of the users forming the broadcast group are obtained and aggregated to provide a group profile for the broadcast group. More specifically, in one embodiment, the users forming the broadcast group are weighted, and the user profiles of the users are then aggregated according to the weights assigned to the corresponding users to provide the group profile of the broadcast group. A customized media broadcast is then delivered to the users forming the broadcast group based on the group profile of the broadcast group. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017456 | System and Method for an On-Demand Peer-to-Peer Storage Virtualization Infrastructure - A system and method for creating an on-demand virtual drive from dedicated storage on a plurality of partners in a peer-to-peer network using an agent installed on each of the partners. The agent has a contributing program and a requesting program. The contributing program creates a first storage unit and a second storage unit, formatting the second storage unit so that it is not visible to the operating system of the partner and transmitting the size of the second storage unit to the other partners. The requesting partner creates a virtual drive using space on selected partner's second drives, and directs data blocks in and out of the virtual drive. A rules engine incorporating RAID algorithms governs the selection of the partners and allocation of available space. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017457 | METHOD OF MANAGEMENT OF A MULTIMEDIA PROGRAM, SERVER, TERMINALS, SIGNAL AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAMS - The invention relates to a method for managing a multimedia program, played back by a terminal of a user. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017458 | TECHNIQUES FOR BROADCASTING MESSAGES ON A POINT-TO-POINT INTERCONNECT - Techniques to broadcast a message across a point-to-point network are described. More particularly, some embodiments of the invention relate to broadcasting messages between electronics components within a point-to-point interconnect. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017459 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR UPDATING CODE - The invention is directed to a method for a software provider to enable a software-acquiring entity to arrive from an existent first signed piece of code at a second signed piece of code. Both pieces of code were generated at the software provider by use of a first software archive generator under use of generation instructions. The software provider provides to the software-acquiring entity a difference code that comprises the steps necessary to arrive from the first signed piece of code at the second signed piece of code. The difference code is combinable at the software-acquiring entity with the first signed piece of code by a second software archive generator to generate the second signed piece of code. The second software archive generator is therefor to be fed with those generation instructions that were used by the first software archive generator for the generation of both pieces of code. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017460 | Assymetric Dynamic Server Clustering with Inter-Cluster Workload Balancing - A method, computer program product or computer system for selecting a target data server from a plurality of data servers in an information system to service a request of a client with a data quality requirement, includes determining a formalized data quality of the client using the data quality requirement, using the formalized data quality of the client and finding a cluster of data servers from the plurality of data servers that can meet the data quality requirement of the client, choosing a select data server from the cluster of data servers, verifying if the select data server can still meet the data quality requirement of the client, and if so, selecting the select data server as the target data server for processing the request, and if not, selecting another data server as the target data server for processing the request. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017461 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXECUTING APPLICATIONS USING NATIVE CODE MODULES - Some embodiments provide a system that executes a web application. During operation, the system loads the web application in a web browser and loads a native code module associated with the web application into a secure runtime environment. Next, the system provides input data associated with the web application to the native code module and processes the input data using the native code module to obtain output data. Finally, the system provides the output data to the web application for use by the web application. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017462 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEAMLESSLY PROVIDING VIDEO CONTENT TO CLIENT SYSTEMS OVER A NETWORK - A system and method for providing video content to a client system is disclosed. The system includes a server and a computer coupled by a network. The server obtains operating environment information of the computer in response to a request for video content from the computer. The server selects a version of the requested video content for sending based on the obtained operating environment information. The selected video can be received by the computer at the computer's particular connection speed over the network and can be played by the computer using its particular video player. The server sends the selected video to the computer and causes the computer to automatically begin playing the video without requiring any overt interaction by the operator of the computer. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017463 | Unicast/Multicast Media Edge Proxy with Fast Channel Switching - A system, method, and media edge proxy, MEP, ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100017464 | Web page content translator - A system, method, and computer readable medium for reformatting web content into a format readable on one or more mobile devices is provided. A user generates a user request for a web page from a mobile device to a proxy server. The proxy server forwards the user request to an origin web server, which returns the requested web page to the proxy server. A conversion engine within the proxy server extracts the desired content from the web page, and reformats the content in accordance with one or more predefined transform methods associated with the one or more mobile devices before transmitting the transformed web page with the desired content to the one or more mobile devices. Secure or unsecure connection provided via a decorated uniform resource locator can be used to connect a mobile device, the proxy server, and an origin web server. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017465 | WIRELESS NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SAME - A wireless network, which includes a wireless router client operable to broadcast data packets to at least one wireless server and one additional wireless client. Each client and server includes programs for determining optimum routes between them. The client also includes a program for determining if a received data packet is not addressed to it and if the packet has been sent via a new optimal route unknown to the client, and for notifying the respective server of such a new optimal route. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017466 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC PROCESSING OF MEASUREMENT METRICS AND TAGGING MEASUREMENT METRICS - A computer system is dynamically configurable for inputting, storing, processing and outputting metric data and tag data. The system includes a server and client computers that each has an input device, storage device, processing device and output device. The input, processing and output are each controlled by a dynamically configurable processing logic based upon one or more factors including: input measurement, measurement subject, processing method, application, industry, region, or a user as determined by configuration, preferences, properties or values | 2010-01-21 |
20100017467 | PROCESS MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - To display process data so as to be easily understood even when operating when switching between daylight savings time and non-daylight savings time (standard time). A combination of detection times, using the first standard times, and process data are stored by a server device; the detection times of the historic data obtained from the server device are converted into second standard times and daylight savings times by a client terminal; and the process data are displayed on a screen in a time series based on the first standard times, the second standard times, or the daylight savings times; and both the second standard times and the daylight savings times, or one that is selected through an operation, are displayed on the screen together with the process data. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017468 | System, Method and Computer Program Product for Providing Content to a Terminal - A system for providing content to a mobile terminal includes a source and a messaging gateway. The source is capable of reformatting content intended for receipt by a terminal, and transferring the reformatted content and an address of the terminal to the messaging gateway. The content can be reformatted in any of a number of different manners, including for example, a vectorized format such as the scalable vector graphics (SVG) format. In response to receiving the reformatted content and address of the terminal, the messaging gateway is capable of signaling the terminal, the signaling including information required to access the reformatted content. As such, the terminal can thereafter send a request to the messaging gateway in response to the messaging gateway signaling the destination client, and thereafter download the reformatted content from the messaging gateway, such as at least partially across a cellular network. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017469 | System and Method for Providing a Certified Photograph in a Network Environment - A method for providing a certified photograph in a network environment is offered that includes interfacing with one or more end users and managing information related to one or more of the end users. The method further includes displaying one or more photos of the end users and providing a label on the photos that certifies the photos as being substantially accurate. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017470 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATION USING ICON - Disclosed are an apparatus and method for communication using an icon. A first communication terminal of a first user stores a second user icon profile including an icon(s) representing at least one communication terminal used by a second user and a second communication terminal of the second user stores a first user icon profile including an icon(s) representing at least one communication terminal used by the first user. When the first user a first icon from the at least one icon forming the second user icon profile, the first user can communication with the second communication terminal of the second user represented by the first icon using the first communication terminal. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017471 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING ELECTROCARDIOGRAM DATA - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing improved medical care. A system includes a defibrillator, a gateway device, a routing device, and a wireless modem. The system may further include hardware and/or software components located at a remote facility for receiving data and one or more server devices for decoding data from the remote facility. A method includes acquiring medical data at a first location, converting the medical data from an analog signal to a digital signal, transmitting the digital signal from the first location to a second location over the internet via a cellular network, receiving the digital signal at the second location, and converting the digital signal back to an analog signal for processing. The first location may be an EMS vehicle, and the second location may be a remote facility, such as a dispatch center or local hospital. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017472 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING PRESENCE DATA FROM MULTIPLE PRESENCE INFORMATION PROVIDERS - Methods, systems, and computer readable medium for providing presence data from multiple presence information providers are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for providing presence service using presence information from multiple presence information providers. The method includes, at a network node including at least one processor, receiving, from a message source, a first presence-related message that includes information identifying a user, using the information identifying a user to identify, from multiple presence information providers, a presence information provider that maintains presence information associated with the identified user, and relaying the first presence-related message to the identified presence information provider or sending a second presence-related message associated with the first presence-related message to the identified presence information provider. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017473 | Telecommunication Method and System Offering a Plurality of Mutually Consistent Means for Access to a Message Base - A telecommunication method is provided, which includes storing at least one message in a message base and defining a set of communication devices. The method further includes sending each device in the set, a notification of at least one event relating to the message. The method offers a plurality of mutually consistent methods of access to a message base using only targeted transmission of signaling messages of content that is directly linked to messages having content or status that has been modified, thereby considerably limiting transmission of superfluous data needlessly consuming bandwidth. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017474 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLAYBACK POSITIONING OF DISTRIBUTED MEDIA CO-VIEWERS - Systems and methods are disclosed for obtaining and presenting information to a user playing a media item identifying playback positions of a number of other users also playing the media item. In one embodiment, a first user begins playback of a media item. Information identifying playback positions of a number of second users also playing the media item is obtained from a playback information broker and presented to the first user. The first user may then provide user input identifying a desired action to take with respect to one or more of the second users. In response, the desired action is effected. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017475 | System and Method Enabling Future Messaging Directives Based on Past Participation via a History Monitor - A system and method for controlling the flow of documents by associating Globally Unique Identifiers with each original document, each reply document, each copy document and each forwarded document, such as email messages. Historical analysis is performed on a locally stored history records containing the Globally Unique Identifiers extracted from received documents to determine which recipients are active participants and which are inactive participants, according to user preferences and thresholds. Lists for direct recipients (e.g. “To” list), carbon copy recipients, and blind copy recipients are automatically proposed to a user of a document handling system when authoring a new document, replying to a document, or forwarding a document, according to the results of the historical participation analysis, thereby stemming information flow to participants who are not active in an ad hoc asynchronous conversation. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017476 | ANTI-SPAM PROFILE CLUSTERING BASED ON USER BAHAVIOR - A user can be assigned to one of a plurality of filtering profiles to filter the user's incoming email messages. Each filtering profile in the plurality of filtering profiles filters the incoming emails according to a different set of filtering rules. The filtering profiles are applied to incoming emails, and the emails are delivered according to the rules of the currently-assigned filtering profile. The user's actions on the received email is tracked to determine a first performance score for how accurately the first filtering profile is filtering incoming emails of the user, and if the first performance score is less than a score value, the user might be assigned to a different filtering profile. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017477 | Performance and Reduce Network Traffic for Remote Hardware Data Scan Operations - According to one embodiment of the present invention, multiple data scan operations are compacted into a single network message. A plurality of requests to perform a data scan operation on a remote node controller is received, forming a set of received data scan operation requests. A set of data scan operations are generated based on the set of received data scan operation requests, forming a set of generated data scan operations. A network message comprising the set of generated data scan operations is generated, forming a first compacted data scan operation network message. The first compacted data scan operation network message is sent to the remote node controller. A second compacted data scan operation network message is received from the remote node controller, wherein the second compacted data scan operation network message comprises a set of completed data scan operations. The set of completed data scan operations are separated into individual completed data scan operations. Each individual completed data scan operation is sent to the user that issued the request. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017478 | DYNAMIC GROUPING OF EMAIL RECIPIENTS - A method, system, and computer usable program product for dynamic grouping of email recipients are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A first recipient and a second recipient of a first email are identified and an association is formed between them. A selection of the first recipient is detected in a second email. Using the association, the second recipient is suggested as a recipient of the second email. The first email may be a previously sent email, and the second email may be an email being composed. A characteristic of the first email is identified and the characteristic may be used as a basis for the association in forming the association. The characteristic may be a phrase in, a type of content in, an attachment in, or a periodicity of the first email. Strength of the association may be modified based on the third email. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017479 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PROXY FUNCTIONALITY IN A MESSAGE CLIENT - A method and system for communicating electronic messages among clients in a network is provided. One implementation involves marking an electronic message to indicate that the message is to be routed to recipient clients identified by a user group definitions, sending the marked message from a sender client to a proxy client, parsing an incoming message at the proxy client to detect an indication that the message is to be routed to recipient clients in a user group, and routing the message from the proxy client to one or more recipients in the user group based on the user group definition. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017480 | RECIPIENT SIDE GROUPING OF ADDRESSES - A method for grouping addressees of a message based on groups defined by a recipient of the message includes receiving a message including a plurality of addressees; determining the addresses of the addressees; comparing the addresses to one or more groups maintained by the recipient of the message; and displaying the message, wherein the message includes one more of the groups maintained by the recipient in place of one or more of the addressees. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017481 | System and Method for Sectional E-Mail Transmission - A process of segmenting a single email so that portions of it may be directed to or away from select recipients is disclosed. The sender highlights portions of the email and right clicks (or key command, button, or menu item) and selects an option to select recipients. The operator interface then provides the sender with the option of selecting recipients from their address book or the server's address book. To speed the process along, the sender may select those already on the To, Cc, or Bcc distribution lists. The sender then selects whether those chosen will receive the highlighted portion or if they will be excluded from receiving it. Lastly, the sender will have the option of providing text that is unique to each of the selected groups. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017482 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATION AWARE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION - A method and system for location aware electronic communication. One implementation involves receiving an electronic communication at a receiving client, upon detecting that the communication includes location-based information, retrieving criteria for processing the communication from a location profile, and automatically processing the communication utilizing the retrieved criteria and the location-based information from the communication. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017483 | MULTI-TOPIC INSTANT MESSAGING CHAT SESSION - The invention provides a method, system, and program product for establishing a multi-topic instant messaging (IM) chat session. In one embodiment, the invention includes sending a first message to at least one participant or receiving a first message from at least one participant; receiving a second message from at least one participant or sending a second message to at least one participant; determining whether the first and second messages pertain to different topics; and in the case that the first and second messages pertain to different topics, splitting the IM chat session into multiple parts based on the different topics. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017484 | E-Mail Response Time Estimation on Compose or Send - An e-mail application calculates a dynamic estimate of an e-mail response time. A recipient address module, a status module, a processing module, and a presentation module interact to generate a first and a second estimated response time. The first estimated response time is determined from sender side data. The second estimated response time is generated using recipient mailbox status data after the e-mail is received by the recipient. The second estimated response time is used to dynamically update the estimated response time displayed to the sender. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017485 | ENFORCING CONFORMANCE IN EMAIL CONTENT - In an email message method and system, an email server receives at least one user-defined constraint for a first email message, where the user-defined constraint comprises at least one of an expected format and expected content of a reply email message. The email server associates the at least one user-defined constraint with the first email message and sends the first email message to a recipient. In response to receiving the reply email message, the email server validates the reply email message against the at least one user-defined constraint. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017486 | SYSTEM ANALYZING PROGRAM, SYSTEM ANALYZING APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM ANALYZING METHOD - A system analyzing apparatus obtains a message group including a message ID, a protocol, a type, and a transmission time of messages transmitted/received in a system where a hierarchical structure of protocols is defined. The apparatus detects pairs of a request message and a response message of the same message ID from the obtained message group. The apparatus identifies a request time and a response time of each of the detected pairs. The apparatus searches for a child-layer pair that has a request time and a response time between the request time and the response time of a parent-layer pair arbitrarily selected from among the pairs and that has a protocol in a layer lower than the protocol of the parent-layer pair on the basis of the identified result. The apparatus outputs the found child-layer pair as a candidate pair having a call relationship with the parent-layer pair. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017487 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR CLUSTERING AND CLASSIFICATION - The invention provides a method, apparatus and system for classification and clustering electronic data streams such as email, images and sound files for identification, sorting and efficient storage. The method further utilizes learning machines in combination with hashing schemes to cluster and classify documents. In one embodiment hash apparatuses and methods taxonomize clusters. In yet another embodiment, clusters of documents utilize geometric hash to contain the documents in a data corpus without the overhead of search and storage. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017488 | Message Classification Using Allowed Items - A system and method are disclosed for classifying a message. The method includes receiving the message, identifying all items of a certain type in the message, determining whether each of the items meets a criterion, and in the event that all the items are determined to meet the criterion, determining a classification of the message. The system includes an interface configured to receive the message, a processor coupled to the interface, configured to identify all items of a certain type in the message; determine whether each of the items meets a criterion; and in the event that all the items are determined to meet the criterion, determine a classification of the message. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017489 | Systems and Methods For Haptic Message Transmission - Systems and methods for haptic message transmission are disclosed. For example, one disclosed method includes the steps of receiving a sensor signal from a sensor configured to sense a physical interaction with a messaging device, determining a virtual force based at least in part on the sensor signal, and applying the virtual force to a virtual message object within a virtual message environment. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017490 | Serial Communications Device with Dynamic Allocation of Acceptance Masks Using Serial Implementation - A CAN module or a microcontroller comprises a CAN module which receives a serial bit stream. The CAN module comprises a filter register with a bit select input and a single bit output, a bit select unit for selecting a bit of the filter register in accordance with the serial bit stream, a comparator coupled with the single bit output and with the serial bit stream for generating a comparison signal, and a register receiving the comparison signal for accumulating a plurality of comparison results and for generating an acceptance signal. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017491 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NOTIFICATION OF DIGITAL IMAGES TO BE SHARED VIA A SERVICE PROVIDER - A method and system for organizing and sharing digital images over a communication network wherein an image server at a service provider stores digital images for a customer which may have more two more electronic addresses which may receive e-mail. The server automatically forwarding all electronic mail having an address from one of the registered two or more electronic addresses to the primary electronic address that is received over a communication network. The e-mail includes a link to the share images and/or images folder. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017492 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE PACING - A system for managing message volume and timing, which permits messages from multiple sources to be spaced apart over time, with the pacing controlled in part by the type or priority of the message. The system permits the volume of messages to be reduced by aggregating messages according to a set of rules and by discarding or delaying messages that are sufficiently similar and sent too close together. In addition, the system allows message sources to be notified when a recipient has not received a message within a designated time period. The system can be implemented as a centralized pacing system or through use of a data storage system accessible by the message sources. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017493 | SYSTEM FOR PUBLISHING MESSAGES FROM IDENTIFIED, AUTHORIZED SENDERS TO SUBSCRIBERS - A message publishing system processes a message from a sender in a first format and comprises a central processor, a sender account, a storage area to store at least a portion of the message, and software executing to configure the central processor. The processor identifies the sender as an authorized sender based on information associated with the message in comparison to data in the sender account, wherein the identification is dependent upon the first format, and publishes the portion of the message so as to be viewable only if the sender has been identified as an authorized sender. The software can further configure the processor to allow a requester to subscribe to receive new messages from one or more senders including the identified sender; and send a copy of a new message from the identified sender to one or more notification devices associated with the subscribed requestor. | 2010-01-21 |
20100017494 | FORMALIZING, DIFFUSING AND ENFORCING POLICY ADVISORIES AND MONITORING POLICY COMPLIANCE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF NETWORKS - An apparatus and method for centralized policy management of large-scale networks ( | 2010-01-21 |
20100017495 | Fast Byzantine Paxos - A distributed computing system can operate in the face of malicious failures on the part of some of its constituent devices, and provide a minimum of message delays between receiving a client request and providing a response, when each device within the system verifies the sender of any message it receives, and the propriety of the message. | 2010-01-21 |