39th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 86 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100250653 | Method and system for providing cross-domain communication - A method performs an operation for utilizing programming interface functionality of a first domain for accessing a remote resource of a second domain different than the first domain. Thereafter, the method performs an operation for providing the remote resource to a system having requested the remote resource. Provide the remote resource includes providing the remote resource through the first domain utilizing client-side services of said programming interface functionality. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250654 | Contents distributed storage system, web page creating method, server device, and computer-readable recording medium in which server processing program is recorded - A server device which can communicate with a node device in a contents distributed storage system stores contents attribute information obtained from a predetermined device which stores the contents attribute information, and creates a Web page in which the contents attribute information is inserted. A node device receive a page request of a Web page from any of node devices, and transmits the created Web page, to a node device which has transmitted the page request, in accordance with the page request. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250655 | Methods for delivering and receiving interactive multimedia - A method used in a service providing device for delivering interactive multimedia content to a plurality of client devices, comprising: receiving a request for the interactive multimedia content, from at least one of the plurality of client devices; disabling the plurality of client devices from sending the request to the service providing device, according to a predetermined condition; and delivering the interactive multimedia content to the plurality of client devices. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250656 | CONTACT-ON-DEMAND METHOD AND NETWORK THEREFOR - A method is provided of providing a content-on-demand service to a user terminal in a system comprising a plurality of content-on-demand servers and a packet-switched network. The method comprises the steps of: a first of the content-on-demand servers seeking to reserve packet-switched network resources to enable service delivery to the user terminal, said first server sending a message that resource reservation was insufficient, a further of the content-on-demand servers seeking to reserve packet-switched network resources to enable service provision to the user terminal, said further server sending a message that resource reservation is sufficient, and said further server providing the content to the user terminal via the packet-switched network. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250657 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A communication apparatus including: a content-information extracting section which obtains feed information and extracts content information from the feed information; a display-priority setting section which sets a display priority; a display-priority changing section which lowers, on the basis of display of at least part of the content information, the display priority of the displayed content information by a first degree; a display-number setting section which sets the display number of times such that the display number of times of the content information during displaying of the at least part of each of all content informations to be displayed among the content informations is larger in a situation where the content information has a high display priority than in a situation in where the content information has a low display priority; and a display controller which displays the at least part on the basis of the display number of times. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250658 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A communication apparatus which obtains a content on the basis of a content URL associated with image data displayed on a display portion, including: a feed information obtaining section which obtains feed information including content informations each including a title, an image URL, and a content URL and which stores the obtained feed information into a storage device; an image data obtaining section which obtains the image data on the basis of the image URL; a display judging section which judges whether all the image data is displayable on an image display area; a small-display-image-data producing section which produces small display image data; and a display controller which displays, instead of the image data, the small display image data in association with the content URL, where the display judging section has judged that all the obtained image data is not displayable on the image display area. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250659 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A communication apparatus which obtains a content on the basis of a content URL associated with image data displayed on a display portion, including: a feed information obtaining section which obtains feed information including content informations each including a title, an image URL, and the content URL and which stores the obtained feed information into a storage device; an image data obtaining section which obtains the image data on the basis of the image URL; a display controller which displays the obtained image data in association with the content URL; an obtainment judging section which judges whether the image data has been obtained on the basis of the image URL or not, wherein the display controller displays, where the obtainment judging section has judged that the image data has not been obtained on the basis of the image URL, alternative image data in association with the content URL. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250660 | CLIENT APPARATUS, COMPUTER SYSTEM, COMPUTER READABLE PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM AND DISPLAY METHOD, EACH FOR DETECTING CHANGE OF DISPLAY CONTENTS IN STATUS BAR AREA TO DISPLAY THE CHANGE - A client apparatus, which requests a service to a server apparatus and receives a result corresponding to the request, comprises: a receiving section for receiving screen data corresponding to the result and a position of a status bar area in the screen data from the server; a display section for performing a display based on the screen data; and a control section for detecting a change of display contents of the screen data based on the position of the status bar area and the screen data, causing the display section to perform the display except for the status bar area based on the screen data when it is not detected that the display content of the status bar area is changed, and causing the display section to display the status bar area when it is detected that the display content of the status bar area is changed. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250661 | Managing a Virtual Object - Managing a virtual object in a server device includes storing the virtual object in a database accessible to the server device and, in response to a non-subscriber user performing a first action on the virtual object, sending a message from the server device to at least one user that subscribes to the virtual object. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250662 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING HOME SUBSCRIBER SERVER (HSS) PROXY - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing a home subscriber server (HSS) proxy are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for providing a home subscriber server proxy. The method includes, at a node separate from a home subscriber server in a telecommunications network, receiving, from a requesting network entity, a request for information maintained at a home subscriber server, the information being associated with a subscriber, and, in response to receiving the request for information maintained at a home subscriber server, providing the information associated with the subscriber to the requesting network entity on behalf of the home subscriber server. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250663 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCESSIBLE HOME NETWORK INFORMATION IN REMOTE ACCESS ENVIRONMENT - Provided is an apparatus and method for providing accessible home network information regarding one or more home networks that can be accessed from a remote access (RA) environment. The apparatus includes a channel-creation module which creates a communication channel via which an RA client and an in-home RA server can communicate with each other; an information-management module which issues a request for capability information, a credential list and a profile list to each of the RA client and the in-home RA server; and an information-generation module which generates channel-creation information for creating a communication channel between the RA client and the in-home RA server based on the capability information. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250664 | DATA COMMUNICATION DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A data communication device with no wait time, which multiple users can operate simultaneously, each user being able to obtain desired content simultaneously, regardless of the content of a content screen, being the same content screen or different content screens. A device body ( | 2010-09-30 |
20100250665 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, TERMINAL APPARATUS, CONTENT DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, CONTENT RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is a content distribution system and the like that enables division at an appropriate position when dividing a content to record the content on a recording medium. A content distribution system ( | 2010-09-30 |
20100250666 | APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR PROCESSING HTTP REQUESTS - Various embodiments of the invention are directed to closely integrating functionality between an internet server and a WebDAV tool. Areas of specific focus in this document include delegation of duties between the internet server and the WebDAV tool, efficient management of a resource's content-type, support for segregation of a namespace into separate virtual roots, and determinations of whether to invoke certain processing extensions to handle requests for a given HTTP verb. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250667 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING BOOKMARK INFORMATION FOR CONTENT STORED IN A NETWORKED MEDIA SERVER - A method and apparatus for managing bookmark information of a media server through a network based on the UPnP AV standard is disclosed. If a request for bookmarking a content item is made, a bookmark item is created and the created bookmark item is linked to the content item by adding the ID of the created bookmark item to the property information of the content item and recording the ID of the content item to be bookmarked in the created bookmark item. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250668 | ARRANGEMENT FOR SELECTING A SERVER TO PROVIDE DISTRIBUTED SERVICES FROM AMONG MULTIPLE SERVERS BASED ON A LOCATION OF A CLIENT DEVICE - A selection resource executed within the network is configured for selecting from among a plurality of servers, distributed throughout the network at respective network-based server locations and each configured for providing a specified service, a selected server for providing the specified service for a client device at a network-based client location. The selection resource selects the selected server based on the corresponding server location relative to the client location, and causes a request having been generated by the client device to be sent to the selected server. Hence, the selection resource optimizes client-server interactions in a distributed computing network, based on the client location and the server location. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250669 | PORTABLE MEDIA DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH A MEDIA SERVER AND HIGHLY PORTABLE MEDIA CLIENT DEVICES - A media delivery system comprises a portable media server and a client device. The client device may be an audio player. The client device may also be an enabling part of the media server. A predetermined playlist of media assets is transferred from the server to the client when they are connected in a wired manner or in a wireless manner. Motion sensors such as accelerometers are integrated into earphones to control the operations of the audio player. In an exemplary case, the motion sensor in one of the earphone is used to increase the sound volume and the sensor in another earphone is used to reduce the sound volume. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250670 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STATEFUL WEB-BASED COMPUTING - A system for performing ‘server-push” of information from a server to a client machine for a Java Servlet based web application via a request/response communication cycle includes an application server having a Java Servlet Engine for running the Java Servlet based web application, a push Servlet and a push Application Program Interface (API). The push Servlet maintains open a network connection from the server to the client machine and the Java Servlet based web application calls the push API to push information from the server to the client machine. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250671 | CONFIGURABLE OFFLINE DATA STORE - A method and apparatus for a configurable offline data store are described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a request for a first set of one or more records from a client application, wherein the first set is remotely stored. The method further includes determining a second set of one or more records that is associated with the first set, wherein the second set is remotely stored. The method further includes fetching over a network the first set and the second set from a server data store unit; storing the first set and the second set in a client data store unit and providing access to the first set and the second set when the network is not operational. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250672 | PROVIDING EVENT DATA TO A GROUP OF CONTACTS - Data related to an event is provided to a group of contacts while the event is occurring via an event user interface that enables the group of contacts to coordinate with one another during the event. In this regard, an event coordination service is provides the event data to each contact of the group for review via an event user interface that is persistently displayed on a telecommunication or other computing device associated with the contact for the contact's easy and immediate reference during the event. When the event ultimately concludes, display of the event user interface ceases as the group of contacts likely no longer needs immediate or ready reference to the event. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250673 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMBINED PEER TO PEER AND WIDE AREA NETWORK BASED DISCOVERY - A first wireless communications device includes a wide area network (WAN) interface and a peer to peer interface. The first device discovers the presence of a second wireless communications device via a peer discovery signal, received via its peer to peer interface. The second device has been transmitting, e.g., periodically, certain information, e.g., its location and/or shopping preferences, to a node within the WAN. The detected first signal triggers an application alert in the first device. The first device recovers past information about the second device through a second signal received via its WAN interface. The first device uses information communicated in the first signal, e.g., device identifier information, and information communicated in the second signal, e.g., past location and/or shopping information, to generate a targeted message for the second device. The first device communicates the targeted message via its peer to peer interface in a peer to peer traffic channel. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250674 | CONTENT DELIVERY APPARATUS, CONTENT DELIVERY METHOD, AND CONTENT DELIVERY PROGRAM - In a content delivery method in a P2P network, a node managing a content causes a downstream node to manage a volume of a divided content; this volume is according to a situation of the downstream node (for example, a line speed to which a node is connected). A node managing a content holds, as management information, partial information of the divided content managed by its own node, and location information indicative of a location at which a content itself is presented. Next, when a content transfer request is sent to a node managing a content, the node accesses a content holding node in accordance with the held location information, downloads a volume of a divided content indicated by the partial information, and uploads the volume of the divided content to a node that sends the content transfer request. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250675 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING PERSONAL NETWORKING-BASED BLOG POST, AND SERVER APPLIED TO THE SAME - Disclosed are a system and method for distributing a blog post based on personal networking, and a server to be applied thereto. The system includes a writer terminal unit, which makes a series of settings for forming a blog post containing contents posted by a writer through the writer's blog registered with an online community service, and then distributes the blog post to at least one or more acquaintances blogs registered to personal networking with the writer, sharer/distributor terminal units, which make setting for posting the blog post on the acquaintances blogs, or distributing the blog post to at least one or more other acquaintances blogs registered to personal networking with sharers/distributors, and a service management server, which differentially provides management authority for the blog post to each of the writer and the sharers/distributors, and integrally manages the blog post distributed to a plurality of blogs, based on a path along which the blog post is distributed. The system and method distributes a blog post containing a writer's specific purpose of posting, such as a help-wanted notice, step by step through blogs registered with an online community service, based on trust relationships, thereby providing a notice platform, which is so efficient that an advertiser who writes a blog post, such as a help-wanted notice, can quickly find a qualified person, based on his/her trust relationships. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250676 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VERIFYING THE IDENTITY OF SOCIAL NETWORK USERS - An advanced identity verification system, method, and computer program product are provided that enable a user to create and individualize a repository of identifying data, and then incorporate that repository into processes that require reliable identification of an individual. Real-world acquaintances of the user can be queried to determine the accuracy of identifying data in the repository. As more and more acquaintances respond concerning a particular item of identifying data, a numeric accuracy index may be provided that permits an inquiring party to determine whether the identifying data may be trusted. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250677 | SUBSCRIBER DEVICE AND SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT THAT SUPPORTS REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION - Real-time communication for resource content comprises selecting by a subscriber device, an event topic based on an event topic list, creating for the selected event topic, a topic path for receiving a notification event related to the selected event topic, and sending path information of the created topic path as part of identification information with the selected event topic to a resource content publishing device. Real-time communication also comprises receiving by the resource content publishing device, the identification information and the selected event topic, and adding the identification information and the selected event topic to an event topic subscription search table. Real-time communication also comprises, if new resource content is available, obtaining, based on the event topic subscription search table, identification information of a subscriber device subscribing to an event topic related to the new resource content and sending a notification event including the new resource content to the subscriber device. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250678 | PEER-TO-PEER AIDED LIVE VIDEO SHARING SYSTEM - Video data from an upload client is received at a hosting node. A request from a download client is received at a bootstrapping node to receive the video data. The download client to receive the video data directly from the hosting node when the hosting node is below a threshold, wherein the threshold is based at least in part on the maximum number of download clients the hosting node can stream to simultaneously. The download client to receive the video data from peers in a peer-to-peer overlay when the hosting node above the threshold. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250679 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING A TOKEN FOR AN AUXILIARY STREAM IN A MULTI-POINT DOUBLE-STREAM CONFERENCE - The present invention discloses a method, a system, and a device for controlling a token for an auxiliary stream in a multi-point double-stream conference. In the multi-point double-stream conference, a Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) receives a token depriving request message, judges whether to execute the token depriving according to the identifier carried in the token depriving request message, and deprives the token when deciding to execute the token depriving. The solution of the present invention effectively solves the problem that the auxiliary stream token is held by a certain conference terminal for a long time and the sending of an emergent and important auxiliary stream is disturbed and provides for the control of the auxiliary stream token in a multi-point double-stream conference to facilitate the need of a user. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250680 | Routing mechanisms for messaging applications using an enhanced gateway control function - Exemplary method and apparatuses for routing messaging traffic from a calling party in an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network to a server in a destination network that serves a called party via the most direct route are provided. A telephone number mapping (ENUM)/Domain Name System (DNS) database, pre-provisioned to receive and respond to query messages based on an identifier of the called party and an application specific service type, e.g., short message service (SMS) or instant messaging (IM), may be accessed by a node in the calling party's IMS network to determine an address of the server in the destination network. Messaging traffic may be routed to the destination network or server based on content type or destination digits when ENUM/DNS database based routing mechanisms fail. Furthermore, routing of messaging traffic originating in an enterprise network and routing through the public switched telephone network (PSTN) is enabled. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250681 | DIRECT ACCESS ELECTRONIC MAIL (EMAIL) DISTRIBUTION AND SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM WITH TRUSTED OR VERIFIED IMAP-IDLE IMPLEMENTATION - A communications system includes a network engine that communicates with a plurality of a user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices via a communications network for sending and receiving emails. A direct access server is connected to the network engine for polling electronic mailboxes of users from an email source and retrieving electronic messages from the electronic mailboxes and pushing any electronic mailboxes to the network engine to selected users subscribed mobile wireless communications devices. The direct access server communicates with an email source using the internet message access protocol (IMAP) and IMAP-Idle supportable connections in a communications channel to accept real-time notifications. The direct access server verifies an Idle command functionality on the communications channel before relying on the communications channel for new mail notifications. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250682 | UTILIZING E-MAIL RESPONSE TIME STATISTICS FOR MORE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE USER COMMUNICATION - A method of increasing email correspondence responsiveness may include detecting a first set of email messages transmitted by a first correspondent to a second correspondent, creating a tracking record based on the responsiveness of the second correspondent to each email message of the first set of email messages, performing a first statistical analysis of the tracking record, generating a set of responsiveness metrics based on the first statistical analysis, detecting new outgoing email messages addressed to the second correspondent, and providing a user-configurable email message format for each detected outgoing message, the user-configurable email message format. According to the example embodiment, the user-configurable email message format is configured to increase effective email response time from the second correspondent and the user-configurable email message format is based on the set of responsiveness metrics. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250683 | AUTOMATIC CONVERSION OF EMAIL THREADS INTO COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACES - Automatic conversion of an email thread (or another form of electronic communication, such as IM chat content) into a collaborative workspace can begin with the detection of the addition of a reply message to an existing email thread by an email conversion handler. The existing email thread can include a main message and one or more reply messages. Satisfaction of user-defined or administrator-defined conversion criteria can then be assessed for the existing email thread. When the conversion criteria are satisfied, the existing email thread can be automatically converted into an artifact of a collaborative workspace contained within a collaborative environment. The collaborative workspace can be specific to the existing email thread. The designated participants of the existing email thread can be members of both the email and collaboration systems, and can be provided access to the collaborative workspace. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250684 | HIGH AVAILABILITY METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARED RESOURCES - A method, system and article of manufacture that provides a control queue that regulates access to a shared resource, a software component that manages a clients interest in the shared resource and a registration mechanism in various messaging topologies; for example, within a message-oriented middleware framework where the messaging topology is configured as a point-to-point message topology within the MOM framework or a publication-subscription messaging topology within the MOM framework. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250685 | CONTENT CHANNELS FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - Techniques are described to provide content channels for electronic messaging. In an implementation, a content channel may be configured to contain multiple content portions having various types of content for delivery to one or more clients. The content channel may be associated with an electronic message such as an email or instant message. The content channel and updates to the content channel may be pushed to the clients as electronic messages in an electronic messaging environment. The clients may expose a user interface having one or more portions that are arranged to present and provide interaction with the content channel. The content channel may be pinned within a designated portion of the user interface to enable repeated access to the content channel via the designated portion. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250686 | PROPAGATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - An email message that is addressed to a plurality of recipients is defined on a first client electronic device. A first set of downstream response rights is assigned, on the first client electronic device, to a first recipient chosen from the plurality of recipients. A second set of downstream response rights is assigned, on the first client electronic device, to a second recipient chosen from the plurality of recipients. The second set of downstream response rights is different from the first set of downstream response rights. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250687 | Systems and Methods to Process Transactions Based on Social Networking - Systems and methods to verify and process requests received via social networking websites. In one aspect, a system includes a data storage facility to store data associated with a first phone number; and an interchange coupled with the data storage facility. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of controllers of mobile communications. The converters communicate with the controllers in different formats and with the common format processor in a common format. The common format processor receives a request from a first user via a social networking website, identifies a first phone number of the first user and a second phone number of a second user, based on the social networking website, and uses the converters to communicate with at least one of the mobile phones at the first and second phone numbers to confirm and/or approve the request. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250688 | Reservation and admission of access resources for access selection in multi-access networks - A multi-resource management entity is described herein which optimizes access to at least one access network that is located in a multi-access network environment by performing the following steps: (a) obtaining information about a potentially required access resource of one of the at least one access networks; (b) determining that more than a certain number of user networks may potentially use the access resource to establish a connection with the one access network; (c) obtaining information indicating an availability of the access resource; and (d) limiting a number of the user networks that may potentially access the access resource in view of the obtained availability information. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250689 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A FIGURE OF MERIT FOR USE IN TRANSMISSION OF MESSAGES IN A MULTI-LEVEL SECURE ENVIRONMENT - A method and apparatus that generate a figure of merit for use in transmission of messages in a multi-level secure environment. The method may include receiving a message having a data provenance wrapper, examining each data provenance record of the message and any attachments for discrepancies, identifying any discrepancies in the examination of each data provenance record of the message and any attachments, generating a figure of merit based on objective and subjective information, substituting the figure of merit for the data provenance information, and transmitting the figure of merit with the message across the security domain. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250690 | HANDLING MEETING INVITATIONS AND CALENDAR SYSTEM - A calendar system handles meeting invitations. Associated entries are determined in a received meeting invitation of a calendar system. A forwarded invitation is generated according to the associated entries. An association is generated between the forwarded invitation and the meeting invitation. The forwarded invitation is then sent. In this way, the calendar distributes meeting arrangements relatively independently, so that meeting invitations and forwarded invitations can be managed relatively independently. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250691 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING DELIVERY AND INTEGRITY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Third party verification of the content and delivery of an electronic message such as an e-snail, is provided using a server that receives an e-mail sent or forwarded to a specified addressee, and “tags” the message to indicate that it is “registered” with the service provider. The server establishes a direct connection with the addressee's Mail User Agent (MUA), and transmits the tagged email to the addressee's MUA, as well as to the MUA's of any other addressees. After receiving responses from the receiving MUA's that the message was successfully received, the server creates and forwards an electronic receipt to the message originator. The system operators can provide independent third party verification that the receipt is a genuine product of their system and that the information pertaining to content and delivery of the message is accurate, without the need to archive either the original message or the receipt. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250692 | Managing Status Information for Instant Messaging Users - Techniques are disclosed for managing instant messages, including the display of windows for incoming messages, as well as for managing status information for instant messaging users. In one aspect, an instant messaging user defines policy information to programmatically determine a response to an arriving instant message. As an example, the policy may control whether a new window will pop up for a newly-arriving message, and may specify other attributes of the window if desired. In another aspect, an instant messaging user defines attributes pertaining to how his instant messaging status will be presented to others. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250693 | METHOD, APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING GROUP MESSAGE AND SYSTEM FOR EXCHANGING GROUP MESSAGE - The present invention provides an apparatus and method for converting group message and a group message exchanging system. The apparatus includes: a parsing unit, adapted to obtain a group identifier of group communication information of a first type; a member information obtaining unit, adapted to obtain an address of each of at least one group member of a group for communicating group communication information of a second type according to the group identifier obtained; and a converting unit, adapted to convert the group communication information of the first type into the group communication information of the second type according to the address for communicating the group communication information of the second type obtained. The apparatus, method and system provided by the present invention enable information exchanging between different network communication systems. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250694 | MULTI-COMMUNITY INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM AND DEVICE - This relates to a method of operating a mobile device. The method includes providing groups data comprising information for each of a plurality of instant messaging services operable on the mobile device. The groups data is stored in a database and used with a multi-community service. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250695 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ASYNCHRONOUS NOTIFICATIONS USING SYNCHRONOUS DATA SOURCES - A method for providing access to one or more notification-based Web services using a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of transmitting to Web service proxy a subscription request for a requested Web service, the Web service proxy supporting asynchronous communication with the mobile device, storing a device identification and subscription request at the proxy, the proxy polling the Web service with the request, receiving at the proxy a response message determined by the Web service and in response to the polled request, continuing to poll the Web service and transmitting the response message to the mobile device only when the response message satisfies a predetermined criteria. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250696 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND METHOD - A receiving device receives messages, detects the priority levels set in the headers of the messages, and reads the first and second messages. When the receiving device receives the header of the second message during reading of the first message, it controls, in accordance with the priority levels of the first and second messages, the reading rates at which the first and second messages are read. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250697 | Portable Device And Method Of Communicating Medical Data Information - A portable medical device for communication of medical data information has a medical device part that includes a first processor and first storage means, and means for executing one or more medical related functions, a communication device part comprising a second processor, second storage means, and communication means. The medical device part and the communication device part are connected allowing for exchange of data information according to a predetermined protocol. The exchange of communication may be under the control of the medical device part, but the functionalities of each device part otherwise is separated providing for easy interchangeability of the communication device part or the medical device part. Also disclosed is a method for communication of medical data information. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250698 | AUTOMATED TAPE DRIVE SHARING IN A HETEROGENEOUS SERVER AND APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT - A method and system for automatically sharing a tape drive in a heterogeneous computing environment that includes a first computer and second computer. The first computer receives a message that includes a shared tape drive identifier, a source port identifier of the second computer, and a reservation status change for the tape drive. Based on the tape drive identifier, the first computer determines that the tape drive is connected to the first computer. The source port identifier is determined to not identify any host bus adapter installed in the first computer. In response to the first computer determining that the reservation status change indicates a reservation or a release of the tape drive for the second computer, the first computer sets the tape drive offline or online, respectively, in an application executing in the first computer. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250699 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING POOL STARVATION IN A SHARED MEMORY SWITCH - A switch includes a reserved pool of buffers in a shared memory. The reserved pool of buffers is reserved for exclusive use by an egress port. The switch includes pool select logic which selects a free buffer from the reserved pool for storing data received from an ingress port to be forwarded to the egress port. The shared memory also includes a shared pool of buffers. The shared pool of buffers is shared by a plurality of egress ports. The pool select logic selects a free buffer in the shared pool upon detecting no free buffer in the reserved pool. The shared memory may also include a multicast pool of buffers. The multicast pool of buffers is shared by a plurality of egress ports. The pool select logic selects a free buffer in the multicast pool upon detecting an IP Multicast data packet received from an ingress port. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250700 | DATA STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING A DATA ACCESS REQUEST - A data storage system includes a plurality of servers, a plurality of external interface providers each deployed on one of the servers, and a plurality of data storage controllers each deployed on one of the servers. Each of the providers is configured to receive a data access request, to identify one of the controllers that can satisfy the request, and to forward the request to the identified controller. The system further includes a plurality of data storage modules independent of the servers. The providers, controllers and modules are in communication with each other. Each of the controllers exclusively manages a portion of data content in at least one of the modules, and satisfies data access requests received from the providers by accessing the portion of data content in the at least one module. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250701 | CONDITIONAL PROTOCOL CONTROL - Techniques for modifying the performance of a transport layer protocol in response to a request for content are disclosed. A connection can be established between a content distribution server and an end user computer according to preconfigured parameters. When a request for content is received over the connection, the content distribution server can determine one or more parameters relating to the performance of the connection using information from the request. The content distribution server can modify the connection at the transport layer according to the one or more parameters. Thereafter, the transport layer can manage delivery of the requested content to the end user computer in accordance with the modified parameters. In various embodiments, the content distribution server includes a modified TCP protocol stack which adjusts timing, pacing, and buffer allocation associated with a connection in response to requests from an application-layer data source. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250702 | DIGITAL CONTENT PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A digital content processing system and a digital content processing method are disclosed. The method includes the steps of: setting identification data and transmission authority of a data access device in the digital content processing system; authenticating the data access device by the digital content processing system according to the identification data when the digital content processing system receives a connection request of the data access device through the communication network; and enabling the data access device to, under control of the digital content processing system, download digital content and/or upload digital content of the data access device according to the transmission authority of the data access device if the data access device passes the authentication. Therefore, with the data access device, a user unfamiliar with operation of computers and/or networks is able to share or receive digital content conveniently. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250703 | MEDIA STREAM CAPTURE, MODIFICATION, AND FORWARDING - A transmission delay system, an improvement to a transmission delay system, and a method of delaying a transmission for removing undesired content from an input media stream; for excising, recording, storing, and logging, the undesired content; and for automatically providing message alerts through a network to at least one message alert recipient that an excision event has occurred. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250704 | PEER-TO-PEER CONTENT DISTRIBUTION WITH DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT - A method for peer-to-peer sharing may be performed by one or more devices within a subscription multimedia network, such as a closed distribution network. The method includes broadcasting a content reference of digital content available on a peer device within the subscription multimedia network, the content reference including digital rights management restrictions for the digital content associated with the content reference. The method also includes receiving, from a requesting media client using the subscription multimedia network, a selection of the content reference; and obtaining credentials of the requesting media client. The method further includes determining whether the credentials are acceptable for receiving the digital content based on the digital rights management restrictions; and providing, to the requesting media client using the subscription multimedia network, a decryption key for the digital content if the credentials are acceptable. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250705 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM AND FOR REDUCING DOWNLOAD OF REDUNDANT ATTACHMENTS - A method, apparatus and system for reducing download of redundant attachments to a communication device from a server is provided. An identifier of an attachment to a message, for transmission from the server to the communication device, is compared with identifiers of attachments already stored in a memory at the communication device. The communication device is caused to retrieve a copy of the attachment from the memory if a match is found between the identifier and the identifiers of attachments already stored in the memory. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250706 | SELECTIVE PARTIAL UPDATES OF WEB CONTENT - A request for a partial update of web content is received that identifies at least one web content element associated with the web content. An update is requested for the identified at least one web content element from a content server. The partial update of the web content is performed in response to receipt of the update for the identified at least one web content element from the content server. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250707 | ELECTRONIC CONCIERGE - Various embodiments of the invention provide a method of enhancing a user's stay at a facility. The method may comprise aggregating information specific to the user together with other information in order to create recommendation information. The method may further comprise providing an option to the user based upon the recommendation information and associated facility information. The method may further comprise using a selection made by the user in order to provide an option to a second user. Further embodiments of the invention provide an electronic concierge system that comprises a server configured to communicate server information to a display on at least one user terminal. The electronic concierge system may be configured to receive a user request from a user terminal and transmit information to the user terminal in response to the request. The user terminal information may be configured to be based at least in part on aggregated user information. Still other embodiments of the invention comprise a computer-readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions, the plurality of instructions comprising instructions to accomplish the various methods disclosed herein. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250708 | DIGITAL MEDIA REFERRAL AND DISTRIBUTION - A system and method for media referral and distribution. In one embodiment, the method comprises using provided term to search for content, receiving data associated with term wherein the data comprise information indicative of content title and information indicative of first location of the content, substituting a trusted source for the first location, and retrieving from said trusted source. In another embodiment, the system comprises a client device, a search server, a index server and a content media server. In a different embodiment, the index serve is included in the client device. In yet another embodiment, the system further comprises a consumer electronic device | 2010-09-30 |
20100250709 | DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DISTRIBUTING CONTENT FILES - A distribution system including, for connection over a network a plurality of client upload devices, each client upload device storing one or more chunks of a content file, a client download device configured to download from the client upload devices chunks of the content file stored by the respective client upload devices and an incentive device configured to generate token data packets exchangeable for chunks of the content file. The client download device is configured to acquire a plurality of token data packets from the incentive device and to communicate with individual respective client upload devices and thereby download, in exchange for respective token data packets, stored chunks of the content file. Each client upload device is configured to communicate with the client download device and, thereby, upload to the client download device stored chunks of the content file in exchange for token data packets acquired by the client download device from the incentive device and is configured to transmit to the incentive device token data packets received from the client download device. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250710 | PUBLISHING-POINT MANAGEMENT FOR CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - A system and method for delivering content objects over the Internet to an end user system with a content delivery network (CDN) is disclosed. The system and method allow for dynamically serving content objects by loading and/or reconfiguring publishing points upon receipt of an end user request. When a content object is requested by an end user media player, the request is assigned to an edge server within a particular POP of the CDN. An optional peer-discovery algorithm is used to determine a content source for the requested content object within the CDN. The peer-discovery algorithm first determines whether the publishing point associated with the requested content object is loaded into the edge server. Alternatively, the peer-discovery algorithm queries other edge servers within or remote from the particular POP to determine whether the request for content object is mapped by other edge servers to a content source using their respective publishing points. Once the content source for the requested content object is determined, the edge server reconfigures its publishing point toward the content source. Ultimately, the content object is streamed to the end user media player. Management of the publishing points avoids performance degradations on the edge server in some embodiments. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250711 | COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR REGISTRATION OF SITE INFORMATION AND A COMPUTER TO REGISTER SITE INFORMATION - A computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions is provided. The computer readable instructions control a computer to register site representing information with a communication device which is connectable to a network. The site representing information enables the communication device to obtain content summary information and includes information concerning an information providing site which delivers the content summary information. The content summary information includes location information to indicate a location of an information content provided through the network and a title of the information content. The computer readable instructions control the computer to execute steps of obtaining the site representing information registered with the computer, and registering the obtained site representing information with the communication device. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250712 | CENTRALLY MANAGING AND MONITORING SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS) APPLICATIONS - An apparatus, system, method and program providing a multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) application that manages and monitors the use of other SaaS applications via a common connection and database framework. An Internet-based interface is provided as a single portal for monitoring and managing the use of SaaS applications. Objects and the state of these objects including all associated attributes related to the SaaS applications are stored in databases associated with the Internet-based interface. The Internet-based interface also provides a social networking infrastructure and an application exchange infrastructure that allows sharing of information related to the SaaS applications. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250713 | COORDINATED PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) REPLICATED BACKUP AND VERSIONING - Techniques are presented for peer-to-peer (P2P) replicated backup and versioning. Peer clients register and share storage with one another for purposes of P2P data replication, data versioning, and/or data restoration via a P2P server. The P2P server also provides security and management between the peer clients. Moreover, the P2P sever can audit behaviors of the peer clients and take punitive actions against any of the peer clients that violate policy. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250714 | On-Site Dynamic Personalization System and Method - An on-site dynamic personalization system and method having a browser interacting through an internet connection with web pages of members in a cooperative network is described. The system includes a processor coupled through the internet connection to the browser. In addition, the system includes a memory with a cooperative membership database that stores data collected as the browser navigates web pages in the cooperative network. The memory also includes a software module with program code that the processor executes to cause the system to perform certain operations. These operations include: collecting data in the form of universal resource locators as the browser navigates web pages, storing the collected data and assimilating the data by aggregating the stored data, analyzing the assimilated data to determine user preferences based on identification of particular web pages with content viewed by the browser, and dynamically inserting personalized content from a particular member in the cooperative network into a web page associated with the particular member to create a personalized web page. This personalized content is based on the determined user preferences for the browser. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250715 | RECORDING MEDIUM THAT STORES INTERNET-PROTOCOL (IP) ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT CONTROL PROGRAM, IP ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT CONTROL APPARATUS, AND IP ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT CONTROL METHOD - An internet-protocol address assignment control apparatus obtains, via an interface provided in a first communication device, a first unique number for a first interface provided in a server apparatus connected to the interface provided in the first communication device and a second unique number for a second interface provided in the server apparatus connected to an interface provided in a second communication device. The apparatus stores, in a storage, the obtained second unique number for the second interface provided in the server apparatus on a basis of the first unique number for the first interface provided in the server apparatus. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250716 | NETWORK COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF DEVICES AND ROOT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING A NETWORK ADDRESS - The present invention relates to a network comprising one or more devices, each device having an address, said address comprising a device address being unique for each device within said network and a network address being common to all devices within said network. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250717 | SERVER SYSTEM, COLLECTIVE SERVER APPARATUS, AND MAC ADDRESS MANAGEMENT METHOD - Provided is a server system, a collective server apparatus, and a MAC address management method that enables to change a MAC address and a flexible assignment of a MAC address. A server system according to the present invention includes a plurality of network control units that control communication performed with another device via a network, an address storage unit that stores a MAC address to be assigned to the network control unit, an assignment change processing unit that changes an assignment of the MAC address stored in the address storage unit and writes in the address storage unit, and an assignment execution unit that specifies the assignment stored in the address storage unit to each of the network control units. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250718 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LIVE REPLICATION - A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for live replication. In one embodiment, the method comprises replicating a source server to create a replica server, assigning a routable Internet Protocol (IP) address to the replica server; and migrating one or more, but not all, on-going connections from the source server to the replica server. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250719 | Universal Network Adapter for Industrial Control Networks - A universal network adapter for a control system provides an appliance receiving a user selection of network cards for different proprietary network types and an internal interpreter running custom scripts downloadable to the appliance to map the network protocols of the different networks to a single common network communicating with the programmable controller. A buffer table interposed between the networks provides for a consistent ordering of data transfer in separate input and output sessions. Configuration data may be held by the appliance to configure the networks and the devices using the same scripting translation. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250720 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONFIGURATION DATA SUCH AS FOR CONFIGURING ELECTRONIC MAIL ACCESS - A system, method and computer-readable medium provides configuration data, such as for electronic mail access. A configuration module retrieves the configuration data from a source of configuration data, such as a user system. The configuration in one aspect could be for accessing different electronic mailboxes of a user. Data object are generated. Each data object is submitted as a distributed object module to a web service. The web service in one aspect of the invention could be for a pass-through access for configuring electronic mailboxes. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250721 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESERVING FUNCTION OF UPNP DEVICE - A service provided by a universal plug and play (UPnP) device. A control point (CP) discovers the device in a network, controls the device, and reserves the device to perform a specific command at a specific time. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250722 | CONNECTIVITY MANAGEMENT FOR TRANSPORT INDEPENDENT ARCHITECTURES - A system for facilitating the configuration of access to resources residing within an operating environment comprising multiple apparatuses. Apparatuses may establish a common operating environment based on interactions taking place via a shared memory space residing on one or more of the apparatuses. Apparatuses that desire to interact with other apparatuses also participating in the common operating environment, for example in order to access resources residing on the other apparatuses, may initially obtain communication configuration information that is usable for establishing links to the other apparatuses. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250723 | Contents distribution system, node device, leaving process delay method, and computer-readable recording medium in which leaving process delay control program is recorded - A node device in a contents distribution system receives instructions of leaving from a leaving node device which leaves the contents distribution system, and obtains transmission ability information concerning a transmission ability of the leaving node device. The node device determines a delay time in such a way that the higher the transmission ability is, the longer the delay time for use in delaying the leaving from the contents distribution system is, based on the obtained transmission ability information. The node device performs a leaving process from the contents distribution system after the determined delay time has elapsed after the receipt of the instructions of leaving | 2010-09-30 |
20100250724 | DEVICE FOR EQUIPMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, EQUIPEMENT APPARATUS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN EQUIPMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - A management apparatus is configured to manage plural equipment apparatuses through a network. A notification receiver section is configured to receive a notification from each of the equipment apparatuses. A storage section is configured to store plural sets of identification information of the equipment apparatuses and plural sets of registration information of the equipment apparatuses for indicating a registered/unregistered status of each of the equipment apparatuses. A registration determiner section is configured to determine the registered/unregistered status of the equipment apparatuses based on a corresponding set of the identification information and a corresponding set of the registration information when the notification receiver section receives the notification. A notification prevention command creator section is configured to create a notification prevention command when each of the equipment apparatuses is determined to have the unregistered status. A command transmitter is configured to transmit the notification prevention command to each of the equipment apparatuses. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250725 | INTEROPERABILITY USING A LOCAL PROXY SERVER - A home-networking gateway may automatically provide a function based on data identified on a device on a home network. The home-networking gateway may perform the function using another device that is capable of performing the function and is accessible to the home-networking gateway. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250726 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING TEXT IN A LARGE-SCALED FILE - The subject matter discloses a system for analyzing a large-scaled file downloaded to a user's computerized device in segments that comprises a detection module for reviewing at least a portion of the large-scaled file and detects new segments added to the large-scaled file since a previous review of the large-scaled file. The system also comprises a triggering module for triggering the detection module and an analyzing module for analyzing at least the text of the at least one new segment detected by the detection module. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250727 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFIED PRESENCE TRACKING - A system and method for verified presence tracking. A request for a location is received over a network. The request comprises a request type, a request source and at least one request target. Location data relating to the request targets is retrieved from a plurality of location data sources. The reliability of the retrieved location data is determined. A response is formulated using based on the request type, the retrieved location data, and the determined reliability of the retrieved location data. The response is then transmitted over the network to the request source. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250728 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WEB PAGE OPERATION IN BROWSER/SERVER ARCHITECTURE - A method for controlling a web page operation in browser/server architecture is adapted to prevent the same page from being operated by more than one people at the same time. The method includes establishing a status record table for recording a usage status of web page by server; checking usage status of web page in status record table after server receiving a request for operating the web page from a second browser; accepting request and submitting an operation control right of the web page to second browser if the usage status is idle; sending a check message to first browser to check whether first browser is still using the web page or not if usage status in status record table indicates that web page is used by first browser; rejecting request and transmitting usage status of web page to second browser if first browser is still using the web page. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250729 | Method and System For Providing Access To Metadata Of A Network Accessible Resource - Methods, systems and computer program products are described for providing access to metadata of a network accessible resource, where the system includes a content handler component configured to receive request information identifying a matching condition and identifying a metadata-schema domain in a metadata-schema domain space. The metadata-schema domain includes a network domain of a schema provider node providing access to a metadata-schema defining metadata of a network accessible resource. A message formatter component is configured to generate a metadata access request identifying the metadata-schema domain and identifying the matching condition, and a content manager component is configured to send, based on the identified metadata-schema domain, the metadata access request to a metadata repository node representing a metadata-schema domain at least partially including the metadata-schema domain identified in the request. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250730 | AUTOMATED LICENSE RECONCILIATION FOR DEPLOYED APPLICATIONS - Systems, methods, and computer program products are described that perform automated license reconciliation for deployed applications. The applications may be deployed among a plurality of computers. Agents are deployed on respective computers to determine the deployed applications. The agents further determine licensable software product identifiers corresponding to the respective instances of the applications. A license data source module provides entitlements corresponding to respective license agreement(s). A reconciliation module matches the entitlements to the instances of the applications to determine whether the instances of the applications are in compliance with the license agreement(s). | 2010-09-30 |
20100250731 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR APPLICATION IDENTIFICATION - An application identification system includes a network interface, a signature monitor, a rule generator and a packet access controller. The network interface is operable for receiving first and second packets transmitted by a network application. The signature monitor coupled to the network interface is operable for identifying the network application based on a first packet transmitted by the network application and for generating monitoring data indicative of a state of the first packet. The rule generator coupled to the signature monitor is operable for generating a rule according to the monitoring data and according to a state machine indicative of a state transition between the first and second packets transmitted by the network application. The packet access controller coupled to the rule generator is operable for identifying the network application if the second packet contains contents matched to the rule. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250732 | DETERMINING SERVER LOAD CAPACITY - A method, computer program product, and system for determining a number of users corresponding to a server load including simulating one or more virtual users on a test computer system on coupled to network. One or more client requests are sent from each of the one or more virtual users to a server application executed on a server computer system coupled to the network. A metric indicative of a load on the server computer system is measured. The metric is compared to a predetermined value; and the number of the one or more virtual users is changed based on the difference between the metric and the predetermined value until the metric is within a predetermined range of the predetermined value. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250733 | Method and Apparatus for Data Transfer in a Peer-to-Peer Network - A method is provided of managing traffic in a network. The method comprises applying (S | 2010-09-30 |
20100250734 | SERVER REASSIGNMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM AND SERVER REASSIGNMENT SUPPORT METHOD - A server reassignment support system has a storage device, a deallocated state estimation module and an allocation plan generation module. Stored in the storage device are an operation data indicating operation status of a plurality of physical servers and a plurality of virtual servers and a capacity data indicating resource capacity of each of the plurality of physical servers. The deallocated state estimation module refers to the operation data and the capacity data to extract an overloaded server from the plurality of physical servers, load of the overloaded server exceeding a threshold value depending on the resource capacity. Further, the deallocated state estimation module estimates a state in which at least part of virtual servers allocated to the overloaded server is deallocated as a deallocated server among the plurality of virtual servers. The allocation plan generation module generates an allocation plan for the deallocated server based on the estimated state. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250735 | MONITORING AN ENTERPRISE NETWORK FOR DETERMINING SPECIFIED COMPUTING DEVICE USAGE - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for improved electronic discovery. More specifically, embodiments relate to monitoring or otherwise “watching” the online and/or offline activity of specified computing devices in an enterprise wide electronic discovery system. By determining when a computing device is online/offline and notifying a requesting party of the online/offline status, the requesting party knows when the specified device is available for electronic discovery functions, such as collecting data from the computing device or the like. The monitoring application of the present invention eliminates the need for the requesting party to wait for prolonged periods of time for a computing device to come online or to randomly attempt to find a computing device on line. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250736 | Connection State Estimating Device, Connection State Estimating Method and Storage Medium - A connection state estimating method includes: acquiring a network distance between respective devices in a communication network; assuming branch point candidates at which three devices extracted from the network are connected together; calculating the network distance between each of the assumed branch point candidates and each of the three devices; classifying all the branch point candidates assumed to be connected with one of the devices into groups on the basis of the network distance between the one device and each branch point candidate; calculating representative values of the network distances between each device and branch point candidates assumed to be connected with the device; and selecting a device from the devices assumed to be connected with one of the branch point candidates and the representative value relating to the selected device. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250737 | DETECTING AND CONTROLLING PEER-TO-PEER TRAFFIC - A method for communication management includes detecting addresses of peer nodes ( | 2010-09-30 |
20100250738 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD,AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus configured to perform a search via communications excluding unicast and to use a registration function for searching for and registering a network device includes a re-search unit configured to re-search the registered network device when an actual operation is performed or when a status is acquired. The re-search unit performs the re-search via communication including unicast to re-search for the network device. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250739 | NETWORK MONITORING CONTROL DEVICE AND MONITORING CONTROL METHOD - A monitoring control device monitors a communication device connected through a network through a virtual LAN provided on the network. The monitoring control device includes: a bandwidth learning unit which learns a bandwidth between the communication device and the monitoring control device by a first file transfer; and a file transfer management unit which manages whether or not a second file transfer, which passes through at least one section, is able to be performed based on a section bandwidth of the at least one section of the network, the section bandwidth obtained from the bandwidth learned by the bandwidth learning unit. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250740 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING CONTEXT INFORMATION ON WEB SERVER - A method for transferring context information on a web server that contains a context pool. The method includes: in response to the web server receiving a message, obtaining context information from the message, generating a unique identifier according to a thread for processing the message, associating the context information with the generated unique identifier, and storing the context information and the associated unique identifier in context pool of web server correlatively. In response to a web server obtaining the context information, generating an identifier according to a thread that is executed currently in the web server, and extracting context information for which an associated unique identifier is matched with the generated identifier from the context pool. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250741 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ITS METHOD - An information processing apparatus which stores identification information (MAC address) for detection confirmation of a target network device in advance and executes detection of the target network device by comparing the stored identification information and identification information acquired from the network device on a network repeats executing a request by unicast to a part of addresses in a range of addresses to be detection target and then executing a request by broadcast or multicast until the target network device can be detected. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250742 | Global load balancing across mirrored data centers - An intelligent traffic redirection system that performs global load balancing can be used in any situation where an end-user requires access to a replicated resource. The method directs end-users to the appropriate replica so that the route to the replica is good from a network standpoint and the replica is not overloaded. The technique preferably uses a Domain Name Service (DNS) to provide IP addresses for the appropriate replica. The most common use is to direct traffic to a mirrored web site. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250743 | EFFECTIVE POLICIES AND POLICY ENFORCEMENT USING CHARACTERIZATION OF FLOW CONTENT AND CONTENT-INDEPENDENT FLOW INFORMATION - Flexible network policies might be enforced by (a) obtaining a flow of network packets, (b) determining a content characteristic by characterizing content of the flow using bit-stream level statistics, (c) determining content-independent flow characteristics, port-independent flow characteristics, and/or application header-independent flow characteristics, and (d) enforcing a policy on the flow using both (1) the determined content characteristic and the (2) determined content-independent flow characteristics, port-independent flow characteristics, and/or application header-independent flow characteristics. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250744 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEPLOYING VIRTUAL MACHINES IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for planning placement of virtual machines VMs in a computing environment comprising a set of hosting machines HM. The method includes constructing a bipartite directed graph-based model that represents both a current and a target placement states, both including virtual machine nodes v in VM and nodes h in HM. Using a technique of graph pruning, the method iteratively generates a plan for achieving a desired target placement starting from the current placement without temporarily violating any policy or resource constraint. The application of the pruning algorithm to VM deployment automation necessarily defines a new model. The methodology employed safely manages concurrent changes in a datacenter, so that the environment can adjust faster to changing constraints. Furthermore, the present invention allows detection of migration cycles, caused by deadlocked combinations of capacity and policy constraints, and resolving them. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250745 | Virtual Typing Executables - A method, computer program product, apparatus, and data processing system for modifying a computer program. According to one embodiment, a new value to replace a value associated with a virtual type in a computer program is received. The new value is received during execution of the computer program by a processor unit. The replacement of the value by the new value modifies the computer program while the computer program is executed by the processor. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250746 | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOURCE MIGRATION - A method of managing IT sources among a first computer system and at least one computer service system comprises obtaining a resource utilization trend of the first computer system based on a history of utilization of an IT resource in the first computer system; obtaining a data sending throughput rate from the first computer system to each of the at least one computer service system; and, based on the resource utilization trend and the data sending throughput rate, selecting a target computer service system to migrate a workload from the first computer system, determining a start time to start a precede data copy associated with the workload to be migrated, prior to switching over processing of the workload at a switching time, and starting the precede data copy from the first computer system to the target computer service system at the start time. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250747 | ADAPTIVE MULTIPLE PATHWAY SESSION SETUP TO SUPPORT QoS SERVICES - A user device is operable to request setup of one or more serving routes to be utilized for delivering content to the user device. The user device is operable to receive the delivered content via the one or more serving routes and/or one or more auxiliary routes based on the request. The serving routes and the auxiliary routes are determined based on a provisioning profile for the user device. The provisioning profile comprises preferred service types, desired QoS for one or more services, client account information, and/or client billing and credit verification information. A connection or communication session is established dynamically based on demand, from the user device and/or a supporting network, for each of the determined one or more auxiliary routes. The user device is operable to receive the delivered content via the determined auxiliary routes in the established connection sessions. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250748 | Monitoring and Automatic Scaling of Data Volumes - Aspects of a data environment, such as various capacities of data stores and instances, can be managed using a separate control environment. A monitoring component of the control environment can periodically communicate with the data environment to obtain performance information. The information is analyzed, using algorithms such as trending and extrapolation algorithms, to determine any recommended scaling of resources in the data environment. The scaling can be performed automatically, or as authorized by a customer. A workflow can be instantiated that includes tasks necessary to perform the scaling. The scaling of storage capacity can be performed without affecting the availability of the data store. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250749 | NETWORK SYSTEM AND PERIPHERAL - A network system is made up of a plurality of PCs, a printer a server, and the like. The printer selects one PC from among the plurality of PCs as a firmware provider. Accordingly, if there are two or more PCs that can communicate with the printer, only one PC communicates with the server at the same time. Thus, to retrieve firmware from the server, a plurality of PCs can be prevented from communicating with the server at the same time, so that concentration of access to the server can be suppressed. Therefore, an increase in the network traffic can be suppressed. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250750 | CONSISTENT CLUSTER OPERATIONAL DATA IN A SERVER CLUSTER USING A QUORUM OF REPLICAS - A method and system for increasing server cluster availability by requiring at a minimum only one node and a quorum replica set of replica members to form and operate a cluster. Replica members maintain cluster operational data. A cluster operates when one node possesses a majority of replica members, which ensures that any new or surviving cluster includes consistent cluster operational data via at least one replica member from the immediately prior cluster. Arbitration provides exclusive ownership by one node of the replica members, including at cluster formation, and when the owning node fails. Arbitration uses a fast mutual exclusion algorithm and a reservation mechanism to challenge for and defend the exclusive reservation of each member. A quorum replica set algorithm brings members online and offline with data consistency, including updating unreconciled replica members, and ensures consistent read and update operations. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250751 | SLICE SERVER METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DISPERSED DIGITAL STORAGE VAULTS - A slicer server includes a network port, memory, and a central processing module. The central processing unit functions to obtain, via the network port, an information record regarding a virtual dispersed data storage container. The central processing unit further functions to determine whether its list of virtual dispersed data storage containers includes the virtual dispersed data storage container. The central processing unit further functions to, when the list does not include the virtual dispersed data storage container, update the list to include the virtual dispersed data storage container and allocate a portion of the memory to the virtual dispersed data storage container. | 2010-09-30 |
20100250752 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF STARTING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus, comprising has a generator which generates format information of a start instruction message, a memory which stores the format information, a communication unit which transmits the format information and receives a start instruction message via a network, and a controller which detects whether or not the received start instruction message corresponds to the format information stored in the memory, and performs start processing and initialization processing based on a content of the start instruction message when the received start instruction message corresponds to the format information. | 2010-09-30 |