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| 20100023593 | Distributed storage system, node device, recording medium in which node processing program is recorded, and address information change notifying method - In a transmitting node device, a first storing device stores address information and node identification information of a plurality of first specific node devices, a detecting device detects a change in address information of the transmitting node device, a first selecting device selects at least one node device from the first specific node devices, and a notifying device transmits an address change notification message to the node device selected by the first selecting device. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20090100142 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERRUPTION MANAGEMENT - A method and computer program product for managing interruptions including defining an interruption control initiation trigger and defining an interruption control release trigger. An interruption control period is initiation based upon, at least in part, the interruption control initiation trigger. The interruption control period is terminated based upon, at least in part, the interruption control release trigger. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090193095 | USING MESSAGE CONTENT TO GROUP MESSAGES - In a message grouping application, the broker/ESB architecture allows the messages mid-flow to pause and collecting them into groups according to a correlation string that is calculated from the content of the messages. Furthermore, minimum/maximum quantity and timeout constraints are applied to the group. Once a collection, as a group of related messages, is deemed complete, they are combined into one message and routed or transformed as directed in their combined content. This scheme allows message processing to be batched according to the combined business meaning of multiple inputs. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090193094 | Method for coordinating processing in a distributed system - The method controls processing units ( | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090113017 | Arrangements for A 3270 compatible terminal with browser capability - Disclosed herein is a system that includes a 3270 compatible terminal that can accept browser compatible languages in a 3270 format and process these languages and display such languages in graphical user interface format. In some embodiments it can appear that the browser performs as a “plug-in” to the 3270 application. As utilized herein, a plug is a software module that can “plugs in” to another application under current execution to give the currently running application specific additional functionality. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20110202624 | TECHNIQUES FOR SHARING CONTENT - Techniques for receiving and organizing electronic greetings utilizing resources of an electronic social network. The different greetings may be exchanged between users to communicate a variety of different expressions. A sender may customize the greeting to include text for expressing sentiment that is appropriate for the receiver. Received greetings are organized in an electronic book representation that may include a list that ranks users that sent the most electronic greetings to a particular receiver, a list that summarizes received electronic greetings, and the actual electronic greetings on subsequent individual pages. Greetings or other techniques may be used to provide access to electronic scrapbooks. An interface provides users the ability to organize content in electronic scrapbooks. The electronic scrapbooks are designed for display in a manner designed at least in part by the users. Resources of the social network may be used to share the electronic scrapbooks with other users. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202623 | ACCELERATED SOCKETS - Disclosed herein is an improved method of using sockets in connection with TCP over certain local networks, such as the enhanced Ethernet. In particular, an accelerated socket protocol is provided to enhance data communications between different host computer systems connected to an enhanced Ethernet network. Under the accelerated socket protocol, a host computer, while sending a number of data packets, is able to indicate a particular data packet is a last ready data packet out of all packets ready to be sent by setting a PUSH bit in that particular data packet, which triggers an automatic acknowledgement message that confirms receipt of data from the receiver. In addition, while receiving data packets, the host computer can advertise an effective window that corresponds to the actually available receiving space in the host computer. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20100077054 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A controller of a mobile communication apparatus, such as a cellular phone, that determines whether a received email is urgent by comparing words and phrases contained in the received email with keywords and phrases in a database. The controller generates notice information, such as an icon, when the received email is determined to be urgent, so that a user can recognize that there is an email whose sender wants to contact the user. When the notice information is selected by manipulating a key input device, the controller makes a communication with the sender of the received email. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20130086194 | SERVICE OUTAGE DETAILS IN AN ERROR MESSAGE - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing a customized service error message to a user of a service. An error encountered during a user action related to the service may be compared to one or more identified service outages to determine if the error may be attributable to any of the service outages. If the error may be caused by one or more of the identified service outages, the customized service error message can be provided, where the customized service error message comprises information about one or more of the identified service outages that cover the error. The customized service error message may be displayed to the user so that the user knows that the error is server/service side (e.g., as opposed to an issue on the user's local device), a timeframe within which the error is expected to be resolved, etc. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20100106796 | A DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING NOTIFICATION MESSAGES AND A CORRESPONDING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING NOTIFICATION MESSAGES - A device and a method for transmitting notification messages ( | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100106795 | VARIABLE SIZE MESSAGE INDICATOR IN COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device having a display interface coupled to a controller configured to determine a status of messages received, to present a list of message indicators on the display interface, and to indicate the status of each message by presenting a corresponding message indicator with a textual character having a size that is based on the status of the corresponding message. The message status may be, among other characteristics, the priority or age of the message as determined by the controller. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20090125603 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONE-WAY DELIVERY OF NOTIFICATIONS FROM SERVER-TO-CLIENTS USING MODIFIED MULTICASTS - A slot management system including a download and configuration server-based sub-system and method is disclosed for use with game devices, systems, and methods is provided to enable users to monitor, control, and modify game devices and other related activities. A notification system and method is provided for providing one-way delivery of notifications to clients of a server. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090125602 | AUTOMATIC PRIORITY ADJUSTMENT FOR INCOMING EMAILS - A method, an information processing system, and a computer readable storage medium for at least one of assigning and dynamically adjusting a priority level associated with an email message. The method includes receiving at least one email message associated with a recipient. Definitions of a plurality of priority assignment parameters and respective priority levels that are associated with each of the plurality of priority assignment parameter are accepted from a user. At least one identified priority assignment parameter within the plurality of priority assignment parameters is identified within the at least one email message. A corresponding priority level that is associated with the at least one identified priority assignment parameter is assigned to the at least one email message. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090125601 | Electronic Messaging Systems Having Time-Critical Messages - To encourage recipients of electronic messages to respond in a timely manner, certain messages can be designated as time-critical messages. Such messages are delivered with an allowable response time attribute. If the recipient responds to the message within the allowable response time, nothing happens. If the recipient fails to respond within the allowable response time, the functionality of the recipient's system is altered in a way that gives the recipient an incentive to respond. For example, the recipient's system may be inhibited from receiving any further messages until the recipient responds to the time-critical message. Embodiments are described for implementing time-critical messaging in e-mail, instant messaging and voicemail systems. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20130097272 | Prioritized Alert Delivery In A Distributed Processing System - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for prioritized alert delivery in a distributed processing system are provided. Embodiments include receiving a plurality of events from a plurality of tiered event producing components in a distributed computing system; identifying a plurality of potential alerts in dependence upon the events; wherein each potential alert includes a priority and one or more condition events describing the event producing component creating the event; comparing the potential alerts and their condition events and priorities; identifying the highest priority potential alert having condition events whose event producing component is in a tier that is higher than the tier of condition events of one or more lower priority potential alerts; and creating an alert in dependence upon the identified highest priority potential alert and the condition events corresponding to the identified highest priority potential alert. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20090031000 | DETERMINING A MANNER IN WHICH USER INTERFACE COMMANDS ARE PROCESSED IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - Sharing an instant messaging environment is described. The instant messaging environment is selected from a set of stored instant messaging environments. An instant messaging environment identifier corresponding to the selected instant messaging environment is transmitted from a transmitting instant messaging application to a receiving instant messenger application. The instant messaging environment identifier is received and the stored instant messaging environment corresponding to the instant messaging environment identifier is retrieved. The instant messaging environment is activated in the receiving instant messaging application. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090030999 | Contact Proximity Notification - In one embodiment, a contact proximity notification application identifies a contact in a contact list of a user, determines a current proximity between the contact and the user and automatically generates a notification of the current proximity between the contact and the user for automatic communication to the user. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20130067014 | BATCHING NOTIFICATIONS TO OPTIMIZE FOR BATTERY LIFE - In one embodiment, a notification server | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067015 | COUNTING AND RESETING BROADCAST SYSTEM BADGE COUNTERS - Providing a badge counter from a server to a consumer. The badge counter indicates a number of notifications. A method includes receiving an event in a sequence of events. The event has an associated time stamp. The method further includes associating with the event a plurality of additional time stamps from events in the sequence of events occurring before the event. The method further includes creating a notification for an end user consumer device, the notification including an indication of a badge counter value based on the plurality of additional time stamps. The method further includes sending the notification, including badge counter value to the consumer device. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20090013054 | DETECTING SPAM MESSAGES USING RAPID SENDER REPUTATION FEEDBACK ANALYSIS - A network device and method are directed towards detecting and blocking spam within a message by rapidly performing a predication analysis based on early received sender reputation reports. Reputation reports may be received from a plurality of users receiving messages that they interpret as either spam or non-spam. A reputation report rate prediction table is employed to predict the total number of user reports that will occur. The total number of spam reports and not spam (ham) reports for may then be used with a sender categorization model to rapidly predict whether the sender is likely to be a spammer. If the sender is determined to be a spammer, various preventative actions may be taken, including, but not limited to blocking messages from the sender to users, alerting third party filter generators of the spammer, or the like. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090006576 | COOPERATIVE LOCATION BASED TASKS - A method for providing location dependent information to a user for selective colleague assistance. The method on a Client Wireless Component includes the steps of receiving location data from a plurality of Global Positioning System GPS satellites and transmitting the location data to an Active Calendar Component. The method further includes on an Active Calendar Component the steps of receiving Client Wireless Component location data and determining if within a threshold distance a Colleague item list exists for user completion. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006575 | Detection and Removal of Undesirable Items in a Data Processing Environment - Functionality is described for addressing a threat to the security of a user device that utilizes a network-accessible service. The functionality operates by assessing the likelihood that the user device is infected by the undesirable item. When the user device makes a request to access the network-accessible service, the functionality can interact with the user device in a manner that is governed by the assessed likelihood that the user device is infected by the undesirable item. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20130124663 | IDENTIFYING AND PRESENTING REMINDERS BASED ON OPPORTUNITY FOR INTERACTION - A method and apparatus are provided for presenting a reminder for a PIM record when there may be an opportunity for personal interaction regarding the PIM record. The opportunity for personal interaction regarding the PIM record may be identified in response to a trigger condition not associated with the PIM record. In one embodiment, an opportunity for interaction regarding a PIM record may be identified using identification information associated with the trigger condition. In another embodiment, an opportunity for interaction regarding a first PIM record may be identified when there is a contact associated with the first PIM record and a second PIM record, and there is an occurrence of a trigger condition associated with a second PIM record. In some embodiments, the portable electronic device may utilize additional information to identify or verify opportunities for interaction regarding a PIM record. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20100070604 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, RIGHT PRIORITY JUDGING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The mobile terminal apparatus in the present invention is a terminal apparatus which processes a content based on plural rights that permit the processing of the content, the terminal apparatus including: a priority information selecting unit which selects a piece of priority information associated with a processing condition for the content to be processed, from among pieces of priority information for determining priority for each of the plural rights; a right selecting unit which determines the priority of each of the plural rights using the selected piece of priority information, and selects a right having highest priority among the plural rights, according to the determined priority; and a content processing unit configured to process the content based on the selected right. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20080288605 | Notification System and Method for a Mobile Data Communication Device - A scheme for replicating data items from a computer system to a mobile data communication device. In one embodiment, a method comprises one or more of the following: automatically detecting arrival of the data items at the computer system; characterizing the data items based on a characterization scheme; and redirecting the characterized data items from the computer system to the mobile data communication device, wherein the characterization scheme is adapted to correspond with a user-selectable notification scheme operable at the mobile data communication device. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20110282961 | ADVERTISEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF NOTIFICATIONS USING EXTENSIBLE AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL (EAP) METHODS - An Authorization, Authentication and Accounting (AAA) server acting as a first Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) peer advertises the availability of notifications, and this advertisement may be received and interpreted by a mobile station acting as a second EAP peer. Upon being informed of the availability of the notification message, the mobile station may take action in order to receive the notification message from the AAA server. Alternatively, the mobile station may be able to identify the notification message by analyzing the advertisement. If the contents of the notification message comprise a control message, the mobile station may act on the control message in a way that influences the mobile station's behavior. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20100268787 | Method, System and Apparatus for Performing Mobile Internet Protocol Deregistering - A method, a system and an apparatus for performing mobile Internet protocol deregistering, includes that the network element in the ASN to which the terminal attaches detects whether the MS terminates unconventionally, and sends the message with the MS identifier of the MS which terminates unconventionally to the ASN GW/DP. The ASN GW/DP instructs the ASN GW/FA to release the link resource with the MS and release the link resource with the HA proving service for the MS. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20090006574 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DISRUPTION DETECTION, MANAGEMENT, AND RECOVERY - A task disruption and recovery system and methods are described that detects shifts away from ongoing tasks, whether by self-interruption or by disruptive events from within or outside a computing system, based on signals detected. Among other functions, the system works to enhance the efficient recovery of suspended tasks or problem-solving sessions via storing and presenting representations of the suspended sessions in a manner that facilitates recovery and continuation. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090083389 | Method and Interface for Multi-Threaded Conversations in Instant Messaging - A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing multi-threaded conversations in an instant messaging system. The present invention provides a menu option to allow the start of a new topic of discussion within the current instant messaging session. When a new topic is selected, a new thread of conversation is created within the messaging window that is segregated from previous topics of discussion. This new thread of conversation may be created at all other locations for all of the parties involved in the instant messaging session. In this manner, each party to a messaging session containing multiple conversations may be able to understand which response is related to which thread of conversation. In addition, a menu option may be provided by the instant messaging application to allow a user to merge one or more of the threaded conversations into a single conversation. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20110302264 | RFID NETWORK TO SUPPORT PROCESSING OF RFID DATA CAPTURED WITHIN A NETWORK DOMAIN - RFID data can be received by a RFID data mediation service operating upon a RFID network data server. The received RFID data can be categorized based upon contents of at least one of a data store containing previously categorized RFID data and at least one categorization parameter associated with a data processing software application registered with the RFID data mediation service. The categorized RFID data can be stored in said data store. At least one record of categorized RFID data can be provided to a corresponding registered data processing software application. In one embodiment, the RFID network data server can provide software services to different entities for a fee, where each of the software services permits a software system of the different entities to react events triggered by the received RFID data in accordance with entity specific configurations established for the RFID network data service. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110295966 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROCESSING A COMBINED COMMAND RESPONSE BASED ON A MARKUP ELEMENT - Methods and systems are described for processing a combined command response based on a markup element. In one aspect, a resource is sent including a markup element identifying combine-request information. The combine-request information is received in a first request message identifying a first command. A second request message is received identifying a second command. A first response to the first command is determined to be combinable. In response, a combined response message is sent including a second response to the second command and the first response. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110173286 | All Hazards Information Distribution Method and System, and Method of Maintaining Privacy of Distributed All-Hazards Information - An information distribution method includes: gathering all-hazards information into an information exchange from a first information source; gathering all-hazards information into the information exchange from a second information source; distributing the all-hazards information from the information exchange to a first independently-controlled alert network; distributing the all-hazards information from the information exchange to a second independently-controlled alert network. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20090144386 | BUSINESS OBJECT ACTION JUSTIFICATION FOR BUSINESS OBJECT INTEGRATION INTO MESSAGING - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can include embedding a business object in message text in a messaging session provided by a messenger, and applying an action to the business object from within the messaging session of the messenger. The method further can include forwarding a copy of the message text to a backend business component as a justification to the applied action. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20110219093 | SYNCHRONIZING SERVICES ACROSS NETWORK NODES - A network-enabled device is synchronized with other nodes. Services are run on the device, including at least a node service and a service repository service. Peer nodes on a network are accessed, and a service list which includes services available locally at the network-enabled device and services available remotely at peer nodes is maintained at the service repository service. The node service manages synchronized access to the service list by multicasting a change notification responsive to a change in the services available locally, and by listening to multicasts of change notifications from peer nodes. Responsive to a change in local services, the node service collects a list of local services at the device, generates a SyncGUID by using a hash function applied to the list of services, formats a change notification message which includes the SyncGUID, and multicasts the formatted change notification message to peer nodes on the network. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20090132674 | RESOLVING NODE IDENTIFIER CONFUSION - Confusion resulting from assigning the same node identifier to multiple nodes is resolved through the use of confusion detection techniques and the use of unique identifiers for the nodes. In some aspects an access point and/or an access terminal may perform operations relating to detecting confusion and/or providing a unique identifier to resolve confusion. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090150507 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIORITIZING DELIVERY OF COMMUNICATIONS VIA DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION CHANNELS - The disclosure describes systems and methods for prioritizing delivery of a communication to a recipient via a first communication channel, such as email, voice, voicemail, IM, SMS, or even physical parcel. Prioritization is done by dynamically identifying one or more relationships between the recipient and information known about the communication, the relationships determined from social, spatial, temporal, and logical data previously collected by the system from prior communications on any communication channel. Based on the identified relationships, a priority score is generated for the communication and the communication is delivered to the recipient via one of a plurality of delivery modes based on the priority score. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20110270940 | MULTIMEDIA ALERTING - A method, system, apparatus, and device provides alert information to a user of a device. In response to an alert notification of an alert, one or more alert geographical tiles of interest that are affected by the alert of a plurality of geographical tiles are determined; one or more location-enabled devices each having a location that falls within an alert geographical tile of the one or more alert geographical tiles are determined; a portion of the alert is retrieved from an alert database and processed to generate a media version of the alert; an alert text notification of the alert having the text portion of the alert, an alert identifier of the alert, a reference identifier for the media version of the alert, the one or more alert geographical tiles, and the one or more one or more device identifiers for each of the one or more devices is constructed; the one or more device identifiers for each of the one or more devices, the alert text notification and the alert identifier of the alert is retrieved and the alert text notification is transmitted to the one or more devices corresponding to the retrieved one or more device identifiers. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20080313297 | User Experience For Multiple Simultaneous Connections On An Instant Messaging Program - Exemplary methods, computer-readable storage media, and systems are described for establishing multiple simultaneous connections on an instant messaging program to enhance the user experience. The user receives notifications of request to communicate, an email, or an alert on communication devices. By choosing which communication device to respond on, that particular communication device becomes active, continuing the communication to transmit to and receive from on that communication device. The process also includes mirroring the communication on the other communication devices that are alive (connected) and non-mobile. Furthermore, the other communication devices are kept alive to allow the user to switch from one communication device to another during communication. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20100088388 | TOP OF HOUR PRESENCE AND CALENDAR STATE INTERACTION - In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a critical time when a current presence state associated with a first client is scheduled to change to a timed presence state. The method also includes generating a first presence document before the critical time, and providing the first presence document to at least a second client. The first presence document has an indication of the current presence state and the timed presence state, and is provided to the second client before the critical time. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100088387 | Email Notification Proxy - Among other things, techniques and systems are disclosed for exchanging notifications and data between a client device and a server. A system includes a server configured to maintain a first persistent connection to a mobile electronic device. The first persistent connection is configured to push at least service specific data to the mobile electronic device. The server is further configured to maintain a second persistent connection to a third party server. The second persistent connection is configured to monitor for availability, at the third party server, of new data associated with the mobile electronic device. The server is also configured to notify the mobile electronic device via the first persistent connection when new data becomes available at the third party server. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100082762 | MESSAGE TYING PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - This message tying processing method include: extracting tying keys from a key definition database storing, for each protocol, tying keys included in messages relating to the protocol and used in a message tying processing, and generating data of a structure including nodes respectively corresponding to the extracted tying keys and links connecting between the nodes of the tying keys belonging to the same protocol: judging whether or not a loop is formed in the structure by the links; when it is judged that the loop is not formed in the structure, identifying, among allocation patterns that are combinations of allocation of the tying keys to each of plural tying processors, that respectively carry out the tying processing in cooperation with each other, an allocation pattern satisfying a first condition that a communication load between the tying processors is the minimum. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20090248827 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONNECTION - AND NETWORK - NETWORK-INDEPENDENT ON-LINE AND OFF-LINE THEFT-MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL AND SERVICE FOR PROCESSOR BASED DEVICES - A theft-deterrence process enabling a theft-deterrence server, remotely disposed from the processor based device, to deter or thwart theft of the processor based device, is disclosed herein. In various embodiments, the theft-deterrence process employs connection and network independent communication for at least one direction between the theft deterrence server and the processor based device. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090210508 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A CONSUMER GOOD - Methods and systems are disclosed for providing information associated with a consumer good and stored in a database. According to one such method, a descriptor of the consumer good is received, information associated with the descriptor is extracted from the database, and the extracted information is transmitted. In the receiving, an SMS or MMS request message including the descriptor is processed. In the transmitting, an SMS or MMS response message including the extracted information is sent. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20100100603 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND PRODUCTS FOR SHARING CONTENT - Methods, systems, and products share content between a device and a media delivery device. The media delivery device includes a content sharing application stored in memory and a processor communicating with the memory. The processor sends a presence update message to indicate the media delivery device is active and available to receive content. The processor receives an invite, and the invite requests a session between the media delivery device and the device. The processor sends an accept message to accept the invitation. The processor receives the content and receives a message that terminates the session. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20090282122 | Location tracking optimizations - A computer-implemented method includes probing a first band along a centerline dimension for a distribution of Location Based Notifications (LBNs), the distribution including a majority of LBNs clustered along and overlapping with the centerline. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090210509 | Interruption Management - The present invention relates to a method, system | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090089392 | Method and System for Providing Current Industry Specific Data to Physicians - The present invention provides physicians access to formulary data as well as important clinical and practice management information at the point of care on easy-to-use handheld electronic devices. The invention also provides a method for distributing medical data to medical personnel. The method comprises the steps of storing medical data in a database and periodically communicating selected medical data between the database and an electronic device to establish a medical data distribution system subsidized by sponsoring entities. The invention also provides a computer readable memory storing executable instructions for execution by a computer system such that the computer system functions in a specified manner. The instructions comprise instructions for storing medical data in a database, and instructions for periodically communicating selected medical data between the database and an electronic device to establish a medical data distribution system subsidized by sponsoring entities. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089390 | Method and System in a Multicomputer Data Transferring Environment for Scheduling Message Sending Using Communication Devices - A computer implemented method for transferring sender-to-recipient data in a multicomputer environment in response to priority characteristics of the data comprises the computer implemented steps of determining a message to be sent using a communication device and scheduling sending the message using the communication device. Scheduling sending the message can comprise one or more computer implemented steps the communication device can take on the message. The computer implemented method can allow recipient-specific or content-specific rules to be applied to a message to be sent to one or more recipients using the communication device. System and computer program products that can be used to perform methods of the present invention are also provided. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20080209000 | Community-based Method and System for Creating and Subscribing to Dynamic Push Channels - A system and method are provided for allowing a user to define and subscribe to channels of information to be pushed to a wireless device. In defining a channel a specific area of a web page is selected by the user to be monitored for change. The user may also select data to be pushed should a change be detected. A regular expression is created to match the area of interest for changes and if changes occur to push the desired content to the wireless device. Icons on the wireless device alert the user to any unread pushed content. Users may also subscribe to predefined channels, or modify predefined channels should they have the security authorization to do so. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20100138510 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SYSTEM RESOURCES IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method for managing system resources in a network environment. The method begins by reading from a first log both timestamp T | 06-03-2010 |
| 20090282123 | Peer shared server event notification system and methods - Peer-communicated notices of requested actions are distributed to mobile devices on routing incompatible networks. A peer management server receives action requests for mobile devices communicated from a plurality of routing incompatible networks. In response to an action request, as received from a first mobile device, a set of one or more peer-shared notices are determined for delivery to a set of second mobile devices coupled to the same routing incompatible network. Selection of the deliverable notices is dependent on a policy identifier associated with the first mobile device. The set of notices are sent to said first mobile device for relay distribution to said set of second mobile devices utilizing the communications channel preferably as established by the first mobile device in communicating the action request. Delivery confirmation of individual peer relayed notices is preferably obtained upon receipt of an action request from the corresponding second mobile devices. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20120297005 | BREAKING LOCKS HELD BY TWO-PHASE COMMIT TRANSACTIONS WHILE PRESERVING DATA CONSISTENCY - A technique for breaking locks held by two-phase commit (2PC) transactions while preserving data consistency that guarantees that either the “commit” phase or the “abort” phase of the 2PC protocol is completed at a higher-priority server. Accordingly, all locks on data objects are released and a high-priority operation can proceed. Data consistency is also preserved because the 2PC coordinator adheres to the 2PC protocol and properly notifies both the higher-priority server and one or more lower-priority servers when they are available. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20090119385 | INTEGRATION OF A COMPUTER-BASED MESSAGE PRIORITY SYSTEM WITH MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Methods for integrating mobile electronic devices with computational methods for assigning priorities to documents are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first receives a new document such as an electronic mail message. The method assigns a priority to the document, based on a text classifier such as a Bayesian classifier or a support-vector machine classifier. The method then alerts a user on an electronic device, such as a pager or a cellular phone, based on an alert criteria that can be made sensitive to information about the location, inferred task, and focus of attention of the user. Such information can be inferred under uncertainty or can be accessed directly from online information sources. One embodiment makes use of information from an online calendar to control the criteria used to make decisions about relaying information to a mobile device. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20110208826 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATION OF NETWORK ALARMS USING A PLURALITY OF DISTRIBUTED LAYERS - A method is disclosed for providing notification of network alarms using a plurality of distributed layers. A message is received that indicates an event occurred at a primary entity. The event is bound to a managed object, which represents the primary entity, to create a bound event. An overall condition is determined for the primary entity, based at least in part on the bound event, to create one or more condition notifications. The impact of a particular condition notification on one or more entities, which are related to the primary entity, is analyzed to create one or more impact notifications. One or more first alarms, which indicate the one or more related entities are impacted by a particular impact notification, are created. One or more second alarms are created based on the one or more first alarms. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20080228893 | Advertising management system and method with dynamic pricing - Method and system for enabling advertisers to deliver advertisements to consumers in which a plurality of tiers of available advertisements are defined, each tier containing a number of advertisements, a price for allocation of an advertisement in each tier is set wherein a lowest tier has the lowest price and the price increases to a maximum at a highest tier, and advertisements are allocated to advertisers based on availability starting from a lowest tier with unallocated advertisements and progressing to higher tiers. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080281937 | ROUTING INSTANT MESSAGES USING CONFIGURABLE, PLUGGABLE DELIVERY MANAGERS - Configurable, pluggable delivery managers are responsible for routing instant messages to intended recipients. A delivery manager is selected for a particular message, and that delivery manager defines, at runtime, a delivery policy to be used to route the instant message to an intended recipient of the message. The delivery policy is based upon a configuration of the delivery manager, a user configuration of the intended recipient, and one or more available delivery mechanisms. The delivery manager routes the instant message using the delivery policy. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080294744 | Network System, Terminal Customization Method, and Customization Service Method - A first terminal notifies an LFC service functional unit of LFC package related information for customization of a second terminal, an address of the second terminal to be customized, and an account of the user of the first terminal to a contents provider. As a result, the LFC service functional unit acquires an LFC package from the contents provider, then the LFC service functional unit customizes the second terminal based on the obtained LFC package. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080288606 | Information Notification System and Information Notification Method - A notification-purpose user state managing apparatus, a notification controlling apparatus, an information notification apparatus, an information notification system and an information notification method capable of reducing an unpleasant feeling and a burden and encouraging a user to recognize information are provided. The information notification system includes a notification-purpose user state managing apparatus including user's internal state assuming means for assuming a user's internal state based on an observable state element and user's notification utility assuming means for assuming utility to a user receiving information when information is notified based on the user's internal state; and a notification controlling apparatus including notification executing means for determining whether or not information is notified based on the utility and notifying information based on the determination. Whether notified information is renotified is determined based on the result of assumption of user's information recognizability, whereby it is not necessarily required to use a specified user's reaction indicating that information has been received, and whether information has been received is assumed, and if it is determined that information has not been received, notified information is renotified, whereby a possibility that the user recognizes information can be increased. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20100281130 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE EFFICIENT AND RELIABLE TRANSMISSION OF TT ETHERNET MESSAGES - The goal of the present invention is to improve the useful data efficiency and reliability in the use of commercially available ETHERNET controllers, in a distributed real time computer system, by a number of node computers communicating via one or more communication channels by means of TT ETHERNET messages. To achieve this goal, a distinction is made between the node computer send time (KNSZPKT) and the network send time (NWSZPKT) of a message. The KNSZPKT must wait for the NWSZPKT, so that under all circumstances, the start of the message has arrived in the TT star coupler at the NWSZPKT, interpreted by the clock in the TT star coupler. The TT star coupler is modified, so that a message arriving from a node computer is delayed in an intelligent port of the TT star coupler until the NWSZPKT can send it precisely at the NWSZPKT into the TT network. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20090313346 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAPPING ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIAL NETWORKS UTILIZING DYNAMICALLY PRIORITIZED E-MAIL FLOW INDICATORS - A method to use dynamically prioritized email communications to establish and analyze organization social network maps includes selecting a dynamically prioritized email dataset based on network boundaries and contextual framework, establishing a one-way trusted relationship score between an email recipient and sender, establishing a one-way trusted relationship score between an email sender and recipient, establishing a two-way trusted relationship score between two communicating entities, establishing an atomic unit of entities based on a decreasing order of at least one of the one-way trusted relationship score and the two-way trusted relationship score, and establishing a social network based on arranging atomic units and entities based on one or more of an email prioritization score, a trusted relationship score, and an email productivity and collaboration metric, wherein the entities are email senders and email recipients. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20080281936 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PUSHING SERVICE - A system for pushing a service utilizing Instant Messaging includes: a service pushing subsystem, adapted to send a service stored in the service pushing subsystem to a client subsystem through instant messages; the client subsystem, adapted to receive the service sent by the service pushing subsystem and display the service; wherein the service pushing subsystem is in a buddy list stored in the client subsystem. A method for pushing a service utilizing Instant Messaging includes: sending, by a service pushing subsystem, a service stored in the service pushing subsystem to a client subsystem through instant messages, wherein the service pushing subsystem is in a buddy list stored in the client subsystem; and receiving, by the client subsystem, the service sent by the service pushing subsystem and displaying the service. In accordance with the present invention, it is possible to implement the real-time interaction between the user and the service and improve the service efficiency and effect. Meanwhile, it is possible to utilize the large amount of IM users and increase the user amount of the service. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080250115 | Enterprise Notification System - A system for notifying an end-user of the occurrence of an event is disclosed. The inventive concept comprises a front-end system that is accessible by the end-user, and a back-end system that is remotely accessible through the front-end system. The front-end system contains one or more mini-applications associated with various back-end applications. Each mini-application employs an information gathering procedure which is used to discover the occurrence of a remote event in an associated back-end application. When an event occurs, the mini-application notifies the end-user of its occurrence and, upon the end-user's request, directs the end-user to a separate application accessible to the front-end system, which is used handle the event. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080270561 | System and Method of Recommendation and Provisioning of Mobile Device Related Content and Applications - A recommendation system for mobile device content comprising: a recommendation server enabled to communicate with a wireless mobile device of a recipient user, the server being configured for receiving from a recommendation source a recommendation request message including information identifying recommended content and a recipient user, determining based on predetermined criteria if a recommendation is permitted and if so, causing a recipient recommendation message including information identifying the recommended content to be sent to the recipient user's mobile device. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080270560 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIORITIZING AND DISPLAYING MESSAGES - A system for prioritizing and displaying received messages, including e-mail, SMS, IM, multimedia, and voicemail, at a communication device includes means for dynamically associating a priority value with a received message upon detection of an evaluation event, and means for dynamically updating a listing of received messages associated with at least a priority value equal to or greater than a predetermined priority value in a designated priority viewport. The viewport is constantly viewable in a message listing screen and comprises a listing of prioritized messages separate and apart from non-prioritized messages. Evaluation events may include user operation such as reading, deleting, replying, moving, or forwarding the message and similar operations, or a determination that the message has reached a predetermined age. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090063649 | Request and Notification for Metadata of Content - A server apparatus has a database configured to store metadata of content. A message receiving unit receives a subscribe request for an event notification subscription from a client terminal, the subscribe request including a search condition for the metadata, and establishes a dialog for the event notification subscription. A metadata search unit searches the database on the basis of the search condition. A message sending unit generates a notify message including a search result obtained by the metadata search unit and sends the notify message to the client terminal. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20100138512 | SELF-POLICING, RATE LIMITING ONLINE FORUMS - A method and means for self-policing and automatically rate-limiting multiple-user online forums. The preferred embodiment of the invention includes a set of rules that permit users to censure other users. A censured user has one or more “privileges” (which may include access to the online computer system or the effective message rate of a communications connection) taken away or diminished; the privilege is gradually restored if the censured user behaves. The censuring participant and other pertinent participants are notified of the effect of the censuring on the censured user. In another aspect of the invention, the online computer system automatically tracks the rate at which a user sends certain types of messages, and can message rate limit a user who uses too many system resources by sending a large number of messages in rapid succession. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138511 | QUEUE-BASED ADAPTIVE CHUNK SCHEDULING FOR PEER-TO PEER LIVE STREAMING - A method and apparatus are described for scheduling content delivery in a peer-to-peer network, including receiving a message from a peer, classifying the received message, storing the classified message in one of a plurality of queues based on the classification, generating responses to messages based on a priority of the queue in which the classified message is stored and transmitting content to all peers in the peer-to-peer network. Also described are a method and apparatus for scheduling content delivery in a peer-to-peer network, including receiving one of a message and content from one of a content source server and a peer, classifying the received message, storing the classified message in one of a plurality of queues based on the classification, storing the received content, generating responses to messages based on a priority of the queue in which the classified message is stored and transmitting content to all other peers in the peer-to-peer network. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20110173285 | CHANNEL STATUS MESSAGE FOR VIRTUAL NIC - A network device comprises a processor and storage coupled to the processor. The storage contains firmware that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to implement a plurality of virtual devices. Each virtual device is configured to receive packets in a channel unique to such virtual device. The channels of the plurality of virtual devices are implemented on a single communication link. The network device is configured to receive a channel status message that is indicative of status of a channel corresponding to that message. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20090164599 | Method and System for Monitoring a Supply-Chain - A method of monitoring supply chain activity throughout a plurality of supply chain sites includes extracting, at each supply chain site, supply-related data to be monitored. The data is maintained in plural formats at the supply chain sites, and translated the data to a common format. The extracted data is then uploaded to and collected, from each supply chain site, to a data collection center or site. Upon a user request, a portion of the collected data is formatted, at the data collection site, into one of a plurality of views, responsive to criteria selected by the user, for presentation to the user, the portion of formatted data being dependent on access rights granted to the user's supply chain site. Finally, the formatted data view is published to the user's supply chain site. The data collection center comprises a data collector in which the uploaded data is stored, and a publisher for publishing data from the data collector upon request. Each supply chain site has a data storage device for maintaining its own supply-chain data, a data transfer engine (DTE), for transferring the supply-chain data to the data collection center, input means for allowing a user to query the data collector, and a display for displaying data published by the publisher in response to a query. The inbound data received from the multiple supply chain sites is monitored at the data collection site. If a problem condition is detected, such as a forecasted or present shortage or surplus, an alert is asserted, for example, by highlighting an Alert indicator, such as an Alert tab, on a user screen. Upon selection of the highlighted Alert indicator by a user, details of the detected problem condition are displayed. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090144387 | Methods and Systems for Targeted Messaging and Group Based Media Management - A method for sending a single alert to a plurality of recipients based on the properties of each of the recipients and of the respective receiving devices of the recipients, where each of the recipients is assigned to a media class and one or more recipient groups, comprising the steps of: creating an alert, wherein the alert having a plurality of messages; assigning each of the messages to one or more media classes; first determining one or more recipients as a function of the assigned media classes and the recipient groups; second determining the messages for the recipients as a function of the assigned media classes; and sending the messages. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20110225256 | Video Synchronization with Distributed Modules - A digital system is provided that includes a number of hardware accelerators. Each hardware accelerator is paired with a synchronization module that is configured to determine when a scheduled task can be started. Each synchronization module includes a network interface configured to send and receive messages to and from other synchronization modules and a configuration interface configured to receive task information from a host processor. Each synchronization module also includes a task scheduler configured to select a task in response to a received message and a task processor interface configured to initiate the selected task on a hardware accelerator coupled to the synchronization module. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20090327443 | Method and System for Aggregating Messages - Methods and systems are disclosed that support the aggregation of acknowledgement messages and control messages. Advantageously, acknowledgement and negative acknowledgement indications for multiple client nodes are combined into a single aggregated message which is broadcast or multicast to the multiple client nodes. Based on unique identifiers assigned to each client node, client nodes are grouped such that the aggregated acknowledgement messages can be efficiently encoded to conserve both network capacity when they are transmitted, as well as processing capacity when they are parsed by the client nodes. If code division multiple access (CDMA) technology is used, the aggregated acknowledgment message can be transmitted without CDMA spreading to effectively broadcast or multicast it to multiple client nodes. A similar technique can be employed for the efficient broadcast or multicast of aggregated control messages. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090055503 | Method and System for Providing, Tracking and Monitoring Express Notifications - A method of tracking electronic communications may include generating a notification in response to receiving information associated with an insurance claim. The content of the notification may be defined by one or more first business rules. The method may include receiving an identifier associated with the received notification, generating an electronic message comprising the notification and the identifier and sending the electronic message to one or more recipients. The one or more recipients may be defined by one or more second business rules. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055504 | METHOD FOR A NETWORK SIDE TO ENABLE AN MSS TO ENTER THE IDLE MODE IN A WIRELESS MAN - The present invention provides a method as regards how a network side gets a MSS into the idle mode in a wireless MAN, including: the PA/BS sends a DREG_CMD to the MSS; the MSS sends a DREG_REQ message to the PA/BS, according to the DREG_CMD message, requesting to enter the idle mode; the PA/BS releases the link of the MSS and updates the data of the anchor PC/LR after receiving the DREG_REQ message. The present invention specifies the process of a MSS entering the idle mode initiated by the network and the settings of relevant parameters, thus enhancing the stability of the process of entering the idle mode and saving the system resources. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090198786 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR NOTIFICATION OF THE RECEPTION OF A COMMUNICATION - A communication device includes a communication unit configured to communicate with an external communication device, and a first storage unit configured to store, when a phone call or an e-mail is received, information on a caller or a sender of the e-mail. A notification is performed in response to the reception, and a controller determines, when a reply to a first reception performed by a first communication function of the communication unit is not performed and a second reception performed by a second communication function of the communication unit is performed, whether a caller or a sender relating to the second reception is identical to a caller of a sender relating to the first reception in accordance with the information on the caller or the sender stored in the first storage unit. A notification is performed in response to the second reception in accordance with a result of the determination. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090049151 | TIMED MESSAGE REDIRECTION FOR HIGH PRIORITY INSTANT MESSAGES - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to high priority instant message handling and provide a method, system and computer program product for time message redirection for high priority instant messages. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for the timed redirection of a high priority instant message can be provided. The method can include transmitting an instant message to a primary recipient, and redirecting the instant message to a set of secondary recipients in sequence, each of the secondary recipients receiving the redirected instant message one at a time at pre-programmed intervals of time. In response to receiving a response from the primary recipient or one of the secondary recipients, however, all redirects of the instant message can be cancelled. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090055498 | Administration Of Time-Sensitive Email - Administration of time-sensitive email including receiving, by a recipient email module from a sender email module, identifying, by the recipient email module, the time to open the time-sensitive email message; notifying, by the recipient email module, a user of the time to open the time sensitive email message; receiving, by the recipient email module, from the user an alternative time to open; sending, by the recipient email module to the sender email module, the alternative time to open; agreeing, by the sender email module, to the alternative time to open; and in response to the agreement to the alternative time to open, receiving, by the recipient email module from the sender email module, a passcode to display the time-sensitive email message. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20110225257 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ITINERARY MESSAGING SERVICE - Messages are targeted to travelers based on travel itineraries. Targeting may also be based on real-time travel status information. The targeted messages communicate their purpose and priority to respective travelers within the context of the travel itineraries. A disclosed method includes accessing a travel itinerary database including a plurality of travel itineraries. Each travel itinerary is associated with a traveler and defines itinerary segments of a corresponding travel schedule. A message is associated with a set of targeting rules used to identify a subset of itineraries in the travel itinerary database. The targeting rules may be used with real-time travel status information to identify the subset of itineraries. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110225255 | Discovering A Resource In A Distributed Computing System - Sending, by a node requesting information regarding a resource to one or more nodes in a distributed computing system, an active message to perform a collective operation; contributing, by each node not having a resource, a value of zero to the collective operation; contributing, by a node having the resource, the node's rank; storing the result of the collective operation in a buffer of the requesting node; and identifying, in dependence upon the result of the collective operation, the rank of the node having the resource. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20090055499 | Administration Of Time-Sensitive Email - Administration of time-sensitive email including creating, by a sender email module, an email message, the email message including a header and a message body; inserting, by the sender email module, in the header of the email message an identification of the email message as a time-sensitive email message, an identification of a time-server, and a time to open the email message; and sending, by the sender email module to a recipient email module, the email message. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055505 | BUSINESS TO BUSINESS EVENT COMMUNICATIONS - A method, system and product is provided for the implementation of business to business event handling mechanisms for use in coarse grain components allowing communication of event information among providers and interested subscribers across a network. Provision of a flexible method for resolution of business event model dependencies allows a business component to define its own business event model independently and further may also allow changes to that model. This provision may be used to allow a client without an event handling server to place a dependency on another business component for the provision of event handling services. Further, using a web services architecture network implementation for communications, provides the capability of a business event handling system as a web service. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055501 | Selective User Notification Based on IP Flow Information - An example embodiment of the present invention provides a process that uses IP flow information to selectively notify users of an application server of the server's unavailability. In the example embodiment, the process, which might run on a system comprising a router, monitors IP flow records as to dropped packets and learns that an application server has become unavailable. The process then uses the IP flow records to identify active users of the application server, for example, by passing a source IP address to a presence service. Once the process has identified an active user, the process determines a means of notification for the user, which might be through the presence service, and transmits a notification to the user as to the unavailability of the application server. In the example embodiment, the process transmits a later notification as to the availability of the application server, using reverse camp-on functionality. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090055500 | Method of and System for Providing Enhanced User Control of Computer Chat - A method of and system for providing enhanced user control of computer chat minimize a chat window in response to user input and then restore the chat window in response to receipt of a message from a sender, in which the message has a predetermined characteristic. The user input may include activation of an intelligent or smart minimize function. An example of a predetermined characteristic that may cause the chat window to be restored in the intelligent minimized mode is the presence of the user's name in a chat message. Other examples of predetermined characteristics that may cause the chat window to be restored include the text of the message being in a bold font or otherwise marked as being urgent, the sender of the message being on an exception list or occupying a management position with respect to the recipient. Embodiments may include a shout function by which a sender can override the intelligent mode. Embodiments include informing the other chat participants when a participant is in intelligent minimize mode. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20120079053 | Information Synchronization Method, Apparatus and System - The present invention relates to the communication field, and discloses an information synchronization method. The method includes: acquiring declaration information of a first local area network device that is in a first local area network, where the declaration information includes a private address of the first local area network device in the first local area network; mapping the private address of the first local area network device into a corresponding external address according to a preset mapping relation between private addresses and external addresses; and sending a notification message carrying the external address of the first local area network device to a second local area network, so as to enable the second local area network to store the external address of the first local area network device and notify a state of the first local area network device to a second local area network device in the second local area network. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120079052 | CONTROL UNIT IN A NETWORK, NETWORK, AND ROUTING METHOD FOR MESSAGES IN A NETWORK - In a routing method for messages in a network, at least two adjacent network controllers exchange priority information of stored messages and compare this priority information. Furthermore, in the event that the message memory of one of the two network controllers is full, a lower-priority message in the full memory is replaced with a higher-priority message from the adjacent network controller as a function of the comparison of the priority information. The replacing message is provided for transmission on and/or via the full network controller. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20090055502 | Electronic mail delay adaptation - A electronic communication system that can detect and adapt to delays in delivery of e-mail messages. The system may adapt to delays by using mechanisms other than the initially intended path to convey the information intended for delivery by e-mail. A possible adaptation is reprioritization of an e-mail message that is found to be experiencing a delay. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20080288604 | Notification System and Method for a Mobile Data Communication Device - A message notification scheme operable at a mobile data communication device, comprising one or more of the following: receiving data items redirected from a computer system; determining if the data items include characterization information based on a characterization scheme; and if so, extracting the characterization information and comparing the characterization information to a plurality of stored notification schemes at the mobile data communication device to provide an appropriate alert associated with a select notification scheme. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20090222529 | Information Processing System, Information Processing Terminal, and Computer Readable Medium - An information processing system includes: an external device; and information processing terminals. The information processing terminal includes: a storage unit configured to store identification information unique to the information processing terminal; an obtaining unit configured to obtain media information from the external device, the media information relating to a recording medium attached to the external device; a detecting unit configured to detect notification destination identification information from the media information, the notification destination identification information indicating a notification destination of information relating to the recording medium; a first determining unit configured to determine whether the notification destination identification information matches the identification information; and a notification executing unit configured to execute a notification relating to the recording medium attached to the external device, if the first determining unit determines that the notification destination identification information matches the identification information. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20110225258 | Handheld Electronic Device and Associated Method Providing Time Data in a Messaging Environment - An improved handheld electronic device and an associated method are provided in which time data regarding certain aspects of a messaging conversation on a handheld electronic device are made available to a user. Such time data is provided, for instance, in situations where an interruption has occurred during a messaging conversation. Time data can also be provided to a user on demand in certain circumstances. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20090106385 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAMETER PREFIX AUTHORIZATION - The invention provides a method for Diameter prefix authorization. The method includes sending a request for a prefix by a Prefix Authorization (PA) client or Diameter client to a Prefix Authorization (PA) server or Diameter server. The method also includes replying with an answer message by the PA server to the PA client to provide a first prefix with a first lifetime. The invention further includes a method for initiating IPv6 address renumbering by sending a message for renumbering from the PA server. The method also includes receiving the message by the PA client and sending a message to the PA server to acquire a second prefix. The method further includes receiving the second prefix from the PA server with an answer message with a second lifetime, where the second prefix is different from the first prefix. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20100274865 | TRAVEL TIME DEPENDENT NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - A computer-readable medium may include computer-executable instructions. The computer-executable instructions may include instructions for identifying an event that is scheduled to be attended by a user, determining a current location of a device associated with the user, determining an estimated amount of time that the user needs to travel from the current location to the event, and sending an alert to notify the user, the alert indicating the amount of time that is available to the user to travel to the event. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20090254629 | METHOD OF DEFINING EMAIL IMPORTANCE BASED ON RECIPIENT - A system and method for efficient electronic communication, which allows the user to address an electronic communication to a plurality of recipients each having a corresponding email address, wherein each of said recipients is assigned to one of a plurality of categories of recipients, and assign a delivery priority to each category of recipients without regard to the identity and number of recipients in each category of recipients, wherein a user is not required to assign a delivery priority to individual recipients. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20080313298 | INTELLIGENT CHAT - A messaging session is established between a first user and a second user where messages are sent from a first user using a first device to a second user using a second device. During the messaging session, the second user may decide to use a third device. A presence update may be received that specifies the third device. Messages sent from the first user are then routed to the second user at the third device. These messages are routed without the second user having to manually start a new messaging session with the first user. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080307064 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBTAININGN REMOTE INSTANT MESSAGES - A system and method for retrieving instant messages includes establishing a first instant message (IM) session an then, establishing a second instant message session using a same account as the first instant message session. The first IM session is rendered dormant such that active instant messages are received by the second instant message session. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090094343 | System and Method for Freezing Portions of a Chat Conversation in an Instant Messaging System - A system, method, and program product is provided that operates during an instant messaging session conducted between a first participant and a second participant. During the session, message sent to or from each participant are displayed in a first instant messaging session window. The two sets of instant messaging messages are displayed in a time-based order in the first instant messaging session window. A notification is received corresponding to one of the displayed instant messaging messages that is displayed in the first instant messaging session window. In response to receiving the notification, the selected instant messaging message is displayed in a second instant messaging session window while still including the selected instant messaging message in the first instant messaging session window. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20100180000 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TRANSACTION SERVICES TO A PLURALITY OF USER DEVICES - A system for providing access to a plurality of services from third party service providers to users at remote locations includes a plurality of resource managers having associated physical system resources for enabling a user to access a user selected service each resource manager including a processing platform with an operating system running thereon, a data store, including configuration information for each of the services available to a user through the resource manager, wherein there are multiple configurations associated with different ones of the predetermined services and one or more of the available physical system resources, and central processing center that communicates with each of the plurality of resource managers to enable or disable selected ones of the services on given ones of the resource managers based upon predetermined criteria and operates in conjunction with the resource managers to execute predetermined sequences of actions for accessing user selected ones of the services from the service providers providing such services. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20090077191 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING NOTIFICATIONS TO A GROUP OF RECIPIENTS - Systems and methods by which a user may use a client computing device (such as a mobile phone, for example) to initiate and send a notification message to a selected group of recipients are provided. The notification message may be an audio message that is delivered by various electronic methods including e-mail, text message, and/or voicemail. In defining the notification message, the user is provided with the ability to request a confirmation that the notification message has been received and/or understood by the selected recipients. In some embodiments, recipients are asked to respond to the notification message indicating that they have received and understood the message. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20100217823 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR CAUSING A COMMUNICATION CLIENT TO JOIN A MEDIA-OVER-PACKET COMMUNICATION SESSION - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method, system and apparatus for causing a communication client to join a media-over-packet communication session. The method comprises receiving from a communication client an indication indicative of a desire of the communication client to establish a communication session, the communication client being registered in association with a user account. The method further comprises determining if there exists at least one active communication session established with at least one other communication client registered in association with the user account. Responsive to determining that there does exist at least one active communication session, the method further comprises causing the communication client to join at least one of the at least one active communication session. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100180001 | CONTEXTUAL MESSAGING AND NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - A system for providing contextual information to the user through a messaging panel or alternate display provides system and social contextual information related to activities undertaken by the user. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100228833 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIORITIZED DATA DELIVERY IN AN ELECTRONIC TRADING ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for prioritized data delivery in an electronic trading environment are described herein. According to one example embodiment, by prioritizing the messages associated with a tradeable object, the bandwidth and system resource usage may be optimally reduced, and any loss of priority content in the messages sent between the network device and the client device may be reduced. An example method includes associating different priority levels with messages comprising market data. Messages containing market information related to the inside market may be associated to a higher priority level. Whereas messages containing market information relating to the quantities at prices outside the inside market may be associated with a lower priority level. Based on the priority level associated with a message, a network device may send the message directly to the client device or store the message in a data structure until a pre-defined condition is satisfied. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20090077192 | SERVER APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD - A server apparatus for establishing communication with a plurality of input/output devices via a network. The apparatus includes: a management unit configured to manage a communication session with the input/output devices; a storage unit configured to store information of the input/output devices in association with group information thereof; an execution unit configured to execute an application program; a communication unit configured to receive an operation instruction for the application program and to transmit to the input/output devices a processing result of the application program; a determination unit configured to determine whether the processing result requires connection of the input/output devices to an external server; and a message transmission unit configured to generate a message including an instruction to connect to the external server, when the determination unit determines that the processing results requires such a connection. The message includes the group information. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20100146067 | MESSAGE SEND QUEUE REORDERING BASED ON PRIORITY - A method and system for communicating serialized data provides a mechanism for ordering the data in response to a priority. In an embodiment, a server sending the data uses the priority to order the data in a message send queue for sending the data to a requesting device. The server may comprise a gateway and the second device a wireless device communicating with the gateway. The wireless device may send a priority indication in association with a request for the data to facilitate the ordering. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100241722 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING TELEMETRY DATA ACROSS A NETWORK - A method for transporting telemetry data involves receiving a request from a client in a first network. The client is registered with a data transport service executing in a second network. The request includes an authentication credential for the client, a message including telemetry data, and a message priority. The method further involves authenticating the request using the authentication credential. The method further involves parsing the request to obtain and subsequently execute a command for storing the message in a physical queue of the second network. The physical queue is associated with a back-end service executing in the second network. A virtual queue maintains entries for messages stored in the physical queue that were sent from the first network to the second network. Another virtual queue maintains entries for messages stored in the physical queue that were sent from the second network to the first network. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100223350 | Method for Providing an alert indication - A method for providing an alert indication, the method includes: allowing a first user to define an alert to be generated in response to an availability of a second user to participate in an instant messaging session; and sending to the second user an alert indication indicative of the alert. | 09-02-2010 |
| 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. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100121933 | COMPUTER TELEPHONY SYSTEM - The system comprises a client and a set of servers for processing calls in a communications system; the servers providing call status messages to the client; in which each call status message comprises an identifier associated with the call to which the message relates. The client is arranged to handle duplicate copies of call status messages as follows. The client receives a copy of each call status message from each of the servers and identifies duplicate copies of each message received by reading the identifier in the received messages. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20120143977 | In-Vehicle Application Platform for Vehicle-to-Business Communication - Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for a computer-implemented, in-vehicle application platform (VAP) for conducting vehicle-to-business (V2B) communication. A V2B vehicle application layer resides within the vehicle. The VAP comprises a communication layer facilitating reliable message exchange between this vehicle application layer and V2B business applications. The VAP further comprises a HW abstraction layer encapsulating vehicle-specific interfaces both with regard to the CAN bus and the in-vehicle HMI. According to certain embodiments, these layers of the VAP provide their functionality via open, non-proprietary, and well-defined interfaces, allowing for efficient development of V2B applications and enhancing portability of the latter. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20080320095 | Determination Of Participation In A Malicious Software Campaign - Sources of spam, such as botnets, are detected by analyzing message traffic for behavioral patterns and indications of suspicious content. The content of a known malicious source is analyzed. Message traffic associated with the known malicious source is analyzed. Associated message traffic includes messages sent directly from the known malicious source to recipients, and messages sent from the recipients to subsequent direct and indirect recipients. Portions of the content of the known malicious source are selected and content of associated message traffic is analyzed for an indication of the selected content. If the selected content is found in the content of a message, the source of the message is determined to be a source of spam. Associated message traffic is additionally analyzed for behavioral patterns, such as anomalies and/or flurries of activity, to determine a potential malicious source. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090113014 | Device, Method and Computer Program Product for Providing an Alert Indication - A method for providing an alert indication, the method includes: allowing a first user to define an alert to be generated in response to an availability of a second user to participate in an instant messaging session; and sending to the second user an alert indication indicative of the alert. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090019128 | LIFO RADIX CODER FOR ELECTRICAL COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS - Embodiments described herein may include example embodiments of a method, article and/or apparatus for coding data which may be used for communicating between two or more components connected to an interconnection medium (e.g., a bus) within a single computer or digital data processing system, and/or for communication between computing platforms via a network or other interconnection medium. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20080294743 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes: a first acquiring unit that acquires user operation information with respect to information in a server, based on a history stored in the server; a second acquiring unit that acquires a user operation history in a user terminal; a first creating unit that creates user behavior information with respect to the information in the server, based on the user operation information acquired by the first acquiring unit and the user operation history acquired by the second acquiring unit; a second creating unit that inquires of the user terminal for the priority level of sample information, and creates a probability table of priority levels of items included in the user behavior information; and an estimating unit that estimates the priority level of the information in the server for the user, based on the user behavior information created by the first creating unit and the priority level probability table created by the second creating unit. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090113015 | Remote Application Processing System - A remote application processing system is provided. The remote application processing system includes one or more remote terminals; and a server operable to process an application for one or more remote terminals having a server service session. The server is operable to transmit a status change from the server to the one or more remote terminals having a server service session. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090113016 | Managing email servers by prioritizing emails - Disclosed are email server management methods and systems that protect the ability of the infrastructure of the email server to process legitimate emails in the presence of large spam volumes. During a period of server overload, priority classes of emails are identified, and emails are processed according to priority. In a typical embodiment, the server sends emails sequentially in a queue, and the queue has a limited capacity. When the server nears or reaches that capacity, the emails in the queue are analyzed to identify priority emails, and the priority emails are moved to the head of the queue. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090106384 | AGENT PLATFORM, MULTI AGENT SYSTEM, AND MESSAGE TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING METHOD THEREOF - Provided are an agent platform, a multi agent system, and a message transmitting/receiving method thereof. The message transmitting/receiving method for a multi agent platform including a first agent platform for managing at least one of a first agent and a second agent and at least one of a second agent platform for managing at least one of a third agent, includes: receiving a plurality of messages from the first agent at the first agent platform; assigning a priority to the received message according to a message type of the message at the first agent platform; and transmitting the message to the second agent or the second agent platform according to the priority. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20100306333 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING WEBSITE MANAGEMENT SERVICES - Website management services are disclosed. The services include presenting, by a website management host computer, a web page to a client device. The web page includes options that are configurable by a user of the client device for selecting a provider entity from a list of provider entities. The provider entities provide subscription-based technical services to subscribers. The subscription-based technical services include a links checker configured to verify operability of web page links for a website owned by the user of the client device and a monitor service configured to monitor performance characteristics of the website. The services include receiving, from the client device, a subscription-based technical service and a corresponding provider entity. The provider entities are third-party entities with respect to the website management host computer. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100318624 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEFERRED MESSAGE REMINDERS AND EXPIRY EXTENSION - Disclosed is a method for transmitting reminders for deferred message, the method includes requesting, by client, to set reminders for deferred messages to a application sever (AS); setting, by the application sever, reminders comprising information of when to remind, whether to repeat reminder or not, and/or how many times to repeat; monitoring, by the application sever, time of the set reminders in order to notify the Client; and notifying, by the application sever, the reminders to the client once a timer triggers to send a notification. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100325234 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A data communication control is realized in a system in which a priority terminal is shorter than a non-priority terminal in a standby time required until the terminal starts data communication after detecting that a communication medium is idle. An apparatus operating as the priority terminal determines an amount of data to be transmitted from the apparatus, and performs control for causing another apparatus operating as the non-priority terminal according to the determined amount of data. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20090210510 | System and Method for Multiple-Level Message Filtering - Systems and methods for constructing multiple-level filtering information that is applicable for an aggregate of multiple messages. According to various embodiments, a set of filtering values is constructed for a first level as a union of all filter values of the filtering criteria that belong to the intersection set of filter criteria. At the receiver side, the aggregate transport object is filtered based on the first-level filtering information as a first process. The first-level filtering information may be separate of the transport object. If the transport object is not discarded after first-level filtering, then the second-level filtering information, which requires the processing of the transport object, is used to fetch the messages in the bundle. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20100332610 | Apparatus and Method for Facilitating Priority Indication and Queuing for an Access Terminal - A method and apparatus facilitating priority indication and queuing for an access terminal is provided. The method may comprise receiving an access request from an access terminal (AT), determining that the AT is a priority AT and that no resources are available in response to the access request, transmitting an access deny message to the priority AT, queuing the access request until a resource becomes available, and transmitting a resource available message to the priority AT upon a determination that a resource has become available. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100153511 | DUPLICATE MMS CONTENT CHECKING - A method includes receiving a content message from a content provider, wherein the content message includes at least one content item. The method further includes verifying the at least one content item included in the content message for duplication against a content history. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20110246595 | Sustaining Session Connections - In an embodiment, techniques for sustaining session connections are provided. The techniques send heartbeat messages when not sending a message may cause the session connection to close because of a timeout condition. Heartbeat messages are valid transport layer messages that will be ignored by protocols at higher levels of a data communications stack. As an example, the techniques may send a TCP message containing only a carriage return and line feed (“CRLF”) in its payload. Because the TCP layer considers a message containing only a CRLF to be a valid TCP message, intermediary computing devices such as proxy servers may not interpret heartbeat messages as “keep alive” messages, and may sustain session connections. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20090248828 | Methods and apparatus for centralized and decentralized emergency alert messaging - Apparatus and methods for providing emergency alert system (EAS) data to subscribers of a content-based network for multiple locations including via mobile devices. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a server performing real-time receipt and encapsulation of the EAS data, transport of the EAS data to client devices over an IP or other packet-switched network, and use of applications running on the client devices to decode and display the EAS data. In one variant, a centralized EAS (CEAS) entity is used to aggregate and distribute EAS messages to video registration servers (VRS), which use stored client device data and user preferences to map delivery of relevant EAMs over the IP network. In another variant, instant messaging (IM) infrastructure is used to deliver and display at least portion of the EAS data via a separate transport process. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100030865 | Method for Prioritizing E-mail Messages Based on the Status of Existing E-mail Messages - Prioritizing e-mail messages based on the status of existing e-mail messages. Specifically, the invention provides methods and systems for prioritizing e-mail messages based on the number of e-mail messages from e-mail senders that have been opened versus the number of e-mail messages from e-mail senders that have not been opened. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100191821 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AN INFORMATION APPARATUS, MACRO EXECUTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing system in which a warning is generated in advance when a macro including unsupported functions is executed, realizing improved usability for users. A multi-function apparatus and a server holding at least one macro indicative of a procedure for executing at least one function are connected to each other via a network. A macro referring section provided in the multi-function apparatus acquires a macro held by the second information apparatus. An unsupported function checking section provided in the server detects functions that cannot be realized by the first information apparatus from among functions included in the macro. A warning information providing section provided in the second information apparatus creates warning information relating to the detected unsupported functions and transmits the warning information to the multi-function apparatus. A warning section provided in the multi-function apparatus notifies a user of the transmitted warning information. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100070603 | Method and Apparatus for Unifying Interfaces at Content Sources and Content Distributors - The invention includes a method and apparatus for facilitating distribution of content from content sources to content distributors. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving meta-data associated with a content item available from the content source and propagating a notification regarding availability of the content item from the content source, where the notification comprises at least a portion of the associated meta-data. The meta-data is received from a content source from which the content item is available. The notification message for the content item, including at least a portion of the meta-data is propagated toward a content distributor, thereby enabling the content distributor to obtain a copy of the content item for use in serving requests for the content item originating from end users served by the content distributor. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100036929 | CONTEXTUAL AWARENESS IN REAL TIME COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY ALERTS - A computer-implemented method of alerting users to collaborative activity can include receiving a user input selecting at least one of a plurality of data types to be included within a notification, wherein the plurality of data types correspond to collaborative session data exchanged during a collaborative session among a plurality of users. The method can include buffering collaborative session data during the collaborative session and responsive to detecting an occurrence of an awareness triggering event, outputting the notification comprising at least a portion of the buffered collaborative session data corresponding to the selected at least one of a plurality of data types. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100057880 | Method of Routing Messages to Multiple Consumers - A method of routing messages to multiple consumers comprises determining a probability function defining message classification probabilities for each of a plurality of consumer sets, receiving a plurality of messages, classifying each message, storing each message in a queue, receiving notification of a consumer available to process a message, ascertaining the consumer set to which the available consumer belongs, accessing the probabilities for the ascertained consumer set, selecting a message classification according to the accessed probabilities, and transmitting a message, of the selected classification, to the available consumer. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20110153768 | E-MEETING PRESENTATION RELEVANCE ALERTS - Electronic meeting relevance alerts that include receiving, by a processing device, metadata related to an electronic meeting, comparing, by the processing device, the metadata with preferences of an attendee invited to the electronic meeting to determine a relevancy of the metadata to the attendee, and sending, by the processing device, a notification to the attendee responsive to the relevancy of the metadata to the attendee. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20100241723 | Computer-Implemented Delivery of Real-Time Participatory Experience of Localized Events - A computer-implemented method provides a real-time participatory experience of localized event information. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving over a communications network a collection of messages, each message involving a localized event and storing messages of the collection. With respect to each message of the collection, the method further includes extracting an identity of the sender from the message, and updating a user database based on the sender's identity; parsing the message to derive a location from the message about the event; storing in an event database the derived location in association with the event; retrieving, from a user database, a list of users and notification parameters; and generating a contemporaneous alert reporting on information stored in the event database and causing the alert to be sent over the communications network to the users on the list in accordance with the notification parameters. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110153766 | NETWORK ALARM MESSAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Exemplary network alarm message processing systems and methods are disclosed. In an exemplary method, a network alarm message processing system receives a network alarm message provided by a network element of a wide area network, the network alarm message being in a first message format, converts the network alarm message in the first message format to a new network alarm message in a network universal message format, and provided the new network alarm message for use in conducting surveillance of the wide area network. In certain embodiments, the conversion may be based on a mapping data file and a translation rules data file associated with the first message format Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153767 | RECOGNITION OF AND SUPPORT FOR MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF AN ENTERPRISE CANONICAL MESSAGE MODEL - A method of recognizing and supporting multiple versions of a canonical message model in a service oriented architecture industry model repository comprising determining differences between at least one first version of a message model and at least one other version of the message model; mapping the differences between the different versions of the message models to the SOA IMR; and providing the mapping of the differences between the message models to a message access service, mapping of differences between the message models are applied and updated to the later of the message models to support the versions of the canonical message models seamlessly. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110078274 | Method and System for Implementing Redundancy at Signaling Gateway Using Dynamic SIGTRAN Architecture - Described are a method, a computer program product and apparatus for implementing signaling gateway redundancy. A signaling network management message is received, at a first signaling gateway, from a first signaling network. Routing control information associated with the first signaling gateway is updated based on the signaling network management message. A first SIGTRAN protocol signaling network management message is transmitted, from the first signaling gateway, to a first application server on a first IP network. The first SIGTRAN protocol signaling network management message is based on the signaling network management message. A second SIGTRAN protocol signaling network management message is transmitted, from the first signaling gateway, to a second signaling gateway on a second IP network. The second SIGTRAN protocol signaling network management message is based on the signaling network management message. The second signaling gateway is mated with the first signaling gateway. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20090024712 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUGGESTING AN EDITION OF PRODUCT SOFTWARE - In general, the invention relates to a method for facilitating usage of a product. The method includes obtaining a usage level of a first edition of the product by the user, determining an inactivity level of the user based on the usage level, suggesting a second edition of the product to the user based on the inactivity level and facilitating use of the second edition of the product by the user, where the first edition of the product includes at least one additional feature as compared to the second edition of the product. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20110258279 | Asynchronous Future Based API - An apparatus and a method for operating on data at a cache node of a data grid system is described. An asynchronous future-based interface of a computer system receives a request to operate on a cache node of a cluster. An acknowledgment is sent back upon receipt of the request prior to operating on the cache node. The cache node is then operated on based on the request. The operation is replicated to other cache nodes in the cluster. An acknowledgment that the operation has been completed in the cluster is sent back. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258280 | GENERAL PURPOSE MESSAGING - Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for enabling entities, such as issuers, merchants, payment processing networks, and mobile-network operators, to send account-related messages and marketing messages to a user's mobile device in response to a message request sent from the user's mobile device. According to some embodiments, the account-related messages and the marketing messages are sent to the user's mobile device in accordance with message parameters that are defined by the user and that are embedded in the message request. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20080320096 | ASSOCIATING MULTIPLE VISIBILITY PROFILES WITH A USER OF REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Visibility profiles associated with a substantially real time messaging environment are disclosed. Additionally, techniques for managing visibility profiles are disclosed, which include automatically associating a first profile with a first situation, automatically associating a second profile with a second situation, and where the first and second profiles are associated with visibility. Visibility profiles may be used to manage the appearance of a user to other users/friends for communication using applications such as instant messaging, electronic mail, web-based mail programs, or other types of data communication exchange applications. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080228894 | Scrolling Chat for Participation in Multiple Instant Messaging Conversations - A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for enabling users to view a plurality of instant messaging chat conversations and respond quickly and easily a selected conversation, while minimizing the impact on the users' other activities. Users are also provided with the option of choosing which instant messaging conversations to monitor and which responses from particular people or topics to display. Multiple instant messaging chat conversations are provided to a user via a scrolling chat window, wherein the scrolling chat window allows the user to scroll through and monitor the multiple instant messaging chat conversations. When user input is received for a selected instant messaging chat conversation, the selected instant messaging chat conversation is loaded and displayed into an instant messaging chat window to allow the user to respond to the selected instant messaging chat conversation. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20110161452 | COLLABORATIVE MALWARE DETECTION AND PREVENTION ON MOBILE DEVICES - The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus for collaborative threat detection on mobile devices. A mobile device may comprise a processor, secure memory, and secure circuitry. The processor may be coupled to host memory and may be configured to execute a security threat detection application to detect a malicious program attacking the mobile device. The secure memory may be configured to host a collaborator database comprising data corresponding to at least one collaborating device. The secure circuitry may be configured to determine if the security threat detection application running on the processor is properly operating. If an abnormality in the operation of the security threat detection application is detected, the secure circuitry may be further configured to cause a security threat notification to be transmitted to the collaborating device based on the data in the collaborator database. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20080222265 | System and Method for Allowing a User to Ensure Actions Taken on a Document Are Applied to the Most Recent Electronic Correspondence - A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for indicating most recent documents, such as email messages in a message file. A determination is made as to whether a more recent message in a thread of related messages is present in the message file in response to a first user input selecting a message for processing. A first indication of the more recent message is presented if the more recent message in the thread of related messages is present in the message file. A determination is made as to whether the more recent message in the thread of related messages has been received in the message file in response to a second user input to send the message. A second indication of the more recent message in the thread of related messages is presented if the more recent message in the thread of related messages has been received in the message file. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080256213 | Method and Apparatus for Syndicating Interactions Between a Client and a Web Service - The Syndicated Web Services Client (SWSC) uses RSS/ATOM feeds, to facilitate asynchronous interactions between a computerized client and a web service, without requiring a duplicate copy of the web service application on the computerized client. The web service packages a form, such as an XForm containing interactive fields used by the web service, in a RSS/ATOM feed item. The web service sends the RSS/ATOM feed item to a computerized client, wherein the computerized client is a subscriber to the web service's RSS/ATOM feed and the computerized client is in network communication with a server hosting the web service. The computerized client displays the form for use by a user. Responsive to the user of the computerized client manipulating interactive fields in the form, the computerized client packages the manipulated form in a return RSS/ATOM feed item. The computerized client sends the return RSS/ATOM feed item to the server hosting the web service, wherein the server is a subscriber to the computerized client's return RSS/ATOM feed. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256214 | Subscription-based priority interactive help services on the internet - The present invention includes a method and apparatus for providing an e-help service over a network. The e-help service provides one or more action sequences, i.e., recommended courses of action, for specialized circumstances over a network, such as an Internet Protocol network. Subscribers subscribe to specific application areas, such as one or more application areas related to a subscriber's industry. The e-help service provider maintains information pertaining to application areas in one or more databases. When a user activates the e-help service, information corresponding to the present conditions of the user's circumstance is transmitted to the e-help service provider. The e-help service provider identifies one or more action sequences based upon a statistical analysis of the information received from the user and information stored in a database corresponding to the application area of the user. The action sequences having a high probability of success are transmitted to the user and provide one or more recommended courses of action. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080209002 | ALERT MANAGEMENT MESSAGING - Techniques are described for providing alert management messages in a broadcast environment to individual recipients or to identifiable groups of recipients. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20110138006 | Managing User Location Information in a Social Network - Systems, methods, apparatus and software have been discovered for use by individual users to monitor the geographic location of other people or assets with some relationship to the user. Once some manner of location information is determined, users have the ability to describe that location in various ways and control how that information is shared with other users. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20100180002 | SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMIC MONITORING FOR WEB HIGH AVAILABILITY - A system for maintaining a high availability data transmission and processing environment. The system includes a network of clusters and a control server. Each cluster of the network includes at least two identical servers. Each cluster of the network is directly connected to at least one other cluster of the network. Each pair of clusters directly connected to each other is characterized by each server in a first cluster of the pair of clusters being directly connected to at least one server in a second cluster of the pair of clusters via a communication link. The control server is configured to monitor an operational status of the communication link (i.e., the communication link is operational or non-operational). The control server is directly linked to at least one server in each cluster via a communication channel between the control server and the at least one server. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100121932 | Distributed health check for global server load balancing - A global server load-balancing (GSLB) switch serves as a proxy to an authoritative DNS and communicates with numerous site switches that are coupled to host servers serving specific applications. The GSLB switch receives from site switches operational information regarding host servers within the site switches neighborhood. This operational information includes health check information that is remotely obtained in a distributed manner from remote metric agents at the site switches. When a client program requests a resolution of a host name, the GSLB switch, acting as a proxy of an authoritative DNS, returns one or more ordered IP addresses for the host name. The IP addresses are ordered using metrics, including the health check metric that evaluates these IP addresses based on the health check information communicated to the GSLB switch in a distributed manner by the distributed health check site switches. In one instance, the GSLB switch places the address that is deemed “best” at the top of the list. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20110264757 | NOTICE OF RESTORED MALFUNCTIONING LINKS - Embodiments include devices, systems, methods, and articles of manufacture that facilitate sending notices that a previously identified malfunctioning link or pointer has been restored or otherwise rendered useable. Embodiments can include systems with a registry wherein when a user discovers that a link is not functioning properly the registry may register the malfunctioning link, may facilitate further queries of the malfunctioning link, and may provide updates to one or more user portals that the previously malfunctioning link or pointer is no longer malfunctioning. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20080209001 | Media approval method and apparatus - An apparatus ( | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080263170 | Method and System for Communicating Message Notifications to Mobile Devices - There is disclosed a system and method for choosing between different Communication Initiation Request (CIR) channels in a mobile communications system when there are multiple CIR channels amongst which to choose. Additionally, there is disclosed a system and method for exploiting a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection usage pattern that is characterized by periods of inactivity. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20090172124 | Method and Apparatus of Multimedia Data Sharing for a Multimedia Processing Device - A method for sharing multimedia data in a multimedia processing device includes generating a web address corresponding to a remote multimedia device, and transmitting an indication message according to the web address for notifying the remote multimedia device to receive the web address. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20110320555 | PRIORITIZATION OF PROTOCOL MESSAGES AT A SERVER - System(s) and method(s) are provided for prioritizing protocol messages received at a server. A client generates a request message and incorporates a data unit therein in order to indicate type of service application that triggered generation of the request message. The client conveys the request message to a server configured to respond to the request message. To supply data in response to the message request, the server prioritizes the request message based at least on the data unit that conveys the type of service application. The server can assign a set of request messages to a group of scheduling queues based at least on ranking of the type of service associated with at least one request message in the set of request messages. Based on performance conditions, the server also can reject one or more request messages according to the ranking. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110093554 | BROKERAGE SERVER FOR SUPPORTING FAST DATA ACCESS FOR USER TERMINAL, METHOD OF OPERATING BROKERAGE SERVER, USER TERMINAL AND METHOD OF OPERATING USER TERMINAL - A service providing system using a brokerage server that supports fast data access according to a location of a user terminal when the user terminal uses a data center on the Internet is provided. The brokerage server receives an alarm message indicating that the user terminal has moved, from the user terminal, and generates a service quality alarm when the number of the received alarm messages exceeds a previously set number. The brokerage server determines a location of the user terminal as the service quality alarm is generated, and reallocates a data center capable of providing fast data access among a plurality of data centers according to the determined position. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20120047219 | Systems and Methods for Social Media Data Mining - Systems and methods are provided to collect, analyze and report social media aggregated from a plurality of social media websites. Social media is retrieved from social media websites, analyzed for sentiment, and categorized by topic and user demographics. The data is then archived in a data warehouse and various interfaces are provided to query and generate reports on the archived data. In some embodiments, the system further recognizes alert conditions and sends alerts to interested users. In some embodiments, the system further recognizes situations where users can be influenced to view a company or its products in a more favorable light, and automatically posts responsive social media to one or more social media websites. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120117178 | Intelligent Messaging - A method includes sending notification messages to a plurality of subscribers of a notification platform via a plurality of communications devices of the subscribers over a plurality of communications channels, each communications device associated with at least one of the plurality of communications channels, including sending notification messages to devices over first channels associated with the communications devices. The method also includes monitoring a status of the first channels and a status of the notification messages sent over the first channels; and adapting the sending of the notification messages according to the monitored statuses, including sending at least some of the notification messages over second channels associated with the communications devices. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120016948 | SOCIAL NETWORK ACTIVITY MONITORING AND AUTOMATED REACTION - Methods and systems provided herein provide an enterprise with the ability to detect the occurrence of an event and quickly respond to the same. In particular, events can be detected by analyzing multiple messages which were retrieved from social media networks and converted into work items. If the analysis of the work items results in the detection of a trend or similarity among the work items, then it may be inferred that an event has or is occurring. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120030303 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR PRIORITIZATION IN A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - The present invention relates to nodes and methods for use in connection with a peer-to-peer network for sharing of data content. A priority mechanism is introduced by means of which a serving peer may select which requesting peers to serve based on their need for data content in terms of the degree of urgency. A requesting peer may include an urgency indicator in a request for data content, which for instance may be the amount of buffered data available for playback in a video buffer. The serving peer may then extract the urgency indicator from the request and apply a priority mechanism which uses the urgency indicator to select which peers to upload data content to. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20100121934 | MANAGED PEER-TO-PEER FILE SHARING - A system and method for managed peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing. The peer nodes can include a web browser and a p2p agent. The web browser can connect to the Internet and can interface with the p2p agent. The p2p agent provides the file sharing utilities for implementing the p2p network. A web server connected to the Internet can monitor and manage p2p activity, including providing persistent storage for the p2p networks. The web server can interface with a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to provide access to the p2p network for PSTN peer nodes that do not have web browsing capabilities. A method of implementing managed p2p file sharing includes registering users; providing login and logout functions; creating p2p sessions; preparing, forwarding, receiving, accepting and/or rejecting invitations to join p2p sessions; quitting p2p sessions; deleting p2p sessions or selected members of p2p sessions; and sharing and transferring files. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20110066694 | SIP ENDPOINT ENHANCER - Methods, devices, and systems are provided for enhancing the functionality of a communication device, such as a communication endpoint. This provides the ability to enhance less intelligent SIP endpoints with required features to support a richer user experience. Furthermore, the endpoint enhancer may be dynamically pluggable onto an existing network device. This provided pluggability allows a network administrator to add a new SEE template to the network without disrupting the network operation or the operation of previously existing SEEs. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20090055497 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC INSTANT MESSAGING DELEGATION - An instant messaging system locates known delegates in its instant messaging list to which to automatically delegate messages based on whether an incoming message contains certain content. This method comprises the steps of simultaneously receiving multiple instant message requests at an instant message location. Initiating an instant message session with an alternate instant message resource device. After this initiation step, a handoff (transfer) message is generated to connect a received incoming instant message with the alternate instant message resource device. After the handoff, there is verification that the handoff has occurred. Those sending instant message questions could also get a quicker response to their question rather than waiting for one centralized person to manually delegate their question to a resource device. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20110106904 | DISTRIBUTED STORAGE NETWORK FOR STORING A DATA OBJECT BASED ON STORAGE REQUIREMENTS - A distributed storage network (DSN) includes a user device and a plurality of DSN memories, wherein each of the DSN memories includes a plurality of storage units. The user device includes at least one network interface to the plurality of DSN memories and at least one processing module that is operable to determine one of the plurality of DSN memories for storing a data object based on a comparison of one or more storage requirements of the data object and one or more DSN attributes of the plurality of DSN memories. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20090089391 | Flashing email header - A flashing email header including means for selecting on a sender's email client a receiver's email address and a desired priority for the email to be sent to the receiver's email address; means for displaying to the sender's email client at least one email header display characteristic consisting of a border setting, an internal area setting, and a text setting according to the selected priority; means for selecting on the sender's email client at least one of the border setting, the internal area setting, and the text setting; means for sending, via a common email system protocol, the email from a email-sending server to a email-receiving server; means for receiving, via a common email system protocol, the email at the receiver's email server from the email-sending server; and means for displaying the email with the at least one email header display characteristic at the receiver's email client. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090132675 | USING IDENTIFIERS TO ESTABLISH COMMUNICATION - Confusion resulting from assigning the same node identifier to multiple nodes is resolved through the use of confusion detection techniques and the use of unique identifiers for the nodes. In some aspects an access point and/or an access terminal may perform operations relating to detecting confusion and/or providing a unique identifier to resolve confusion. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132673 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING ALERT LOCATIONS TO NAVIGATIONAL DEVICES - An originating navigation device sends an alert location to a recipient navigation device over a wireless network. The originating navigation device is operable to classify the alert location (e.g. traffic accident) and associate additional data. The recipient navigation device receives the alert location and may plan an alternative route, which circumnavigates the alert location. Further, if the recipient navigation device already has a route selected, the recipient navigation device may determine the estimated delay caused by the alert condition occurring at the alert location. The recipient device may apply filtering rules in order to screen out undesired alert locations sent by the originating navigation device. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20120221665 | QUEUING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A portable electronic device includes a queuing system. An agent server provided by a service provider assigns a queue number to a user of the portable electronic device, generates a mobile barcode according to the queue number and a uniform resource locator (URL) of the service provider, and displays the 2D mobile barcode on an electronic display. The queuing system | 08-30-2012 |
| 20100064021 | MESSAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD - A message display device for displaying a message used for notifying a user of the device of a state that a function processing included in the device is finished, the message display device includes an activation state storage unit for storing an activated event of a function including a process for displaying the message, and a message display determination unit for controlling the display of the message according to a frequency and an interval that the function including the process for displaying the message is activated. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20110185029 | Identifying and Presenting Reminders Based on Opportunity for Interaction - A method and apparatus are provided for presenting a reminder for a PIM record when there may be an opportunity for personal interaction regarding the PIM record. The opportunity for personal interaction regarding the PIM record may be identified in response to a trigger condition not associated with the PIM record. In one embodiment, an opportunity for interaction regarding a PIM record may be identified using identification information associated with the trigger condition. In another embodiment, an opportunity for interaction regarding a first PIM record may be identified when there is a contact associated with the first PIM record and a second PIM record, and there is an occurrence of a trigger condition associated with a second PIM record. In some embodiments, the portable electronic device may utilize additional information to identify or verify opportunities for interaction regarding a PIM record. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20120136955 | GPS EMBEDDED INTERACTIVE NETWORK INTERFACE - A computer implemented system for generating an output message stream from multiple input streams in which particular messages are prioritized. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120215873 | FAILURE-CONTROLLED MESSAGE PUBLICATION AND FEEDBACK IN A PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - Control and/or feedback are provided for message publication in a publish/subscribe messaging environment. A number of different aspects are disclosed, and an embodiment may include one or more of these aspects. In each aspect, each subscribing application has an associated importance level for a subscription, and this importance level may vary among subscriptions for different message topics. Each published message has an associated topic. In some aspects, each published message also has associated criteria, where the criteria are specified with regard to message classification. In preferred embodiments, the message classification comprises importance criteria specifying requirements for importance level of subscribers registered for the topic of that message. Feedback can be provided regarding whether a message publication meets the importance criteria. Control over message publication can be based on whether a message publication meets the importance criteria. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120215872 | CRITERIA-BASED MESSAGE PUBLICATION CONTROL AND FEEDBACK IN A PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - Control and/or feedback are provided for message publication in a publish/subscribe messaging environment. A number of different aspects are disclosed, and an embodiment may include one or more of these aspects. In each aspect, each subscribing application has an associated importance level for a subscription, and this importance level may vary among subscriptions for different message topics. Each published message has an associated topic. In some aspects, each published message also has associated criteria, where the criteria are specified with regard to message classification. In preferred embodiments, the message classification comprises importance criteria specifying requirements for importance level of subscribers registered for the topic of that message. Feedback can be provided regarding whether a message publication meets the importance criteria. Control over message publication can be based on whether a message publication meets the importance criteria. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20100049819 | VEHICLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A vehicle communication device for using a plurality of applications in an inter-vehicle communication, and performing a control to avoid congestion of its own vehicle and other vehicles. The vehicle communication device includes a plurality of application units performing the inter-vehicle communication, a lower protocol unit transmitting and receiving data between vehicles, and a middleware unit intervening between the application units and the lower protocol unit. The middleware unit includes a transfer service processing unit, a communication control service unit, and a transmission/reception control processing unit. The communication control service unit controls a congestion avoiding process of its own vehicle and other vehicles based on application priority received for each of the application units, priority for each vehicle, and channel usage rate obtained from the lower protocol unit. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100274866 | MULTIPLE CHANNEL OPTIMIZATION FOR TRANSACTION MESSAGES - A first embodiment of the present invention relates to systems and methods for determining a priority for a set of alert triggers and performing additional processing based on the determined priority. In some embodiments, additional processing may include generating and sending of alert messages. In other embodiments, additional processing may further include determining that the generating and sending of alert messages are to be delayed until a later time. In yet other embodiments, additional processing may include determining that no alert message is to be generated and sent. A second embodiment of the present invention relates to systems and methods for dynamically selecting a delivery channel and generating an alert message for the selected delivery channel. In some embodiments, the alert message may be formatted based on the selected delivery channel. According to one embodiment, the alert message may be generated based on a compact protocol format. When the alert message is received by a mobile device, the mobile device may use the alert message to generate a second alert message. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100023594 | CONTENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A content processing apparatus includes an extracting part extracting undownloaded contents from a list of downloadable contents, a providing situation storage part that stores a providing situation of the contents that content processing apparatus provided to other apparatuses, a priority order determining part determining the priority order of download in the extracted undownloaded contents based on the providing situation stored in the providing situation storage part, and a downloading part downloading the contents in accordance with the priority order determined by the priority order determining part. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100011082 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF REPORTING CONFORMANCE VIOLATIONS IN WEB-SERVICES MESSAGES - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for reporting conformance violations in web-services messages are described. A web message is received, and a location tag is assigned to at least a portion of the elements contained therein. The web message is analyzed to determine if any conformance violations are contained therein. When the web message contains at least one conformance violation, a descriptive entry is generated in a partial nonconformance report for each conformance violation, wherein the descriptive entry includes the location tag assigned to the element containing the conformance violation. The web message is annotated with the location tag for each conformance violation and merging the annotated web message with the partial nonconformance report to thereby produce a full nonconformance report, and an analyzed web message is output. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20120254337 | Mainframe Management Console Monitoring - Methods, systems, and devices are described for monitoring and managing mainframe events. In the methods, systems, and devices of the present disclosure, a stream of messages at a mainframe management console may be monitored to detect mainframe events. The mainframe events may be filtered according to at least one predetermined filtering criterion to identify a plurality of selected mainframe events. The selected mainframe events may then be converted from a character encoding specific to the mainframe to a generic character encoding, and routed to at least one destination Security Information Event Manager (SIEM) application. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20080301252 | Method and System for Notification of Local Action Required to Contents of Electronic Mail Message - The present invention provides a method and system to alert the recipient of an electronic message of some action that is required from the recipient. The invention also provides a method to alert the sender of the electronic message of the completion of the action required in the original electronic mail message. In the method of the present invention, the originator or recipient of an electronic mail message can choose to designate the message as one that requires an action by the message recipient. The recipient will notice the ‘Action Required’ icon and will be alerted to the fact that an action is required with this message. At the completion of the action, the sender of the original message will receive a notification that the requested action has been taken by the recipient. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301251 | Debugging in a distributed system - A method and apparatus for recreating a system state in a non-deterministic distributed computing system. A message generated by a message producer is received during debugging. If the received message matches a stored message in a persistent message store, the received message is transmitted to a message consumer. If the received message does not match the stored message, the stored message is transmitted to the message consumer. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080301250 | THREAD-BASED MESSAGE PRIORITIZATION - To perform thread-based message prioritization, metadata may be extracted from a received electronic message. Based on the extracted message metadata and accumulated metadata extracted from previously received messages, a message thread to which the received electronic message belongs may be identified. Based on a set of thread priority assessment criteria, a priority level for the message thread may be determined. At least part of the message thread may be processed according to the priority level. The processing may be altering a notification behavior of an electronic messaging client for electronic messages of the message thread. Thread priority assessment may be based on user-configurable criteria that may be set via a graphical user interface. Message thread identification may also be based on user-configurable criteria that may be set via a graphical user interface. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20110047237 | PROXIMITY BASED MATCHMAKING USING COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES - The present disclosure relates to a matchmaking system that can receive a matchmaking request from a first user who wishes to establish communications with a second user. The matchmaking request includes recognition information about the second user that is leveraged upon proximity of the first user to the second user. The matchmaking system attempts to identify the second user based on the recognition information. If the identification of the second user is successful, the matchmaking system sends data to the second user's communications device to establish communications. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, the recognition information includes biometric data of the second user. In an alternate embodiment of the present disclosure, the recognition information includes location information pertaining to a current location of the second user. In an additional embodiment of the present disclosure, the recognition information includes device information associated with the second user's communications device. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20120324033 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PERFORMING DISCOVERY BASED ON PRIORITY LEVEL IN DISTRIBUTED NETWORK, AND METHOD OF DETERMINING DISCOVERY BACK-OFF TIME - Provided are a network node and a method of performing discovery, which may stably perform discovery without delay or crash of a network at the time of initial discovery in a large-scale network. The network node operated in a distributed network includes a discovery performing unit that determines a discovery back-off time that is a transmission wait time of a discovery message based on levels of priority of the network node, and a communication unit that transmits the discovery message using the discovery back-off time. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120102131 | Exchanging Data Associated With A Communication Session Within A Communications System - In an embodiment, objects are downloaded to an access terminal (AT) based on which window(s) are prominently displayed on the AT. In another embodiment, objects are downloaded to the AT based on a set of user-specified object download priorities. In another embodiment, a portion of a streaming data session to the AT is de-prioritized in response to a transition of a display of the AT from a first set of windows associated with the streaming data session to a second set of windows associated with a different session. For example, the de-prioritization can result in the portion (e.g., a video-portion of a audio and video conference) being omitted or reduced. In another embodiment, in response to the AT entering a limited environment, objects being downloaded to the AT can be dynamically altered to conform with the AT's limited environment. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20100169451 | PROCESSING RECURRING EVENTS WITHIN PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CLIENTS - A computer-implemented method of processing recurring events within personal information management (PIM) clients can include executing a plug-in component within a PIM client. The method can include receiving, within the PIM client, an event update including a recurring event identifier that is natively understood by the PIM client and supplemental recurrence data not natively understood by the PIM client. The method further can include, responsive to the plug-in component detecting the supplemental recurrence data and a user input executing the event update, the plug-in component can locate a recurring event corresponding to the recurring event identifier. The method can include the plug-in component updating the recurring event according, at least in part, to the supplemental recurrence data, and storing the recurring event within the PIM client. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20120150985 | VIOS Cluster Alert Framework - In a data processing system including a virtual I/O server (VIOS) cluster and multiple logical partitions (LPARs), at least one VIOS of the VIOS cluster performs functions of: receiving first registration information from one or more entities within the VIOS cluster; registering, based on the first registration information, a handler associated with a first message type; responsive to receiving second registration information, registering, based on the second registration information, a listener associated with a second message type; receiving a first message associated with a first alert event of the cluster; determining, based on the first message, that the handler is associated with the first message type; and calling the handler. In one embodiment, the handler is associated with a pointer to a subroutine, and registering the handler includes storing the pointer in a data structure that associates the handler with the first message type. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20110161454 | REPAIRING CALENDARS WITH STANDARD MEETING MESSAGES - Calendar repair using a standard message may be provided. Calendar events, such as appointments and meetings, may be created and copied to a plurality of attendee calendars. A first copy of the event may be compared to a second copy of the event to determine whether properties between the events are out-of-sync. If so, a standard meeting request message comprising the correct value may be sent to update the out-of-sync property. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161453 | CALENDAR REPAIR ASSISTANT - Calendar repair may be provided. Calendar events, such as appointments and meetings, may be created and copied to a plurality of attendee calendars. A first copy of the event may be compared to a second copy of the event, and an event property of the second event may be updated to match a corresponding event property of the first event. | 06-30-2011 |
