19th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 63 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100121891 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING PLAY LISTS FOR MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - A method and system for selecting multimedia content provided by a multimedia content delivery network (MCDN) are disclosed. A user may select multimedia programs from an electronic programming guide (EPG) to generate a play list defining the order of playback. The EPG may be provided by the MCDN and include scheduled programs for selection on the play list. The play list may be stored on a network server and is available for download from different types of playback devices, including mobile wireless and portable multimedia devices. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121892 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD OF FILE SYSTEM USING THE STORAGE SYSTEM - When a management screen for conducting management operation of a file system in the NAS apparatus | 2010-05-13 |
20100121893 | FILESYSTEM ACCESS FOR WEB APPLICATIONS AND NATIVE CODE MODULES - One embodiment provides a system that facilitates the execution of a web application. During operation, the system allocates a storage space on one or more storage devices for use by the web application. Next, the system creates, for the web application, a private filesystem comprising a private root directory within the storage space. Finally, the system enables access to the private filesystem for the web application through the private root directory in a manner that does not allow access to a host filesystem associated with the one or more storage devices from the web application. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121894 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a communicating section that executes communication with a server, a local storage section that stores subsequent data acquired from the server, and a data processing section that executes an acquisition process of the subsequent data, and a data playback process using data stored on a disc and the subsequent data stored on the local storage section. The data processing section builds a virtual file system for reading data stored on the disc and the local storage section, at the time of the data playback process, and performs the acquisition process of the subsequent data by transmitting a package ID to the server at the time of the acquisition process of the subsequent data, the package ID being information specifying a package corresponding to a file set necessary for building or updating the virtual file system. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121895 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY MANAGING DISK FRAGMENTATION - In the current invention, a method and apparatus for automatically managing fragmentation on a disk is described. This is done by having a special Mode for preallocation and dumping of contiguous block chunks. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121896 | SECURE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION - Various aspects are directed to random, number generation. A request from a game terminal for a random number may be received. Whether a new seed is required may be determined, for example, based on the time or quantity of random numbers generated since the last re-seeding. Conditioned on determining that the new seed is required, a pseudo-random number generator may re-seeded, wherein the re-seeding comprises setting a current seed value equal to the new seed. The pseudo-random number generator may generate a random number based at least in part on the current seed value; and transmit information based on the random number to the game terminal. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121897 | Filter Block for Compensating Droop in a Frequency Response of a Signal - The invention may provide a method and filter block for compensating droop in a frequency response of a signal. The filter block may include a decimator, which decimates a high frequency input signal to a set frequency output signal. The set frequency can be, for example, the Nyquist frequency for the input signal. Further, the filter block may include a droop compensator that compensates the droop in the frequency response of the output signal from the decimator. The droop compensator may be made using recursive filters, as opposed to large tap FIR filters, which may result in less memory consumption and decreased power consumption. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121898 | Floating-point fused dot-product unit - In an embodiment, a dot-product unit to perform single-precision floating-point product and addition operations is disclosed that includes a first multiplier tree unit adapted to multiply first and second significand operands to produce a first set of two partial products. The dot-product unit further includes a second multiplier tree unit adapted to multiply third and fourth significand operands to produce a second set of two partial products, a shared exponent compare unit adapted to compare exponents of the first, second, third and fourth operands to produce an alignment shift value, and an alignment unit adapted to shift the second set of two partial products based on the alignment shift value. The dot-product unit also includes an adder unit adapted to add or subtract the first set of two partial products and the second shifted set of two partial products to produce a dot-product value that is a single-precision floating-point value. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121899 | Methods and apparatus for efficient complex long multiplication and covariance matrix implementation - Efficient computation of complex long multiplication results and an efficient calculation of a covariance matrix are described. A parallel array VLIW digital signal processor is employed along with specialized complex long multiplication instructions and communication operations between the processing elements which are overlapped with computation to provide very high performance operation. Successive iterations of a loop of tightly packed VLIWs may be used allowing the complex multiplication pipeline hardware to be efficiently used. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121900 | Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and program - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an information acquiring unit for acquiring, from external apparatuses connected via a network, processing information about a processing to be executed by each of the external apparatuses and/or about a result of a processing executed thereby and information about a function that each of the external apparatuses can execute in cooperation with the information processing apparatus; an information display unit for displaying the processing information of each of the external apparatuses and program information about program contents and displaying, on the basis of the information about the function of each of the external apparatuses, functions that can be executed by each of the external apparatuses with respect to the one or more program contents; and a function execution unit for causing the external apparatus to execute a selected function with respect to a selected program content. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121901 | MOVING-PICTURE PROCESSING DEVICE AND MOVING-PICTURE PROCESSING METHOD - A moving-picture processing device includes: a moving-picture processing unit subjecting moving-picture data to a distribution process for distributing the moving-picture data; a distribution processing unit sequentially distributing, in portions of an arbitrary moving picture reproduction time to an information processing terminal that is connected by way of a network, moving-picture data that have undergone the distribution process; and a storage amount information acquisition unit that acquires from the information processing terminal storage amount information that indicates the storage amount of pre-reproduction moving-picture data that are stored in the information processing terminal; wherein the moving-picture processing unit subjects the moving-picture data to the distribution process such that the reproduction quality of the moving-picture data changes according to the value indicated by the storage amount information. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121902 | SERVICE DELIVERY ONLINE - In one embodiment, a computer system configures an online service to function as a service delivery platform, where the online service includes a plurality of service delivery platform components configured to process inputs received from services that are to be hosted by the online service. The computer system receives an indication that a service is to be hosted using the online service, where the indication includes a service configured for hosting by the online service and a portion of use information indicating how the service delivery platform components are to be used to host the service for various computer clients. The computer system processes the portion of use information received with the indication to configure the service delivery platform components in an appropriate manner for hosting the service and provides the hosted service to computer clients in the appropriate manner as determined by the accessed use information. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121903 | DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE DETERRENCE USING OUTBOUND PACKET REWRITING - A method for denial of service attack deterrence involves receiving requests from clients, where the requests include a server protocol component, designating a client as a malicious client based on the requests, intercepting and inspecting, prior to the clients receiving a response, the server protocol component of each response to the clients, and rewriting at least a portion of the server protocol component of each response destined for the malicious client. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121904 | RESOURCE RESERVATIONS IN A MULTIPROCESSOR COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A multiprocessor computer system reservation system comprises a plurality of processing nodes that each comprise computing resources such as processors and local memory. A resource reservation module is operable to reserve computing resources for a batch application such that the computing resources reserved for the batch application will be available to the application throughout a reservation period. The resource reservation module is operable to communicate computing resource reservation information with a placement scheduler that is operable to distribute application processes across processing nodes, and is operable to provide computing resource availability information to a batch system and to place reservations for a batch system that comprises a mechanism for scheduling batch jobs across processing nodes. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121905 | Visual Content Detection for Computer-Delivered Advertisement Exposure Measurements - Described are a method, a computer program product and apparatus for detecting visual display of content. Visual content data encoded with an identifier code is received at a computer device. Visual display data is transmitted, using a local communication bus of the computer device, to a visual display device coupled to the computer device. A processor on the computer device is used to determine whether the visual display data includes the encoded identifier code. Exposure information is generated using the processor. The exposure information is associated with whether the encoded identifier code is included in the visual display data. The exposure information is transmitted, from the computer device, to a remote server device. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121906 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HOME NETWORK SYSTEM - A device management apparatus for a home network system includes: a local device manager for controlling and managing device initialization, software maintenance, device status monitoring and device event alarm management for adaptive middleware devices in the home network system; and a local device agent for performing device initialization, software maintenance, device status monitoring and device event alarm management for each adoptive middleware device under control and management of the local device manager. The local device manager provides a Universal Middleware Bridge (UMB) device to the adaptive middleware device or application service in a form of a Virtual Device Type (VDT) device. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121907 | Cooperative Measurement Technique for the Determination of Internet Web Page Exposure and Viewing Behavior - Described are a method, a computer program product and apparatus for detecting visual display of content such as web pages. Visual content data encoded with an identifier code is received at a computer device. Visual display data is transmitted, using a local communication bus of the computer device, to a visual display device coupled to the computer device. A processor on the computer device is used to determine whether the visual display data includes the encoded identifier code. Exposure information is generated using the processor. The exposure information is associated with whether the encoded identifier code is included in the visual display data. The exposure information is transmitted, from the computer device, to a remote server device. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121908 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING MANAGEMENT OF DEVICES CONNECTED TO A SERVER - A system and method are described for aggregating management of devices connected to a server. In one embodiment, devices connected to a server may be identified by an operating system of the server. The devices may be in communication with one another through a network. The operating system may communicate a network identifier of each device to a service processor of the server. The service processor may aggregately manage the devices independent from the operating system. The service processor may receive management commands from an external source. Each of the management commands may be associated with one of the connected devices, but the connected devices may be incapable of communicating directly with the external source. The service processor may communicate each management command to the device associated with the management command using the network identifier of the associated device. The management command can then be performed on the associated device. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121909 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND ON-LINE CLIENT SERVICE SYSTEM, SOFTWARE AND METHOD THEREOF - An on-line client service method of a storage apparatus that includes detecting the current status of the storage apparatus when a link is established between a client host and the storage apparatus and determining whether or not a diagnostic event has occurred, and when the diagnostic event occurs, a diagnostic result is generated. In addition, the diagnostic result is transmitted to a far-end server to process the storage apparatus properly according to the diagnostic result. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121910 | Method and System for Transmitting Data Using Traffic Distribution for Each Line Between Server and Client Connected by Virtual Interface - The present invention discloses a method comprising a first step of the client transmitting a bandwidth test request signal to the server; a second step of the server transmitting a test request approval signal to the client; a third step of the client conducting a bandwidth test for respective lines; a fourth step of the client transmitting results of the bandwidth test to the server; fifth step of the server setting first traffic distribution weights; a sixth step of the client setting second traffic distribution weights; a seventh step of the server distributing data to respective lines depending on the first traffic distribution weights and transmitting the distributed data to the client and the client distributing data to respective lines depending on the second traffic distribution weights and transmitting the distributed data to the server. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121911 | SERVER DEVICE FOR MEDIA, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SERVER FOR MEDIA, AND PROGRAM - Transfer control means ( | 2010-05-13 |
20100121912 | TERMINAL DEVICE, COMMENT DISTRIBUTION SERVER, COMMENT TRANSMISSION METHOD, COMMENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THAT HOUSES COMMENT DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM - The terminal device of the present invention has a list storage portion that stores content identification information that identifies content that can be uttered as a comment on moving image data as a list, an input portion that receives a data input of a selection instruction that selects a content as a comment from a user, and a transmission portion that receives an input of content identification information of a content that is selected from the list storage portion in accordance with the selection instruction that is input to the input portion for moving image data that is distributed from the moving image distribution server and transmits a moving image playback elapsed time at the point of time that the content identification information is imparted as a comment as a comment imparting time together ether with the content identification information as comment information. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121913 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SERVER, CONTENT HOLDING DEVICE, CONTENT RECEIVING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Even when a plurality of devices transmit the fragment content information, the transmission of fragment content information can be easily requested. A server ( | 2010-05-13 |
20100121914 | CONTENTS DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK PROVIDER AND REPLICATION SERVER THEREOF - A contents delivery system and method through a CDN provider and a replication server thereof are provided. The replication server receives an embedded object of a page from a contents server of a contents provider and stores the embedded object. When the replication server receives a request for the page from a client, the replication server requests the contents server to provide the page, receives the page from the contents server and transmits the page to the client. When the replication server receives a request for the embedded object of the page from the client, the replication server transmits the embedded object stored therein to the client. Accordingly, the contents server of the contents provider can directly administrate pages and the contents provider can be aware of the number of requests for pages. Furthermore, the page is transmitted to the replication server from the contents server through a network of the CDN provider and then delivered to the client, and thus the client can receive the page rapidly as compared to the case that the client directly receives the page from the contents server. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121915 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR CHANGING AVATAR IN ONLINE GAME - A method for changing an avatar in an online game includes: generating an avatar self-defined data packet comprising complete data of an avatar according to an avatar characteristic self-defined data packet from a client corresponding to a logon account, wherein the avatar characteristic self-defined data packet reflects modification or creation made by a player to the avatar; and transmitting the avatar self-defined data packet to the client corresponding to the logon account providing the avatar characteristic self-defined data packet, and/or a second client participating in the online game. A system and an apparatus for changing an avatar in an online game are also provided. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121916 | METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY BUILDING A BASELINE BEHAVIOR MODEL - A method for generating an auto-adaptive baseline model for profiling the individual and collective behavior of a plurality of users in a network is provided. The method comprises the steps of creating a model, defining a plurality of members and a plurality of collective variables, each member corresponding to a user, and including a plurality of individual variables, defining conditions for each collective variable and individual variable, upon detecting an activity by a user, updating corresponding individual variables and collective variables, comparing updated individual variables and collective variables against corresponding conditions. If condition is met, an alert event is issued to notify designated personnel; otherwise, returning to the step of upon detecting activity. Finally, upon receiving an alert event, the designated personnel decides whether to manually redefine the conditions or to ignore the alert event. If the alert event is ignored, said conditions are automatically redefined in accordance with system defined mechanism. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121917 | MAP INTERFACE WITH DIRECTIONAL NAVIGATION - A map user interface is described, including a first view transmitted from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a first area of a map and a plurality of directional indicators, each directional indicator being selectable by a user of the client computer system, selection of a respective one of the directional indicators bringing a second area of the map into view, the second area depending on the respective directional indicator selected by the user. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121918 | Method and system for sharing brand information - An interactive, computer network based system presents consumers with multimedia brand information via a browser-based interface called the GraffitiWall™. Consumers can use the GraffitiWall™ to modify and display a sponsor's brand information in any way desired. Consumer modifications are immediately communicated to the other member consumers and the advertiser/sponsor. Consumers can rate the GraffitiWall™, or portions thereof, and email the GraffitiWall™. An archive of GraffitiWalls™ is maintained by the system. Consumers participate in online focus groups, one-to-one interviews and discussions, as well as games and promotions pertaining to the brand. Interaction with consumers through focus groups, one-to-one interviews, discussions, games and promotions allows the hosting company to reinforce brand equities; speak directly to their target audience; test new and updated products and services; and encourage participation to a brand via purchases and signups by rewarding the participant with coupons, samples, gift certificates, and the like. An ongoing dialogue between business and consumer, as well as consumer-to-consumer, nurtures customer participation, loyalty and satisfaction, and builds a community housed within the company's brand. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121919 | System and a method for sharing information interactively among two or more users - An assembly of a plurality of media providers, each media provider having set a media exchange level. Each media exchange level comprising or encompassing one or more types of media to be exchanged. The media providers outputting to the other media providers the set levels, and if two media providers have levels set which have at least one type of media to be exchanged in common, the exchange of such media is started automatically. Media types to exchange may be photos, podcasts, music, voice, videos & movies, streamed TV/video/audio, such as airborne transmissions, graphics & text, e-mails, running application programs, such as an active web browser window, or the like | 2010-05-13 |
20100121920 | Associating Presence Information With A Digital Image - Presence information for an object in a digital image is determined. An identifier associated with at least one object depicted in the image is allowed to be stored as image metadata. The identifier is sufficient to determine presence information from at least one of a presence application and a presence roster list. Presence information for the at least one object is determined based on the identifier from the at least one of a presence application and a presence roster list. An action related to the object is performed using the determined presence information. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121921 | PROXIMITY BASED USER INTERFACE COLLABORATION BETWEEN DEVICES - Techniques for proximity based user interface collaboration between devices. In an embodiment, a connected media center device or appliance (“MCA”) is adapted to receive multiple inputs supporting different sources of media or content. The MCA is further adapted to interact with a mobile device in such a way that when the two are within certain proximity of each other, the mobile device is able to act as a remote control for the MCA. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121922 | AUTO-RESOLVE RECIPIENTS CACHE - In embodiments, mobile devices request and utilize recipient caches. Recipient caches store information regarding previous recipients of communications. The information on recipients includes when the recipient was last contacted and the frequency with which a recipient is contacted. In embodiments, a mobile device requests a recipient cache from a server. When a user types a string of text, the mobile device then uses the recipient cache as well as the contacts and emails on the mobile device and resolves a recipient list. In other embodiments, a recipient cache on a server is updated when a mobile device sends a message with new recipient information. In another embodiment, a server resolves conflicting messages by using recipient information | 2010-05-13 |
20100121923 | MULTI-TENANCY ENGINE - According to one general aspect, in one embodiment, a method may include establishing a relationship with a plurality of external tenant systems configured to utilize an internal ERP service provider system. In one embodiment, the method may also include receiving an external tenant message from one of the external tenant systems. The method may further include, in various embodiments, converting the received external tenant message to an internal provider message. In some embodiments, the method may include transmitting the converted internal provider message to at least a portion of the internal ERP service provider system. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121924 | ASSOCIATION OF A GROUPWARE OBJECT WITH SEQUENTIALLY-UPDATED CONTENT ITEMS - A system may include identification of a relation between a standards-compliant groupware object and one or more sequentially-updated content items, and creation of the groupware object. The groupware object may include a first Uniform Resource Identifier for subscribing a feed reader of a client device to a channel including the one or more sequentially-updated content items, and a second Uniform Resource Identifier to access a copy of the one or more sequentially-updated content items stored on the client device. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121925 | Prioritizing Electronic Messages Based upon Geographical Location of the Recipient - A computer-implemented method of sorting electronic messages can include, for each of a plurality of electronic messages received in an electronic messaging client, determining availability of a sender of each electronic message and determining an order for the electronic messages within the electronic messaging client according to availability of the sender of each electronic message. The method further can include displaying the electronic messages within a view of the electronic messaging client in the order. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121926 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR PROVIDING A RECOGNITION AWARD - A method and apparatus to provide a recognition award, having steps of creating a computer communication to one of a group and an organization, querying a group to enter an additional message to the one of the group and the organization, compiling the additional messages from the members of the group and the computer communication into a personalized message, and sending the personalized message to the one of the group and the organization. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121927 | SECURE INTER-PROCESS COMMUNICATION FOR SAFER COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS AND SYSTEMS - Techniques for Inter-Process Communication (IPC) in a more secure manner are disclosed. A communication component operating outside of an operating system can obtain operating-system data pertaining to processes that also operate outside of the operating system. The operating-system data can be more reliable than information that may have been provided by the processes, thereby allowing more secure IPC and consequently a more secure computing environment and/or system. A communication component can also be operable to make control decisions regarding the IPC data (e.g., IPC messages) based on the information provided and/or originated by the operating system (or operating-system data) and/or effectively provide the operating-system data pertaining to a sender process to its intended recipient process. A recipient process can also be operable to obtain the operating-system data pertaining to a sender process. Moreover, a recipient process can make control decisions regarding the IPC data originated by the sender process based on the operating-system data effectively provided and/or originated by the operating system rather than the sender process, thereby allowing the recipient process to make control decisions based on information provided by a more reliable (e.g., Trusted) source. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121928 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ALLOCATING AND INDICATING TRUSTWORTHINESS OF SECURE COMMUNICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention enable allocating and indicating the trustworthiness of a message, especially messages that comprise content that has been digitally signed. In some embodiments, a provider of assurance services and assurance software provides trust attestations related to messages and may manipulate the user interface used to view these messages. The trust attestations may be computed by various methods. The trust attestations may then be presented when the message is displayed to the user using the assurance software. For example, the trust attestations may be displayed as user interface elements in a designated portion of the chrome of a messaging service, such as a webmail service. In one embodiment, the assurance software can run on the webmail service and the trust attestations in the chrome are served up via techniques for delivery of client-server presentation data. In another embodiment, the assurance software is implemented as software that runs on the client and may perform some computations on the client in order to manipulate the messaging service's chrome. In yet another embodiment, the assurance software may run as an extension to an e-mail client that runs on a user's machine. The assurance software is configured to work with the presenter of the message, but independently of the presenter. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121929 | System And Method For Information Risk Management - The present invention provides a system and method for evaluating risk associated with information access requests. The information access requests are collected, assigned a risk level according to user defined policies, a total risk is calculated and presented to user. The user can select a high risk event for further analysis. The system will break down the event into basic elements, so the user can ascertain the risk. The system allows a user to customize a report and the customized report can be saved as a template for future use. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121930 | MESSAGING SERVER TO REDIRECT AN INSTANT MESSAGE TO A MOBILE DEVICE - A messaging server is configured to receive an instant message comprising a message address and to store a mobile device ID associated with the message address. The messaging server is configured to redirect the instant message to a mobile device associated with the mobile device ID and to send the instant message to the mobile device. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121931 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DIGITALLY SIGNED MESSAGES TO DETERMINE ADDRESS MISMATCHES - A method and apparatus for processing digitally signed messages in which address mismatch errors are detected. In at least one aspect, the number of address mismatch errors reported to a user for a message may be minimized for messages that properly incorporate message portions signed by someone other than the sender of the message, as may be the case where the message contains a conversation thread for example, by performing at least one pre-determined action for digital signatures corresponding to signed data appearing after a message separator. The message separator may indicate that the message contains data from an older forwarded message or from an older message that has been replied to, for example. The at least one-predetermined action may comprise bypassing verification of address matches for those digital signatures, or verifying address matches for those digital signatures but suppressing user notification of any address mismatch errors, for example. | 2010-05-13 |
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. | 2010-05-13 |
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. | 2010-05-13 |
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. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121935 | Hybrid replicated shared memory - A multiple computer system with hybrid replicated shared memory is disclosed. The local memory ( | 2010-05-13 |
20100121936 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MEDIA CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to monitor for media content from a first source that is distributable where the media content is adjusted for distribution to a plurality of communication devices that are associated with a user and a portion of the plurality of communication devices use different communication protocols from another portion of the plurality of communication devices, obtain content metadata from the media content, receive a request for information associated with the media content from a first communication device of the plurality of communication devices of the user, compile the information from the content metadata based at least in part on a user profile associated with the user, and transmit the information to the first communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121937 | THIN IMPORT FOR A DATA STORAGE SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for migrating data from one data storage system to another data storage system. A method can include copying data from one data storage system to another data storage system wherein data stored in data address locations of the first data storage system containing a NULL or zero is excluded from being written to the second data storage system. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121938 | SYSTEM ENABLING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AN AIRCRAFT-BASED COMPUTER NETWORK AND A GROUND-BASED COMPUTER NETWORK - A system enabling communication between an aircraft-based computer network and a ground-based computer network. The system establishes a network communication between a ground-based computer network and an aircraft-based computer network via at least one communication medium using a synchronous communication mode. The system can be used to simplify procedures involved in maintaining a fleet of aircraft connected to a maintenance control center (MCC) and, in particular, to facilitate and secure the updating of aircraft logbooks (e.g., a cabin logbook and technical logbook). | 2010-05-13 |
20100121939 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING AN IN-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION NETWORK VIA A MEDIA INTERFACE - A system and method relate to accessing an in-vehicle communication network, including a media interface having a microprocessor. The media interface may be connected to a vehicle media system. Further, a media device may be connected to the media interface, and the media device may access the in-vehicle communication network via the media interface. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121940 | System and Method for Selectively Caching Hot Content in a Content Delivery System - A method includes receiving a request for content from a client, and determining an elapsed time since a previous request for the content. Additionally, the method includes retrieving the content from a content server and storing the content in a cache when the elapsed time since the previous request for the content is not greater than a threshold. Further, the method includes providing the content to the client. The method also includes determining a cache-hit ratio and altering a threshold in response to the cache-hit ratio. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121941 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PORTABLE DATA STORAGE DEVICES THAT AUTOMATICALLY INITIATE DATA TRANSFERS UTILIZING HOST DEVICES - A computing system including a media content provider (MCP), a host device, a portable media content storage device (PMCSD), and a data communications network. In response to data communications being initiated between the PMCSD the host device, a data transfer application resident on the PMCSD is automatically executed to determine if any media content transfer instructions exist on the PMCSD or a MCP. The data transfer application resident on the PMCSD may be a portable application not requiring the installation of any configuration or support files to the host device or it may be an application having a boot process that installs configuration or support files to the host device prior to application execution. When one or more media content transfer instructions exists on the PMCSD or a MCP, the media content transfer instruction(s) is processed by the host device, to facilitate media content transfer between the PMCSD and the MCP. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121942 | Content Reproduction Device and Content Reproduction Method - According to one embodiment, a content reproduction device connected through a network to a content server comprises a content acquisition module configured to function as a server for a client computer which retrieves to select content registered in the content server and to acquire the content selected by the computer from the content server, and a signal processing module which decodes the content acquired by the content acquisition module, wherein the content acquisition module acquires a uniform resource locator (URL) of the selected content to be reported from the computer and acquires content registered in the URL from the content server. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121943 | Secure Access to Remote Resources Over a Network - A client computer hosts a virtual private network tool to establish a virtual private network connection with a remote network. Upon startup, the virtual private network tool collects critical network information for the client computer, and sends this critical network information to an address assignment server in the remote network. The address assignment server compares the critical network information with a pool of available addresses in the remote network, and assigns addresses for use by the client computer that do not conflict with the addresses for local resources. The address assignment server also provides routing information for resources in the remote network to the virtual private network tool. The virtual private network tool will postpone loading this routing information into the routing tables of the client computer until the client computer requests access to a specific resource in the remote network. When the client computer requests access to a specific resource in the remote network, the virtual private network tool will only provide the routing table with the routing information for that specific remote resource. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121944 | DHCP PROXY FOR STATIC HOST - A DHCP proxy agent is provided to send on behalf of a static host a DHCP request so that an access layer security feature such as DHCP snooping/IPSG can be applied to the static host and/or in a mixed static IP and DHCP environment. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121945 | Hybrid Unicast/Anycast Content Distribution Network System - A method includes receiving a request for an edge cache address, and comparing a requester address to an anycast group. The method can further include providing an anycast edge cache address when the requestor address is in the anycast group. Alternatively, the method can further include determining an optimal cache server, and providing a unicast address of the optimal cache server when the requester address is not in the anycast group. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121946 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING AND SELECTING AN INTERFACE TO ACCESS A NETWORK - The present invention concerns a networking device comprising interfacing means for accessing a first network or a second network, and comprising identifying means for detecting an access to the first network, and selecting means for picking an access among a plurality of accesses to the first network for accessing a third network. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121947 | System and Method for Managing the Offload Type for Offload Protocol Processing - A method for determining the offload type for the processing of the protocol of a network connection is disclosed. An offload policy manager in a server node determines the offload type on the basis of a number of factors, including the application type of the network connection, the traffic priority of the network connection, and the port of the network connection. After the offload policy manager selects the offload type of the network connection, the offload policy manager identifies the offload type to the offload engine, which processes the protocol of the network connection according to the offload type selected by the offload policy manager. The offload policy manager is able to access a number of application-specific tables. The offload policy manager selects an offload type by cross-referencing on an application-specific table the traffic priority of the network connection against the port of the network connection. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121948 | REMOTE MONITORING OF USER APPLIANCES - A method for operating a server of a communication system includes at least one user appliance and a monitoring device adapted to perform a remote monitoring of the at least one user appliance through the intermediation of the server, the at least one user appliance being associated with a list of attributes that can take predetermined values. The method includes: 1) receiving the list of attributes associated with the at least one user appliance, and the values that can be taken by each of said attributes; 2) storing at the server the list of attributes with the related values received in 1); and 3) sending said list of attributes with the related values to the monitoring device. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121949 | MANAGEMENT SERVER AND METHOD OF DISCOVERING NETWORK DEVICE THEREOF - A method of discovering a network device includes setting a number of network devices to be discovered, and repeatedly discovering at least one network device with one or more different discovering methods until the set number of network devices are discovered. Accordingly, a network device to be discovered is discovered from non-discovered network devices more effectively through repetitive discovering operations. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121950 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING REAL USERS BEHIND APPLICATION SERVERS - The present invention provides a monitoring device and method for identifying the identity of users requesting database accesses. The data request from application servers to an application server are monitored and parsed. The SQL statements associated with the data request from the application server are also monitored and parsed, so are the SQL responses from the database server. The SQL responses are sent back to the user as data responses. The data responses are also monitored and parsed. The monitoring device matches the parsed data request with the parsed SQL statements, the parsed SQL responses, and the parsed data responses. By matching the string portion of these parsed data, the monitoring device can then identity the identity of the user making such data base quest. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121951 | Method and arrangement for diagnosing networks including field bus systems - A method for diagnosing networks including networks of field bus systems utilizes an arrangement for diagnosing the networks. The arrangement includes at least two field bus diagnostic apparatuses with each of the field bus diagnostic apparatuses being assigned to a corresponding field bus. The method is carried out with the steps of: causing each of the field bus diagnostic apparatuses to detect current data traffic of the corresponding one of the field busses as a data record and storing the data record on an allocated storage medium; diagnosing the detected data record in an evaluation unit integrated into the corresponding field bus diagnostic apparatus and storing the diagnosed data record in the storage medium allocated to the corresponding field bus diagnostic apparatus; making the detected, diagnosed and stored data record available in the network via a server integrated into each of the field bus diagnostic apparatuses; causing the field bus diagnostic apparatuses to exchange the data records with each other via the servers thereof and the network and storing the exchanged data records on the storage mediums of corresponding ones of the field bus diagnostic apparatuses so that, on each of the storage mediums, the exchanged data records of all other field bus diagnostic apparatuses are stored in addition to the detected, diagnosed and stored data records of the field bus diagnostic apparatus; and, inspecting the detected, diagnosed and stored data records via at least one output unit with each output unit being connected via a client to the network and the data records being made available in the network by at least one arbitrary server. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121952 | COMMUNICATION UNIT, METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION UNIT AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Conventionally, when a communication unit needed to apply an authentication process to other communication units, a problem arose in that the communication unit could not be quickly connected to a communication unit near a user and to which the user wishes the communication unit to connect. In this invention, a station measures a range to other communication units in the surrounding area and possesses a trigger, which is initiated by a user, for beginning an authentication process; when initiated, the station selects the nearest communication unit based on the result of the measurement and applies the authentication process to it. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121953 | GEO-INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC REPORTER - A traffic reporter gathers real-time information on traffic conditions within a network and sends out traffic reports to traffic managers. The traffic reporter analyzes the network and also gathers network information from the traffic managers and analyzers dispersed throughout the network. These traffic reports provide real-time information on network conditions to allow the traffic managers to route network traffic in the most efficient, reliable, and fastest manner. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121954 | Communication Method and System Using User ID-Based Domain Name - A method of communication is provided, which comprises assigning a first domain name by a server to a first user when the first user logs onto the server using a first device, the first domain name being associated with a first device identifier of the first device and a first user identifier of the first user; and negotiating communication for the first device based on the first domain name despite of the IP address of the first device. Other embodiments are disclosed. By way of the present invention, a secure and convenient resource sharing and access control may be achieved. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121955 | EARLY DETECTION OF HIGH VOLUME PEER-TO-PEER SWARMS - Early detection of high volume swarms in a peer-to-peer network, including a data feed of peer-to-peer swarm activity, and an analytics engine processing the data feed and identifying the high volume swarms that have parameters that exceed a threshold. The system can include a pre-processing section for conditioning the swarm data for the analytics section. There can also be a verification section that confirms that the peer download file matches the target file. The early detection provides for enhanced anti-piracy efforts, improved allocation of network resources, and better business decision-making. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121956 | COMPOSITE ENDPOINT MECHANISM - A multimedia call from an originating device is provided. At least one session may be created at an application server in response to receiving the multimedia call. An endpoint may be created within the session for communication between the originating device and the application server. The endpoint may be a composite endpoint for communication between the originating device and two or more terminating devices. The composite endpoint may be include two or more logical endpoints for communicating with and respectively associated with the two terminating devices. A portion or more of the multimedia call may be delivered from the application server to each of the terminating devices using the logical endpoint associated with each terminating device. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121957 | PERFORMANCE ENHANCING PROXY HANDOVER - An approach is provided for graceful shutdown and startup of spoofing when a handover procedure is performed. A handover of a performance enhancing proxy (PEP) session associated with a transport connection is detected. A shutdown procedure is initiated to stop spoofing of the transport connection in response to the detected handover. The shutdown procedure avoids teardown of the transport connection during the handover from a first link to a second link of a communication system. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121958 | INPUT-SENSITIVE INTERFACE SELECTION FOR POSTING - A system for supporting interactive functionality via the combined implementation of two or more messaging systems. This functionality may, in some instances, allow users/apparatuses to indirectly access remote resources that would not have ordinarily been available for direct access. Indirect access may be obtained, for example, by initially communicating utilizing a first messaging system and then employing a second messaging system when communication requirements exceed the abilities of the first system (e.g., where generating user content, such as posting information to the Internet, is difficult or impossible using the first system). While two different messaging systems are being employed, linkage between communication occurring in the first and the second messaging systems may be maintained through session information corresponding to the original interaction that took place via the first messaging system. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121959 | LOW-LEVEL REMOTE SHARING OF LOCAL DEVICES IN A REMOTE ACCESS SESSION ACROSS A COMPUTER NETWORK - In one embodiment, a remote access session may be established between a first computer and a second computer. In response to detecting a device in low-level local communication with the first computer via a first local communication port of the first computer, the low-level local communication at the first local communication port may be intercepted and transmitted to the second computer via the remote access session. Then, the low-level local communication may be injected to a second local communication port of the second computer, wherein the second computer responds to the low-level local communication as though the device were located at the second local communication port of the second computer. For example, the device may be configured to autoconnect with the second computer via the remote access session when the device is connected to the first computer. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121960 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MOBILITY MANAGEMENT IN NETWORK - A method implemented by a gateway device which handles sessions over a network to which the gateway device is connected and which also enforces conditions of service provided to those network sessions, the method involving: receiving from a policy server a policy rules package, wherein the policy rules package specifies a set of rules that are to be applied to certain sessions handled by the gateway device and a set of criteria for identifying among a plurality of subscribers a group of all subscribers to which the rules are to be applied by the gateway device; based on set of criteria in the policy rules package identifying all subscribers with currently active sessions to whom the policy rules are to be applied; and applying the set of rules to the sessions of the identified subscribers. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121961 | SESSION MOBILITY BETWEEN COMMUNICATING DEVICES - There is described a method for enabling session mobility in a multi-participant IP-based multi-media communication network in full-mesh conference model, the method comprising: mapping a full-mesh communication protocol to a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP); defining an extended message protocol including new message mechanisms to support session mobility options; mapping the extended message protocol to the Session Initiation Protocol; and adding headers to mapped messages from the extended message protocol and from the full-mesh communication protocol to comply with full-mesh message signalization protocol mechanisms. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121962 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY RESPONDING TO A RECEIVED COMMUNICATION - A device and a method of responding to a received interrupt event received by a communication device is provided. The method comprises: determining a current state of availability of a user associated with the device; determining whether a response action to the interrupt event is required based on a level of importance associated with the interrupt event and further based on the current state of availability; and providing notice of response actions which occurred during a previous state of unavailability, where the notice provides a link to initiate a response communication to the interrupt event. The current state of availability may be determined based on data associated with an operating application on the device. Also, providing the notice may occur upon a change of the current state of availability. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121963 | Method and Device for Obtaining Media Description Information of IPTV Services - A method and device for obtaining media description information of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a network device, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) request for obtaining media description information, where the SIP request is sent by a User Equipment (UE) through a core IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and carries a content identifier; sending, by the network device, a SIP response that carries the media description information corresponding to the content identifier to the UE through the core IMS. According to the present disclosure, a SIP message is used to obtain media description information, so that a session of the Content on Demand (CoD) service is set up. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121964 | METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AN APPLICATION AND CONTROLLING ITS NETWORK UTILIZATION - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for improving network quality of service, such as through controlling the bandwidth consumed by a client computing facility. To affect this, the software applications operating through the client computing facility may be identified to determine which applications are requesting network access, and confirming which are permitted only restricted bandwidth when making network communications. The requesting software application that is permitted only restricted bandwidth may then be allowed to make the network communications through a bandwidth restricted network connection. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121965 | Protocol for Program during Startup Sequence - A system and a method are disclosed to determine if a client (e.g., an accessory (or peripheral)) is appropriately licensed for interoperation with a host (e.g., host computer). The client communicatively couples the host and receives a contract from the host. The client computes a checksum of the contract and compares the checksum of the contract with a previously stored version of the contract or a checksum of the contract to determine a match. If there is no match, the host communicatively decouples the client in response to the determination being a no match. If there is a match, the client transmits a contract response to the host and awaits host authorization. Once authorized the client transmits enumeration data to the host. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121966 | REPEATER AND REPEATING METHOD THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a repeater receives content data from a sender device through a first content protection technology and transmits the content data to another device through a second content protection technology. The repeater includes a receiver, a preparation module, and a transmitter. The receiver receives identification information that identifies a device compliant with the second content protection technology through the second content protection technology. The preparation module prepares an identification information list based on the first content protection technology that contains the identification information based on the second content protection technology received by the receiver and identification information based on the first content protection technology that identifies the repeater. The transmitter transmits the identification information list to the sender device through the first content protection technology. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121967 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVICE MANAGEMENT SECURITY OF TRAP MANAGEMENT OBJECT - The present invention relates to a system and method for device management security, and more particularly to a system and method for device management security of a trap management object (Trap MO), which can prevent a non-authorized device management server from indirectly controlling device management of a mobile terminal through use of the Trap MO defined in Open Mobile Alliance Device Management (OMA DM). To this end, when a DM client receives a request to register a notification target MO as a recipient node registration from a DM server, the DM client determines if the DM server has authority for both addition and execution and allows only an authorized DM server to register a recipient node in the Trap MO, so that only a DM server having authority for execution of an MO can execute the MO and control the device management of a mobile terminal. Accordingly, it is possible to enhance device management security of the mobile terminal against non-authorized DM servers. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121968 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATING OPERATIONS OF HOUSEHOLD SYSTEMS FROM REMOTE APPLICATIONS - A system and method is provided for programming and controlling home automation systems. The system includes a client application adapted to encode instructions to operate household devices for transmission over a communications link. The system also includes a translator module adapted to decode and translate the instructions into control signals for controlling operations of household devices. The translator module is further adapted to listen for and encode operation updates of the household device to the client application. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121969 | Broadcasting over the internet - A method and system for reducing Internet congestion and latency by transmitting popular content in a broadcast manner. First a single copy of content is delivered from its origin server located anywhere in the world to a broadcast server according to the standard Internet protocol. From the server, that serves a system of interconnected networks in a regional domain, the content is transmitted as a flow of packets with a flow number placed in the packet's datagram header. The number is provided to client computers as an alias of URL, which is the content identifier on the Internet. Clients that have requested the same content by URL simultaneously download the flow of packets with the flow number in the packet header thereby avoiding congestion and as a result, delays in content delivery created by transmission of multiple copies of the same content at clients' different Internet addresses. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121970 | method and an apparatus for streaming data containing trick play streaming modes - The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for data streaming, the method comprising receiving a plurality of streaming requests from a plurality of user devices ( | 2010-05-13 |
20100121971 | MULTIPATH TRANSMISSION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and system for transmitting plural synchronous video streams over multiple wireless paths, is provided. One implementation involves, for each video stream, partitioning spatially correlated pixels into different partitions, and placing pixels from different partitions into different packets. Then, performing multipath transmission of the plural video streams by alternating transmission of packets from each video stream over multiple paths, while maintaining video information for the plural video streams synchronized during transmission. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME ENDPOINT APPLICATION FLOW CONTROL WITH NETWORK STRUCTURE COMPONENT - The present solution is directed towards systems and methods to more efficiently control a flow of a data stream traversing at least one intermediary on a network between a client and a server. A sender transmits a first message, comprising a first value of a bandwidth between the first intermediary and a second intermediary determined by the sender, to a first intermediary. The first intermediary establishes a next value of the bandwidth between the first intermediary and the second intermediary. The sender receives from the first intermediary responsive to the first message a second message comprising the established next value of the bandwidth between the first intermediary and the second intermediary. A data transfer manager of the sender, responsive to the second message determines a size of a portion of data queued for transmission to transmit to the first intermediary and a time for transmitting the portion of data queued. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121973 | Augmentation of streaming media - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for augmentation of streaming media. A method includes receiving streaming media, applying a speech-to-text recognizer to the received streaming media, identifying keywords, determining topics, and augmenting speech elements with one or more content items. The one or more content items cab be placed temporally to coincide with speech elements. The method can also include converting the speech elements into text and generating a text-searchable representation of the streaming media. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121974 | STEPWISE PROBING FOR ADAPTIVE STREAMING IN A PACKET COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A packet data communication network is probed with stuffed data inside the ordinary media streams to determine whether the network is capable of handling a higher bitrate before performing adaptive streaming to switch from a lower bitrate to a higher bitrate in order to avoid having to transmit actual streaming data from a lower bitrate to a higher bitrate first, determining that the network cannot handle the higher bitrate, and causing the server to switch back to the lower bitrate while providing varying video quality to the user. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121975 | Systems and Methods For Application Fluency Policies - The present solution is directed towards embodiments of a feature generally referred to as Application Templates or AppTemplates, which allows a administrator of an intermediary, such as an appliance, to configure and manage settings per application on a basis of a subset of application network traffic. Once configured, the application settings can be exported in a file called the Application Template, and imported into other intermediary systems. The Application Template includes the settings for the application as configured via the intermediary. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121976 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR NOTIFYING REAL-TIME STREAMING PROTOCOL EVENTS - A method for notifying a Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) event includes: monitoring an event state; and sending a notification indicative of a change of the event state to an event state receiving entity if detecting the change of the event state. A computer program and a computer-readable storage medium are provided to enable a computer to perform the steps of the method for notifying an RTSP event. An apparatus for notifying an RTSP event includes: an event state monitoring unit, adapted to monitor an event state; and a message sending unit, adapted to send a notification indicative of a change of the event state when the event state monitoring unit detects the change of the event state. A system for notifying an RTSP event includes the RTSP event notifying apparatus. Through the technical solution herein, the event state is notified to the corresponding network entity when the event state changes. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121977 | Predictive Bit-Rate Modification of Content Delivery in a Wireless Network - A sender in a wireless network may adjust the encoding bit rate of the transmitted content and/or the transmission bit rate of the content based on the predicted future channel throughput at a predicted future geographical position of a client mobile device, such as a cellular telephone. By appropriately adjusting the bit rate prior to the client mobile device experiencing the predicted low throughput, the likelihood of continuous content consumption by the client mobile device, even while experiencing the predicted low throughput conditions, may be increased. The prediction may be performed at the network side and/or at the client mobile device side. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121978 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERFACING WITH A MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A network controller may split, via a pass-through driver, processing of transmit and/or receive network traffic handled by the network controller. Physical layer (PHY) processing and/or Medium Access Control (MAC) processing of the management traffic may be performed internally via the network controller. The pass-through driver may route at least a portion of management traffic carried via the transmit and/or receive network traffic externally to said network controller for processing. In this regard, the pass-through driver may enable routing of data and/or messages to enable performing the external processing of management traffic. An application processor may be used to perform the external processing of management traffic. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121979 | DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE CONGESTION RECOVERY USING SPLIT HORIZON DNS - A method for congestion recovery during a denial of service attack involves creating a split horizon zone on a server, where the split horizon zone includes a fictitious zone mapped to a fictitious address, receiving and investigating requests from clients, designating a malicious client based on investigating the requests, where the malicious client is associated with a client address, assigning the client address to the fictitious zone, and routing network traffic from the malicious client to the fictitious address. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121980 | METHOD OF GENERATING ROUND ROBIN SERVICE ORDER LISTS FOR IMPROVING SERVICE PERFORMANCE DURING SERVER FAILURES - A network communication node includes a request distribution manager that combines a plurality of permutations of sequences for routing requests to a plurality of servers. The request distribution managers also generates instructions for routing the requests to the plurality of servers, based on the combination of the plurality of permutations. The network communication node also includes a router that routes the requests to the plurality of servers based on the instructions. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121981 | AUTOMATED VERIFICATION OF DNS ACCURACY - Disclosed is a method, a computer system, and a computer readable media product that contains a set of computer executable software instructions for directing the computer to execute a process for independent confirmation of DNS replies to foil DNS cache poisoning attacks. The process comprises comparing a plurality of DNS replies for an exact or predefined “close enough” match as a condition for blocking or forwarding a DNS reply to a resolver. The tangible beneficial result is to prevent the success of a dns cache poisoning attack from diverting a user to a malicious site on the internet. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121982 | MOVING-PICTURE PROCESSING DEVICE AND MOVING-PICTURE PROCESSING METHOD - A moving-picture processing device distributing moving-picture data to an information processing terminal includes: a division processing unit for generating a plurality of divided moving-picture data obtained by dividing moving-picture data, a moving-picture processing unit for subjecting each data item of said plurality of divided moving-picture data to a distribution process for distributing moving-picture data, and a distribution processing unit for sequentially distributing, by each arbitrary data amount as distribution data to the information processing terminal, each data item of said plurality of divided moving-picture data that have undergone the distribution process. The moving-picture processing unit executes the distribution process in parallel. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121983 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING UPDATE INFORMATION - A system and a method for providing update information. The system includes a client computer which is operably connected to a program information server. The program information server maintains one or more program information items. The system also includes a program selection server which allows the user to select which of the program information items are to be viewed by the user. Based upon a dynamically adjustable polling period, the client computer requests the program information server to provide the client computer new program information items. The program information items include one or more media items that may be selected for viewing by a user positioned at the client computer. The client computer provides a newness indicator to the user, the newness indicator indicating to the user when one or more items of the media content is new and has not been previously viewed by the user. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121984 | Method, device, and system for issuing synchronization message - Provided is a device for issuing a synchronization message in a large-scaled computing system including an interconnect and a plurality of computing devices that is connected to the interconnect. The interconnect includes a plurality of switches that is connected to each other. The device sends a synchronization message for synchronizing computing processes on the computing devices to all the computing devices at same timing via the switches that are directly connected to any of the computing devices by using a protocol for a general-purpose interconnect. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121985 | Large Scale Mobile Network Address Translation - A method and system for enabling a mobile station (MS) to transfer from one Network Address Translation (NAT) domain to another NAT domain. Dynamic rules created in the first NAT domain are transferred to the second NAT domain via a first Media Policy Routing function. A tunnel is created between the second NAT domain and the first MPR for transferring a MS session. A new session from the MS is created outside the tunnel and once the MS session times out, the MS session, the states existing in the first MPR and the second NAT domain utilizing a new set of dynamic NAT rules created in the second NAT domain are all removed. The tunnel is then removed and communication via a second MPR and the second NAT domain is available. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121986 | Wireless protocol adapter assembly with interchangeable connectors - The present invention relates to a wireless protocol adapter assembly for diagnostics, analysis, and monitoring. The wireless protocol adapter assembly provides a common connection interface between a sealed common electronics package and a plurality of vehicle connectors that access a plurality of vehicle networks respectively for translating and transferring signals between the plurality of in-vehicle networks and a host computer. The common connection interface allows the vehicle connector compatible with a particular vehicle type to be coupled to the common electronics package. The common electronics package can recognizes when it is connected to a vehicle network running a particular protocol and automatically switch to that protocol. A wireless protocol adapter board having a standard connection pinning arrangement allows wireless links to be changed or altered as wireless standards change and evolve. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121987 | HOST APPARATUS CONNECTED TO IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, REMOTE CONFIGURATION SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME AND REMOTE CONFIGURATION METHOD USING HOST APPARATUS - A host apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus, a remote configuration system including the same, and a remote configuration method using the host apparatus. The method of remotely configuring a host apparatus connectable to at least one image forming apparatus includes selecting the at least one image forming apparatus; configuring at least one configuration item of the at least one image forming apparatus; and displaying the at least one configured configuration item on a work list window. With this, a work list window displaying configured configuration item is prepared and it is thus convenient for a user to grasp the configured configuration item at a glance. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121988 | DYNAMIC STATE CONFIGURATION RESTORE - A microcontroller or integrated system has a bus, a plurality of peripheral devices each one coupled with the bus, a non-volatile memory, and a state machine coupled with the non-volatile memory and being operable to initialize the peripheral devices by reading initialization information from the non-volatile memory and writing it to the peripheral devices. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121989 | Digi Time Capsule - The present utility model relates to the field of software for recording and storing thoughts and media. Specifically it relates to a way to capture and store all the parts of a life journey. The present utility model provides one software application with a media center for storing photos, video and audio files, journal, letters for the future, daddy to be section, mommy to be section, time capsule section for capturing world headlines, sports and arts, an old wives tales quiz, month-to-month guided questions, photo editing center, video making center, photo collage center, baby's nursery center and labor and delivery center. | 2010-05-13 |
20100121990 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMBEDDED REGENERATIVE LICENSING - A method and system for embedded regenerative licensing are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises transmitting a first capability request for a first hardware device to a hardware adapter. A second capability request for a second hardware device is transmitted to the hardware adapter. A first device capability response for the first hardware device is received from the hardware adapter. The first device capability response comprises a first timestamp, a first unique identifier for the first hardware device, and a first functions list to disable on the first hardware device. A second device capability response for the second hardware device is received from the hardware adapter. The second device capability response comprises a second timestamp, a second unique identifier for the second hardware device, and a second functions list including one or more functions from the first hardware device to enable on the second hardware device. | 2010-05-13 |