39th week of 2008 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20080235281 | Digital File Management System With Unstructured Job Upload - Uploading digital assets from a source media directory into a web-based digital asset management system includes representing a structure of the source media directory, and the digital assets, as a XML object, and storing the XML object in a database. Based on the XML object, the source media directory structure and the digital assets can be displayed through a web-enabled user interface. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235282 | Personal Computing Apparatus and a Method Therein - A personal computing apparatus has a position code repository, which stores a representation of a plurality of subsets of a position code, and a code assigner, which on request assigns at least one of said subsets to a document stored in the personal computing apparatus. In this way local on-demand printing of position-coded base can be performed. The subsets of the position code represented in different personal computing apparatuses may be the same. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235283 | GENERATING AUDIO ANNOTATIONS FOR SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL - Embodiments of a computer system to determine one or more annotation items associated with an audio file are described. During operation, the computer system provides an interactive environment in which multiple users listen to the audio file within a time interval. Next, the computer system receives one or more annotation items associated with the audio file from the multiple users. Then, the computer system displays the received one or more annotation items from the multiple users in the interactive environment, thereby enabling the multiple users to provide feedback to a given user in the multiple users. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235284 | Method and Apparatus For Analysing An Emotional State of a User Being Provided With Content Information - The invention relates to a method of analysing an emotional state of a user being provided with content information in a consumer electronics interface. The method comprises steps of: ( | 2008-09-25 |
20080235285 | Instant Messaging Service with Categorization of Emotion Icons - A method for sending messages in a data processing system ( | 2008-09-25 |
20080235286 | MEDIA PLAYBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of playing media stored on a media player (MP) is disclosed. The method includes identifying at least one media program and specifying a date and time to begin playing each media program, to provide a time-schedule playlist. The method further includes specifying a gap-response to a gap in the continuity of media playback, indicating as priority content, media to play, thereby interrupting the time-schedule playlist in progress, and specifying an interruption-response following each interruption of the time-schedule playlist. Specifying the gap-response includes: turning off the MP; playing media explicitly specified; playing media from a second media playlist; and, playing priority content media. Indicating priority content media comprises at least one of: indicating specific media; and, indicating categories of media. Specifying the interruption-response comprises specifying at least one of: shifting the content of the time-schedule playlist; and rejoining the content of the time-schedule playlist. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235287 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING APPOINTMENT AND MEETING CONFLICT NOTIFICATION, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A method of checking a new entry in a calendar application having a cache that includes a first subset of existing entries falling within a first date range. Also, an electronic device implementing the method. The method includes determining whether the date of the new entry falls within the first date range. If so, the method determines whether the new entry directly conflicts with or is adjacent to one of the existing entries in the first subset, and provides a notification if appropriate. If the date is outside the first date range, the method creates a new calendar cache including a second subset of existing entries falling within a second date range around the new entry date, determines whether the new calendar entry directly conflicts with or is adjacent to one of the existing calendar entries in the second subset, and provides a notification if appropriate. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235288 | DATA QUALITY ENRICHMENT INTEGRATION AND EVALUATION SYSTEM - Data quality enrichment integration and evaluation system that enables the import of data into a database and the turnkey integration with data enrichment entities. The data imported into the database may be validated using validation rules. Data with particular data quality problems may be sent to a particular bucket for to avoid processing or to obtain processing by a particular data quality enrichment entity. A bucket of data may be sent to be enriched by one or more data enrichment entities. The enrichment results may be compared between entities to enable the selection of a data enrichment entity. The enrichment results may also be drilled down into to provide geographic and other plots that show the quality of original data and quality of data enrichment provided by each data enrichment entity. Evaluation of the enrichment results side by side allows for the selection of a data enrichment entity. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235289 | Method and device for managing unstructured data - Methods and systems for managing unstructured data. Embodiments involve providing a portion of data within a client in the networked computing system. A profile is created that is associated with the portion of data, the profile having at least a first tag and a user identifier. The portion of data and the profile are transmitted from the client to a server in the networked computing system. The portion of data, for example, a file, and the first tag are automatically stored into a data structure, such as a file and an associated database, on the server in response to receipt of the portion of data and the profile by the server. The data structure is subsequently identified in response to a query by the user seeking data associated with the first tag. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235290 | INFORMATION UPDATE SYSTEM, INFORMATION UPDATE METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A system includes a first server apparatus storing information and a plurality of second server apparatuses being connected to the first server apparatus. Each of the plurality of second server apparatuses transmits an update request signal for request to update the information stored in the first server apparatus to the first server apparatus. The first server apparatus selects, when receiving the update request signal, an update scheme corresponding to the update request signal out of a plurality of update schemes. The first server apparatus updates information corresponding to the update request signal with the selected update scheme. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235291 | Readable physical storage replica and standby database system - A standby database system or another replica data system replicates changes, made to data blocks at a source database system or another primary data copy, to replicas of the data blocks at the standby database system or other replica. While replicating the changes to the data blocks thereof, the standby database system (or other replica) receives queries (or reads) issued thereto and computes the queries based on data read from the data blocks thereof. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235292 | System and Method to Maintain Coherence of Cache Contents in a Multi-Tier System Aimed at Interfacing Large Databases - A method and a system for maintaining coherence of cache contents in a multi-tiered architecture of servers are described. This includes a front tier of satellite servers, each operating a local cache, and a middle tier of central servers each operating a central cache. Central servers interface with databases through database servers to retrieve the data elements used to construct objects and store them in central caches. Once constructed, objects are attributed a time-to-live (TTL) and stored in central caches then, forwarded to the satellite servers where they are stored in local caches before being delivered to the software applications that have requested them. They are invalidated when outdated and reconstructed from a central server from where they are forwarded to all central caches and to the local caches where they are needed. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235293 | METHOD FOR ENHANCED FILE SYSTEM DIRECTORY RECOVERY - A method is provided for directory recovery in a file system. Once a directory object problem is identified, a problem directory associated with the directory object problem is determined. A repaired directory is created to take the place of the problem directory, and the repaired directory is linked into the parent directory of the problem directory such that the repaired directory is hidden from an end user. A logical repair directory is created including the problem directory and the repaired directory. Information from the problem directory is moved to the repair directory while the file system is active. The problem directory is renamed to the repaired directory such that the problem directory is hidden from the user, and the repaired directory is made visible to the end user. The problem directory and the logical repair directory are deleted. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235294 | No data loss system with reduced commit latency - Techniques for reducing commit latency in a database system having a primary database system and a standby database system that is receiving a stream of redo data items from the primary. The standby sends an acknowledgment for a received item of redo data before the standby writes the redo data item to a redo log for the stream. When a no more redo event occurs in the standby, the standby sets a “no data lost flag” in the redo log if the stream of redo data items has no gaps and all of the redo data items received in the standby have been written to the redo log. The database system may operate in a first mode in which an acknowledgment is sent as just described and a second mode in which an acknowledgment is sent after the redo data item has been written to the redo log. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235295 | High availability of JCA inflowed transactions - Recovery of inflowed transactions are provided by any instance in a cluster, along with peer recovery of transactions in a cluster, and administrative functionality related to these aspects. A method of managing transaction processing comprises performing transaction processing using a first process, wherein the first process logs the transaction processing that it performs, detecting failure of the first process, wherein the transaction logs of the first process are locked, taking ownership of the locked transaction logs of the first process at a second process, unlocking the locked transaction logs of the first process for use by the second process, and recovering at least one transaction using the transaction logs. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235296 | Database management using a file to accumulate changes - Database management is described. A source data structure is copied to create a new data structure. Changes to the source data structure that occur during and after creation of the new data structure are accumulated in a file before they are added to the new data structure. Changes included in the file are subsequently applied to the second data structure. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235297 | Method for Indexing a Large Log File, Computer-Readable Medium for Storing a Program for Executing the Method, and System for Performing the Same - A system for performing a method for indexing a large log file includes a log line indexing section, a character string matching report file and a file pointer list file. The log line indexing section receives a character string by a user operation to extract a log line comprising the corresponding character string from an original log file, and counts the number of the file pointers. The character string matching report file stores the character string and the number of the file pointers corresponding to the character string. The file pointer list file stores the file pointers of the original log file corresponding to the character string. Therefore, the size of the “found” log file corresponding to the found log lines may be decreased, which are found in a log analysis that searches for and analyzes log lines including a specific character string in a large log file. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235298 | Distributed Database System Providing Data and Space Management Methodology - A distributed database system providing data and space management methodology. In a distributed database system having an allocation page for tracking allocation and deallocation of data pages including a deallocation bit for tracking data page deallocation, a method for determining when to clear the deallocation bit during recovery comprises: during runtime operation, generating log records recording allocation and deallocation of data pages, setting the deallocation bit during deallocation of a data page by a transaction, and clearing the deallocation bit after the transaction has committed; during recovery following a failure, identifying a particular log record corresponding to the deallocation bit set during deallocation of a given data page; determining whether the deallocation of the given data page recorded in the particular log record committed prior to the failure; and if the deallocation of the given data page committed prior to the failure, clearing the deallocation bit. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235299 | DETERMINING WHICH USER FILES TO BACKUP IN A BACKUP SYSTEM - A backup program, method and system is disclosed that monitors changes to a file in a storage, checks whether backup settings related to the file already exist and requests and applies backup settings related to the file in response to the file being changed if they do not. The backup settings are applied to control operation of a backup system to make one or more backup copies of the file. The backup settings may be electively saved to be applied automatically in the event of future changes to the file without requesting the settings. One or more lists may be used to identify (e.g. include or exclude) files for backup. Files may be identified by different categories including file name, file type, or file type group associated with a particular application. A typical backup system may save backup copies to a storage area network, e.g. controlled by a backup server. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235300 | DATA MIGRATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A migration target comprising one or more objects is migrated to a migration-destination file server, which is the file server specified as the migration destination, and object correspondence management information, which is information showing the corresponding relationship between respective migration-source object IDs for identifying in a migration source respective objects included in the migration target, and respective migration-destination object IDs for identifying these respective objects in the migration-destination file server, is created in the migration-destination file server. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235301 | FREE SPACE MANAGEMENT - An attribute is associated with one or more files stored on a storage medium, wherein the attribute is indicative to software utilized by a processor to access the files that the files are deletable. One or more files associated with the attribute can be deleted. Files can be deleted, for example, based upon receipt of a request for file system space. A sufficient amount of free space can be created to fulfill the request via the deletion of the one or more files associated with the attribute. A history of accesses to the files can be maintained and a least recently accessed file, associated with the attribute, can be deleted. Files can also be deleted according to a priority included in the attribute. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235302 | TRANSPARENT ALLOCATION OF A UNIQUE PER USER/TMP FS - The invention is directed to the transparent allocation of a unique per user /tmp file system. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: manipulating an operating system to provide each user with a private temporary file system; and constraining a process of the user to the user's private temporary file system. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235303 | Image readout system, server apparatus, image readout apparatus, and terminal apparatus - An application folder associated with a client PC and an application software of the client PC is generated in a storage section of a station PC. Scan data stored in the application folder is then moved to an application data folder of the client PC, which folder corresponds to the client PC and application software associated with the application folder. As a result, in a network scanner system in which a scanner apparatus is connected to the client PC over a network, it is possible to efficiently store scan data read out by the scanner apparatus and perform data processing to the scan data by an application software. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235304 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND STORAGE DEVICE ARCHIVE CONTROL METHOD - An archive management that allows random access. An archive managing part reads out files stored in an on-line volume at a timing determined by the respective file type, and stores these files in a specified volume among archive volumes. A retention term is designated for each set of file data, and respective retention terms are also set for the respective volumes. The file data is stored in a volume having a retention term that matches the retention term of the file data. The respective volumes are set in a device that allows random access. The areas in which data is written into the respective volumes are managed as write prohibited areas by pointers such that the respective volumes are used as a WORM device. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235305 | Dense prefix generation for garbage collection - A technique for establishing a dense prefix for a memory in a computer system. Memory is divided into a plurality of chunks. An efficiency factor is generated for each chunk in one or more chunks contained in the plurality of chunks. The efficiency factor may be based on an amount of memory to be reclaimed, an amount of memory to be scanned and an amount of memory to be copied relative to the chunk. A dense prefix is then established for the memory based on an efficiency factor associated with a chunk. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235306 | GARBAGE COLLECTION IN NONVOLATILE MEMORIES USING DATA ATTRIBUTES, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS AND METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME - A garbage collection apparatus of a nonvolatile memory can include a first-block management module that is configured to manage a plurality of first blocks, where each of the first blocks includes at least one respective invalid page of the nonvolatile memory. A second-block management module is configured to manage a plurality of second blocks to be allocated for storing data and/or metadata in the nonvolatile memory and is further configured to perform garbage collection for the nonvolatile memory. A control module is configured to allocate ones of the second blocks to respective ones of the first blocks according to when the at least one respective invalid page in each of the first blocks was generated or used. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235307 | LOCALITY WITH PARALLEL HIERARCHICAL COPYING GARBAGE COLLECTION - Disclosed is a garbage collection algorithm that achieves hierarchical copy order with parallel garbage collection threads. More specifically, the present invention provides a garbage collection method and system for copying objects from a from-space to a to-space. The method comprises the steps of (a) having multiple threads that simultaneously perform work for garbage collection (GC), (b) examining the placement of objects on blocks, and (c) changing the placement of objects on blocks based on step (b). Preferably, the method includes the additional step of calculating a placement of object(s) based on step (b), and using the result of the calculation for step (c). For example, the calculation may be used to increase the frequency of intra-block pointers and/or to increase the frequency of siblings on the same block. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235308 | LOCALITY WITH PARALLEL HIERARCHICAL COPYING GARBAGE COLLECTION - Disclosed is a garbage collection algorithm that achieves hierarchical copy order with parallel garbage collection threads. More specifically, the present invention provides a garbage collection method and system for copying objects from a from-space to a to-space. The method comprises the steps of (a) having multiple threads that simultaneously perform work for garbage collection (GC), (b) examining the placement of objects on blocks, and (c) changing the placement of objects on blocks based on step (b). Preferably, the method includes the additional step of calculating a placement of object(s) based on step (b), and using the result of the calculation for step (c). For example, the calculation may be used to increase the frequency of intra-block pointers and/or to increase the frequency of siblings on the same block. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235309 | Concurrent Collection of Cyclic Garbage in Reference Counting Systems - The present invention provides techniques that allow concurrent collection of cyclic garbage on reference counting systems. In general, candidate objects are found that may be part of cyclic garbage. Each candidate object has a reference count. Two tests are performed to determine if concurrent operations have affected the reference counts of the candidate objects. If concurrent operations have not affected the reference counts, the candidate objects are collected as garbage. Additionally, during garbage collection, the decrements to reference counts are delayed so that increments occur before decrements and so that decrements are held a predetermined time before being applied. This prevents decrementing a reference and collecting a cycle as garbage right before a reference is added to an object in the cycle | 2008-09-25 |
20080235310 | Difference degree evaluation device, difference degree evaluation method and program product - A difference degree evaluation device includes a signal acquisition unit which acquires at least two signals which are objects of matching, a memory unit which stores one of the two signals, which are acquired by the signal acquisition unit, as a reference signal, and stores the other of the two signals as an object signal, a sample extraction unit which extracts sample points in a predetermined block from the reference signal that is stored in the memory unit, and extracts sample points corresponding to the sample points of the reference signal from the object signal, and an arithmetic process unit which finds absolute difference values between the sample points of the reference signal and the sample points of the object signal, which are extracted by the sample extraction unit, and calculates a maximum value of the absolute difference values as an evaluation value. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235311 | SIMPLIFIED EQUALIZATION FOR CORRELATED CHANNELS IN OFDMA - Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate equalization of received signals in a wireless communication environment. Multiple transmit and/or receive antennas and utilize MIMO technology to enhance performance. A single tile of transmitted data, including a set of modulation symbols, can be received at multiple receive antennas, resulting in multiple tiles of received modulation symbols. Corresponding modulation symbols from multiple received tiles can be processed as a function of channel and interference estimates to generate a single equalized modulation symbol. Typically, the equalization process is computationally expensive. However, the channels are highly correlated. This correlation is reflected in the channel estimates and can be utilized to reduce complex equalization operations. In particular, a subset of the equalizers can be generated based upon the equalizer function and the remainder can be generated using interpolation. In addition, the equalizer function itself can be simplified. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235312 | Method and Arrangement For Suppressing Noise in Digital Signal Sequences and a Corresponding Computer Program and a Corresponding Computer-Readable Storage Medium - The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for suppressing noise in digital signal sequences, and to a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium, which can be used in particular to smooth and/or improve the signal-to-noise ratio in digital signal processing and in digital image processing. To this end, there is proposed a method for suppressing noise in digital signal sequences, wherein data values W | 2008-09-25 |
20080235313 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT - A signal processing method includes a first step of calculating a value indicating a value obtained by multiplying a ratio of the number of times of inputting the input signal having any one of values from p to m, where m is a maximum value of values of input signal which are subject to said signal processing and p is a value smaller than m and not a minimum value of the input signal, within a predetermined period to the number of times of inputting the input signal within the predetermined period, by the variable range of the converted value; and a second step of subtracting the calculated value from a maximum value within the variable range of the converted value or a value near the maximum value, wherein the input signal is converted according to the conversion characteristic specified based on a value obtained by subtraction. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235314 | METHOD OF GENERATING RANDOM ACCESS PREAMBLES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of generating random access preambles includes receiving information on a source logical index and generating random access preambles in the order of increasing cyclic shift from root ZC sequences with the consecutive logical indexes from the beginning of the source logical index until a predetermined number of the random access preambles are found, wherein the consecutive logical indexes are mapped to root indexes of the root ZC sequences. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235315 | TECHNIQUE FOR SOLVING NP-HARD PROBLEMS USING POLYNOMIAL SEQUENTIAL TIME AND POLYLOGARITHMIC PARALLEL TIME - A system and technique, called Solution Enumeration technique, for finding efficient algorithms for NP-hard combinatorial problems is presented. The solution space of these problems grows exponentially with the problem size. Some examples in this class are: Hamiltonian Circuit, SAT, Graph Isomorphism, and Perfect Matching problems. The core of this technique is a graph theoretical model of an NP-hard problem, viz., counting the perfect matchings in a bipartite graph. This technique is then applied to develop deterministic algorithms using polynomial sequential time or polylogarithmic parallel time (for massively parallel computers) for the search and counting associated with all NP-complete problems. In the past no polynomial time algorithms for these problems were found, and thus are believed to be intractable. This invention thus makes a theoretical as well as practical contribution to the field of computing, and has practical applications in many diverse areas. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235316 | PROCESSOR WITH ADAPTIVE MULTI-SHADER - The disclosure describes an adaptive multi-shader within a processor that uses one or more high-precision arithmetic logic units (ALUs) and low-precision ALUs to process data based on the type of the data. Upon receiving a stream of data, the adaptive multi-shader first determines the type of the data. For example, the adaptive multi-shader may determine whether the data is suitable for high-precision processing or low-precision processing. The adaptive multi-shader then processes the data using the high-precision ALUs when the data is suitable for high-precision processing, and processes the data using the high-precision ALUs and the low-precision ALUs when the data is suitable for low-precision processing. The adaptive multi-shader may substantially reduce power consumption and silicon size of the processor by implementing the low-precision ALUs while maintaining the ability to process data using high-precision processing by implementing the high-precision ALUs. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235317 | System and Method For Providing an Extended Computing Capacity - A system, method and business model is disclosed in which computation and storage intensive tasks are performed using remote commercial products ( | 2008-09-25 |
20080235318 | Information Processing System for Classifying and/or Tracking an Object - According to one embodiment, a computing system includes a computing node coupled to a number of sensors. The sensors are operable to generate records from received information and transmit these records to the computing node. The computing node is operable to bind the plurality of records in a plurality of classifications using a multiple level classifier such that each classification has a differing level of specificity. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235319 | System and Method for User-Definable Document Exchange - A document exchange based on user-definable validation rules provided by the exchanging parties. In one embodiment, an uploader uploads a document from a first computer, the upload being associated with a first member account registered with a network site. A user interface receives a delivery destination for the document from the first computer, the delivery destination being associated with a second member account registered with the network site. A content validator validates content of the document based on rules registered at the network site in connection with the second member account. An output adaptor determines a document delivery format registered at the network site in connection with the second member account. A delivery component delivers the document in the determined format to a second computer associated with the second member account. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235320 | Distributed 3D Environment Framework - A system for, and client-side and server-side applications for, constructing, connecting and real time management of independent 3D environment portions ( | 2008-09-25 |
20080235321 | Distributed contents storing system, copied data acquiring method, node device, and program processed in node - A node device in a distributed content storing system which includes a plurality of node devices, enabled to mutually communicate through a network, wherein the plurality of node devices has replica data of a plurality of content data different in their substance distributed and stored therein, wherein locations of the replica data thus distributed and stored are managed with respect to every content data, the node device including:
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20080235322 | Media Sharing - A method and device for distributing media from a network based content server to two or more clients participating in a burst-based service session. The method includes, following establishment of the burst-based service session, joining the content server to the session as a further participating client, sending a media grant to the content server, and delivering the requested media from the content server to the other participating clients. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235323 | Transmitting Content in Wagering Networks - Systems, methods, and apparatus for transmitting content in wagering networks are described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes determining a first source for a first block of a wagering content file. The method can also include determining a second source for a second block of the wagering content file. The method can also include receiving the first block from the first source, receiving the second block from the second source, and using the first block and the second block to create a copy of the wagering content file. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235324 | Providing Shared Tasks Amongst a Plurality of Individuals - A mechanism for sharing tasks is provided in which individuals in a share group may signal their intent to complete individual shared tasks and communicate that intent to other individuals in the share group. A required time for completion of the shared tasks may be associated with an individual's signaling of the intent to complete the shared task. The completion of the shared task by the individual signaling intent to complete may be monitored and, if not completed within the associated required time, the performance of the shared task may again be shared with the individuals of the share group. In this way, another individual may signal that individual's intent to perform the shared task and the process may be repeated until the shared task is completed. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235325 | IDENTIFYING APPROPRIATE CLIENT-SIDE SCRIPT REFERENCES - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying appropriate client-side script references. Embodiments of the invention facilitate tailoring a list of script references to send to a Web browser based on a list of script references included in a server page. Referenced scripts sent to a Web browser can differ from referenced scripts included in the server page. Script references sent to a Web browser can refer to scripts optimized for the execution environment of the Web browser and to scripts stored at preferred script sources. Further, duplicate script references are removed prior to sending a list of script references to the Web browser. Since script lists sent to Web browsers are tailored for execution environment and duplicates are removed, scripts can be loaded and processed more effectively at Web browsers. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235326 | Methods and Apparatus for Accelerating Web Browser Caching - Methods and apparatus for processing intercepted requests and responses related to document retrieval between client and server computers. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, document metadata from server responses are inspected and stored in a database by an acceleration device in the network path between client and server computers. The device inspects freshness verification requests sent from client to server computers and, based on information stored in its database, sends “not modified” responses back to the client computers without involving the server computers, thereby reducing network and server loads and improving response time. In further embodiments the device may maintain its database by sending document information requests to server computers and processing their subsequent responses. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235327 | ACHIEVING LOW LATENCIES ON NETWORK EVENTS IN A NON-REAL TIME PLATFORM - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing low-latency handling of events and/or requesting actions of external resources in a real time environment while utilizing non-real time components. According to one embodiment, a system for providing low-latency handling of events in a real time environment while utilizing non-real time components can comprise an external resource and a resource adapter communicatively coupled with the external resource. The resource adapter can be adapted to detect events of the external resource and/or request actions of the external resource. The system can also include at least one local application communicatively coupled with the resource adapter. The local application can have a local interface and the local application can interact with the resource adapter via the local interface. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235328 | Network System, Server, Data Processing Method and Program - A front-end server for temporarily holding an operation request for a NAS server, which is sent from a predetermined client, is interposed between the NAS server and clients on a network. This front-end server holds information concerning a correlation among data files stored in the NAS server, optimizes the operation request received from the client based on the information, and transmits the operation request to the NAS server. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235329 | METHOD FOR REPRODUCING MEDIA CONTENT IN TERMINAL AND TERMINAL HAVING FUNCTION FOR REPRODUCING MEDIA CONTENT - A method for reproducing media content in a terminal and a terminal having a function for reproducing media content are disclosed. The method for reproducing media content in a terminal includes accessing a content server; and reproducing at least one media content configured with the accessed content server, among at least one media content which is previously stored in the terminal. Accordingly, the terminal is able to reproduce the media content configured with the accessed content server while receiving contents from the accessed content server. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235330 | Method and Apparatus for Utilizing Portable E-Mail Addresses - A signal bearing medium tangibly embodies a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform operations comprising receiving an email message having an extended email address encoded virtual address, resolving said address to an actual email address, replacing the virtual address with the actual email address, and transmitting said email message. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235331 | SCHEDULING SYNCHRONIZED DEMAND FOR P2P NETWORKS - A method and system are provided to share a file over a P2P network comprising: notifying a plurality of peer devices of a scheduled time during which sharing of a file over the network is to occur; receiving requests from multiple peers from the plurality to participate in sharing of the file during the scheduled time; and distributing different segments of the file to different peers from among the multiple peers. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235332 | Advertising substitution payment system - There is provided a method that includes sending information to a first device, receiving a confirmation that a user of the first device acknowledged receipt of the information, and facilitating a communication between the first device and a second device via a peer-to-peer network in return for the confirmation. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235333 | GROUP ACCESS PRIVATIZATION IN CLUSTERED COMPUTER SYSTEM - An apparatus, clustered computer system, and program product rely on cluster-private group names to perform accesses to groups that are resident in a clustered computer system. Thus, for a cluster-accessible group, all nodes capable of participating in a cluster are configured to map to the same cluster-private group name for that group, so that any external user that has access to the clustered computer system can access the group name and utilize the group name to initiate operations by the group. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235334 | METHODS FOR CREATING AND USING ELECTRONIC MAILING GROUPS - A method for creating an electronic mailing group. The method is implemented via execution of computer readable program code on a processor of a computer system. A first input is stored in a computer-readable storage medium. The first input includes a first group name for distributing a first electronic mail message. The first group name is associated with a plurality of electronic mail addresses, based on a first set of received instructions. The first group name represents the addresses. After associating, information associated with the first group name is stored in the storage medium. The information is associated with each address of the addresses and designates each address of the addresses as a first recipient type selected from: To recipient, Carbon Copy recipient, and Blind Carbon Copy recipient. At least one address of the addresses is designated as a Carbon Copy recipient or a Blind Carbon Copy recipient. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235335 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CHANGING THE STATUS OF AN EXISTING EMAIL IN A RECIPIENT EMAIL CLIENT INBOX - A method, system, and computer program product for changing the status of an existing email in a recipient email client inbox are provided. The method includes receiving a message from an email server that includes a message identifier identifying the existing email message, the existing email message transmitted to the recipient email client inbox. The method also includes retrieving the existing email message corresponding to the message identifier, replacing a date and time of the existing email message with a current date and time corresponding to a time the message is transmitted, and moving the existing email message to the top of an email queue of the recipient email client inbox. The method further includes marking the existing email message at the top of the email queue as unread and notating the existing email message with the date and time of the existing email message. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235336 | IMPLEMENTATION OF PRIVATE MESSAGING - A method is disclosed for sending messages such as emails where the sender and receiver in the exchange remain anonymous to each other. The method uses a service, which may for example be an Internet service provider, which acts as an intermediary between a first party and second party to a message. All exchanges between the first and second parties pass through the service, which masks all true identities while ensuring that the message is routed to the proper recipient(s). | 2008-09-25 |
20080235337 | Adaptive buddy lists - In one embodiment, a method can include: (i) monitoring for a buddy relevant event; (ii) deriving a buddy list portion from the buddy relevant event; (iii) determining presence information for each member in the buddy list portion; and (iv) updating an adaptive buddy list using the buddy list portion and the presence information. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235338 | Apparatus, systems, and methods to facilitate the interaction between parties - Devices, systems and methods for facilitating interactions between individuals are disclosed. The exemplary method may include providing member facility information and allowing other members to review the facility information. Members may request a meeting with another member with details of the requested meeting via the system. The request is transmitted to another member and the other member may accept, deny, or modify the request by the other member. Members may have an other members inclusive list or other members exclusive list to assist in facilitating interactions. Ratings may be used to rate other members and interaction facilities to aid in facilitating future interactions. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235339 | SUBJECT MATTER RESOURCE WEBSITE - A method and apparatus for providing searchable data. The method includes the steps of detecting a content capture request from a user and analyzing a screen being viewed by the user to capture a content and format of any information elements displayed on the screen. The method further includes the steps of prompting the user for descriptive information about the viewed content and saving the captured content and format and descriptive information as a subject matter resource within a subject matter resource file located at a predetermined website or physical location on the user's computer. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235340 | Information processing device, information processing method and information processing program - Included are a browse determining unit | 2008-09-25 |
20080235341 | Messaging system - A method of selecting a recipient of a message on the basis of data identifying access to previously transmitted messages, wherein each said message includes content data for display within a display area of a receiving terminal and control data including data indicative of a user selectable portion within the display area. The method includes receiving content data having one of a plurality of different types for use in creating said message, accessing tracking data corresponding to a previously transmitted message containing content data of a given type, the tracking data being indicative of selection of said user selectable portion upon display thereof at said receiving terminal, and selecting a recipient of the message on the basis of the received content data and the tracking data. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235342 | Interactive communications system - An interactive system and method for controlling access to a plurality of communications sessions involving a plurality of users including controlling access to a plurality of communications sessions, each of said communications sessions being for access by a plurality of users, wherein data identifying said plurality of communications sessions have been stored in association with data indicative of one or more characteristics thereof. The method includes receiving a request to initiate communications among members of a group of users, wherein said request includes data identifying the group of users, responsive to receiving said request, selecting a communications session on the basis of data identifying the group and at least some of said stored data indicative of characteristics of a given communications session, and transmitting messages to at least some members of the group. Each message has a message body including data providing access to the selected communications session and a destination address determined from data indicative of a given member of the group. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235343 | SYSTEM FOR STATUS REPORTING - A system for status reporting. The system provides a plurality of status messages, and reports to at least two user groups at least two status messages of the plurality of status messages, wherein each of the at least two user groups receives a different status message. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235344 | AUTO REPLY EMAIL AND AUTO REPLY EMAIL METHOD - Auto reply email and auto reply email methods are disclosed. A particular email message includes a no-reply origination address and a message body. Characteristics of the message body are selected based at least partially on a previous email message sent to the no-reply origination address. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235345 | Method, Apparatus, and Program to Forward and Verify Multiple Digital Signatures in Electronic Mail - A mechanism is provided for augmenting the mail header of a message with a list of digital signatures representing the chain of contributors to the message. The augmented header may also encode the actual contributions corresponding to each digital signature. The list is appended every time a message is forwarded. If a message has a portion with no corresponding digital signature or if one or more of the digital signatures is not trusted, the user may handle the message accordingly. Furthermore, a mail server or client may discard a message if the number of digital signatures exceeds a threshold to filter out unwanted messages, such as e-mail chain letters. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235346 | METHOD OF DETECTING RESPONSE TIME-OUT BASED ON MASTER-SLAVE PROTOCOL ARCHITECTURE - A method of detecting response time-out based on master-slave protocol architecture, which calculates the time required for a slave device to respond to a Modbus request sent by a detection device based on Modbus communication protocol. The method is to send a Modbus request to the slave device through a detection device, and to record the Modbus request sent time, and then to have the slave device provide to the detection device a response. The detection device calculates the response time-out based on the request sent time and the response received time By means of calculating the precise response time-out from the response time-outs which are gotten from the slave device respond to a predetermined number of Modbus requests, the user or manager can determine the response time-out required for the slave device precisely so as to give EXECUTE instruction or command at the accurate time point. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235347 | Service providing method and system - In a service provider system, a service provider provides service information dependent on location information of a mobile terminal to the mobile terminal in response to a service request with the location information sent by the mobile terminal. A communication control unit controls communication between the mobile terminal and the service provider. The communication control unit converts a user identifier of the mobile terminal in the service request to a temporary identifier for the communication. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235348 | PROGRAM VIEWING HISTORY - A method may include tracking program viewing information via a set-top box and storing the tracked program viewing information. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235349 | System and method for social-networking based presence - A telecommunications system includes a network; a social networking service operably coupled to the network and configured to allow registration of users, to allow identification of registered users' interests, and to identify associated users, said associated users being associated with registered users; a presence service operably coupled to the network and configured to determine an availability of associated users responsive to one or more availability criteria; a translation unit configured to convert user information from a social networking service format to a presence service format; and a messaging service operably coupled to the network and configured to send notification messages to associated users determined to be available and having a common interest corresponding to an event responsive to an occurrence of the event and one or more availability criteria. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235350 | ROOT NODE FOR FILE LEVEL VIRTUALIZATION - A root node creates and issues an object ID comprising share information designating a share unit, which is a logical public unit. The share unit is a logical public unit comprising no less than two objects. Transfer control information in which share information is associated with device information showing a device for managing this share unit, is prepared for each share unit. The root node receives request data, which has an object ID comprising share information, specifies device information corresponding to the share information in this object ID from the transfer control information, and transfers the request data to the device indicated in this device information. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235351 | Apparatus, Systems and Methods for Targeted Content Delivery - According to some embodiments of the present invention, a system, apparatus and method for targeted content delivery is presented. In some embodiments, the method comprises registering users logging-on to a computer network and gathering user-related information from users. Location-centric information for each user logged-on to the network is relayed to a server, and user-profile information for each user is retrieved from a database. User-profile and location-centric information for each user is processed to get targeting information for each user and the targeting information is sent to a content-provider wherein the content-provider uses the targeting information to select content to be displayed to each user. In some embodiments, user-profile and location-centric information may be gathered from wireless access points to which users log-on in order to access the Internet. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235352 | Architecture for installation and hosting of server-based single purpose applications on clients - Architecture for installing and hosting of remote or server-based single-purpose applications (or server gadgets) on a local client. Where the client supports client gadgets that are available all the time, the server gadgets can now be installed and utilized on the client. Once installed in the client gadget framework, server gadgets can be docked or undocked. The server gadgets can be added to the client gadget framework with no modifications, and will continue to run as if running on the server. Components of the architecture include a browser plug-in (e.g., browser helper object (BHO)) that provides added functionality for the browser being employed, a client hosting application for hosting server gadgets on the client, and methods by which the client hosting application can interact with the server gadget and the server gadget can interact with the client hosting application. An installer is provided to install these components. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235353 | System and method for confirming an association in a web-based social network - A method for confirming a request for an association with an organization by a user of a web-based social network is disclosed. In one embodiment, the request includes an e-mail address not controlled by the organization. The request may also be part of an application for membership with the web-based social network. A determination is made whether the request is accepted based at least partially on a specified number of prior requests for association with the organization or being identified as a member of the organization by another user already a member of the organization. The organization may be a high school, a college, a university, a business, a non-profit company, or any other group of people who may desire to associate with each other. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235354 | NETWORK AGNOSTIC MEDIA SERVER CONTROL ENABLER - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for interacting with a media server on a network and/or protocol agnostic basis. According to one embodiment, a method for controlling a media server can comprise receiving a request to perform a media control function of the media server from an application via a northbound interface of a media server control enabler. The northbound interface can provide an abstract interface for invoking one or more of a plurality of media functions of the media server. The media control function of the media server can be requested via a southbound interface of the media server control enabler. The southbound interface can provide an interface specific to the media server. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235355 | Intelligent Electronic Device for Receiving and Sending Data at High Speeds Over a Network - The present disclosure provides methods and systems for improving a data transfer rate from an intelligent electronic device (IED) to external PC clients, via a network interface. In one embodiment, an FTP based approach is disclosed which allows for significant optimization of download speeds providing as much a 100 times the download speed capability. In accordance with one aspect of present disclosure, an improved data rate is achieved by utilizing a high-speed transfer protocol, such as the FTP protocol in conjunction with a novel file system incorporated into the IED. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235356 | System, apparatus, method and program for processing information - In response to a request, one of primary content data as a copyrighted work and incidental content data is received from a server. With a music editing and sharing application, the content data is used in a secondary usage fashion for editing in order to produce new incidental content data. The incidental content data is not the one that is produced by arranging directly the primary content data as an editing material but play control information for giving an instruction defining a play mode. The incidental content data is uploaded to an incidental content server. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235357 | ON-LINE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for on-line configuration management of a production environment having a plurality of target nodes, each of which has a current configuration of software controlling at least some of the functions of the node. The system includes a central configuration management server, a plurality of agents associated with the target nodes, and a central configuration database in communication with the central server. Each agent is installed on an associated target node to monitor the configuration of the software on the associated node and to report to the server, configuration changes detected by the agent. The central configuration database stores the configuration of the software as reported by the agents for the plurality of nodes. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235358 | Proxy Device, Network System, and Communication Method - The present invention provides a proxy device, a network system, and a communication method to enable communication between an information appliance capable of communicating only within a closed network and an information appliance capable of communicating only within a closed network different from the network, via an open network, wherein in a proxy device | 2008-09-25 |
20080235359 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PROGRAM APPLICATIONS STORABLE IN A MOBILE TERMINAL - Management server | 2008-09-25 |
20080235360 | System and Method for Scheduling Downloading in a Cached Network Environment - A system and method schedules downloading of content files from a content server to a client through a cache server. A user can request a content file for future delivery at a certain service time at a certain location such as a hotspot. A cache server receives these requests and sorts them in an order which depends on the relative service times, and eliminates redundancies by only downloading content files not already stored in the cache server. A scheduling algorithm minimizes the instances of tardiness under the constraint of cache storage capacity. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235361 | MANAGEMENT LAYER METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT OF USERS TO COMPUTER RESOURCES - A management layer method and apparatus for dynamically assigning computer users to remote computer resources according to predetermined rules and irrespective of remote viewer protocol utilized by the user. The method and apparatus is capable of managing hundreds of thousands of users across multiple physical sites and is operable with a wide variety of network, Internet, and application solutions. The method and apparatus is useful for an increasing mobile contemporary workforce in a world where the need for around the clock coverage coexists with the ever present possibility of catastrophic network failure. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235362 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT - A method in a mobile communication device for communication over a wireless network for managing conference equipment, including: establishing a connection with a video conferencing management server via the wireless network; receiving information from the video conferencing management server, the information including one or more lists of entries from one or more phone books or personal information of a user of the mobile device; generating a user interface to allow the user to select one or more of the entries from the one or more phone books or personal information; and creating a control message, based on at least a selected one or more of the entries from the one or more phone books or personal information, that instructs the video conferencing management server to initiate or schedule a videoconference. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235363 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLATFORM LEVEL DATA MODEL FOR INDICATIONS BASED EVENT CONTROL AND DATA TRANSFER - For a platform level data model for indications based event control and data transfer, a management controller may enable performing indications based management operations that may be based on a management service utilizing CIM Indications model. The management controller may enable communication of indications based messaging and/or data. The indications may be triggered based on events generated and/or triggered in a plurality of managed entities. The events generation may be performed dynamically within the plurality of managed entities, or may be initiated via the management controller. The management controller may enable processing of partially generated indications, via the plurality of managed entities, and/or as pass-through router for full indications processed via the plurality of managed entities. The indications based management operations may also comprise subscription related operations wherein the management controller may enable performing processing of subscription requests, modifications, and/or deletions to facilitate external access via the device. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235364 | Method and apparatus for using dynamic workload characteristics to control CPU frequency and voltage scaling - Some embodiments involve determining a processor performance characteristic associated with a workload, determining a workload characteristic associated with the workload, and determining a processor performance state for the workload based on the performance characteristic and the workload characteristic. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235365 | AUTOMATIC ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS USING AUTO-BASELINING ON AGGREGATED PERFORMANCE METRICS - Anomalous behavior in a distributed system is automatically detected. Metrics are gathered for transactions, subsystems and/or components of the subsystems. The metrics can identify response times, error counts and/or CPU loads, for instance. Baseline metrics and associated deviation ranges are automatically determined and can be periodically updated. Metrics from specific transactions are compared to the baseline metrics to determine if an anomaly has occurred. A drill down approach can be used so that metrics for a subsystem are not examined unless the metrics for an associated transaction indicate an anomaly. Further, metrics for a component, application which includes one or more components, or process which includes one or more applications, are not examined unless the metrics for an associated subsystem indicate an anomaly. Multiple subsystems can report the metrics to a central manager, which can correlate the metrics to transactions using transaction identifiers or other transaction context data. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235366 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING MESSAGES PASSED OVER A NETWORK - A method for performing a monitoring function for an application that passes messages between two or more endpoints, comprising: receiving a message including transaction data, the transaction data including data relating to transport of the transaction data; storing the message and transaction data in respective message data and transaction data buffers in a data store; storing status and semantic information associated with the message in the data store; receiving a signal selecting one or more module instances to define the monitoring function, each module instance for independently performing a respective aspect of the monitoring function, each module instance having related module instance data stored in a respective module instance data buffer in the data store, each module instance having a respective service access point for accessing the data store, each service access point having related service access point data stored in a respective service access point data buffer in the data store, each module instance independently accessing one or more of the message, transaction, module instance, and service access point data buffers to process data contained therein to perform its aspect of the monitoring function; and, initiating operation of the one or more module instances in accordance with a schedule defined by one or more routing rules, the one or more routing rules for routing a pointer to the message, as stored in the message data buffer, between the one or more module instances to thereby perform the monitoring function. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235367 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING USER STATUS IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM - A computer implemented method, apparatus and computer usable program code for managing user status. A number of active conversations present for a user of an instant messaging service is identified. The user status for the user is changed based on a policy using the number of active conversations. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235368 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING NETWORK TRAFFIC - Described herein are systems and methods for matching clicks of links on a webpage with page views by a user. The method may comprise identifying a link on a webpage requested by a client device, generating a link identifier for the link and attaching the link identifier to the link. Upon receiving a request for data associated with the link, the link identifier is stored in a log file. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235369 | Distributing replication assignments among nodes - Replication in distributed systems may be based on a determination of the number of connections to a node to be replicated. When a new user is adding a node in a distributed system, the number of connections between nodes connected to the new node is determined. In addition, the change in relationships among nodes directly influence the changes in their respective connections. A ranking based on the number of connections is developed and data associated with a node is replicated based on its ranking. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235370 | Method and System for Controlling Network Traffic of P2P and Instant Messenger Softwares - A method and a system for controlling a network traffic of P2P and instant messenger softwares are disclosed. In accordance with the method and the system, both a header and a payload of a packet generated by an instant messenger software or a P2P software are monitored to terminate a session by transmitting a termination signal to a receiver and a transmitter when required, thereby blocking the exchange of the attached file and storing the content of the conversation. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235371 | SYSTEM, COMPUTER PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR EVENT MONITORING WITH DATA CENTRE - A system, computer product and method for monitoring and disseminating data form a plurality of electronic devices via the Internet is provided. The plurality of electronic devices, or further electronic devices connected to the plurality of electronic devices, generate signal data. A computer product of the present invention is loaded on the electronic devices such that the signal data is collected via the Internet at a remote web server. The web server stores this data in a database such that a client can monitor its signal data by means of the web server, via the Internet. The present invention also permits the client to disseminate the signal data, including signal data meeting alarm parameters, based on business rules established by the client. A method for deploying the system of the present invention across a plurality of electronic devices, including electronic devices across a plurality of locations is also provided. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235372 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING STATUS AND STATE OF REMOTELY EXECUTING PROGRAMS - A system and method for providing attestation and/or integrity of a server execution environment are described. One or more parts of a server environment are selected for measurement. The one or more parts in a server execution environment are measured, and the measurements result in a unique fingerprint for each respective selected part. The unique fingerprints are aggregated by an aggregation function to create an aggregated value, which is determinative of running programs in the server environment. A measurement parameter may include the unique fingerprints, the aggregated value or a base system value and may be sent over a network interface to indicate the server environment status or state. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235373 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING STATUS CHANGES IN A NETWORK USING VIRTUAL COORDINATE MAPPING - A system and method for scalable status change detection in a network of nodes includes embedding node coordinate positions into a virtual map environment. A cluster of nodes are represented with a representative node to form a hierarchy of nodes and clusters where changes in a status of the representative node imply a status change in the nodes of the cluster. By selectively monitoring the representative nodes for the changes in status, the representative nodes create a capability for scalable monitoring of the network. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235374 | Electronic device monitoring method, electronic device computer and program thereof - Processing relating to maintenance of a monitoring subject device is performed by detecting by a computer an IP address of an electronic device connected to a LAN, automatically referring to communication protocol specification data indicating a communication protocol with the electronic device indicated in remote maintenance management data provided in advance or obtained from the electronic device, and performing a communication with the electronic device by using said communication protocol and the IP address indicated by the communication protocol specification data. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235375 | SOCIAL NETWORKING ONLINE COMMUNITY - Access to a network resource, such as an Internet web site, may be controlled by a server receiving requests for the web site and responding by presenting users with a survey question that must be answered before site access is permitted. The users of the web site may be members of a virtual community corresponding to a business, educational institution, or other organization providing the web site. Thus, the web site provider may gather demographic, user preferences, and other information relevant to their business or organization. The content and number of survey questions that a user may be required to answer may depend on factors including user information, previous user responses, and the content of the web site or other requested resources. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235376 | Access Selection Method - A method of access management in a communication system comprising a terminal, a first access point, a second access point and a network is described. The first access point offers a first access connection to the terminal and the second access point offers a second access connection to the terminal. A first network connection is provided between the network and the first access point and a second network connection is provided between the network and the second access point. Access connection information associated with at least one of the first and second access connections is monitored, and network connection information associated with at least one of the first and second network connections is monitored. An access connection selection decision is based on the monitored access connection information and the monitored network connection information. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235377 | Aggregation system - An aggregation system includes: a load balancer for distributing accesses to a plurality of user proxy server devices, the accesses including operation information and ID numbers; a plurality of user proxy server devices, wherein the user proxy server devices include program device for identifying a user management server device where a user management server device number corresponds to a remainder M based on the remainder M obtained by dividing the ID number by a number N of the user management server devices, and for transferring the accesses to an identified user management server device; and a plurality of user administration server devices. The user administration server devices include computers sequentially assigned with the user management server device number, and program devices for functioning as a memory device and as a user management device for memorizing the operation information together with elapse time information. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235378 | POLICY ALGORITHM FOR SELECTION OF COMPATIBLE SYSTEMS FOR VIRTUAL SERVER MOBILITY - A method and system for selecting compatible systems for virtual server mobility. Responsive to determining a current location of a workload partition instance running on a managed server, mandatory compatibility tests specified in a compatibility policy associated with the workload partition instance are executed to compare properties of the managed server with properties of potential target systems. A list of potential target systems is generated that have passed the mandatory compatibility tests specified in a compatibility policy. Optional compatibility tests specified in a compatibility policy associated with the workload partition instance are executed. The potential target systems that have failed any of the optional compatibility tests are removed from the list to form a filtered list, wherein the filtered list comprises a list of potential target systems compatible to support relocation of process collections within the workload partition instance. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235379 | NETWORK RESOURCE NEGOTIATION - Systems and methods according to these exemplary embodiments provide for methods and systems for negotiating resources in a communication system. One exemplary method includes transmitting, by a service manager, a request for a service, wherein the service request either explicitly provides, or implicitly refers to, a list of a plurality of service options for providing the service. Additionally, a resource manage can receive the transmission request from a service manager and process the request based upon either the explicitly transmitted list of service options or the reference to a list of service options. | 2008-09-25 |
20080235380 | FACTORING OUT DIALOG CONTROL AND CALL CONTROL - Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for providing session control and media exchange control that can include and combine, for example, call control and voice access concepts such as dialog (voice dialog, prompts and DTMF) or web/GUI elements. In one embodiment, a method of controlling a media session can comprise establishing a call via a signaling protocol, maintaining control of the call, and passing control of aspects of the call other than call control to a separate media processing module. The media processing module can comprise, for example, a dialog manager. In some implementations a voice access enabler providing a an abstract interface for accessing functions of the dialog controller. | 2008-09-25 |