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John Buford, Lawrenceville, NJ US
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| 20090116484 | Parallelizing Peer-to-Peer Overlays Using Multi-Destination Routing - A method is provided for parallelizing overlay operations in an overlay network. The method includes: identifying an overlay operation having a parallel messaging scheme; determining a destination address for each parallel message in the messaging scheme; encoding each destination address into a data packet; and transmitting the data packet over the overlay network using a multi-destination, multicast routing protocol. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090222530 | System and Method for Service Discovery in a Computer Network Using Dynamic Proxy and Data Dissemination - A service advertisement delivery system and method is useful in a data processing network. A broadcasting node receives service advertisements describing services offered by service providing network nodes. A datastore in communication with the broadcasting node stores a set of the service advertisements of the service providing network nodes. The broadcasting node broadcasts the set of service advertisements over a broadcast channel to service seeking network nodes receiving the advertisements over the broadcast channel. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20110010533 | System and Method for Component Trust Model in Peer-to-Peer Service Composition - A system is provided for composition trust binding in a peer-to-peer network environment. The system includes: a service requestor ( | 01-13-2011 |
John F. Buford, Princeton, NJ US
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| 20110090901 | DETERMINATION OF PERSONA INFORMATION AVAILABILITY AND DELIVERY ON PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS - A method of operating a communication system to establish communication sessions between an origination network and a peer-to-peer network comprises receiving session signaling to establish a session between an origination device in the origination network and a destination node in the peer-to-peer network, wherein the session signaling includes a participant identifier associated with the origination device. The method further comprises processing the participant identifier to determine if persona information that identifies an originating participant and an entity associated with the originating participant is available for display by a destination device registered as the destination node on the peer-to-peer network and, if the persona information is available, transferring the persona information for delivery to and display by the destination device to a destination participant. The method further comprises establishing the session over the origination network and the peer-to-peer network and exchanging user communications for the session between the origination device and the destination device. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093598 | DISPLAY OF PERSONA INFORMATION FOR PEER-TO-PEER SESSIONS - A method of operating a communication system comprises registering a first communication device with a peer-to-peer network as a first node associated with a first session participant and a first entity and registering a second communication device with the peer-to-peer network as a second node associated with a second session participant. The method further comprises initiating a communication session between the first node and the second node, transferring for display by the second communication device first persona information identifying the first session participant and the first entity, and exchanging user communications for the communication session between the first communication device and the second communication device. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093599 | HIERARCHAL STRUCTURING OF NODES IN A PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK - A method of operating a communication system comprises registering a plurality of communication devices with a peer-to-peer network as a plurality of enterprise nodes using a plurality of network handles that identify positions in an enterprise hierarchy. The method further comprises receiving a request to establish a session with a participant node and an enterprise node of the plurality of enterprise nodes using a first network handle of the plurality of network handles that identifies a first position in the enterprise hierarchy. In response to the request, the method provides identifying a routing identifier associated with the enterprise node and exchanging user communications for the session with a communication device of the plurality of communication devices registered as the enterprise node using the routing identifier. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20120030289 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-MODEL, CONTEXT-SENSITIVE, REAL-TIME COLLABORATION - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for communicating via a multi-model collaboration space. A system practicing the method first assigns a communication endpoint identifier to a multi-model collaboration space having at least one entity. The endpoint identifier can be a telephone, email address, IP address, or username, for example. The system receives an incoming communication addressed to the communication endpoint identifier, such as a telephone call or email, and transfers the incoming communication to at least one entity in the multi-model collaboration space. In one aspect, the multi-model collaboration space provides a shared persistent container where entities can perform collaboration activities. The entities can have unique identities. The entities can be humans and/or automated, non-human, system-owned entities. Entities can share their context-specific view of the multi-model collaboration space with other entities. Such a multi-model collaboration space can be used in an enterprise environment. | 02-02-2012 |
John F. Buford, Lexington, MA US
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| 20090106065 | PROCESS FOR AUTOMATICALLY HANDLING ELECTRONIC REQUESTS FOR NOTIFICATION OF UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL AND OTHER SERVICE DISRUPTIONS - A system and method for automatically processing and responding to large volumes of customer requests regarding Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) and other service disruptions. The process combines manual and automated steps, and includes routing, filtering, aggregating, validating, ticketing, custom and automated responses, tracking, analyzing, and closing each validated request. The process can be used by the Customer Support Center (CSC) of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) to insure that all complaints are handled successfully, that promotion of complaints is done correctly, that legal aspects of certain criminal or fraud related incidents are handled correctly, and that portions of the processing of complaints are handled automatically. | 04-23-2009 |
John H. Buford, Wentzville, MO US
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| 20120060640 | ZTR CONTROL HANDLE KNOBS - A control handle knob assembly for use with a control handle of a ZTR vehicle. The knob assembly includes a control handle engagement portion having a clamping mechanism configured to fixedly engage the control handle of the ZTR vehicle. The assembly includes an extension portion having a support rod attached to the control handle engagement portion and a user interface portion having a rotating knob attached to the support rod at an end opposite control handle engagement portion. The knob is attached to allow free rotation of the knob about the support rod. | 03-15-2012 |
Keith D. Buford, Southfield, MI US
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| 20110231034 | METHOD FOR STARTING A HYBRID VEHICLE - A method for starting a hybrid vehicle when the vehicle is already connected to an external power source. In some hybrid vehicles, it can be undesirable for an external power source (e.g., an AC power outlet) and an internal power source (e.g., an internal combustion engine/generator) to simultaneously provide the vehicle with electrical energy. There are a variety of reasons why this may be true. For instance, some hybrid vehicles may have difficulty accurately estimating the state-of-charge (SOC) of the vehicle battery when both external and internal power sources are simultaneously providing electrical energy to the vehicle's high voltage bus. The method described herein can arbitrate or otherwise determine which power source is preferable for the circumstances and then activate or enable that power source accordingly. | 09-22-2011 |
Nancy P. Buford, King Of Prussia, PA US
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| 20100112344 | Blocking and stain resistant surface treated articles and methods for making - The present invention provides surface treated articles comprising a recoatable surface treatment of an acrylic or vinyl polymer that does not change the appearance of the treated surface, and which imparts blocking resistance and/or stain and dirt pickup resistance to the treated surface. The one or more acrylic or vinyl polymer has a number average molecular weight of from 1,000 to 100,000, a glass transition temperature of −10° C. or higher, preferably, 30° C. or higher, and comprises the polymerization product of one or more non-ionic monomer, such as methyl methacrylate, with up to 47 wt. % of an ethylenically unsaturated acid monomer and, preferably, is non-migrating under use conditions. When dry, the surface treatments may form a layer of domains of polymer distributed all over the treated surface, rather than a film. Treated articles include coating or painted articles and elastomer films exhibiting blocking and stain resistance, and uncoated wood, glass, metal or plastic articles and laminates, such as countertops, exhibiting stain and dirt pickup resistance. | 05-06-2010 |