Abstract: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for restricting the receipt of automatic delegate reply messages. Specifically, the method configures a control message for an electronic mail (e-mail) message addressed to at least one recipient terminal or computer, and sends the e-mail and control messages to the at least one recipient terminal. Upon processing the control message, the at least one recipient terminal determines whether to reply to the received e-mail message with a delegate reply message. As such, a sender of the e-mail message may restrict the receipt of delegate reply messages by configuring the control message through different features or options.

Abstract: A device including a self-information memory which stores function data for other devices to operate the device and device name data. Upon receiving a request from another device for the device name or function data, the device sends the data stored in the self-information memory. When function data is thereafter received, the device executes a function indicated by the data. When plural devices are connected to each other via a network, device acting as a mater device, includes a connected device memory which stores device name data of all connected device and a communication pair memory which stores function data of the communication partner.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing accelerated data storage and retrieval utilizing lossless data compression and decompression. A data storage accelerator includes one or a plurality of high speed data compression encoders that are configured to simultaneously or sequentially losslessly compress data at a rate equivalent to or faster than the transmission rate of an input data stream. The compressed data is subsequently stored in a target memory or other storage device whose input data storage bandwidth is lower than the original input data stream bandwidth. Similarly, a data retrieval accelerator includes one or a plurality of high speed data decompression decoders that are configured to simultaneously or sequentially losslessly decompress data at a rate equivalent to or faster than the input data stream from the target memory or storage device. The decompressed data is then output at rate data that is greater than the output rate from the target memory or data storage device.

Abstract: Instructions for a processing unit are stored in a number of memory banks, successive instructions being stored in successive, different memory banks. Whenever execution of an instruction is started, the reading of one instruction which will be executed more than one instruction cycle later is also started. Consequently, a plurality of instructions are read in parallel from different memory banks. After the reading of an instruction, and before starting the execution of the instruction, the instruction passes through a pipeline in which the processing device detects whether the relevant instruction is a branch instruction. If this is so, the processing unit starts the reading in parallel of a number of instructions as from a branch target instruction. If it appears at a later stage that the branch is taken, said number of instructions is loaded into the pipeline in parallel.

Abstract: An information management system records in a server contents that need not be updated for a fixed time-period. The system accesses desired contents in a local device or the server storing the contents. A request for information is made from an information browsing unit to a local request relaying unit which receives the request and analyzes the request contents. The local request relaying unit acquires a server-side control file managed by the server to which the request is directed and also acquires a local-side control file from a duplicate information storing unit. Confirmation is made as to whether the latest version of the requested information exists in the duplicate information storing unit. If the latest version of the requested information exists in the duplicate information storing unit, the requested information is fetched from the duplicate information storing unit; otherwise the information is fetched from the server computer.

Abstract: A processor executes an instruction set including instructions in which a register specifier is implicitly derived, based on another register specifier. One technique for implicitly deriving a register specifier is to add or subtract one from a specifically-defined register specifier. Implicit derivation of a register specifier is selectively implemented for some opcodes. A decoder decodes instructions that use implicitly-derived register specifiers and reads the explicitly-defined register. The decoder generates pointers both to the explicitly-defined register and to the implicitly-derived register. In other embodiments, a pointer to registers within a register file includes an additional bit indicating that a register read is accompanied by a read of an implicitly-derived register.

Abstract: A Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processor having a plurality of functional units includes a multi-ported register file that is divided into a plurality of separate register file segments, each of the register file segments being associated to one of the plurality of functional units. The register file segments are partitioned into local registers and global registers. The global registers are read and written by all functional units. The local registers are read and written only by a functional unit associated with a particular register file segment. The local registers and global registers are addressed using register addresses in an address space that is separately defined for a register file segment/functional unit pair. The global registers are addressed within a selected global register range using the same register addresses for the plurality of register file segment/functional unit pairs.

Abstract: In certain aspects, the invention features a system and method including receiving a parent job configured to produce one or more descendant jobs, and scheduling computation of the parent job on a node computing device that is one of a plurality of node computing devices of a distributed computing system. In such an aspect, the distributed computing system further includes a scheduler server configured to selectively reschedule computation of a job other than a parent job from any one of the plurality of node computing devices to another of the node computing devices, and to receive data descriptive of an indication that the parent job is not to be rescheduled unless each of the descendant jobs is completed or terminated. Such an aspect further includes preventing rescheduling of the parent job unless each of the descendant jobs is completed or terminated.

Abstract: A method to selectively receive mail by an Internet mail apparatus includes receiving and storing mail header information of at least one mail. Mail header information is selected corresponding to a predetermined mail from the at least one mail. A mail transmission command is transmitted to an incoming mail server requesting transmission of the predetermined mail corresponding to the mail header information selected. The Internet mail apparatus, in response to the mail transmission command, receives the predetermined mail.

Abstract: A right management server manages usage of a content on a parent terminal and a child terminal. The right management server includes content usage right database that stores right information indicating a usage rule of a content for each terminal ID or user ID, and a parental control information management unit that acquires, from the parent terminal or the parent user, parental control information that is an instruction to put a restriction on usage of a content on the child terminal or by a child user, and stores the parental control information in a parental control information database.

Abstract: A system is described for monitoring and testing computer networks, such as enterprise networks that tend to have a number of geographically dispersed devices and interconnected sub-networks. The system includes a plurality of distributed agents coupled to a computing network. The system further includes a replay module coupled to the network that has a storage medium to store replay data. The replay module communicates respective portions of the replay data to the agents, and issues commands to the agents to control introduction of the network packets on the computing network by the agents. In this way, the system recreates network activity in order to test the computer network. The replay data stored by the storage medium may define a conditional flow for introduction of the network packets by the agents. Accordingly, the replay module may issue commands to the agents in accordance with the conditional flow.

Abstract: The present invention relates to managing of communication in a system, which system includes at least one user unit 100 capable of reading information from a surface 120 and communicating at least part thereof to a server 140, 150, 160, a look-up server 140, 150 storing information management rules associated with information read from the surface and at least one application server 160. The user unit 100 receives an instruction with control data from the look-up server 140, 150 and determines, based on these control data, if specific information data is allowed to be communicated by the user unit to a receiving application server in response to an instruction from an application server concerning these specific information data.

Abstract: A method of implementing a telephony service in a Transaction Capability Application Part (TCAP) processing system can include receiving a TCAP event from a signaling network and matching the received TCAP event to a TCAP markup language script implementation of a telephony service. The TCAP markup language script can be retrieved from a data store. The TCAP event can be processed in accordance with the TCAP markup language script to implement the telephony service.

Abstract: Techniques for modifying requests or browser viewable documents (e.g., markup language documents) are described. By modifying requests or browser viewable documents, access to resources residing on remote servers through an intermediate server is facilitated. In one embodiment, Universal Resource Locators (URLs) associated with requests or markup language documents are modified. The techniques are suitable for both secure and unsecure requests. The techniques can also modify requests or browser viewable documents at the intermediate server, a client device, or both.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for sampling data flows in a data network in order to estimate a total data volume in the network. Sampling the data flows In the data network reduces the network resources that must be expended by the network to support the associated activity. The present Invention enables the service provider of the data network to control sampled volumes in relation to the desired accuracy. The control can be either static or can be dynamic for cases in which the data volumes are changing as a function of time.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system, method and computer program product for implementing application level policies in an operator network, while managing the exchange of data packets between users and service providers during the provisioning of premium data services. The present invention intermediates between a user and a service provider (who may be an enterprise, content provider, an application provider or a partner portal). The present invention enforces access control, prompting, redirection and inline context injection dynamically while the service is being delivered, and generates metering records for billing purposes. Prompting enables notifications and taking inputs from the user while the user accesses chargeable content or when the sharing of user data (profile or choice) occurs between the network and service provider.

Abstract: A web based sign-off process that allows a customer and an installation technician to electronically sign-off on a broadband installation for the purpose of recording that service is operating correctly thereby enabling the service providers to start billing for the broadband service. The sign-off takes place once the broadband installation is complete by navigating to a web site containing a sign-off form. Once the form is filled out by the customer and the technician, it is returned over a network to a service provider. The service provider modifies the customer's billing entry so that billing can commence at a broadband access rate.

Abstract: A microprocessor chip, and methods for use in that microprocessor chip. The chip has instruction pipeline circuitry and address translation circuitry. Table lookup circuitry indexes into a table, the table having an entry associated with each corresponding address range translated by the address translation circuitry. Each entry of the table describes a likelihood of the existence of an alternate coding of instructions located in the respective corresponding address range. The table lookup circuitry retrieves a table entry corresponding to the address, and is operable as part of the basic instruction cycle of executing an instruction of a non-supervisor mode program executing on a computer.

Abstract: Dual stack and/or multi-homed devices networked in a device connectivity architecture include a network location signature field in multicast device or service advertisement or announcement messages for recipients to disambiguate announcements of different addresses for the device. The network location signature is a value representing the device's current network configuration (e.g., set of active addresses), and changes with the network configuration. A recipient control point in the device connectivity architecture can then determine whether announcements of different addresses for the device or service are in addition to a previous announced address, or supercedes any previous announced address.

Abstract: A relay communication device capable of simplifying a method for designating a destination of relay transmission requesting mail to another relay communication device. A CPU reads Subject information stored in a data memory, analyzes the subject information, compares it with an identifying character for relay stored in a relay identification character storing section and judges whether or not a character matching any one of the identifying characters for relay exists in the subject information. If a matched character exists, E-mail is judged to be a relay transmission request. Then, password information is extracted from the subject information and the extracted information is compared with a password being stored in advance in the password information storing section. If the password exists in the subject information and if the existing password matches a password stored in a password storing section, the relay transmission request is implemented.