Patents Examined by Yves Dalencourt
  • Distributed active knowledge and process base allowing system elements to be shared within a collaborative framework
    Patent number: 7032006
    Abstract: A distributed active knowledge and process base incorporates multiple Distributed Object Technology Systems (DOTS) connected over a network, the Internet, or wireless media to allow multiple types of data, processes, and services (system elements) to be created and modified within the same collaborative framework, and thereby permits data to be appropriately mapped to said processes, provides and updates periodically knowledge about available system elements and their values, allows separate systems to negotiate multiple forms of collaboration, and contains sufficiently flexible levels of data security in order to foster online collaboration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Inventor: Jeff (Yefim) Zhuk
  • Network management system
    Patent number: 7013333
    Abstract: A network management system has a network monitor arranged to monitor the load on elements of a computer network and to reconfigure the network when necessary to optimize its performance. The network configuration is carried out by servers in the network in response to an appropriate instruction from the network monitor. The servers operate to divert traffic from overloaded elements in the network by modifying both source and destination addresses of the transmitted data packets. In this manner the processing or database loads can be spread optimally among a plurality of servers in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: British Telecommunications public limited company
    Inventor: Michael James Dominic Skells
  • Apparatus for processing communications
    Patent number: 7007067
    Abstract: Communications received by a user over a communications link include identification information and are processed by: extracting identification information associated with a first received communication; categorizing the first communication and recommending an action based on the categorization; monitoring user response to the first communication; modifying the categorization in accordance with a monitored user response to the first communication, such that when a second communication having identifying information matching that of the first communication is received, the monitored user response is recommended by the categorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: British Telecommunications public limited company
    Inventors: Benham Azvine, David Philippe Djian, Kwok Ching Tsui, Wayne Raymond Wobcke
  • Systems and methods for managing contact information
    Patent number: 7007068
    Abstract: A service provider maintains a database with subscribers' updated contact information, such as address book entries and other personal and business information. When a user's information changes, subscribers on a recipient list are automatically updated without any user intervention. The subscribers' anonymity is assured by correlating contact information in the provider's database with encrypted subscriber ID's, such as hashed e-mail addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Peoplestreet
    Inventor: Andre Morkel
  • Connection management system and method
    Patent number: 7007092
    Abstract: A system and method for managing connections between a server and a plurality of clients at a network connection management device is provided. The method comprises maintaining at least one connection to the server, receiving requests from the clients, transmitting the requests to the server, receiving responses to the requests from the server, and monitoring a server response time for a selected request sent to the server, the server response time for the selected request being the time elapsed between transmitting the selected request to the server and receiving a corresponding response from the server. The method may also include basing the number of connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Peiffer
  • Information processing apparatus and control method therefor
    Patent number: 7003552
    Abstract: To easily change the specifications of a subsidiary device without changing a system unit, an information processing apparatus includes a slave control unit for controlling a slave device and a system control unit for receiving email from an external line and storing and managing the email. In transmitting email information to the slave device, email information stored in the system control unit is temporarily stored in the slave control unit and then transmitted to the slave device, improving information transmission efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Kogure, Yutaka Inoue
  • System and method for using remote links for processing document data
    Patent number: 7000009
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing processing operations on documents by external processing routines are provided. A representative system includes a processing link identifier that identifies a document containing at least one processing link to the external processing code. An invoker is used to invoke a processing engine that modifies the document using the external processing routine. A representative method operates by acquiring a processing link in the document and using the processing link to invoke a processing engine. The processing engine is then used to modify the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Craig R. White, Binnur Al-Kazily
  • Automatic access of internet content with a camera-enabled cell phone
    Patent number: 6993573
    Abstract: A camera-enabled cell phone that is adapted to image a machine readable code such as a bar code, decode the bar code, send the bar code data over the Internet to a resolution server that will return an associated URL that will link the camera phone to content on an information server. Thus, by taking a picture of a bar code symbol, the camera phone will automatically retrieve content from the Internet that has been linked to that bar code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Neomedia Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin D Hunter
  • Toy with remotely controlled security alarm
    Patent number: 6992593
    Abstract: A security alarm device is replicated in a toy vehicle. The security device includes a remote control which also can control vehicle functions. The remote control may control alarm arm and disarm, alarm and vehicle sounds such as arm, disarm, alarm set off, engine revving, tire screeching, motor drive, and vehicle lights. The security alarm device includes an LED which indicates whether the alarm is armed or unarmed, and a motion sensor which sets the alarm off (e.g., emitting a siren sound) when the toy vehicle is moved in its armed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Toymax, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell Javors
  • Trusted internet clipboard
    Patent number: 6983328
    Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable medium for using an Internet clipboard service to loosely couple web services by intercepting download and upload actions of a user in web interfaces to streamline information transfer from a source web service to a destination web service. The method includes the steps of: intercepting a user's request, capturing information retrieved for the request, editing the recorded messages, and replaying the messages on an Internet clipboard server to effect the resource transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Gabe Beged-Dov, Stephen A Loughran, Derek Roller, James R. Miller
  • Vector-based, clustering web geographic information system and control method thereof
    Patent number: 6970929
    Abstract: A vector-based system maximizes the performance of a server of a clustering Web geographic information system by realizing efficient load balancing using a load balancing processor, thus improving the system's reliability and stability. A control method of the system minimizes a user response time by using a progressive transmission technique when transmitting vector data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Inha University Foundation
    Inventors: Hae-Young Bae, Young-Whan Oh, Chung-Ho Lee
  • Point to multi-point communications system
    Patent number: 6970905
    Abstract: A point-to-multipoint communications network connecting multiple subscribers to a single communications line. A plurality of subscriber communications interfaces are connected in parallel to form a local group in which one communications interface serves as a master communications interface and the other communications interfaces serve as slaves. Each communications interface may be capable of serving as the master communications interface according to a demand division multiplexing technique, which assigns master status based on upstream data demands. As a communications interface is switched to master status, the communications interface previously holding master status is switched back to slave status. A plurality of communications interfaces can thus be connected to a single communications port without increasing the upstream transmission bandwidth requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Techbanc Inc.
    Inventors: Ross A. Jeffery, Marc C. Jairam
  • Virtual history files
    Patent number: 6961752
    Abstract: A method and implementing computer system are provided in which a user is enabled to create a virtual history file by selecting a favorites routing sequence (FRS) or preferred sequence of favorite web sites to be visited during a browser session. During a browser session, the user is enabled to change from one site to the next sequential site on the list using only a single point-and-click operation or keystroke combination within the user's browser program. The user is further enabled to selectively modify the FRS to include new individual or groups of sites and/or delete existing individual or groups of sites from the listing, and also to change the particular order of sites to be visited on the FRS. Further, existing individual or groups of virtual history files may also be embedded into other virtual history files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Alan Jones, Nicole Muirhead, Bryan Benjamin Peace, Leland James Wiesehuegel
  • Multicast packet transferring apparatus, multicast packet transferring system and storage medium used in same
    Patent number: 6957277
    Abstract: Multicast packet transferring apparatus and system with a multicast packet transferred from one transferring apparatus existing in one domain to another transferring apparatus existing in another domain, the former transferring apparatus converts the multicast packet fed from a transmitter to a unicast packet and transfers the converted packet to the latter transferring apparatus. The latter transferring apparatus reconstructs the original multicast packet from the received unicast packet and rewrites to replace a transmitter address contained in the reconstructed multicast packet with an address of the transferring apparatus and then transfers the rewritten multicast packet having the rewritten address to specified receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiko Yagyu, Masahiro Jibiki, Atsushi Iwata
  • Method and system for reducing data volume transferred over a wireless communications network
    Patent number: 6954801
    Abstract: A system for reducing data volume transferred over a wireless communications network includes a browser operable to communicate a sequence to a network interface. The system further includes the network interface operable to receive the sequence from the browser, generate a signature for the sequence, store the sequence and signature in memory, associate the sequence and signature with the browser, communicate a cache header and the signature to the browser, and communicate at least one request header to a server. The browser, upon sending a subsequent communication to the server, communicates the cache header and signature to the network interface. In this manner HTTP request headers need not be transferred for every request from the browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Barron C. Housel
  • Dual mode transmitter/receiver and decoder for RF transponder units
    Patent number: 6950009
    Abstract: An enhanced backscatter RF-ID tag reader system and multiprotocol RF tag reader system is provided. In a multiprotocol mode, the system emits a non-stationary interrogation signal, and decodes a phase modulated backscatter signal by detecting a stronger phase component from quadrature phase representations or determining phase transition edges in a phase of a received signal. The RF tag reader system predicts or follows the phase of the backscatter signal, thereby avoiding interference from nulls in the received signal waveform due to the non-stationary interrogation signal, relative movement or environmental effects. An acoustic RF-ID tag detection system detects the reradiated signal corresponding to respective transformation of a signal in the tag. Detection of either type of RF-ID tags therefore is possible, and the absence of any tag or absence of any valid tag also determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: X-Cyte, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul A. Nysen
  • Network control apparatus and method
    Patent number: 6947964
    Abstract: A network information management unit in which a memory resource that requires the storage of a network information management database is utilized in distributed fashion, as a result of which a single agent need not be equipped with a large-scale memory. The management unit, which is connected to a network and mounted on a network-capable image processing device capable of being shared by a plurality of clients, is constituted by a plurality of agents distributed on a plurality of logically independent controllers that construct the image processing device. Each of the plurality of agents communicates with one another, and generates a network management information response to a network management information request, which has been issued by a network information manager, after each agent has processed the network management information request in distributed fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Nishio
  • Adaptable remote control for electrical appliances having several functions to be controlled
    Patent number: 6940419
    Abstract: A remote control including a microprossesor with a first storage zone containing a file of trademarks of the main appliances available on the market, and a storage zone containing code files corresponding to various appliances of the different trade-marks stored in the first file, a system being provided for first selecting the trade-mark of the appliance to be controlled, for selecting from the code file of the trademark appliances, the file containing the control codes of the appliance concerned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Inventor: Charles Moransais
  • Distributed intelligent information technology operations automation
    Patent number: 6925488
    Abstract: Methods and systems for efficient and effective distribution of system management messages between customer and service provider sites are provided. Customer sites each recognize characteristics of the content of messages distributed by the system and receive only messages relevant to the customer site. System dynamic changes are adapted to such as inter-site communication link interruption or congestion and providing seamless automated information technologies operations during these system dynamic changes. Automated management services are only postponed until such communication link can be restored. Two illustrative embodiments are provided. In one embodiment, system management resides at the service provider site with local system management backup at the customer site. In a second embodiment, system management resides at both the service provider site and customer site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David Frederick Bantz, Steven James Mastrianni, Sunil K. Sreenivasan
  • Remote control device for motor vehicles
    Patent number: 6924729
    Abstract: A remote control device for motor vehicles having a transmitter for wireless transmission activated only when the user has been recognized as the authorized user. An identification device recognizes the authorization and is assembled with the transmitter in a single module. The identification device records personal and individual characteristics of the user and transmits the recorded information to the vehicle, as well as performs the verification check of the within the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Paul Aschauer, Michael Koblbauer