Patents by Inventor Asaf Zinger
Asaf Zinger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20140101322Abstract: Processing mid-dialog SIP messages by receiving a mid-dialog SIP message from a SIP user agent client, creating a new SIP session, associating the new SIP session with the mid-dialog SIP message, identifying an application that is associated with the mid-dialog SIP message, providing to the application the mid-dialog SIP message in the context of the new SIP session, receiving an acknowledgement from the application that the application will accept the mid-dialog SIP message, and responsive to receiving the acknowledgement, providing to the application the mid-dialog SIP message in the context of the new SIP session.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Nitzan Nissim, Brian L. Pulito, Asaf Zinger
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Patent number: 8677456Abstract: A method for evaluating authorization rules, the method including evaluating a plurality of authorization rules in connection with an authorization process for a subject, storing in a computer-readable storage medium and in association with the subject a rule identifier of any of the rules that are applicable to the subject, and performing, in connection with a subsequent authorization process for the subject, a computer-based action indicated by any of the rules identified by any of the stored rule identifiers, where the performing step is performed independent from an evaluation of the applicability of any of the authorization rules in connection with the subsequent authorization process.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2008Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Asaf Ben-Ezra, Olga Berezin, Haim Schneider, Ofira Tal-Aviv, Asaf Zinger
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Publication number: 20130326042Abstract: A system for maintaining SIP application session affinity, the system including a destination inspector configured to inspect a SIP request to determine whether the SIP request indicates as its destination a logical name of a SIP container, a request router configured to route the SIP request to the SIP container that is identified by the logical name if the SIP request indicates as its destination the logical name of the SIP container, and a destination assignor configured to assign the SIP request to a SIP container in accordance with a predefined assignment protocol if the SIP request does not indicate as its destination the logical name of a SIP container.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Noam ALMOG, Craig A. LANZEN, Nitzan NISSIM, Brian PULITO, Asaf ZINGER
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Publication number: 20130326071Abstract: A system for maintaining SIP application session affinity, the system including a destination inspector configured to inspect a SIP request to determine whether the SIP request indicates as its destination a logical name of a SIP container, a request router configured to route the SIP request to the SIP container that is identified by the logical name if the SIP request indicates as its destination the logical name of the SIP container, and a destination assignor configured to assign the SIP request to a SIP container in accordance with a predefined assignment protocol if the SIP request does not indicate as its destination the logical name of a SIP container.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Noam ALMOG, Craig A. LANZEN, Nitzan NISSIM, Brian PULITO, Asaf ZINGER
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Publication number: 20130007213Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for optimized cooperation between resource list servers and presence servers. The method including receiving a subscription request from a watcher, where the subscription request identifies a resource list and is a request to receive presence information regarding each of a plurality of presentities listed on the resource list, and generating a subscription request to a presence server for presence information regarding any presentity listed on the resource list only if no other currently-active subscription request is known by the resource list server to exist for presence information regarding the presentity.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Asaf Ben-Ezra, Yulia Kantarovich, Uri Segev, Ofira Tal-Aviv, Asaf Zinger
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Patent number: 8332516Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for optimized cooperation between resource list servers and presence servers. The method including receiving a subscription request from a watcher, where the subscription request identifies a resource list and is a request to receive presence information regarding each of a plurality of presentities listed on the resource list, and generating a subscription request to a presence server for presence information regarding any presentity listed on the resource list only if no other currently-active subscription request is known by the resource list server to exist for presence information regarding the presentity.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Asaf Ben-Ezra, Yulia Kantarovich, Uri Segev, Ofira Tal-Aviv, Asaf Zinger
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Publication number: 20110138054Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for optimized cooperation between resource list servers and presence servers. The method including receiving a subscription request from a watcher, where the subscription request identifies a resource list and is a request to receive presence information regarding each of a plurality of presentities listed on the resource list, and generating a subscription request to a presence server for presence information regarding any presentity listed on the resource list only if no other currently-active subscription request is known by the resource list server to exist for presence information regarding the presentity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2009Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Asaf Ben-Ezra, Yulia Kantarovich, Uri Segev, Ofira Tal-Aviv, Asaf Zinger
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Patent number: 7836185Abstract: A system for assigned resource management, including multiple computer servers, each identifiable by an identifier, and a resource table stored on a computer-readable data storage medium and accessible to any of the servers, where any of the servers is configured to establish itself as manager for a resource, if no record in the resource table indicates that a manager exists for the resource, by including its identifier in a record in the resource table for the resource in a manner that indicates that the server is manager for the resource, where any of the servers is configured to include its identifier in a list of servers in the record for the resource that wish to participate in the performance by the manager of at least one action regarding the resource, and where the manager is configured to perform the action regarding the resource.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2008Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Asaf Ben-Ezra, Olga Berezin, Haim Schneider, Uri Segev, Ofira Tal-Aviv, Asaf Zinger
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Patent number: 7814051Abstract: A system for managing watcher information in a distributed server environment, including a watcher information database configured to store records, any of the records populated by a watcher identifier, a presentity identifier, a list of unique identifiers of a plurality of subscriptions by the watcher, a watcher state field indicating a current state of the watcher, and an event field indicating an event that last caused the state of the watcher to change, each record representing a different pair of a watcher and a presentity pair, and where each of the records maintains a single state for one or more subscriptions by a watcher to receive presence information regarding a presentity, and a plurality of presence servers, where each of the presence servers is configured to modify any of the records to reflect the current state of a watcher for any subscription indicated in the record.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2008Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Asaf Ben-Ezra, Olga Berezin, Haim Schneider, Uri Segev, Ofira Tal-Aviv, Asaf Zinger
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Publication number: 20090327494Abstract: A system for assigned resource management, including multiple computer servers, each identifiable by an identifier, and a resource table stored on a computer-readable data storage medium and accessible to any of the servers, where any of the servers is configured to establish itself as manager for a resource, if no record in the resource table indicates that a manager exists for the resource, by including its identifier in a record in the resource table for the resource in a manner that indicates that the server is manager for the resource, where any of the servers is configured to include its identifier in a list of servers in the record for the resource that wish to participate in the performance by the manager of at least one action regarding the resource, and where the manager is configured to perform the action regarding the resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2008Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Asaf Ben-Ezra, Olga Berezin, Haim Schneider, Uri Segev, Ofira Tal-Aviv, Asaf Zinger
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Publication number: 20090183236Abstract: A method for evaluating authorization rules, the method including evaluating a plurality of authorization rules in connection with an authorization process for a subject, storing in a computer-readable storage medium and in association with the subject a rule identifier of any of the rules that are applicable to the subject, and performing, in connection with a subsequent authorization process for the subject, a computer-based action indicated by any of the rules identified by any of the stored rule identifiers, where the performing step is performed independent from an evaluation of the applicability of any of the authorization rules in connection with the subsequent authorization process.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2008Publication date: July 16, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Asaf BEN-EZRA, Olga Berezin, Haim Schneider, Ofira Tal-Aviv, Asaf Zinger
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Publication number: 20090182809Abstract: A system for eliminating redundant notifications to SIP/SIMPLE subscribers, the system including a notification fingerprinter configured to generate a fingerprint from the contents of a SIP/SIMPLE subscriber notification using a predefined fingerprinting method, a fingerprint comparactor configured to compare a fingerprint of a previously-sent notification with a fingerprint of a waiting-to-be-sent notification, and a server configured to send the waiting-to-be-sent notification to the subscriber only if the fingerprints do not match.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2008Publication date: July 16, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Asaf Ben-Ezra, Olga Berezin, Haim Schneider, Ofira Tal-Aviv, Asaf Zinger
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Publication number: 20090177729Abstract: A system for managing watcher information in a distributed server environment, including a watcher information database configured to store records, any of the records populated by a watcher identifier, a presentity identifier, a list of unique identifiers of a plurality of subscriptions by the watcher, a watcher state field indicating a current state of the watcher, and an event field indicating an event that last caused the state of the watcher to change, each record representing a different pair of a watcher and a presentity pair, and where each of the records maintains a single state for one or more subscriptions by a watcher to receive presence information regarding a presentity, and a plurality of presence servers, where each of the presence servers is configured to modify any of the records to reflect the current state of a watcher for any subscription indicated in the record.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2008Publication date: July 9, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Asaf Ben Ezra, Olga Berezin, Haim Schneider, Uri Segev, Ofira Tal-Aviv, Asaf Zinger