Abstract: Advanced computer hibernation functions are useful in saving a user's work environment when a user logs off a computer. The current art requires powering off the computer when entering into hibernation, and only allows a user to store a single non-reusable hibernation file for use in restoring operation when the computer is subsequently powered on. The present invention allows hibernation files to be created and stored without requiring a user to power off the computer to enter hibernation mode. Once the hibernation files are created and stored, a user achieves faster shut down of the computer when the user enters into hibernation mode by selecting from one of the existing hibernation files for advanced hibernation mode. Multiple users are allowed to save multiple work environments or files while maintaining privacy regarding each user's work environments by requiring log on identification passwords for each user.

Abstract: A system and method of enabling a user to manage items such as text, graphics image, audio clips, video clips etc. on a clipboard are provided. The system and method include displaying a window having at least one option for managing the items on the clipboard and allowing the user to assert the option to manage the items. In another embodiment, a system and method are provided to indicate a selected item at a location in a document displayed in a graphical user interface with a scrollbar. The method includes selecting the item, determining whether the item is a file, and displaying, if the item is a file, an icon representing the file in the scrollbar at a location corresponding to the location of the highlighted item.

Abstract: A method and system for accessing a public network on a party's cellular phone after a call is established between a plurality of parties on a cellular network is disclosed. The method and system comprises providing a command over the cellular network from an initiating cellular phone to at least one of the plurality of the parties cellular phone that causes the at least one party's cellular phone to access a public network. The method and system further includes loading content from the public network to the at least one party's cellular phone based upon the command. The system and method in accordance with the present invention makes it possible for one of the parties on the call to cause the other cellular phones to automatically access the desired web content.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of highlighting links that are not clearly identifiable in a Web document are provided. When the document is displayed, if the links are not clearly recognizable as such, the user may depress a button. Upon depressing the button, all the links embedded in the document will be highlighted. Here, highlighted is used to mean any manner that may be used to make the links clearly recognizable as such.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for bookmarking a section of a Web page are provided. When a Web page is being bookmarked, if the user so chooses, the user may store in conjunction with the URL of the page the size of the window within which the page is displayed, the location of both the horizontal and vertical scroll boxes in the window and the font attributes used to display the page. This allows the section of the page that was displayed when the page was bookmarked to be displayed whenever the bookmarked Web page is re-accessed.

Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for delivering an alternate Web page to a browser are provided. The method, system and apparatus include the implementation of indicating Web pages that are not authorized to be displayed by the browser using content filter settings, comparing the content filter settings to content labels incorporated in a requested Web page and delivering an alternate Web page, if there is a match. The filter settings are generated by the browser and sent to a server in a request message. The browser also incorporates a semaphore in the request message. The semaphore is used to indicate whether the comparison should be undertaken. Thus, if the semaphore is absent in the request message, the requested Web page is delivered to the browser as customary.

Abstract: A method of rapid access to resources on a computing system is provided that differentiates between applications, data and devices that require password protection and those that do not, enabling those applications, data and devices that do not require protection to be accessed without entry of a password. In one embodiment, application programs include an option that enables a user to specify whether or not the application, or specific operations within the application, can be initiated without first entering a password. In a second embodiment, the protection is provided at an operating system level by protecting designated resources. Another embodiment employs two passwords—the second of which is required to access rapid access applications or operations and may or may not timeout. In this manner, an authorized user can gain access to particular applications, data or devices in less time than otherwise necessary with a standard password protection scheme.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are disclosed for blocking unwanted email messages. A passcode is specified. An email message addressed to a recipient is then received within an email server. Prior to the recipient's client email application downloading the email message into the client email application, a determination is made regarding whether the passcode is included in the email message. The email message is then downloaded into the client email application only in response to a determination that the passcode is included in the email message.

Abstract: Minimizing the damaging effects of loud music but with minimal reduction in aesthetic quality of the music. When music presented through an audio is sampled in order to determine average frequency, music having very low average frequencies is predictably likely to be played louder than sampled music having higher average frequencies. This unexpected observation is based upon a human factor, i.e. rock and related music that is ordinarily composed and presented at relatively low frequencies, e.g. 500 to 1000 Hz is likely to be played on the audio system at very high volume because of the tastes of its listeners. An audio system for a data processor controlled presentation of music with a set up for minimizing the damaging effects of loud music comprising an implementation for predetermining a minimum average frequency of music being presented in combination with measuring whether the music being presented falls below said minimum average frequency for a sampling period.

Abstract: The E-mail sender's address book is safeguarded from computer virus intrusion with only minimal interference with normal E-mail distribution from the sender. Complete encryption of the address book create interference with the send function in that before any E-mail function may be started, the address book must be accessed and decrypted even when the E-mail being sent does involve the address book. However, the address book may be safeguarded from the computer virus with minimum E-mail interference if only a part of the address book is encrypted. There is stored the unencrypted data representative of a plurality of aliases for plurality of addressees of electronic mail, and separately stored encrypted data representative of the electronic mail addresses of said plurality of addressees. In response to a request to send electronic mail to one of said aliases, the entry of the key to decrypt the encrypted data is required to thereby provide the address of the addressee having said alias.

Abstract: A view controller, such as a scroll bar, for a first application which is currently displayed within an inactive window is detached and remotely displayed within an active window in addition to the view controller associated with the content of that active window. A Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) link is then established between the remotely displayed view controller and the first application such that user inputs to the remotely displayed view controller can be utilized to modify the display of the first application without requiring the user to activate the inactive window. In this manner data within the first application can be scrolled and visually accessed by the user while the user is working within an active window, without requiring the user to toggle the focus back and forth between two windows.

Abstract: A system and method for adaptively controlling a plurality of automotive control system (ACS) nodes of a vehicle is disclosed. In a first aspect, the system comprises a global position system (GPS) receiver for receiving a GPS signal indicating a geographic position of the vehicle. The system further includes a processor for receiving the indication of geographic position and geographic-based control data provided to the processor. The processor provides data to and controls the plurality of ACS nodes used based upon the geographic control data. In a second aspect, the method comprises receiving a GPS signal and determining the location of the vehicle based upon the GPS signal. The method further includes controlling at least one of a plurality of ACS nodes based upon the location of the vehicle. A system and method in accordance with the present invention allows a user to expand upon the position data stored in the ACS by entering customized data.

Abstract: A method and system for displaying condensed web page information provides a powerful tool for enhancing Internet browsers and other web page display programs. In response to user selection of a hyperlink by a mechanism other than the mechanism normally used to activate the hyperlink, summary information is displayed for the web page represented by the hyperlink. A server retrieves information from the file corresponding to the web page associated with the hyperlink and extracts summary information, such as meta-tag summary information. The server then constructs an HTML page image and pushes the image to the requesting computer.

Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for allowing a device to be shared among partitions of a logically partitioned computer system are provided. A table is used to cross-reference a list of devices with a list of partitions that may share the devices. When a partition needs to use a device, it sends a request to a control node. Upon receiving the request, the control node consults the table to determine whether the partition has permission to use the device. If so and the device is currently idle, the control node will reassign the device to the requesting partition. If the device is busy, the control node will so notify the partition. After the requesting partition has used the device, the device will be reassigned to the partition to which it was originally assigned.

Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for limiting the use of an application program by a user are provided. A cross-reference table containing a list of all users authorized to use a computer system as well as a list of all application programs installed on a computer system is used. The cross-reference table includes an amount of time that each user is authorized to use an application program. When a user tries to execute the application program, a check of the table is made to determine whether the user is authorized to use the program. If the user is authorized to use the program, the program will be allowed to execute and a timer will be activated. The timer is used to ensure that the user does not spend more time using the application program than allowed. Another check may be made to ensure that the user is not using the application program more often than allowed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for mitigating the mobile phone nuisance factor. The present invention causes a mobile phone to activate an “In-Public-Use” profile when in a public establishment, which has a policy for mobile phone usage. A transmitter in the public establishment broadcasts an external control signal that contains an encoded command. The circuitry, or processor instructions, in a mobile phone decodes the command and activates the profile with the identified settings from the command. When the profile is activated, an icon is displayed indicating that the profile is active. Additionally, the “In-Public-Use” profile is deactivated when the mobile phone leaves the range of the signal and the previous settings of the mobile phone are enabled.

Abstract: A wireless telephone system comprising a mobile wireless telephone for receiving and sending a plurality of data telecommunications including an implementation for storing the quantity of times of said plurality of data telecommunications, a telecommunications service provider for transmitting said plurality of telecommunications to and from other telephone terminals, facility in the service provider for keeping track of the quantity of times of said plurality of telecommunications together with a facility in said service provider for automatically sending tracked times to said means for storing the quantity of times in said mobile wireless telephone. At the completion of each of the plurality of communications, the facility for sending tracked times automatically sends the tracked times for each of said plurality of communications.

Abstract: A method for providing an electronic business card to a contact via a cellular phone is disclosed. Several business card menu options are provided to a user of a cellular telephone. The cellular phone user enters business card information/data into the cellular phone utilizing the business card menu options. The business card data is stored locally on the cellular phone or in a service provider database. When the user is in communication via cellular phone with someone he wishes to provide his business card to, the user selects a menu item that activates the transmission of the electronic business card to the desired recipient's cellular phone.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product for automatically generating directory entries based on caller-id information are provided. When a call is received from a calling party, the caller-id information is obtained from a caller-id database. Either before, during or after the communication connection is established between the calling party's communication device and the called party's communication device, the called party is given the option to store and/or update the caller-id information as a directory entry in a local directory of the called party's communication device. If the called party elects to have the calling party's caller-id information stored in the called party's directory, the caller-id information is transmitted to the called party's communication device and stored as an entry in the called party's local directory and is used for further processing such as call block and the like.

Abstract: An automobile computer control system for limiting the usage of wireless telephones in moving automobiles comprising an implementation for sensing when the velocity of the automobile exceeds a predetermined velocity, a wireless implementation for sensing when said wireless telephone is in use by the driver of said automobile and a function responsive to both of said sensing implementations for limiting said use of said wireless telephone by said driver of said automobile when the velocity of the said automobile exceeds said predetermined velocity. For the best safety, the predetermined velocity is any moving velocity. Also, the wireless device for sensing when the velocity of the automobile exceeds a predetermined velocity may be carried out by simple infrared device.