Abstract: A method for controlling reward for a user of a computing system, the method comprising monitoring use level of a first tool provided in a computing environment, wherein the first tool provides at least a first service; and rewarding a first entity according to the use level, such that the reward is determined based on the use level of the first tool over a second tool that provides at least the first service.

Abstract: A dynamic message animation method comprising customizing a media file by embedding references to custom content into the media file, wherein the custom content is stored in one or more resources; and including the media file in an electronic message deliverable to a destination, wherein a media player at the destination retrieves the custom content from said one or more resources, based on the references embedded in the media file, and wherein the media player at the destination reproduces the custom content.

Abstract: A method and system for accelerating receipt of data in a client to client network. The method includes the steps of intercepting queries and responses, storing the intercepted queries and responses in an acceleration server and transmitting the intercepted responses to clients submitting intercepted queries. The system includes at least one acceleration server designed and configured to perform the steps included in the method.

Abstract: A system, and an associated network ring-tone communication method, enabling creation and use of a personalized, user-defined communication ring-tone. The invention method includes (a) selectively placing, in an electronic ring-tone depot, digital snippet content suitable for extraction and use as at least a part of a digital communication ring-tone, (b) enabling controlled and sanctioned user access to that depot for the purpose of permitting selective user-extraction therefrom of at least one depot-held content snippet, and (c) further enabling user-employment of such an extracted snippet as at least a part of (1) a user-specific communication identifier, and/or (2) an ultimate, user-identifying action-stimulator, in relation to a user-to-another network communication.

Abstract: A method and system for accelerating receipt of data in a client-to-client network. The method includes the steps of intercepting queries and responses, storing the intercepted queries and responses in an acceleration server and transmitting the intercepted responses to clients submitting intercepted queries. The system includes at least one acceleration server designed and configured to perform the steps included in the method.

Abstract: A method and system for accelerating receipt of data in a client to client network. The method includes the steps of intercepting queries and responses, storing the intercepted queries and responses in an acceleration server and transmitting the intercepted responses to clients submitting intercepted queries. The system includes at least one acceleration server designed and configured to perform the steps included in the method.

Abstract: A packet retransmission eliminator is installed on opposite ends of a path in a network. Each original packet sent over the path is cached on the transmitting and the receiving ends of the path. Retransmitted packets that are to be sent over the path are intercepted and replaced with a substitute retransmission packet. In response to a received retransmission packet, the receiving end retransmits the original packet using the corresponding packet that was previously stored in the cache.