Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for managing target documents referred to by referring documents. A user sends a delete request for a referring document from a user client computer to a master server computer. Next, the master server computer accesses and deletes the referring document, updates a counter for a target document hypertext linked to the referring document, and updates a database, which contained the deleted referring document. The master server computer then determines whether the count for the counter of the target document equals zero. If the counter for the referring document is not equal to zero, the master server computer sends a message to the user indicating that the referring document has been deleted and sends a message to the user asking whether the user wants to delete another referring document. If the user wants to delete another referring document the process goes back to the initial process step, and the user sends another delete request for a referring document.

Abstract: A new application programming language is provided which is based on user interaction with any device which a user is employing to access any type of information. The new language is referred to herein as a “Conversational Markup Language (CML). In a preferred embodiment, CML is a high level XML based language for representing “dialogs” or “conversations” the user will have with any given computing device. For example, interaction may comprise, but is not limited to, visual based (text and graphical) user interaction and speech based user interaction. Such a language allows application authors to program applications using interaction-based elements referred to herein as “conversational gestures.” The present invention also provides for various embodiments of a multimodal browser capable of supporting the features of CML in accordance with various modality specific representations, e.g.

Abstract: A technique for incorporating binary formatting into a tag-based description language, such as XML, is provided. The binary formatting is achieved by tokenizing the tag and attribute names into variable sized numeric tokens, thereby obviating the need for repetitive or redundant storage of lengthy unicode words, etc. The binary formatting minimizes parsing time and the generation of overhead incident to the formatting and parsing of data. Parsing time is thereby substantially decreased and generally, the size of the resulting file decreases too.

Abstract: An electronic document is received that represents serial data that contains content of the document and defines an order in which respective portions of the content are to be performed. The serial data of the electronic document is analyzed. Reorganization information is generated for use in delivering the portions of the content, the reorganization information enabling performance in an order different from the order defined by the serial data.

Abstract: The invention provides a Visual Web Program editing system and the corresponding method, which can display the flowchart of a Web application program for sending HTML documents through a browser or electronic mail (E-mail). They can effectively combine both high-level flowchart designs and low-level program editing so that a programmer can use the icons on the flowchart to open HTML or program editor to write an HTML document or program code. The invention effectively integrates flowchart analyses, HTML document designs, and program coding so that program-maintenance engineers can follow the program flowchart to quickly identify the program code for a specific step, simplifying the reading, understanding and maintenance of the programs. The invention further provides a recording medium stored with Visual Web Program editing software.

Abstract: A calculator device mainly adds an additional calculator device capable of processing numeric data to the circuits of a keypad. When the keypad is linked to a computer, the keypad can be used to enter operation commands to the computer to perform processes desired, also can be switched to calculator function to perform numeric calculation when a switch button key (or switch) on the keypad is depressed.

Abstract: An improved method of high pass filtering a data set includes flattening the data set and then filtering the flattened data set with an adaptive filter. The data set is flattened by fitting it to a predetermined function, and then obtaining the difference between the original data set and the fitted data set. Beneficially, the predetermined function is a polynomial. The adaptive filter includes a masking function that has a constant, non-zero value (e.g., 1) within the bounds of the original data set and value of zero outside the bounds of the original data set.

Abstract: The invention relates to a microprocessor structure for performing a discrete wavelet transform operation. It uses a flowgraph representation of discrete wavelet transforms (DWTs) and wavelet packets. This representation is useful for developing efficient parallel algorithms and VLSI architectures. As examples, two DWT architectures for Haar wavelets and three architectures for Hadamard wavelets and wavelet packets are proposed with the efficiency (counted as the measure of the average utilization of basic processing elements) of approximately 100%. The proposed architectures are fast and provide excellent performance with respect to area-time characteristics. They are scalable, simple, regular, and free of long connections (depending on the length of input signal). The invention can be extended to inverse wavelet transforms.

Abstract: A hybrid summing module is presented, wherein the summing module is comprised of a hyperpipelined series of one or more of full-adders and associated registers, half-adders and associated registers, and registers receive select input(s) based, at least in part, on a bit-wise analysis of the input terms.

Abstract: A plurality of tasks are managed by being classified into a communication task group, a control task group, and a management task group for management. An execution order of the plurality of tasks is switched by a group unit and, in accordance with a switched task group, information obtained from a LAN or information obtained from each device is processed by a CPU.

Abstract: A method of caching data is provided, which includes a plurality of processes 1602 to 1605, a cache manager 813 and a data type register 805 including at least one data type 1901 and a corresponding data type bit 1903. Said data type bit 1903 is set (1904) within the register 805 on being accessed by each of said processes and subsequently reset (1905) within the register. The cache manager 813 restores (1501) each of said set data type bit and identifies its corresponding data type 1901. The cache manager writes the output data 1609, 1610, 1611 of each of said processes 1603, 1604, 1605 within a memory cache 2001 and said cache manager resets (1505) said memory cache 2001 when the data type bit set by the last of said processes 1602 is reset.

Abstract: In a server that communicates with a large number of pieces of information equipment, a communication schedule between the server and the information equipment is created appropriately and efficiently.

Abstract: A vehicle active network (12) communicatively couples devices (14-20) within a vehicle (10). Device operation is independent of the interface (22-28) of the device (14-20) with the active network (12). Additionally, the architecture of the active network (12) provides one or more levels of communication redundancy. The architecture provides for the total integration of vehicle systems and functions, and permits plug-and-play device integration and upgradeability.

Abstract: A method and system for transmitting a short message to a called party's Internet phone use an Internet phone according to the H.323 multimedia communication protocol. The invention provides a message transmission system between a short message transmission server and a gatekeeper. The gatekeeper controls setup of a call and user registration or cancellation in the Internet phone. The Internet phone is optionally connected to the gatekeeper, and has a short message transmission module for transmitting, via a predetermined port, the short message including information corresponding to a telephone number of the called party's Internet phone. The short message transmission server serves as an H.

Abstract: A maintenance information providing server (Web server) 20 that transmits maintenance information to a portable terminal carried by a vendor or a customer is appended to the network management system (NMS) 21 supervising the network 2, server 20 on receipt of malfunction information from the NMS 21, notifying the malfunction to one or more pre-registered portable terminals (23, 13, 33) of a communication service purveyor, vendor or the customer.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for the selective offloading of protocol processing are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, computationally intensive and memory bandwidth intensive protocol processing tasks are offloaded from the host processor of a computer to an auxiliary processor. In a preferred embodiment, the auxiliary processor has the ability to return the requested task, thereby allowing complex, non-performance oriented tasks to be performed by the host processor. This enables the auxiliary processor to have necessary resources for the specific tasks for which it has been designed, and does not require that the auxiliary processor has enough resources to accomplish the task of offloading the entire network protocol processing task. In one embodiment, the auxiliary processor may refuse requests to offload additional tasks from the host processor when resources are low.

Abstract: A ground-based travel planning portal is provided that is in communication with a counterpart in-transit portal so that the content presented through each portal is consistent to a traveler. The ground-based travel planning portal includes information for both business and leisure travel planning, in addition to other more general information. The traveler is able to identify and store a user-defined profile that includes personal traveling preferences such as airlines, hotels, rental cars, and personal content layout preferences which determines what content of the portal is presented to the traveler. Accordingly, the traveler has discretion to change and modify the content layout throughout the portal. Further, the user-defined profiles are shared across the ground-based portal and a counterpart in-transit portal so that the traveler accesses a common interface regardless of their travel status.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a communications system for providing geographic data during the retrieval of information from a packet-oriented communications system. The aim of the invention is to enable information which has a geographic location reference to be requested from a network server by a data terminal (1), e.g. a WAP-enabled mobile station, via a radio communication link (V), using an information request (2). In order to provide geographic data during the retrieval of information in a simple and anonymous manner, the request for information is routed via an interfacing proxy-server (5) which supplements the information request (2) with geographic information (7).

Abstract: A method and system for receiving, developing, recording, transposing/arranging, and distributing personalized recordings. The system and method allow receiving requests for personalized recordings from a variety of sources, either directly or in-directly. The requests are then developed into personalized recordings either in-house or via a work for hire arrangement with outside artists. The developed requests are then recorded in a specified format, including genre, point of view, tempo and instrumental selection. Then the developed request is transposed/arranged into other genres, points of view, tempo and instrumental selections and added to the musical database. The recordings are then distributed, either via a distribution center or person to person. There also exists the ability to incorporate professional recording artists into the system to increase distribution network and audience base.

Abstract: A method, program product, and system for launching a browser or other service, comprising the steps of: determining if a predetermined event has occurred; and sending a command to a system to launch the browser or service to a particular network location if the predetermined event is determined to have occurred. In one embodiment, the determining step comprises receiving information including a request to launch or other information relating to the predetermined event. In another embodiment, the determining step comprises the step of polling a web site to determine if the predetermined event has occurred.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for improving the serving of large objects (equivalently, large files) in distributed computing networks which include network-attached storage (“NAS”). Existing features of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (“HTTP”) and of Web server implementations are leveraged to achieve performance improvements in a novel way, and thereby greatly facilitate introduction of the present invention into existing networking environments. In particular, objects meeting certain criteria may be served using “redirect files” in which a redirect status code is used to cause content retrieval requests to be automatically redirected from the requesting client device to the NAS, such that the requested content is served from the NAS rather than through a Web server from a Web server farm.

Abstract: A communications system according to the invention provides a communications link between a distributed communications system and a mobile platform via a satellite. The communications system includes a ground station and a parent proxy server connected to the ground station. A distributed communications system is connected to the parent proxy server. A satellite communicates with the ground station. A transceiver, a router and a child proxy server are located on the mobile platform. A user communication device (UCD) is connected to the child proxy server. The child and parent proxy servers establish a persistent transmission control protocol (TCP) link between the mobile platform and the ground station. The UCD connects to the child proxy server using a first group of TCP settings. The child and parent proxy servers communicate using a second group of TCP settings to optimize the TCP link for long delay satellite links.

Abstract: Providing web services using an interface includes hosting content of a web page at a first mechanism that is capable of responding to a client request, storing at least some of the content at a second mechanism that is capable of independently responding to a client request and that is accessible by the first mechanism, and providing at least some of the content stored at the second mechanism to a client in response to a request for content sent to the first mechanism by the client.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method which employs a globally distributed computer network populated by a plurality of programmable autonomous network objects (“PANOs”) to facilitate the storage and delivery of digital information, and services based thereon, to a plurality of globally distributed groups of transient users. In a broader embodiment, the invention provides software that behaves substantially in the manner of a superobject, that causes hardware to behave in a substantially autonomous manner.

Abstract: A system and method for collecting and displaying status information is disclosed. A group of servers is associated with a data collection unit that collects status and location information from sensors located in the servers and server racks. The data collection unit includes a communication circuit in order to allow one or more users to obtain the status and location information of the servers over a network.

Abstract: A method and system for linking web sites is proposed, in which linkage of a user's computer device to a web site in World Wide Web (WWW) is achieved by inputting a numeric address of the web site in place of an IP address through the computer device merely having a simple numeric keypad, such as a set top box, PDA (personal digital assistant) or cellular phone; while the numeric web address has numerals thereof positioned from left to right corresponding in sequence to large to small categories of web sites.

Abstract: A server for controlling a controlled apparatus, serving as a control object, in accordance with a request received from a client, includes a database, a control-state-saving unit for saving control information relevant to the request received from the client in the database; a job-continuing unit for continuing a job of controlling the controlled apparatus on the basis of the control information, which is relevant to the request received from the client and is saved in the database, a job-data-saving unit for saving response data received from the controlled apparatus as a result of the job continued by the job-continuing unit in the database by associating the response data with the control information saved in the database, and a data-recovering unit for creating a recovery message to be transmitted to the client on the basis of the control information, which is relevant to the request received from the client and is saved in the database, and on the basis of the response data saved in the database and ass

Abstract: The invention provides a transaction service that allows lightweight clients to perform a delegated commit at a server. This process allows lightweight clients to begin and terminate transactions, while the actual responsibility for transaction commit processing is delegated to a commit server and transaction manager running on the machine hosting the server. Client applications do not require a local transaction server. The commit server can be selected from the plurality of servers accessible to the client, and is responsible for committing the transaction to other (participating) servers taking part in the transaction.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for improving delivery of content to a client communicating with a server on the Web. Groups or clusters of clients are formed by processing the IP addresses of the clients according to a network-aware, radix-encoded trie classification process. The groups of clients are categorized based on information about one or more clients in each group that can be determined by the server. That information is used to help drive tailored actions on the part of Web servers. Users with poor connectivity may choose not to spend much time at a Web site if it takes a long time to receive a page, even if the Web server at the site is not the bottleneck. Retaining such clients may be of interest to a Web site. Better-connected clients may be able to receive enhanced representations of Web pages such as with higher quality images.

Abstract: A conference session controller connected to user terminals receives signals representing each user accessing an electronic conference session. The session controller assigns each user to a particular class from among a plurality of classes and automatically performs a function to control an aspect of participation in the electronic conference session for each user assigned to a selected class of the plurality of classes. A method comprises initiating the teleconference between participants interconnected by electronic terminals, associating each participant with a class among a plurality of classes, and terminating the teleconference for participants of a selected class, while continuing the teleconference for one or more other classes of the plurality of classes. In this way, a conference leader is provided a way to secure the conference for desired participants with confidence that users of a selected class have been excluded.

Abstract: A project management system is disclosed which is easy to use by members belonging to a project and other persons. The system comprises a server 2 and a DB 3 which stores project by project, contents belonging to those projects participated in by some or all of users. The server 2 comprises a communication controller 4 for transmitting prescribed pages to user terminals 1 and receiving operation messages from the pages, a project desktop sheet generator 10 for reading out contents data from the database 3 in response to those operation messages and generating pages for displaying or accessing all the contents belonging to those projects, project by project, as project desktop sheets, and an access controller 12 for controlling communications with user terminals, when there has been an access made via the communication controller 4 for the content of the contents, in unit of project desktop.

Abstract: A technique for synchronizing a visual browser and a voice browser. A visual browser is used to navigate through visual content, such as WML pages. During the navigation, the visual browser creates a historical record of events that have occurred during the navigation. The voice browser uses this historical record to navigate the content in the same manner as occurred-on the visual browser, thereby synchronizing to a state equivalent to that of the visual browser. The creation of the historical record may be performed by using a script to trap events, where the script contains code that records the trapped events. The synchronization technique may be used with a multi-modal application that permits the mode of input/output (I/O) to be changed between visual and voice browsers. When the mode is changed from visual to voice, the record of events captured by the visual browser is provided to the voice browser, thereby allowing the I/O mode to change seamlessly from visual to voice.

Abstract: The computer system has a processing machine for receiving an electronic message including a request of a transaction from a network, transmitting an electronic message including results of the transaction to the network, and executing the transaction processes corresponding to transmitted/received electronic messages. The computer system also has a data machine for receiving the electronic message including the request of the data accesses from the network, transmitting the electronic message including the results of the data accesses to the network. The computer system also has a man-machine interface machine for transmitting the electronic message including the results of the transaction to the network, receiving the electronic message including the results of the transaction form the network. This computer system includes a network manager for managing access rights of respective users for accessing the processing machine and the data machine connected to the network.

Abstract: An animated e-mailable file, such as an advertisement, and a method of creating the animated e-mailable file are disclosed. The e-mailable file can be included as a non-attached, non-executable file to be played when an e-mail message including the animated e-mailable file is opened. The e-mailable animation file is created by: providing a source video file; selecting key video frames from the video frames of the source video file; selecting key audio segments from the audio track of the source video file; and synchronizing the key audio segments with the associated key video frames to produce an e-mailable animation file to be included as a non-attached, non-executable file in an e-mail message.

Abstract: An implementation of a technology, described herein, for facilitating the ease of handling and exchange of digital images. With at least one implementation of the invention, described herein, a set of selected digital images are collected together into a self-contained package called a photo album. This album includes the selected images and executable software to view such images. This album may be transmitted (typically, via email) to another via a network, such as the Internet. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent. The scope of the present invention is pointed out in the appending claims.

Abstract: A seamless workflow solution for medical, legal and other transcription needs. Preferred embodiment includes ane or more server computers configured to (i) receive a dictation from a first communication device and (ii) output the dictation to a client computer, the computer configured to (i) play the dictation (ii) receive user input defining a transcription for the dictation and (iii) output the transcription to the server computer(s) wherein the server computer(s) and the client computer are configured to communicate such that dictation is not stored within persistent memory operably associated with the client computer.

Abstract: A computerized document management system includes a database, mailing means, document registration means, delivery management means and deadline management means. The document registration means makes a preliminary registration of information about a document onto the database and asks a user for an approval of this preliminary registered document using the mailing means. Upon the approval given by the user, the document registration means registers the date of the approval on the database so that the document is formally registered. The formal registration of the document is notified to the departments by the delivery management means using the mailing means. The delivery management means also requests for a confirmation of the notification using the mailing means, and registers reception of the confirmation on the database. In case where the confirmation is not received within a predetermined period of time, the deadline management means reminds the department using the mailing means.

Abstract: The scanner 10 capable of functioning as a data transmission management device makes a judgment whether data should be allowed to be reused at a file transmission destination based on the nature of the particular destination, produces a reusable file, and transmits it to the destination, if it judges that the reuse of the data is allowed because the destination is within the area of the first network N1 to which the scanner is connected; it produces a difficult-to-reuse file and transmits it to the destination, if it judges that the reuse of the data is disallowed because the destination is outside of the area of the first network

Abstract: An electronic mail server is provided to facilitate e-mail communication over a network. The electronic mail server includes an account name database and an account name processor in communication with the account name database for providing a response to a message received over the network. Typically, the message includes an e-mail account name label comprising at least one account name character (having an account name character set type), with the character set type including a non-ASCII compatible character set. The account name database includes a number of database records, each identifying an e-mail account name comprising at least one record character having a record character set type, and a record character set identifier identifying the record character set type. The account name processor includes a correlation processor and a response processor.

Abstract: An electronic mail confirming system enabling a user to confirm the existence of newly-arrived and unopened emails with no charge for communication through a public telecommunication network is realized. A user's communication terminal, e.g., an internet facsimile apparatus sends an inquiry call by dialing a connection through a public telecommunication network to a specified telephone number of an internet connection device that in turn identifies the calling user by a caller telephone number notified by the public telecommunication network and immediately disconnects the call connection. The internet connection device uses different calling numbers for informing of the existence of emails and the absence of emails and sends a response call by dialing a connection to the user's communication terminal that in turn confirms the existence or absence of emails by caller information provided by the public telecommunication network and immediately disconnects the call connection.

Abstract: An application-based communication system, method, and protocol are disclosed. The system includes at least two communicating agents, wherein each of the communicating agents hosts at least a portion of a plurality of information, and wherein the at least a portion of the plurality of information is accessible via an application interface communicatively connected to each of the communicating agents. The protocol includes at least one entity object and at least one association object, wherein each object is pre-registered within the application interface on at least one of the at least two communicating agents. The at least one entity object, and the at least one association object, are accessible by accessing at least one address, and a first of the at least two communicating agents is capable of updating the portion of the plurality of information in at least one second of the at least two communicating agents by exchanging the at least one address.

Abstract: A distributed system structure for a large-way, symmetric multiprocessor system using a bus-based cache-coherence protocol is provided. The distributed system structure contains an address switch, multiple memory subsystems, and multiple master devices, either processors, I/O agents, or coherent memory adapters, organized into a set of nodes supported by a node controller. The node controller receives transactions from a master device, communicates with a master device as another master device or as a slave device, and queues transactions received from a master device. Since the achievement of coherency is distributed in time and space, the node controller helps to maintain cache coherency. A transaction tag format for a standard bus protocol is expanded to ensure unique transaction tags are maintained throughout the system. A sideband signal is used for intervention and Reruns to preserve transaction tags at the node controller in certain circumstances.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for storing document content in a manner which improves efficiency and/or speed of servicing content requests. Expected and/or observed popularity of stored objects is used to determine where a particular object should be physically placed in a distributed computing network. The disclosed techniques may be used for initially placing objects and/or for subsequently placing objects at different and/or additional locations in the network.

Abstract: A method and mechanism for executing an application by a processor in a multi-processor configuration of processors, each having an associated instruction memory is presented. The application receives object code that includes an image for at least one other processor in the multi-processor configuration of processors. The application binds an import variable in the image to a parameter value and stores the image for the at least one other processor into the associated instruction memory.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for bi-directional communication, such as a cable modem, adapted to interface with a plurality of consumer electronics devices such as external storage of memory. The communications device has a first interface adapted to provide data transfer between a host device and a communications network. A second interface is adapted to provide data transfer between the host device and an external storage device or consumer electronics product having a memory storage device. The second interface circuitry is adapted to determine a type of external device coupled thereto and responsively retrieve data therefrom, the retrieved data being provided to the host device.

Abstract: A method for providing retailer information to a remote customer includes the steps of: providing an internet site hosted by at least one computer server in communication with a remote customer computer, communicating with the at least one computer server through the internet site, transposing an actual image of a retail environment as a navigable image within the internet site, providing functions to navigate the navigable image within the internet site, and providing customer selectable links for providing detailed information of a particular retailer of the retail environment. The method may further include transposing an actual image of the particular retailer as a navigable image within the internet site, and providing customer selectable links for providing detailed information of a particular retailer. Additionally, the method may include a purchasing interface whereby the remote customer may arrange for remote purchase of one of goods and services from the particular retailer.

Abstract: A message is provided to a tracking server system in response to a client system referencing a predetermined resource locator that corresponds to a resource external to the tracking server system. The tracking server system indirectly provides for the client system to have an informational element selectable by the client system, where the informational element is graphically identified on the client system with informational content obtainable from a content server system through use of a content resource locator. The informational element includes a tracking resource locator, referencing the tracking server system, and data identifying the informational element. The selection of the informational element causes the client system to use the tracking resource locator to provide the data to the tracking server system and to use the content resource locator to obtain the informational content from the content server system.

Abstract: A system, computer product and method is provided for PKI enabled data communication at a browser. A PKI enabled browser is loaded one or more network-connected device. The PKI enabled browser requests a web page from a web server. The web page is downloaded to the PKI enabled browser. The PKI enabled browser includes a PKI operation module which conducts one or more PKI operations corresponding to the particular web page downloaded. These operations may include encrypting data, decrypting data, authenticating data, or verifying digital signatures. The invention permits PKI enabled posting of data to a remote computer, including from a wireless device, as well as PKI enabled retrieval of data at a computer from a remote computer, including at a wireless device. The PKI enabled browser of the invention is supported by a web server that includes a web application that facilitates PKI enabled data transactions at the PKI enabled browser.

Abstract: One or more layout blocks are provided in a format of a home page to be registered in a Web server. A mail address for indicating a producing and updating of the home page, a user ID assigned to a facsimile telephone number, and image and mark-sheet data provided on a home page producing/updating draft sheet are transmitted from a facsimile device to a CTI server. The CTI server extracts block data from the received data and converts a format of the image data. Data in a mark-sheet form has its instruction recognized from a location of the data, and the instruction is sent to the Web server. The Web server writes the received data into the layout blocks for producing and updating the home page.

Abstract: A system and method for interfacing between Baan software applications and the Internet. The system includes a web page for inputting data into a graphical user interface, an Active X DLL program for compiling the data, a Baan application function server for receiving the data from the Active X DLL program, and Baan software objects for receiving the data from the Baan application function server.