| 7043737 |
Client side integration for network based and non network based application |
| May-9-2006 |
A typical client machine such as a personal computer includes network based application such as the Internet Explorer and a non-network based application such as the spreadsheet. A system and method to... |
| 7036128 |
Using a community of distributed electronic agents to support a highly mobile, ambient computing environment |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A highly mobile, ambient computing environment is disclosed for serving a knowledge worker away from the their desk. The present invention allows a knowledge worker to get increased leverage from personal,... |
| 7032226 |
Methods and apparatus for managing a buffer of events in the background |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A background event buffer manager (BEBM) for ordering and accounting for events in a data processing system having a processor includes a port for receiving event identifications (IDs) from a device, a... |
| 7007275 |
Method and apparatus for automatic execution of concatenated methods across multiple heterogeneous data sources |
| Feb-28-2006 |
Heterogeneous data at a plurality of remote nodes is accessed automatically in parallel at high speed from a user site using a simple script request containing a data source object name wherein the heterogeneous... |
| 7007280 |
Schema driven management of a component-based application |
| Feb-28-2006 |
An assembly for processing a service used by a component-based application is provided by receiving a request from the component-based application that specifies a role name symbolizing the task, accessing... |
| 7003770 |
Method of detaching and re-attaching components of a computing process |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A method removes a part of a computing process comprising items of data, program code and executing states. The process splits into a first process and a second sub-process. The second sub-process includes... |
| 6996639 |
Configurably prefetching head-of-queue from ring buffers |
| Feb-7-2006 |
A method includes providing a prefetch cache of entries corresponding to communication rings stored in memory, the communication rings to store information passed from at least one first processing agent... |
| 6993659 |
Independent biometric identification system |
| Jan-31-2006 |
An independent biometric identification system has an independent biometric identification server, a biometric administrator agent application, a biometric capture agent application, a biometric enrolling... |
| 6990670 |
Interpretation phase for adaptive agent oriented software architecture |
| Jan-24-2006 |
Roughly described, the interpretation phase of a system using an Adaptive Agent-Oriented Software Architecture allows queried agents to respond to queries before they have all their own responses from... |
| 6990616 |
Analysis of network performance |
| Jan-24-2006 |
A method for testing of a communication network, using a plurality of traffic agents coupled to communicate via the network. The method includes transmitting a sequence of data packets via the network... |
| 6990532 |
Context-sensitive help for thin client-based business operations platform |
| Jan-24-2006 |
An apparatus and method are provided to support the provision of context-sensitive help functions in a back-end HTML/XML server. The apparatus provides partner-sensitive help functions to users that have... |
| 6981266 |
Network management system and method |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A network management system and method is disclosed that can add or modify, for example, a managed object, without recompiling or stopping operations of an executing network management system. Thus, preferred... |
| 6981251 |
Agent system for mobile agents, computer network and method for downloading an agent system from a host computer to a client computer of a computer network |
| Dec-27-2005 |
An agent system which can be loaded onto a computer in a network is adjusted based on the hardware and/or software of the computer. This makes it possible to incorporate even small mobile computers, in... |
| 6978291 |
Method for correlating job-step or execution-process information with corresponding software licensing information |
| Dec-20-2005 |
A software processing method enhances the functionality of job-step, charge-back systems by providing accurate charge-backs based on cognizance of software products actually being used. In the invention,... |
| 6965988 |
Method and apparatus for the user-defined loading and running of applications by means of a token |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A method and apparatus for the user-defining, configuring and starting of an application or software components to form an application by means of a token and in particular a chip card. Via the service... |
| 6964051 |
Enabling and disabling remote features dynamically in software applications |
| Nov-8-2005 |
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing technology that allows two or more computer program applications on a client computer to learn about the availability and use of... |
| 6954934 |
Management of links to data embedded in blocks of data |
| Oct-11-2005 |
Management of links, such as URLs or other link formats, that have been embedded within blocks of data, such as data received by an E-mail application program, file transfer program, or other data transfer... |
| 6944631 |
Method and system for network configuration discovery |
| Sep-13-2005 |
The invention relates to network management, particularly to configuration discovery. The inventive computerized method/system utilize a standard agent-manager network management system having an inventive... |
| 6941560 |
XML-based integrated services event system |
| Sep-6-2005 |
An improved system, method and software program is provided for distributed directory enabled applications using an XML API. The improvement provides an event system, a parser, and a bridge-based object... |
| 6925486 |
Information processing apparatus and method and information processing program recording medium |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A planning means generates a plan to be executed by agents on a node. In the case where the plan generated uses an uncertain knowledge required to be processed in other nodes, a judging means judges the... |
| 6915326 |
Information processing apparatus and method and information processing program recording medium |
| Jul-5-2005 |
A planning means generates a plan to be executed by agents on a node. In the case where the plan generated uses an uncertain knowledge required to be processed in other nodes, a judging means judges the... |
| 6915129 |
Mobile agent system and method for controlling a mobile agent system |
| Jul-5-2005 |
The present invention relates to a mobile agent system (1) for a communication unit (5, 6, 7) of a communication system, with at least one mobile agent (3) comprising an allocated agent policy (8), in... |
| 6898793 |
Method for controlling activation of agent and computer |
| May-24-2005 |
To control the load on an agent server, it is necessary to store any inactive agent in a secondary storage device, release a memory and a thread occupied by the agent, and control the number of simultaneously... |
| 6883172 |
System and method for bridging managed and unmanaged object systems by utilizing an interface wrapper to facilitate transparent communications |
| Apr-19-2005 |
A system and method is provided for bridging disparate object systems. The system includes a first wrapper to bridge communications between a first object system and a second object system and a second... |
| 6868544 |
Method and system for general-purpose interactive notifications |
| Mar-15-2005 |
An Object-Based Contact List (OBCL) allows users to interact with multiple Notification Service Providers (NSP) on a network simultaneously. The NSPs provide smart events wherein notification of the user... |
| 6859931 |
Extensible software-based architecture for communication and cooperation within and between communities of distributed agents and distributed objects |
| Feb-22-2005 |
A distributed agent community is able to dynamically interact with alternative sofware technologies that manage distributed objects. The leveraging of capabilities of distributed object systems greatly... |
| 6857124 |
Method and system for hypermedia browser API simulation to enable use of browser plug-ins and applets as embedded widgets in script-language-based interactive programs |
| Feb-15-2005 |
A system is described which provides the capability for high-level extensible scripting language interpreters to incorporate and employ Web browser plug-ins as components within script-based programs.... |
| 6857015 |
Method and system for remotely observing and controlling objects |
| Feb-15-2005 |
A method and system for remotely observing and controlling objects in a networked computer, such as an intelligent device connected to a server, which uses less hardware resources in the device while allowing... |
| 6851115 |
Software-based architecture for communication and cooperation among distributed electronic agents |
| Feb-1-2005 |
A highly flexible, software-based architecture is disclosed for constructing distributed systems. The architecture supports cooperative task completion by flexible and autonomous electronic agents. One... |
| 6842758 |
Modular method and system for performing database queries |
| Jan-11-2005 |
A query engine residing on computer-readable media includes a library of data drivers and an intelligent dataset. Each data driver in the library is operable to execute a predefined database operation.... |
| 6836893 |
Data driven communication system |
| Dec-28-2004 |
A data driven communication system has three layers consisting of destination, people or network nodes, and devices. Software agents represent the entities of these layers and relationships between agents... |
| 6834389 |
Method of forwarding messages to mobile objects in a computer network |
| Dec-21-2004 |
In a computer network (100), a first object (102) is moved from a current host address and port number (104) to a new host address and port number (114). A forwarder object (122) associated with the first... |
| 6807575 |
Performance monitoring method in a distributed processing system |
| Oct-19-2004 |
The present invention provides a performance monitoring method of a processing flow that, in a distributed object system, a processing is completed after going by way of processing of several objects through... |
| 6807540 |
System and method for deadlock management in database systems with demultiplexed connections |
| Oct-19-2004 |
A system and method for managing deadlocks in a database management system (DBMS) for a demultiplexed database system. The DBMS supports applications that are capable of holding and retaining locks on... |
| 6795969 |
Transfer of basic knowledge to agents |
| Sep-21-2004 |
A method of establishing a process agent comprising storing a library of first software programs representing system resources, storing a second software program representing a corresponding service agent... |
| 6792605 |
Method and apparatus for providing web based services using an XML Runtime model to store state session data |
| Sep-14-2004 |
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for accessing and using services and applications from a number of sources into a customized application. The present invention accomplishes this through... |
| 6789258 |
System and method for performing a synchronization operation for multiple devices in a computer system |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A system and method for performing a sync operation for multiple devices in a computer system is provided. The computer system may include a plurality of devices and a plurality of agents. The agents may... |
| 6775822 |
Method and apparatus for passing null references between software components through legacy framework |
| Aug-10-2004 |
Intermediary frameworks allow software components to agree on sentinel values. When a software component attempts to pass a null value to a software component that does not support null values, an intermediate... |
| 6775367 |
Service provision in a telecommunications network |
| Aug-10-2004 |
The invention relates to a method for service provision in a telecommunications network, specifically in an intelligent network. In accordance with the method, service programs (SLP) are stored in at least... |
| 6769125 |
Methods and apparatus for managing computer processes |
| Jul-27-2004 |
A number of methods, apparatus, and data structures are disclosed for managing computer processes. In one aspect, a daemon process which manages server processes includes an active server table and a locator... |
| 6760444 |
Mobile IP authentication |
| Jul-6-2004 |
Methods and apparatus for authenticating a mobile node are disclosed. A server is configured to provide a plurality of security associations associated with a plurality of mobile nodes. A packet identifying... |
| 6757901 |
Method and system for setting expressions in network management notifications at an agent |
| Jun-29-2004 |
A method for generating notification based expressions includes identifying notifications supported by an agent and specifying objects for at least one of the notifications. One or more expressions are... |
| 6757747 |
Proxy object for managing an application instance on a dataless client machine |
| Jun-29-2004 |
A method of managing a set of clients in a distributed computer network having a management server. A given client preferably includes a dataless management framework. According to the method, a proxy... |
| 6754811 |
Operating system device centric agent |
| Jun-22-2004 |
A USB device centric agent is associated with an operating system. The agent software is only required to be loaded once and then it will function with multiple compatible USB devices. A standard interface... |
| 6745225 |
Method and a device for enabling intercommunication among user processes in a communication management system regardless of the availability of the user processes |
| Jun-1-2004 |
A method for user processes, each having a unique user identification code, to intercommunicate within a communication management system even if one of the user processes is unavailable, comprises the... |
| 6745168 |
Intention achievement information processing apparatus |
| Jun-1-2004 |
An intention achievement information processing apparatus, having an object network as a language processing function and a common platform as a function of interfacing with a client, includes a unit for... |
| 6744870 |
Service provision in a telecommunications network |
| Jun-1-2004 |
The invention relates to a method for providing object-related service in a telecommunications network, specifically in an intelligent network. In accordance with the method, service programs (SLP) are... |
| 6742181 |
Inter-application data transmitting/receiving system and method |
| May-25-2004 |
Data is exchanged among interconnected applications over a network in a mutual use of data and functions without modifying an existing application system. The inter-application data transmission/reception... |
| 6724883 |
Processing of data message in a network element of a communications network |
| Apr-20-2004 |
The invention relates to a method for processing a data message in a network element of a communications network and to a network element arrangement. In the communications network, messages whose structure... |
| 6714633 |
Service provision in a telecommunications network |
| Mar-30-2004 |
The invention relates to a method for service provision in a telecommunications network, specifically in an intelligent network. In accordance with the method, service programs (SLP) are stored in at least... |
