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7620902 Collaboration spaces  
A computer implemented method and system enable users to create a social network providing access to other users. By providing access to such networks via a visual presentation, the system renders...
7620691 Filtering electronic messages while permitting delivery of solicited electronics messages  
Systems and methods for delivering solicited electronic messages to a client. Senders of electronic messages become authorized senders and electronic messages from the authorized senders are...
7620689 Real time communications system  
A real-time communications system of networked communications devices, method and program product for operating such a system. E-mail activity is, monitored for e-mail exchange threads. Selected...
7620686 Control method for network system  
A plurality of information processing systems 10 are connected to a network 90 . One of the information processing systems 10 photographs a part of a virtual space shared by the plurality of...
7620685 Smart shares and transports  
Disclosed is a unique system and method that facilitates more efficient sharing or transporting of content between at least any two computers. In particular, the type, security, and/or size of the...
7620684 Method and system for issuing information over a communications network  
A method and a system for issuing information over a communications network, in particular over the Internet, wherein a central computer communicates with at least one user computer of a user for...
7620683 Terminal device, information viewing method, information viewing method of information server system, and recording medium  
The present invention enables restriction of content of information in a message, which has been prepared by a user and is provided in an information service system for the viewing by a group of...
7620659 Efficient knowledge representation in data synchronization systems  
A variety of flexible conflict resolution policies are provided for loosely coupled devices to implement according to a variety of different synchronization scenarios. Choosing a conflict...
7617457 System and method for collaborative call management  
A system and method for collaborative call management are disclosed. In one embodiment of a method incorporating teachings of the present disclosure, a graphical user interface (GUI) element may be...
7617319 Method and system for optimizing transcoder resources  
A method and system ( 500 ) for optimizing transcoder resources in a multimedia session is disclosed. The method includes receiving ( 202 ) one or more SDP offers. The method further includes...
7617305 Email server system and method  
An email system comprises a plurality of email servers connected by a data communications network. The email system avoids single points of failure by employing multiple email servers which self...
7617283 System and method for instant messaging  
A system and method for user-defined control of the operation and appearance of a computerized instant messaging service and associated user interface is disclosed, providing ease of use, control...
7617281 System and method for collaboration with serverless presence  
Collaboration between collaborative endpoints may be facilitated by a serverless publication service of a collaborative services platform. The serverless publication service may be configured to...
7617280 Methods for admitting conference call hosts and participants into conference calls  
Methods for entering hosts and participants into new or existing conference calls. The method can include receiving a call from a given caller at a VRU. The caller may be either a conference host...
7617279 Image-printing system using peer-to-peer network  
An entertainment is provided in which a limited number of persons can share images through a peer-to-peer network, and a device is provided for allowing anyone to easily get a print having a...
7617278 Client controllable server-side playlists  
A system and method is disclosed for establishing an interactive multimedia application environment in which server-side streaming media may be controlled by a client using a programming model...
7616627 Techniques for high definition audio modems  
A system, apparatus, method and article for high definition audio modems are described. The apparatus may include a communications path comprising a communications bus and buffers, a codec to...
7616624 Determining user availability based on the expected duration of a new event  
Techniques are disclosed for determining, for each candidate communication medium, the availability of one or more telecommunications endpoint users for participating in a communication session of...
7613574 System and method for automating scientific and engineering experimentation for deriving surrogate response data  
The present invention provides a system and method for automatically deriving unique surrogate response data from experiment results in which inherent data loss occurs in a sufficient number of the...
7613210 Measuring time management system, data transmitter-receiver and measuring time management method  
A unified time can be simply set between data measuring instruments, and when the clock function of a specific data measuring instrument was damaged, the data measuring instrument can be...
7610352 Sharing skins  
A system and method for sharing skins between a first user and a second user on a computerized network. A first skin selected by the first user is transferred to and displayed to the second user....
7610337 Method and apparatus for creating and executing internet based lectures using public domain web pages  
An Internet-enabled subscription teaching service system has an Internet-connected lecture server executing a software suite, one or more teacher-author stations coupled to the Internet-connected...
7610208 Booking method and system  
The invention relates to a method and system for booking a reservation in a booking system and synchronizing bookings in several booking systems comprising at least one booking systems; at least...
7607096 System and method for a user interface directed to discovering and publishing presence information on a network  
A system and method is provided for a user interface directed to publication and discovery of the presence of users on a network. A sidebar tile is provided that peripherally and unobtrusively...
7606909 Method and apparatus for a business contact center  
A business contact center for interfacing customers with a business is described. The business contact center includes a plurality of media handlers and a conference controller. Each of the...
7606897 Accelerated and reproducible domain visitor targeting  
A device, system, and method are directed towards managing and tracking of cross-domain user activities through use of a beacon. As a user of a client device requests content from different domain...
7606866 Messenger assistant for personal information management  
A real-time communications device, a real-time communications system of networked distributed such devices and method and program product for operating such devices. The device includes a personal...
7606862 Method and system for authorizing a restricted callable status in an instant messaging system  
A method, an apparatus, a system, and a computer program product are presented for managing availability status values in an instant messaging application. A user of the instant messaging...
7606860 Peer discovery and connection management based on context sensitive social networks  
In a method for automatically filtering communications, a networking request from an initiating party on an initiating communication device is received. The networking request pertains to a request...
7606859 Multimedia communication system  
A multimedia communication system having at least one terminals capable of multimedia communication, a user information storage for storing the information on the users of the terminals, a terminal...
7606856 Methods, systems, and computer program products for presenting topical information referenced during a communication  
Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for presenting topical information referenced during a communication. A topic key phrase is received during a communication between a...
7603683 Method of and client device for interactive television communication  
An interactive television system includes a plurality of client devices connected to a server through a network. The client devices display broadcast contents based on received broadcast data. Icon...
7603467 Instant messaging architecture and system for interoperability and presence management  
A computer network system establishes an instant messaging (IM) session between a first user registered with a first ISP (ISP) and at least one user registered with a second ISP when the two ISPs...
7603420 Method and apparatus for automatic e-mail response interruption based on user activity  
The present invention provides a method, apparatus, and computer instructions for automatic e-mail response interruption based on user activity. An e-mail message having an “interrupt” type...
7603414 System, method and computer program product for collaborative background music among portable communication devices  
A system, method and computer program product for enabling a plurality of users engaged in real-time voice communications over a wireless communications link to collaboratively select one or more...
7603413 Using automated agents to facilitate chat communications  
An automated agent, such as an instant message robot, is be used to facilitate introduction of a chat participant to a small group of other chat participants in a chat room. To do so, for example,...
7603412 System and method for collaborating using instant messaging in multimedia telephony-over-LAN conferences  
A telecommunications system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an instant messaging (IM) server and a VoIP server; and a plurality of system clients having both VoIP and...
7603411 Presence management system  
A presence management system is described whereby connections between watching parties and watched parties in a multiple access communications network are managed. When the presence management...
7603108 Automatic connection and access controls for communications devices  
The invention provides a call system and methods whereby users can establish a predetermined list of contacts and whereby those contacts can be reached by the touch of a single button on a...
7599990 Buddy list-based sharing of electronic content  
Instant messaging (IM) entities may be invited to an electronic calendar event using an instant message. Selecting the IM entities as invitees to the event may include dragging and dropping names...
7599989 System and method for gathering and reporting screen resolutions of attendees of a collaboration session  
A screen resolution information gathering and reporting system allows access to screen resolution information of attendees of a collaboration session. When attendees first join the collaboration...
7599357 Method and apparatus for detecting and correcting electrical interference in a conference call  
The present invention enables a network to detect electrical interference caused by cellular phones and correct the problem by playing a network announcement to the network operator if the...
7596617 Apparatus, method, and business method for enabling customer access to computer system execution data in exchange for sharing the execution data  
An apparatus, method, and business method allow a customer to access execution data only if transmission of the execution data to the vendor is enabled. In a first embodiment, the customer cannot...
7596603 Automatic email consolidation for multiple participants  
The invention is a data processing means wherein human perceptible elements of electronic information are gathered, prepared, formatted, or otherwise processed in forming a unified collection of...
7596602 System and method of facilitating the dissemination of information by means of active advertisements in portable information transceivers  
A system and method to provide a user with a requisite receiving device (e.g., PDA, cell telephone) with the ability to record contact information, no matter how lengthy, from an interactive...
7596598 Multi-media tool for creating and transmitting artistic works  
A system for collaboratively producing artwork includes a server and a plurality of user computers coupled to a network. The server transmits a request for submissions to collaborators and who...
7596597 Recommending contacts in a social network  
A method and system for recommending potential contacts to a target user is provided. A recommendation system identifies users who are related to the target user through no more than a maximum...
7596596 Chat marking and synchronization  
The invention is a demand-based messaging system that enables a user to mark any location in a message and share the mark with a second user. The invention comprises a messaging program operable on...
7596595 Efficient unicast-based multicast tree construction and maintenance for multimedia transmission  
A multi-endpoint communication system comprising communication nodes linked in a tree structure by unicast connections includes a server to receive a request from a new communication node to join...
7596594 System and method for displaying and acting upon email conversations across folders  
System and method for displaying and/or acting upon email conversations across folders. In one embodiment, email messages are grouped into conversations regardless of the folders in which the...