1137 results about "File transfer" patented technology

A distributed network-attached storage network provides content distribution using conventional file transfer protocols such as NFS and CIFS. A filer proxy accepts a client request and translates the client request to a file transfer protocol accepted at the file system having the file requested in the client request. The filer proxy generates a file handle for the file containing redundant filer proxy information to be used for failover to a backup filer proxy in the event of a network error or failure of an original filer proxy. The file handle also contains information for network security purposes such as detection of forged file handles.

Quality of Service (QoS) support is provided by means of a Tiered Contention Multiple Access (TCMA) distributed medium access protocol that schedules transmission of different types of traffic based on their service quality specifications. In one embodiment, a wireless station is supplied with data from a source having a lower QoS priority QoS(A), such as file transfer data. Another wireless station is supplied with data from a source having a higher QoS priority QoS(B), such as voice and video data. Each wireless station can determine the urgency class of its pending packets according to a scheduling algorithm. For example file transfer data is assigned lower urgency class and voice and video data is assigned higher urgency class. There are several urgency classes which indicate the desired ordering. Pending packets in a given urgency class are transmitted before transmitting packets of a lower urgency class by relying on class-differentiated urgency arbitration times (UATs), which are the idle time intervals required before the random backoff counter is decreased. In another embodiment packets are reclassified in real time with a scheduling algorithm that adjusts the class assigned to packets based on observed performance parameters and according to negotiated QoS-based requirements. Further, for packets assigned the same arbitration time, additional differentiation into more urgency classes is achieved in terms of the contention resolution mechanism employed, thus yielding hybrid packet prioritization methods. An Enhanced DCF Parameter Set is contained in a control packet sent by the AP to the associated stations, which contains class differentiated parameter values necessary to support the TCMA. These parameters can be changed based on different algorithms to support call admission and flow control functions and to meet the requirements of service level agreements.

The present invention relates to digital rights management. In one embodiment, persons, processes, and/or computers and appliances locate, share, publish, retrieve, and use all kinds of digital information that has been protected using digital rights management technologies. Rights management includes securely associating rules for authorized use with the digital information. Rules and/or digital information may be encapsulated in a cryptographically secure data structure or "container" ("CSC") to protect against unauthorized use, to ensure secrecy, to maintain integrity, and to force the use of a rights management system to access the protected information. Attributes or metadata information describing at least some of the rules ("rules-metadata information") and optionally any associated rule parameter data with respect to the protected information are created. This rules-metadata information may be organized, structure, encoded, and/or presented using a self-defining data structure such as those created using Extensible Markup Language (XML). In one embodiment, the XML-encoded rules-metadata information is also made available unencrypted, in plain text, to facilitate P2P search and file transfer. Having at least some of the rules-metadata information outside or external to a CSC allows greater flexibility in searching based at least in part upon the rules-metadata information. Some embodiments may hold the rules-metadata information in a separate CSC. Putting the rules-metadata information in a separate CSC more easily allows authentication and maintains the integrity of the rules-metadata information. In another embodiment, the rules metadata may be in an unencrypted portion of a CSC itself or concatenated with a CSC in a single file.

A method for transmitting web page source data over a computer network. The method typically includes receiving a request for the web page source data from a remote client. The web page source data contains renderable and non-renderable data. The request is received at an acceleration device positioned on the computer network intermediate the web page source data and an associated web server. The method further includes filtering at least a portion of the non-renderable data from the requested web page source data, thereby creating modified web page source data, and sending the modified web page source data to the remote client. The non-renderable data is selected from the group consisting of whitespace, comments, hard returns, meta tags, keywords configured to be interpreted by a search engine, and commands not interpretable by the remote client.

A method and apparatus is provided for delivering a content file to a client over a packet-switched network. The method begins by determining a suitable throughput required to deliver the content file to the client. Next, the throughput available in a peer-to-peer network for delivering the content file to the client is determined. The required throughput is compared to the available throughput. If the available throughput is less than the required throughput, the available throughput is supplemented with additional throughput. The content is then delivered to the client over the packet-switched network using the available throughput of the peer-to-peer network and the additional throughput.

A peer-to-peer connection is established by a receiving computer with a sending computer on which a desired file is located. The sending computer encrypts the file using a track key specifically generated for this particular file transfer. Once encrypted, the encrypted file is preferably obfuscated. An application server sends a public key specific to the receiving computer to the sending computer. The sending computer encrypts the track key using the public key associated with the receiving computer, and the sending computer sends the encrypted track key and the encrypted file to the receiving computer. The receiving computer stores the received encrypted track key and the received encrypted file as a secured file on the receiving computer. When a file is transferred, associated business rules are also transferred to the receiving computer. Business rules act to restrict the extent to which a file is read, copied, or distributed.

In accordance with the principles of the present invention, a system is provided for capturing a customer deposit at their place of business, converting the Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) data encoded documents into an image with an associated data file, and electronically transmit the data to a financial institution. The system allows the customer to scan each MICR encoded check that is to deposited with their financial institution, which captures financial institution routing information and customer account information. The associated image the physical check can be franked denoting the check has been electronically processed to avoid further processing. The resulting image and account data can then be processed by the financial institution. There are three options for encoding the amount: 1) the customer enters each amount after scanning the item prior to sending to the financial institution; 2) the financial institution enters the amount of each item after receiving the file from the customer; and 3) the amount field(s) are scanned and the amount is automatically entered. The system allows for both 1) online (Internet) capture of the MICR data and the associated image or 2) offline capture and the subsequent importing of the image and MICR data for transmission to the financial institution via the Internet. The financial institution can review the items captured online, and repair any item that is incorrect. The financial institution can use the system to print substitute checks that confirm to ANSI X9.90 for processing or deliver an electronic file in ANSI X9.37 format to any check processing system. The system includes secure transport over Internet connections for file transfer and dual control security to reduce fraudulent transactions from being initiated by the customer.

The present invention provides for a method and system for providing a type of Managed/Secured File Transfer between one or more computers arraigned in server-client or peer-to-peer configuration. This method and system takes digital content in the form of a file, shreds this file into separate pieces and encrypts each piece separately. Once encrypted, each piece is stored into a database. Client applications can then access these pieces of digital content over a network, decrypt and reassemble each piece to be played in the case of audio/video content, or viewed in the case of visual content. In some embodiments, the content requested by the client application is stored into a second database in a shredded and encrypted format, whereas in other embodiments the content is reassembled into the original non-encrypted and non-shredded file format. This method and system can reside on a computer system, hand held device, or other device.

An integrated communications system for exchanging data messages on a data network suitably includes an interface configured to receive said data messages via the data network; a plurality of application servers configured to process data messages and to create output messages in response thereto; and a messenger service configured to route data and output messages between the application servers and users. A method for exchanging data messages on a data network suitably includes receiving data messages at an interface; routing data messages from the interface to an application server with a messaging service; processing the data messages at an appropriate application server to create output messages in response thereto; and providing output messages to a recipient via the messaging service. An exemplary client application suitably includes a network interface module configured to send and receive messages via a digital network; a file transfer module configured to transfer data files between a local storage medium and a remote storage medium via the network interface module; an instant messaging module configured to transfer instant messages between the user and another user via the network interface module; and a user interface module configured to display data files and instant messages for the user, and to accept inputs from the user.

Abstract of the Disclosure A system and method for processing product marketing rebate claims submitted by a consumer in satisfaction of a rebate offer, the consumer having purchased designated products in a qualified transaction recorded by a point-of-sale data processing and storage system that issues a receipt containing a corresponding transaction serial number. The method comprises providing a designated site of a computer information network and accessible by the consumer, and receiving a rebate claim on the designated site. The rebate claim comprises (i) the transaction serial number corresponding to the qualified transaction, and (ii) identifying information corresponding to the consumer. The transaction serial number and the identifying information is stored as a stored data record. An electronic file transfer is received from the point-of-sale data processing and storage system comprising purchase data records, each record comprising the list of products purchased and the transaction serial number for a qualified transaction in which at least one designated product was purchased. Each stored data record is associated with a purchase data record having an identical serial number, and the records are processed to validate the rebate claim. Finally, the value of the rebate offer is transferred to the consumer. Consumer access by the designated site may be via the global computer information network or by telephone, and may also optionally integrate paper-based and smart/credit/debit-card-based rebate claims. A system for performing the above method is also claimed.

A software-based application dynamically updates user lists and enables communication between various network communication devices within a wireless network. The software-based application automatically builds and maintains a list of available users associated with the network communication devices in real-time, without reliance on a centralized server for authentication. Various types of communication, between network communication devices of the wireless network including text-based messaging, audio and video communication and file transfer are performed.

An interdiction system includes software agents masquerading as nodes in a decentralized network, a query matcher that receives search results captured by the software agents and reports matches with protected files back to the software agents, and a central coordinating authority that coordinates activities of the software agents by sending instructions to the software agents specifying actions to be taken. Possible activities and related interdicting methods include manipulating search results before forwarding them on in the network, quarantining selected nodes in the network, performing file impersonations such as transferring synthesized decoys, performing file transfer attenuation, and hash spoofing.

An approach for enabling autonomous decentralized peer-to-peer telemetry (ADEPT). A first ADEPT peer senses ADEPT peers to interconnect where the ADEPT peers are identified as ADEPT light peer, ADEPT standard peer and ADEPT peer exchange based on respectively increasing IoT device capability. The first ADEPT peer sends and receives requests to interconnect to the ADEPT peers based on messaging. The first ADEPT peer transfers files where the files are distributed toward peer-to-peer networks, creating peer consensus and interconnecting the first ADEPT peer to the ADEPT peers based on the peer consensus. ADEPT peers execute transactions and contracts by decentralized peer to peer consensus network and consensus ledger to enable autonomous device coordination.

A processor particularly useful in multimedia applications such as image processing is based on a stream programming model and has a tiered storage architecture to minimize global bandwidth requirements. The processor has a stream register file through which the processor's functional units transfer streams to execute processor operations. Load and store instructions transfer streams between the stream register file and a stream memory; send and receive instructions transfer streams between stream register files of different processors; and operate instructions pass streams between the stream register file and computational kernels. Each of the computational kernels is capable of performing compound vector operations. A compound vector operation performs a sequence of arithmetic operations on data read from the stream register file, i.e., a global storage resource, and generates a result that is written back to the stream register file. Each function or compound vector operation is specified by an instruction sequence that specifies the arithmetic operations and data movements that are performed each cycle to carry out the compound operation. This sequence can, for example, be specified using microcode.

A host computer supports a virtual guest system running thereon. The host system has a firewall that prevents it from communicating directly with the Internet, except with predetermined trusted sites. The virtual guest runs on a hypervisor, and the virtual guest comprises primarily a browser program that is allowed to contact the Internet freely via an Internet access connection that is completely separate from the host computer connection, such as a dedicated network termination point with its specific Internet IP address, or by tunneling through the host machine architecture to reach the Internet without exposing the host system. The virtual guest system is separated and completely isolated by an internal firewall from the host, and the guest cannot access any of the resources of the host computer, except that the guest can initiate cut, copy and paste operations that reach the host, and the guest can also request print of documents. The host can transfer files to and from a virtual data storage area accessible by the guest by manual operator action. No other transfer of data except these user initiated actions is permitted.

The invention discloses a multitask process monitoring method in the distributed system environment. The method comprises the following steps that: five states of the task execution process of each task execution terminal in the distributed system environment are monitored; an XML (eXtensible markup language) format description file is transported to a task collecting and processing server, the task execution conditions after filtration are written in a database and simultaneously task change information is sent to notify a task scheduling center; the task scheduling center directly submits the information to a task scheduling module after receiving the task change information and the task scheduling module adds the received information to information waiting queues; a scheduling control unit searches for a thread index table for threads of execution of the task and gives the threads of execution to the threads to be executed; and a thread control module monitors a plurality of threads in a work thread pool in real time in the system operation process. The invention also discloses a multitask process monitoring system. The system comprises a plurality of distributed task execution terminals, the task collecting and processing server and the task scheduling center.

A system and a method for sharing online storage services among multiple users are provided. The system includes a user communication interface, a file processing module, and an online storage communication interface. The user communication interface is configured to connect to a client end corresponding to a first user. When the user communication interface receives a file upload request and a corresponding upload file from the client end, the file processing module searches for a personal online storage of the first user and a shared online storage of at least one related user of the first user and determines to upload the upload file to a partial online storage of the personal online storage and the shared online storage. The online storage communication interface transfers the upload file to the partial online storage determined by the file processing module.

Applications and uses for geographic coded of network access points includes a method for generating a geographic code and an associated graphical user-interface; a method for rejecting or filtering out geographic codes of inaccurately labeled access points; a method for using geographic codes as part of network service discovery; a method for using geographic codes as part of resource discovery and display; a method for using geographic codes for asset tracking; a method for using geographic codes for file transfer and an associated user interface; a method for using geographic codes for location tracking; a method for using geographic codes as part of a domain name registry; and a method for sending geographic codes automatically.

Methods for testing network bandwidth availability in a non-intrusive manner. By implementing occasional, base-line bandwidth testing, a more accurate indication of actual transfer rate results. When an application dependent upon network bandwidth is first executed, a series of file transfers takes place utilizing a series of different sized pieces of content.

The method of the present invention provides a means to exchange files between users in a network environment. This method includes the steps of first executing a software agent on a user's computing system. An additional copy or version of this software agent is executed on an additional user's computing system. These software agents establish a connection from their respective computing systems when their respective computing systems log in to the network environment and network based computing system. When this connection is made the status of their respective computing systems and availability of shared files is provided to an agent server. The agent server, executed on the network based computing system, directs the software agents to establish direct connection between their respective computing systems in response to file requests from various users.

Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method and apparatus for enabling digital rights management in file transfers. One embodiment of a method for transferring digital content from a first user to a second user, includes transferring ownership of an instance of the digital content to the second user, where the instance of the digital content resides on a first device belonging to the first user. Copies of the digital content are then deleted from one or more additional devices belonging to the first user (including at least one offline device).

The invention discloses a security cloud storage system based on increment synchronization. A three-tier architecture of client-intermediate server-private cloud terminal is adopted, and data security is guaranteed by multiple security protection technology. After being blocked and encrypted, a user file is transmitted to a cloud terminal through an SSL (security socket layer) security transmission protocol; after finishing the work of user management and key management, the intermediate server terminal adopts a mutual authentication mechanism and an access control mechanism to realize the safe data share so as to completely prevent original data from leaking from the server terminal; the binding of the file and a mobile device is realized at a client, the specific file can be only opened on a specific device, and even though the file is leaked by an insider, a leaking device can be traced; moreover, the unique increment synchronization technology is realized, and the file can be synchronized by only synchronizing modified file blocks, so that the flow consumption in the file transmission process is reduced, the transmission efficiency is improved, the system usability is enhanced, and user experience is promoted.

The present invention provides a system and method, relating to the transfer of patient files over a secure, HIPAA compliant, patient file transfer and outpatient order system and a computer site therefore. The method includes obtaining and compiling a patient record pertaining to a patient; electronically inputting the patient record obtained into a secure computer database containing other patient records, allowing physician access to the patient record wherein the access includes allowing the physician to order outpatient services and send part of the patient information, including certain defined fields for a complete record and to send and receive referrals including certain defined fields for a complete record.

A file transmitting device is configured to transmit a designated file to an external device. The file transmitting device includes a file storage configured to store files to be laid open, and a communication system. The file transmitting device can communicate with the external device through a network. The file transmitting device further includes a file retrieving system that retrieves the designated file from the file storage, a judging system configured to judge whether the retrieved file is a confidential file based on word information included in the retrieved file, and a controlling system configured to apply an appropriate security process to the retrieved file in accordance with a result of judging of the judging system. The retrieved file is transmitted to the external device through the network.

Files received by a mobile device are sampled for malware tracking. The method includes configuring file transfer mechanisms that use short-range communication technology on the mobile device to appear, to other devices, to be open for accepting all attempts to transfer files. The method further comprises intercepting files transferred via the short-range communication technology to the mobile device from another device. The method also comprises quarantining the files transferred to the mobile device and logging identifying information about each of the files quarantined and about the other devices from which each of the files originated. The method further includes providing the logged identifying information for the files received to a security server. The method can also include, responsive to a request from the security server for more information about one of the files, providing a copy of that file to the security server for malware analysis and for updating a reputation system tracking mobile device malware.

A method and system are provided for updating software configurations of line-replaceable unit (LRU) computers in a restricted architecture network such as an in-flight entertainment system (IFES). Operating in an efficient and parallel manner, each of the LRUs independently creates an individual configuration file that identifies current software components. Each of the LRUs transmits its respective configuration file to a configuration server either automatically upon startup or manually upon request. The configuration server updates a system configuration data file with the current configuration files received from the individual LRUs. In a downloading method, a download server sends a list of desired software components to the LRUs. Each of the LRUs independently and simultaneously transfer (download) the needed software from the download server. The LRU independently requests the download server to download the needed software components. To improve scalability and reliability, the file transfers utilize standard protocols, such as FTP.

An object of this invention is to easily identify an image file transferred from an image input apparatus and saved in an image file management apparatus. In an image file management method of saving an image file transferred from an image input apparatus in a folder created in accordance with the photographing date information of the image file, when transferred image files include one kind of photographing date, one kind of folder to save the image files is displayed on a screen as a current folder. When a plurality of kinds of photographing dates are present, a folder of an upper hierarchy which includes a plurality of folders created in correspondence with the plurality of kinds of photographing dates is displayed on the screen as the current folder.

Characters of the method are that client proxy software of parallelized file system on each front-end host implements supporting VFS access; server of metadata is in charge of executing increment scaling, transporting management and rate control i.e. operations so as to realize performance guarantee of front-end application in hierarchical storage system for mass data (HSSMD). According to performance, data servers are divided into fast data servers and slow data servers. Data server processes incremental scan command sent from metadata server, returns scanned information, and meanwhile executes file transfer command sent from metadata server. Based on condition of load, the method dispatches procedure of data transfer. Based on condition of remnant space (RS) of fast device, the method carries out degradation initiatively. The invention reduces influence on application in front end from transporting procedure, raises rate of RS of fast device, and enhances self management for HSSMD.

Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods and systems for providing efficient, scalable and reliable transport of large media files to multiple receivers over digital video broadcast (DVB) standards-based broadcast networks. Transport Reliability is achieved using Forward Error Correction (FEC) and a selective, Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) mechanism over an IP-based unicast feedback path. Out-of-band command and control messages over DVB network are used for initiation and coordination between sender and receivers.

A system and method for bypassing an access point in a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) for direct point-to-point data transfers are provided. A user device in the wireless LAN is equipped with a primary local wireless interface establishing a wireless communication link with an access point of the wireless LAN, a secondary local wireless interface used for direct point-to-point (P2P) file transfers, and a P2P file transfer application. When the P2P application desires to transfer a data file to another user device within the wireless LAN, the user device determines whether the other user device is within a coverage area of the secondary local wireless interface and whether the file transfer meets one or more alternate transfer criterion. If so, the data file is transferred to the other user device via a direct P2P wireless communication link, thereby bypassing the access point of the wireless LAN.