914 results about "Hypertext Transfer Protocol" patented technology

A multiple network protocol encoder/decoder comprising a network protocol layer, data handler, O.S. State machine, and memory manager state machines implemented at a hardware gate level. Network packets are received from a physical transport level mechanism by the network protocol layer state machine which decodes network protocols such as TCP, IP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), PPP, and Raw Socket concurrently as each byte is received. Each protocol handler parses and strips header information immediately from the packet, requiring no intermediate memory. The resulting data are passed to the data handler which consists of data state machines that decode data formats such as email, graphics, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Java, and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Each data state machine reacts accordingly to the pertinent data, and any data that are required by more than one data state machine is provided to each state machine concurrently, and any data required more than once by a specific data state machine, are placed in a specific memory location with a pointer designating such data (thereby ensuring minimal memory usage). Resulting display data are immediately passed to a display controller. Any outgoing network packets are created by the data state machines and passed through the network protocol state machine which adds header information and forwards the resulting network packet via a transport level mechanism.

A secure music distribution system securely distributes digital products such as music, video, and/or computer software along with related media over a public telecommunications network, such as the Internet, employing a client-server architecture. The digital products are stored and controlled by a content manager computer system and are sold by separate merchant computer systems. The secure music distribution system includes a music distribution center which operates with any number of client systems and with any number of merchant systems. The music distribution center includes a content manager and at least one delivery server. The content manager maintains a media information database, a master media file system, and a transaction database. In addition, the music distribution center interfaces with a media licensing center, which in turn communicates with one or more distributed rights agent servers and the merchant servers. The merchant server executes in a merchant computer system, which also includes an HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) server. The merchant servers interface with various payment processing systems. The client systems include a media player and a Web browser. Additional delivery servers and media licensing centers operate independently and externally to the music distribution center and interface with the music distribution center.

In various embodiments, a gateway application generates an outgoing Hypertext Transmission Protocol (HTTP) request based on an incoming HTTP request. In operation, the gateway application receives the incoming HTTP request and identifies an upstream service based on at least one of an HTTP method and a header included in the incoming HTTP request. Subsequently, the gateway application generates an outgoing HTTP request based on the upstream service and the incoming HTTP request. Finally, the gateway application issues the outgoing HTTP request. The outgoing HTTP request causes the upstream service to perform an action requested in the incoming HTTP request. Advantageously, the gateway application enables underlying upstream services to perform actions specified via incoming HTTP requests without directly exposing the upstream services to users.

In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method for providing single sign-on in a network having a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) portion and a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) portion is provided, the method performed at a gateway and comprising: receiving an HTTP request for an assertion from a requester over the HTTP portion; generating a SIP request using the request for assertion; sending the SIP request to a SIP registrar over the SIP portion; receiving a SIP response including information regarding an assertion from the SIP registrar; and sending the information regarding the assertion in an HTTP response to the requester, such that the requester can use the information regarding the assertion in authenticating the requester to a web server.

The present invention can include a communication system having a plurality of portable devices being communicatively linked via an ad-hoc, wireless network such that each portable device functions in a peer-to-peer fashion. Each portable device can include a communication architecture including an application configured to control service discovery, usage, and advertising, a service manager and a micro-hypertext transfer protocol server. The service manager can be configured to discover services provided by other ones of the portable devices, and register and advertise services provided by the portable device within which the service manager is disposed, under control of the application. The micro-hypertext transfer protocol server can be configured to send and receive queries to facilitate service discovery, usage, and advertising.

Systems and methods for manipulating online behavioral tracking policies are provided. According to one embodiment, a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) response transmitted from a web server to a client is captured by a network security device. A status of the client is determined by the network security device. An online behavioral tracking policy associated with the client is identified by the network security device based on the determined status. The identified online behavioral tracking policy is enforced by the network security device by modifying the HTTP response. The modified HTTP response is transmitted by the network security device to the client.

A method and device are disclosed for reporting capability of a mobile device, in order to improve experiences of the user of the mobile device. This capability reporting is accomplished by a web service that makes available a device profile from a device profile repository located within the mobile device. The web service utilizes reverse hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) binding for simple object access protocol (SOAP). Enhanced content is subsequently received at the mobile device, such as content in an improved format, and the enhanced content is based at least partly upon the capability of the mobile device disclosed by the web service. If a characteristic of the mobile device changes, thereby causing a modification of the capability of the mobile device for accepting a type of enhanced content, an update signal is sent to the device profile. The device profile is a user agent profile or variation thereof.

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for executing ERP application requests in a computer-implemented ERP data processing system via a network, using the steps of:

• • (a) transmitting a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) input form to a browser executed by a client computer in the network for display on a monitor attached thereto;
  • (b) receiving a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request from the browser to access the ERP System, wherein the request optionally includes data entered by the user into an HTML input form;
  • (c) transferring any data entered by the user into the HTML input form and any data stored in the requested HTML page into the ERP application API
  • (d) transferring control to the ERP application for execution;
  • (e) receiving output data from the ERP application in response to the transmitted data and request;
  • (f) merging the output data from the ERP application into a strongly typed Java object;
  • (g) transforming the strongly typed Java objects into a transmittable format, such as XML or HTML, and
  • (h) transmitting the HTML or XML object to the browser for display on the monitor attached to the client computer.

A method for preventing denial of service attacks against Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) servers includes receiving a HTTP request from a subscriber using a first communication network coupled to at least one other communication network, receiving a profile for the subscriber, filtering the request to determine whether the subscriber is authorized to make the request based upon the profile and forwarding the request to the other communication network when the subscriber is authorized to make the request. An apparatus capable of preventing denial of service attacks against HTTP servers includes a profile request generator capable of generating a profile request based upon a HTTP request received from a subscriber using a first communication network, a filter capable of determining whether the request is authorized based upon the requested profile and an authorizer capable of allowing the request to be forwarded on at least one other communication network coupled to the first communication network.

Systems and methods for adaptive bitrate streaming of media including subtitles utilizing Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes requesting and buffering portions of video from at least one of the alternative streams using a playback device, requesting information indicative of a font utilized by a font-rendering engine to render text from a selected subtitle stream, downloading at least one font file when the font is not present on the playback device, requesting and buffering at least a portion of the selected subtitle stream, decoding the buffered portions of video using a decoder on the playback device, rendering the portions of the subtitle stream corresponding to the buffered portion of video using a font-rendering engine configured by the at least one downloaded font file, and performing synchronized playback of the decoded video and rendered subtitles using the playback device.

A method of modifying network identifiers at data servers is disclosed. A virtual private network (VPN) gateway server generates a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request. The HTTP request not only requests data from a data server that is within a VPN, but also instructs the data server to modify (“mangle”) URLs that are contained within the requested data so that the URLs refer to the VPN gateway server. The VPN gateway server sends the HTTP request toward the data server. As a result, the data server modifies the URLs so that the VPN gateway server does not need to. When such a modified URLs is selected in a web browser, the web browser generates an HTTP request that is directed to the VPN gateway server's URL, which, unlike the unmodified URLs, can be resolved by domain name servers that are outside of the VPN.

An asynchronous hypertext messaging system and method are disclosed. The system and method use existing hypertext transfer protocols and is capable of transmitting real-time asynchronous data between server and client regardless of firewalls or proxy servers implemented at the client or the server. In a communication system comprising a client and server interconnected by an internet, initial authentication is performed initially between the server and the client. A secure log in is performed by the client with the server in conjunction with a possible java applet download. The communication server then initiates a multiplexed virtual connection between the server and the client and transmission of asynchronous real-time data can occur over the virtual connection. The virtual connection is periodically refreshed by a request issued from the java applet.

The present invention is based on a concept to provide session and profile management for network communication, especially over hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), employing available communication methods. Session and profile management is available and standardized for mobile communication by the means of the wireless session protocol (WSP) employable for wireless application protocol (WAP) communication. This wireless session protocol (WSP) is limited to mobile communication. The analog communication standard hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) available and standardized for wireline communication does not offer a session and profile management. The present invention offers a method to establish an analog session and profile management by the means of cookies or modified uniform resource locators (URL) even over the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) without requiring substantial changes to the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) standard.

A solution is provided that allows end users to search documents in multiple remote content repositories in an enterprise environment, while maintaining security of those documents. Additionally, end users are able to search for a document without knowing which server or directory it is stored under. This is accomplished by installing a search agent on the end user's machine. The search engine collects the metadata of authorized documents located in different repositories via a web protocol (such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP) and stores them in the user's local memory as “searchable links”. This solves the enterprise content search problem through the creation of searchable links of remote content objects in an end user's local machine while allowing emerging desktop-search technology to index them.

Mobile terminal (302) provides information resources to other mobile terminals (310), Internet (306), and Internet browser (308). WAP push mechanisms including Session Initiation Request (SIR) and Service Loading (SL) are implemented through Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) gateway/HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) proxy 304to facilitate HTTP information transfer between mobile server (302) and the other network terminals (310 and 308).

Methods and apparatus including a virtual machine and a compression network platform are provided especially for improving the application of compression algorithms and unique identifiers for algorithms, bytecode and HTTP common phrases of HTTP messages utilized to advantage in wireless networks. In particular, a given virtual machine need only identify to a receiving virtual machine the unique identifier for one of an algorithm, a static dictionary or a hash for decompressing a received data signal. Universal decompressor virtual machines may receive uploaded compression algorithms, bytecode identifiers or static dictionary identifiers and the like from proxy call session control functions of a wireless network, the compressing machine or a compression network platform resource which in one embodiment may comprise an IANA database. The methods and apparatus may find particular application in improving the efficiency of presence/group list management.

A wireless network device to support quality-aware adaptive media streaming includes a radio-frequency transceiver, a processor operably coupled to the radio-frequency transceiver, and a memory device operably coupled to the processor. The memory storing instructions that configure the processor to parse a manifest file to read information characterizing media content available for hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) adaptive streaming, obtain quality information of the media content based on a quality attribute parsed from the manifest file, and dynamically switch streaming between different encoded portions of the media content in response to the quality information for an encoded portion of the media content deviating from a desired quality value.

Techniques are disclosed for addressing the name space mismatch between content servers (which use Uniform Resource Locators, or "URLs") and content caching systems (which use file and path names). A file name-to-URL mapping is created for use by content caching systems, and data in protocol response messages (and optionally in protocol request messages) is augmented to transmit information for use in creating this mapping, enabling a content caching system to automatically and dynamically populate its file name-to-URL mapping. By having the file name available, the caching system can now respond to content management messages which identify the cached content by only the content's associated file name. Techniques for encoding the message extensions include: use of new directives on existing cache-control headers in Hypertext Transfer Protocol ("HTTP") messages; addition of new headers in HTTP messages; and use of meta-data in markup languages such as Hypertext Markup Language ("HTML") or Extensible Markup Language ("XML") format.

In one or more embodiments, a network provider can receive a request to access a public network via a wireless network implemented via one or more wireless access points. The network provider can receive, via an unsecured wireless communication from a mobile device utilizing the wireless network and via a hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS), an encryption key usable to secure wireless communications from the mobile device utilizing the wireless network. The encryption key can be encrypted via a public encryption key, received from the network provider or previously stored by the mobile device, associated with the network provider. The network provider can decrypt the encryption key and can provide the encryption key to a wireless access point implementing the wireless network and communicating with the mobile device. The wireless access point and the mobile device can communicate in a secure fashion based on the encryption key.

A method and an apparatus of processing HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) message for facilitating download of user-intended information from a web server are provided. The method includes detecting a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) entry, transmitting, when at least one predictive URL corresponding to the URL entry exists in a redirect history database (DB), to the network first request messages including the respective URL entry and the at least one predictive URL, receiving first response messages from the network in response to the first request messages, determining whether a success message is valid among the first response messages, and determining, when the success message is valid, data carried in the success message as a resource to be presented to a user.