The present invention relates to the transferring of information on the Internet, comprising: means (40) for storing information, corresponding to information provided at an Internet content provider (60), at respective alternative addresses of said storing means; means (20) for intercepting an information request from an Internet user directed to an Internet content provider; means for determining whether or not the intercepted request is directed to an information content provider having an as...

A server properly manages user names which users use in services. Based upon communication with a user terminal, a handle name and a character are selected. The information of the selected character is stored in association with the selected user name. The character profile of the character is stored as information of each associated character. Information relating to the user is also stored, and the information relating to the user is blurred when sent to a user terminal used by another user to...

An apparatus and method for processing remotely located data is disclosed. The present invention comprises a computer software program that operates on a local machine and a remote machine. A user must first select a module to execute and specify the remote data. The local machine creates a temporary directory on the remote machine and copies a control script into the temporary directory. The control script copies the module from the local system to the remote system and executes the module. The...

An interconnecting device for a data processing system. The interconnecting device comprises a first plurality of connection ports for connecting to first components of the data processing system. The interconnecting device further comprises a second plurality of connection ports for connecting to second components of the data processing system. And, a cover is affixed over the first plurality of connection ports to restrict access to the first plurality of connection ports.

A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product are presented for recordation and playback of transactions within a web browser or similar client application. A transaction recordation and playback utility captures dynamic information upon recordation and/or playback of a web-browser-based transaction. The dynamic information is derived from the DOM-related (Document Object Model) information that is maintained within the web browser application. Using information from a previously rec...

The invention relates to a message broker for managing subscription requests in a multicast messaging system. The messaging system comprises a plurality of publishers publishing information to the broker and a plurality of subscribers subscribing to information received from one or more publishers. The broker is able to receive a subscription request pointing to topic information in which the requesting subscriber is interested, the topic information defining a specific topic within a topic hier...

Extensible device data gathering is performed by a server in concert with at least one gatherer. The server accepts requests from clients and dispatches a gatherer to gather device data from devices on a network. When the data is returned, the server stores the data in a repository. The server also handles requests for repository data from clients. A gatherer presents an interface to the server which the server can use to dispatch the gatherer. The system is extensible because new gatherers may ...

An image forming apparatus which allows setup to be performed while displaying setup procedure data on a network without causing an adverse effect. The image forming apparatus is capable of accessing a predetermined server via a network. A controller 150 inhibits operations of mechanical movable members of the image forming apparatus. The controller 150 obtains procedure data for setting up the image forming apparatus from the server while the operations of the mechanical movable members of the ...

A network device is provided. The network device includes a controller configured to identify a head portion of a data packet received by the network device, and inhibit a transmission of the head portions of two received data packets from consecutive slots in a transmission cycle.

To transfer web contents to a web server from a computer through a network, a plurality of files composing the web contents are stored in the computer. A processor of the computer then detects files to be transferred from the plurality of files to create a transfer file list table. A transfer priority of the files to be transferred is determined by the processor on the basis of reference relation data of the files to be transferred which are designated in the transfer file list table and file fo...