Popular operating systems for user devices, such as personal computers (PCs), PDAs, pocketPCs, smartphones, and similar such personal devices, typically come bundled with software that is already installed, maintained and run on a user's computer, namely, a non-specialized HTTP client/web browser and a non-specialized instant messaging client. A device is described which presents a user's instant messaging client and HTTP client/web browser as a unified device for handling real-time user interac...

A data switching system, having a switch processor, directs requests to initiate a new operation session of an executable application. The switch processor parses received data representing a received universal resource locator (URL) to identify whether the received URL is associated with a request to initiate an operation session of an executable application. If the received URL is associated with a request to initiate an operation session, the switch processor initiates a data access request a...

An improved method to access software components on a server network, such as enterprise beans according to the Enterprise JavaBeans architecture, by using a wrapper called an Access Bean. Access Beans hide the home and remote interface methods of an Enterprise JavaBeans server from a client program so that the task of consuming an enterprise bean is one of consuming a standard Java bean. The home interface method of the enterprise bean is mapped to appropriate constructors in the Access Bean; a...

A beacon (120) adapted for use in an arrangement (100) for providing an information service, comprising a storage (225) for storing data related to the information service, local communication means (220, 221, 222) for establishing a short range communication link (125) with a mobile device (130), and a processor (224) adapted for autonomously performing the service based on the data in the storage (225) with the mobile device (130) using the short range communication link (125). The arrangement...

A method and system for sharing data in a computer network having multiple processors enrolled therein. A local clipboard memory is initially associated with each processor enrolled in the computer network. A data object from an application within a processor enrolled in a computer network is thereafter transferred to the clipboard memory associated with that processor, in response to user input. The data object is thereafter automatically transferred to some or all clipboard memories of the oth...

A directory assistance method and system to provide directory assistance information to users at computer terminals without operator assistance. The directory assistance information is requested in a computer protocol and converted to a telephone protocol, then the retrieved from a telephone data base.

Contents on a server that need not be updated for a fixed period of time are recorded directly in a medium, and desired contents in a local device can be accessed by the same operation procedure as that for accessing the server storing the contents. When a request to acquire delivery information is made from information browsing unit with respect to a local proxy server, the local proxy server analyzes the request, and acquires a server-side control file managed by a server with respect to which...

Methods for detecting outbound Nagling on a TCP network connection are disclosed. Embodiments may include creating by a sender computer one or more segments to be transmitted to a receiver computer and determining by the sender computer whether any of the one or more segments to be transmitted are small segments and determining whether a previously transmitted small segment is unacknowledged by the receiver computer. If the previously transmitted small segment is unacknowledged by the receiver c...

Method and apparatus for RMI-IIOP implementation using Java serialization as a data encoding mechanism. Embodiments may provide a mechanism to use Java serialization rather than, or as an alternative to, CORBA Common Data Representation (CDR), for the marshaling and unmarshaling of data in RMI-IIOP message exchanges. In one embodiment, a server-side Object Request Broker (ORB) may be configured to support the encoding of data in RMI-IIOP messages in accordance with CDR encoding and Java serializ...

A computer program capsule is created from programs that include at least one other web service program. The programs are interconnected and saved as an encapsulated program for use as an encapsulated program or a web service program. The encapsulated program is created and interconnected from a local or remote computer.