Display screen with icon

A telecommunications system (10) is provided that provides for telephone functions to be accessed through client computer system (14). A server computer system (16) provides telephony services, database services and access to E-mail, voice mail, video conferencing and facsimile systems. A graphical user interface 116 is presented to a user to allow the user to perform a large number of functions and to access databases of information associated with calling and called parties.

Computer telephone system

A system and method for effectuating Electronic Funds Transfer credit messages (see Fig. 12) is disclosed. The main structural components of the system include a Payment Portal Processor (Web Broker), an Internet Pay Anyone (IPA) Account (1202), a Virtual Private Lockbox (VPL) and an Account Reporter, the existing EFT networks, and a cash card for accessing a VPL or IP account. The Web Broker is a software application that provides a secure portal for accessing the user's Demand Deposit Account (DDA) or an IPA account and can be combined with the functionality of a traditional digital Wallet. Consumers use a Web Broker enhanced Wallet to fund their account, shop on the web, pay bills, store electronic receipts and transaction history, and check their recent Web Broker enhanced Wallet activity. The IPA is a special purpose account with limited functionality for making electronic payments in the form of EFT credit messages. The VPL is a limited function receive only account for receiving electronic payments through the EFT. The Account Reporter is a portal to view transaction history and the balance in IPA and VPL accounts, and provide online, real-time transaction reports and reconcile accounts receivable/purchase records against incoming EFT payment records. A physical card can be associated with either an IPA or VPL account in order to provide PIN debit capability.

Method and system for processing internet payments

A system and method for providing a collaborative work environment includes servers and client workstations. Client workstations receive data objects from one or more servers and combine the received data objects with stored templates to render HTML pages representing at least a portion of a common project. Users may view, edit, and create common documents for the projects and upload them to the server using a drag-and-drop interface. Additionally, since all file transfers take place using HTTP, project groups can span corporate organizations as well as time zones and geographic boundaries.

Method and system for providing a networked collaborative work environment

In order to freely select, locate and display an image from a remote place on a monitor to facilitate observer's use, disclosed are apparatus and methods arranged to perform operation of drag and drop of a symbol to a specific position on a map showing the symbol indicating information of the position where an image generator is set, thereby establishing logical network connection with a video transmission terminal to which the image generator is connected, to display a video in an arbitrary display area, to perform the drag and drop operation of the video displayed in the video display area to another video display area, thereby changing a video display position, and to perform the drag and drop operation thereof to a display stop symbol, thereby disconnecting the logical network connection to stop the video display of the video camera.

Communication apparatus, image processing apparatus, communication method, and image processing method

The present invention provides an apparatus for searching a device on a network. The device searching server acquires a search condition from the device searching client, searches a device on the network and returns the search result to the device searching client. If the number of the device matching the search condition is at least equal to a predetermined number, additional information such as location information and charge information is added to the search result. Also if the device matching the search condition is absent, a device of a high frequency of use, determined on the use history, is outputted as the search result.

Device searching apparatus

A pointing cursor is moved to a position on a file icon to be transferred in a file list using a position input unit. Thereafter, a button of the position input unit is depressed to select the file icon. The position input unit is moved while depressing its button so as to move the pointing cursor into a display area of a received image, and thereafter, the button of the position input unit is released. At this time, a drag & drop event is generated by a basic software program. Therefore, by only dragging the icon of the file to be transferred by operating the position input unit, an instruction input for a series of file transfer processes can be attained, and the operability for the file transfer function can be improved.

Communication apparatus and method for performing a file transfer operation

A network device control unit and method are provided in which the same password is used for both starting up the network management software, and for acquiring information and making settings in the target network device, so that password entry for access to a network device can be omitted and the operability of network management software can be greatly improved. To implement the unit and method, the password entered by the user at start-up of NetSpot is detected, and when the network device to be controlled is selected, the password previously set to control access to this selected network device is acquired. Then this network device password is compared with the NetSpot password, and when the passwords match each other, the password entry for that network device is omitted and the detailed information for that network device is acquired and displayed.

Network data base control device and method thereof

Conventionally, crowded network traffic occurs because duplicated data exchange is performed between network management software and network devices. A network-device management method according to the present invention includes a search step of searching a device connected to a network, an acquisition step of acquiring a value of a device attribute relating to the device detected in the search in the search step, and a storage step of storing values of a plurality of device attributes relating to the device detected in the search in a storage device. If the value of each of the plurality of device attributes relating to the device detected in the search is stored in the storage device, the value stored in the storage device is used. It is thereby possible to prevent crowded network traffic by transmitting and receiving only necessary packets in a network-device search sequence.

System for network-device management including collecting and storing of device attributes that change with time and device attributes that hardly change with time

Each network device connected to a network broadcasts a cold start trap when activated. A monitoring device captures this trap and checks whether the trap is an SNMP packet. If the trap is an SNMP packet, the monitoring device extracts the address from the received packet and registers the address in a directory server, or requests the status of a device as a transmission source and registers the received status in the directory server.

Noboru Hamada

Papers

Device searching apparatus

Communication apparatus and method for performing a file transfer operation

Network data base control device and method thereof

System for network-device management including collecting and storing of device attributes that change with time and device attributes that hardly change with time

Network device managing apparatus and method