Month of September 2007

When responding to a particular e-mail message, there may be other email messages that should be considered. Oftentimes, these messages are not remembered, or worse, not yet read, but their content would be relevant to the response. What is needed is a clear way to present the pertinent e-mail, in order to help...

There are multiple instant messenger protocols used today. If an instant messenger user is communicating with two different instant messenger clients and the two clients wish to chat with each other, they need to use a common instant messenger client. This idea allows the common user to host both clients and...

This article discusses methods, tools and techniques to identify areas that can be bottlenecks and cause performance issues in a Siebel High interactivity type environment. The use of a method called Application Network Demand profiling(ANDP) was used in Siebel application to identify transaction turns, number of...

This article describes a method for all applications which do updates to register themselves, and how often they make updates to a central update tracker. The update tracker would then be aware of the user environment so that appropriate times for updates can be selected. This may include times with low usage of...

Many times you may get an email may that is very important and you want to read it right away. However you are away from your email system. Current solutions will notify you of all mail arriving. This article describes a solution where only mail from important people trigger the alert.

Disclosed is a method of proactive skill management scalable from small to large organizations. The disclosed organizational Skill Management Method consists of the following steps: (1) identifying organizational skills gaps, (2) automatically generating balanced skill improvement plans, (3) mitigating changes to the...

This document reports the outcome of the Routing and Addressing Workshop that was held by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) on October 18-19, 2006, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The primary goal of the workshop was to develop a shared understanding of the problems that the large backbone operators are facing...