John A Ciarlante, 34Boylston, MA

6594819, Jul 15, 2003

Jan 25, 1999

09/237157

John J. Ciarlante - Shrewsbury MA
Orlando C. Montalvo-Huhn - Lowell MA
Koah-Hsing Wang - Winchester MA
Alan Rodgers - Melrose MA
Steven Brand - Cambridge MA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 9455

717 11, 717 1, 705203

A method for establishing a collection of application software programs capable of being hosted by a user. Application kits for software applications are received, each application kit including executable application files and additional application related data. For each software application contained in an application kit, one or more offerings are created, each offering including at least some of the additional application related data in the application kit and pricing terms for hosting of the application, and a server upon which the software application may be hosted is identified. The offerings are published on a computer accessible to the user to thereby allow the user to select an offering and host the software application relating thereto on the identified server. A plurality of offerings may be created for any software application. The offerings may be organized into a plurality of catalogs of related software applications.

7272662, Sep 18, 2007

Nov 30, 2001

09/997884

Pascal Chesnais - Cambridge MA, US
Christopher Herot - Newton Highlands MA, US
Imran Qidwai - Westborough MA, US
Joshua Randall - Longmeadow MA, US
Kamal Ayad - Medford MA, US
John Ciarlante - Shrewsbury MA, US

NMS Communications Corporation - Framingham MA

G06F 15/16

709246, 709230, 709238

The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for routing a message to a communications device. These systems and methods may receive a message via a communications channel, convert the message into a uniform media format, identify at least one of the following: at least one user communications device to receive the message and at least one communications channel for delivering the message, then convert the uniform media formatted message for at least one communications protocol and then forward the message formatted for the at least one communications protocol to the at least one user communications device via at least one communications channel. In accordance with the systems and methods disclosed herein, messages sent in one communications protocol via a communications channel may be delivered to a user in a different communications protocol via a different communications channel. The message may be forward to a user's communications device based upon the user's contact profile and location information and the user's preferences information. In some embodiments, the message may be delivered via an instant messaging communications channel.

7558861, Jul 7, 2009

Oct 23, 2003

10/692464

Imran H. Qidwai - Westborough MA, US
John J. Ciarlante - Shrewsbury MA, US

NMS Communications Corp. - Framingham MA

G06F 15/16
G06F 15/173
G06F 7/58
G06F 3/00
G06F 9/44
G06F 9/46
G06F 13/00
G06K 19/00

709227, 709201, 709207, 709218, 709219, 709225, 709229, 709230, 709236, 709237, 726 3

Users of network based software applications typically interact with an application via a command line interface or a menu interface. Conventional voice-driven communication threads rely on a dedicated communication line (connection) to maintain a session context, or state, between a user and an application for the duration of a session. Such state information enables the application to reference a session context for the session duration, and employ the session context to maintain a state from previous atomic messages sent and received between the device and the application. By maintaining and referencing a session context indicative of previous messages, an application identifies an atomic message as corresponding to a particular session context, and employs the session context to process the message within the context, or environment, defined by the previous messages in the session. In this manner, a stateless protocol such as a text messaging protocol is operable to invoke stateful applications from the stateless infrastructure by employing the session context defined by the session of request and response messages.

6532488, Mar 11, 2003

Jan 25, 1999

09/237134

John J. Ciarlante - Shrewsbury MA, 01545
Orlando C. Montalvo-Huhn - Lowell MA, 10851
Koah-Hsing Wang - Winchester MA, 01890
Alan Rodgers - Melrose MA, 02176
Steven Brand - Cambridge MA, 02142

G06F 1516

709205

The present invention allows users to host a software application on a server accessible to a plurality of users, the software application being simultaneously useable by the plurality of users. According to one embodiment, the method of the present invention comprises receiving a plurality of application kits for a plurality of software application and creating one or more offerings for each software application contained in an application kit. A user is allowed to select an offering from a plurality of published offerings, the offerings identifying one or more software applications, which is used to establish an instance of the software application identified in the selected offering on the server. The user specifies one or more invited users and sends a message to each of the one or more invited users to join the software application instance.