International Business Machines Corporation

Ipac Acquisition Subsidiary I, LLC

Richard Adams Gillaspy

Lynn Erich Petersen

Lance Warren Russell

Gary Roy Shippy

Joe Wayne Blackard

William John Henthorn

A method and system for improving email traffic which can involve portable digital imaging devices is disclosed. In first and second aspects, the method and system allow a portable digital imaging device to receive an attachment associated with an email message. A first type of attachment is allowed by the portable digital imaging device. The attachment is described a second type. In the first aspect, the method and system include determining whether the first type is the same as the second type prior to sending the attachment to the portable digital imaging device and providing the attachment to the portable digital imaging device only if the first type is the same as the second type. In the second aspect, the method and system include utilizing the portable digital imaging device to determine whether the first type is the same as the second type while receiving the email message, accepting the attachment if the first type is the same as the second type and terminating receipt of the attachment if the first type does not is the same as the second type. In a third aspect, the method allows an image that can be from a portable digital imaging device to be viewed by a recipient. In this aspect, the method and system include receiving the image and an identity of the recipient, storing the image in a location having an address and sending a message to the recipient using the identity of the recipient. The message includes the address and excludes the image.

Method and system for improving email traffic using a digital imaging device

A data processing system and a method implement a unique push, or streaming, model for communicating time sensitive encoded data, such as video and audio data, in a communication network. A pacing mechanism is implemented in the data processing system to allow a client to pace a streaming server in a stable way such that a fill level of a client buffer will oscillate around a single threshold value. A simple protocol is implemented to protect pacing primitives, allow recovery for pacing primitives, and to keep a client and a server synchronized during the pacing operation. To implement the pacing mechanism, the streaming server transmits data at a slightly faster rate than it was encoded. Subsequently, a decoder circuit at the client, or receiver, uses the transmitted data at the encoded rate. Thus, the utilization of buffers in the client will gradually increase. When the utilization of buffers reaches a threshold level, the client provides a pacing message to the server. When the pacing message is received, the server withholds sending data for a period of time sufficient to drop the client buffer utilization to a level below a threshold level.

Data processing system and method for pacing information transfers in a

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