14th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 48 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120084347 | PRESENTING MODULES IN A BROWSER - Module management software receives a request from the browser for a presentation composed of at least one module. The module management software transmits a request for module data associated with the module to a first server that caches the module data after retrieving the module data from a website. The module management software then receives the requested module data from the first server and transmits a request for each of the resource files described in the module data to a second server that caches each of the resource files after retrieving the resource file from an external (or internal) website. Each request for a resource file can be handled by a corresponding thread. The module management software delays transmission of the module data to the browser, if any requested resource file is not received within a time limit derived at least in part from a service level agreement. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084348 | Facilitation of user management of unsolicited server operations - A trust architecture, including an intermediary for use therewith, which may be referred to as a Personal Privacy Stronghold (“PPS”), is disclosed which facilitates user management, including control, enablement, extension and augmentation, of unsolicited server operations, allowing the user to control such operations without compromising their ability to use other functionality. Such stateful operations may be used, for example, to monitor and track the user's Internet activities. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084349 | User interface for user management and control of unsolicited server operations - A trust architecture, including an intermediary for use therewith, which may be referred to as a Personal Privacy Stronghold (“PPS”), is disclosed which facilitates user management, including control, enablement, extension and augmentation, of unsolicited server operations, allowing the user to control such operations without compromising their ability to use other functionality. Such stateful operations may be used, for example, to monitor and track the user's Internet activities. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084350 | Adaptive distributed medical image viewing and manipulating systems - A pure web browser based medical imaging system that requires no installation of application software or any browser plug-in and functions in the same way as traditional full blown medical imaging PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) viewer fat clients. In addition, the system intelligently distributes the computing tasks of image rendering between browser and servers from complete server-side rendering to complete client-side rendering and anything between. It comprises a JavaScript medical image rendering library that can process original DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) data sets and all standard web images at pixel level, a medical imaging server and a rendering load balancing component that can dynamically split the rendering computing from server to client according to their capabilities. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084351 | SERVICE COLLABORATION SYSTEM - A user interaction type service collaboration system, in which a user terminal calls Web service provisioning servers in sequence via a Web portal server and a service scenario execution server, and each Web service provisioning server carries out interaction processing with the user terminal, is provided with a callback control server having:
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20120084352 | USER TERMINAL DEVICE AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF - A user terminal device and method for providing a service in the user terminal device is provided. The user terminal device includes a location calculation unit that calculates location information of the user terminal device, a storage unit that stores a service hub program, a display unit that displays an icon container including icons of application programs set with the service hub program, and a control unit that restricts usability of at least one of the application programs or the service hub program based on the location information and effective area information. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084353 | ONLINE WAITING ROOM SYSTEM, METHOD & COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention sets forth a system, method and computer program product which may include providing an online waiting room and gatekeeper for controlling access to users in a plurality of tiered classification standby lines, seeking access to an online event. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084354 | SCREEN SHOT DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, SCREEN SHOT DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR SCREEN SHOT DISPLAY CONTROL, AND SERVER APPARATUS - A display control technique that allows a latest screen shot to be displayed on a client apparatus regardless of a file update state in a server apparatus, in a network system that realizes a remote UI, is provided. When a file | 2012-04-05 |
20120084355 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING OPERABILITY WITH A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A method and apparatus for maintaining operability with a cloud computing environment. The apparatus includes a storage module and a local environment module. The storage module may store cloud computing data from a cloud computing environment onto a local storage device. The storage module may communicate with the cloud computing environment through a remote connection. The local environment module may operate a local cloud computing environment from the local storage device while the remote connection to the cloud computing environment is unavailable. The local cloud environment may replicate at least a portion of the cloud computing environment and may be operated from the stored cloud computing data. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084356 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEDIA SESSION SHARING AND GROUP SYNCHRONIZATION OF MULTI MEDIA STREAMS - A method and apparatus for synchronizing, transforming, modifying, duplicating and retrieving media streams between wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) that may not be IMS-capable in real-time, via Inter-User Equipment Transfer (IUT) across any internet protocol (IP) based network. This framework allows for both collaborative and non-collaborative media sessions, media session transport and shared media session control under the same subscription or multiple subscriptions. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084357 | OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT USING COMMUNICATIONS AND COLLABORATION PLATFORM - A collaboration service operation method provides an efficient and flexible method for operating services implemented across multiple systems. In particular, the method includes determining a change in a master record, and determining the nature of the change. Based on the nature of the change, the method further determines services to be implemented according to business rules and also determines to which systems the services will be implemented. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084358 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTED COMMUNITY FINDING - Methods and apparatus for a new approach to the problem of finding communities in complex networks relating to a social definition of communities and percolation are disclosed. Instead of partitioning the graph into separate subgraphs from top to bottom a local algorithm (communities of each vertex) allows overlapping of communities. The performance of an algorithm on synthetic, randomly-generated graphs and real-world networks is used to benchmark this method against others. An heuristic is provided to generate a list of communities for networks using a local community finding algorithm. Unlike diffusion based algorithms, The provided algorithm finds overlapping communities and provides a means to measure confidence in community structure. It features locality and low complexity for exploring the communities for a subset of network nodes, without the need for exploring the whole graph. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084359 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device in an information communication system in which node devices are connected to an overlay network, and contents are distributed in the node devices, includes: an acquisition unit acquiring domain information from an inquiry device; a retrieval unit retrieving the content corresponding to the indicted domain name; a transmission unit transmitting, to the inquiry device, location information of the node device that saves the content corresponding to the indicated domain name; a storage unit storing the location information; and a first determination unit determining whether the location information is stored in the storage unit or not. If the location information is stored in the storage unit, the transmission unit transmits the location information corresponding to the acquired domain information to the inquiry device. If the location information is not stored in the storage unit, the retrieval unit retrieves the content. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084360 | MEMBERSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A COMMUNITY PAGE - A system and method for managing membership in real-time using a community page that enables communication between a member and a provider is disclosed herein. The membership management system may include an information transferring unit to transfer access information, used to encourage an access to a community page associated with or created by the provider, to at least one member, and a business information providing unit to provide business information of the provider to members who access the community page, via the community page. The membership management system may transmit information associated with an access to a community page to a member, thereby encouraging the member to access the community page. Therefore, the community page may provide real-time communication between the provider and the member. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084361 | INTER-USER EQUIPMENT (UE) TRANSFER (IUT) FOR COLLABORATIVE SESSIONS THAT INCLUDE MEDIA SESSION INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for inter-user equipment (UE) transfer (IUT) of collaborative session control and session information between WTRUs. A collaborative session control transfer request including ongoing session information is transmitted prior to transfer of session control from one WTRU to another WTRU. Ongoing session information may include information regarding media flows and devices involved in the session. A media control transfer response is transmitted in response to the transfer request. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084362 | INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE SHARING AND EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE INDIVIDUAL SECURITY LEVEL SETTINGS - An interactive experience sharing and evaluation system is implemented through a website in one easy step. Users submit information in the form of journal entries about experiences they have had, which can include photos, videos, a rating, and comments with varying privacy levels. Other users can search through these journal entries according to their security access level and add their own information, rating, comments, etc. Users also can provide personal information and search through and connect with other users and communicate with one another regarding submitted experiences. Users construct a dream-list of desired future experiences and set up ongoing searches for new information submitted regarding the users' interests. Custom information is provided to users on the basis of the contents of their dream-lists, and include advertisements. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084363 | Customizing Tracking Changes to User Content in an Online Social Network - Updates to landing pages of users in an online social network are fed from external sources so that content maintained by any one user can be consolidated in a single location regardless of where the changes are made to the content. When an update event occurs, users of the online social network are notified according to various criteria that they have set. With this feature, users can browse through content of other users efficiently. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084364 | Scalable Secure Wireless Interaction enabling Methods, System and Framework - The present invention proposes methodologies, a system and a secure spontaneous collaboration framework along with a suitable application and services suite for enabling new paradigm of social networking among users of handheld devices by bridging gab between infra-structure-based networks and mobile ad hoc networks. While supporting three different operating modes for the spontaneous collaboration that suits the user preference and network conditions, the proposed solutions hide the complexity of finding the right peer/device for spontaneous collaboration, self-organising the network to be formed on-demand, mitigating the security threat, being aware of user mobility for service continuity across wide variety of networks. Binding a given user to user's handheld device and specifying the number of applications/services enabling spontaneous collaborations that a given user is interested in are possible through user-profile creations. By taking a holistic view, the proposed solutions enable very practical, scalable, secure and economical spontaneous collaborations. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084365 | DELIVERING RESOURCE FILES TO PRINTERS USING EMAIL - A method for managing printers, including retrieving, by a printer, an email sent to an email address of the printer and including a resource file, identifying, by the printer, a field within the email including a type of the resource file, and installing, by the printer, the resource file on the printer based on the type. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084366 | STORAGE, COMMUNICATION, AND DISPLAY OF TASK-RELATED DATA - An information management system may store information related to tasks to be performed by workers in an organization. Workers in the organization may communicate with the information management system using email messages. The information management system may not require a login or authentication procedure, and workers may interact with the information management system without the need to log in to the information management system. A worker may send an email to the information management system that includes an action type parameter. The action type parameter may indicate a task such as updating a database to indicate that a task has been completed, reassigning a task from one worker to another, or transmitting a report to a worker. The information management system may then perform the action indicated by the action type parameter. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084367 | GENERATION AND RETRIEVAL OF REPORT INFORMATION - An information management system may store information related to tasks to be performed by workers in an organization. Workers in the organization may communicate with the information management system using email messages. The information management system may not require a login or authentication procedure, and workers may interact with the information management system without the need to log in to the information management system. The information management system may receive an email message from a worker that indicates a request for a report. The information management system may determine whether to transmit the report to the worker based on whether the worker is appropriately registered with the information management system, and/or whether the worker has administrative privileges. The information management system, in response to a positive determination, may transmit the report to the email address from which the requesting email message was sent. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084368 | DATA CHANNEL SET UP LATENCY REDUCTION - A method is disclosed for reducing setup latency in commencing data exchange between two devices seeking to exchange data across a networked data channel. Control messages are exchanged across a control channel while establishing the data channel according to a protocol. The control messages contain some of the data to be exchanged. The remaining data is exchanged across the data channel once established. The data both in the control messages and exchanged across the data channel may be tagged with a file transfer identifier to facilitate reconstruction of the data at the receive end. If data encryption is desired, the data in the control messages may be encrypted by the sender with a temporary key and a shared key may be established by the devices. Once the key has been established, the temporary key may be encrypted with the shared key and exchanged across the data channel to permit decryption of the data in the control messages at the receive end. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084369 | Unified Reconnection To Multiple Remote Servers - Techniques are disclosed for connecting a user to all of his resources (e.g. remote desktop or remote application) in a deployment of server farm(s). The user's client sends a message to the deployment requesting any disconnected resources for the user and/or any active resources communicating with a different client. The deployment determines what those resources are, then strips out redundant information (e.g. two resources are remote applications executing within the same session) and sends a stripped list to the client, which reconnects. The client first reconnects to a resource that is not a VM and stores any user input (e.g. credentials) prompted for during that log in. Then, it reconnects to the other resources in parallel, using in these later reconnections any input received from the client during the first reconnection. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084370 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCOURAGEMENT OF DATA SUBMISSION IN ONLINE COMMUNITIES - The invention relates to systems and methods for behavioral modification of users in an online community where users store or share data to help one another reach informed decisions. One aspect of the invention provides a method for encouraging active participation in an online community. The method includes: receiving information from a first user regarding a topic, receiving a request from a second user for additional information desired from the first user, and sending a personalized message to the first user requesting the additional information. Another aspect of the invention provides a computer-readable medium whose contents cause a computer to perform a method for encouraging active participation in an online community. The method includes: receiving information from a first user regarding a topic; identifying additional information desired from the first user; and sending a personalized message to the first user requesting the additional information. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084371 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR USER CONTROLLED POLICY SHARING - According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for user controlled policy sharing. The method includes receiving, from a first user device, a request to share with a second user device a policy attribute associated with the first user device. The method also includes generating a signaling message containing instructions to modify the policy attribute. The method further includes communicating the signaling message to a policy control function associated with the second user device. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084372 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION IN A NETWORK - A method for providing information in a network includes receiving in a network at least some personal interest information of a first user, determining at least one goal for the first user wherein the at least one goal is correlated to the at least some personal interest information of the first user and at least some personal interest information and at least one goal of at least a second user in the network, and displaying to the first user the at least one goal and the at least one list item. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084373 | COMPUTER DEVICE FOR READING E-BOOK AND SERVER FOR BEING CONNECTED WITH THE SAME - A device, server, method, and computer program product for reading an e-book are provided. The e-book may include at least a content identifier corresponding to a content in the e-book. The device may include a content navigator configured to present the content according to a command from a user and a processing unit configured to acquire the content identifier corresponding to the content presented by the content navigator, send the content identifier to a server, and receive from the server a message associated with the content. An output unit configured to output the message to the user may be provided. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084374 | Electronic Messaging Systems - A computer system for facilitating communications between users that, in various embodiments, is configured for: (A) receiving, from a first user, one or more user watch area attributes; (B) using the one or more user watch area attributes to define a watch area; (C) receiving, from a second user, a message associated with a particular geographical location, wherein the second user has indicated that the message should be associated with the particular geographical location; (D) determining whether the particular geographical location is located within the user watch area; and (E) at least partially in response to determining that the particular geographical location is located within the user watch area, subscribing the first user to a thread of messages that includes the message. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084375 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING THE TRANSMISSION OF MESSAGES - The invention provides systems, mechanisms and techniques for controlling transmission of outbound messages, such as e-mail or other types of messages, onto a computer network from an originator computer system. Connection equipment can authenticate and authorize the connection for the computer user and can capture and map originator network address information assigned to the originator computer system. A quota server can then determine if the message count exceeds the message limit for the originator identity associated with the outbound message Embodiments of the invention control message transmission from a sending or origination point prior to the messages being transmitted on the computer network, resources of a computer network are conserved and these embodiments prevent computer users from transmitting large amounts of outbound messages in excess of the message limits. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084376 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DIGITALLY SIGNED MESSAGES TO DETERMINE ADDRESS MISMATCHES - A method and apparatus for processing digitally signed messages in which address mismatch errors are detected. In at least one aspect, the number of address mismatch errors reported to a user for a message may be minimized for messages that properly incorporate message portions signed by someone other than the sender of the message, as may be the case where the message contains a conversation thread for example, by performing at least one pre-determined action for digital signatures corresponding to signed data appearing after a message separator. The message separator may indicate that the message contains data from an older forwarded message or from an older message that has been replied to, for example. The at least one-predetermined action may comprise bypassing verification of address matches for those digital signatures, or verifying address matches for those digital signatures but suppressing user notification of any address mismatch errors, for example. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084377 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR KEEPING ORDERS AMONG MESSAGES OF DISCRETE MEDIA TYPE IN CPM SESSION - Disclosed are a method and apparatus for keeping orders among messages when transmitting and receiving messages within a Converged IP Messaging (CPM) session. A message transmission and reception method in a network comprises receiving a message including sequential identification information and a cumulative size, and outputting the received message, wherein the sequential identification information is an identifier allowing identification of orders managed within a session, transmission and reception being performed in the session, and the cumulative size is the sum of sizes of messages, the messages being sent by a subject having sent the received message within the session, wherein the output order of the received message is decided based upon the sequential identification information and sequential identification information relating to messages received prior to the received message. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084378 | Communication system, master node, and slave node - A slave node communicably coupled to a master node via a bus determines determine whether an active communication mode or a passive communication mode is started based on a header transmitted from the master node. The slave node transmits the header and an ID subsequent to the header when it is determined that the active communication mode is started based on the received header. The ID requests active transmission of a response required to be transmitted in the active communication mode upon the slave node having the response. The slave node monitors arbitration on a bus, and transmits the response subsequent to the ID when the slave node wins the arbitration on the bus between the ID transmitted from the slave node and another information transmitted from another slave node communicably coupled to the master node via the bus based on a result of the monitor. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084379 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKING AND SYNCHRONIZING DATA BLOCK IN DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for checking and synchronizing data blocks in a distributed file system are provided. The distributed file system includes a metadata server, data block servers and a storage medium; the metadata server specifies one of the data block servers in the same group as a master data block server, while takes the others as slave data block servers. The method includes: the metadata server initiating a data block checking request to the master data block server; the master data block server checking all the data block information managed by the slave data block servers in the group, synchronizing according to the checking result, and then reporting the checking and synchronization results to the metadata server; the metadata server updates the metadata information according to the reported checking and synchronization results. Therefore, the metadata server only takes very little time to fulfill the checking and synchronizing the database. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084380 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING BETWEEN MEMORY REGIONS - A method and system are provided for transferring data in a networked system between a local memory in a local system and a remote memory in a remote system. A RDMA request is received and a first buffer region is associated with a first transfer operation. The system determines whether a size of the first buffer region exceeds a maximum transfer size of the networked system. Portions of the second buffer region may be associated with the first transfer operation based on the determination of the size of the first buffer region. The system subsequently performs the first transfer operation. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084381 | Virtual Desktop Configuration And Operation Techniques - Techniques for configuring and operating a virtual desktop session are disclosed herein. In an exemplary embodiment, an inter-partition communication channel can be established between a virtualization platform and a virtual machine. The inter-partition communication channel can be used to configure a guest operating system to conduct virtual desktop sessions and manage running virtual desktop sessions. In addition to the foregoing, other techniques are described in the claims, the detailed description, and the figures. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084382 | ON-THE-FLY REVERSE MAPPING - In accordance with the invention, embodiments of a DNS server, a DNS proxy process, and an intermediate server (IMS) are described. The DNS server, DNS proxy process, and intermediate server (IMS) described herein utilize a destination IP address for a destination device in on-the-fly reverse mapping operations in order to accurately provide a hostname originally requested by the client device. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084383 | Distributed Data Storage - The present invention relates to a distributed data storage system comprising a plurality of storage nodes. Using unicast and multicast transmission, a server application may write data in the storage system. When writing data, at least two storage nodes are selected based in part on a randomized function, which ensures that data is sufficiently spread to provide efficient and reliable replication of data in case a storage node malfunctions. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084384 | DISTRIBUTED CACHE FOR STATE TRANSFER OPERATIONS - A network arrangement that employs a cache having copies distributed among a plurality of different locations. The cache stores state information for a session with any of the server devices so that it is accessible to at least one other server device. Using this arrangement, when a client device switches from a connection with a first server device to a connection with a second server device, the second server device can retrieve state information from the cache corresponding to the session between the client device and the first server device. The second server device can then use the retrieved state information to accept a session with the client device. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084385 | Network Cache Architecture - There is described a method and apparatus for sending data through one or more packet data networks. A reduced size packet is sent from a packet sending node towards a cache node, the reduced size packet including in its payload a pointer to a payload data segment stored in a file at the cache node. When the reduced size packet is received at the cache node, the pointer is used to identify the payload data segment from data stored at the cache node. The payload data segment is inserted into the reduced size packet in place of the pointer so as to generate a full size packet, which is sent from the cache node towards a client. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084386 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING NETWORK STORAGE AND COMPUTING RESOURCE - Under a community environment, a system and a method for sharing network storage and computing resource are disclosed. In particular, the method employs some available-to-shared computer resources of a group member to share with others. The member may decide a specific storage space to be shared, or the unused computing resource of its processor for others. According to one of the embodiments, the method for storing includes a step of synchronizing the group information and a resource allocation table with records of storage nodes after logging on a community server. Next, a distributed storing process is performed to distribute an object across several nodes within a community group. The method for computing includes a step of generating a computing request from a user-end system. A distributed computation is accomplished since some computing nodes within a community group are allocated for the request according to a computing resource allocation table. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084387 | METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR SUPPORTING SETTING OF ACCESS MANAGEMENT INFORMATION - In order to limit host computers permitted to control a storage area from host computers, provided is a storage management computer coupled to one or more host computers for providing services and one or more storage systems, in which the storage management computer judges whether the host computer is permitted to control the storage area based on data indicating the configuration information of the storage system and service management information for managing the services provided by the host computers, and in case of which it is judged that the host computer is permitted to control the storage area, the storage management computer sets access control data to permit the host computer to control the storage area. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084388 | INTER UE TRANSFER BETWEEN MOBILE INTERNET PROTOCOL CLIENTS - Mobile IP (MIP) protocol may be used to transfer a communication flow between nodes. An indication to transfer the communication flow is received at a first node, and the first node sends a communication flow transfer request via mobile internet protocol. The request is received by a network device. The network device forwards the request for delivery to the second node. The network device receives a response to the request originated from the second node via mobile internet protocol, and instructs a correspondence node to transfer the communication flow to the second node. Upon receiving a response indicating that the communication flow transfer request has been accepted, the first node terminates the communication flow at the first node. The second node resumes the transferred communication flow. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084389 | TECHNIQUE FOR PROVIDING SERVICE THROUGH DATA CENTER - A management apparatus in a data center executes: receiving, from a router that starts connecting to the data center through a VPN, data concerning specification of a virtual machine for a user terminal in a network connected to the router and data representing a request for connecting to the Internet; activating a first virtual machine satisfying the specification of the virtual machine on a computer in the data center; activating a second virtual machine for connecting to the Internet on a computer in the data center; carrying out a setting of an address by which the user terminal connects to the Internet, for the second virtual machine; transmitting an address of the first virtual machine and an address of the second virtual machine to the router; and transmitting an address of the router to the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084390 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, TRANSMISSION-SOURCE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND DATA TRANSMISSION PROGRAM - A data transmission method for transmitting data from a transmission-source information processing apparatus to a plurality of information processing apparatuses, includes: selecting an information processing apparatus from among the plurality of information processing apparatuses functioning as a relay information processing apparatus relay-transmitting data to another information processing apparatus, in accordance with the number of information processing apparatuses; transmitting the data to the relay information processing apparatus; and relay-transmitting the data received from the transmission-source information processing apparatus to the another information processing apparatus. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084391 | ELECTRONIC RECEIPT SYSTEM - A method includes receiving, at a user identification module of an electronic receipt system in electronic communication with a point of sale terminal, a user identifier transmitted from a mobile communication device to a near-field communication enabled communication device associated with the point of sale terminal. The method also includes verifying, by a validation module of the electronic receipt system, an enrollment status of the user identifier; and based on results of the verifying, transmitting, by a transfer module of the electronic receipt system, the user identifier and data characterizing an electronic receipt to a receipt storage module of the electronic receipt system. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084392 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MEDIA CONTENTS FOR A PLURALITY OF NODES IN A DATA NETWORK - A method for providing media contents for a plurality of addressable nodes in a data network, said media contents comprising at least one media file. For each media file to be provided, a decentralized structure managed via a first node is formed so the respective media file is divided into a plurality of sections and an identity value is allocated to the sections, the first node(s) respectively responsible for a sub-interval and for a sub-quantity of sections from the respective media file. In a respective first node, a number of second nodes and corresponding addresses are deposited, the second node(s) specified for providing said sections according to said sub-interval, for which the respective first node is responsible. A receiving node retrieves the addresses of second nodes having sections of said media file by a request to said first node, and downloads the sections from said retrieved addressed second nodes. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084393 | LICENSE AUTOMATION AND STREAMING FOR SOFTWARE PRODUCTS - A computer-usable storage medium having instructions embodied therein that when executed cause a computer system to perform a method for managing a license for a product. The method comprising, receiving a command from a user to execute the product at the computer system, wherein the product requires a license for execution; automatically accessing the license for the product from a database of licenses; and storing the license at the computer system for automatic license activation upon execution of the product. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084394 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING SECURE ACCESS TO A HOSTED SERVICE VIA A CLIENT APPLICATION - The present invention discloses methods and systems for providing secure user access to services offered by a service provider to a client application over a network. One embodiment includes receiving an application cookie from the client application and populating a service cookie based on information in the application cookie. Information in the service cookie is utilized as a basis for regulating a provision of services to the client application. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084395 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PROGRAMMING USER-DEFINED INFORMATION INTO ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A device for programming user-defined information into an electronic device is provided. The programmer allows a user to program customized information, such as user-selected audio, video, or Internet access information into his or her programmable device. Such electronic devices include wireless telephones, pagers, and personal digital assistants. The programmer allows a user to, among other things, customize the device to suit his or her particular taste. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084396 | CONTEXT SWITCHED ROUTE LOOK UP KEY ENGINE - A key engine that performs route lookups for a plurality of keys may include a data processing portion configured to process one data item at a time and to request data when needed. A buffer may be configured to store a partial result from the data processing portion. A controller may be configured to load the partial result from the data processing portion into the buffer. The controller also may be configured to input another data item into the data processing portion for processing while requested data is obtained for a prior data item. A number of these key engines may be used by a routing unit to perform a large number of route lookups at the same time. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084397 | PORTABLE TERMINAL APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PORTABLE TERMINAL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - In order to solve the problem of performing data transmission between a server and a communication apparatus via a portable terminal apparatus at a high speed, the portable terminal apparatus is provided with: a first communication means which connects with a server on a network and communicates data, a second communication means which connects with the communication apparatus and performs data communication, a temporary storage means which temporarily stores data when relaying data communication between the server and the communication apparatus using the first communication means and the second communication means, and a control means which can control data communication performed by the first communication means and the second communication means asynchronously and in parallel when relaying data communication between the server and the communication apparatus. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084398 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SUBMITTING AND REVIEWING AUDITIONS - Auditions need no longer be held locally within the casting director's office. Talent registration forms, size cards, talent worksheets and the duplication of numerous DV tapes or DVDs are no longer necessary, thus resulting in the saving of time, money and energy. Auditions may be conducted collectively by talent agents or individually by talent who use their computer or mobile devices to film their individual audition and submit it via the internet using proprietary software from anywhere in the world. Auditions are saved digitally on a storage server and transmitted over the internet, saving on both duplicating and courier transfer costs. Audition corrections, if required, can be communicated to talent that have already submitted their auditions, and they can resubmit their corrections using the internet from wherever they are. Clients will have the ability to review and download individual video tracks, headshots, enlarged profile images, resumes, size cards and talent logs, as well as open and view the talent's multi-media profile. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084399 | Reconfigurable Download Manager - Some embodiments provide a reconfigurable tool for managing the downloading of content from, while reporting information to, various content providers and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) through a single installed instance of the reconfigurable tool. In some embodiments, the tool includes a container application that is used to download content that is supplied by various content providers. The tool also includes a configuration file. The configuration file configures operation of the application to download content from a particular content host. The configuration also specifies reporting parameters that identify what information to report, when to report the information, and to whom the information is reported as part of the content download. Using this tool, content providers and CDNs are able to provide customizable and unique user experiences without modifying the code base of the application and without having to develop and maintain their own proprietary download manager applications. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084400 | Machines, Computer Program Products, and Computer-Implemented Methods Providing an Integrated Node for Data Acquisition and Control - Embodiments of an integrated node, such as a programmable logic controller, are provided for process automation and seamless, flexible subsystem communications, allowing a remote host to interface with a plurality of remote and in-plant subsystems and services using a wired or wireless network interface and having a database server and a protocol translator or translation server to convert and manipulate various industrial interfaces and protocols. Embodiments of the integrated node time-synchronize the plurality of remote subsystems, acquire and archive time-stamped process data, report exceptions therein to the remote host, and extract and transmit time-stamped process data to the remote host. Embodiments of computer program products and computer implemented methods also are provided to detect a time of communication failure and a time of a corresponding recovery between a node and either a remote subsystem or a remote host. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084401 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus, which communicates with another communication apparatus via a server, requests the server to obtain a transmission authority required to exclusively transmit data to the other communication apparatus. When the transmission authority is obtained from the server in response to the request, the communication apparatus transmits data to the other communication apparatus. When the transmitted data is first data which is played back by the other communication apparatus after completion of transmission of the data, the communication apparatus requests the server to release the transmission authority after an elapse of a predetermined time since completion of transmission of the data. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084402 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND RELAY APPARATUS - An image processing system includes: a relay apparatus; a service providing apparatus for an electronic-file storing service; and an image processing apparatus, which are connected to a network. The image processing apparatus includes: a first-address-get-request transmitting unit that transmits a request for getting a first address representing a location of an electronic file to be downloaded from the service providing apparatus to the relay apparatus; a first downloading unit which, upon receiving the first address from the relay apparatus after the request for getting the first address is transmitted, downloads the electronic file stored at the first address; and a storage control unit that controls a storage unit to store the electronic file downloaded by the first downloading unit. The relay apparatus includes: a first-address-get-program storage unit; a first-address getting unit; and a first-address transmitting unit. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084403 | DEVICE ABSTRACTION FOR PAGE GENERATION - Device Abstraction for Page Generation. A request is received for information to be provided as a page of content, the page provided by a server device to a remote requesting device. The page of content is dynamically constructed in response to the request based on metadata stored on the server device and context information corresponding to the request. The dynamically constructed page of content is transmitted to the requesting device. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084404 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDER UTILIZING NETWORK-BASED DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT - An approach provides for recording and editing digital media. A digital media stream is generated from an input signal (such as a live broadcast feed). The digital media stream is transmitted to a browser application configured to concurrently record and edit the digital media stream. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084405 | Methods And Apparatus For Optimizing Responsiveness Of Portable Documents - One disclosed method includes the steps of initiating a download of a first document by a computer system, the first document having a plurality of parts according to a first predefined format; initiating a download of a second document by the computer system, the second document having a plurality of parts according to a second predefined format; determining a download priority of at least one of the plurality of parts of the first document by the computer system based at least in part on the predefined format of the first document; downloading the at least one of the plurality of parts of the first document according to the download priority; determining whether to suspend the download of the second document based on a state of a resource available to the computer system and the download priority; and suspending the download of the second document. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084406 | Logical Networks - An invention is provided for creating logical network abstractions of physical networks, and deploying computer services to physical networks based on a specified logical network. In an embodiment, a physical network is divided into one or more logical networks. Upon receiving an indication to deploy a computer service to a logical network, a mapping from that logical network to a sub-network of the physical network is determined, the service is configured to execute on the sub-network of the physical network, and an indication of this configuration of the service is stored. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084407 | REAL-LOAD TUNING OF DATABASE APPLICATIONS - A database environment that includes one or more database production servers, one or more database test servers, and a virtualization connection that provides incoming service request traffic to both the database production server and the database test server. However, the database production server responds to the database service requests, while the database test server does not. The database test server may be tested for a variety of different configurations in an attempt to find a better performing configuration. The testing is in real-time as the database test server is subjected to the same incoming service request traffic as the database production server. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084408 | APPARATUS FOR REMOTELY CONFIGURING NETWORK INTERFACES IN A REMOTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - According to one aspect, a computer system for remotely configuring network interfaces of a host computer is disclosed, the system including a remote management computer and a managed host computer communicatively connected to the remote management computer over a communications link. The host computer includes a first network interface operable to communicatively connect to two or more server computers on two or more corresponding port numbers, and a second network interface operable to communicatively connect to two or more server computers on two or more corresponding port numbers. The system also includes a microcontroller operatively connected to the first network interface and the second network interface. The microcontroller has a programmable processor that is programmed to cause the host computer to perform functions that include receiving configuration data from the remote management computer over the communications link. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084409 | DIRECTORY SERVER PLUG-IN CALL ORDERING - A method and apparatus for ordering callbacks for server plug-ins of a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory server. Each plug-in registers with the LDAP server and has a designated priority and set of dependencies. The priority and dependency data are stored in an LDAP callback configuration entry or set of entries. The LDAP server analyzes the priority and dependencies to determine the order of each plug-in or individual callback relative to one another. This allows the LDAP directory server and LDAP operations to rely on the order of callbacks thereby improving the efficiency of the system. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084410 | Configuring Interfaces of a Switch Using Templates - Configuring an interface of a switch includes sending an authentication request requesting authentication for an endpoint from a switch to an authentication server. The switch comprises interfaces and is operable to access templates, where a template is operable to generate one or more interface commands for an interface. An instruction is received from the authentication server. The instruction instructs the switch to apply an identified template to an interface, where the identified template is identified by the authentication server as associated with the endpoint. The identified template is applied to configure the interface according to the instruction. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084411 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING MOBILITY RESISTANT IP TUNNELS USING A MOBILE ROUTER - A method, apparatus and system enable a mobile device to roam while maintaining a persistent IP tunnel. Specifically, a mobile router may be utilized to enable a mobile device to maintain a persistent IP tunnel while the device roams. In one embodiment, the mobile device is a virtual host and the mobile router is a virtual mobile router. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084412 | CONFIGURATION REPORTING - A method includes transmitting a configuration policy from a policy service to one or more managed computing devices. The configuration policy includes values of each of a plurality of configuration parameters and identifies a subset of configuration parameters to be reported to the policy service. The method also includes receiving report data at the policy service from at least one of the managed computing devices. The report data includes results of processing the configuration policy. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084413 | Mechanism for Installing Monitoring Utilities Using Universal Performance Monitor - A universal performance monitor includes an abstraction layer for managing multiple disparate monitoring tools on one or more computing devices. During runtime of the universal performance monitor on a first computing device, the universal performance monitor establishes a secure channel between the first computing device and a second computing device. The universal performance monitor queries the second computing device via the secure channel to determine whether the second computing device includes a specified monitoring tool. Upon determining that the second computing device does not include the specified monitoring tool, the universal performance monitor causes the second computing device to obtain the specified monitoring tool from a designated location, to install the specified monitoring tool with a particular configuration, to execute the specified monitoring tool and to redirect an output of the specified monitoring tool to the first computing device via the first secure channel. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084414 | AUTOMATIC REPLICATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINES - Systems and methods are disclosed herein to automatically replicate virtual machine image (VM) files on secondary VM computing devices, from a primary VM computing device. The secondary VM computing devices are automatically selected by constantly reviewing the operating parameter values (e.g., cost of resources, power consumption, etc.) of a number of secondary VM computing devices available of storing VM image replicas. The replica of the primary VM image is stored in the secondary VM computing devices in geographically disparate cloud locations. The primary VM image is automatically broken into constituent data blocks stored in an active index, which is compared against a stale index of data blocks. When an update is detected in the primary VM image, the comparison of indices will indicate that there is new data. Only the new data is used to update the secondary VM images, thereby reducing network traffic and latency issues. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084415 | METHOD AND EQUIPMENT FOR SELF-CONFIGURING TRANSMISSION IN SELF-ORGANIZED NETWORK - The present invention discloses a method and device for transmission self-configuration in a Self-Organized Network (SON), said method includes: a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client reporting a device identifier of this DHCP client to a DHCP server; said DHCP server configuring a transmission parameter for said DHCP client according to said device identifier, and sending said transmission parameter down to said DHCP client, said transmission parameter at least including an IP address of said DHCP client; and said DHCP client performing self-configuration according to said transmission parameter. The present invention uses the device identifier to allocate a fixed IP address, which is able to overcome the drawbacks caused by using the MAC address to allocate the fixed IP, and has a very strong maintainability. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084416 | ADAPTIVE PROTOCOL/INITIALIZATION TECHNIQUE SELECTION - A method for selection of an initialization technique and protocol for a communications device is provided. The method includes, but is not limited to, selecting a primary initialization technique from a set list of initialization techniques, implementing the primary initialization technique to initialize and move the communications device, and determining if the communications device has been initialized and moved. If the communications device has not been initialized and moved upon implementing the primary initialization technique, an additional initialization technique is selected from the set list of initialization techniques and implemented to initialize and move the communications device. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084417 | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR EXCHANGING STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION - Facilitating communications by receiving from a requestor a request regarding an alternate of a contact, where a computer network address of the contact is known to the requestor, and where the request identifies the alternate using an alias in which the computer network address of the contact is modified to include an alias template associated with the alternate, and forwarding the request to the alternate at a computer network address associated with the alias. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084418 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE SETTING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE SETTING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A communication device setting apparatus is arranged to register setup information in a communication device connected to the communication device setting apparatus via a communication network. In the communication device setting apparatus, a device setting unit recognizes an access from the communication device upon power up of the communication device, acquires setup information, which is specific to the communication device and contains a MAC address of the communication device, from list information pre-recorded in the communication device setting apparatus, and performs a setting process to set the acquired setup information in the communication device. A setting management unit detects an end of the setting process performed by the device setting unit, changes the list information based on the setup information having been set in the communication device after the end of the setting process, and manages the communication device according to the changed list information. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084419 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO BALANCE SERVERS BASED ON SERVER LOAD STATUS - A method, system, and computer program product for balancing servers based on server load status, include: receiving from a server a service response to a service request, the service response including a result from a processing of the service request and a server status indicating a computing load status of the server; obtaining the server status from the service response; receiving a next service request from a host, the next service request comprising a Uniform Resource Locator (URL); determining that the server is configured to process the URL; determining whether the server status indicates that the server is available to process the next service request; and in response to determining that the server status indicates that the server is available to process the next service request, sending the next service request to the server. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084420 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COMPUTER NETWORK INTERFACES - According to one aspect, a computer-implemented method for managing at least one network interface of a computer system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of executing of a boot loader to initialize a dedicated network interface and a side-band network interface, determining if a boot loader priority setting designates a preference to use one of a detected dedicated network interface or side-band network interface, determining if preferred network interface is available for use, then passing the priority setting to an operating system to use for network communications during run time. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084421 | MODEL SLICING AND VERSIONING - Embodiments are directed to implementing a dynamically changeable system model that is customizable per version, programmatically generating system models at runtime and to extending a programmatically generated system model. In an embodiment, a computer system determines that a dynamically changeable system model corresponds to a managed system. The dynamically changeable system model includes various managed system objects. The computer system indicates for the dynamically changeable system model which managed system objects are available in each version of the managed system. The available managed system objects are stored in a data store of the dynamically changeable system model. The computer system requests the managed system to provide current managed system information including at least a version identifier and, based on the managed system information indicated by the managed system, provides to the dynamically changeable system model those managed system objects that are provided by the indicated version of the managed system. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084422 | Graph Based Flexible Service Discovery and Management System and Method - An article including at least one computer readable medium storing a network management application comprising computer executable code that upon execution by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to receive and execute the computer executable code of the network management application to store an identifier indicative of a candidate service in a database, receive the information indicative of managed entities from the one or more input devices, transform the data indicative of the managed entities into neutral data structure represented by graphs, vertices and edges, store these neutral data structures in the database and determine whether the telecommunication network is configured to execute the candidate service by applying predetermined rules on these neutral data structures. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084423 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DOMAIN BASED DYNAMIC TRAFFIC STEERING - A method and system for domain based dynamic traffic steering is described. In one embodiment, a method for domain based dynamic traffic steering involves comparing a domain name with a domain whitelist and a domain blacklist of a packet modifying entity, and if the domain name matches the domain whitelist or the domain blacklist of the packet modifying entity, updating a corresponding Internet Protocol (IP) whitelist or IP blacklist of the packet modifying entity to include an IP address of the domain name. Other embodiments are also described. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084424 | METHOD FOR MANAGING SERVER APPARATUSES AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS THEREOF - A method for managing server apparatuses and a management apparatus thereof are provided. A server apparatus is searched in the management apparatus for receiving an Internet Protocol (IP) address from a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) of the server apparatus. And identification information of an Operating System (OS) of the server apparatus is obtained according to the IP address. The IP address and the identification information are bound. Then, an out-of-band message received from the BMC is updated into a server object according to the identification information. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084425 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING NESTED POLICY CONFIGURATION IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing nested policy configuration in a communications network are disclosed. The method is performed at a policy charging and rules function (PCRF) node. According to one method, first policy profile information associated with a first identifier is obtained from a policy profile database, where the first identifier is associated with a first subscriber and where the first policy profile information includes a second identifier. Second policy profile information associated with the second subscriber is obtained, using the second identifier obtained with the first policy profile information, from the policy profile database. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084426 | PACKET PROCESSING IN A MULTIPLE PROCESSOR SYSTEM - Packet processing is provided in a multiple processor system including a first processor to processing a packet and to create a tag associated with the packet. The tag includes information about the processing of the packet. A second processor receives the packet subsequent to the first processor and processes the packet using the tag information. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084427 | Probing-Based Auto Moding - A method for selecting a mode of operation for at least two modems is described. First, a handshake procedure is performed in order to determine a set of possible modes of operation supported by said modems. From said set of possible modes of operation, a set of favorable modes of operation is derived. In case there exist two or more favorable modes of operation, a probing-based selection is performed that comprises evaluating respective performances of said favorable modes of operation. The favorable mode of operation with the best performance is selected as a resultant mode of operation. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084428 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A NETWORK COMPUTING CLUSTER PROVIDING IT-SERVICES - The network computing cluster includes one or more network computing stations and one or more power autarkic network computing stations supplied by one or more associated local power generators. The power autarkic network computing stations and the local power generators are connected with a local power network. A control signal is sent to a resource managing unit of the network computing cluster via a communication network. The control signal indicates the ability of the power autarkic network computing stations to process IT-services. The resource managing unit receives the control signal via the communication network. Triggered by the control signal, the resource managing unit sends a signal for transferring an IT-service processed by a network computing station of the network computing stations to the network computing station via the communication network. The processed IT-service is transferred to one of the power autarkic network computing stations via the communication network. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084429 | Methods and Apparatus for Identifying Peers on a Peer-to-Peer Network - Methods and apparatus are provided for identifying participants in a peer-to-peer network, such as an Ares P2P network. Peers are identified by sending a bootstrap request message to at least one peer; receiving a response from the at least one peer to the bootstrap request, wherein the response identifies one or more additional peers; and repeating the sending and receiving steps for the one or more additional peers until the bootstrap response satisfies one or more predefined criteria. The predefined criteria can be that the bootstrap response does not identify at least one new peer within a predefined period of time, or that the bootstrap response does not identify at least one new peer at all. The bootstrap requests are generally sent only to peers that have not been previously contacted. The bootstrap request message may comprise, for example, only one packet and requests that the recipient identify a predefined number of random peers. A list of identified peers can be presented to a user, for example, based on one or more demographic criteria. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084430 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MEASURE MOBILE BROADBAND MARKET SHARE - Methods and apparatus are disclosed to measure mobile broadband market share. A disclosed example method involves receiving first information indicative of a first network interface device used at a first time, receiving second information indicative of a first Internet protocol (IP) address used at the first time, and identifying an instance of mobile broadband data card Internet access when the first network interface device is a broadband data card and the first IP address is associated with a first broadband Internet service provider (ISP). | 2012-04-05 |
20120084431 | PROFILING OF COMPOSITE PHYSICAL DEVICES FOR MONITORING/CONTROL SYSTEMS - A system and methods for creating a logical profile for physical devices in a system to interface with a monitoring system is disclosed. A profile identity is selected. A plurality of physical devices from the system is selected. The physical devices such as a meter or a circuit breaker include an output or an input. An input or output is classified for at least one of the plurality of selected physical devices as a tag. The plurality of selected physical devices are represented to the monitoring system by the profile identity and the at least one tag of the selected physical devices. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084432 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROTOCOL EVENT MANAGEMENT - A protocol event management capability is depicted and described herein. The protocol event management capability is provided by enhancing current network element behavior and coupling the enhancements to the management system managing the network element. A first enhancement is use of protocol event capture, in which the network element logs protocol events locally at the network element. A protocol event logged for an event related to a protocol includes a description of the event related to the protocol and an association of the event related to the protocol to at least one object impacted by the event related to the protocol. The logged protocol events may be provided to the management system in any suitable manner. A second enhancement is use of protocol event suppression, in which the network element suppresses protocol events using protocol event suppression rules, and the management system reconstructs the suppressed protocol events using knowledge of the protocol event suppression rules applied at the network element. The protocol event capture function and protocol event suppression function may be used independently or in combination. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084433 | WEB TEST GENERATION - Technologies are described herein for generating a suite of web tests that are then combined into a load test. A log file is received. The log file may contain one or more requests received at a web server. Relevant information is extracted from the log file into a data file. A web test template is retrieved. The web test template is populated with the relevant information from the data file to generate the web test. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084434 | SELF-GOVERNING MEDICAL PEER RATING SYSTEM FOR HEALTH MANAGEMENT CONTENT - A self-governing medical peer rating system for evaluating and rating health management content includes a subject matter expert (SME) registration module that accepts a subscription from an SME to an application for contribution of content by entering credentials of the SME into the medical peer rating system, a SME verification module that verifies a profile of the SME created by the SME, a SME approval module that approves the SME as a verified SME based on at least one of a positive feedback, a negative feedback, and a neutral feedback from a group of verified SMEs, a community member, and a member of an editorial board. A content creator module that creates the content contributed by the SME. A content approval module that approves the content upon the content being discussed or reviewed by any of the verified SMEs, the community member, and the member of the editorial board. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084435 | Smart Real-time Content Delivery - A method, a computer program product, and a system is provided to monitor several continuously transmitted content channels, each providing video information and audio information, or a combination thereof with text information; simultaneously convert the monitored content from each channel to provide data stream feeds for each of these channels; simultaneously analyze each channel feed to determine if a user provided topic is included in any of these feeds; and send an alert to the user when a channel feed includes a user provided topic. In a further embodiment, the method includes delivery of content from the channel feed to a user device, upon request, in a user designated transmission format (such as video, audio or text). | 2012-04-05 |
20120084436 | MECHANISM FOR ACCESSING AND PROCESSING MONITORING DATA RESULTING FROM CUSTOMIZED MONITORING OF SYSTEM ACTIVITIES - A mechanism for accessing and processing monitoring data resulting from customized monitoring of system activities. A method of embodiments of the invention includes invoking, via a Command-Line Interface (CLI) shell console, a performance monitor at a host computer system to perform monitoring of activities of a plurality of system components of one or more computer systems. The CLI shell console provides an abstraction layer for interfaces and further provides host performance information via a common interface independent of operating systems, monitoring use-cases, monitoring tools, or programming languages employed at the host computer system. The method further includes accessing monitoring data generated from monitoring of the activities by the performance monitor. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084437 | REPLAYING CAPTURED NETWORK INTERACTIONS - A user interface event monitor captures user interface events executed by a client during a network session. A network session monitor captures network data exchanged between the client and a web application during the network session. A replay device identifies control events in the network session that require execution before replaying associated user interface events. Replay of the user interface events are delayed by the replay device until the associated control events have been fully executed. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084438 | Secure Device Data Records - Secure device data records (DDRs) are provided. In some embodiments, a system for secure DDRs includes a processor of a wireless communication device for wireless communication with a wireless network, in which the processor is configured with a secure execution environment, and in which the secure execution environment is configured to: monitor service usage of the wireless communication device with the wireless network; and generate a plurality of device data records of the monitored service usage of the wireless communication device with the wireless network, in which each device data record is associated with a unique sequence order identifier; and a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions. In some embodiments, the secure execution environment is located in an application processor, in a modem processor, and/or in a subscriber identity module (SIM). | 2012-04-05 |
20120084439 | INSTRUCTION SYSTEM, METHOD, AND RECORDING CONTROL APPARATUS - A system including a first apparatus including a first processor, a first storage device, and a first communication interface and a second apparatus including a second processor and a second communication interface is provided. The first processor measures traffic of data communicated via a predetermined communication path in each of a plurality of time ranges, stores the data communicated in each of the plurality of time ranges in the first storage device, and performs a control processing to cause the first communication interface to transmit the measured data traffic to the second apparatus, and when the second processor receives the measured data, the second processor performs control processing to cause the second communication interface to transmit to the first apparatus designation information designating one of the plurality of time ranges in which protection target data not to be deleted from the first storage device has been communicated. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084440 | DATA INTEGRITY FOR COMMUNICATION WITH COEQUAL SUBSCRIBERS - A communication device for a subscriber in a communication network of coequal subscribers, which communication device has a communication unit and a control unit. The received messages are checked for rule compliance. If a message does not comply with a particular rule, a disconnection signal is sent to the transmitter of the message. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084441 | PRIORITIZING NETWORK TRAFFIC - Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, at a global server system, from each of a plurality of local network devices, network data specifying network communication activity at the local network device, wherein the plurality of local network devices collectively provide backbone communications facilities for multiple networks; aggregating, at the global server system, the network data from each of the local network devices; analyzing, at the global server system, the aggregated network data to identify network activities; generating, at the global server system, update data based on the analysis of the aggregated network data, the update data including instructions for the local network devices for processing network communications to or from the local network devices; and transmitting from the global server system the update data to the local network devices. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084442 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, ADDRESS RESOLUTION SERVER, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A communication terminal ( | 2012-04-05 |
20120084443 | VIRTUAL PROVISIONING WITH IMPLEMENTATION RESOURCE BOUNDARY AWARENESS - Virtual resources may be provisioned in a manner that is aware of, and respects, underlying implementation resource boundaries. A customer of the virtual resource provider may specify that particular virtual resources are to be implemented with implementation resources that are dedicated to the customer. Dedicating an implementation resource to a particular customer of a virtual resource provider may establish one or more information barriers between the particular customer and other customers of the virtual resource provider. Implementation resources may require transition procedures, including custom transition procedures, to enter and exit dedicated implementation resource pools. Costs corresponding to active and inactive implementation resources in a dedicated pools associated with a particular customer may be accounted for, and presented to, the customer in a variety of ways including explicit, adjusted per customer and adjusted per type of virtual resource and/or implementation resource. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084444 | REAL-TIME LICENSE METERING OF A PROVISIONED APPLICATION IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONEMENT - Provided is a method for the costing of a license based on real-time usage of software on a hardware resource instead of upfront PVU based purchase of licenses. Service provider need not pay for the license charge till the end of life of that application and need not pay for an entire set of N licenses, considering that the service provider expects that the maximum number of application instances could be N. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084445 | AUTOMATIC REPLICATION AND MIGRATION OF LIVE VIRTUAL MACHINES - Systems and methods are disclosed herein to automatically replicate and migrate live virtual machine image (VM) files from a primary VM computing device to secondary VM computing devices. The operating parameters (e.g., cost of operation, power consumption, etc.) of a number of secondary VM computing devices are analyzed. Replicas of the primary VM image is stored in the secondary VM devices with operating parameters that meet limiting parameters defined in an SLA. The primary VM image is indexed by its constituent data blocks in an active index, which is compared against a stale index of data blocks. A comparison of the indices will indicate when new data is added to the VM image. The new data is used to update the replicas. Migration is performed by copying the primary VM image or awakening a hibernated secondary VM image replica, and hibernating the current primary VM image. | 2012-04-05 |
20120084446 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a storage, a communication device and a controller. The storage stores information identifying the electronic device. The controller, when starting connection of the electronic device with a first other electronic device, sends the information identifying the electronic device to a second other electronic device when the first other electronic device is connected to the second other electronic device, and connects the electronic device to the first other electronic device when a request for connection with the first other electronic device is received, the first other electronic device receiving the information identifying the electronic device from the other second electronic device. | 2012-04-05 |