21st week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140143318 | PROVIDING AN INTERFACE TO MULTIPLE CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEMS - Discussion of content between users of social networks is described. A cloud computing system of a plurality of cloud computing systems is determined for processing a request in a first syntax from a client computer system. The request is translated from the first syntax to a second syntax of the cloud computing system and transmitted to the cloud computing system in the second syntax. The server computer system includes drivers to enable bi-directional translation of communications between the client computer system and the plurality of cloud computing systems, wherein the drivers provide bi-directional translation for at least one of the plurality of cloud computing systems. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143319 | COMMERCE APPLICATIONS: DATA HANDSHAKE BETWEEN AN ON-LINE SERVICE AND A THIRD-PARTY PARTNER - A system and method of presenting a commerce application to an electronic device of an end-user are disclosed. The method includes establishing electronic communications from the end-user to a first server (e.g., an electronic marketplace) in response to the end-user accessing an element presented by the first server, and establishing electronic communications between the first server and a second server. The second server may be, for example, another electronic marketplace. The first server sends a graphical interface feature to the end-user. Substantially concurrent with the first server sending the graphical interface feature, the second server transmits electronically graphical content to be placed within the graphical interface feature on a browser on an electronic device of the end-user. The blending of the graphical interface feature and the graphical content is transparent to the end user; thus, the end-user may be unaware that additional information is being received from the second server. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143320 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT - A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider determines a class associated with a set of client computing devices and monitors resources requests for the determined class. The content delivery network service provider then identifies at least one cache component for providing additional content, such as advertisement content or other additional content provided in anticipation of future resource requests, to client computing devices as a function of the determined class. In other embodiments, instead of cache components, the content delivery network service provider identifies a second set of client computing devices as a function of the determined class for providing the additional content information. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143321 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING METADATA BETWEEN INTERFACES - A system communicates a client application and a web application and receives configuration data operable within the web application and the client application. The system distributes the configuration data to the client application and the web application. The distributed configuration data is then used to configure the client application and the web application | 2014-05-22 |
20140143322 | CENTRAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A network device is configured to send information identifying a frequency at which an application, downloaded on a user device, is to send geographic location information to the network device. The network device is configured further to receive personal information associated with a plurality of social networking applications from the application on the user device. The network device is configured further to receive the geographic location information from the application; and send the personal information and the geographic location information to a plurality of social networking servers associated with a plurality of social networking applications. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143323 | USER CHARACTERISTICS-BASED SPONSORED COMPANY POSTINGS - A system may include a network interface, a user interface, and a recommendation engine. The user interface may be configured to receive a company characteristic of a company profile of a company posted to the social network and a company bid from an entity related to company to the social network. The recommendation engine may be configured to determine an aggregate company score for the user based on a relevance of the company characteristic to a user characteristic and the company bid. The network interface may be configured to transmit a message related to the company to the user based, at least in part, on the aggregate company score. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143324 | PROMPTING SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS IN A NEWSFEED TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL USER PROFILE INFORMATION - A social networking system presents questions to a user on an interface associated with the social networking system to elicit information about the user that is missing from the user's profile or is otherwise outdated. The questions are selected based on a number of factors, such as the need for or value of the information item, probability of a response, or cost of collecting the information item. In presenting the selected question, the social networking system prompts a user for information about the user in a an interface associated with a page from the social networking system, an application external to the social networking system, or using a push notification or prompt. The questions may be formatted in various ways, such as an explicit question, confirmation, a selection of responses, or social context to encourage the user to respond to the question. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143325 | PROMPTING SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL USER PROFILE INFORMATION - A social networking system presents questions to a user on an interface associated with the social networking system to elicit information about the user that is missing from the user's profile or is otherwise outdated. The questions are selected based on a number of factors, such as the need for or value of the information item, probability of a response, or cost of collecting the information item. In presenting the selected question, the social networking system prompts a user for information about the user in a an interface associated with a page from the social networking system, an application external to the social networking system, or using a push notification or prompt. The questions may be formatted in various ways, such as an explicit question, confirmation, a selection of responses, or social context to encourage the user to respond to the question. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143326 | Authenticating a Persona in a Social Networking System - A social networking system provides access to personas comprising information, for example, web pages describing users or entities. The information may be suggested by the social networking system or requested by the user, for example, via search. The social networking system authenticates the personas so that only authentic personas are suggested to users or returned when a user is searching for information. The authenticity of a persona is determined based on the connections and/or likes coming from other personas, user accounts, or other entities represented within the social networking system that have been previously authenticated. The authenticity of the person is also determined based on external links to the persona, for example, external websites referring to the persona or the rate at which external systems such as search engines direct web traffic to the persona. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143327 | Authenticating a Persona in a Social Networking System - A social networking system provides access to personas comprising information, for example, web pages describing users or entities. The information may be suggested by the social networking system or requested by the user, for example, via search. The social networking system authenticates the personas so that only authentic personas are suggested to users or returned when a user is searching for information. The authenticity of a persona is determined based on the connections and/or likes coming from other personas, user accounts, or other entities represented within the social networking system that have been previously authenticated. The authenticity of the person is also determined based on external links to the persona, for example, external websites referring to the persona or the rate at which external systems such as search engines direct web traffic to the persona. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143328 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTEXT TRIGGERED UPDATES BETWEEN MOBILE DEVICES - A context-based method, a server implementing a group management function, and a mobile device predicate content delivery between mobile devices based on context. The context can include sensed events at one mobile device such as, without limitation, motion, prone positions, stress, injury, and the like. The context triggered update systems and methods can operate between two mobile devices where a determination of the context on a first mobile device formulates an update to a second mobile device with the update presented to the second mobile device based on the context. That is, the context from the first mobile device is used to formulate an update and an optimal delivery method to the second mobile device. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143329 | DISCOVERING SIGNATURE OF ELECTRONIC SOCIAL NETWORKS - Systems and computer program products may rank one user's connections in an electronic social network. The computer system may include a processor and a memory. The computer system may additionally include a program comprising a plurality of instructions stored in memory that are executed by the processor to identify one user's connections with other users in an electronic social network, and analyze a plurality of data sources for electronic communications between the one user and the other users. The program may additionally include a plurality of instructions stored in memory that are executed by the processor to calculate for each of the other users the probability that the one user will communicate with that other user based on the analyzed plurality of data sources, and rank the one user's connections with the other users based on the calculated probabilities. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143330 | Integrated Long Term Evolution Social Media Messaging - A network device may detect a social media communication associated with a mobile device. The network device may analyze the communication along with a user profile associated with the mobile device to create an enhanced user profile. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143331 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING DOMAIN NAME SUGGESTIONS - Systems and methods are provided for providing domain name suggestions based on user preferences and terms extracted from one or more information sources. Terms may be continuously extracted from information sources and used to generate domain name suggestions. Generated domain name suggestions may then be delivered to customers. The systems and methods may utilize customer preferences in providing the domain name suggestions, such as preferences as to information sources or topics of interest. The systems and methods may be self-learning, taking historical domain name registration information into account to improve the domain name suggestions. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143332 | DISCOVERING SIGNATURE OF ELECTRONIC SOCIAL NETWORKS - Methods may rank one user's connections in an electronic social network. The method may include identifying, by electronic apparatus, one user's connections with other users in an electronic social network. The method may additionally include analyzing, by electronic apparatus, a plurality of data sources for electronic communications between the one user and the other users. The method may further include calculating, by electronic apparatus, for each of the other users the probability that the one user will communicate with that other user based on the analyzed plurality of data sources. The method may additionally include ranking, by electronic apparatus, the one user's connections with the other users based on the calculated probabilities. In some embodiments, the method may include removing from a graph, by electronic apparatus, one or more of the one user's connections with the other users based on the ranked one user's connections. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143333 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SOCIAL DISCOVERY PLATFORM - The present solution provides a new social media platform, referred to as a social discovery application, to discover and share with like minded people, such as people in a user's natural communities. The social discovery application allows a user to express their interests and to find people that have the same interests and think like them. For example, the social discovery application may help a user find people most like them at their school, new job, or a new city. The social discovery application includes lots of fun and easy to play games where users express themselves, their interests, and their preferences. The social discovery application then compares their choices to other users' choices in a fun and visual way, and connects users with new potential friends. The social discovery application provides a user a rank order list of people most like them. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143334 | CONDITIONAL DISCLOSURE OF A RESPONSE TO CONTENT POSTED IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Technologies are generally described for a social networking service (SNS). In some examples, a method performed under control of a server may include receiving a user input associated with the user responding to content posted in an online forum, determining whether a threshold condition set by the user is satisfied for the user's response to be disclosed with regard to a particular piece of content posted in the online forum, and disclosing the user's response to the particular piece of content posted in the online forum when the threshold condition is determined to be satisfied. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143335 | MEDIA CLOUD COPYLESS MESSAGE PASSING - In one embodiment, the method includes adding a unique content identifier to the message to provide unique identification for the message, generating a receiver list having components that are allowed to use the message, and forwarding a buffer pointer to each component of the receiver list for enabling further handling of the message. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143336 | INTERNET ENABLED UNIVERSAL REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM - A Device-Based Control System (DBCS) enables a device-agnostic and source-agnostic entertainment experience through use of an internet-enabled device (IED). The IED includes a media management application for navigating through media or entertainment content, controlling media devices according to a type of media content selected by the user, and sharing media experiences via social networks. The IED includes smartphones, tablet computers, and other internet-enabled processor-based devices. The DBCS leverages the internet access of the IED to enable search and discovery of all available media content. A content recommendation system (CRS) coupled to the media management application learns media preferences from user behavior, generates from numerous disparate media sources media choices corresponding to the media preferences, and presents the media choices on the IED. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143337 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED SHORT LINKS AND MONITORING ACTIVITY - A computerized method and system to generate individualized shortened URLs and track user activity is disclosed. A method includes generating an individualized shortened URLs for each of a plurality of recipients, sending communications to each of the plurality of recipients, wherein each of the communications includes the individualized shortened URL, receiving a request from at least one of the plurality of recipients for the individualized shortened URL, and referring the request to a destination URL. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143338 | AUDIO SHARING - One aspect of the disclosure relates to obtaining at least some audio information, at least partially at a shared audio device. The aspect of the disclosure also relates to temporally coordinating transmitting at the shared audio device the at least some audio information and at least some temporally-associated dissimilar-media information that can be received by at least one other shared audio device such that corresponding segments of the at least some audio information can be received at the at least one other shared audio device substantially temporally corresponding to when corresponding segments of the at least some temporally-associated dissimilar-media information can be received at the at least one other shared audio device. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143339 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE SHARING - Various embodiments provide methods, apparatus, and systems for resource sharing. In an exemplary method, sharing metadata can be generated based on information of a resource publisher and information of at least one sharing file by a publisher client terminal. The sharing metadata can be sent to a sharing server for the sharing server to generate a sharing link. The sharing link can be published by the sharing server. The sharing metadata can be obtained from the sharing server based on the sharing link corresponding to a requested resource by a downloading client terminal. The at least one sharing file instructed by the obtained sharing metadata can be downloaded by the downloading client terminal. One or multiple files can thus be shared via a single sharing link. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143340 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PAUSING AND RESUMING A MEETING SESSION - Presented are systems and methods for presenting, creating, and pausing a meeting session. The systems and methods create meeting-session data based at least in pan on one or more applications running on one or more devices connected to a meeting session. The systems and methods store muting-session data in a database. The systems and methods pause a meeting session such that the one or more devices are disconnected from the meeting session. The systems and methods resume a meeting session by configuring devices to run at least one of the one or more applications using the meeting-session data and joining configured devices to the resumed meeting session. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143341 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NOTIFYING A USER OF PEOPLE, PLACES OR THINGS HAVING ATTRIBUTES MATCHING A USER'S STATED PREFERENCE - A location-based and preference-based system and method for matching media content about persons, places and things with the expressed preferences of mobile users to notify users about and provide users with access to media content about persons, places and things that match the user's expressed preferences. The system thus provides information such as stories or articles that match the user's interests and relate to their location. The system may assign ranks to all of the media content that meets that user's preferences wherein, in one embodiment, it will automatically play them in the assigned order. Comparison of the user's preferences with the various profiles of the media content allows the user only to be informed of the media content for those persons, places or things that the user is likely to be interested in. The system and method thus provides for a mobile real-time point of interest exchange network. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143342 | VISIBILITY INSPECTOR IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting a content data set to a computing device for displaying digital content to an author user, the author user having authored the digital content, receiving user input from the author user, the user input corresponding to the digital content, and, in response to receiving the user input, transmitting first data and second data to the computing device for display to the author user, the first data comprising a number of contacts that are able to access the digital content and the second data indicating one or more relationships between the author user and the contacts. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143343 | BIFURCATED CONFERENCING FUNCTIONS - A source conference function is provided for each source device, and a destination conference function is provided for each destination device. Any given user terminal may act as both a destination device when receiving media content and a source device when sending media content to facilitate bidirectional conferencing. The source device generates media content, which is sent to the associated source conference function. In general, the source conference function identifies destination conference functions to which the media content should be delivered, and delivers the media content to the identified destination conference functions. Any given destination conference function receives the media content from this and other source conference functions. The media content received from all or select of the source conference functions may be processed by the destination conference function as desired, and then mixed together to form destination media content, which is delivered to the destination device. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143344 | Systems and Methods for Transferring Personal Session Information for Telephonic Use - Disclosed herein are systems and associated methods for operating web interactive services in conjunction with communication services, linking the communication with the interaction by means of a session-specific identifier such as a telephone number. During the course of a web session, user interaction information may be collected, that information potentially indicating subjects of interest to a user associated with the session-specific identifier. In the event the user uses the identifier make a contact regarding the information, the identifier can be used to associate the interaction information and subjects of interest, such that the contact may have that information and those subjects available to assist a user making contact. Interaction and subject information may also be used to customize the interaction with a contacting user with regard to the routing of a telephone call, a greeting, a product or service offering, or other communication. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143345 | CONFERENCE SYSTEM, SERVER, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING CONFERENCE INFORMATION GENERATION PROGRAM - A conference system includes at least one server and at least one mobile terminal connectable to the server. The mobile terminal includes an orientation estimation unit configured to detect orientation information of the mobile terminal, an operation unit configured to detect operation information of an operation performed; and an event transmission unit configured to transmit the orientation information and the operation information. The server includes an image information generation unit configured to generate image information of a conference material and image information of a pointer drawn over the image information of the conference material based on the drawing event, and an action information generation unit configured to generate action information corresponding to the conference material based on drawing history information of the drawn pointer. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143346 | Identifying And Classifying Travelers Via Social Media Messages - The method includes collecting a first plurality of social media messages, where each of the first plurality of social media messages contains a respective location of a first social media user; determining a first plurality of geographical distances between the respective locations contained in the first plurality of social media messages; determining a maximum or average geographical distance from the first plurality of geographical distances; and comparing the maximum or average geographical distance to a first or second threshold to determine if the first social media user is a traveler. For a plurality of social media messages, where each of the social media messages does not contain a respective location of a social media user, the method includes extracting content from the plurality of social media messages and comparing the extracted content to a traveler model to determine if the social media user is a traveler. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143347 | Electronic Message Data Input for Social Graphing - In one embodiment, a method includes extracting, by a computing device, information from an electronic message, where the electronic message has been communicated to or from a user of a social-networking system, cross-referencing, by the computing device, the extracted information with social-networking information associated with one or more nodes or edges of the social-networking system, and determining, by the computing device, an action for execution by the social-networking system based on the cross-referencing. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143348 | DYNAMIC ROUTING OF INSTANT MESSAGE - A computer system executes an instant message session in a host message program of a first collaborative tool between users. The computer system executes the instant message session in a participant message program of a second collaborative tool. The computer system further receives a first request from the users to automatically or manually route the instant messages of the instant message session from the host message program of a mobile message program of a third collaborative tool. The computer system further transmits the instant messages from the host message program to the mobile message program based on conditions. The computer system further receives a second request from the mobile message program to route the instant message of the instant message session from the mobile device. The computer system transmits the instant message session based on the second request. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143349 | Distributed Architecture Data Transfer System - Systems, methods and computer program products for facilitating data transfer and synchronization between computing devices are disclosed. In an aspect, an enterprise editing platform allows a plurality of contributors to access and alter the same data layer without the use of proprietary server architectures. Data layers are edited by users on local devices and synced remotely by the enterprise editing platform. The data layer is updated via changes sent via ports, protocols, and services associated with electronic mail. In as aspect, updates to the data layer are sent and received via email attachments. Users may initiate sending and retrieving updates to the data layer. In another aspect, a module of the enterprise editing platform sends data layer updates to email addresses associated with each contributor. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143350 | MANAGING EMAIL FEEDBACK - Solutions are provided for managing email feedback. Email messages can be received via a common email address. Individual senders can be determined based on the sender addresses of the received email messages. Feedback objects can be generated and saved from the received email messages. Processing of received email messages, including reply emails, can be performed based on whether sender addresses are authorized. Feedback objects can be provided for review and management. Individual senders can log in to a system to review and manage feedback objects, including assigning classifications to feedback objects. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143351 | Ambient-Location-Push Notification - In one embodiment, a method includes determining a current geo-location of a mobile client computing device associated with a first user; and selecting content associated with the current geo-location that was provided by a second user. The selection is based at least in part on a relationship between the first and second users. The method also includes sending to the mobile client computing device while the mobile client computing device is at or near the current geo-location a notification associated with the content. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143352 | USER PROFILE AND GEOGRAPHY-BASED MEETINGS - A system may include an electronic data storage, a recommendation engine, and a network interface. The electronic data storage may be configured to store a professional skill of a member of a social network. The recommendation engine may be configured to generate a recommendation based, at least in part, on a relationship between the professional skill of the member and a desired professional skill of an organizer and a relationship between a geographic location of the member and a geographic location of the organizer. The network interface may be configured to transmit a meeting invitation to a user device of the member of the social network based, at least in part, on the recommendation. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143353 | Platform-independent method and system for electronically engaging customers - Techniques for electronically engaging customers across all different platforms are disclosed. Based on unique device identifiers captured together with interactions by users with one or more applications provided by a business, a message prepared in a first format is automatically converted to a corresponding message in a second format according to what the devices the user have been interacting with can support. Depending on implementation, the message may be a response by the business to an inquiry from a user or a promotion by the business to be distributed to a group of selected users maintained by the business. The interactions include activities a user has had with one or more of the applications provided by the business and provide the statistical or actual data for the business to determine the group of users to receive the message. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143354 | VIRTUAL CONCIERGE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Described are systems and methods that receive from a virtual concierge system a text-based inquiry from a user having an interest; store the inquiry in a queuing system, generate a match between an online assistant and the user based on content of the stored inquiry and profile data of the online assistant, and establish a text-based communication between an electronic device of the user and an electronic device of the online assistant in response to generating the match, the text-based communication including the content of the stored inquiry. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143355 | Method and System for Video Texting - The present invention provides a method, apparatus and computer readable medium for transmitting a video text message including receiving a text message via a text messaging application on a first mobile device. Based on the input, the next steps are determining a search query term for searching one or more libraries of video clips and accessing the one or more libraries of video clips using the search query term to retrieve a plurality of video clips. Thereupon, further steps are presenting the plurality of video clips to the user in the text message application and receiving a user selection of one of the plurality of video clips. As such, the method, apparatus and computer readable medium combines the selected video clip with the text message to generate the video message and provides for transmission to the second mobile device for viewing thereon. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143356 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SENDING RESPONSE MESSAGE ACCORDING TO CURRENT STATUS - An electronic device and a method for sending a response message according to a current status are provided. An operating method of the electronic device includes determining whether a received message is confirmed within a preset time, when the received message is not confirmed within the preset time, determining whether a contact number of a sender electronic device is a preset contact number, and when the contact number of the sender electronic device is the preset contact number, sending an automatic response message to the sender electronic device corresponding to a preset automatic response message status. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143357 | Method and Apparatus for Organizing, Packaging, and Sharing Social Content and Social Affiliations - A method and associated system are provided for operating a mobile device, comprising: capturing real-time audio, image, or video information of the event at a location of the event during the event on the mobile device; selecting a specific invitee from the user's list of confirmed friends during the event; and transmitting an invitation to attend the event to the specific invitee during the event comprising necessary details for attending the event in person by the invitee contemporaneous with and integrated with the captured real-time information. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143358 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVING A MESSAGE CLIENT - A system and method for synchronizing messages between client application instances and a message service provider includes a connection service communicatively coupled to a plurality of client messaging application instances; a first intermediary transfer layer with an inbound message data queue that queues message updates of a client application instance and an outbound message data queue that queues message updates and notifications from a mailbox service layer; a mailbox service layer communicatively coupled to the connection service through the first intermediary transfer layer; a second intermediary transfer layer with an mailbox message data queue that contains queued message data directed at the mailbox service layer and a message service data queue that contains queued message updates directed at a message service layer; and a message service layer configured for message interactions with an outside message service provider. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143359 | INFORMATION PUSH, RECEIVING AND EXCHANGING METHOD, SERVER, CLIENT AND EXCHANGING APPARATUS - A method of providing information to a prospective user is performed at a server having one or more processors and memory storing programs to be executed by the processors, the method including receiving audio feature information and location information from a client device, wherein the audio feature information is extracted from an audio signal received by the client device and the location information identifies a current location of the client device; comparing predefined audio feature information with the received audio feature information and comparing predefined location information with the received location information; and pushing predefined information to the client device from the server if there is a match of both comparisons made at the server. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143360 | System and Method for Creating User Profiles - A computer-implemented method for constructing a profile for a target user is disclosed. The method comprises monitoring electronic communications across a network to identify at least one electronic communication that identifies a target user as an intended message recipient, extracting metadata from content associated with the at least one electronic communication; and constructing a user profile for the target user on the basis of the extracted metadata. It is assumed that the message senders send their messages, including associated content, to a given target user with the belief that the content is of some interest to the target user on the basis of some knowledge regarding the target user's personality, preferences, tastes and the like. In this manner, a profiling entity may indirectly construct a profile of the target user based on the content sent by one or more message senders to the target user. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143361 | Communications Framework Using Hand Held Devices - A hand held communication device, a server and a system and method for a communications framework is disclosed. The hand held communication device includes a client capable of communicating with a server, the client with a user interface, the user interface is capable of displaying at least one receiver and the client is programmed to send at least one message to the at least one receiver based on the at least one receiver's receiving capabilities. The server is adapted to receive at least one message from the communication device. The server includes at least one software entity programmed to accept the at least one message from the communication device. The at least one software entity is programmed to transmit the message to at least one receiver. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143362 | Method and Arrangement for Suppressing Messages from a Medical System - A method for suppressing messages from a medical system in a remote maintenance center during maintenance work includes generating an item of start information that indicates a start of the maintenance work on the medical system. The method also includes transmitting the start information to the remote maintenance center, and generating an item of end information that indicates an end of the maintenance work on the medical system. The method includes transmitting the end information to the remote maintenance center and suppressing the messages that are sent from the medical system to the remote maintenance center in a time between the start information and the end information, in the remote maintenance center. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143363 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING INTEROPERABILITY OF TOUCH DEVICES - A method and apparatus for enabling interoperability of touch devices. The method comprises establishing communication between a master device and one or more slave devices, wherein the master device and the one or more slave devices each comprise a touch screen, and wherein the master device and slave device are each running an application; registering, with the master device, at least one capability for each slave device of the one or more slave devices, communicating a selection made on a slave device of the one or more slave devices to the master device; and implementing the selection from the slave device in the application running on the master device. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143364 | RDMA-OPTIMIZED HIGH-PERFORMANCE DISTRIBUTED CACHE - For remote direct memory access (RDMA) by a client to a data record stored in a cache on a server, a hash map is received by a client from a server. The hash map includes one or more entries associated with a key for the data record stored in the cache on the server that stores a server-side remote pointer referencing the data record stored in the cache on the server. The client, using the key, looks up the server-side remote pointer for the data record from the hash map, and then performs one or more RDMA operations using the server-side remote pointer that allow the client to directly access the data record stored in the cache on the server. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143365 | RDMA-OPTIMIZED HIGH-PERFORMANCE DISTRIBUTED CACHE - For remote direct memory access (RDMA) by a client to a data record stored in a cache on a server, a hash map is received by a client from a server. The hash map includes one or more entries associated with a key for the data record stored in the cache on the server that stores a server-side remote pointer referencing the data record stored in the cache on the server. The client, using the key, looks up the server-side remote pointer for the data record from the hash map, and then performs one or more RDMA operations using the server-side remote pointer that allow the client to directly access the data record stored in the cache on the server. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143366 | System and Method for Reducing Communication Overhead Between Network Interface Controllers and Virtual Machines - Available buffers in the memory space of a guest operating system of a virtual machine are provided to a network interface controller (NIC) for use during direct memory access (DMA) and the guest operating system is notified accordingly when data is written into such available buffers. These capabilities obviate the requirement of using hypervisor memory as a staging area to determine which virtual machine to forward incoming data. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143367 | ROBUSTNESS IN A SCALABLE BLOCK STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system that accomplishes both robustness and scalability. The storage system includes replicated region servers configured to handle computation involving blocks of data in a region. The storage system further includes storage nodes configured to store the blocks of data in the region, where each of the replicated region servers is associated with a particular storage node of the storage nodes. Each storage node is configured to validate that all of the replicated region servers are unanimous in updating the blocks of data in the region prior to updating the blocks of data in the region. In this manner, the storage system provides end-to-end correctness guarantees for read operations, strict ordering guarantees for write operations, and strong durability and availability guarantees despite a wide range of server failures (including memory corruptions, disk corruptions, etc.) and scales these guarantees to thousands of machines and tens of thousands of disks. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143368 | Distributed Symmetric Multiprocessing Computing Architecture - Example embodiments of the present invention includes systems and methods for implementing a scalable symmetric multiprocessing (shared memory) computer architecture using a network of homogeneous multi-core servers. The level of processor and memory performance achieved is suitable for running applications that currently require cache coherent shared memory mainframes and supercomputers. The architecture combines new operating system extensions with a high-speed network that supports remote direct memory access to achieve an effective global distributed shared memory. A distributed thread model allows a process running in a head node to fork threads in other (worker) nodes that run in the same global address space. Thread synchronization is supported by a distributed mutex implementation. A transactional memory model allows a multi-threaded program to maintain global memory page consistency across the distributed architecture. A distributed file access implementation supports non-contentious file I/O for threads. These and other functions provide a symmetric multiprocessing programming model consistent with standards such as Portable Operating System Interface for Unix (POSIX). | 2014-05-22 |
20140143369 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORING AND READING DATA IN OR FROM A KEY VALUE STORAGE - A method and system for storing data in a key value storage having a plurality of n servers, wherein t2014-05-22 | |
20140143370 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCREASING SPEED OF DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM RESOLUTION WITHIN A COMPUTING DEVICE - A system for resolving domain name system (DNS) queries, contains a communication device for resolving DNS queries, wherein the communication device further contains a memory and a processor that is configured by the memory, a cache storage for use by the communication device, and a network of authoritative domain name servers, where in a process of the communication device looking up a DNS request within the cache storage, if the communication device views an expired DNS entry within the cache storage, the communication device continues the process of looking up the DNS request in the cache storage while, in parallel, sending out a concurrent DNS request to an authoritative domain name server that the expired DNS entry belongs to. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143371 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING AND MANAGING DATA RELATED TO HTTP TRANSACTIONS - A system and method for intercepting and storing information relating to communications with at least one device over a network are described. The system comprises: an interceptor configured to intercept at least some communications with the at least one device over a network; and a processing system. The processing system processes each intercepted communication to determine the type of content which is referenced by the intercepted communication. A storage action of a first type may be performed if the determined type of content satisfies a criterion or a storage action of a second type different to said first type may be performed if the determined type of content does not satisfy said criterion. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143372 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING A MEMORY-BASED INTERCONNECT BETWEEN MULTIPLE PARTITIONS - The shared memory interconnect system provides an improved method for efficiently and dynamically sharing resources between two or more guest partitions. The system also provides a method to amend the parameters of the shared resources without resetting all guest partitions. In various embodiments, a XML file is used to dynamically define the parameters of shared resources. In one such embodiment using a XML or equivalent file, the interconnect system driver will establish a mailbox shared by each guest partition. The mailbox provides messaging queues and related structures between the guest partitions. In various embodiments, the interconnect system driver may use macros to locate each memory structure. The shared memory interconnect system allows a virtualization system to establish the parameters of shared resources during runtime. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143373 | Distributed Aggregation for Contact Center Agent-Groups On Growing Interval - A method for aggregating and reporting data from a plurality of data sources in a contact center is provided. The method includes: maintaining by a computer device aggregated data for a current interval; updating by the computer device the aggregated data for the current interval based on updates for the current interval received from one or more of the data sources; determining by the computer device whether the current interval has expired; in response to determining that the current interval has not expired, reporting the updated aggregated data for the current interval to a client; and in response to determining that the current interval has expired, determining by the computer device whether each data source of the plurality of data sources has finished providing the updates for the current interval. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143374 | NETWORK ROUTING SYSTEM - One embodiment of the present invention provides a switching system. During operation, the switching system maintains a control-plane operating system and a web server which is in communication with the control-plane operating system. The system then sends content by the web server to a browser without being solicited by the browser, and allows a user to configure the switching system via a command line interface within the browser. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143375 | METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING SERVICE OF CONTENT REQUESTS AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and network traffic management apparatus that receives a request for content from a client computing device. A length of the content is determined. A plurality of requests for a portion of the length of the content is sent to a plurality of server computing devices, wherein the portion of the length of the content is specified as a byte range in a range header of each of the plurality of requests. A plurality of responses to the plurality of requests is received. At least a subset of the plurality of responses is output to the client computing device. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143376 | Method of Data Acquisition and Multi Directional Prioritized Data Dispersal for a Remote Drilling Site - A method of transmitting data from a wellsite with unreliable data communications to a plurality of client servers includes intermediate communications via one or more remote servers. The remote servers may be cloud based servers. The method may include prioritization of data for communication across the most unreliable link to ensure timely transmission of the most critical data. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143377 | Method And Apparatus For Downloading Web Page Content - A method and apparatus for downloading web page content. The method comprises obtaining a downloading list containing the following content according to target downloading content that a user needs to download: web page link addresses corresponding to the target downloading content and sub-level web page link addresses of the web page link addresses; and when a condition of a downloading mode corresponding to the target downloading content is met, downloading the web page content according to the web page link addresses in the downloading list. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143378 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR CLIENT TRANSPARENT VIDEO READDRESSING - Network operators are striving to find ways to provide stable video services amid a rapid increase in video traffic. In order to provide stable video services with constrained network resources, network operators attempted to reduce video file sizes using a content adaptation engine (CAE). However, network operators failed to efficiently readdress video flows to CAEs. This disclosure provides systems and methods for efficiently readdressing video flows to CAEs. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143379 | DIRECT FILE TRANSFER BETWEEN SUBSCRIBERS OF A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - Systems and techniques for transferring a file from a first client associated with a first subscriber to a communications system to a second client associated with a second subscriber to the communications system by connecting from the first client to a communications system host; sending, through the communications system host, a request to the second client to establish a direct connection to the second client; when the second client accepts the request, establishing a direct connection to the second client that bypasses the communications system host; and transferring a file over the direct connection. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143380 | DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT OF CENTRAL MEDIA DEVICE SUPPORTING NETWORK-BASED MEDIA SHARING PROTOCOL TO GUEST DEVICE OF HOSPITALITY ESTABLISHMENT FOR MEDIA SHARING PURPOSES - A media system includes a computer network, a media device supporting a network-based media sharing protocol, a plurality of output devices located at a plurality of physical locations within a hospitality establishment, and a system controller. In response to a first event, the system controller assigns the media device to a particular guest device by reconfiguring one or more components of the computer network to enable the particular guest device to utilize the network-based media sharing protocol to share media over the computer network with the media device, and commands an output device located at a physical location associated with the particular guest device to play media corresponding to the media signal outputted by the media device on the output port. In response to a second event, the system controller un-assigns the media device from the particular guest device and commands the output device to stop playing the media. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143381 | RECOVERY OF A FAILED REGISTRY - A system, method, and computer-readable medium, is described that enables a registry recovery service to retrieve zone files from a target registry, archive the zone files, publish the zone files to a managed DNS server, reconcile ownership of the zone files, and publish the zone files to a provisioning DNS server. The registry recovery service may also implement a WHOIS server for the zone and ownership information and may also implement zone specific features particular to the target registry's TLD. The registry recovery service may also enable DNSSEC extensions on the recovered registry DNS services. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143382 | MEDICAL IMAGE EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND IMAGE RELAY SERVER - A medical image exchange system connects a transmission system to an image relay server. The medical image exchange system includes a device configured to input a transmission destination of image data and select image data, in response to a request from the in-hospital terminal. The medical image exchange system includes a device configured to generate an image relay form including relay information on the transmission destination and information for identifying the selected image data. The image relay server transmits a request to acquire the image to the transmission system based on the image relay form. The image transmission system acquires the image in response to the acquisition request, and transmits the image to the image relay server. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143383 | HANDLING DEVICE GENERATED DATA - There is provided a method of caching device generated data. The method comprises receiving device generated data from a device via a wireless communication network. The method further comprises retrieving a device identifier used by components within the wireless communication network to identify the device; and storing the device generated data with the device identifier. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143384 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING MEDIA CONTENT - Certain aspects of a method and apparatus for communicating media content may include a server communicatively coupled to a plurality of content rendering devices. One or more processors in the server may be operable to determine a set of configuration settings associated with the media content based on a set of parameters. The server may encode the media content and the determined set of configuration settings to generate an encoded media content. The determined set of configuration settings may be included in a header section of the encoded media content. The server may transmit the encoded media content to at least one of the plurality of content rendering devices. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143385 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY PRIORITIZING ELEMENTS IN A VIDEO STREAM FOR LOW-BANDWIDTH TRANSMISSION - Processing video for low-bandwidth transmission may be complex. At a content source embodiment of methods disclosed herein may include assigning the content identifier as a function of content in a packet of a packet stream on a packet-by-packet basis. The method may further comprise forwarding the content identifier with the packet to enable a downstream network node or device to effect prioritization of the packet within the packet stream. The downstream network node or device may make drop decisions that are guided by a content identifier. Packets, or video frames that contain useful information may be prioritized and have a higher probability of being delivered. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143386 | SECURE MEDICAL DATA TRANSMISSION - A system may include a first network in which user device(s) and a HIP server are communicably coupled. The first network may include a secure data administrator, such as a medical data system, that stores secure data. In some implementations, at least one of the user devices may include a web module and communicate with a web server through a second network. At least one of the user device may be restricted from communicating with the secure data administrator, so the user device may request data stored in the secure data administrator through the HIP server. The user device may base the requests for the data on information received from the web server. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143387 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, SERVER, PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication device including: a communication unit; and a control unit controlling the communication unit to inquire if one upload service allows direct upload to a server storing service information of each of a plurality of upload services, to have the communication unit obtain desired information from the server for directly uploading data to the one upload service when the one upload service allows direct upload, and to have the communication unit directly upload data to the one upload service according to the desired information. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143388 | PLAYLISTS FOR REAL-TIME OR NEAR REAL-TIME STREAMING - Methods and apparatuses for real-time or near real-time streaming of content using transfer protocols such as an HTTP compliant protocol. In one embodiment, a method includes dividing a stream of data, representing the contiguous time based content of a program (e.g. a live video broadcast), into a plurality of distinct media files, and generating a playlist file having a plurality of tags and Universal Resource Indicators (URIs) indicating an order of presentation of the plurality of distinct media files. The plurality of media files and the playlist file can be made available for transmission to a client device which can retrieve the media files using the playlist file. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143389 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING OR RECONFIGURING A VIRTUAL SERVER IMAGE FOR CLOUD DEPLOYMENT - A system and method to convert a software application, such as a Java application into a virtual server image that is suitable for cloud deployment. In accordance with an embodiment, the system and method allows for building a hypervisor appliance containing a virtual machine running an application. In particular, the hypervisor appliance can be compatible with any hypervisor for server virtualization and the application virtual machine can be a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). | 2014-05-22 |
20140143390 | MACHINE-TO-MACHINE ("M2M") PLATFORM SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Exemplary machine-to-machine (“M2M”) systems and methods are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes an M2M platform system operating an M2M platform in accordance with a functionality set of the M2M platform, receiving data representative of an update to the functionality set of the M2M platform, and seamlessly transitioning, based on the data representative of the update and during runtime operation of the M2M platform, from the operating of the M2M platform in accordance with the functionality set of the M2M platform to operating the M2M platform in accordance with an updated functionality set of the M2M platform. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143391 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND VIRTUAL SERVER MIGRATION CONTROL METHOD FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer system suited for migration of a virtual server between a plurality of physical servers that do not share a storage apparatus via a network is provided. The present invention is a computer system configured to: couple a plurality of computers together, in each of which a plurality of physical servers and a storage apparatus are directly connected within the same chassis, by directly connecting the storage apparatuses of the plurality of computers: and further have a management computer manage the plurality of computers. When the management computer selects another physical server other than a first physical server in a first computer among the plurality of computers as a migration destination of a virtual server, which operates in the first physical server in the first computer, it judges whether the other physical server exists in the first computer or exists in another computer different from the first computer among the plurality of computers. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143392 | DEPLOYMENT OF SOFTWARE IMAGES WITH RUN-TIME RECONNECTION - A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product deploys software images onto a computing system. A first computing machine is instantiated from a software image onto a computing system. The first computing machine has a first old access identifier, and is initially connected to a second computing machine in the computing system via a second old access identifier for the second computing machine. The second computing machine is reconfigured to have a new access identifier by: retrieving the new access identifier for said second computing machine, and associating the new access identifier with the second old access identifier; and redirecting each outbound communication, from the first old access identifier to the second old access identifier, to the new access identifier of the second computing machine. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143393 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICES FOR MANAGING USER REGISTRATION OF A SERVICE IN AN IMS NETWORK - Present invention refers to a method system and devices for managing user registration of a service in a IMS network. The proposed solution allows optimizing the dimensioning of networks focusing on active users. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143394 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IIP ADDRESS SHARING ACROSS CORES IN A MULTI-CORE SYSTEM - In a multi-core system, multiple packet engines across corresponding cores may be working concurrently processing data packets from data flows of SSL VPN sessions. For example, a first core may establish a SSL VPN session with a client. Any one of the other cores, such as a second core, may received packets related to the session owned by the first core. Embodiments of the systems and method described below provide management of IIP addresses for the multi-core/multi-packet engine approach to providing SSL VPN service. In some embodiments, the approach to managing IIP addresses is to have one packet engine on a core act as a master or controller of the IIPs for the remaining packet engines and cores. The packet engines/cores use a protocol for communications regarding IIP management. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143395 | Machine-to-Machine Rules Management Methods and Systems - An exemplary method includes a machine-to-machine (“M2M”) rules management system associated with an M2M platform 1) processing a plurality of events associated with one or more M2M objects in substantially real-time as the events occur over a period of time, 2) receiving, while the events are being processed in substantially real-time, data representative of a rule created by a user associated with the M2M platform, and 3) dynamically applying, in response to receiving the data representative of the rule, the rule to the substantially real-time processing of the events. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143396 | STREAMING CONNECTION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND STREAMING DATA CONNECTION SYSTEM - A streaming connection management method and system are provided. In the streaming connection management method, a streaming source establishes a plurality of connecting requests through a first relay server, and the first relay server provides first streaming data. A number of connections established with the first relay server is determined. When the number of the connections established with the first relay server is greater than or equal to a first relay threshold of the first relay server, a data balance method is executed to obtain a second relay threshold. The first relay server is adjusted to provide a second streaming data, in which a pixel value of the first streaming data is greater than a pixel value of the second streaming data. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143397 | GATEWAY REGISTRY METHODS AND SYSTEMS - A gateway device for managing a set of two or more local management devices at a location. A system for networks at a plurality of locations. A method of operating a gateway device in a control network. A method for storing information to operate a gateway device in a control network. A method for storing information to operate a replacement gateway device in a control network. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143398 | METHOD OF DEPLOYING A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT USING A DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT - Provided is a computer system, including: at least one storage system providing at least one logical volume, at least one host computer including an I/O device, and a management computer, in which the management computer creates a virtual computer within a network segment to which the management computer belongs, the virtual computer including an I/O device that is the same as the I/O device of the host computer in number and type, defines a connection between the logical volume and the virtual computer, stores a program in the logical volume connected to the virtual computer, sets identification information on the host computer in the virtual computer, releases the connection between the logical volume that stores the program and the virtual computer, and defines a connection between the logical volume whose connection has been released and the host computer. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143399 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION - A disclosed information processing apparatus connected to a managing apparatus, which manages apparatus information of an electronic apparatus, through a network includes a receiving part that receives an operation request requesting to operate the apparatus information; a determining part that determines the managing apparatus that manages the apparatus information to be operated based on corresponding information between identification information of the apparatus information to be operated and the managing apparatus upon a receipt of the operation request; and a requesting part that generates another operation request of the apparatus information corresponding to the operation request to the managing apparatus determined by the determining part. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143400 | REMOTE COMPUTER MANAGEMENT USING NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL THAT ENABLES COMMUNICATION THROUGH A FIREWALL AND/OR GATEWAY - The invention facilitates remote management of a computer via a network. Remote computer management in which communication between a managed computer and a remote computer management server is initiated by the managed computer is implemented so that the communication is formatted in accordance with a network communications protocol that can be used to format communication that is allowed to pass through a firewall and/or gateway that mediates communication with the managed computer. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143401 | Systems and Methods for Implementing Cloud Computing - The disclosed implementations include a hardware appliance and method of using that appliance that may be configured to be coupled with commodity server nodes to provide a fault tolerant and available private cloud. The implementations can use a host for software containers and a switch to communicate with external networks and cloud nodes. Thus, this cloud controller appliance can provide a system to deploy a private cloud within an enterprise. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143402 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING ADAPTIVE APPLICATION PERFORMANCE - A method, an apparatus, and a system for implementing adaptive application performance, includes: obtaining application performance of at least one application; generating a new application processing policy when the obtained application performance meets a preset adaptive adjustment condition; and sending the generated new application processing policy to a service router and an application processing server. When the present application is applied, a lower-priority application can transmit complete data while fulfillment of the SLA of a higher-priority application is ensured without affecting normal use of the lower-priority application, and it is ensured that the SLA requirements of applications of all priorities of users are fulfilled. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143403 | VISIBILITY INSPECTOR IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting a content data set to a computing device for displaying content to a non-author user, receiving user input from the non-author user, the user input corresponding to the content, and, in response to receiving the user input, transmitting first data and second data to the computing device for display to the non-author user, the first data comprising a number of contacts associated with an author user, the author user having authored the content, the second data being a sub-set of the first data and comprising a number of contacts associated with the non-author user. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143404 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING WITH MULTIPLE DEVICES - Certain aspects of a method and system for communicating with multiple devices may include a network that is capable of communicatively coupling a plurality of peripheral devices to a server. The server may be operable to receive a first set of instructions from a first of the plurality of peripheral devices and transcode the received first set of instructions to a second set of instructions. The transcoded second set of instructions may be communicated to at least one other of the plurality of peripheral devices. The first set of instructions may be based on a first communication protocol and the second set of instructions may be based on a second communication protocol. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143405 | System And Method For Analyzing Social Media Trends - Disclosed are methods for identifying topical experts from a seed set of experts by identifying “second tier” influencers for the topic. New concepts detected among a pool of experts and second tier influencers are monitored among the general population and their significance evaluated. Reports may be generated for these detected trends. Trends in social media for a concept represented in a taxonomy may be detected by monitoring content for descendent nodes for the concept. Correlations between social media activity with respect to the concept and sales of products corresponding to the concept may be made and sales predicted for the same or different products that correspond to descendants of the concept in the taxonomy. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143406 | Dynamically Scalable Real-Time System Monitoring - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for dynamically scalable real-time system monitoring are presented. For example, according to one aspect, multiple performance metrics are received from multiple performance metric collection agents. At least some of the performance metrics are identified based on an association with a common entity. The identified performance metrics are utilized to evaluate whether performance conditions specified by rules associated with the common entity have been satisfied. Responsive to evaluating that a performance condition has been satisfied, an alert is generated and communicated to one or more subscriber devices associated with the common entity. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143407 | MULTI-OBJECTIVE SERVER PLACEMENT DETERMINATION - Methods and apparatus for determining recommended geographic server locations for online social networks by attempting to minimize user-server latency and inter-user communications latency. In an embodiment, geographic and relationship information for a plurality of users is acquired. The plurality of users may belong to one or more networks. The acquired information is transformed into a graph. A first plurality of clusters is generated with a first clustering algorithm. A second plurality of clusters is generated by iteratively examining pairs of the first plurality clusters, and swapping nodes between the examined clusters if it will reduce a total cut weight of the graph and locate each pair of nodes within a defined maximum distance from the centroid of the target cluster. In an embodiment, a method uses a joint analysis approach based upon characteristics of a plurality of existing networks. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143408 | WIRELESS NETWORK POLLING AND DATA WAREHOUSING - Methods and systems are provided to collect and update data on client devices connected to WiFi access points is provided. An inventory of WiFi cable modems and WiFi access points coupled to the WiFi cabled modems within a specific network is periodically collected. Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of WiFi cable modems and WiFi access points coupled to the WiFi cabled modems are periodically updated. Traps are periodically received from the WiFi access points. The traps are parsed to collect an inventory of client devices wirelessly connected to the WiFi access points and a time at which a client device connected to the WiFi access point. The WiFi access points are periodically polled to collect data on client devices, the data including a period of time that a client device has been connected to a WiFi access point and a physical location of the client device. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143409 | Bandwidth On-Demand Services in Multiple Layer Networks - Bandwidth usage for an existing communication tunnel between a first device and second device is monitored. A determination is made that additional bandwidth is required for communication between the first network device and the second network device. A determination is made that for the addition of the additional bandwidth would exceed available bandwidth for the existing tunnel. Additional bandwidth is established between the first network device and the second network device. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143410 | MONITORING A PERFORMANCE OF A COMPUTING DEVICE - Technologies are generally described for systems, methods and devices configured to monitor a performance of a resource of a device. In some examples, a processor may receive an application code. The application code may include at least one application thread configured to implement at least one task for the application code. The application code may be configured to spawn a performance thread. The processor may execute the application thread on the computing device. The application thread may be configured to use at least one resource of the computing device. The processor may further execute the performance thread on the computing device. The performance thread may be configured to calculate a value relating to the resource. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143411 | NETWORK DEVICE AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DYING GASP - A network device is provided, which is connected to a receiver. The network device includes a signal processing unit and a transceiver unit. Prior to occurrence of a hardware interrupt event, the signal processing unit detects the connection configuration between the network device and the receiver and outputs a temporary signal corresponding to the configuration of connection. The transceiver unit, which is connected to the signal processing unit and the receiver, receives and stores the temporary signal so that, when a hardware interrupt event occurs, the transceiver unit generates a dying gasp corresponding to the temporary signal and transmits the dying gasp to the receiver. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143412 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICES FOR MANAGING USER PROVISIONING OF A SERVICE IN AN IMS NETWORK - Present invention refers to a method, system and devices for managing user provisioning of a service in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network. The proposed solution optimizes the dimensioning of Home subscriber server (HSS) according to active users. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143413 | METHOD, LOCAL GATEWAY, AND SYSTEM FOR LOCAL VOICE SURVIVABILITY - Embodiments of the present invention relate to the communications field and disclose a method, a local gateway, and a system for local voice survivability, to implement local voice survivability without configuring a DNS proxy function on a local gateway or configuring a server on a user terminal. A specific solution is: detecting, according to a preset detection period, an activity state of a server recorded in a server monitoring list, where the server monitoring list records a voice server on an Internet protocol IP multimedia subsystem IMS network in advance; intercepting, when it is detected that all servers in the server monitoring list are in an unavailable state, a service data stream sent by a user terminal to the server; and providing a corresponding service response for the user terminal according to content of the intercepted service data stream. The present invention applies to a process of voice survivability. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143414 | Method for sending information and gateway - Embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method for sending information and a gateway. The method includes that: a gateway acquires user online information; the gateway monitors a Domain Name System (DNS) domain name inquiring message, forges a DNS server returning domain name parsing response, and sends the forged response to a core network element or a user terminal browser; the gateway receives a user HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request returned by the core network element or the user terminal browser; and the gateway inquires the user online information according to the user HTTP request, adds the user online information in the user HTTP request by taking the user online information as HTTP header information, and sends the user HTTP request including the HTTP header information to an internet content and service provider. With the technical solution of an embodiment of the disclosure, the problem that the internet content and service provider fails to acquire user online information of a mobile terminal user is solved. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143415 | Optimized Content Distribution Based on Metrics Derived from the End User - Some embodiments provide systems and methods for determining a server of a distributed hosting system to optimally distribute content to an end user. The method includes identifying an IP address of the end user. Based on the IP address, a set of servers send packets to the end user to derive performance metrics. The performance metrics are used to determine a server from the set of servers that optimally distributes content to the end user. The method modifies a configuration for resolving end user requests such that the optimal server is identified to the end user when the end user requests content from the hosting system. Some embodiments determine the optimal server by providing downloadable content that is embedded with a monitoring tool. The monitoring tool causes the end user to derive performance metrics for the hosting system when downloading a particular object from a set of servers. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143416 | GENERIC DISCOVERY FOR COMPUTER NETWORKS - A generic discovery methodology collects data pertaining to components of a computer network using various discovery technologies. From the collected data, the methodology identifies, filters and analyzes information related to inter-component communications. Using the communication and application information, the methodology determines reliable relationships for those components having sufficient information available. To qualify more components, the methodology implements a decision service to generate hypothetical relationships between components that are known and components that are unqualified or unknown. The hypothetical relationships are presented to a user for selection, and each hypothetical relationship is preferably associated with an indication of its reliability. | 2014-05-22 |
20140143417 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING APPLICATIONS - A method for notifying a first device of a status of an application includes transmitting an application state transition notification message from a second device to the first device when a state transition of the application has occurred, wherein the application state transition notification message comprises information regarding at least a current state of the application and a reason of the state transition; and transmitting an application state transition response message from the first device to the second device in response to the application state transition notification message. | 2014-05-22 |