24th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 69 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110145324 | REDUCING MESSAGING IN A CLIENT-SERVER SYSTEM - A detection that a client-server system, which is operating in a first state mode, has switched from a first use case to a second use case for accessing a property of an object associated with a server. The first state mode during the first use case reduces messaging in the client-server system as compared to using a second state mode. A determination is performed as to whether using the second state mode during the second use case would reduce messaging in the system as compared to using the first state mode. The client-server system is transitioned to the second state mode, if operating in the second state mode would reduce messaging in the client-server system as compared to operating in the first state mode for the second use case. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145325 | RUNNING AN INTERACTIVE MULTI-USER APPLICATION AT A MOBILE TERMINAL - A method of running an interactive multi-user application at a terminal of a communication system, according to which the terminal accesses a server of the communication system to create or update thereat, using a set of application-agnostic tools implemented at the server, a slave process corresponding to the interactive multi-user application. The terminal then communicates with the slave process to provide and receive state-vector updates corresponding to the application group running this interactive multi-user application. The state-vector updates are used by this terminal and each of the other terminals from the application group to concurrently calculate and track the global state of the application in a mutually consistent manner. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145326 | WORKFLOW CUSTOMIZATION METHOD IN SaaS ENVIRONMENT - A method for providing a customized workflow service to offer a customized workflow software service in software as a service (SaaS) environment includes: providing currently set workflow information to a customized workflow software service client; and receiving a request for correction of workflow information from the client. Further, the method for providing the customized workflow service includes storing workflow information corrected in response to the request for correction of workflow information in a customized workflow database. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CONTEXTUALIZING AND LINKING MEDIA ITEMS - Some aspects relate to systems and methods of tagging to enhance contextualization of media items and ease of use. Tag data structures provide an extensible platform to allow description of a concept from multiple points of view and in multiple contexts, such as locations, activities, and people. Individual application instances using these data structures can each maintain a private store of media items, and can be synchronized with a server. Each application owner can select portions of the private store to share. The server also can maintain canonical hierarchies of tags, such as hierarchies of activities and of places. These canonical hierarchies can be provided to application instances, where private modifications/additions can be made. Owners can offer to share private modifications, which can be accepted or rejected. Displays of media item selections and of clouds of related tags can be formed based on the contextual and relational information contained in the tags and in the canonical hierarchies. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145328 | CONNECTED INSTANCE GROUP OF DYNAMICALLY ADDRESSED HOSTS - A system for building and maintaining a connected instance group of machines includes protocols for instance group creation; master machine creation, operation, and recovery; and peer machine creation, operation, and recovery. These protocols allow each machine to connect with a data source and to build a local hosts file containing the name and IP addresses of the machines in the instance group and, thus, provides network connectivity among the machines in the instance group. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145329 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus including a display unit that is capable of displaying an operation screen provided by a server notifies the server of a content of an instruction from a user via an operation screen provided by the server and displayed on the display unit, and if the server requests execution of a process based on the notified content of the instruction, executes the requested process. The information processing apparatus determines an operation screen displayed on the display unit after notifying the server, and if the operation screen provided by the server is displayed on the display unit, performs control to execute the process requested by the server, and if another operation screen is displayed on the display unit instead of the operation screen provided by the server, performs control to not execute the process requested by the server. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145330 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING FLASH CROWD CACHING OF DYNAMICALLY GENERATED OBJECTS IN A DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORK - The present invention is directed towards a “flash crowd” technique for handling situations where the cache receives additional requests, e.g., nearly simultaneous requests, for the same object during the time the server is processing and returning the response object for a first requestor. Once all such nearly simultaneous requests are responded to by the cache, the object is flushed from the cache, with no additional expiry time or invalidation action needed. This technique of the present invention enables data to be cached and served for very small amounts of time for objects that would otherwise be considered non-cacheable. As such, this technique yields a significant improvement in applications that serve fast changing data to a large volume of concurrent users, such, for example, as real time stock quotes, or a fast evolving news story. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145331 | Method and System for Communication with Vehicles - In a method and a system for communicating between motor vehicles, the method provides for a repeated sending of an initialization message by a first transceiver arranged in a first motor vehicle, wherein the initialization message includes an identification code of the first transceiver and its geographic position. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145332 | PHYSICAL CHASSIS AS A DIFFERENT NUMBER OF LOGICAL CHASSIS - A system includes a first physical chassis comprising a first chassis management unit (“CMU”). The first CMU is configured to communicate with a second CMU in an additional physical chassis. The first CMU is also configured to communicate for the first physical chassis and the additional physical chassis as one logical chassis. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145333 | Method and Apparatus for Enhancing Compound Documents with Questions and Answers - A server system runs a bot service that registers an FAQ (frequently asked questions) for a document having an embedded object. The FAQ includes one or more question-and-answer (Q&A) pairs. The bot service receives, from each electronics device that renders a copy of the document, a request from the embedded object for the FAQ registered for the document, and transmits the FAQ to each electronic device from which a request is received. Each electronics device displays the FAQ, including the one or more Q&A pairs, within its rendered copy of the document. Any viewer of a copy of the document with the embedded object can submit a question to the bot service through the embedded object. The bot service uses a messaging service to obtain an answer to the question from an author. The FAQs displayed at the electronics devices are updated to include the new Q&A pair. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145334 | System and Method Enabling Future Messaging Directives Based on Past Participation via a History Monitor - A system and method for controlling the flow of documents by associating Globally Unique Identifiers with each original document, each reply document, each copy document and each forwarded document, such as email messages. Historical analysis is performed on a locally stored history records containing the Globally Unique Identifiers extracted from received documents to determine which recipients are active participants and which are inactive participants, according to user preferences and thresholds. Lists for direct recipients (e.g. “To” list), carbon copy recipients, and blind copy recipients are automatically proposed to a user of a document handling system when authoring a new document, replying to a document, or forwarding a document, according to the results of the historical participation analysis, thereby stemming information flow to participants who are not active in an ad hoc asynchronous conversation. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145335 | PRESENTING A GEMSTONE IN A SETTING - A ring design machine receives one or more selections of gemstones and one or more selections of settings and allows a user to “mix and match” gemstones and settings and view a selected gemstone in a compatible setting for that gemstone. To present the gemstone in the setting, the ring design machine presents a combination image that depicts the gemstone in the setting. The ring design machine, which may be implemented using a computer programmed by software, may present the combination image to the user in response to receiving a selection of the gemstone and a selection of the setting from the user via a network. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145336 | ELECTRONIC MAIL SERVER AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING ADDRESS LISTS - An exemplary method of communicating includes receiving an electronic mail communication at a message server. The communication has an embedded script that indicates at least one characteristic of at least one intended recipient of the communication. A determination is made whether the embedded script corresponds to an identifier of at least one potential candidate recipient from at least one database provided by at least one facilitator that is independent of the message server. At least an indication of the identifier is forwarded to the database facilitator(s). An indication of identified candidate recipients corresponding to the identifier is received from the facilitator(s). An address list is automatically developed based on the identified recipients. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145337 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO CONTROL NETWORK ELEMENT MANAGEMENT TRAFFIC - Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to control network element management traffic are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus to process an element management system (EMS) query message includes a receiver to receive the EMS query message from a managed network element, the EMS query message being redirected from an EMS server, a responder to select a pre-determined response to the EMS query message and discard EMS information contained in the EMS query message, wherein the pre-determined response is to delay the managed network element from resending the EMS query message to the EMS server for a time period, and a transmitter to send the pre-determined response to the managed network element. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145338 | Unified Location & Presence, Communication Across Real and Virtual Worlds - A method and system for providing unified location and presence information of and intercommunication among a plurality of networked users is disclosed, where the users may be real world people or virtual world personae. Generally, after receiving data representative of both a first and second user's presence or location in the real or a virtual world over a communications network, the users are permitted to view each other's presence in a virtual network. The users are identified by endpoint addresses, and may intercommunicate using various types of media via the communications network. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145339 | RECLAIMING LOST INTERNET CUSTOMERS - A system and method of reclaiming lost Internet customers may involve detecting an outage condition associated with a host of an electronic commerce (e-commerce) web site. Customer data can be extracted from packets destined for the host, wherein the packets could be associated with transactions between customers and the web site. The extracted customer data may be stored and, upon detecting a resolution of the outage condition, a customer database can be searched based on the extracted customer data in order to identify customer contact information. A customer reclamation message may then be sent to the customer, wherein the message can incentivize the customer to return to the web site and request completion of the transaction. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145340 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF PROVIDING REMOTE ACCESS TO AN EMAIL PLATFORM - A system for and method of providing remote access to an email platform. The system and method may include receiving, from a user system, authentication data that comprises an authentication code that is associated with a user of the user system via a network, receiving, from the user system, mail mimic message data that indicates at least one mail service operation to be performed by an email system, and outputting, to the email system, one or more command signals that initiate the performance of the mail service operation. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145341 | SERVER PLATFORM TO SUPPORT INTERACTIVE MULTI-USER APPLICATIONS FOR MOBILE CLIENTS - An application-agnostic server platform that can be used to support different interactive multi-user applications. The server platform enables an application client to create a new application group or select and join an existing application group. Inter-client interactions within the application group are managed through a dedicated slave process, which is created by the server platform by invoking and configuring a set of application-agnostic tools. By combining and customizing the application-agnostic tools in an appropriate manner, the server platform is capable of creating a suitable slave process for any compliant interactive multi-user application. Once created, the slave process enables the client members of the corresponding application group to (i) interact with one another in a manner defined by the application and (ii) achieve results that are consistent across the entire application group despite the fact that all application-specific processing is carried out by the client terminals, often concurrently and in parallel to one another. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145342 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR MANAGING CONTACTS AND CALENDARS WITHIN AN ONLINE CARD SYSTEM - A system implemented by an online stationery/card service is described allowing a user to personalize and send non-electronic stationery/cards, the system comprising: a Web-based GUI for designing stationery/cards and envelopes for the stationery/cards comprising: an envelope design region for designing an envelope to be used for mailing the stationery/cards selected by the end user, the envelope design region comprising: a return address region comprising one or more text boxes for entering a return address of the end user; an address region comprising one or more text boxes for entering the address of a recipient, wherein the address region includes a first link to generate a list of contacts in the user's contacts database and a second link to generate one or more options for contacting the recipient when the user does not know the address of the recipient. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145343 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN USERS - A method and device are provided for creating and utilizing a database which enables ascribing a plurality of communication addresses to each of a plurality of users' entries comprised therein, and wherein each of the plurality of communication addresses is associated with a different communication application, allowing a user who wishes to communicate with another user while applying a certain communication application, to communicate with that other user who uses a different communication application. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145344 | Fault Tolerant Distributed Messaging Architecture for Computer-Aided Dispatch System - In one embodiment, a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system includes a database for storing data originated at a plurality of CAD stations; a manager that manages access to the data stored in the database; and the plurality of CAD stations communicatively connected to the manager and to each other. While the manager is available, each CAD station transmits the critical data and the non-critical data originated at the CAD station to the manager and receives the critical data and the non-critical data originated at one or more other CAD stations from the manager. While the manager is unavailable, each CAD station transmits the critical data originated at the CAD station directly to all other CAD stations and receives the critical data originated at the one or more other CAD stations directly from the one or more other CAD stations. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145345 | METHODS, SYSTEMS,AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR RETRIEVING A FILE OF MACHINE READABLE DATA - A user, wishing to retrieve a file of machine-readable data from a remote machine-readable data storage device, transmits a first e-mail message from a local station to a remote station via a packet switched network. The first e-mail message includes a first machine-readable instruction and a first machine-readable retrieval criterion. The remote station receives the first email message from the packet switched network. The remote station parses the first e-mail message to determine if it includes the first machine-readable instruction and the first machine-readable retrieval criterion. The remote station executes the first machine-readable instruction to transmit a second e-mail message from the remote station to the local station. The second e-mail message includes the file as an attachment. The local station receives the second e-mail message from the packet switched network. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145346 | MANAGING REDUNDANCY IN ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES - A computer implemented method and system is provided for managing emails within an email system or email box. At the creation of a new email at the email system, an identification of its content (CID) is calculated, the result of that calculation being stored in a header of that email to be forwarded together with the new email. It is checked at the email system when receiving an email to determine whether the email includes a CID identifying the content of that email. If this is not the case, then a CID of the content of the received email is calculated, the resulting CID being stored in the header of that email together with the email. A comparison between the received email and the already stored emails at the email system is performed by comparing the corresponding CID of the received email with the CID of the stored emails. The email system is reorganized by superseding duplicate emails having the same CID. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145347 | GLOBAL PRESENCE - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing presence information for a principal without a presence or other user agent. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide for publication of presence information independent of a presence agent or other user agent, presence network, or presence server as well as subsequent ways for authorized presence watchers to subscribe to presence and receive notification or query presence information for a principal. Stated another way providing presence information for a principal can comprise receiving presence information related to a first entity from a device without a presence agent at a presence information service and providing the presence information related to the first entity from the presence information service to a second entity. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145348 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING TERMS RELEVANT TO WEB PAGES USING SOCIAL NETWORK MESSAGES - Systems and methods for retrieving social network messages and/or web pages in response to search queries are described. One embodiment of the invention includes generating a word list from at least a portion of the content of the web page using a web and message server system, generating an initial list of relevant terms based upon the word list using the web and message server system, identifying additional relevant terms using messages posted to at least one social network based upon the initial list of relevant terms, and creating an updated list of relevant terms by using the web and server system to combine terms in the initial list of relevant terms with the additional relevant terms identified using messages posted to at least one social network. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145349 | ACTIVATING A DATA CONNECTION TO A DATA NETWORK VIA A MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method for activating a data connection from a mobile terminal device to a data network via at least one mobile telecommunications network. In this exemplary method, a connection request from the terminal device is forwarded to a switching unit, activation conditions for activating the data connection are determined based on receipt of the connection request in the switching unit, and a message containing the activation conditions is sent to the terminal device independently of the data connection that is to be established. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145350 | PERSONALIZED MESSAGING ON WEB INSERTS - A method is provided for rendering a personal message sent by a sender for a recipient. The method includes: receiving the personal message by a processing software component of a server of a communications network; detecting, by the server, a connection of the recipient to an information rendering space; and replacing an advertisement insert display by the message subsequently to the connection of the recipient as a function of at least one rendering parameter accompanying the message. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145351 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM BY USING E-MAIL TRANSFER AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD BY USING E-MAIL TRANSFER - An image forming system using an e-mail transfer includes a device to transmit an e-mail to which a file is attached, a first server to receive the e-mail from the device and to store the received e-mail, a second server to receive the e-mail downloaded from the first server, to convert a format of the downloaded e-mail into a preset format, and to transmit a result of the conversion to the device, and an image forming apparatus to request the second server to print the received e-mail according to the result of the conversion and to print the received e-mail according to the request. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145352 | AUTOMATIC ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for publishing an electronic document. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. A distribution module retrieves a distribution list identifying at least one user that is to be notified about the publication of the electronic document. As such, when a transfer module sends the electronic document to a network location, a messaging module automatically notifies the at least user from the distribution list of the publication of the electronic document and provides instructions to the at least one user for retrieving the electronic document from the network location. Other systems and methods are also provided. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145353 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, METHOD OF MARKING MAIL AS READ, AND PROGRAM FOR MARKING MAIL AS READ - The present invention is an information communication terminal having a function of displaying, together with a received mail list, part or all of a message of a received mail in the selected state in the preview. The information communication terminal includes: a judgment unit judging whether all of the message of the received mail in the selected state fits in a predetermined area for the preview display; and an update unit performing an update in the case when the judgment is affirmative so that information indicating whether the received mail has already been read indicates that it has already been read. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145354 | DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD - A data communication system includes a video camera and a mail server. The video camera, which is provided with at least an e-mail sending/receiving function, attaches obtained original still image data to e-mail, adds a tag (editing tag), and sends the e-mail to a communication network. The mail server receives the e-mail sent from the video camera on the communication network, edits the original still image data attached to the e-mail based on the added tag, attaches the edited still image data to the e-mail, and sends the e-mail to a receiving personal computer. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145355 | System and Method for Improved Social Networking - A geographically defined social network is provided, the network including a personal communications device; a means for detection of data regarding a first networked user based on a predetermined geographic condition, and a means for delivery of said data regarding said first networked user to a second networked user in response to a geographically-defined user request. Other, “layered” options in which information originally concealed by the first user can be selectively revealed to subsequent users, and a wide variety of selection and data distribution criteria are also provided. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145356 | Communication Device - A communication device comprising a processor arranged to select a first communication address for sending a first message to a first communication device and selecting a second communication address for sending a second message to the first communication device unless the first communication device has responded to the first message before the second message has been sent. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145357 | STORAGE REPLICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for information storage replication are presented. In one embodiment a storage flow control method includes estimating in a primary data server what an outstanding request backlog trend is for a remote secondary data server; determining a relationship of an outstanding request backlog trend to a threshold; and notifying a client that the primary data server can not service additional requests if the trend exceeds the threshold. In one embodiment the estimating comprises: sampling a number of outstanding messages at a plurality of fixed time intervals; and determining if there is a trend in the number of outstanding messages over the plurality of fixed time intervals. It is appreciated the estimating can be performed in a variety of ways, (e.g., utilizing an average, a moving average, etc). Determining the trend can include determining if values monotonically increase. The estimating in the primary server can be performed without intruding on operations of the remote secondary data server. The primary data server and the secondary data server can have a variety of configurations (e.g., a mirrored configuration, a RAID5 configuration, etc.). | 2011-06-16 |
20110145358 | SHARED JAVA JAR FILES - Techniques are disclosed for sharing programmatic modules among isolated virtual machines. A master JVM process loads data from a programmatic module, storing certain elements of that data into its private memory region, and storing other elements of that data into a “read-only” area of a shareable memory region. The master JVM process copies loaded data from its private memory region into a “read/write” area of the shareable memory region. Instead of re-loading the data from the programmatic module, other JVM processes map to the read-only area and also copy the loaded data from the read/write area into their own private memory regions. The private memory areas of all of the JVM processes begin at the same virtual memory address, so references between read-only data and copied data are preserved correctly. As a result, multiple JVM processes start up faster, and memory is conserved by avoiding the redundant storage of shareable data. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145359 | System and Method for Information Handling System Wireless Network Preconfiguration - Manufacture of an information handling system that includes wireless service through a wireless wide area network includes an image having an operating system with a wireless service provider registry entry and an end user wireless service entry. The registry entries are applied upon power up to automatically configure the information handling system's wireless radio to interface with a wireless service and to provision the information handling system on the wireless service. Updates to the wireless service are provided by updates to the registry entries. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145360 | WEB APPLICATION SCRIPT MIGRATION - In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided comprising: determining if a portion of a script of web application code within a web application is migratable to a remote infrastructure, wherein the portion of the script contains one or more functions; and modifying the portion of the script if the portion of the script is migratable, such that execution of the portion of the script results in the one or more functions being executed on the remote infrastructure, wherein the remote infrastructure is not restricted to the device on which the web application was designed or distributed. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145361 | CONTENT CHANNELS FOR A MOBILE DEVICE - Various embodiments enable a user of a mobile media device to select one or more channels to load onto the device. Each channel comprises a collection of media content files, such as video content, audio content, and so on. Each collection of media content files can be associated with a particular genre (or genres) of media content. A channel can be managed such that its collection of media content can be rearranged, augmented, and/or otherwise edited to produce a refreshed version of the channel. The refreshed version of the channel can be provided to the mobile media device for playback. Thus, a channel associated with a particular genre of media content can provide a user with a dynamic user experience without requiring the user to manipulate specific media content files. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145362 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRELOADING RESOURCES - A method and system for preloading data is provided. Resources are preloaded on a client before they are needed by an application. Application hints and static resources lists may be used to indicate resources are needed. The application may begin execution before receiving all of the resources associated with the application. Preloading may be done during execution of an application, or when the application is not executing. Preloading allows an application to run smoothly without consuming more resources than are needed by an application. A prediction graph may be generated that is used in predicting the resources that are likely to be needed by the application. An analyzer may also be used to simulate the system and adjust parameters used in creating the prediction graph. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145363 | DISCONNECTED FILE OPERATIONS IN A SCALABLE MULTI-NODE FILE SYSTEM CACHE FOR A REMOTE CLUSTER FILE SYSTEM - Facilitating access to data in a network, is provided. One implementation involves maintaining a scalable multi-node file system cache in a local cluster file system, and caching file data in a cache by fetching file data on demand from a remote cluster file system into the local cached file system over the network. The local file data corresponds to file data in the remote cluster file system. Upon disconnection from the remote cluster file system, all file operations are supported at the cache. Then, upon reconnection to the remote cluster file system over the network, the remote cluster file system is synchronized with the information cached in the cache during the disconnection even in the presence of failures. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145364 | AUTOMATED DYNAMIC PORTLET RENDERING - A portlet from a portal server is received at a computing device. A second server is queried for an initial portlet visibility rule for the portlet. The initial portlet visibility rule is received from the second server. A determination is made as to whether to render the portlet based upon the initial portlet visibility rule. The portlet is rendered in response to determining that the initial portlet visibility rule indicates to render the portlet. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145365 | Systems, Methods and Machine-Readable Mediums for Integrated Quality Assurance Brokering Services - Systems, methods and machine-readable mediums for interfacing a plurality of service providers to address at least one service issue, are provided. The systems may include a storage device and a processor. The storage device may store service provider data and service request data for a plurality of service providers. The service request data identifying the at least one service issue with one or more of the plurality of service providers. In one embodiment, the processor may programmed to receive the service provider data from a plurality of service provider terminals, receive the service request data from at least one remote terminal, store the service provider data and the service request data in the storage device, and facilitate communication between the first service provider terminal and the customer terminal to address the at least one service issue. The computer readable mediums provide instructions to cause the processor to perform the operations above. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145366 | CONCURRENT EXECUTION OF REQUEST PROCESSING AND ANALYTICS OF REQUESTS - Request processing within a computing environment is facilitated. Request processing and analytics processing for the request are performed substantially concurrently in order to improve efficiency of request execution. The analytics processing is at least commenced, and may complete, prior to receiving an indication of success or failure of the request processing. If request processing fails, analytics processing ceases, if not already complete, and results of the analytic processing are not used. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145367 | SCALABLE CACHING OF REMOTE FILE DATA IN A CLUSTER FILE SYSTEM - Scalable caching of remote file data in cluster file systems is provided. One implementation involves maintaining a cache in a local cluster file system and caching local file data in the cache by fetching file data on demand from the remote cluster file system into the local cached file system over the network. The local file data and metadata corresponds to the remote file data and metadata in the remote cluster file system. Updates made to the local file data and metadata are pushed back to the remote cluster file system asynchronously. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145368 | ASSESSMENT FEEDBACK SYSTEM - The assessment of an assessed person by an assessor is fed back to the assessed person together with his/her self-assessment to provide the assessed person with an opportunity to consider the assessments. An assessment feedback system of the present invention is such that the assessed person and the assessor perform assessments along a main assessment document, in which assessment items (questions) relating to the attitudes and behavior of the assessed person are classified by category. The main assessment results (360 fb: grasp of current situation) are then fed back to the assessed person to select one assessment item for each category, based on the main assessment results. This leads to create a subsidiary assessment document for performing an intermediate assessment (360 fb: intermediate measurement) along the subsidiary assessment document. Finally, a final assessment is performed along the main assessment document (360 fb: final measurement). | 2011-06-16 |
20110145369 | DATA DOWNLOADING SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND METHOD - A downloading device is provided. The downloading device is connected to a server and a portable device. The portable device is for obtaining a picture of an object that includes an address data of required data stored in the server. The downloading device includes a communication module, an address recognizing module, and a downloading module. The communication module is for receiving the obtained picture transmitted from the portable device. The address recognizing module is for recognizing the address data from the received picture and changing the recognized address data to a character string. The downloading module is for downloading the required data from the server according to the address data through the communication module and transmitting the required data to the portable device through the communication module. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145370 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO PERSONALIZE CONTENT STREAMS - Methods and systems to insert secondary content within a primary audio and/or video stream in real-time. Insertion may be implemented as a continuous process and/or on-demand, and may be implemented independent of content provider and content consumer platform technologies. Insertion may be implemented transparent to content providers and content consumers. Secondary content may include personalized content, which may be personalized with respect to an individual and/or a group of individuals. Secondary content may include personalized advertising content. A media stream may be monitored and inspected and to determine where to place personalized content. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145371 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - When an operation screen is being displayed based upon content for displaying the operation screen acquired from a web server, it is determined whether the content includes a description instructing that form data is transmitted to the web server. If it is determined that the content includes the description, then the form data in the content is transmitted to the web server in response to pressing of a start key which is a hard key that is for instructing the start of image processing. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145372 | EMBEDDING A MEDIA HOTSPOT WITHIN A DIGITAL MEDIA FILE - A computer-related and/or business type method is presented for embedding one or more media hotspots within a digital media file and, in response to interaction from a separate target entity, such as via an associating request, associating one or more resultant actions with the media hotspot(s). In exchange for associating the one or more resultant actions with the media hotspot(s), an interactive media service entity being affiliated with a web site displaying the digital media file and/or a user being affiliated with the digital media file itself is compensated based upon at least one compensation plan. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145373 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MEDICAL DEVICES - Systems and methods for configuring communication between medical devices are provided. One method includes transmitting a broadcast query via the medical network from a local device to a plurality of remote devices and receiving a response from at least one of the plurality of remote devices identifying communication parameters for the remote device. The method further includes configuring communication between the local device at the at least one remote device at the local device based on the received communication parameters from the remote device. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145374 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DISTRIBUTED MODULES IN DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND COMMUNICATION METHOD USING THE SAME - A software system capable of enabling efficient communication between an application and an operating environment in a heterogeneous network is provided. A distributed processing system adopting the software system may obtain optimized latency during a network communication between distributed software modules. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145375 | NETWORK APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A disclosed network apparatus is capable of being connected to one of a restricted area where a communication is restricted and a non-restricted area where a communication is not restricted via a DHCP server and a network based on a DHCP address assigned by the DHCP server. The network apparatus includes a communication unit configured to carry out communications including a broadcast communication and a multicast communication, and a reporting unit configured to generate a report containing apparatus own information of the network apparatus to be sent over the network. In network apparatus, when the network apparatus is connected to the non-restricted area based on the DHCP address, the communication unit sends the report containing the apparatus own information of the network apparatus via the broadcast communication in place of the multicast communication. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145376 | Modifying Operation of Peer-to-Peer Networks Based on Integrating Network Routing Information - A data processing method comprising establishing a first node in a peer-to-peer data communications network, wherein the node is configured as a supernode in conformance with a peer-to-peer communications protocol, wherein the first node is configured as an active listener to one or more network routing protocols executing at a network router; receiving a routing information message from one of the network routing protocols; modifying an operational characteristic of the first node in response to the routing information message; receiving a request from a second node in the peer-to-peer network for a resource that is known to the first node; and responding to the request based on the modified operational characteristic. For example, a peer-to-peer node may be configured as a network-aware BitTorrent Tracker, Gnutella supernode, etc., and can use IGP and BGP information from a router to determine how the node behaves. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145377 | System and Method to Provide Name Services for Dynamically Assigned Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses - A computer implemented method includes receiving a broadband connection request from a remote computing device at a broadband service provider access device. The broadband connection request includes a broadband subscriber identifier. The computer implemented method includes dynamically assigning an Internet Protocol (IP) address to the remote computing device in response to receiving the broadband connection request. The computer implemented method also includes sending a message to a domain name server to update a record that includes a domain name associated with the broadband subscriber identifier to include the IP address assigned to the remote computing device. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145378 | OPERATING METHOD OF NETWORK NODE OF NETWORK WITH TREE STRUCTURE BASED ON DISTRIBUTED ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT AND NETWORK FORMING METHOD - Provided is a method for operating a network node in a specific cluster of a tree-structured network based on distributed address assignment. In the method, a non-registered node is detected. A routing depth of the network node is determined. When the determined routing depth corresponds to a reference value, a sub cluster using a cluster address is generated, and the detected non-registered node is registered as a child node in the generated sub cluster using an internal address. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145379 | SUBSCRIBER SERVICE SELECTION OVER NON-CHANNELIZED MEDIA - In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a request from a computing device for an address. The request is to include a unique value associated with the computing device. The method also comprises generating a username based on the unique value. The username is associated with the computing device. Additionally, the username is bound to a context within a network element. The method also comprises assigning an address to the computing device within the context. A circuit is generated between the computing device and the network element based on the address. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145380 | LIVE MULTI-HOP VM REMOTE-MIGRATION OVER LONG DISTANCE - Methods and systems of computing, involve identifying a target location for live migration of virtual machine services, delivering the virtual machine services to an operating system from a source location, migrating the virtual machine services a first time via a data network from the source location to an intermediate location, delivering the virtual machine services to the operating system from the intermediate location, and migrating the virtual machine services a second time from the intermediate location to the target location via the data network. Breaks in the virtual machine services to the operating system while migrating the virtual machine are minimal. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145381 | Distributed mesh network - A device, method, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment a computing device resides in a mesh network. The device includes a first storage device that operates when the computing device is awake. The first storage device stores a last known list of peer computing devices in the mesh network. The device also includes a a second storage device that operates regardless of whether any central processing unit in the computing device is awake or asleep. The second storage device includes a local block that stores a list of resources provided by the first computing device and a list of computing devices in the mesh network verified by the first computing device. The second storage device also includes a remote block that stores an unverified remote list of computing devices in the mesh network. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145382 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OSGi-BASED SERVICE DELIVERY FRAMEWORK - A system and a method for OBSi-based (open service gateway initiative) service delivery framework are provided. The system is adaptable to a first host executing an OSGi bundle. A mobile service module of the first host is inherited through the OSGi bundle. A second host is assigned when the OSGi bundle calls a mobilize function inherited from the mobile service module. A bytecode and an instance of the OSGi bundle are obtained through a first delivery context processing module of the first host. The bytecode and instance of the OSGi bundle are transmitted from the first host to the second host through the first delivery context processing module and a second delivery context processing module of the second host. The bytecode and instance of the OSGi bundle are installed and the OSGi bundle is executed through the second delivery context processing module. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145383 | ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A Managed Site ( | 2011-06-16 |
20110145384 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Presence Data Updates - Embodiments herein include a method executed in a terminal of a multimedia system. The multimedia system is accessible to terminals using any of a plurality of access technologies and comprises a presence server for recording presence data of users of those terminals. The method comprises changing an update state of the terminal from a low update state to a high update state when a high priority event is detected, and changing the update state of the terminal from a high update state to a low update state when a low priority event is detected. When the terminal is in the high update state, the method includes presenting to a user of the terminal more presence data of other users than that presented when the terminal is in the low update state. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145385 | REMOTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND THE METHOD THEREOF - A remote management system comprises a remote management device, a first management computer and a second management computer, a first management program and a second management program. The remote management device includes a network interface and a computer interface connected to at least one controlled computer, and converts an image signal output by the at lest one controlled computer into a network packet. The first and second management programs respectively cause the first and second computers to output their respective control signals and perform their respective management functions for establishing a network connection between them and the remote management device through a first network and the network interface, and transmitting their respective control signal to the remote management device via the first network for managing the at least one controlled computer. One of the first and second management computers is selected as a repeater for receiving the network packet from the remote management device and forwarding the network packet to the other one of the first and second management computers via a second network. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145386 | Policy-Based Content Delivery Network Selection - In a framework wherein resources of a content provider may be delivered to clients from different domains, a method distributes the requests based on content-provider policies. In some cases, the domains include at least two distinct content delivery network (CDN) domains. The domains may include a content provider domain. Responsive to a request, either the content provider domain or one of the two CDN domains is selected, the selection being based at least in part on one or more policies set by the content provider. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145387 | MULTICAST BROADCAST SERVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM - A multicast broadcast service (MBS) management method, device, and system are provided, so that a service/content provision server is enabled to manage an MBS operated by the service/content provision server itself. The method includes: a universal service interface (USI) receives a management operation request message from a service/content provision server; the management operation request message is sent to a multicast and broadcast service (MCBCS) server/controller to enable the MCBCS server/controller to perform corresponding operations according to the management operation request message. The device includes a first receiving module and a second receiving module. Another device includes a receiving module and a request processing module. The system includes an MCBCS server/controller and a USI connected to the MCBCS server/controller in a communication mode. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145388 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR REALIZING REGISTRATION MECHANISM OF IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM - The present invention provides a method, a device, and a system for realizing a registration mechanism of an IP multimedia subsystem. In the above method, a S-CSCF obtains a private user identity and a public user identity of CS UE and characteristic information of a MSC Server from a received request message, wherein the request message includes a registration request or a de-registration request; and then matches the obtained private user identity, public user identity, and characteristic information with existing registration binding relationships. If the match is successful, an operation indicated by said request message is performed on the successfully matched registration binding relationship. Based on the solution proposed in the present invention, the logic of the registration service can be ensured to be normal. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145389 | METHOD AND POLICY ENFORCEMENT FUNCTIONAL ENTITY FOR IMPLEMENTING QUALITY OF SERVICE REQUEST INFORMATION - The present invention discloses a method and policy enforcement functional entity (PE-FE) for implementing quality of service (QoS) request information. The method comprises the following steps: a PE-FE sends a policy decision functional entity (PD-FE) a QoS request message including predetermined parameters which are used to represent the QoS request information of the transport layer. The technical solutions mentioned above enable the QoS request information of the transport layer to be accurately represented, and implement the resource request process in the pull mode. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145390 | LOAD BALANCING - A device may include a memory and logic. The logic may be configured to monitor a number of computer devices associated with a service, identify, based on the monitoring, whether any of the computer devices is experiencing a problem or is unavailable, and store, in the memory, information identifying each of the computer devices that is experiencing a problem or is unavailable. The logic may also be configured to receive a client request for the service, the client request being directed to a virtual Internet protocol (VIP) address associated with the device. The logic may be further configured to identify one of the computer devices to which the request is to be forwarded, and forward the request to the identified computer device. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145391 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATING IP FLOWS ACROSS NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION FIREWALLS - Systems and methods are disclosed for correlating IP flows across a NAT firewall. Data packets are captured from a first interface using a monitor probe coupled to the first interface and are correlated into a first group of session records. For each of the first group of session records, a correlation key is created using data in one of the packets in the session record. Data packets are captured from a second interface using a monitor probe coupled to the second interface and are correlated into a second group of session records. For each of the second group of session records, a correlation key is created using data in one of the packets in the session record. The correlation key for one of the first group is compared to the correlation keys for each of the second group of session records to identify session records with matching correlation keys. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145392 | DYNAMIC PROVISIONING OF RESOURCES WITHIN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - The present invention provides a solution (e.g., rules, techniques, etc.) for enabling the dynamic provisioning (e.g., movement) of Cloud-based jobs and resources. Such provisioning may be within a Cloud infrastructure, from Cloud to Cloud, from non-Cloud to Cloud, and from Cloud to non-Cloud. Each movement scenario is assigned a specific technique based on rules, profiles, SLA and/or other such criteria and agreements. Such dynamic adjustments may be especially advantageous in order to balance real-time workload to avoid over-provisioning, to manage Cloud performance, to attain a more efficient or cost-effective execution environment, to off-load a Cloud or specific Cloud resources for maintenance/service, and the like. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145393 | METHOD FOR DYNAMIC RESERVATION OF CLOUD AND ON PREMISES COMPUTING RESOURCES FOR SOFTWARE EXECUTION - A method for dynamic reservation of cloud and on premises resources for software execution is disclosed. The method may be comprised of: receiving the specification for the resources needed for the software, evaluating the availability of resources and reserving the resources for the software. The method may include a protocol to discover, evaluate availability, negotiate terms and create a reservation contract for software execution resources based on the required specification. This can be implemented using resource agent modules that represent available software execution resources (e.g.: CPU, memory, storage, network . . . ) and reservation agent modules that are used for communicating with the resource agent modules for reserving software execution resources. In addition, monitoring agent modules are used to monitor the actual software execution reservation contract. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145394 | PERFORMANCE MONITORING OF E-TREE SERVICE - A root node associated with an Ethernet-Tree (E-Tree) service sends, over a rooted-multipoint Ethernet virtual connection (EVC), a performance monitoring (PM) packet, where the PM packet includes a unique identifier for the root node and a time sent by the root node. The root node receives, from leaf nodes and a root point associated with the E-Tree service, PM response packets, where each PM response packet includes a unique identifier for the responding leaf node/root point and a time received by the responding leaf node/root point. The root node extracts, from each of the PM response packets, the unique identifier and the time received, and stores performance measurements based on the extracted data, where the performance measurements are associated with the respective leaf nodes/root point. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145395 | AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM - An air conditioning system includes one or plural device group monitoring targets including one or plural indoor units and an outdoor unit, one or plural connection devices configured to be communicably connected to the indoor unit/units and the outdoor unit and have a unique ID, and a monitoring device configured to be communicably connected to the connection device/devices and have a monitoring memory that stores data received from the connection device/devices. When power supply is started respectively, the connection device/devices respectively performs communication with the indoor unit/units and the outdoor unit to collect configuration type information representing at least the configuration and the type of the device group monitoring target corresponding to the connection device, and respectively transmits the configuration type information to the monitoring device together with the ID of the connection device corresponding to the configuration type information. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145396 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LAWFUL INTERCEPTION OF INTERNET SERVICE - In a lawful interception system including an interception unit, an application service providing unit, and an Internet access service providing unit, the application service providing unit may receive, from the interception unit, an interception request including interception target information of an interception target. Next, the application service providing unit may transfer a user code corresponding to the received interception target information to the interception unit, and may insert user related information into a packet to be provided to the interception target corresponding to the user code, enabling the packet to be lawfully intercepted. The interception unit may request the Internet access service providing unit for an interception of the packet with respect to the interception target by including the user code. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145397 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION - An apparatus and method of communication include establishing, by a first peer device, a proximity-based connection with a second peer device, transmitting a first public network address of the first peer device over the proximity-based connection for receipt by the second peer device, receiving a second public network address of the second peer device over the proximity-based connection, and establishing a communication session over a wide area connection using the first public network address and the second public network address. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145398 | System and Method for Monitoring Visits to a Target Site - Methods and systems for monitoring visits to a target site are provided. A list of one or more origin sites is embedded in the target site. A determination is made whether any entry in the list of origin site has been previously visited. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145399 | PERFORMANCE, ANALYTICS AND AUDITING FRAMEWORK FOR PORTAL APPLICATIONS - A performance, analytics and auditing (PAA) system is configured to operate with a complex web application including a portal application and its sub systems non-intrusively. The PAA system includes a first component configured to capture behavior-related information from the portal application, a second component configured to capture performance-related information from the portal application, a third component configured to capture auditing-related information from the portal application. The PAA system is further configured to start or stop with minimal impact on the portal application, wherein the PAA system is coded using Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and able to collect information from multiple threads. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145400 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANALYSING A COMPUTER INFRASTRUCTURE - A system and method for analysing a computer infrastructure. The system and method analyses messages sent and received within the computer infrastructure to determine a system model and exception data. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145401 | Accessing Information From An Internet User's Web Session - A pre-existing reference number on a legacy website provided by a legacy website provider may be supplemented with an enhanced reference number capable of identifying an internet user engaged in a web session on the legacy website. A check may be made to establish whether the internet user's computing device has a state object, including a web user ID (wUID) unique to the internet user's computing device. A processor may create an enhanced reference number based on the pre-existing reference number upon receipt of a request, and an association between the wUID and the enhanced reference number may be stored in a database accessible by the website provider. The enhanced reference number may be made available to the user by displaying it in place of the pre-existing reference number on the legacy website via the web session. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145402 | WAIT FOR READY STATE - Automation of actions on a server system (e.g., web server, FTP server) is facilitated by a server system that is ready for actions to be performed upon it. Because there are scenarios when a server system is not in a state to be acted upon (e.g., web page changed due to navigation, script execution, asynchronous request through dynamic web extensions), an automated action needs to be synchronized to when then server system is in a ready state for that action to occur. A wait-for-ready state can be initiated that detects when a server system is ready for a next action. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145403 | AUTO-CREATION OF STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PATHS - A method and an apparatus to automatically create storage resource management (SRM) paths has been presented. In one embodiment, the method includes monitoring a data storage system to collect configuration data of storage objects in the data storage system and automatically creating a storage resource management (SRM) path for a storage object in the data storage system using at least a portion of the configuration data in response to a user request to scan the storage object. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145404 | Autonomic Control of a Distributed Computing System Using Finite State Machines - In general, this disclosure describes techniques of managing resources in a service-oriented distributed computing system. As described in this disclosure, one or more control nodes provide for the efficient and automated allocation and management of resources within the distributed computing system. In order to provide automated allocation and management of computing functions and resources, a control node uses a set of governors. This set of governors includes a set of service governors to govern services used in the distributed computing system. The set of governors also includes a set of resource governors that govern individual resources of the services in the distributed computing system. The service governors and the resource governors may be implemented using finite state machines. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145405 | Methods for Collecting and Analyzing Network Performance Data - In an embodiment, a method comprises: collecting first connection data for first data connections that are (a) established between one or more clients and one or more servers, and that are (b) serviced by a first Internet service provider; based on the first connection data, determining a first re-transmission rate for the first data connections; collecting second connection data for second data connections that are (a) established between the clients and the one or more servers, and that are (b) serviced by a second Internet service provider; based on the second connection data, determining a second re-transmission rate for the second data connections; in response to determining that the first re-transmission rate exceeds a threshold value and that the second re-transmission rate does not exceed the threshold value, recommending, to the clients, that the clients reconfigure their Internet services to be serviced by the second Internet service provider. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145406 | Method and apparatus for realizing heartbeat mechanism in a communication network - In this invention, a proxy device is introduced between control device and implementing device in a communication network, to achieve the management related to work status monitoring between control device and implementing device, so that the load of control device handling message(s) related to status monitoring. Specifically, the proxy device firstly obtains the work status information of multiple implementing devices, and reports them to the control device via one or more uplink report messages; after receiving the uplink report message(s) from the proxy device, the control device obtains the work status information of multiple implementing devices based on the above uplink report message(s). The solutions in this invention are especially applicable to device status monitoring based on heartbeat mechanism in soft switch network. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145407 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR COMMUNICATING MEDIA SERVER CAPABILITIES AND STATUS INFORMATION BETWEEN MEDIA SERVERS AND A MEDIA RESOURCE BROKER - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for communicating media server capabilities and status information between a plurality of media servers and a media resource broker are disclosed. According to one method, messages are received at a media resource broker from a plurality of media servers, where the messages include information indicating capabilities and status of the media servers. The information regarding the capabilities and status of the media servers is cached at the media resource broker, which receives call setup requests and, in response, selects a media server from the plurality of media servers based on the cached media server capabilities and status information. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145408 | SERVICE ENABLEMENT/DISABLEMENT BASED ON SERVICE RELATIONSHIPS - A network ( | 2011-06-16 |
20110145409 | Method For Applying Macro-Controls Onto IP Networks Using Intelligent Route Indexing - Systems and methods are described that manage routing information in an IP network using extensible indexing and use the indexing to control the network. The indexing and associated controls apply to any router within the routing domain. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145410 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COMPUTING RESOURCES - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to receive a request from a client server for computing resources associated with a processor, determine an estimated completion time associated with previous requests associated with the processor, calculate a priority value for the request based on the estimated completion time, establish a processing schedule for the request and other requests associated with the processor based on the priority value, and provide the request to the processor according to the processing schedule. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145411 | MANAGING HARDWARE RESOURCES FOR SOFT PARTITIONING - Methods and apparatus for allocating computer hardware resources of a hard partition of a computer server system to one or more soft partitions. In response to a partitioning request, a nucleus firmware instance of a hard partition may be configured to launch a separate firmware instance corresponding to each requested soft partition, and to allocate partitionable hardware resources of the hard partition to the soft partitions by allocating the hardware resources to each separate firmware instance. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145412 | MANAGING HARDWARE RESOURCES FOR SOFT PARTITIONING - Methods and apparatus for subdividing a hard partition of a computer server system into one or more soft partitions using partition management programming installed within firmware of the server system. The partition management firmware may be disposed at least partially on a central service processor and may be programmed to present generic interfaces, so that operating systems do not require modification to interface with the partition management programming. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145413 | RESOURCE EXCHANGE MANAGEMENT WITHIN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - The present invention provides a solution for resource sharing (e.g., inter-Cloud) within a Cloud-computing environment. One objective of the present invention is to better utilize idle public or private Cloud infrastructures and improve the availability of Cloud services by allowing different Cloud service providers to virtually combine their services and infrastructures. In the event that there is not enough capacity for a single Cloud service provider to manage its workload, the workload may be shifted to additional infrastructures within the Cloud. The result of the workload shift may reduce the unavailability of Cloud services to the Cloud end-user by allowing another Cloud service provider to temporarily handle the workload. Based on the resource sharing activities, compensation (e.g., credits/tokens) can be exchanged between the participating Cloud providers to reflect their participation in the resource exchange. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145414 | PROFILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for profile management on a network are disclosed. A profile management system for first and second servers on the network may include a profile manager configured to manage a first profile that uniquely identifies the first server on the network; and an administrator configured to issue a command to the profile manager instructing the profile manager to migrate the first profile such that the first profile is no longer associated with the first server, and such that the first profile uniquely identifies the second server on the network, wherein at least one of the first and second servers is a conjoined server. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145415 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND RESOURCE SCHEDULING METHOD - The information processor is provided with a receiving unit that receives a request including a period in which the resource is used, a usage status and a cession requirement, a work process storage that stores a pre-cession usage status, a post-cession usage status and a calculating condition, a work time arithmetic expression storage that stores an arithmetic expression of work time, a concession plan preparing unit that determines whether or not it is written to a cession requirement, calculates work time based upon the calculating condition and a specified post-cession usage status and an arithmetic expression, and calculates the capacity of the available resource with which the concession destination user is conceded based upon the calculated work time, the usage period included in the request and the usage period included in the request, and a concession managing unit that makes the resource of the capacity calculated. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145416 | Method and system for resource admission control - A method and system for resource admission control are disclosed. During a resource request process in the scenario of customer roaming, a visited location PD-FE sends a modified QoS policy or acceptable QoS policy information to a home location PD-FE when it cannot accept a resource request sent by the home location PD-FE, and the home location PD-FE makes a resource policy decision again and requests resources again according to the modified QoS policy, or when the home location PD-FE receives the next service request, it makes a resource policy decision according to the QoS policy information acceptable to the visited location PD-FE and sends a resource request to the visited location PD-FE. Both resource requests in the two cases are made based on the resource condition of the visited location PD-FE, therefore the visited location PD-FE generally can accept the requests after receiving them, thereby improving the success possibility of resource requests. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145417 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE CONNECTION CONTROL METHOD - There are provided a portable terminal device and a communication device connect control method that enable lessening of a time for waiting device search processing and processing for acquiring a DDD or an SDD of a normally-connected device. A device connect management unit | 2011-06-16 |
20110145418 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING TO VIRTUAL MACHINES, VIA A DESIGNATED WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK DRIVER, ACCESS TO DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A CONNECTION TO A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK - The methods and systems described herein are directed to providing, to virtual machines, access to data associated with a connection to a wireless local area network, in a computing device executing a hypervisor hosting a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine. A first driver executed by a first virtual machine of the first physical computing device establishes a network connection to a second physical computing device, via a wireless local area network interface of the first physical computing device. The first driver receives from a second driver executed by a second virtual machine of the first physical computing device, a request for a characteristic of the network connection. The first driver provides, responsive to the request, data comprising the requested characteristic to the second driver. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145419 | INTER-DEVICE MOBILITY SESSION RELEASE - A method and apparatus for performing session release are provided. For a transferred communication session between a plurality of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) and a remote device, wherein at least one of the WTRUs performs the transferred communication session in association with a first Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and at least one other of the WTRUs performs the transferred communication session in association with a second IMS, session release may include releasing the transferred communication session, a portion thereof, one or more of the WTRUs, or a collaborative session associated with the transferred communication session while maintaining service continuity. Any one of the plurality of WTRUs or the remote device may initiate the session release by transmitting a release request. Any one of the plurality of WTRUs may control the transferred communication session and may modify or reject a release request. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145420 | SESSION PERSISTENCE - A system may include a number of load balancers configured to receive requests associated with a service, and a number of computer pools associated with the load balancers, where each of the computer pools includes a number of computers. The system may also include a memory accessible to each of the computers, the memory being configured to store state information associated with a client session involving a first client device requesting the service. A first one of the computers may be configured to perform a portion of processing associated with the client session and forward first state information regarding the processing to the memory. A second one the computers may be configured to perform an other portion of the processing associated with the client session and forward second state information to the memory. The memory is configured to store the first and second state information. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145421 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTONOMOUS PEER DISCOVERY AND ENHANCING LINK RELIABILITY FOR WIRELESS PEER DIRECT LINKS - A system, method and device may include triggering a direct connection setup based on one or more communication parameters communicated with a mobile device via a fixed device. It may be determined whether the mobile device is a peer. The quality of service with the mobile device via the fixed device may be compared with quality of service of a mobile device via a direct link. A channel for the direct link may be selected and information may be sent to the mobile device over the direct link via the channel. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145422 | MANAGEMENT PROCESSORS COOPERATING TO CONTROL PARTITION RESOURCES - Systems, methods and computing components are provided for allocating a plurality of computing components among one or more logical partitions. Each of the plurality of computing components may have a management processor that is configured to assume a role among management processors of a partition. Each management processor may then cooperate with other management processors of the partition to control resources of the partition. | 2011-06-16 |
20110145423 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USING A DISTRIBUTED MESSAGE BUS FOR AD HOC PEER-TO-PEER CONNECTIVITY - A method and apparatus for using an ad hoc peer-to-peer distributed message bus is provided. The method may include determining, by a local bus node, using a first power level communication protocol, that a remote bus node is available, obtaining, by the local bus node, connection information from the remote bus node using a second power level communication protocol, wherein the connection information comprises connection information for one or more remote endpoints associated with the remote bus node, and generating one or more local virtual endpoints, wherein each of the one or more local virtual endpoints corresponds to each of the one or more remote endpoints, and wherein the remote endpoint is described with reference to a well-known name, unique to the remote endpoint. | 2011-06-16 |