Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080262638 | Apparatus and Method to Integrate Hardware Adapter Diagnostics with a Host OS Diagnostics Through Signaling - The present invention provides a system and method for controlling diagnostic functions on a remote device. The system includes a host, and a network adapter in communication with the host. The system performs a method comprising receiving a diagnostic signal from the host device on the remote device, associating the diagnostic signal with a diagnostic state of the remote device, and performing a diagnostic function indicated by the diagnostic signal. | 10-23-2008 |
20080263408 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO INTEGRATE HARDWARE ADAPTER TRACING WITH A HOST OS TRACING THROUGH SIGNALING - The present invention provides a system and method for controlling tracing functions on a remote device. The system includes means for receiving a diagnostic signal from a host device on the remote device and means for associating the diagnostic signal with a tracing state of the remote device. In addition, the system includes means for performing a tracing function indicated by the diagnostic signal. The present invention can also be viewed as a method for controlling tracing functions on a remote device. The method operates by receiving a diagnostic signal from a host device on the remote device and associating the diagnostic signal with a tracing state of the remote device. Then, the method performs a tracing function indicated by the diagnostic signal | 10-23-2008 |
20090063707 | Shared Resource Support for Internet Protocols - Creating a unique identification for each stack in partitions of a host data computer such that a plurality of partitions may share a single adapter card during an Input/Output operation wherein the adapter card is exchanging data between the host and a Local Area Network. The adapter card includes a unique identifier pool for maintaining values of unique identifiers which are available for identifying the stacks. A deleted unique identifier for a stack may be reused by newly created stacks and may be reassigned to a recreated stack, if still available, when the stack had previously been deleted by the operating system, but is then recreated. | 03-05-2009 |
20100138567 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR TRANSPARENT ETHERNET LINK PAIRING - A solution for reducing latency in a host computing device communicating with network-attached devices over a network. The host includes two network adapters that each support bidirectional communications with the host. The solution includes a dual module that represents the two network adapters as a single logical interface to both the host and the network-attached devices. An inbound module directs inbound data sent to the interface by the devices through one of the network adapters, while an outbound module directs outbound data sent to the interface by the host through the other. In one embodiment, the outbound module is responsible for intercepting data sent to the interface and sending it through the network adapter dedicated to outbound communications. The solution also includes a mode module to enable the latency reduction apparatus, and a collapse module that enables bidirectional communications through the remaining network adapter if a network adapter fails. | 06-03-2010 |
20120317289 | Transparent heterogenous link pairing - A method, system and computer program product for managing at least two physical links. A TCP/IP stack configures a first interface with attributes. The TCP/IP stack activates the first interface. The TCP/IP stack detects a channel path identifier (CHPID). The TCP/IP stack creates a second interface. The TCP/IP stack associates the second interface with the first interface. The first interface and the second interface are logically linked to exchange traffic corresponding to a single internet protocol address. The TCP/IP stack configures the second interface with at least one attribute. The TCP/IP stack activates the second interface. The two physical links may rely on two different physical link types. | 12-13-2012 |
20130204985 | TRANSPARENT HETEROGENOUS LINK PAIRING - A method, system and computer program product for managing at least two physical links. A TCP/IP stack configures a first interface with attributes. The TCP/IP stack activates the first interface. The TCP/IP stack detects a channel path identifier (CHPID). The TCP/IP stack creates a second interface. The TCP/IP stack associates the second interface with the first interface. The first interface and the second interface are logically linked to exchange traffic corresponding to a single internet protocol address. The TCP/IP stack configures the second interface with at least one attribute. The TCP/IP stack activates the second interface. The two physical links may rely on two different physical link types. | 08-08-2013 |
20130332557 | REDUNDANCY AND LOAD BALANCING IN REMOTE DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS COMMUNICATIONS - A method for managing communications to add a first Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) link between a TCP server and a TCP client, where the first RDMA link references first remote memory buffer (RMB) and a second RMB, and further based on a first remote direct memory access network interface card (RNIC) associated with the TCP server and a second RNIC associated with the TCP client. The system determines whether a third RNIC is enabled. The system adds a second RDMA link, responsive to a determination that the third RNIC is enabled. The system detects a failure in the second RDMA link. The system reconfigures the first RDMA link to carry at least one TCP packet of a session formerly assigned to the second RDMA link, responsive to detecting the failure. The system communicates at least one packet of the at least one session on the first RDMA link. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332767 | REDUNDANCY AND LOAD BALANCING IN REMOTE DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS COMMUNICATIONS - A system for managing communications to add a first Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) link between a TCP server and a TCP client, where the first RDMA link references first remote memory buffer (RMB) and a second RMB, and further based on a first remote direct memory access network interface card (RNIC) associated with the TCP server and a second RNIC associated with the TCP client. The system determines whether a third RNIC is enabled. The system adds a second RDMA link, responsive to a determination that the third RNIC is enabled. The system detects a failure in a failed RDMA link. The system reconfigures the first RDMA link to carry at least one TCP message of a connection formerly assigned to the failed RDMA link, responsive to detecting the failure. The system communicates at least one message of the at least one connection on the first RDMA link. | 12-12-2013 |
20140376556 | SELECTIVELY REFRESHING ADDRESS REGISTRATION INFORMATION - Facilitating communications within a processing environment. Inbound traffic and outbound traffic on one or more virtual interfaces of the processing environment are monitored for a predefined amount of time. Based on the monitoring, a determination is made as to whether for a selected component of a virtual interface of the one or more virtual interfaces an inbound frame has been received but an outbound frame has not been transmitted for the predetermined amount of time. Based on determining that the inbound frame has been received but the outbound frame has not been transmitted, a generated outbound frame is forwarded to cause address registration information for the virtual interface to be refreshed. | 12-25-2014 |
20150078176 | SELECTIVELY REFRESHING ADDRESS REGISTRATION INFORMATION - Facilitating communications within a processing environment. Inbound traffic and outbound traffic on one or more virtual interfaces of the processing environment are monitored for a predefined amount of time. Based on the monitoring, a determination is made as to whether for a selected component of a virtual interface of the one or more virtual interfaces an inbound frame has been received but an outbound frame has not been transmitted for the predetermined amount of time. Based on determining that the inbound frame has been received but the outbound frame has not been transmitted, a generated outbound frame is forwarded to cause address registration information for the virtual interface to be refreshed. | 03-19-2015 |
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20090144638 | AUTOMATIC INCREASING OF CAPACITY OF A VIRTUAL SPACE IN A VIRTUAL WORLD - A system and method for automatically increasing a capacity of a virtual space in a virtual world. It is determined if an allowable number of avatars are currently in the virtual space, and a capacity of the virtual space is increased when the allowable number of avatars are currently in the virtual space. The capacity of the virtual space may be increased by spawning a replicate new virtual space. The capacity of the virtual space may also be increased by expanding a size of the virtual space. The virtual space may include any type of virtual space such as for example, a store, a business, an arena, a building, a land area, a room, etc. The allowable number of avatars may be a maximum avatar capacity for the virtual space, or may be an ideal avatar capacity for the virtual space. | 06-04-2009 |
20090267938 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) VIRTUAL WORLD WORMHOLES - A three dimensional (3D) virtual world wormhole includes hosting a 3D virtual world, and creating a wormhole at a selected location in the 3D virtual world for automatic transport of an avatar from the selected location to a selected destination in the 3D virtual world. Policies may be defined for the wormhole where the wormhole operates in accordance with the defined policies. An avatar may be automatically transported from the location to any one of a plurality of destinations based on a current capacity of each of the plurality of destinations. | 10-29-2009 |
20090300582 | Generation and Synchronization of offline 3D virtual world content - Generation and synchronization of offline three-dimensional (3D) virtual world content that include hosting 3D virtual world content, providing access to a portion of the 3D virtual world content, allowing storing offline of a copy of the accessed portion of the 3D virtual world content, and receiving changes made in the stored offline copy of the accessed portion of the 3D virtual world content and synchronizing the received changes with the hosted 3D virtual world content. The accessed portion of the 3D virtual world content may be recreated offline using a rendering engine on a processing device offline from the hosted 3D virtual world. | 12-03-2009 |
20100094890 | URL VIRTUAL NAMING AND METADATA MAPPING - Mapping of a universal resource locator (URL) to a virtual world location may include receiving a URL for access to an entity, accessing a mapping of the URL to coordinates of a location of the entity in a virtual world, and providing access to the entity in the virtual world. A device that may include a network interface, the network interface being configured to receive a URL and provide access to a virtual world, and a memory, the memory containing at least one mapping of a URL to coordinates in the virtual world. | 04-15-2010 |
20100115425 | COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL BUSINESS OBJECTS SOCIAL SHARING IN A VIRTUAL WORLD - Collaborative virtual business object (VBO) social sharing that may include generating a VBO responsive to an avatar performing a transaction, and providing access to the VBO to other avatars desiring access. Access to the VBO may be provided by registering information regarding accessing the VBO in an inventory of the avatar, registering information regarding accessing the VBO in a centralized registry, allowing some portions of the VBO to be searchable, or uploading a modified copy of the VBO to a centralized VBO data upload facility. Portions of the VBO may be identified as private or public and access provided to only the public portions. An apparatus for collaborative virtual business object (VBO) social sharing may include an interface configured to access virtual world and a processor configured to generate a VBO responsive to a transaction in the virtual world and provide access to the VBO. | 05-06-2010 |
20100179871 | USER DRIVEN TRANSACTIONS THROUGH REFERRED VIRTUAL BUSINESS OBJECT - Providing traceability in a Virtual Business Object (VBO) may include generating a VBO comprising components and actions that may be performed using the VBO, attaching traceability information regarding an avatar to the VBO and providing the VBO to the avatar. Also, a network entity configured to access a virtual world environment may include a network interface configured to provide access to the virtual world environment and a controller configured to perform a transaction with an avatar in the virtual world environment, generate a Virtual Business Object (VBO) related to the transaction, attach traceability information regarding the avatar to the VBO, and provide the VBO to the avatar. | 07-15-2010 |
20120124189 | AUTOMATIC INCREASING OF CAPACITY OF A VIRTUAL SPACE IN A VIRTUAL WORLD - A system for automatically increasing a capacity of a virtual space in a virtual world may include a processor and a module operating on the processor for detecting an attempt by an avatar to enter a virtual space in a virtual world. The system may also include another module for determining if an allowable number of avatars is currently in the virtual space. The allowable number of avatars may be determined by at least a capacity of a server that is hosting the virtual space. Another module may be provided for increasing a capacity of the virtual space when the allowable number of avatars is currently in the virtual space. Increasing the capacity of the virtual space may include spawning a replicate new virtual space on a different server in response to the capacity of the server that is hosting the virtual space reaching the allowable number of avatars. | 05-17-2012 |
20120221604 | GENERATING AND NAVIGATING BINARY XML DATA - According to exemplary embodiments, a method and system for generating binary Extensible Markup Language (XML) data is provided. The generating includes acquiring an XML data source and generating a first child distance (FCD) token and a next sibling distance (NSD) token of an element node in the XML data source. The generating also includes generating binary XML data of the XML data source by using the FCD token and the NSD token, where the binary XML data includes the FCD token and the NSD token. | 08-30-2012 |
20130178853 | SURGICAL TOOL MANAGEMENT - The different illustrative embodiments provide a method, computer program product, and apparatus for managing a number of surgical tools. A determination is made whether a number of surgical tools is to be used in performing a procedure based on information. Responsive to a determination that the number of surgical tools is to be used in performing the procedure, a determination is made whether a signal received by the number of surgical tools indicates that the number of surgical tools is present within a predetermined distance of a location on the patient where the procedure is to be performed. Responsive to a determination that the signal received by the number of surgical tools indicates that the number of surgical tools is within the predetermined distance of the location on the patient where the procedure is to be performed, the number of surgical tools is enabled for use in performing the procedure. | 07-11-2013 |
20140358922 | Routing of Questions to Appropriately Trained Question and Answer System Pipelines Using Clustering - Mechanisms for selecting a pipeline of a question and answer (QA) system to process an input question are provided. An input question is received and analyzed to identify at least one feature of the input question. Clustering of the input question, with one or more previously generated clusters of questions, is performed based on the at least one feature of the input question. Based on results of the clustering, a matching cluster, of the one or more previously generated clusters, is identified with which the input question is associated. A QA system pipeline associated with the matching cluster is identified and the input question is processed using the identified QA system pipeline to generate one or more candidate answers for the input question. Each cluster in the one or more previously generated clusters has an associated QA system pipeline. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358928 | Clustering Based Question Set Generation for Training and Testing of a Question and Answer System - Mechanisms for selecting questions for a cluster of questions to be used with a question and answer (QA) system are provided. An input question is received and analyzed to identify at least one feature of the input question. Clustering of the input question with one or more other questions in a cluster of questions based on the at least one feature of the input question is performed. Based on results of the clustering, a determination is made as to whether to include or reject the input question as part of the cluster of questions. In response to determining to include the input question as part of the cluster of questions, the cluster of questions is updated to include the input question. The updated cluster of questions is stored in a storage device associated with a data processing system. | 12-04-2014 |
20140359022 | ALIGNING CONTENT AND SOCIAL NETWORK AUDIENCE USING ANALYTICS AND/OR VISUALIZATION - Various embodiments provide for the use of analytics to determine a number of key factors prior to a user sending a communication (e.g., an email or instant message, making an online social media post, or accepting or requesting friendship on a social media site). The analytics may determine content, subject, emotion, relationships, and other relevant details when users interact (e.g., with email or other social software). Any alerts/suggestions provided can be provided in real-time as the person types. | 12-04-2014 |
20140365502 | Determining Answers in a Question/Answer System when Answer is Not Contained in Corpus - Mechanisms are provided for generating an answer for an input question when the answer is not directly present in a corpus of information. An input question is received from a computing device and analyzed to determine whether the input question is requesting an answer that is calculable. In response to a determination that the input question is requesting an answer that is calculable, one or more constituent data values are retrieved, from a corpus of information, for calculating the requested answer to the input question. A value corresponding to the requested answer is calculated based on the one or more retrieved constituent data values and is then output as the requested answer to the input question. | 12-11-2014 |
20150026163 | Correlating Corpus/Corpora Value from Answered Questions - Mechanisms are provided for dynamically selecting a subset of candidate answer sources for use by a question and answer (QA) system. The QA system receives an input question for which an answer is sought and generates one or more queries based on the input question. The QA system selects a subset of candidate answer sources, from a group of candidate answer sources, based on a ranked listing of candidate answer sources. The ranked listing of candidate answer sources is generated based on characteristics of previous candidate answers generated by the QA system for previously input questions. The QA system applies the one or more queries to the subset of candidate answer sources and generates at least one candidate answer for the input question based on results of applying the one or more queries to the subset of candidate answer sources. | 01-22-2015 |
20150120621 | Dynamic Load Balancing Based on Question Difficulty - Mechanisms are provided for performing load balancing of question processing in a Question and Answer (QA) system, implemented by the data processing system, having a plurality of QA system pipelines. The mechanisms receive an input question for processing by the QA system and determine a predicted question difficulty of the input question. The mechanisms select a QA system pipeline from the plurality of QA system pipelines based on the predicted question difficulty and route the input question to the selected QA system pipeline for processing. In addition, the mechanisms process the input question with the selected QA system pipeline to generate an answer for the input question. | 04-30-2015 |
20150160787 | CONTROLLING MULTIPLE COMPUTING SYSTEMS - Collaborating within a network computing system includes establishing a peer-to-peer communication link between a first computing system and a second computing system. The first computing system includes a first display device and a first pointer upon the display device. The second computing system includes a second display device and a second pointer upon the second display device. The second computing system receives first pointer control data for the first pointer indicating that the first pointer is to be displayed upon the second display device. The first pointer is displayed upon the second display device as specified by the first pointer control data. The second computing system moves the first pointer on the second display device responsive to second pointer control data received from the first computing system. The first pointer remains under control of the first computing system while the second pointer remains under control of the second computing system. | 06-11-2015 |
20150161230 | Generating an Answer from Multiple Pipelines Using Clustering - Mechanisms for generating an answer to an input question are provided. The mechanisms receive an input question and route the input question to a plurality of Question and Answer (QA) system pipelines. The mechanisms receive results of processing the input question from each QA system pipeline in the plurality of QA system pipelines. The results comprise one or more candidate answers to the input question and associated confidence scores. The mechanisms adjust, for each QA system pipeline, the confidence scores of the one or more candidate answers associated with the QA system pipeline based on one or more weighting factors. In addition, the mechanisms generate the answer to the input question based on the adjusted confidence scores of the one or more candidate answers for each QA system pipeline. | 06-11-2015 |
20150161241 | Analyzing Natural Language Questions to Determine Missing Information in Order to Improve Accuracy of Answers - A mechanism is provided in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory configured to implement a question and answer system (QA), for improving answers to an input question. An input question is received and parsed for a known set of critical information required to answer the input question. Responsive to one or more pieces of critical information failing to be identifiable in the input question, a user who submitted the input question is prompted for the one or more pieces of critical information via a graphical user interface (GUI). | 06-11-2015 |
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20090131166 | ALLOWING AN ALTERNATIVE ACTION IN A VIRTUAL WORLD - A method for allowing an alternative action in a virtual world may include permitting a user to request an original action for an avatar of the user in the virtual world. The method may also include receiving the request for the original action and storing the request in a queue in response to the original action being unavailable to the user's avatar. The method may additionally include determining if an alternative action is available for the user's avatar in response to the original action being unavailable to the user's avatar and presenting an interface to the user to permit the user to accept the alternative action in response to the alternative action being available. The method may yet further include allowing the user's avatar to perform the alternative action in response to the user accepting the alternative action and permitting the user's avatar to perform the alternative action while the request for the original action is still in the queue | 05-21-2009 |
20090199095 | AVATAR CLONING IN A VIRTUAL WORLD - Avatar cloning in a virtual world may include receiving an input indicating that a user desires to access a cloning feature and allowing a cloned avatar to be cloned from the user's avatar. | 08-06-2009 |
20090254868 | TRANSLATION OF GESTURE RESPONSES IN A VIRTUAL WORLD - Translating gestures made by one avatar to a second avatar in a virtual world by receiving an input from a first user representing an input gesture to be made by the first avatar to the second avatar. The input gesture is translated to generate at least one translated gesture for display. The translated gesture may be output for display as being made by the first avatar to the second avatar. | 10-08-2009 |
20100050237 | GENERATING USER AND AVATAR SPECIFIC CONTENT IN A VIRTUAL WORLD - Generation of user and avatar specific content in a virtual world may include generating a local attribute object. The local attribute object may comprise attributes identifying at least one of the user's real world location and the user's avatar's virtual world location. Access to the local attribute object by virtual world operators may be controlled by the user and/or user's avatar. Specific content, based on the local attribute object, is presented to the user's avatar. | 02-25-2010 |
20100060649 | AVOIDING NON-INTENTIONAL SEPARATION OF AVATARS IN A VIRTUAL WORLD - A method for avoiding non-intentional separation of avatars in a virtual world may include detecting a first avatar seeking to enter a first location and determining if a second avatar is related to the first avatar based on a first predetermined rule. The method may also include determining that the first and second avatars are seeking to enter the first location together. The method may further include determining whether to allow the first avatar and the second avatar to enter the first location based on a second predetermined rule. | 03-11-2010 |
20100100452 | VIRTUAL BUSINESS OBJECT TO MANAGE VIRTUAL WORLD TRANSACTIONS - A method for managing a transaction in a virtual world may include generating a virtual business object (VBO), where the VBO may include a plurality of subcomponents that are each respectively related to a different aspect of the transaction associated with the virtual world object. Each subcomponent may include at least one attribute and each attribute may include information related to the subcomponent. Further, a set of enablement properties may be associated with each attribute and access to each attribute may be controlled in accordance with the set of enablement properties associated with each attribute. | 04-22-2010 |
20100211880 | VIRTUAL WORLD VIEWER - A method for managing and operating one or more virtual world viewers in a virtual world may include generating a virtual world viewer feature on a computer system in response to a predetermined action by the user. The method may also include generating an option in the virtual world viewer feature for the user to either enter or select a different virtual world location from a current virtual world location of a user's avatar for locating a virtual world viewer for viewing the different virtual world location. The virtual world viewer may be generated on the computer system for the user to view the different virtual world location without the user's avatar leaving the current virtual world location. | 08-19-2010 |
20120071218 | ALLOWING AN ALTERNATIVE ACTION IN A VIRTUAL WORLD - A system for allowing an alternative action in a virtual world may include a processor and a module operable on the processor for allowing an alternative action in a virtual world in response to a request for an original action for an avatar of a user being unavailable in the virtual world. A queue stores the request in response to the original action being unavailable. Another module may determine if an alternative action is available for the avatar in response to the original action being unavailable. A further module may present an interface to permit the user to accept the alternative action. The avatar is permitted to perform the alternative action in response to the user accepting the alternative action while the request for the original action is still in the queue. | 03-22-2012 |
20130305185 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AVATAR CLONING - Avatar cloning in a virtual world may include receiving an input indicating that a user desires to access a cloning feature and allowing a cloned avatar to be cloned from the user's avatar. | 11-14-2013 |