Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090271478 | WEB SERVICE CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - A computer readable storage medium stores a Web service control program that allows a computer to execute a process comprising: receiving from a consumer of a Web service a reservation request for a reservation which reserves the Web service and defines a condition, the condition including a shortest time interval between Web service requests; acquiring a state of a server; determining whether to accept the reservation; accepting the reservation when it is determined to accept the reservation; determining, when receiving a Web service request for the Web service, a time interval between the received Web service request and a Web service request prior to the received Web service request; determining whether the received Web service request satisfies the condition; and transferring, when it is determined that the received Web service request satisfies the condition, the received Web service request. | 10-29-2009 |
20090276505 | WEB SERVICE CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - A computer readable storage medium stores a Web service control program that allows a computer to execute a process comprising: receiving from a consumer of a reservation request for a reservation which reserves the Web service and defines a condition; acquiring a state of a server; determining whether to accept the reservation according to the condition and the state; accepting the reservation when it is determined to accept the reservation; transmitting a reply, when the reservation is accepted; detecting, when receiving a Web service request which includes first information based on a first communication protocol and second information based on a second communication protocol, the reservation identifier in the second information to determine according to result of the detecting whether or not the Web service request conforms to the reservation; and transferring the Web service request when the Web service request is determined to conform to the reservation. | 11-05-2009 |
20100030898 | NETWORK SETTING METHOD AND NETWORK SETTING APPARATUS - An administrative manager connected to a plurality of servers each including a virtual machine environment in which a host OS and a guest OS are operable as virtual OS, performs the following processes. Namely, when the guest OS is started up in the server, the information whether or not transmission and reception of data among service programs is necessary and the information of the servers executing the service programs are referred to. Then, the connection target server which performs communications with the server in which the guest OS is started up, is determined according to the service program to be executed in the starting objective server. Further, the connection information is set to the host OS that operates in the starting objective server and to the host OS that operates in the connection target server. | 02-04-2010 |
20100036913 | NETWORK SETTING METHOD AND NETWORK SETTING APPARATUS - An administrative manager connected to a plurality of servers each including a virtual machine environment in which a host OS and a guest OS are operable as virtual OS, performs the following processes. Namely, when an operator issues an instruction to migrate the guest OS from a migration source server to a migration target server, a connection target server of the migration source server is specified, and also, connection information necessary for a virtual network connection between the connection target server and the migration target server is acquired. Then, before the guest OS is migrated, in the connection target server, transmission data to the migration objective guest OS is set to be looped back. Further, after the guest OS is migrated, the network setting is made on the migration target server and the connection target server so as to enable the mutual virtual network connection. | 02-11-2010 |
20100057898 | LOAD BALANCER SETTING METHOD AND LOAD BALANCER SETTING APPARATUS - An administrative manager connected to servers each in which a host OS capable of loading therein a software load balancer and a guest OS executing a service program are operable as virtual OS, performs the following processes. Namely, the server in which the guest OS for executing the service program being the transmission source of a processing request to be load balanced operates is set as a setting objective server of the software load balancer. Further, the server in which the guest OS for executing the service program being the transmission target of the processing request operates is set as a load balancing objective server. Then, an instruction is transmitted to the setting objective server to load the software load balancer in the host OS thereof, and, an instruction is transmitted to the setting objective server to set information to be used for the load balancing of transmission data. | 03-04-2010 |
20100058051 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING A SECURE COMMUNICATION PATH BETWEEN VIRTUAL MACHINES - A secure communication path is set between virtual machines each arranged within one of a set of servers in a network. There is provided business software operated by executing one or more task programs each provided for a virtual machine, and each server is provided with, as a virtual machine, a guest operating system controlled by a host operating system. The one or more task programs are classified into task classes according to a type of a function to be realized, and there is provided task connection information indicating whether a communication path is needed or not between each pair of task classes. Then, a secure communication path between a pair of guest operating systems is set by setting virtual network connection information to a pair of host operating systems corresponding to the pair of guest operating systems, on the basis of the task connection information. | 03-04-2010 |
20100100880 | VIRTUAL SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS - A virtual system control apparatus includes a configuration information storage device that stores configuration information for operational systems of virtual systems; a first virtual machine image storage device that stores virtual machine images for the operational systems of the virtual systems; a configuration change information storage device that stores configuration change information that represents configuration information concerning difference between the operational system and a test system of the virtual system; a second virtual machine image storage device that stores virtual machine images for the virtual machine relating to the difference; and a controller. Thus, by adopting data configuration of the operational system and the test system, it becomes possible to easily and smoothly switch the virtual system between the operational system and the test system. | 04-22-2010 |
20100100881 | VIRTUAL SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS - A virtual system control apparatus includes: a configuration information storage device to store configuration information for an operational system of a virtual system; a first virtual machine image storage device to store first virtual machine images for the operational system of the virtual system; a configuration change information storage device to store configuration change information that represents configuration information concerning difference between the operational system of the virtual system and plural types of test systems; a second virtual machine image storage device to store second virtual machine images for a virtual machine relating to the difference; and a controller. By adopting such data configuration of the operational system and the test system, it becomes possible to switch easily and smoothly between the operational system and the test system. | 04-22-2010 |
20100115342 | SYSTEM EVALUATION APPARATUS - An apparatus for evaluating a change of an existing system to a modified system by using a test system including a subsystem having the same configuration with either of the existing subsystem and the modified system includes: a memory for storing configuration information of the test system and test information; and a processor for executing a process including: activating the test system to execute test on the subsystem, collecting test information from the test system, and storing the test result information while the subsystem has the same configuration as the existing system; confirming the test system has been modified; and activating the test system to execute test on the subsystem, collecting test result information from the test system, and storing the test result information while the subsystem has the same configuration as the modified system. | 05-06-2010 |
20100250715 | RECORDING MEDIUM THAT STORES INTERNET-PROTOCOL (IP) ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT CONTROL PROGRAM, IP ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT CONTROL APPARATUS, AND IP ADDRESS ASSIGNMENT CONTROL METHOD - An internet-protocol address assignment control apparatus obtains, via an interface provided in a first communication device, a first unique number for a first interface provided in a server apparatus connected to the interface provided in the first communication device and a second unique number for a second interface provided in the server apparatus connected to an interface provided in a second communication device. The apparatus stores, in a storage, the obtained second unique number for the second interface provided in the server apparatus on a basis of the first unique number for the first interface provided in the server apparatus. | 09-30-2010 |
20110176584 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system including: a first device that includes first and second units and a first encapsulation unit encapsulating data; a second device that includes a third unit communicating data with the second unit, a fourth unit, and a second encapsulation unit encapsulating data; a third device that includes a fifth unit communicating data with the first or third unit, a sixth unit, and a third encapsulation unit encapsulating data; and a fourth device that includes a seventh unit communicating data with the first or third unit, an eighth unit communicating data with the fifth unit, and a fourth encapsulation unit encapsulating data; wherein at least two of the first to fourth devices include control units that control the units that the at least two of the first to fourth devices have, so as not to transfer received data to other devices. | 07-21-2011 |
20110191402 | NETWORK SYSTEM, PROCESS-PROVIDING-SERVER SWITCHING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND VIRTUAL-MACHINE BUILDING METHOD - A network system includes a router that performs routing between a virtual private network and a local network, a creating unit that creates information related to a process that is provided by a local server, the local server being connected to the local network; a sending unit that sends the information created by the creating unit via the router; and a virtual-private server that receives the information and provides the process that is provided by the local server via the virtual private network. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191492 | ROUTER, ROUTING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING VIRTUAL MACHINE - A method of constructing a virtual machine includes receiving information specifying processing power of an information processing apparatus to be provided from a router connected through a virtual private network to an external apparatus connected through the router; constructing a virtual machine satisfying the processing power specified by the information; and transmitting information regarding the virtual machine to the router. | 08-04-2011 |
20110292942 | ROUTER, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A router has a sending module that sends information to a data center connected with a wide-area-network when the router has been connected with the wide-area-network, the information being registered in the router beforehand and including information relating to an information-management-device that starts up a virtual machine and a virtual router, an opening module that acquires a protocol setting information from the data center and opens a channel leading to a gateway in the data center on the basis of the protocol setting information, and a communication module that acquires an address of the virtual router to be connected with the virtual machine which has been started up on the basis of the information relating to the information-management-device from the data center and communicates with the virtual router via the channel on the basis of the acquired address of the virtual router. | 12-01-2011 |
20120084389 | TECHNIQUE FOR PROVIDING SERVICE THROUGH DATA CENTER - A management apparatus in a data center executes: receiving, from a router that starts connecting to the data center through a VPN, data concerning specification of a virtual machine for a user terminal in a network connected to the router and data representing a request for connecting to the Internet; activating a first virtual machine satisfying the specification of the virtual machine on a computer in the data center; activating a second virtual machine for connecting to the Internet on a computer in the data center; carrying out a setting of an address by which the user terminal connects to the Internet, for the second virtual machine; transmitting an address of the first virtual machine and an address of the second virtual machine to the router; and transmitting an address of the router to the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine. | 04-05-2012 |
20130007740 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING COMMUNICATION PERFORMED BY A VIRTUAL MACHINE - An apparatus stores, in association with each of one or more services to be provided, a communication monitoring rule under which communication performed for providing the each of the one or more services is to be monitored. The apparatus communicates with another apparatus that is operable to run a virtual machine and run a virtual router relaying communication performed by the virtual machine. When a service to be provided by the virtual machine is selected from among the one or more services, the apparatus controls the virtual router to monitor communication performed by the virtual machine according to the communication monitoring rule associated with the selected service, by sending the communication monitoring rule to the virtual router. | 01-03-2013 |
20130014106 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A storage unit stores a correspondence between information indicating one or more services executable on one or more virtual machines and information indicating one or more users who use the services, and one or more communication monitoring rules to be used by one or more virtual routers. The rules are defined for each of the services. A control unit specifies, when a rule stored in the storing unit is changed, one or more of the users who use a service corresponding to the changed rule by referring to the storing unit. The control unit transmits the changed rule to one or more of the virtual routers which relay communication of one or more of the virtual machines assigned to the specified users so as to cause the one or more of the virtual routers, to which the changed rule is transmitted, to perform monitoring based on the changed rule. | 01-10-2013 |
20140122681 | MANAGEMENT SERVER, VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND CONNECTION METHOD - A management server | 05-01-2014 |
20140351812 | RECORDING MEDIUM, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND NETWORK SYSTEM - A program causes a computer to execute a process including: receiving a command to connect first and second VMs through an L2 tunnel corresponding to particular QoS; instructing a first physical machine on which the first VM is running and which is connected to a plurality of physical networks through a first physical network interface device to use a first and second addresses in encapsulating in a first L3 packet a first L2 frame that the first VM decides to send to the second VM; and instructing the second physical machine, mutatis mutandis. Each physical network supports one or more levels in QoS. The first and second addresses correspond to a particular physical network that supports the particular QoS. The first address is one of addresses assigned to the first physical network interface device. The second address is one of addresses assigned to the second physical network interface device. | 11-27-2014 |
20150023357 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY READABLE MEDIUM - A communication method includes determining a difference state of identification numbers of communication providers corresponding to a plurality of relay transfer apparatuses on a passing outward path to an opposing communication apparatus and on a passing return path from the opposing apparatus; and switching a first virtual communication channel set between intranets and a second virtual communication channel set between the intranets to dynamically substitute and use a first communication mode of transmitting and receiving encrypted communication data to and from the opposing apparatus through the first virtual communication channel and a second communication mode of transmitting and receiving plain text communication data to and from the opposing apparatus through the second virtual communication channel, according to the determination of the difference state of the identification numbers of the providers. | 01-22-2015 |