16th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 55 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090100130 | System and method for anomalous directory client activity detection - An information processing system for a computing network in which the access log of a directory server is analyzed to detect anomalous client access requests. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100131 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING DISTRIBUTED SHARED SERVICES SYSTEM - Method and apparatus for integrating distributed shared services system which integrates web based applications with each other and with other centralized application to provide a single sign-on approach for authentication and authorization services for distributed web sites requiring no access time back to the authentication/authorization server is provided. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100132 | COLLECTOR FOR MONITORING AND RECORDING APPLIANCE DATA - A central collector has appliance communication links to communicate with multiple appliances, and removable memory to store operational data retrieved from the appliances. When the memory is removed from the central collector and installed in a device capable of communication, the operational data can be communicated from the removable memory to a remote service center or a portable computing device. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100133 | Slow-Dynamic Load Balancing System and Computer-Readable Medium - A load balancing system and a corresponding computer-readable medium are proposed. The load balancing system is used in environments (e.g., implementing a licensing management application) wherein each client is associated with a preferred server storing specific information for the client. Each client periodically detects a workload and a response time of all the servers. The client selects a subset of nearest servers (according to their response times). The server in that subset with the lowest workload is set as an eligible server. Whenever a ratio between the workload of the preferred server and the workload of the eligible server exceeds a predefined threshold value (e.g., 1.1), the client switches to the eligible server (transferring the corresponding specific information). The system of the invention exhibits a slow dynamic, and tends to reach a steady condition (wherein the specific information of the clients is not continuously moved across the system). | 2009-04-16 |
20090100134 | System and Method for Customized Sharing of Multimedia Content in a Communications Network - Methods and devices for sharing multimedia content in a communications network are disclosed. In an exemplary method, the initiation of a communications session between a first communications device and a second communications device is detected. In response, a content update, based on multimedia content stored on the first communications device, is formed and sent to the second communications device. In some embodiments, the content update is formed using files stored on the first communications device. In other embodiments, the content update describes one or more files stored on the first communications device, and may comprise pointers to the files, such as URLs, for use by the second communications device in retrieving one or more of the files. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100135 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF SHARING CONTENTS AMONG DEVICES - A method of sharing contents among devices, the method includes a first device and a second device performing a time synchronization, the first device receiving, from a user, a time stamp with respect to contents being replayed by the second device, the first device transmitting the time stamp to the second device, the second device transmitting a contents list corresponding to the time stamp to the first device, the first device requesting the second device for contents selected by the user from among the contents list, and the second device providing the requested contents to the first device. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100136 | INTELLIGENT PRESENCE - A method and apparatus for obtaining contact information for individuals using an electronic device is disclosed. The user creates a user profile and storing the profile in the electronic device and creates a preference list of desired characteristics and storing the list in the electronic device; The electronic device registers with a communication system wherein the user profile and the preference list is sent to the communication system. The electronic device receives contact information for all registered users of the communication system who have at least a predetermined percentages of desired characteristics based on a comparison of their user profile and the preference list. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100137 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SERVICES IN A PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method and apparatus that provides services in a peer-to-peer communications network is disclosed. The method may include determining at least one group to which a first application is associated, determining if there is at least one second application in the group, and if there is a second application, then sharing information with the second application. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100138 | Spam filter - Detection of undesired electronic communication, such as spam emails, by comparing the email with a list of likely spam words and establishing the communication as undesired when the words in the list, are substantially present in the email, even if not completely present. For example, the match is close enough if the words have similar letters in similar orders, but with other letters separating them. Another aspect matches the words with a dictionary or rules defining spelling for the language. Emails with too high a percentage of garbage words are marked as undesirable. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100139 | APPARATUS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESPONDING TO WEB FORM INQUIRIES - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for generating contact plans and responding to web form inquires using the contact plans. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100140 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTEXTUAL MESSAGING AS UTILIZED FOR DECISION SUPPORT - A method and system for contextual messaging as utilized for decision support is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method, comprises receiving and storing information from an administrative client that establishes memberships of a plurality of clients to a common contextual messaging system. Nomenclature information is received from the administrative client that establishes a nomenclature for the common contextual messaging system. A first client of the plurality of clients is permitted to accessing a contextual messaging host server via a web browser associated with the first client. A message is received from the first client. A message context is determined for the message using the nomenclature information. Messages are clustered based on the message context in a message database. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100141 | INSTANT MESSAGING PRIORITY FILTERING BASED ON CONTENT AND HIERARCHICAL SCHEMES - A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for filtering and prioritizing instant messaging threaded conversations in an instant messaging system based on thread content. The instant messaging client analyzes an incoming message to determine the thread subject. Based on the thread subject analysis, the client determines the priority level associated with the incoming message. The message is then delivered and displayed to the recipient according to the priority level. The present invention also allows a participant initiating a thread of conversation to override filter settings on a messaging client. The authority to override settings may be predicated on an external list, such as a corporate telephone directory. As a result, the participant, having some authority or rights to override the recipient's instant messaging settings, may be allowed to conduct a messaging session with the recipient. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100142 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERRUPTION MANAGEMENT - A method and computer program product for managing interruptions including defining an interruption control initiation trigger and defining an interruption control release trigger. An interruption control period is initiation based upon, at least in part, the interruption control initiation trigger. The interruption control period is terminated based upon, at least in part, the interruption control release trigger. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100143 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND NETWORK SYSTEM - In the case where an audio network system that performs transport of audio signals between a plurality of processors is constructed such that the plurality of processors each including two sets of transmission I/Fs and reception I/Fs are connected in series, and a TL frame generated by a master node is circulated along a ring transmission route formed among the processors in each fixed period, the TL frame including a plurality of storage regions for audio signals, when one of the processors is required to be the master node, the one processor resets in sequence processors which are connected on both sides thereof and processors behind the processors connected on both sides to once remove each of those processors from a ring transmission route if it belong to any ring transmission route, then incorporates the processors into a ring transmission route in which the one processor belongs to. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100144 | Computer Peripheral Device For Accessing Web Site Content - A computer peripheral device is provided comprising a housing, a plurality of figures each having a unique physical appearance and a unique structural characteristic, an identifying portion that is configured to identify one of the plurality of figures, at a time, based on the unique structural characteristic of the figure. The computer peripheral device comprises a controller coupled to the identifying portion that generates an identifier associating with the figure identified by the identifying portion. Connection of the computer peripheral device to a computer is made by a standard connection cable, such as a USB cable. Computer software is installed in the computer to store data associating a web site address with an identifier for each of the plurality of figures. A web browser application is activated to retrieve content from a web site having a web site address corresponding to an identifier received from the controller in the computer peripheral device. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100145 | METHOD FOR INTERNET-BASED APPLICATIONS TO ENABLE INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS TO SPECIFY LOCATION CONTEXT - A client computing device accesses a communications network via a network service provider, including exercising to at least one other user using a network-based service. A request for location context is provided, destined to the network-based service via the network service provider. The network service provider intercepts the location context request and provides the location context to the client computing device, which is then provided to the at least one other user using the network-based service (such as a status message of an instant messaging service). | 2009-04-16 |
20090100146 | Storage System Managing Data Through A Wide Area Network - In a storage system, a server apparatus and a storage apparatus are provided, while the server apparatus is connected via a LAN to one, or plural sets of computers so as to accept an access request of file data issued from the computers, whereas the storage apparatus is connected via a wide area network to the server apparatus so as to store thereinto the file data. A communication between the computers and the server apparatus is carried out by employing a network file protocol, whereas a communication between the server apparatus and the storage apparatus is performed by employing a block device protocol. The server apparatus and the storage apparatus are connected via the respective security protecting apparatus to the wide area network. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100147 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, and Computer Program - A configuration is provided in which a device in a home network receives content from a server outside the home network and plays the content. A home IMS gateway maps an external server outside the home network as a virtual home network device, and executes a process of receiving a content providing service provided by the external server by using mapping information. Furthermore, switched reception of multicast distribution content provided by the external server and unicast distribution content is executed. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100148 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH END-TO-END FLOW CONTROL OF MESSAGES - An electronic device is provided which comprises at least one sender (S0-S3) for transmitting data and at least one receiver (R) for receiving data. Furthermore, a network-based interconnect (N) is provided for coupling the at least one sender and the at least one receiver such that a data traffic from the sender is forwarded to the receiver. In addition, at least one separate shared dedicated control interconnect (CI) is coupled between the at least one sender (S0-S3) and the at least one receiver (R) for communicating flow control data between the sender and the receiver. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100149 | Method and system for using tokens to conduct file sharing transactions between handhelds and a web service - A method and system supporting web file sharing transactions via a networked handheld computer system. In a system having a server that automatically detects when new versions of currently used applications are made available for a networked handheld computer system, a method is described for allowing one handheld computer system to facilitate the transfer of a file to another handheld computer system using the server. On the server, each registered handheld has account information indicating the applications (and versions) that it supports. As part of the file sharing transaction, using a token, a sending handheld computer system updates the account information of a receiving handheld to indicate that a download is required the next time the receiving handheld is networked with the server. A new file name may be recorded in the account information, or, a new version of an existing file name may be updated. The new information is then automatically downloaded to the receiving handheld during its next synchronization with the server. Security options on the receiver are available that restrict which handhelds have authority to send files to the receiving handheld. Synchronization can be performed with a host computer system, or directly between the server and the handhelds. The shared file may be any information, e.g., an application, data, images, electronic currency, etc. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100150 | Screen reader remote access system - The present invention provides an assistive technology screen reader in a distributed network computer system. The screen reader, on a server computer system, receives display information output from one or more applications. The screen reader converts the text and symbolic content of the display information into a performant format for transmission across a network. The screen reader, on a client computer system, receives the performant format. The received performant format is converted to a device type file, by the screen reader. The screen reader then presents the device type file to a device driver, for output to a speaker, braille reader, or the like. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100151 | Network Accessible Media Object Index - A real-time locater for digital media objects, related to one or more creative compositions and accessible over a network, is described. A service-provider maintains a master index of the digital media objects. The master index is organized by considering each media object to be an example of a primary attribute associated with the media object by a multitude of users. The reference is constructed as a data structure of primary attributes and means of locating the media objects as instances of primary attributes. Each such media object may be further categorized by associating it with one or more secondary attributes. The data structure is augmented to provide for efficient location of media objects by relating secondary attributes. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100152 | SYSTEM FOR SELECTING A NETWORK ELEMENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a client terminal having a controller to transmit a request for a communication identifier of each of a plurality of network elements in a proximity to the client terminal, receive the communication identifier of each of the plurality of network elements, initiate a quality assurance test with a quality assurance client of each of the plurality of network elements according to the communication identifier of the respective network element, compare telemetry information derived from the quality assurance test for each of the plurality of network elements to a desired operational criterion, select one of the plurality of network elements according to said comparison, and consume one or more services provided by the selected network element. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100153 | METHOD OF SELF SERVICING AN APPLIANCE - A method of self servicing an appliance includes connecting a service accessory to an appliance, recording diagnostics data associated with the appliance onto the service accessory, removing the service accessory from the appliance, coupling the service accessory to a personal computer, and uploading the diagnostics data to an automated service system. Another embodiment includes coupling a service accessory to a computer having a test script, transferring a test script from the computer to the service accessory, connecting the service accessory to the communication network of the appliance, establishing communications between the service accessory and the appliance using the communication network; and executing the test script over the communication network. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100154 | AUTOMATICALLY INSTRUMENTING A SET OF WEB DOCUMENTS - Embodiments of the invention provide a method and system for automatically instrumenting a set of web documents, such as web pages, as well as embedding structures that present advertising content via the web pages. The instrumentation automatically embeds tags that enable usage information associated with the web documents to be tracked and recorded. Many hundreds or thousands of web pages can be automatically modified without user intervention, enabling comprehensive reporting and tracking to be performed on each page. The web pages are analyzed and insertion points intelligently located. Changes can be verified to ensure that no undesirable effects resulted from embedding the content. The tags can receive parameters customized to the level of users and pages. The tags, insertion information, and other configuration information can be stored in a central repository to make subsequent tagging easier. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100155 | METHOD AND DEVICE TO SET DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS - A device to set device configurations, and a method thereof. The method includes requesting a server for address information to be used by a device and cloning information for setting configurations, and receiving the cloning information from the server according to the address information to be used by the device and setting configurations for the device. Accordingly, when a new device is installed, the method can receive device configuration information previously stored in a server that manages devices, and can automatically set configurations for the new device. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100156 | Method and System for Configuring Settings for a Communications Client Utilizing Host Device Drivers - A system and method for configuring a client on a host device using a configuration application on a configuring device, the system comprising: a link between the configuring device and the host device; host drivers for communicating between the host device and the configuring device over the link; and an interface between the host drivers and the configuration application, wherein said interface allows said configuration application to be independent of the host drivers while allowing the configuration application to configure the client. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100157 | Virtual session on a removable memory - A virtual session for a computer in which files that are worked on or automatically stored to a portable device such as a hard drive. Depending on the options that are selected, helper files for those programs may also be stored. Those helper files may be files that enable reading the programs, for example, or may be a complete new OS. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100158 | Backup and Recovery System for Multiple Device Environment - A backup system stores configuration data for several interdependent systems in a single backup store. As the systems are being configured and when changes are made to the systems, the backup store is updated with the change. The systems may be configured with each system having a designated role. During a restore operation, an otherwise unallocated system may assume a particular role and use the configuration logic defined for the role that may be taken from the backup store. The system may perform the restore in conjunction with the other systems and the interdependencies with the systems. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100159 | Method for automatically modifying a program and automation system - A method for automatically modifying a program of an automation system, wherein a first item of data related to a program component is determined using an identificator assigned to the automation system, wherein a program code object stored in a database is selected using a selector based upon the first item of data, and wherein the program is modified by means of the program code object in that the program code object is integrated into the program. Further, an automation system with a program having program components and which is automatically modifiable in accordance with the method, having an assigned identificator for determining a first item of data related to a program component, a selector for selecting a program code object stored in a database based upon the first item of data, and an integrator for integrating the program code object into the program and finally a computer readable medium. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100160 | DATA SERVER ADMINISTRATION USING A CHATBOT - Provided are techniques for data server administration. Under control of a chatbot in real time, a command is received from a user for administering a data server in a natural language format. It is determined whether the data server is to be contacted to process the command. In response to determining that the data server is to be contacted, session information is retrieved to identify the data server to be contacted, the command in the natural language format is converted into one or more data server administration Application Programming Interface (API) calls, the one or more data server administration API calls to the data server are issued, and information about processing of the command is provided to the user. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100161 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS - A method and computer program product for managing interruptions including defining a communication management policy for a plurality of communication channels. Communications on the plurality of communication channels are delivered based upon, at least in part, the communications management policy. Similarly, communications on the plurality of communication channels are rejected based upon, at least in part, the communications management policy. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100162 | Sharing Policy and Workload among Network Access Devices - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to sharing policy and workload among network access devices. In aspects, a network access device receives a communication between a first and a second node. The network access device may be one of a set of network access devices responsible for processing traffic to and from a set of nodes. A network access device determines a policy to apply to the communication and at least one network device to apply the policy. The determination of the at least one network device to apply the policy may include determining which network access devices are capable of applying the policy as well as the workload on the network access devices. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100163 | Method and apparatus forWeb based storage on demand - The distributed virtual SAN infrastructure provides a plurality of host systems with a scalable dynamically expandable distributed virtual storage pool, which includes a virtual storage automatic construct protocol. The distributed virtual SAN infrastructure includes one or more IP SAN units, the management console, the distributing control management station and the network infrastructure, wherein the network infrastructure provides the communication links between all systems in this distributed virtual SAN. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100164 | Apparatus and method for providing content - An apparatus and method for providing content is provided, which performs a web service initialization through a provided local offline web server and manages a plurality of content provided through a multithreaded web service. The apparatus for providing content includes a communication unit receiving one or more sets of content; a thread creation unit creating one or more threads that are given to the content to process a work; and a page creation unit having a frame per thread and creating an image page for playing the content on a web browser. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100165 | DYNAMICALLY INTEGRATING DISPARATE COMPUTER-AIDED DISPATCH SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for dynamically integrating disparate computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems are disclosed. The systems and methods provide bi-directional interoperability between disparate CAD systems and maintain stateful ongoing interactions between interconnected CAD systems. Information objects in one CAD system are associated and bound to related objects in other CAD systems through a centralized information hub that transforms data items intelligently to facilitate communication and interaction between the CAD systems connected to the hub. The described systems and methods maintain complete and current perspectives of all relevant information for each CAD system connected to the information hub, thereby eliminating the need for point-to-point intelligence maintained by the CAD systems about the other interconnected CAD systems. As information updates are passed from CAD systems to the information hub and back out to other CAD systems, the information hub transforms and evaluates the information updates ensuring that only necessary information updates are forwarded. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100166 | SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPMENT, MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF DISTRIBUTED CLIENTS AND SERVERS - A lightweight application server for use on portable or embedded devices includes an application manager and services containers. Each of these is managed by an admin server allowing for remote and rapid deployment and maintenance of applications, objects and features associated with the server-enabled portable or embedded devices. This permits portable devices like PDAs to provide server functionality to each other, in a fully portable network if desired. A system including such server-enabled portable or embedded devices may include, among other things, a decision flow server for facilitating distributed decision flow processing. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100167 | Messaging - A device for transmitting a message for reception by another device, comprising: a processor for adding location information to the message, before transmission, wherein the location information identifies an area within which the message is to be hosted for reception by the other device; and a transmitter for transmitting the message, with the location information. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100168 | AUTOMATIC LOCATION DETECTION IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Automatic position location detection, such as satellite position information is used along with a computer to enhance an operation over a remote information channel or a network. This may be used over the Internet to enhance an Internet transaction by determining the origin of the transaction and determining if that origin is authorized. It can also be used for determining a person's location and seeing if the person has moved more than a specified amount in the specified time. It can be used for a biometric scan to determine certain characteristics about the person. Another aspect uses automatic position location to detect handwriting. Yet another application is an automatically determining the source of a request for information from a website, and returning information from that website. This system can also be used in chat room environment. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100169 | NETWORK BOOKMARKING BASED ON NETWORK TRAFFIC - A system comprises a packet data processing element; first network resource tracking logic operable to perform monitoring data packets as the packets pass through the network element; detecting network resource identifiers within the data packets; forming network resource identifier report messages that carry the network resource identifiers; forwarding the network resource identifier report messages to a bookmark processing server; storing records of each of the network resource identifiers carried therein; storing counters that identify numbers of times that associated network resource identifiers were requested; determining interesting network resource identifiers based on the records and decision steps; generating and providing a report of the interesting network resource identifiers. As one result, interesting network resource identifiers can be automatically found in network traffic and provided to a social bookmarking site. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100170 | APPARATUS, METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND SYSTEM FOR REQUESTING ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TRANSMITTED DATA PACKETS - An apparatus, method, computer program product and system are provided for initiating a request for acknowledgment of successfully, or unsuccessfully, transmitted data packets, wherein the request is initiated in response to the detection of a potential overload situation or an upcoming resource limitation. In particular, a transmitter may monitor certain resources associated with the transmitter, such as memory consumption or processing capacity, and automatically request that a receiver transmit an acknowledgement when a potential overload of one or more of the resources is detected. This may occur, for example, when it is determined that memory consumption has exceeded a predefined threshold or that the processing capacity has been substantially exhausted, to name a few. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100171 | PROVIDING A USER OF AN INSTANT MESSAGE CLIENT WITH AN OVER-SHOULDER STATUS - In an instant message (IM) method and system, a user of an IM client is provided with an over-shoulder status indicating the user has a visitor. The method and system further include receiving a preference setting for an over-shoulder status for defining an over-shoulder status toggle input. Mouse and keyboard strokes entered into the IM client by the user are then monitored in real-time. In response to any of the mouse and keyboard strokes matching the toggle input, the over-shoulder status is automatically toggled, whereby the over-shoulder status is updated in a contact list of at least one other IM client, such that activation of the over-shoulder status serves as a warning that the user has a visitor. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100172 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING WEB SERVICES RESOURCE UTILIZATION - A method for dynamically adjusting resources among a plurality of co-existing applications comprises the steps of: building a relation model between a request number and resource consumption of said plurality of applications; obtaining at multiple sampling moments a request number and resource consumption of each of said plurality of applications; calculating resource consumption ratio of each of said plurality of applications; and analyzing resource consumption of a plurality of currently co-existing applications. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100173 | COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE - The present invention provides a technique for managing P2P communication appropriately. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100174 | Method and system for automatic polling of multiple device types - A common poller polls multiple network devices of a communication network regardless of device type. A device personality service associates information corresponding to each of the devices with unique identifiers thereof. The common poller provides information resulting from polling the devices to network management systems (“NMS”) that request status and health information thereof. A poller client interface isolates the NMS from a common datastore coupled to the common poller and processes the information between the datastore and the NMS so the datastore is not directly exposed to the NMS. A scheduled poller causes the common poller to poll each network device according to a predetermined schedule. An on-demand poller may poll the devices between scheduled polling events. If a predetermined period as not passed since previous scheduled polling, the poller client interface forwards previously stored information from the common datastore to an NMS requesting status for a given device. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100175 | Location of Unidirectional Handover Relationships - A management system includes a first management device storing information regarding: objects monitored by the first management device, objects monitored by a second management device and relationships between objects monitored by the first management device and objects monitored by the second management device. The first management device requests such information from the second management device. Using the information stored by the first management device and the information requested from the second management device, the first management device ascertains at least one relationship between at least one object monitored by the first management device and at least one object monitored by the second management device and which is stored either just by the first management device or just by the second management device. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100176 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING A MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS GATEWAY - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing application services to an end user domain are disclosed. A method includes providing a multimedia applications gateway that is connected to an access gateway for the end user domain of the application services or a multimedia applications gateway that includes an integrated access gateway function. The access gateway is communicatively coupled to end user devices at the end user domain. The method also includes configuring the multimedia applications gateway to convert network communications of a selected application service that is downloaded to the access gateway and transmitted from the access gateway to an end user device into communications having an open standards protocol recognized by each of the end user devices. The method further includes executing the selected application service via a virtual machine operating on an operating system of the multimedia applications gateway, and monitoring activities occurring in response to execution of the selected application service. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100177 | CONDITION DEPENDENT DATA MAINTENANCE SYSTEM FOR A PLURALITY OF FUNCTIONAL ENTITIES - The present invention is directed to a server system for supplying differing amounts of data into a database, wherein the system comprises the database and a data tracker device, wherein the data tracker receives data sent by a plurality of functional entities, preferably office machines and in particular devices with a printer, wherein the data tracker device is prepared to transmit data asynchronously to an intermediate buffer storage device with a queue structure, the intermediate buffer storage device storing the data sequentially and transmitting the data sequentially to the database to be stored. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100178 | Systems and Methods for Access and Control of Hardware Device Resources Using Device-Independent Access Interfaces - Systems and methods are provided that enable seamless access and control of hardware device resources through a common, device-independent interface without the need for device-specific drivers. For instance, system and methods are designed to expose capabilities/functions of hardware devices as web-based services which can be invoked to provide specific services based on the capabilities of the hardware devices. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100179 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING RESOURCES USING OUT-OF-BAND SIGNALING - Provided is a method of controlling resources using out-of-band signaling. A central admission entity checks subscription information of a user requesting resources and policies of a network for call setting, determines whether the resources are to be assigned, and distributes an IP-level flow descriptor to an edge node of the network in order to assign the resources. The edge node receiving the IP-level flow descriptor performs mapping of the IP-level flow descriptor to flow state aware (FSA) parameters, and generates a start node. Thus, a process of in-band signaling can be simplified by omitting respond and reconfirm operations. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100180 | Incremental Run-Time Session Balancing In A Multi-Node System - An approach migrates database sessions from a database server on which performance and resource availability requirements are not being met to another database server. Because workload is removed from the database server not meeting these requirements, improved performance there is promoted. Furthermore, the approach switches the users in a way that attempts to keep performance and resource availability levels at the database server receiving the database sessions within goals for performance and resource availability. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100181 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ESTABLISHING A SERVICE SESSION - A method of establishing a service session via a server with a secondary entity of a first user having a primary entity associated with a subscription is disclosed. The method comprises sending a unique identifier of the first user's subscription from the secondary entity to the server; receiving from the server a symbol sequence to the secondary entity; enabling sending of the symbol sequence from the primary entity to the server such that the server is able to match that the received symbol sequence and the sent symbol sequence are identical, wherein a match confirms that the secondary entity is authenticated if the primary entity is authenticated; and setting up the service session on the secondary entity. An entity, server, and corresponding method for the server, as well as computer programs for the entities and the server are also disclosed. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100182 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURELY REQUESTING DOWNLOAD OF CONTENT TO A USER DEVICE FROM ANOTHER DEVICE - A method and system includes a first web service client generating a first message with first security portion and communicating the first message and first security portion to a second web service client. The second web service client generates a response to the first message at the second web service client when the first security portion is valid and communicates the response to the first web service. The second web service generates a user device request at the second web service when the first security portion is valid and communicates the user device request to a conditional access management center. The conditional access system generates a control word and communicates the control word to the user device. The conditional access system generates a status signal and communicates the status signal to the second web services client when a control word is sent to the user device. The second web service device generates a formatted response message from the first web services client to the second web services client in response to the status signal. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100183 | Detection of Missing Recipients in Electronic Messages - A computer-implemented method of identifying a missing recipient of an electronic message can include identifying at least one user specified as a recipient of an electronic message and accessing a data store comprising measures of correlation between a plurality of users, wherein the plurality of users comprises the recipient of the electronic message. One or more users not designated as a recipient of the electronic message and having a measure of correlation, with at least one recipient of the electronic message, that exceeds a predetermined threshold can be identified as a potential missing recipient of the electronic message. An indication that a recipient may have been excluded from the electronic message can be output. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100184 | PROTECTING CONTEXT SENSITIVE INFORMATION FROM BEING TRANSMITTED FROM AN INSTANT MESSAGE CLIENT - In a method and system for protecting context sensitive information from being transmitted from an instant message client, at least one policy is received that includes an entry of one or more disallowed terms and is associated with at least one action. Words typed into an IM message of the IM client by a user are then monitored in real-time. In response to any of the words typed into the IM message matching any of one or more disallowed terms, the action associated with the policy is automatically performed. According to one embodiment, an example action that may be associated with the policy and that is automatically performed may include temporarily halting transmission of the IM message, and displaying a warning message to the user, for example. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100185 | Position Identification Method and System - The present invention is directed to a system and method for collecting and maintaining an up-to-date database of points of interests, whereby agents of the points of interests, such as owners or operators of hotels or restaurants, can register their point of interest onto the database by uploading their contact information and physical address. Subsequently, on a periodic basis, the agents of the points of interests may log into the system and update their information, such as operating hours. The collected data is then made accessible to the general public and can be searched through using a variety of search criteria. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100186 | SYSTEM FOR DATA STREAM PROCESSING - A method for processing a data stream including receiving a transport stream (TS), storing at least a portion of the TS, the at least a portion of the TS having a beginning and including a plurality of TS packets, determining, from among the plurality of TS packets, at least one TS packet including a candidate access point, storing in an index store a byte offset of the candidate access point; and storing in the index store a plurality of indications of byte offset, each byte offset being associated with an arrival time of a received TS packet. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100187 | Media Player With Automatic Streaming of Media Files - A media streaming device which automatically senses the proximity of an auxiliary media player such as a digital picture frame or digital audio device, and automatically streams the media information from the player to the auxiliary media player. Commissions can be sent so that only some files are sent, based on either user specified permissions or based on copyright restrictions. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100188 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLUSTER-WIDE PREDICTIVE AND SELECTIVE CACHING IN SCALABLE IPTV SYSTEMS - A method for caching of stream data is accomplished by assigning for each video segment in the system a likelihood rating of future showing and then determining for each node that contains a copy of the segment a second likelihood value that reflecting a probability that the node will be used to serve streams for the segment. The future cost value of a segment copy is then predicted and preload orders are issued to nodes for segments with the per-copy likelihood above a predefined threshold. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100189 | DATA NETWORK WITH A TIME SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM - A system matches frame counter values between a timing master and one or more slave devices in a synchronous network. To detect synchronization losses, a timing master counts transmitted frames of a continuous data stream. When a synchronization loss occurs, the timing master transmits a message to the slave devices that includes a synchronization frame counter value. The message synchronizes the frame counter value of the timing master to the frame counter value of the slave devices. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100190 | Method and System for the Dynamic Management of the Transmission of Streams within a Plurality of Terminals - A method of transmitting data streams representing stimuli of at least one particular type, including a first step of setting up transmission of a particular stream Vstr | 2009-04-16 |
20090100191 | Methods, Systems & Products for Providing Communications Services - Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing communications services. One method receives a first data stream at a computer, with the first data stream comprising packets of data packetized according to a packet protocol. The first data stream is recursively segmented into segments, and at least one of the segments is dispersed via a network for a subsequent processing service. A result of the processing service is received, and the result is aggregated into a second data stream. The second data stream is then communicated via the network. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100192 | AUTONOMIC SERVICE ROUTING USING OBSERVED RESOURCE REQUIREMENT FOR SELF-OPTIMIZATION - A service request routing system and method includes a model table configured to store resource models. A monitor is coupled to the model table and programmed both to model resource consumption in a service providing infrastructure, and also to store the modeled resource consumption in the model table. A router is coupled to the model table, and the router is programmed to route each service request to a corresponding service instance disposed in an associated service host having a service providing infrastructure. The associated service host includes a grid host in a grid computing system. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100193 | Synchronization of state information to reduce APS switchover time - In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a controller configured for operation in an active automatic protection switching (APS) mode and an inactive APS mode and a processor operable when the controller is in the active mode to transmit a synchronization message to a corresponding APS node. The synchronization message includes state information for a connection with a peer node. The processor is further operable when the controller is in inactive mode to receive the synchronization message from the corresponding APS node, switch the controller from inactive mode to active mode upon receiving notification of a failure from the corresponding APS node, and establish a connection with the peer node without negotiating the connection with the peer node. Methods for synchronization of state information to reduce APS switchover time are also disclosed. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100194 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EMULATING A NETWORK CONTROLLER WITHIN AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM - A system and method of emulating a network controller within an information handling system is disclosed. In one form, an information handling system can include a host chipset operably coupled to a network interface controller of a first main circuit board, and a management controller operably coupled to the host chipset. The information handling system can also include an emulated network interface controller operable to be activated by the management controller. The information handling system can further include a communication bus coupled to the host chipset and the management controller. In one form, the communication bus is operable to activate a communication link between the host chipset and the emulated network interface controller. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100195 | Methods and Apparatus for Autonomic Compression Level Selection for Backup Environments - In one aspect, a method is provided. The method includes: (1) gathering statistics during compression of a dataset into a compressed dataset and during transfer of the compressed dataset over a network connection; and (2) optimizing compression settings based on the gathered statistics. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100196 | GENERIC SHARED MEMORY BARRIER - A method, information processing node, and a computer program storage product are provided for performing synchronization operations between participants of a program. Each participant includes at least one of a set of processes and a set of threads. Each participant in a first subset of participants of a program updates a portion of a first local vector that is local to the respective participant. Each participant in a second subset of participants of the program updates a portion of a second local vector that is local to the respective participant. The participants in the second subset exit the synchronization barrier in response to determining that all of the participants in the first subset have reached the synchronization barrier. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100197 | PULSE-PER-SECOND ATTACHMENT FOR STP - A time synchronization apparatus, method and system are provided. In one aspect, the apparatus comprises at least a time of day clock, a first port operable to receive at least first time information using a first time protocol, a second port operable to receive at least second time information using a second time protocol, a third port operable to receive at least a timing signal, and a time stamp register operable to at least capture current value of the time of day clock upon receipt of the timing signal from the third port or the first time information from the first port or combination thereof. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100198 | ADDRESSING MULTIPLE DEVICES ON A SHARED BUS - Assigning addresses to legacy sharing at least one signal line with a plurality of client devices. Each of the devices includes a number of I/O pins selected ones of which are connected to the at least one signal line and each client device includes a first and a second initialization pin. In the described embodiment, all but a first one of the plurality of client devices are connected to one another in a daisy chain arrangement by way of the first and the second initialization pin separate from the signal line. A first client device has a first initialization pin that is independently held at a first logic level and a second initialization pin that is connected to the daisy chain arrangement. The first one of the client devices is initialized and, in turn, triggers initialization of the daisy chained client devices. The legacy device is initialized separately from the client devices. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100199 | DEVICE AND RECOGNITION CONTROL METHOD AMONG DEVICES - A recognition control method among devices, the recognition control method includes receiving a second device recognition signal via a wireless signal module of a first device from a wireless signal module of a second device, and recognizing that the second device is located in a direction from the first device through the second device recognition signal. With respect to the second device, the method includes receiving a first device recognition signal via the wireless signal module of the second device from the wireless signal module of the first device, and recognizing that the first device is located in a direction from the second device through the first device recognition signal. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100200 | Channel-less multithreaded DMA controller - A channel-less system and method are provided for multithreaded communications with a direct memory access (DMA) controller. The method accepts a plurality of DMA command messages directed to a fixed port address. The DMA command messages are arranged in a first-in first-out (FIFO) queue, in the order in which they are received. The DMA command messages are supplied to a DMA controller from the FIFO queue, and in response to the DMA command message, data transfer operation are managed by the DMA controller. Following the completion of each data transfer operation, a transfer complete message indicating completion is sent. In one aspect, DMA command messages are arranged in a plurality of parallel FIFO queues, and CD sets are stored in a plurality of context memories, where each context memory is associated with a corresponding FIFO queue. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100201 | Optimizing the Responsiveness and Throughput of a System Performing Packetized Data Transfers - A mechanism for managing packetized data transfers in a system including a transmitting and a receiving device. The transmitting device may transmit data to the receiving device in a plurality of packets, each packet a predetermined number of data bytes wide. The transmitting device may include a transfer count unit to maintain a data transfer count based on a number of transmitted data bytes. The receiving device may program the transmitting device with a transfer count mark, which may be a number that corresponds to a specific count of the data transfer count. The transmitting device may calculate a difference between the data transfer count and the transfer count mark. If the difference between the transfer count and the transfer count mark is less than the predetermined number, the transmitting device may transmit a short data packet having less than the predetermined number of data bytes to the receiving device. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100202 | WIRELESS FIELDBUS MANAGEMENT - The invention relates to a communication system for interchanging data in an automation system for communication between central and peripheral devices. A converter is connected into the communication path between the central devices and peripheral devices and being designed for line-bound communication with the central device and for wireless communication with the peripheral devices. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100203 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING UPDATED PROCESSOR POLLING INFORMATION - Embodiments of the invention provide a method and an apparatus to collect and dynamically update processor polling information. In one method embodiment, the present invention collects processor polling information at boot time to be provided to an operating system. The processor polling information describes operating conditions of an integrated processing system. The operating system is then notified that a triggering event has occurred that may potentially alter the operating conditions of the integrated processor system. Providing to the operating system updated processor polling information during runtime to reflect the operating conditions of the integrated processor system after the occurrence of the triggering event. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100204 | Method, Apparatus, and Computer Usable Program Code for Migrating Virtual Adapters from Source Physical Adapters to Destination Physical Adapters - A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code are disclosed for migrating a virtual adapter from a source physical adapter to a destination physical adapter in a data processing system where multiple host computer systems share multiple adapters and communicate with those adapters through a PCI switched-fabric bus. The virtual adapter is first caused to stop processing transactions. All in-flight transactions that are associated with the virtual adapter are then captured. The configuration information that defines the virtual adapter is moved from the source physical adapter to the destination physical adapter. The in-flight transactions are then restored to their original locations on the destination virtual adapter. The virtual adapter is then restarted on the destination physical adapter such that the virtual adapter begins processing transactions. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100205 | MANAGMENT SYSTEM FOR RE-DISPLAYING CHARACTERS ON TERMINAL AND METHOD THEREOF - A management system for re-displaying characters on the terminal and re-displaying method thereof are disclosed. The management system includes a buffer having first buffer and a second buffer, a first switch, a second switch, and a control unit. The first buffer stores a plurality of characters constituting an image shown on a display of the terminal if the terminal is switched from the first computing device to the second computing device or if the second switch selects one of a first buffer set and a second buffer set. The second buffer stores a plurality of attributes constituting the image shown on the display of the terminal if the terminal is switched from the first computing device to the second computing device, or if the second switch selects one of a first buffer set and a second buffer set. The first switch couples one of the first computing device and the second computing device to the first buffer and the second buffer. The control unit is capable of controlling the switching procedure between the first computing device and the second computing device. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100206 | Memory and I/O Bridge - The present invention is directed to an improved memory and I/O bridge that provides an improved interface for communicating data between the data bus of the system processor and the memory controller. The memory and I/O bus bridge according to the present invention provides increased performance in the system. The memory and I/O bridge can include a deep memory access request FIFO to queue up memory access requests when the memory controller is busy. The memory and I/O bridge can include a memory write data buffer for holding and merging memory write operations to the same page of memory. The memory and I/O bridge can include a memory read data buffer for holding and queuing data and instructions read from memory, waiting to be forward to the data bus. The memory data read buffer can operate in one or more software selectable prefetch modes, which can cause one or more pages to be read in response to a single memory read instruction. The memory read data buffer can satisfy memory read request for data or instructions already held in the memory read buffer without reading the data or instructions from memory. The memory read data buffer can also provide for data coherency with respect the memory write data buffer and the external memory. The memory and I/O bridge can also include performance counters for tracking information about the performance of the memory and I/O bridge in order to tune the software operation and determine the optimum prefetch mode for a given application. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100207 | Memory Card Reader to Provide Access to Multiple Memory Card Types - A memory card reader is disclosed. In one embodiment, the memory card reader comprises a first slot to receive a first memory card of a first format; a second slot to receive a second memory card of a second format having fewer interface pins than the first format; an Integrated Device Electronics (IDE) interface for transferring data to a system; and a single IDE converter, coupled to the IDE interface and the first and second slot, to interface with a memory card of the first format inserted in the first slot or a memory card of the second format inserted in the second slot, to convert signals from the first or second memory card into a format for the IDE interface, and the converter to detect a card inserted in the first or second slot by detecting a voltage change in the first or second slot. In a second embodiment, the memory card reader comprises a single-slot configured to receive one of first memory card type without an adapter and a second memory card type via an adapter; an Integrated Device Electronics (IDE) interface for transferring data to a system; and an IDE converter coupled to the IDE interface and the single slot, the converter to interface with one of the first or second memory card type inserted in the single slot and to convert signals from an inserted memory card to a format for the IDE interface, the converter to detect an inserted card by reading one or more pins of a first set of pins of the single slot, and to identify a type of card inserted based on reading one or more pins of a second set of pins of the single slot. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100208 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING A HOT INPUT FUNCTION - A computer software system is disclosed for facilitating a user's replacement or insertion of devices in a computer server network system. The system allows a user to swap or add peripheral devices while the system is running, or in a “hot” condition, with little or no user knowledge of how the system carries out the “hot swap” or “hot add” functions. The system, which consists of a graphical user interface (GUI) and associated computer software modules, allows the user to select a desired peripheral device location within a server, and then provides the modular software structure to automatically execute a series of steps in the hot swap or hot add process. Each step is prompted by the user from the GUI, to invoke commands to instruct a network server through its operating system and hardware to suspend the appropriate device adapters, if necessary, power down the desired device slot or canister, allow the user to replace or insert a new device, and finally restart the adapters and the slot power. The system requires very little detailed input from the user other than identifying the particular peripheral device slot within the server to be maintained. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100209 | UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS HUB WITH SHARED HIGH SPEED HANDLER - A device may include an upstream port and several downstream ports configured to transfer data at a different data transfer rate than the upstream port. The device may also include several downstream data handlers, each coupled to a respective one of the downstream ports, and an upstream data handler coupled to the upstream port. The data handlers are configured to implement a USB protocol. The upstream data handler is configured to store specific transactions (comprising data) received through the upstream port. Each respective downstream data handler is configured to access respective transactions of the stored specific transactions intended for the downstream port associated with the respective downstream data handler, and transmit to its associated respective downstream port the data comprised in its respective transactions. Accordingly, the upstream data handler is shared between the various downstream data handlers. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100210 | Assembly for Permitting Power Over Ethernet Connection - An assembly for permitting “Power-over-Ethernet” (PoE) connection between a PoE control device and the components of a cabling network includes a patch panel or conventional design. The patch panel includes on a front face thereof a plurality of first sockets that are each open on the front face such that a plug inserted into the first socket is connectable to a data cable via a data transmission path forming part of the patch panel. The assembly includes a distribution matrix that is securable onto the front side of the patch panel, the distribution matrix including a plurality of through-going apertures corresponding in number and location to the first sockets of the patch panel such that when the matrix member is secured on the patch panel a said aperture is functionally in register with each of the first sockets. The distribution matrix includes a power bus supported thereby. The assembly includes one or more connector devices, and the power bus is connectable to a PoE controller. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100211 | Verification-scenario generating apparatus, verification-scenario generating method, and computer product - Hardware blocks respectively of an arbitrary access origin and an arbitrary access destination that are mutually accessible are extracted from among a plurality of hardware blocks constituting a bus system to be verified, and a path reaching from the access-origin hardware block to the access-destination hardware block is searched for. For each path found, a verification scenario is generated to verify transactions of the access-origin hardware block for a case where access to an address range assigned to the access-destination hardware block occurs, and the verification scenario is output being correlated with the path that corresponds thereto. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100212 | METHOD, APPARTUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND DATA STRUCTURE FOR PROVIDING AND UTILIZING HIGH PERFORMANCE BLOCK STORAGE METADATA - An enhanced mechanism for the allocation, organization and utilization of high performance block storage metadata provides a stream of data (e.g., in a server system, storage system, DASD, etc.) that includes a sequence of fixed-size blocks which together define a page. Each of the fixed-size blocks includes a data block and a footer. A high performance block storage metadata unit associated with the page is created from a confluence of the footers. Each footer in the confluence of footers has space available for application metadata, which are provided as one or more information units. At least one of the footers includes a Checksum field containing a checksum that covers at least the confluence of footers. This approach is advantageous in that it provides data integrity protection, protects against stale data, and significantly increases the amount of metadata space available for application use. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100213 | Systems and Methods for Managing Memory Core Surface - Accessing a shared buffer can include receiving an identifier associated with a buffer from a sending process, requesting one or more attributes corresponding to the buffer based on the received identifier, mapping at least a first page of the buffer in accordance with the one or more requested attributes, and accessing an item of data stored in the buffer by the sending process. The identifier also can comprise a unique identifier. Further, the identifier can be passed to one or more other processes. Additionally, the one or more requested attributes can include at least one of a pointer to a memory location and a property describing the buffer. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100214 | Management Platform For Extending Lifespan Of Memory In Storage Devices - A management platform for extending lifespan of memory, such as SD, MMC, micro SD, of storage devices is provided. The memory includes a plurality of virtual access units, and a virtual block is defined to include a fixed number of virtual access units. In the management platform, a memory control unit tallies the number of operations performed on a virtual access unit when the virtual access unit is selected to perform on. A processing unit determines whether the data stored in virtual access units should be move to another virtual access unit according to an operation threshold in order to prevent from data loss caused by the memory damage. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100215 | IDENTITY-BASED FLASH MANAGEMENT - Methods, apparatus, and computer code for effecting flash policy configuration operations in accordance with an end-user identifier and/or a host-instance identifier are disclosed herein. Exemplary flash policy configuration operations include (i) configuring a flash error-correction policy, (ii) configuring a flash-management table storage policy; (iii) configuring a wear-leveling policy; (iv) configuring a bad-block management policy and (v) configuring a flash-programming voltage parameter. Exemplary end-user identifiers include but are not limited to email account identifiers, logon user names, and International Mobile Subscriber Identities (IMSI). Exemplary host-instance identifiers may include but are not limited to International Mobile EQUIPMENT Identifiers (IMEI). Optionally, the flash policy configuration is contingent on authentication context data—for example, strength of the authentication (e.g. login/password vs. smartcard authentication or biometric authentication), date of the authentication, and identity provider information. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100216 | Power saving optimization for disk drives with external cache - A power conservation system implementable in a computer system. The system includes a non-volatile cache memory (NVCM) device for storing information. The NVCM device is operationally coupled to the computer system. The system also includes a data storage device coupled to the NVCM device. The data storage device is for storing said information. The system further includes a controller coupled to the NVCM device. The controller initiates an occurrence of writing the information in the NVCM device to the data storage device. The occurrence of writing causes powering up of the data storage device to which the data is to be written or from which data is to be retrieved. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100217 | Portable Data Transfer and Mass Storage Device for Removable Memory Modules - A hand-held battery powered device for transferring data between one or more flash memory modules and a mass storage device. The device includes one or more slots to accept a flash memory module into a housing which includes fixed or removable mass storage device and logic circuitry disposed within the housing for transferring data between the flash memory module and mass storage device. Ports are disclosed for transferring data from the resident mass storage device to the user's computer. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100218 | HARD DISK DRIVE WITH REDUCED POWER CONSUMPTION, RELATED DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND I/O METHOD - A hard disk drive is disclosed and related methods of reading/writing data are disclosed. The hard disk drive includes a disk serving as a main data storage medium, and first and second buffers storing data to be stored on the disk, as well as a controller defining a data I/O path in relation to a detected operating state of the hard disk drive. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100219 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT CAM LOOKUP FOR INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESSES - A method and apparatus adapted to perform content addressable memory (CAM) lookup by performing a lookup in parallel using multiple classification rules in the CAM with the same key, wherein the CAM lookup is used to resolve IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100220 | Memory system, control method thereof and computer system - A memory system includes a memory cell array for storing data; and a register unit including one or more registers for storing system information. In the memory system, when a simultaneous access to the memory cell array and the register unit is requested, write data for the memory cell array is inputted after write data for the register unit is inputted, respectively through a common data input bus in a write operation, and read data from the memory cell array is outputted after read data from the register unit is outputted, respectively through a common data output bus in a read operation. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100221 | EMBEDDED VIRTUAL MEDIA - A method and an optical storage medium are provided for storing data to and accessing data from an embedded virtual medium within the optical storage medium. Information describing the embedded virtual medium may be stored on to the optical storage medium. Space for an embedded lead-in area of the embedded virtual medium, as well as user data for the embedded virtual medium, may be allocated within a data zone of the optical medium. A spare sector bitmap may be included in a lead-an area of the optical medium indicating spare sectors within the embedded virtual medium as being unavailable. A spare sector bitmap may be included within the embedded virtual medium indicating available spare sectors of the embedded virtual medium. Physical sector/logical block mapping of the optical storage medium may be modified for accessing data stored on the embedded virtual medium. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100222 | System, Device, and Method for Detecting and Configuring Mirror Relationships in a Storage System - Mirror relationships between system drives may be detected and/or configured automatically by writing a predetermined data pattern to a predetermined location within a system drive and then checking one or more other system drives for a mirrored copy of the same data pattern. If the data pattern is found in another SD, then it can be assumed that there is a mirror relationship between the two SDs. Failure to find the data pattern in another SD, or finding the data pattern in multiple other SDs, may indicate an error condition. Once mirror relationships are discovered, the mirror relationships can be configured into the file server automatically so that the engineer does not have to manually configure the mirror relationships. The same mechanism can be used to check mirror relationships from time to time, for example, to detect possible problems with the RAID system. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100223 | Storage control apparatus, data archive method for storage control apparatus, and storage system - The storage control apparatus of the present invention efficiently shifts data which are stored in a virtual volume from a random access-type storage device to a sequential access-type storage device. The virtual volume is constituted by a plurality of pages. Each page is associated with either a segment of a disk device or a segment of a tape device. Data which have not been accessed by the host are collected in page units in a spare disk device for data migration. The data are copied from the migration source disk device to the migration destination tape device. The segment assignment destination of the page of the virtual volume is changed from a segment in the disk device to a segment in the tape device. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100224 | CACHE MANAGEMENT - Systems, methods and computer readable media for cache management. Cache management can operate to organize pages into files and score the respective files stored in a cache memory. The organized pages can be stored to an optical storage media based upon the organization of the files and based upon the score associated with the files. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100225 | Data processing apparatus and shared memory accessing method - The present invention provides a data processing apparatus for processing data by causing a plurality of function blocks to share a single shared memory, the data processing apparatus including: a memory controller configured to cause the plurality of function blocks to write and read data to/and from the shared memory in response to requests from any one of the function blocks; a cache memory; and a companding section configured to compress the data to be written to the cache memory while expanding the data read therefrom. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100226 | Cache memory device and microprocessor - A cache controller is connected to a processor and a main memory. The cache controller is also connected to a cache memory that can read and write at a speed higher than the main memory. The cache memory is provided with a plurality of cache lines that include a tag area storing an address on the main memory, a capacity area storing a capacity value of a cache block, and a cache block. When a read request is executed from the processor to the main memory, the cache controller checks whether the requested data is present in the cache memory or not. A cache capacity determination unit determines a capacity value for the cache block and supplies to a capacity area. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100227 | Processor architecture with wide operand cache - A programmable processor and method for improving the performance of processors by expanding at least two source operands, or a source and a result operand, to a width greater than the width of either the general purpose register or the data path width. The present invention provides operands which are substantially larger than the data path width of the processor by using the contents of a general purpose register to specify a memory address at which a plurality of data path widths of data can be read or written, as well as the size and shape of the operand. In addition, several instructions and apparatus for implementing these instructions are described which obtain performance advantages if the operands are not limited to the width and accessible number of general purpose registers. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100228 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING A CACHE MODEL IN A PREFETCHING SYSTEM - The present invention relates to systems and methods of enhancing prefetch operations. The method includes fetching an object from a page on a web server. The method further includes storing, at a proxy server, caching instructions for the fetched object. The proxy server is connected with the client and the object is cached at the client. Furthermore, the method includes identifying a prefetchable reference to the fetched object in a subsequent web page and using the caching instructions stored on the proxy server to determine if a fresh copy of the object will be requested by the client. Further, the method includes, based on the determination that the object will be requested, sending a prefetch request for the object using an If-Modified-Since directive, and transmitting a response to the If-Modified-Since directive prefetch request to a proxy client. | 2009-04-16 |
20090100229 | Method for Increasing Cache Directory Associativity Classes in a System With a Register Space Memory - In a method of managing a cache directory in a memory system, an original system address is presented to the cache directory when corresponding associativity data is allocated to an associativity class in the cache directory. The original system address is normalized by removing address space corresponding to a memory hole, thereby generating a normalized address. The normalized address is stored in the cache directory. The normalized address is de-normalized, thereby generating a de-normalized address, when the associativity data is cast out of the cache directory to make room for new associativity data. The de-normalized address is sent to the memory system for coherency management. | 2009-04-16 |