17th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130103766 | DYNAMICALLY UPDATING EMOTICON POOL BASED ON USER TARGETING - Embodiments are directed towards dynamically updating, in real-time, an emoticon pool of a user based on a current personal construct of the user. In one embodiment, real-time changes in the current personal construct of a user may result in a real-time update to the emoticon pool of the user, which can allow the user's emoticon pool to dynamically track the user's current personal construct. The current personal construct of a user may be determined by examining user targeted information associated with the user. In some embodiments, the user targeted information may include, but not limited to, static user information, dynamic user information, implicit user information, and/or dynamic external information. In one embodiment, a user's emoticon pool may be dynamically updated by modifying an appearance of one or more base emoticons in a base emoticon pool and/or one or more existing emoticons in the user's emoticon pool. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103767 | RETURN NOTIFICATIONS OF TASKS PERFORMED WITH ENTITIES - Feedback is provided to sources of information entities regarding subsequent utilization of those entities, thereby providing a measure of control through feedback loops that can include incentives or disincentives for specific tasks performed on entities, or tasks performed by specific services. An entity source, including intermediate sources and original authors of a cohesive collection of information that is an “entity”, provide those entities together with a return message template and an interface to which a return message is to be directed when a subsequent task is performed on that entity. Intermediate services, such as user agents, can add their own return message templates and interfaces to which return messages are to be directed. Subsequent performance of tasks on those entities comprises the creation and transmission of return messages to the interfaces specified and transmitted with the entity, thereby enabling prior systems to maintain logs of the utilization of an entity. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103768 | PHYSICIAN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD - The LynxIT Mobile System (LMS) provides efficient and economical communications solutions for healthcare professionals. The LMS provides physician to physician communication through mobile smartphone platforms, and rules, including role based rules that prevent unauthorized communications between users. The LMS interfaces with a paging system that provides paging services to the facilities, healthcare professionals, including physicians. The LMS and paging system may interface with staff directories and on-call schedules for hospitals and healthcare facilities accessible through a network. The LMS uses a staff directory and on-call schedule request service that communicates a request to accessible staff directories and on-call schedules for hospitals, healthcare professionals, and other healthcare facilities. The LMS and SPS ingest the directories returned from the request. In this way, physicians control communications between themselves and other healthcare professionals, and create private communications channels based on physician defined rules. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103769 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING COMMUNICATIONS - According to embodiments described in the specification, a method, system and apparatus for processing messages are provided. The method comprises storing a plurality of messages in a memory of the server, each message having one of a plurality of thread identifiers; receiving a closing message via a communications interface, the closing message including a first thread identifier and a thread closing instruction; responsive to receiving the closing message, locating each of the plurality of messages having thread identifiers which match the first thread identifier; and updating a status indicator in association with each of the located messages. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103770 | DISTRIBUTED SEMI-SYNCHRONIZED EVENT DRIVEN PLAYBACK OF MULTIMEDIA - A system is provided for enabling attendees of an online broadcast within a collaborative environment to interact with multimedia content during the online broadcast. By rendering the content itself instead of images derived from the content that cannot be interacted with, attendees are enabled to either drive their own multimedia experience, including play, seek, pause/stop, or follow the presenter and consume the multimedia based on the presenter's action (play, pause, stop, seek). The multimedia content may be rendered on each attendee's individual client device through local caching, which contributes to playback quality such that each individual attendee may be able to interact with and control the playback experience of the multimedia content independently. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103771 | GENERATING PROCESSED WEB ADDRESS INFORMATION - Generating processed web address information is disclosed, including: receiving a request to share a webpage, wherein the request includes at least a first web address information associated with the webpage and user identification information associated with a first user; generating a second web address information based at least in part on the first web address information and the user identification information associated with the first user; and presenting the second web address information. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103772 | METHOD FOR AN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM AND INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM - Processing for an Instant Messaging IM system includes obtaining contents of an IM session, identifying participants of the IM session, extracting, using a central processing unit, keywords of the IM session from the contents, and associating the keywords of the IM session, the participants of the IM session with the corresponding IM session. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103773 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION CONTROL DEVICE AND INFORMATION PRESENTATION CONTROL METHOD - An information presentation control device includes: an acquisition unit which acquires information items; an information total amount calculation unit which calculates a total amount of the information items; a sender importance level determining unit which determines sender importance levels each of which indicates how important a different one of senders is; an information total amount determining unit which determines whether or not the total amount of the information items is greater than a predetermined value; a filtering unit which performs, when it is determined that the total amount of the information items is greater than the predetermined value, at least one process on an information item having a lower sender importance level, among the information items, so that an amount of the information item is reduced more; and an output unit which outputs the information items after the filtering unit performs the process. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103774 | TRANSPORT HIGH AVAILABILITY VIA ACKNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT - Architecture that facilitates transport high availability for messaging services by providing the ability of a receiving entity (e.g., receiving message transfer agent (MTA)) to detect if a sending entity (e.g., sending MTA or client) is a legacy sending entity. When the receiving entity detects that the sending entity is a legacy system, by advertising transport high availability capability to the sending entity, if the sending entity does not opt-in to this capability, the receiving entity keeps the sending entity client “on hold”, that is, waiting for an acknowledgement (ACK) until the receiving entity delivers the message to the next hops (immediate destinations). This approach maintains at least two copies of the message until the message is successfully delivered (to the next hop(s)). Hence, if the legacy sending entity or the receiving entity fails, the message is still delivered successfully. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103775 | INTERNET-PADS THAT INCLUDE A DIGITAL CAMERA, A TOUCH SENSITIVE SCREEN INTERFACE, AND SUPPORT FOR VOICE ACTIVATED COMMANDS - New Internet-Pad specifications that include voice activated command functions are disclosed and enabled. The Internet-Pad may include a touch sensitive screen, a digital camera, a wireless communication unit, an operating system, a graphical user interface, an e-mail application, an Internet browsing application, and an application for playing audio or video content. The Internet-Pad operating system supports an application programming interface (API). A user can install additional applications. The Internet-Pad may further include a microphone and a speaker for interacting via voice commands with the user. In some examples, the user may take a picture with the digital camera included in the Internet-Pad and transfer or synchronize the picture to a wireless output device. In other examples, the Internet-Pad may transmit an e-mail upon receiving voice commands, and the Internet-Pad also may stream or mirror digital content over the air to an output device via voice commands. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103776 | NETWORK SYSTEMS AND METHODS - System and methods are provided. In one embodiment, a system includes a network protocol handler circuitry configured to communicate by using a network protocol, and a signal interface and timing circuitry communicatively coupled to the network protocol handler circuitry. The system further includes a diagnostic circuitry configured to provide network condition information, and a communications interface communicatively coupled to the signal interface and timing circuitry. The communications interface includes a first line receiver circuitry communicatively coupled to a network connector and configured to receive a first voltage and a first current associated with the network protocol. The communications interface further includes a push-pull driver circuitry configured to produce a second voltage and a second current transmitted through the network connector. The diagnostic circuitry is configured to use at least one of the first voltage, the first current, or a network state information to provide the network condition information. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103777 | NETWORK INTERFACE CONTROLLER WITH CIRCULAR RECEIVE BUFFER - A method for communication includes allocating in a memory of a host device a contiguous, cyclical set of buffers for use by a transport service instance on a network interface controller (NIC). First and second indices point respectively to a first buffer in the set to which the NIC is to write and a second buffer in the set from which a client process running on the host device is to read. Upon receiving at the NIC a message directed to the transport service instance and containing data to be pushed to the memory, the data are written to the first buffer that is pointed to by the first index, and the first index is advanced cyclically through the set. The second index is advanced cyclically through the set when the data in the second buffer have been read by the client process. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103778 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CHANGE TIERS - Systems and methods directed to changing tiers for a storage area that utilizes thin provisioning. Systems and methods check the area subject to a tier change command and change the tier based on the tier specified in the tier change command, and the tier presently associated with the targeted storage area. The pages of the systems and methods may be further restricted to one file per page. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103779 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUGMENTING SMARTPHONE-CENTRIC IN-CAR INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM USING VEHICLE WIFI/DSRC - A method and system for augmenting smartphone-centric in-car infotainment systems using Wi-Fi or DSRC communications between a vehicle and surrounding infrastructure. One or more smartphones or other electronic devices within a vehicle electronically communicate with the vehicle via a wireless protocol, such as Bluetooth, or a wired connection. The electronic devices run applications which submit requests for internet-based files or data, such as web pages, audio or video files. The vehicle brokers these requests and, using its own external wireless communications systems, such as Wi-Fi or DSRC, retrieves as many of the files or data as possible whenever internet access is available via an external wireless connection. The vehicle then provides the files or data to the requesting electronic devices. A token-based method for prioritizing the requests and rendering the data to the electronic devices is also disclosed. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103780 | DELAYED PUBLISHING IN PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS - Techniques for delaying the publication of data to a network by a device in a process control system or plant include obtaining, at the device, data to be published to the network; storing the obtained data and a corresponding timestamp in a cache; triggering a publication of cached data; and, based on the trigger, publishing the oldest cached data to the network during the publishing timeslot assigned to the device. The cached data may correspond to a sample rate of the device and may include multiple instances of data obtained over time. The device includes a network interface, a cache, and a publisher, and the device may be configured to operate in the delayed publishing mode, or to operate in an immediate publishing mode in which currently obtained data that has not been cached is published to the network during the publishing time slot assigned to the device. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103781 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A mobile communication device is mounted on a vehicle, and has a reception unit for receiving a distributed cache that is data having divided information, a distributed cache restoration unit for restoring the distributed cache into original information, a data dividing unit for producing the distributed cache by dividing the information, and a transmission unit for transmitting the distributed cache. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103782 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CACHING OF COMPRESSED CONTENT IN A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - A content delivery network (CDN) edge server is provisioned to provide last mile acceleration of content to requesting end users. The CDN edge server fetches, compresses and caches content obtained from a content provider origin server, and serves that content in compressed form in response to receipt of an end user request for that content. It also provides “on-the-fly” compression of otherwise uncompressed content as such content is retrieved from cache and is delivered in response to receipt of an end user request for such content. A preferred compression routine is gzip, as most end user browsers support the capability to decompress files that are received in this format. The compression functionality preferably is enabled on the edge server using customer-specific metadata tags. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103783 | Reducing Packet Size In A Communication Protocol - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a processor that can generate data packets for transmission to an agent, where the processor can generate a data packet having a command portion including a first operation code to encode a transaction type for the data packet and a second operation code to encode a processor-specific operation. This second operation code can encode many different features such as an indication that the data packet is of a smaller size than a standard packet, in order to reduce bandwidth. This operation code can also identify an operation to be performed by a destination agent coupled to the agent. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103784 | ROUTING CLIENT REQUESTS - A server configured to operate as either or both a web server and a DNS server is disclosed. Such a server responds to a received content request by either directly servicing the request or redirecting the request to another server capable of handling the request, and the server responds to a DNS request by at least partially resolving a domain name of the request and responding to the request with a DNS response. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103785 | REDIRECTING CONTENT REQUESTS - Various techniques for redirecting content requests are disclosed. In some embodiments, in response to receiving a request for content published by a publisher from a client at a redirect host configured to implement a content delivery policy for the publisher, it is determined based on the content delivery policy whether to select a publisher server for servicing the request. In the event that a determination is made not to select a publisher server for servicing the request, the client or request is redirected to a content delivery network. In the event that a determination is made to select a publisher server for servicing the request, the client or request is redirected to the selected publisher server. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103786 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSPORTING FILES BETWEEN NETWORKED OR CONNECTED SYSTEMS AND DEVICES - A system and method for file transfer management are disclosed. An example embodiment includes: initiating a transfer of a file from a source system to a target system; deconstructing a file into logical components based on the format of the file; storing the cacheable logical components in a parent cache; generating an element list including a component identifier of the cacheable logical components; and delivering the element list to the target system. The example embodiment includes: receiving, at the target system the element list; determining if cacheable logical components are present in a child cache; fetching the cacheable logical components from the child cache; fetching other cacheable logical components and non-cacheable gap components from the source system; reconstructing the file by combining the fetched components; storing the missing cacheable logical components into the child cache; and delivering the reconstructed file to a destination. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103787 | HIGHLY AVAILABLE NETWORK FILER WITH AUTOMATIC LOAD BALANCING AND PERFORMANCE ADJUSTMENT - Techniques are provided for exporting one or more file systems through multiple nodes of a cluster. One or more of the exported file systems may be simultaneously exported through a single node of the cluster. A bundle, or mapping between a node in the cluster and a file system, is created. The bundle represents an amount of work assigned to the node. A bundle is reassigned from one node to another node in the cluster in response to a failover, an addition of a new node to the cluster, or in response to a load balancing determination. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103788 | Distributing Licensed Content Across Multiple Devices - Distributing licensed content across multiple devices, including: identifying, by a mobile device, licensed content being presented by a local presentation device; determining, by the mobile device, whether the mobile device is eligible to receive the licensed content; requesting, by the mobile device, a license for the licensed content being presented by the local presentation device; receiving, by the mobile device, the license for the licensed content being presented by the local presentation device; receiving, by the mobile device, licensed content for mobile device presentation; and presenting, by the mobile device, the licensed content for mobile device presentation. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103789 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - Subject-data-to-be-collected representing an element to be collected is generated or selected, when a server and any one of a plurality of hand-held information terminals cooperate with each other to perform predetermined information processing by using data transmitted and received between the server and the one of the plurality of hand-held information terminals. Each of the plurality of hand-held information terminals transmits to and receives from another one of the plurality of hand-held information terminals, the subject-data-to-be-collected. Thus, pleasure of collecting the subject-data-to-be-collected by communication among the hand-held information terminals, is provided. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103790 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ONE OR MORE UPDATED FILES FOR A GENERATED USER PERSONALIZED SOFTWARE APPLICATION - In an aspect, a system, non-transitory machine readable medium and method for updating at least a portion of a previously transmitted personalized software application is disclosed. A request is received from a user's client device to obtain one or more updated files associated with a previously transmitted personalized software application which includes a customized executable file having core library file(s) and configuration file(s). The user and client device profile information is retrieved from a user database to identify the core library and the one or more configuration files that were included in the previously transmitted executable file. A file database is accessed and at least one updated file is selected corresponding to a previous version file included in the previously transmitted executable file. The updated file(s) is sent to the client device which is then implemented by the client device to operate the updated version of the software application. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103791 | Optimizing content delivery over a protocol that enables request multiplexing and flow control - A content delivery network (CDN) proxy (or, more generally, a server) that is content-aware is programmed to modify or augment a content object in such a manner that the content object, or elements thereof, is or are deliverable to a requesting client over a multi-stream, priority-enable connection. A representative application layer protocol that implements such delivery is SPDY. By virtue of its content-awareness, one or more elements of the content object may be delivered with prioritization so as to optimize “effective” page load time, namely, the time necessary for usable portions of the page to be loaded and rendered on the requesting client. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103792 | Methods and Systems for Transferring Client Device Data Over a Network - Systems and methods for the transfer of client device data on a network are described. One described method comprises causing non-time-sensitive client device data to be identified on a client device, causing the non-time-sensitive client device data to be prepared for output and stored by the client device, and causing the non-time-sensitive client device data to be output with a request signal upon satisfaction of a condition. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103793 | UTILIZING A SCANNABLE IMAGE TO OBTAIN A NETWORK RESOURCE REQUEST - Systems and methods for managing network resource requests are described herein. Servers may be configured to operate in communication with a network. A server, in accordance with embodiments described in the present disclosure, includes a resource request handling program that is stored in a memory device. The resource request handling program is configured to extract an abbreviated resource request into at least an abbreviated site name and a page symbol. The server also includes a database that is configured to store a first relationship between the abbreviated site name and a web site. The database may also store a second relationship between the page symbol and a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address of a web page associated with the web site. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103794 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING TOOLING ACTIVITIES - An apparatus or system and method or process for displaying tool or die data or other tool or processing information on a display window of a webpage. A method for displaying tool data from a reciprocating tool includes positioning a monitor with respect to the reciprocating tool and the monitor recording data from the reciprocating tool. The data is communicated and then stored in a remote data storage location as stored tool data. The stored tool data is processed and then displayed, for example in the window of the webpage. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103795 | METHODS OF ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION IN A SENSOR NETWORK AND APPARATUS - A method of establishing a communication path in a sensor network, the sensor network having a tree structure comprising a plurality of root nodes representative of access point devices in said sensor network, and at least one non-root node representative of a sensor device in said sensor network, wherein each node in said sensor network is associated with a rank value determining its position relative to other nodes, such that said non-root node has higher rank value than said root node, the method comprising forwarding a control message from each root node in a subset of said plurality of root nodes, the control message comprising a tree size value associated with said each root node in said subset, the tree size value defining the number of non-root nodes associated with each root node in said subset; and upon reception of said control message, selecting one of said root nodes in said subset to establish a communication path between said at least one non-root node, based on said tree size values of said root nodes in said subset, such that tree sizes of said each root node in said subset is substantially balanced relative to each other. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103796 | MEDIA ENHANCEMENT MECHANISM - A method to provide additional media objects for data objects containing one or more existing media objects is described. The existing media object is analyzed to determine additional related media available on the network and the data object description is augmented with metadata to identify the additional media in an enhanced data object description. When the enhanced data object is rendered, the metadata facilitates incorporation of additional media objects in the displayed page. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103797 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING CONTENTS BETWEEN DEVICES - A method and apparatus for sharing content between devices are provided. A method of a device for requesting to share content includes searching for a peer device capable of sharing the content, reproducing the content according to a user control, receiving a request to share the content with the peer device from the user, and transmitting a sharing request signal including location information of the content to the peer device. A method of a device for receiving a request to share content includes transmitting to a peer device a signal for indicating that the content can be shared, receiving a sharing request signal including location information of the content from the peer device, and reproducing the content by receiving the web content by using the location information. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103798 | LAUNCHING SESSIONS ON A COMMUNICATION SERVER - A method for creating a plurality of multimedia sessions between a first user and a second user, a first multimedia session being set up between the first and second users via a first server. The method comprises the following steps implemented by a second server: receiving a connection request from a first terminal of the first user comprising an identifier of the first user; transmitting the identifier of the first user to the first server in order to request at least an identifier of a user sharing the first multimedia session with the first user via the first server; receiving from the first server at least an identifier of said second user; and creating a second multimedia session between the first terminal of the first user and a second terminal of the second user via the second server. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103799 | METHOD, SYSTEM, CLIENT AND SERVER FOR LOCATING OPERATION NODES IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to the field of mobile communication technologies, and provides a method for locating operation nodes in a communication system. The method includes using an identifier in the received message to obtain an adjusted path from the root node of the management tree of the client to the standard management object corresponding to the identifier, using the message to obtain a relative path between the target operation node and the root node of the standard management object on the management tree, concatenating the adjusted path with the relative path, and locating the target operation node according to the concatenated path. The present disclosure also provides a system for locating operation nodes, a client for locating operation nodes in a communication system, and a server for performing management operations for clients. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103800 | DYNAMICALLY OPTIMIZING DELIVERY OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT OVER A NETWORK - A method includes connecting a communications device to an Internet Multimedia Subsystem network. The method includes transmitting presence information indicating multimedia capabilities of the communications device and requesting multimedia content from a multimedia server to cause the multimedia server to transmit multimedia content. The method includes detecting connection of a peripheral device to the communications device and determining that the multimedia capabilities have increased due to the connection of the peripheral device. The method includes updating the presence information to indicate the increased multimedia capabilities and transmitting the updated presence information to cause the multimedia server to transmit the multimedia content adjusted for the increased multimedia capabilities indicated in the updated presence information. The method includes receiving the multimedia content adjusted for the increased multimedia capabilities and presenting at least some of the adjusted multimedia content on the peripheral device. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103801 | WIND PARK NETWORK SYSTEM - A wind park network system is provided. The network system has a first and a second networks, a first and a second wind turbines representing a first and a second network elements, a first central unit and a second central unit for transmitting messages within the first and the second networks respectively. The first and the second wind turbines are connected to the first and the second central units within the first and the second networks respectively. The first and the second central units are connected. The first and the second networks are in a star topology and operate independently from each other such that a redundant network topology for the first and the second networks is realized. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103802 | SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM | 2013-04-25 |
20130103803 | METHOD FOR CREATING AN INTERNET BUSINESS - The present invention provides a method for an Entrepreneur to start an Internet business by creating an Entrepreneur's web site using tools provided at a Facilitator's web site. The method allows the Entrepreneur to access the Facilitator's web site, register a desired available domain name, trademark the domain name, design an Entrepreneur's web site accessible via the domain name, design a similar appearing store front web site to handle commercial transactions, copyright the Entrepreneur's web site, offer hosting services for the Entrepreneur's web site and submit the Entrepreneur's web site to one or more search engines. Tremendous synergies may be achieved and serious pitfalls avoided in creating the Internet business by receiving overall guidance and assistance from one web site, i.e. a Facilitator's web site, in performing these processes. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103804 | Delivering a Customized Service to a Mobile Device Using a Link - A method of delivering a user specific customized service to a mobile user device is disclosed. User specific customized service information is received over a first channel. An identifier for the user specific customized service is generated. A link is sent that includes the identifier of the user specific customized service over a second channel. The user specific customized service identifier is received. The user specific customized service over a third channel is sent. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103805 | FACILITATING CONTENT ACCESSIBILITY VIA DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION FORMATS - Facilitating content accessibility via different communication formats is disclosed. In some embodiments, in response to receiving a content request from an IPv6 enabled client, the requested content is provided to the IPv6 enabled client in IPv6 format, wherein the requested content is originally obtained in IPv4 format from an IPv4 enabled server and translated into IPv6 format. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103806 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING BUSINESS RULES IN A CONFIGURATION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus for maintaining businesses rules in a configuration system are disclosed. The presently disclosed system allows systems to be configured using a plurality of rules that are syndicated by a plurality of different manufacturers. Each manufacturer syndicates a portion of the overall system attributes and/or configuration rule set for use by others. Configuration users, such as the sales channel, may then create additional rules and/or configure products with the most recent version of the component attributes and configuration rules, and no single entity is burdened with maintaining the entire attribute and/or rule set. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103807 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXCHANGING CONFIGURATION INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK - A method of exchanging configuration information needed to authenticate an unregistered Wi-Fi client device to an access point of a wireless local area network is described. A SSID of the AP and a temporary hidden secondary SSID of the AP are enabled for a preset time period with a residential gateway providing the AP of the WLAN. A message is received in the form of IP UDP packets by the residential gateway to the temporary hidden secondary SSID of the AP during the preset time period requesting network configuration information. The residential gateway transmits the requested network configuration information via return message in the form of IP UDP packets on the temporary hidden secondary SSID of the AP. Additional methods and apparatus are described. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103808 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXECUTING AND UNDOING DISTRIBUTED SERVER CHANGE OPERATIONS - A method and system for executing and undoing distributed server change operations for a collection of server objects across multiple target servers in a transaction-safe manner is provided. In one embodiment, server change operations for a collection of server objects, such as files and configuration file entries, are specified in a transaction package. The target servers to which the specified change operation are directed are also identified in the transaction package. Parameter values for each of the identified target servers are specified through a parameter file in the transaction package. The transaction package is sent to the identified target servers, which execute the change operations on the target servers in a transaction-safe manner using these parameter values. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103809 | Logical Networks - An invention is provided for creating logical network abstractions of physical networks, and deploying computer services to physical networks based on a specified logical network. In an embodiment, a physical network is divided into one or more logical networks. Upon receiving an indication to deploy a computer service to a logical network, a mapping from that logical network to a sub-network of the physical network is determined, the service is configured to execute on the sub-network of the physical network, and an indication of this configuration of the service is stored. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103810 | Periodic Ambient Waveform Analysis for Dynamic Device Configuration - Client devices periodically capture ambient audio waveforms and modify their own device configuration based on the captured audio waveform. In particular embodiments, client devices generate waveform fingerprints and upload the fingerprints to a server for analysis. The server compares the waveform fingerprints to a database of stored waveform fingerprints, and upon finding a match, pushes content or other information to the client device. The fingerprints in the database may be uploaded by other users, and compared to the received client waveform fingerprint based on common location or other social factors. Thus a client's location may be enhanced if the location of users whose fingerprints match the client's is known, and, based upon this enhanced location, the server may transmit an instruction to the device to modify its device configuration. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103811 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A COMMUNICATION FOR AT LEAST ONE DEVICE - A method for providing a communication for at least one device that is provided for a motor vehicle and is linked via a network of the motor vehicle to at least one further device, where data between the at least one device and the at least one further device are exchanged via an Internet Protocol. Also a device and a network are provided. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103812 | Installation of server-stored disk image on client - A client computing device uses a transport protocol to randomly access over a network a disk image stored on a server computing device. The disk image is remotely mounted at the client computing device from the server computing device. The disk image is installed on a storage device of the client computing device, without having to map the disk image as a network drive at the client computing device and/or without downloading the disk image locally to the client computing device. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103813 | Handling of HTTP Video Streams - According to one embodiment, a network device examines content-type fields of a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) response message in response to a request for a selected content type. Thereafter, the priority level and/or the quality of service (QoS) level of communications is modified during transmission of a data stream having the selected content type. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103814 | System and Method for a Shared Media Experience - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for a shared media experience. Multiple client devices are associated with a group for a shared media experience, such as watching a YouTube video together. The client devices subscribe to a publication/subscription (pub/sub) server that publishes updates for the shared media experience for the client devices. Thus, when a client device makes a change in the shared media experience, such as making a comment, pausing the video, skipping forward or backward, adjusting the volume, inserting an audio or video annotation, tagging the video, switching to a different piece of media, and so forth, the client device notifies a management server. The management server pushes that change to the pub/sub server, which publishes the change to the group. As the changes propagate to the clients, the client software modifies the client side experience accordingly. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103815 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS DEVICE CONFIGURATION - A method for managing policies for groups of wireless devices, associated with a corresponding one of multiple different wireless device platforms comprising collecting for all platforms a set of configurations and policies supported by the platforms, and generating a master set of device agnostic rule definitions from the collected configurations and policies, the rules being defined without regard to constraints on the configuration settings governed by the multiple different wireless device platforms. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103816 | MULTIPLATFORM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Systems and methods for managing multiple wireless devices are disclosed. An exemplary system includes multiple domains each having a particular type of wireless device management system and respective (application programming interface) APIs. API call modules corresponding to each domain enable accessing of the APIs exposed by each of the respective domains. A management console enables compiling of a consolidated list of devices and users from each of the device management systems into a single view. An exemplary method includes querying multiple domains to obtain user information, compiling a consolidated list of users, displaying the consolidated list in a user interface, selecting a user from the consolidated list, and submitting a command to either all or a specific domain for the selected user. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103817 | CHASSIS CONTROLLER - A network control system for generating physical control plane data for managing first and second managed forwarding elements that implement forwarding operations associated with a first logical datapath set is described. The system includes a first controller instance for converting logical control plane data for the first logical datapath set to universal physical control plane (UPCP) data. The system further includes a second controller instance for converting UPCP data to customized physical control plane (CPCP) data for the first managed forwarding element but not the second managed forwarding element. The system further includes a third controller instance for receiving UPCP data generated by the first controller instance, identifying the second controller instance as the controller instance responsible for generating the CPCP data for the first managed forward element, and supplying the received UPCP data to the second controller instance. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103818 | PHYSICAL CONTROLLER - A network control system for generating physical control plane data for managing first and second managed forwarding elements that implement forwarding operations associated with a first logical datapath set is described. The system includes a first controller instance for converting logical control plane data for the first logical datapath set to universal physical control plane (UPCP) data. The system further includes a second controller instance for converting UPCP data to customized physical control plane (CPCP) data for the first managed forwarding element but not the second managed forwarding element. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103819 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A USER NETWORK IDENTITY ADDRESS PROVISIONING SERVER - A number of computing devices associated with a particular user have a network capability between them for management and control, said capability to enable these devices, running on different, physically distributed hardware, to interwork securely and privately. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103820 | System and Method for Storage Discovery in a Storage Area Network Using Device Domains Under Control of a Storage Device - A storage device coupled to a fabric includes a memory and a processor operable to receive, default domain information for a storage area network (SAN) from a management server coupled to the fabric. The default domain information including a list of host systems and a list of initiators on the SAN. The processor also sends the default domain information to a management station to configure a discovery domain including a host system selected from the list of host systems and an initiator selected from the list of initiators, receives the discovery domain from the management station, directs the management server to add the first discovery domain to a list of device domains implemented by the management server on the SAN, and directs the management server to enable the first discovery domain. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103821 | WIRELESS NETWORK PERFORMANCE MONITORING - A system and method include determining an amount of network traffic to add to traffic in the network to emulate a desired condition, beginning a test of the network such that network nodes generate test traffic in accordance with the determined amount of network traffic to emulate the desired condition, receiving the test traffic, and calculating network performance measures as a function of the received test traffic. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103822 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK MANAGEMENT - System and methods for inferring network topology are described, including a method comprising determining a normalized transmit power of a first device, identifying a second device based upon a parameter of the second device and the normalized transmit power of the first device, and generating a topology including the first device and the second device based upon at least one of the normalized transmit power of the first device and the parameter of the second device. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103823 | EVENT PREDICTION AND PREEMPTIVE ACTION IDENTIFICATION IN A NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention relate to an approach for using electronic feeds (e.g., online news feeds, social media resources/websites, etc.) to predict potentially harmful events and take preemptive measures/actions to minimize and/or avoid loss. In a typical embodiment, a set of electronic feeds (e.g., news feeds and/or social networking website feeds) is accessed. A query is then issued against the set of feeds based on a set of search criteria pertaining to a possible event having a potential to adversely affect the networked computing environment. A set of results is received in a computer memory medium of the networked computing environment. It may then be determined whether at least one property of the set of results (e.g., a quantity of ‘hits’) meets one or more predetermined event criteria (e.g., a predetermined threshold). | 2013-04-25 |
20130103824 | Portable terminal receiving remote support, remote support method, program, operator system, operator server, and operator terminal for remote support - When not the target device accessed by an operator terminal but other devices communicatably connected therewith have problems, the setting operation and the status viewing of the device with a problem are enabled through the target device accessed by an operator terminal. The portable terminal detects the electric appliance connected with a local area network connected with the portable terminal, in response to an instruction from the operator terminal. The portable terminal enables the setting operation and the status viewing of the electric appliance from the operator terminal based on the determined model related information, so that the problem of the electric appliance can be solved. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103825 | AUTOMATIC RESOURCE MEASURING SYSTEM - The invention discloses an automatic resource measuring system, in other words an ARM system, to measure resources of a workflow or to form a workflow model for resource management in a distributed system. The ARM system is arranged to measure the distributed system to be examined and comprises radio transmitters which are station transmitters and task transmitters. Furthermore the ARM system comprises data collectors with a radio receiver for receiving the signals from the station transmitters and the task transmitters at the area of the station and a data server for receiving and processing the data collected by data collectors. The ARM system applies an interrupt signal to selectively mute task transmitters for a random time to avoid collision problems. The data collector transmits its arrival and exit data and task arrival data. This data is associated with a moment of time at the latest when said data arrives at the data server. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103826 | AUTOMATED SERVICE TIME ESTIMATION METHOD FOR IT SYSTEM RESOURCES - Embodiments provide a method for upgrading resources in a system including normalizing a collected dataset, scattering data from the normalized dataset, obtaining a plurality of clusters based on the scattered data, discarding one or more clusters from the plurality of clusters with less than a percentage of a total number of observations, in each cluster, performing clusterwise regression and obtaining linear sub-clusters in a defined number, reducing one or more sub-clusters including applying a refinement procedure, removing one or more sub-clusters that fit to outliers and merging pairs of clusters that fit an equivalent model, updating one or more clusters with the reduced sub-clusters, removing one or more globular clusters, reducing a number of clusters with the refinement procedure, and de-normalizing one or more results. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103827 | CLOUD COMPUTING ENHANCED GATEWAY FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A network traffic managing node of a local area network, such as a router or gateway, can monitor network traffic of the local area network. A network event associated with the local area network is detected using the network traffic managing node. The network event is reported from the network traffic managing node to one or more servers of a cloud-based computing network. A network policy update for the network traffic managing node is received from the cloud-based computing network. The network policy update is based, at least in part, on a type of network event reported to the cloud-based computing network. The network policy update is implemented at the network traffic managing node to process and/or resolve the network event. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103828 | THIRD PARTY VERIFICATION USING OVERRIDE IP ADDRESSES - Techniques for third party verification using override IP addresses is described, including detecting a request header from an endpoint, the request header being associated with a request for a media file, initiating a download of the media file to the endpoint, evaluating the request header to identify an address associated with the endpoint, generating a notification comprising the address, the notification being configured to indicate the address overrides a source address identified by a field in a packet associated with the request header, and sending the notification to report data associated with the media file, wherein the address overrides the source address to identify a source of the request. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103829 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Traffic data while the system is in operation is collected for a certain time as a preprocess. Typical patterns are extracted from the collected traffic data. Next, stream programs are created for the individual typical patterns and stored for the future reference. Next, the IDs of alternative tasks for transition among different stream programs are stored. In actual system operation, the system measures traffic data regularly or at any time, compares the resultant patterns with the typical patterns, and selects a stream program corresponding to the closest typical pattern as the next phase. Program shutdown time when shifting from the stream program in the present phase to the next phase can be reduced by gradually shifting empty tasks in the present phase to the next stream program as alternative tasks in consideration of the cost of switching between tasks, the cost of transferring data among resources, and so on. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103830 | Time Monitor - A method and system for measuring latency is provided. A monitor node is used to measure latency in a computer network or in a computing device by time stamping signal messages sent from nodes in the computer network and/or tasks in a particular node or device. The time stamps are generated using a system clock of the monitor node to reduce any discrepancies in timing. In addition, the monitor node may compensate for latencies between the monitor node and each of the one or more nodes or devices across which latency is to be measured. Signal messages may include a data message ID and/or a node ID identifying the message that is being tracked and for which latency is being measured. Latency may further be measured across multiple tasks being performed in the same or different nodes or devices by transmitting signal messages for each of the multiple tasks. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103831 | ASSESSING CONDITIONS OF POWER CONSUMPTION IN COMPUTER NETWORK - A display apparatus including: a collecting unit that collects power consumption information, wherein the power consumption information shows power consumption of a connecting device, and the connecting device interconnects a plurality of communication paths in a computer network; and a display unit that displays power consumption of the computer network, based on the power consumption information and constituent units based on a virtual network which is configured virtually on the computer network. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103832 | STREAM APPLICATION PERFORMANCE MONITORING METRICS - Techniques are disclosed for calculating performance metrics associated with a data stream. A processing element configured to process data tuples flowing through a stream-based computing system receives data tuples via the data stream. Each of the one or more tuples is processed at the processing element, and each of the one or more tuples are associated with metadata that includes information related to the processing of the tuple by the processing element. Performance metrics are then calculated for the data stream based on the metadata associated with the one or more tuples. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103833 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A MOBILE NODE TO CONNECT DIFFERENT ACCESS ROUTERS WHILE MAINTAINING A CONSISTENT NETWORK ADDRESS - In a Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIP) network, a mobile node can roam between different access networks while maintaining a consistent IP address for session continuity. To provide access to a user's home LAN resources, even when the user's mobile node is not directly attached to the home LAN, a local mobility anchor and mobility access gateway are configured to authenticate the mobile node credentials and if authorised, to provide access to the user's LAN resources by via data tunnels and routing table reconfigurations. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103834 | Multi-Tenant NATting for Segregating Traffic Through a Cloud Service - An apparatus, system, and method for segregating customer traffic through a cloud service are disclosed. The apparatus, system, and method perform network address translation (NAT) on first data packets received from a subnet to translate a first private network IP address into a second private network IP addresses, perform network address and port translation (NAPT) on the first data packets to translate the second private network IP address into a second public network IP address before sending the first data packets to a remote host, perform NAPT on second data packets received from the remote host to translate the second private network IP address back into the first private network IP address, and perform NAT on the second data packets to translate the second private network IP address back into the first private network IP address before sending the second data packets to the subnet. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103835 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - Requested processing time of each batch job is complied with. A resource-correction control server calculating an amount of a resource required for setup of a batch application includes an intermediate-process-unit-data acquiring unit that compiles data of completed batch processes as a single data set at a predetermined time point, a resource-correction determining unit that, using the intermediate process unit, determines a process progress rate that is a progress rate of a process at the current time point and whether the process progress rate has reached a required progress rate that is a progress rate required to terminate the batch process within the requested processing time, and an allocation-resource calculating unit that, as a result of the determination, if the required progress rate has not been reached, calculates the amount of the resource required for recovery of the delay based on a delay-recovery-object progress rate and resource information. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103836 | Centralized Configuration with Dynamic Distributed Address Management - The present disclosure discloses a network device and/or method for centralized configuration with dynamic distributed address management. The disclosed network device receives, at a first network node, a range of sub network addresses and a specified size for a sub network. The disclosed network device then divides the range of sub network addresses into a plurality of sub-ranges of sub network addresses based on the specified size. Further, the network device allocates the plurality of sub-ranges of sub network addresses to a plurality of sub networks, and transmits an allocated sub-range of sub network addresses to a corresponding sub network at a second network node through an established secure communication channel. Moreover, the network device can retrieve a profile template that includes the range of sub network addresses and the specified size of the sub network; and create a profile based on the profile template. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103837 | FEDERATED, POLICY-DRIVEN SERVICE MESHES FOR DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS - Platforms, systems, software, and methods for deploying and maintaining distributed computing, networking and storage comprising a configuration of dedicated service meshes. The invention further comprising a module for dynamically managing physical nodes; a module for dynamically managing nodes on physical nodes; a module for dynamically managing services/workers on nodes; a module for governing communication within the system and with the system; a plurality of communication endpoints; a plurality of services, wherein each service is associated with one or more endpoints, wherein services communicate by message exchange via their endpoints; a module for grouping nodes into clusters; a module for grouping endpoints into meshes such that all member services of a mesh can be addressed as a whole or as pertinent subsets thereof; and a module for dynamically effecting topology changes. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103838 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING GUEST OPERATING SYSTEM - A method for transferring one or more guest operating system (OS) using a remote server. The remote server periodically obtains a central processing unit (CPU) utilization ratio of each guest OS installed in each cloud server of the data center. The remote server counts the number of times of obtaining the CPU utilization ratio, and calculates a predicted average of the CPU utilization ratio for each cloud server if the counted number of the times is equal to a predetermined number. The remote server transfers one or more guest OS from the cloud server to other cloud servers before a predetermined time, in response to a determination that the predicted average of the CPU utilization ratio of the cloud server is greater than a predetermined average. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103839 | Method For Providing Data From A Resource Weak Device To A Computer Client - A method and a system for providing data from a resource weak device to a computer client connected to the resource weak device, allowing the computer client to receive and send information from and to the resource weak device, and a data stream between the resource weak device and the computer client is mapped from a low level data format to a high level data format by a mapping function in the computer client, the mapping function comprises static data relating to the resource weak device and the high level data format link to the static data, the second high level data format is used for displaying the data from the resource weak device at the computer client. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103840 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT CONTROLS CONNECTION OF DEVICES, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE CONTROL SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus which is capable of performing device connection control for connection to more devices than the maximum connectable devices defined by the device interface standard or the SDK. A device server communication module generates communication threads for controlling data communication with device servers according to requests from higher-layer software. Each communication thread generates a device stack for controlling a device via an associated device server connected thereto in such a manner as if the device were directly connected to the apparatus. When a connection notification indicative of connection with the device is received, the communication thread attempts to detect a device stack in a non-data transmission and reception state from the device stacks, and connects to the device server via the detected device stack to perform data transmission and reception. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103841 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED SERVER SIDE BROKERING OF A CONNECTION TO A REMOTE DEVICE - Systems and methods described herein provide for automated brokering of a remote connection to a device between entities, including support personnel, work queues and automated support tools. The automated brokering of the remote connection may be based on a work flow or events detecting during service to the remote device. In one example deployment, a centralized service provides support services to multiple customer devices. For each device, the centralized service establishes a remote connection to the device via a remote connectivity tool. Based on the type of work to perform, the centralized service may automatically provide the remote connection to a support automation tool to automatically deliver a local automation service to the device or to a remote support agent to access the device via the remote connection. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103842 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES FOR APPLICATION SERVICE LAYER (ASL) INTER-NETWORKING - Systems and/or methods for providing internetworking among application services layers (ASLs) of different network technologies may be provided. For example, a tunnel anchor point (TAP) may be established. The TAP may be configured to enable communication between a local application in the network and a remote application in a different network. At the TAP, an ASL tunnel may be created to the local application in the network to facilitate the communication. Additionally, a message from the local application may be received where at least a portion of the message may be configured to be provided to a remote ASL and the remote application in the different network to which the local application wishes to communicate. At least the portion of the message may be provided to the remote ASL and the remote application in the different network. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103843 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A COMMUNICATION LINK BETWEEN A PROGRAMMING DEVICE AND AN AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY FIELD DEVICE - In a method for establishing a communication link between a programming device and an automation technology field device with an activatable DHCP server, the programming device is configured to automatically obtain a network address from a DHCP server upon connection to a field device with such activatable DHCP server or upon connection to a network with at least one field device having an activatable DHCP server. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103844 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING ONE OR MORE COMMUNICATION SESSIONS - An approach is provided for establishing one or more communication sessions in a cloud computing environment and maintaining the establishment of the one or more communication sessions while managing system resource and power resource consumption. The approach involves causing, at least in part, an establishment of one or more communication sessions between at least one device and one or more other devices, wherein the communication sessions convey, at least in part, one or more notification messages. The approach also involves processing and/or facilitating a processing of device resource information, device capability information, network resource information, or a combination thereof to determine one or more parameters for generating one or more heartbeat signals to maintain the one or more communication sessions. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103845 | SERVER DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A server device includes a storage unit that stores a database that records plural pairs of a user/device ID and a corresponding first parameter, the first parameter indicating an amount of data that the user or the device has a right to communicate via a predetermined network; a first obtaining unit that obtains a user/device ID and a corresponding retail ID from the information-processing device; an adding unit that performs, in a case that the first obtaining unit obtains a user/device ID and a retail ID, an adding process to add a predetermined second parameter to a first parameter corresponding to the user/device ID, from among the plurality of first parameters recorded in the database, the second parameter indicating an amount of data to be added; a second obtaining unit that obtains an amount of data in a communication performed by the information-processing device via the predetermined network. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103846 | Method for Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) Informing Centralized Deployment Functional Architecture (BPCF) of User Equipment Access Information - A system and method for performing quality of service control on a user equipment are provided in the present invention. The method includes: after establishing an Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) security association between the user equipment and a packet data network gateway to establish an Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) tunnel, the packet data network gateway sending IPSec tunnel information to a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF), the PCRF then sending the IPSec tunnel information to a Broadband Policy Control Function (BPCF), and the BPCF performing quality of service control on services of the user equipment according to the received IPSec tunnel information. With the technical scheme of the present invention, it enables the BPCF to acquire tunnel information of the user equipment and then perform quality of service control on the user equipment. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103847 | Device Provisioning or Pairing Using Graphical Representation of Device Identifier - Provisioning a local device with an account associated with a client device or pairing an accessory device with a local device is disclosed. A client device captures a graphical representation of a local device identifier using an image capture device, identifies the local device identifier and transmits the local device identifier to a remote server. The remote server determines an account associated with the client device and associates the local device identifier with the account. An accessory device includes a graphical representation of an accessory device identifier that is captured by an image capture device of the client device. An accessory device identifier is identified and transmitted to the remote server or to the local device, which associates the accessory device identifier with a local device identifier. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103848 | FACILITATING CONTENT ACCESSIBILITY VIA DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION FORMATS - Facilitating content accessibility via different communication formats is disclosed. In some embodiments, in response to receiving a content request from an IPv6 enabled client, the requested content is provided to the IPv6 enabled client in IPv6 format, wherein the requested content is originally obtained in IPv4 format from an IPv4 enabled server and translated into IPv6 format. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103849 | SIGNALING CHARACTERISTICS OF SEGMENTS FOR NETWORK STREAMING OF MEDIA DATA - Video data is retrieved from a server. During retrieval of the video data, a client device receives information indicating bit rates of representations of multimedia content. In addition, the client device receives information indicating priority values for segments of the representations. The segments correspond to particular temporal sections of the representations. The client device requests selected ones of the segments based on the priority values for the segments and an estimated throughput. In some instances, the client device requests the segments in accordance with an adaptive streaming network protocol, such as Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH). | 2013-04-25 |
20130103850 | Media Transport Protocol Selection - A client terminal and method for receiving Internet Protocol (IP) media packets over an IP distribution network. The client terminal includes a plurality of interfaces to the IP distribution network, the interfaces configured to receive media packets according to multicast, unicast, and peer-to-peer media distribution protocols. A media cache controller determines whether the media packets received over the interfaces are tagged as non-cacheable. If so, the media cache controller passes the media packets to a decoder for decoding and transmission to a video renderer. When the received media packets are not tagged as non-cacheable, the media cache controller caches the media packets in a local cache, and subsequently distributes the cached media packets to another client terminal or to a caching node using the unicast or the peer-to-peer media distribution protocol. Media packets received using one media distribution protocol may be distributed using a different media distribution protocol. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103851 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A reproduction information acquiring unit acquires information identifying content streams reproduced by the information processing apparatus. A content information acquiring unit acquires, from a communicating terminal apparatus, information identifying the content streams being reproduced by the communicating terminal apparatus. A display processing unit generates a display screen to be displayed on a display, by using the information acquired respectively by the reproduction information acquiring unit and the content information acquiring unit. A screen display unit displays the display screen generated. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103852 | COMMUNICATION NODE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a network environment where end hosts communicate with each other through end nodes connected to a backbone network, when data is sent, each end host generates a packet including a header including host identifier information corresponding to a reception path and a destination path, and transfers the corresponding packet to the end node through an access network. The end node adds a new transport control protocol (TCP) header to the received packet and transfers it to the backbone network, thus controlling traffic, errors and the like in the backbone network. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103853 | DIRECTING CLIENTS BASED ON COMMUNICATION FORMAT - Directing clients based on communication format is disclosed. In some embodiments, in response to receiving a request from a client capable of communicating via a plurality of supported communication formats, a communication format that is expected to give optimal performance is selected from the plurality of supported communication formats, and the client is directed to a server that is configured to communicate with the selected communication format. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103854 | ROUTING NETWORK TRAFFIC - A traffic manager ( | 2013-04-25 |
20130103855 | Method, Apparatus and System for AP to Manage Wireless Repeater - Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communications technologies, disclose a method, an apparatus and a system for an access point (AP) to manage a wireless repeater, and include: receiving an internet protocol (IP) address request message that includes a domain name of a repeater to be managed and that is sent by a management console; parsing the IP address request message to obtain the domain name of the repeater to be managed; obtaining, from a domain name management list, an IP address of the repeater that corresponds to the domain name of the repeater to be managed, where correspondence between an IP address of a repeater and domain name information of the repeater is recorded in the domain name management list; and sending, to the management console, the IP address of the repeater that corresponds to the domain name of the repeater to be managed. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103856 | METHOD OF DEVICE SELECTION USING SENSORY INPUT AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONFIGURED FOR SAME - The present disclosure provides a method of device selection using sensory input and portable electronic device configured for same. In accordance with one example embodiment, there is provided a method for use in a portable electronic device for selecting a peripheral device for connection with the portable electronic device, comprising: measuring magnetic fields within the vicinity of the portable electronic device; identifying at least two peripheral devices in accordance with measured magnetic fields and one or more distinct characteristics of a magnetic field generated by each of the at least two peripheral devices which uniquely identify each of the at least two peripheral devices; and connecting the portable electronic device to one of the at least two peripheral devices using a wireless communications path. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103857 | DATA TRANSFER APPARATUS, DATA TRANSFER METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A data transfer apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first list indicating arrangement information of transfer source data, a second list indicating arrangement information of transfer destination data, a third list indicating arrangement information of data to be inserted, and a fourth list which includes a deletion offset address indicating a deletion start position and a data size of data to be deleted; a control unit configured to select a necessary list from the first to fourth lists, and generate data to be transferred from a transfer source to a transfer destination; and a transfer unit configured to transfer the data to the transfer destination. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103858 | FIBRE CHANNEL INPUT/OUTPUT DATA ROUTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of performing an input/output (I/O) processing operation includes: generating at least one address control word (ACW) specifying one or more host memory locations for transfer of data between a host computer system and a control unit, and storing the at least one ACW in the local channel memory; generating an address control structure for each data transfer specified by the I/O operation and forwarding each address control structure from the at least one channel to the network interface; forwarding an I/O command message to the at least one I/O device via a network interface; receiving a data transfer request from the network interface that includes the address control structure; and routing the data to at least one host memory location specified by the corresponding ACW or routing the data from a host memory location specified by the ACW to the network interface. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103859 | ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS AND HOST DEVICES AND MANAGEMENT METHODS USING THE SAME - Management methods for use in an electronic system having electronic devices and a host device in daisy-chain configuration are provided. The host device has a configuration setting. First, an arrangement sequence among the host device and the electronic devices is detected. Then, the configuration setting of the host device is adjusted according to the detected arrangement sequence of the host device and the electronic devices such that the host device uses the electronic devices to perform a specific operation corresponding to the detected arrangement sequence. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103860 | PORTABLE STORAGE INTERFACE - A method and apparatus of a portable storage device that provides a tethering and portable storage service to a host is described. In an exemplary method, the portable storage device configures a tethering and a portable storage service interface for the host. The portable storage device provides the tethering service to a network for the host through the tethering interface. In addition, the portable storage device shares files stored on the portable storage device through the portable storage interface. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103861 | WAKE UP STATE SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD BETWEEN DOCKED TERMINALS AND DOCKING SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A state synchronization method between docked terminals and docking system using the same is disclosed. The state synchronization method includes entering by the first terminal into sleep mode operating as a USB host, and entering by the second terminal into sleep mode operating as a USB client; providing by the first terminal a wake up event to the second terminal through a USB interface, when the wake up even occurs by the first terminal; providing by the first terminal a signal through the HDMI interface, and then waiting to be re-connected; and attempting by the second terminal to be re-connected to the first terminal based on the wake up event provided from the first terminal. By this method, it is possible to transmit the wake up event to the other terminal even when a portion of the docked terminals is woken up, enabling both terminals to perform interlocked operations. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103862 | SD/SDIO HOST CONTROLLER - An SD/SDIO host controller is disclosed, which includes a control register and interrupt generation module, an internal DMA module, an SD/SDIO command interface module, an SD/SDIO data interface module, and a frequency divider and trigger/sampling enable signal generation module which is connected to an output end of the control register and interrupt generation module; the frequency divider and trigger/sampling enable signal generation module employs a frequency divider to perform frequency division on a local high-speed clock so as to obtain the operating clock of the SD/SDIO card, and simultaneously generates a trigger/sampling enable signal by the frequency divider and enables the position of the enable signal to be adjustable with respect to the operating clock of the SD/SDIO card. The present invention is capable of solving the setup/hold time issues caused by delay in digital signals. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103863 | ALIGNMENT OF INSTRUCTIONS AND REPLIES ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES IN A CASCADED SYSTEM, USING BUFFERS OF PROGRAMMABLE DEPTHS - Buffers of programmable depths are used in the instruction and reply paths of cascaded devices to account for possible differences in latencies between the devices. The buffers may be enabled or bypassed such that the alignment of instruction and result may be performed at the boundaries between separate groups of devices having different instruction latencies. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103864 | DEVICE FOR INDICATING STATUS OF HARD DISK - The present invention provides a device for indicating status of hard disk. The device includes a SGPIO (Serial General Purpose Input/Output) input terminal, a serial-parallel converting unit, a buffer unit, and a status indicating unit. The serial-parallel converting unit is connected with the SGPIO input terminal and converts the serial signals into parallel signals. The buffer unit is connected with the serial-parallel converting unit and stores the parallel signals temporally. The status indicating unit is connected with the buffer unit and indicates the status of the at least one hard disk according to the parallel signals from the buffer unit. | 2013-04-25 |
20130103865 | FLEXIBLE COMMUNICATIONS - A method for transmitting data on a configurable bus of z physical links, including receiving input data on an input bus at at least one of a plurality of data rates, selecting a number of physical links n, amongst the z physical links, on which data is to be transmitted, selecting a clock frequency f at which the data is to be transmitted on the configurable bus, wherein the selections of n and f are based on information concerning the at least one of the plurality of data rates, the number of links used on the input bus. | 2013-04-25 |