30th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140207891 | METHOD TO INITIATE SERVER BASED COLLABORATION ON E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS - Server-based collaboration is initiated by an email. When the user creates the email message with attachments, a collaboration website is provisioned. The collaboration website allows collaborations on the attached documents by the recipients of the message. The ease of collaboration with email and the advantages of the collaboration server are thus both available to the user. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207892 | MESSAGE CHALLENGE RESPONSE - A system and method are disclosed for registering a email sender for the purpose of sending an email message to an email receiver including receiving a challenge message wherein the challenge message includes a machine answerable question; processing the challenge message to determine that it is a challenge message sent for the purpose of authorizing delivery of the email message; analyzing the question to determine a valid response to the challenge message; and sending the valid response that includes the answer wherein a nontrivial amount of resources are required to send the valid response. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207893 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND MANAGING GEOFEED-BASED ALERTS - The disclosure relates to systems and methods for monitoring content, generating alerts, determining trends, and communicating notifications related to geofeeds, including content related to geographically definable locations that is aggregated from a plurality of social media or other content providers. The system may monitor the content based on one or more alert parameters that specify alert conditions that when satisfied cause the system to generate an alert, including trending alerts. The system may track an activity as it moves over time. Content may be associated with the activity and monitored such that the activity may be tracked based on the monitored content. Various alerts may be generated based on the tracked activity. The system may communicate notifications that include the alerts, thereby leveraging content from social media or other providers to convey real-time information on subject matter, trends, activities, and/or other information. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207894 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED LOADING OF WEB-PAGES - A method and apparatus for updating software, usually a web browser, associated with customer premises equipment (CPE), includes sending a request to resources external to the CPE for update data to update the software, decoupling the | 2014-07-24 |
20140207895 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a system that performs communication between master and slave, the device better suited as the master device is not always the master device, since the device that initially constructs the network becomes the master device. A device that enters the network later transmits a restart request on detecting the master device, and if a restart permission is received, the device transfers to a restart state and transmits a master inquiry before the device that was the master device up until that point. Thus, a device that newly enters a network is able to operate as the master device even if a master device already exists in the network. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207896 | CONTINUOUS INFORMATION TRANSFER WITH REDUCED LATENCY - The present disclosure provides systems and methods for remote direct memory access (RDMA) with reduced latency. RDMA allows information to be transferred directly between memory buffers in networked devices without the need for substantial processing. While RDMA requires registration/deregistration for buffers that are not already preregistered, RDMA with reduced latency transfers information to intermediate buffers during registration/deregistration, utilizing time that would have ordinarily been wasted waiting for these processes to complete, and reducing the amount of information to transfer while the source buffer is registered. In this way the RDMA transaction may be completed more quickly. RDMA with reduced latency may be employed to expedite various information transactions. For example, RMDA with reduced latency may be utilized to stream information within a device, or may be used to transfer information for an information source external to the device directly to an application buffer. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207897 | DATA TRANSFER APPARATUS AND DATA TRANSFER METHOD - A data transfer apparatus includes a first memory, a second memory, a search unit, and a data transmitting/receiving unit. The first memory holds information that associates a search key with an address. The second memory holds information that associates the address with verification information which is generated by a predetermined generation method based on at least a portion of the search key. The search unit generates the search key based on the received data, obtains, from the first memory, the address that is associated with the generated search key, obtains, from the second memory, the verification information that is associated with the obtained address, and verifies the verification information that is generated by the predetermined generation method based on at least a portion of the generated search key with the verification information obtained from the second memory. The data transmitting/receiving unit executes processing based on a result of the verification. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207898 | WRITE OPERATION DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK FRAME - A method begins by generating a set of write request frames regarding a write request operation for a set of encoded data. Each of the write request frames includes a payload section and a protocol header. The payload section includes a transaction number field and a data payload section, which includes a name field, a revision number field, a length field, and a payload field. The protocol header includes a payload length field and an operation code field to indicate the write request operation. The method continues by outputting the set of write request frames to storage units of a dispersed storage network. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207899 | LIST DIGEST OPERATION DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK FRAME - A method begins generating a plurality of list digest request frames. Each list digest request frames includes a payload section and a protocol header. The payload section includes a start slice name field, an end slice name, and a response count field. The protocol header includes a payload length field and an operation code field to indicate the list digest request operation. The method continues by outputting the list digest request frames to storage units of a dispersed storage network. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207900 | CONVERSION TRACKING FOR INSTALLATION OF APPLICATIONS ON MOBILE DEVICES - An application executing on a mobile device, such as an application associated with a social networking system provides a link to install a third-party application. The link may be presented in an advertisement, and the link is used to retrieve data comprising a client application for execution by the mobile device. To track installations, the client application stores an indication that the client application was installed in a shared memory location on the mobile device, as native applications do not have access to cookies. A social networking application executing on the mobile device retrieves the indication the client application was installed from the shared memory location and communicates it to a social networking system for storing in a user profile. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207901 | MEDIA RENDERING SYSTEM - A media rendering system comprises: a head device and a plurality of client devices connected to the head device, wherein the head device is remotely located from the client devices and is an external device with respect to the client devices, wherein at least one client device comprises a stored media item not accessible by an application program running on the at least client device, wherein the client device is configured to allow an access to the stored media item from an external device, wherein the head device is configured to instruct the at least one client device to access to the stored media item in the at least one client device, wherein the at least one client device is configured to retrieve the stored media item and to transmit the retrieved stored media item to the head device, wherein the head device is configured to receive the media item transmitted from the at least one client device and to transmit the received media item to the plurality of client devices, and wherein the plurality of client devices are configured for rendering the media item transmitted from the head device. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207902 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OUT-OF-BAND MANAGEMENT OF AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM - Instructions embodied in a basic input/output system may cause a processor to, when read and executed by the processor communicate a query via a network interface to an intermediate information handling system to determine if digital assets intended for the information handling system were previously communicated from a management server to the intermediate information handling system and in response to a determination that digital assets intended for the information handling system were previously communicated from a management server to the intermediate information handling system, receive the digital assets at the information handling system from the intermediate information handling system. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207903 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND ALGORITHMS FOR LOGICAL MOVEMENT OF DATA OBJECTS - The present disclosure relates generally to the field of logical movement of data objects. In various examples, the logical movement of data objects may reduce or eliminate network hotspots (e.g., avoid formation of hotspots, remove existing hotspots and/or reduce the magnitude of hotspots). In various examples, the logical movement of data objects may be implemented in the form of systems, methods and/or algorithms. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207904 | NETWORK CONNECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A network connection method applied between at least one network camera and at least one network storage device is provided. The network connection method includes steps of controlling the at least one network storage device to send inviter information in response to a first instruction, controlling the network camera to receive the inviter information in response to a second instruction, controlling the network camera to send reply information based on the received inviter information, controlling the network storage device to receive the reply information, and connecting the network camera to the network storage device based on the reply information. A related network connection system and a storage medium are also provided. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207905 | PLUG-IN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PLUG-IN DISTRIBUTION CONTROL METHOD - A plug-in distribution system includes a distribution server and an image processing apparatus. The distribution server distributes a plug-in. The image processing apparatus is connected to the distribution server via a network and receives a plug-in from the distribution server or another image processing apparatus and uses the received plug-in. The plug-in includes usage settings data that defines at least one of the number of usage times and transfer permissions concerning the plug-in, which are conditions to be imposed when the plug-in is used in the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus controls at least one of the usage and the transfer of the plug-in by using the usage settings data. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207906 | TECHNIQUES TO COPY AN OPERATING SYSTEM - Techniques are described that can be used to enable a transfer of an operating system from one machine to another. The transfer permits the operating system to be available to the target machine at buffers that are accessible to one or more application or other logic. In some implementations, information related to an operating system migration is stored in a buffer that is accessible to an application that is to use the information and thereby avoids a copy of such information from an intermediate buffer to an application buffer. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207907 | Method and Apparatus for Performing Adaptive Streaming on Media Contents - In an adaptive steaming system, a media server for performing adaptive streaming on media contents sends to a client device a media presentation description (MPD) file including information specifying streaming adaptation parameters. The media server receives a request from the client device. The request includes a data object location indicator and a query string containing at least one of the values of the streaming adaptation parameters. After receiving the request, the media server selects a data object to be returned to the client device based on at least one of the data object location indicator and the query string and sends a response with the data object to the client device. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207908 | ENHANCED METHOD TO DELIVER/ PRE-LOAD CORRECTIVE HOW-TO INFORMATION TO AN END USER - A system for providing an information guide of a first end user device to a second end user device is provided. The system receives an identifier of the second end user device from a user of the first end user device. The identifier of the second end user device is stored in a database in association with the first end user device. The information guide of the first end user device is transmitted to the second end user device based on the identifier of the second end user device in response to a predetermined condition of the first end user device being detected. A transmission of the information guide is configured to perform a predetermined action on the second end user device based on the predetermined condition of the first end user device. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207909 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE FEATURE LICENSES BETWEEN DEVICES - A method and system for transferring licenses between electronic devices supporting licensable features. Specifically, in a method a request is generated for transferring a license between first and second electronic devices. The request includes first information unique to the first electronic device, second information unique to the second electronic device. The request is sent to a license distributor to generates a master key. The master key includes a removal key including the first information and an add key including the second information. The removal key is used to remove the license from the first electronic device when the first information matches official versions of the first information. The add key is revealed from the master key when the license is successfully removed. The add key is used to add the license to the second electronic device when the second information matches official versions of the second information. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207910 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SIGNAL OUTPUT ON THE BASIS OF A MAIN FILE AND AT LEAST ONE SECONDARY FILE, AND MOTOR VEHICLE - In order to provide additional functionalities in an infotainment system of a motor vehicle, a method for providing a signal output, in which a main file is transmitted that refers to secondary files and indicates an identifier related to each secondary file. The identifier can be calculated upon receipt of the main file (for example in the motor vehicle) for a secondary file already provided in the motor vehicle and compared with the identifier contained in the main file. Thus, the secondary file does not need to be downloaded every time, but can be provided in a buffer memory. The identifier shows if the secondary file provided is the most recent version thereof. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207911 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMBEDDING MULTIMEDIA CONTROLS AND INDICATIONS IN A WEBPAGE - A system and a method embed multimedia controls and indications in a webpage which may provide access to internet media content. The multimedia controls and indications embedded in the webpage may be accessible using a standard web browser and may enable a user of the standard web browser to invoke enhanced media functions for internet media content available through the webpage. The enhanced browser functions may include redirection of the internet media content to a rendering device in a home network, and the rendering device may be a different device than the browser terminal. The enhanced browser functions may include downloading the internet media content to a media server or other local storage device in the network, and the media server and the other local storage device may each be a different device than the browser terminal. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207912 | SELECTIVE CONTENT PRE-WARMING IN CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORKS BASED ON USER ACTIONS AND CONTENT CATEGORIZATIONS - Systems and methods are provided for streaming content over the Internet via a CDN to an end user system. Requests from end user systems for streaming content objects being handled by the CDN are tracked to identify, for each request the tracked requests, a first content object being requested. For each request of the tracked requests, a category of the requested first content object is identified. The identified category is stored. Aggregated data indicating an amount of requests being for content objects with a specific category is generated. A prediction is made that a second content object will be requested in the future based on the aggregated data and a category of the second content object. Access to the second content object is improved such that the second content object is set to be provided faster in response to a request for the second content object than would otherwise occur. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207913 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DISTRIBUTION OF NETWORK INFORMATION - A method for distributing information in a network includes independently selecting and sending segments of N files to a plurality of terminals through a network. One or more of the selected segments except a first segment are sent to a first number of the K terminals, and one or more of the selected segments except a second segment are sent to a second number of the K terminals. A first logical combination of segments is then generated and sent to the terminals. By logically combining the first logical combination with previously sent files, a new file not previously received may be recovered. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207914 | CERTIFICATION VALIDATION AND ASSOCIATED CONTENT ACCESS - Identifying and validating certified individuals (such as fitness trainers) to conduct a fitness program in conjunction with one or more user devices includes a request message being received at a computing device to initiate a fitness client session, the request message includes a request to share content with the computing device and identification information of the request originator. As a result, a certification request message is generated and transmitted to a certification server. A confirmation message may be received to indicate whether a valid certification is associated with the identification information included in the certification request message. A response message is transmitted to the request message indicating a confirmation of the fitness client session, and the content associated with the fitness client session may then be received. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207915 | COMPUTERIZED MEDIA INFORMATION STREAMING SYSTEM - A system for streaming information from one computer to another computer is disclosed. A player computerized system connects through a web interface server into a station community through a social networking website on the web interface server, wherein the station community has media information for a plurality of songs from a website online stream. The player computerized system determines at least one song of the plurality of songs that have the media information from the website online stream to post on the social networking website. At least one other player computerized system accesses the social networking website to obtain the post of the at least one song of the plurality of songs that have the media information from the website online stream. The at least one other player computerized system determines if the at least one song to post from the plurality of songs that have the media information from the website online stream is available to be streamed in real-time, if the at least one song to post from the plurality of songs that have the media information from the website online stream is available to be streamed in real-time then the at least one song is played on the at least one other player computerized system. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207916 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PUSHING NOTIFICATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a notification server, a user equipment, and a system for pushing a notification, which can increase the flexibility of pushing a notification and improve user experience. The method includes: receiving a service message sent by an application server, where the service message includes: a service notification, a user attribute, and a first application identifier; obtaining a terminal state level table according to the first application identifier and the user attribute; screening, according to the service message, the terminal state level table for n user equipments of which a terminal state level is greater than or equal to a preset state level, as a target user equipment; and sending the service notification to the target user equipment. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207917 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY UPDATING THE CONFIGURATION OF A NETWORK DEVICE - A system, apparatus and method are provided for dynamically updating a configuration of a network device when relevant sources and destinations of network traffic are added, removed or migrated in a network. A configuration of a network device is associated with a set of network addresses representing a set of relevant sources and destinations of network traffic. The set is dynamic in that the membership of the set can change over time to include different network addresses as the set of relevant sources and destinations of network traffic changes over time. One or more data sources are monitored to obtain the network addresses for the set of relevant sources and destinations and to determine if the membership of the set has changed. When a change is detected, the configuration of the network device is updated on the network device to reflect the network addresses that are currently in the set. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207918 | INSTANCE HOST CONFIGURATION - Methods and apparatus for instance host configuration are disclosed. A system includes a plurality of instance hosts configurable for resource instances of a network-accessible service, and control servers to manage remote configuration of the instance hosts. In response to an instance configuration request from a client, a selected control server transmits, to a selected instance host, a sequence of one or more commands. The selected instance host instantiates a remote command executor. The remote command executor initiates configuration operations corresponding to the command sequence, and terminates. The selected control server provides a response to the instance configuration request, based at least in part on results of the operations initiated by the executor. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207919 | INSTANCE CONFIGURATION ON REMOTE PLATFORMS - Methods and apparatus for instance configuration on remote platforms are disclosed. A storage medium comprises program instructions to implement a control server configured to, in response to an instance configuration request directed to a network-accessible service implemented using resource instances whose configuration is managed from within the provider network, determine whether configuration operations corresponding to the request are to be performed at a remote platform external to the provider network. In response to determining that configuration operations are to be performed at a remote platform, the control server issues commands to a selected remote platform; otherwise, it issues commands to an instance host of the provider network. Based on results of the commands, the control server provides a response to the request. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207920 | VIRTUAL SERVER MIGRATION PLAN MAKING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The management software of virtual servers which collects the information on the configuration change conducted on the physical server, and simulates the state of the physical server after the configuration change is conducted. Thereafter; the simulated information is input to the compatibility check function to confirm the compatibility of the virtual server operation to the physical server changed in the configuration, and used for making the migration plan. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207921 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREFOR - Provided is a computer system that requires only a server administrator for construction thereof arid configuration change thereof. A management server acquires connection destination interface identifiers set for external apparatuses, stores the connection destination interface identifiers into a first table, acquires specifications of server computers and identifiers of the server computers, stores the specifications and the identifiers into a second table, acquires specifications of external apparatuses, stores the specifications into the first table, receives a profile to be deployed onto one of the server computers, acquires a server computer satisfying the profile from the second table, acquires an external apparatus satisfying the profile from the first table, acquires a connection destination interface identifier from the first table, and notifies the server computer acquired from the second table of the acquired interface identifier, and the server computer updates an interface identifier of an interface by the received interface identifier. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207922 | Automatic configuration of host networking device networking interface without user interaction - A host networking device networking interface is automatically configured. The interface is initially configured to operate in a single-link mode in which multiple network communication lanes of the interface cooperatively provide a single communication link. If a signal is not present on any communication lane, then the interface is configured to operate in a multiple-link mode in which each lane provides a separate and different communication link, and is operated in the multiple-link mode. If a signal is present on every communication lane, and if the single communication link has been established with another networking device over all the lanes, then the interface is operated in the single-link mode. If a signal is present on every communication lane, but if the single communication link has not been established over all the lanes, then the interface is configured to operate in the multiple-link mode and is operated in the multiple-link mode. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207923 | METHOD AND A CONTROLLER SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORK - A method for controlling a software-defined network “SDN” includes receiving ( | 2014-07-24 |
20140207924 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATING AND SWITCHING BETWEEN COMPONENTS IN A HYBRID COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - An embodiment includes a system having: a display device having a first operating platform; a base device having a second operating platform and being configured to connect with the display device through a hardware connection; the hardware connection including a communication link between the first and second operating platforms; and a server module and a client module; the server module configured to, responsive to selecting an active operating platform, communicate settings of a previously active operating platform via the hardware connection to the client module to maintain continuity of settings after switching active operating platforms. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207925 | CLUSTER VOTER MODEL - Determining if a new federation should be formed. A method includes a voter node determining that it has sufficient votes to form a new federation. The method further includes determining that no node existing in a previous federation already has a quorum of valid global tickets. Each global ticket indicates that a node agrees that a federation should continue to exist. As a result, the voter node forms a new federation. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207926 | INDEPENDENT NETWORK INTERFACES FOR VIRTUAL NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS - Embodiments of the invention relate to providing network independent network interfaces. One embodiment includes a networking system. The networking system includes a physical networking device connected to one or more underlying networks. A primary switch and a secondary switch are each connected to the physical networking device. A connectivity module creates a root interface for a first device. Virtual network interface cards (vNICs) are added to the root interface by the connectivity module. The root interface is a single access point for accessing the underlying networks. The first device is a virtual machine (VM) or a server with more than one network interface. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207927 | SERVICE BUS WORKFLOW TEMPLATES - In some examples, a service bus may include one or more computing devices configured to translate requests from one or more client applications to one or more proxy services. According to at least one example, a system may create a resource object based at least in part on a template. The template may be associated with configuration information that may identify at least one parameter associated with a third-party application. In some examples, the third-party application may be a web service or a client application. Additionally, the system may generate a message flow based at least in part on the resource object. The system may also process a request, from the third-party application, based at least in part on the message flow. Further, the system may provide a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with the template, the GUI configured to enable input of the configuration information. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207928 | Providing Different Levels of Service Over a Storage Transport - In accordance with some embodiments, identification of transport streams facilitates the classification of those streams. Classification of those streams in turn enables a classification to be matched to a quality of service policy. Thus, quality of service policies may be enforced so that different streams can be afforded appropriate quality of service. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207929 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management apparatus includes user group information for managing the terminals by grouping terminals into groups each corresponding to service use conditions of terminals belonging to the group, and service information for associating each of the services provided by the service providing resources with paths for passing data when a terminal uses the service and a failure group which is affected by a failure when the failure occurs in one of the paths. When a failure occurs in one of the paths in the network, the management apparatus refers to the service information to identify a service for which the paths in the service information include the failed path as a failed service, identifies a failure group associated with the identified failed service, refers to the user group information to identify terminals belonging to the identified failure group as failure terminals, and reports the identified failure terminals. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207930 | INDEPENDENT NETWORK INTERFACES FOR VIRTUAL NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS - Embodiments of the invention relate to providing network independent network interfaces. One embodiment includes creating a root interface in a first device in a network system. Virtual network interface cards (vNICs) are added to the root interface. The first device executes network services on the root interface. The root interface is a single access point for accessing a plurality of underlying networks | 2014-07-24 |
20140207931 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A device management apparatus includes a device information acquisition unit configured to acquire pieces of region information and pieces of model information from devices, respectively. Each piece of region information is about a region where the corresponding device is present. Each piece of model information indicates a model representing a type of the corresponding device. The apparatus also includes a first information generating unit configured to generate first information associating the region indicated by each piece of region information with the model present in the region; and a third information generating unit configured to generate third information associating the models included in the first information with device setting contents, respectively. Each device setting content is defined by second information and is determined in accordance with at least one of the region where the model corresponding to the each device setting content is present and another model present in the region. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207932 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing system including at least one computer includes a first assigning part that receives from a device a process request including device process identification information identifying a predetermined process unit of the device and assigns request identification information identifying the process request; and a storage part that stores the device process identification information and the request identification information in association with each other in connection with a process executed in response to the process request. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207933 | NAMING SYSTEM LAYER - A facility for publishing information in a distributed network without a central management infrastructure is described. In various embodiments, the facility receives an indication of a new node and a destination node, the new node omitted from a contact list associated with the destination node, the contact list having an approximately logarithmic distribution of neighboring nodes; introduces the new node to the destination node via a permanent circuit; and causes the destination node to add the new node to the contact list when adding the new node improves the logarithmic distribution of neighboring nodes. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207934 | COMPUTING SYSTEM WITH OFF-LOAD PROCESSING FOR NETWORKING RELATED TASKS - A method is described that comprises executing a service selection method on an off load processor of a computing system to select an available network service for handling traffic sent to/from a handheld device. The execution of the service selection method is performed while a main CPU of said computing system is in a low power state. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207935 | SIMULATING REAL USER ISSUES IN SUPPORT ENVIRONMENTS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable and executable instructions are provided for simulating real user issues in support environments. Simulating real user issues in support environments can include providing stored data related to a real user issue associated with an application to a support device having the ability to modify the application, the stored data can include network traffic associated with a user device in a live environment and inputs provided via the user device. Simulating real user issues in support environments can include causing the support device to simulate the real user issue using the stored data. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207936 | SIGNAL OVERLOAD MANAGEMENT IN MAJOR EVENTS AND DISASTERS - A method, computer program product and system for managing an overload of signals on a network due to usage by a large number of users on the network during an event, comprising: detecting a cluster of communication on the network, determining a physical location of a centroid of the cluster of the communication on the network, associating the physical location of the centroid to be the approximate physical location of the event; reviewing information within cluster of communication being sent through the network regarding the event; categorizing the event based on a predetermined set of rules; determining bandwidth limitations of the network for users within a determined proximity to the physical location of the event; determining the resources necessary to respond to and resolve the event; and allocating bandwidth of the network based upon the resources and the proximity of users to the physical location of the event. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207937 | Determination of Internet Access - Internet access or connectivity is determined by sending a request to a third-party service to which connectivity is desired with an application on a client computing device and responsive to receiving a response, attempting to rule out a false positive response from an entity other than the third-party service. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207938 | SERVER RESTART MANAGEMENT VIA STABILITY TIME - The stability and availability status of a server is determined by monitoring the stability time specification of the server. The stability time is set for the server and defined as a time between a starting state of the server and a stability point of the server. The server activity is monitored by an availability manager to determine an availability status of the server. Responsive to the server activity progressing to the stability point within the stability time, an embodiment determines that the server is stable. Responsive to the server activity failing to progress to the stability point within the stability time, an embodiment determines that the server is unreliable. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207939 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING THE CAPTURE AND SECURING OF DYNAMICALLY SELECTED DIGITAL INFORMATION - A system is disclosed for monitoring a channel passing information which includes an identifying designation. A channel monitor is coupled to the channel and configured to provide on an output all information passing on the channel. A manifest engine is coupled to the channel monitor to receive the information passing on the channel and to an operator console to receive an information manifest table. The information manifest table contains at least one identifying designation. The manifest engine compares the information received with the information in the information manifest table and only provides on the output that information having an identifying designation that matches an identifying designation included within the information manifest table. A storage server is coupled to the manifest engine and configured to receive and store the information provided from the manifest engine. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207940 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING A RECURSIVE EVENT LISTENER ON A NODE IN HIERARCHICAL DATA STRUCTURE - Disclosed is a method and system for registering a recursive watch on a node in hierarchical data structure. Embodiments of the disclosed technique may include (i) receiving a request to register an event listener on a source node, the source node being one of a plurality of nodes that are related to each other in a hierarchy; (ii) registering the event listener on the source node, the event listener configured to notify a client of an occurrence of a first event in the source node; and (iii) if the source node has a descendant node in the hierarchy, setting the event listener to notify the client of an occurrence of a second event in the descendant node without requiring registration of another event listener on the descendant node. Each of the nodes may represent, for example, a logical partition of a storage device. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207941 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR USING A DIAMETER ROUTING AGENT (DRA) TO OBTAIN MAPPINGS BETWEEN MOBILE SUBSCRIBER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION AND DYNAMICALLY ASSIGNED INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) ADDRESSES AND FOR MAKING THE MAPPINGS ACCESSIBLE TO APPLICATIONS - The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems and computer readable media for using a Diameter routing agent (DRA) to obtain mappings between mobile subscriber identification information and dynamically assigned Internet protocol (IP) addresses and for making the mappings accessible to applications. One exemplary method includes, at a DRA, receiving a Diameter message containing a dynamically assigned IP address and mobile subscriber identification information. The method further includes routing the received Diameter signaling message. The method further includes copying, by the DRA, the IP address and the mobile subscriber identifier from the message. The method further includes making a mapping between the dynamically assigned IP address and the subscriber identification information accessible to applications. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207942 | NETWORK ELEMENT DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION - A process of diagnosing and debugging a network element remotely may employ sending of performance data to a third party evaluator for processing of the data. A mobile device may interface with the network element and request evaluation of the performance by the third party evaluator. Large memory loads may be sent to the third party evaluator where intensive processing may be performed. The results of the processing by the third party evaluator may be sent to the mobile device for viewing by a user. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207943 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A VPN CONNECTION - A method and computing device configured to send and receive traffic over a virtual private network (VPN) connection, the computing device having a processor; and a communications subsystem, where the method determines that a first trigger had been met; monitors whether data traffic exists over the VPN connection for a first time period; and if no data traffic exists over the VPN connection for the first time period, disconnects the VPN connection. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207944 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A management server manages resources in a cloud system having one or more servers and one or more storage subsystems. The management server is operable to: assign a category of resources to a first application of a first type, the category of resources being associated with a first template of virtualized resources, the first template being associated with threshold values and having a first cost for using the first template; monitor performance of the first template to obtain performance values for the first template; compare a first performance value of the first template with a first threshold value associated with the first template; and generate a first resource migration plan for the first application of the first type based upon a result of the comparing step. The second template is associated with a second threshold value that is greater than the first performance value. The second template has a second cost for using the second template that is less than the first cost. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207945 | NETWORK DATA ANALYSIS - Apparatus for use in analyzing network data, the apparatus including an electronic processing device that determines network data representing a network having a number of nodes and links between the nodes, selects a model in accordance with a data type associated with the network data, the model being indicative of at least one trigger for a behaviour of interest, selected network metrics and a mathematical relationship relating network nodes to the at least one trigger using the selected network metrics and determines at least one trigger associated with the network data, determines the selected metrics for the network data and uses the mathematical relationship, the selected network metrics and the identified at least one trigger to determine predicted nodes, the predicted nodes being nodes predicted to exhibit behaviour of interest. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207946 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A VPN CONNECTION - A method and computing device configured to send and receive traffic over a virtual private network (VPN) connection, the computing device having a processor; and a communications subsystem, where the method determines that a first trigger had been met, wherein the first trigger is dynamically configured based on at least one factor at the computing device; monitors whether data traffic exists over the VPN connection for a first time period; and if no data traffic exists over the VPN connection for the first time period, disconnects the VPN connection. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207947 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ONLINE EVENTS - Provided are methods and systems for determining whether an online event has been completed by a user. A website or other interactive service maintains user activity data reflective of the activities of its users. A failure analysis component analyzes the user activity data to automatically detect likely failure events. An event filtering component intelligently accesses information from unrelated websites, interactive services, and/or offline services to determine whether an event was successfully completed by a user. One or more communications are sent to the user for select failure and successful events, preferably taking into consideration information about the event itself and information about the particular user. Such communications present the user with information about the same event or other possible events that are related to the original event that the user might be interested in completing. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207948 | NETWORK INTERFACE ON A CHIP WITH AN ADAPTIVE SYSTEM TO TRIGGER DATA FORWARDING - A network interface for a network on chip resource having a communication controller including recording means, and designed to transmit data to another network interface when a quantity of data present in the recording means reaches a predetermined threshold, and where the communication controller also includes means to force a transmission of data present in the said recording means when the quantity of this data is below the predetermined threshold. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207949 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Monitoring Service Usage - Usage information is received that describes usage of communication services by a communications device. The usage information is compared to monitoring criteria. When the monitoring criteria are satisfied, an electronic notification message is sent to the communications device before an additional charge is incurred. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207950 | SCHEDULE AND LOCATION RESPONSIVE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE CONTROLLED INFORMATION THROTTLE - Controls electronic devices and/or throttles electronic devices and/or information for electronic devices based on agreements or events and/or based on schedule, location, time, or any combination thereof. An agreement includes condition(s) to satisfy the agreement, such as task(s) or activities to be performed by an agreement performer, for example based on a schedule and/or location, at a particular time, or time period, or, or events that may be detected, and actions performed to enforce or assert the agreement. Actions may include controlling the electronic device and/or at least partially enabling/disabling or otherwise limiting, reducing or increasing the amount or type of information allowed with respect to any or all electronic devices associated with the agreement performer. Embodiments may reduce or block information from particular sources during a scheduled school class to limit web surfing for information related to that class based on a schedule and/or location of the electronic device. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207951 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING CAPACITY PLANNING FOR ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS - A system and method for capacity planning for enterprise networks, such as identifying bottlenecks and removing or replacing the bottleneck device are provided. The device utilization for one or more network devices are measured or read from measured data. A relative load is calculated from the device utilization data and device utilization is compared to a device threshold to determine the bottleneck device. A method is also provided for determining network utilizations, network populations and a relative response times based on only limited measurable device usage data. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207952 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING WEBSITE POPULARITY BY LOCATION - Internet websites that are popular for users in a specific location are determined and displayed to a user of an electronic device. The popularity information may be of benefit to users in the location or to users of inherently portable devices, such as a mobile telephone or a laptop computer, that travel to the location. In one embodiment, position data relating to devices used to access websites is used to establish statistics regarding the most visited websites based on location. For instance, positioning data may be added to “webpage look-up/URL requests” that are made by the devices. This data may be transmitted to a server for deriving of the statistics. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207953 | Methods and Apparatus for Enabling a Dynamic Network of Interactors According to Personal Trust Levels Between Interactors - A system for causing routing of a communication event includes a sending platform for initiating and sending the communication event, a communications network for carrying the communication event, a receiving platform for receiving the communication event for final routing, and a router resident at least in the receiving platform for preparing and executing or forwarding for execution a routing instruction for handling the incoming communication event or notification thereof, the routing instruction thus executed, overriding a default routing instruction, the overriding routing instruction initiated upon discovery by the router of some level of trust metric between the sender and intended recipient of the event. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207954 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND ALGORITHMS FOR LOGICAL MOVEMENT OF DATA OBJECTS - The present disclosure relates generally to the field of logical movement of data objects. In various examples, the logical movement of data objects may reduce or eliminate network hotspots (e.g., avoid formation of hotspots, remove existing hotspots and/or reduce the magnitude of hotspots). In various examples, the logical movement of data objects may be implemented in the form of systems, methods and/or algorithms. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207955 | STORAGE MANAGMENT IN A MULTI-TIERED STORAGE ARCHITECTURE - Resource management processes are implemented by a computer processor and logic executable by the computer processor. The logic is configured to calculate a performance weight for each end user of an application executing on the computer processor. The performance weight is calculated as a function of an activity level determined for each end user and a type of the application. The logic is also configured to calculate an input/output weight for each end user from a combination of an input/output requirement and the performance weight. The input/output requirement is indicative of an amount of storage resources of a multi-tiered storage system associated with anticipated activities of the end user. The logic is further configured to assign an amount of the storage resources for each end user based on the input/output weight. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207956 | STORAGE MANAGMENT IN A MULTI-TIERED STORAGE ARCHITECTURE - Resource management processes are implemented by a computer processor and logic executable by the computer processor. The logic is configured to calculate a performance weight for each end user of an application executing on the computer processor. The performance weight is calculated as a function of an activity level determined for each end user and a type of the application. The logic is also configured to calculate an input/output weight for each end user from a combination of an input/output requirement and the performance weight. The input/output requirement is indicative of an amount of storage resources of a multi-tiered storage system associated with anticipated activities of the end user. The logic is further configured to assign an amount of the storage resources for each end user based on the input/output weight. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207957 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONNECTING MEDIA DEVICES THROUGH WEB SOCKETS - Systems and methods are described herein for connecting client devices to applications on a server using web sockets. In one aspect, the systems and methods described provide for a routing table that may be used to direct communications between a client device and an application on a web server. The routing table may overcome challenges of implementing web sockets under current constraints of the web socket specification, the HTTP specification, and server implementations. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207958 | VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, ROUTING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A virtual private network communication system, a routing device and a method thereof are provided. The system includes a server and a plurality of routing devices. The routing devices respectively transmit registration information to the server, wherein the registration information includes a recognition string. The routing devices include a first routing device and a second routing device. The first routing device transmits a positioning request to the server, and the server transmits the positioning request to a part of or all of the routing devices according to the recognition string. When the second routing device receives the positioning request, the second routing device transmits positioning information according to the positioning request to the first routing device via the server. The first routing device directly establishes a connection with the second routing device according to the positioning information and transmits data after the connection is established. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207959 | DISTRIBUTED ASSOCIATION ENGINE - A computer-implemented method for a distributed association engine, comprising searching, by a processor, for one or more objects of interest within a spatial bounded area, identifying, by the processor, the one or more objects of interest responsive to the search, and mapping, by the processor, one or more relationships between a user and the one or more objects of interest in a personal network. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207960 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING TRANSMISSION DELAY OF HTTP PROTOCOL AND PROCESSING LOAD OF HTTP SERVER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method and apparatus for managing and controlling wireless connection of a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) proxy device in a wireless communication network are provided. The method includes receiving one of information indicating a wireless connection deactivation of an HTTP client performing HTTP communication and information indicating a change in an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the HTTP client from a predetermined node of the wireless communication network; and deactivating a connection with an HTTP server if the received information indicates the wireless connection deactivation of an HTTP client performing the HTTP communication; and maintaining a connection with an HTTP server if the received information indicates the change in the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the HTTP client. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207961 | CHIP AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer system is provided. The computer system comprises a network module and an input device. The network module receives remote information from a remote host through a network. The input device receives first input information, a display device and a chip. The display device comprises a display panel and an on-screen display (OSD) control module. The chip comprises a control connection interface and a control module. The control connection interface is electrically connected to the OSD control module. The control module is electrically connected to the network module, the input device and the control connection interface to control the OSD control module through the control connection interface according to the remote information or the first input information to further control the display function of the display panel | 2014-07-24 |
20140207962 | Aggregation of User Activity Data Into a User Activity Stream - There is provided a system and method for aggregation of user activity data into a user activity stream. The method comprises receiving virtual activity data from a device, receiving real activity data from at least one sensor of the device, aggregating the virtual activity data and the real activity data in the user activity stream, and storing the user activity stream for analysis of user trends. The user trends may be used to customize a digital item, such as a virtual environment, an interactive game, or a social media profile. Additionally, the user trends may be used to deliver personalized content to a user, such as advertisements, user activity options, or interactive digital content. The user activity stream may also be connected to at least one other user profile and may be published for viewing. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207963 | ASSET STREAMING AND DELIVERY - Asset streaming and delivery including intercepting, at an asset streaming client, a request to exploit an asset virtualized on the asset streaming client. The asset is identified and an asset snapshot of the asset is obtained. Portions of the asset needed to exploit the asset according to the intercepted request exploit the asset are determined from an asset snapshot of the asset. The portions of the asset needed to exploit the asset according to the intercepted request are obtained and the asset is exploited according to the intercepted request using the portions of the asset. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207964 | Method And System For Identifying Events In A Streaming Media Program - The present invention teaches a method and system for uniquely defining and identifying events within a streaming media program. Programs and additional content can be stored with inband data in the stored content and that inband data can be dynamically updated, to include additional information such as instance counters, when the stored content it is requested by a rendering device. The additional information is used to uniquely identify the rendering of the program or additional content to allow a rendering device to perform actions based upon those unique identifiers. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207965 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING QUALITY OF MULTIMEDIA STREAMING SERVICE - In an apparatus for providing a multimedia streaming service, a server transmits a Media Presentation Description (MPD) including information about media data to a client, receives a partial request message requesting a part of media data having a range according to a defined range in the MPD, and transmits to the client a segment having the range in response to the partial request message. The segment includes at least one fragment, segment index information indicating the position of the at least one fragment in the segment, and fragment index information including information indicating the position of each of a plurality of samples included in the at least one fragment and information about a total size of the samples. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207966 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MULTI-BITRATE CONTENT STREAMING - An apparatus, system, and method for maintaining a programming lineup of adaptive-bitrate content streaming is provided. The apparatus includes a timeline module configured to maintain a programming lineup of media content available over a network. The media content may comprise a plurality of streamlets. The apparatus also includes at least one data module configured to maintain multi-bitrate streamlet information. The system includes the apparatus and a client module configured to acquire content based upon the programming lineup provided by the timeline module. The method includes maintaining a programming lineup of media content available over a network, and maintaining multi-bitrate streamlet information. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207967 | Method and Apparatus for Provisioning a Transport Service in a Multi-Domain Multi-Layer Network - A method for provisioning a transport service in a multi-domain multi-layer network comprising at least one client layer network domain and at least one server layer network domain, comprising providing a virtual topology of each of said server layer network domain depending on connectivity requirements set by each of the served client layer network domains for a connectivity across said server layer network domains as at least one segment of said client layer network domain topology; determining an end-to-end path between two client nodes across one or more said server layer network domains based on an overlay topology comprising the virtual topologies provided by said server layer network domains, access links connecting client network nodes of said client layer network domains to said server layer network domains, and inter-domain links interconnecting said server layer network domains in the client layer; and provisioning a transport service via the determined end-to-end path. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207968 | Server Load Balancer Traffic Steering - A network switch comprises a load balancer steering mechanism configured to receive a service request received from a load balancer and forward the service request to a first server in a load-balanced server cluster. The service request was initiated by a client and transmitted to the load balancer. The network switch is configured to receive return traffic transmitted by the first server, and to automatically steer the return traffic to the load balancer. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207969 | ADDRESS MANAGEMENT IN AN OVERLAY NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the invention relate to overlay network address management. One embodiment includes an overlay gateway including an overlay network manager associated with a physical network. The overlay network manager prevents duplicate address assignment for overlay domains having a first sharing status and performs address translation for overlay domains having a second sharing status. Address translation is avoided for overlay domains having the first sharing status. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207970 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING INFORMATION - A mobile terminal accesses global DNS server using a URI of a resource in an intranet. The global DNS server returns an IP address of an intranet domain access resolver. The mobile terminal connects to the intranet domain access resolver using the IP address and transmits a portion of the URI. The intranet domain access resolver encodes information received from the mobile terminal and generates a new URI and returns the new URI to the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal uses the new URI to access the intranet via a gateway based on an information item obtained by decoding the original URI. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207971 | Method For Synchronising A Server Cluster And Server Cluster Implementing Said Method - A method and system for synchronising a server cluster having a plurality of nodes each provided with an internal clock and interconnected with each other by a clock interconnection network comprising a plurality of transmission segments. Time stamping information is generated by the internal clock of a source chosen from the nodes of the server cluster. The time-stamping information is transmitted to all the nodes in the server cluster from the source; and the internal clock of each node of the server cluster is adjusted from this time-stamping information. The time for transmission of the time-stamping information is adjusted by each transmission segment to a constant value established for each transmission segment. Upon receiving the time-stamping information by any one of the nodes in the server cluster, its internal clock is adjusted from the time-stamping information and information relating to the transmission segments passed through between the source and this node. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207972 | TRANSACTION CONTROL ARRANGEMENT FOR DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method includes providing device management services to by defining one or more transaction control primitives and one or more transaction initiation commands for modifying a management tree of a managed device, mapping the transaction control primitives and transaction initiation commands to device management commands for the managed device, transmitting the device management commands to the managed device, determining a relevance of any of the transmitted device management commands that fail to execute, and based on the relevance determination, allowing the managed device to modify the management tree without executing the commands that fail to execute. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207973 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTO-CONFIGURING INSTALLABLE DEVICE OPTIONS IN A WINDOWS PRINT QUEUE - Embodiments relate to systems and methods for auto-configuring installable device options in a Windows™ print queue. Software and other resources are provided to enable print drivers based on the version 4 print architecture to perform auto-configuration of installable options for printing devices which do not support the protocols and/or queries required by the native means of auto-configuration supported by the Windows™ 8 operating system. A setup module can install tasks under the task scheduler including a task which is triggered by print queue related events, along with a polling task to detect printer device changes. These tasks can invoke a printer configuration module which in turn invokes two transient child processes to supply the print driver with printer configuration data in the expected native format used by the Windows™ 8 operating system. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207974 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION DEVICE CAPABILITIES - The present subject matter discloses a method for managing capabilities of a communication device. In one implementation, the method comprises communicating, by the communication device, with a stationary device provided at a predetermined location using a short distance communication protocol. The method further comprises obtaining one or more device management policies associated with the predetermined location. The method further comprises implementing the device management policies for controlling usage of one or more capabilities of the communication device at the predetermined location. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207975 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION LINKS - A system and method for managing a communication link between a consumer electronic device adapted for two-way, wireless communications with at least one peripheral. The communication link is managed using a controller that is associated with the consumer electronic device that functions to assign communication slots to the peripheral to facilitate communications between the peripheral and the consumer electronic device. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207976 | CONFIGURABLE LIGHT TIMER AND METHOD OF RECEIVING DATA TO CONTROL THE OPERATION OF A CONFIGURABLE LIGHT TIMER - A configurable light timer adapted to receive data to control the operation of the configurable light timer is disclosed. The configurable light timer comprises a control circuit; an input portion coupled to receive a portable memory device by way of a connector on the configurable light timer, wherein the portable memory device stores data to be used by the configurable light timer and is adapted to be removed after the data is downloaded; and a memory coupled to receive the data stored on the portable memory device; wherein control circuit accesses the data from the memory after the data is downloaded and the portable memory device is removed. A method of receiving data to control the operation of the configurable light timer is also disclosed. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207977 | USB DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In one embodiment, a universal serial bus (USB) device can include: (i) an interface module having a power supply port, a ground port, and first and second data ports, where the interface module is configured to connect to corresponding ports of a USB host at a USB interface; (ii) a property identification module coupled to the first and second data ports, where the property identification module is configured to determine properties of the USB interface; (iii) a data transmission module configured to exchange data between the USB device and the USB host according to the determined properties; and (iv) a charging module coupled to the power supply port and the ground port, where the charging module is configured to charge the USB device based on the determined properties. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207978 | WINDOWS RALLY WIRELESS HID DEVICE - A system and method that identifies and effectuates communication between a connectable client and a wireless human interface device. The wireless human interface device utilizes technologies to abstract the complexities of IP based wired and wireless networks to provide mechanisms to easily discover, associate, utilize and diagnose the wireless human interface device. Through the ensuing abstraction the wireless human interface device can be associated with an unlimited number of connectable networked clients or hosts thus eliminating the requirement of analog switch boxes to connect human interface devices to each connectable host or client, and further providing for the control of local and/or Internet based hosts or clients. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207979 | DMA-ASSISTED IRREGULAR SAMPLING SEQUENCES - Methods and systems are provided for performing sampling sequences using a control module. One exemplary method involves transferring sampling configuration information for a sampling sequence from memory to a conversion module. The conversion module performs the sequence in accordance with the configuration information by performing sampling processes at a plurality of sampling times to obtain a plurality of samples, and transferring results corresponding to the plurality of samples from the conversion module to the memory. At least some sampling times of the plurality of sampling times are nonperiodic with respect to the other sampling times of the plurality of sampling times. In exemplary embodiments, the sampling configuration information includes a sampling mode criterion, and the conversion module either automatically performs a sampling process or performs the sampling process in response to a trigger signal based on the sampling mode criterion for that sampling process. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207980 | INTERFACE CONTROL APPARATUS, DATA STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTERFACE CONTROL - According to one embodiment, an interface control apparatus includes an interface, and a controller. The interface is configured to transmit information between a host and a data storage apparatus. The controller is configured to fetch request information making a processing request for the data storage apparatus, from an element being a storage unit of a queue provided on the host through the interface. The controller is configured to execute read request processing of fetching first request information divided into a plurality of elements and stored, with priority over second request information which is different from the first request information, when the request information is fetched. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207981 | Cached PHY register data access - Ethernet physical sublayer (PHY) devices each provide PHY register data. One or more of the Ethernet PHY devices are connected to each of one or more management data input/output (MDIO)/management data clock (MDC) interfaces to which a number of MDIO/MDC controllers are connected. Each MDIO/MDC controller polls a corresponding MDIO/MDC interface to receive the PHY register data from the one or more Ethernet PHY devices connected thereto. The MDIO/MDC controllers store portions of the PHY register data received from the Ethernet PHY devices to a memory to which an interface is connected. A processor connected to the interface accesses the portions of the PHY register data stored to the memory. The processor can retrieve the portions of the PHY register data over the interface more quickly than the MDIO/MDC controllers can retrieve the PHY register data over the MDIO/MDC interfaces. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207982 | Signal Processing System and Method for Processing Signals in a Bus Node - A signal processing system having a bus node, which is designed for signal conversion between signals of an internal and an external bus system and in each case includes at least one interface to be coupled to the external bus system and to the internal bus system, and having at least one signal conditioning module, which is designed for physical conditioning and/or analog/digital conversion for signals from an external component and includes an interface for an internal bus system and at least one connection for the external component and is connected to the bus note via the internal bus system. The bus node is designed for internal raw data processing of the signals provided by the signal conditioning module and to output at least one output signal dependent on the processed signals to the internal and/or to the external bus system. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207983 | TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLEXED DATA BUS INTERFACE - An audio system bus has a bus data line and a bus clock line. Audio producers are coupled to the bus to form a time-division multiplexed multi drop bus interface arrangement having protocol slots 0,1, . . . N where N is an integer greater than two. A bus device is coupled to the bus that produces a) a frame marker on the bus data line in slot 0, and b) a data bit on the bus data line in slot 1. The audio producers are to produce their respective audio data bits in their assigned slots other than slots 0 and 1. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207984 | SIGNAL CONITIONER - A signal conditioner can include a state machine configured to detect a predetermined protocol level mode of a data signal on a bi-directional serial bus. The signal conditioner can also include a re-driver configured to inject current into at least one of a rising edge and a falling edge of the data signal on the bi-directional serial bus in response to the detection of the predetermined protocol level mode. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207985 | HEADEND WITH REDUNDANCY, AND AN ASSOCIATED METHOD - A head station including at least two identical processing units supplied respectively with at least one identical input datastream in order to generate an output datastream, and an output bus system connected to the processing units for the exchange of output datastreams and status data generated in each of the processing units is provided. Additionally, within the head station, several decision circuits connected to the output bus system are provided for the selection of the output datastream to be transmitted in each processing unit in each case to a transmitter system. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207986 | APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLE BUS MASTER ENGINES TO SHARE THE SAME REQUEST CHANNEL TO A PIPELINED BACKBONE - In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein are mechanisms for enabling multiple bus master engines to share the same request channel to a pipelined backbone including: receiving a plurality of unarbitrated grant requests at an agent bus interface from a plurality of masters, each requesting access to a backbone connected via a common request channel; determining which of the unarbitrated grant requests is to issue first as a final grant request; storing a master identifier code for the final grant request into a FIFO buffer, the master identifier code associating the final grant request with the issuing master among the plurality of masters; waiting for a backbone grant; and presenting the master identifier code for the final grant request to an agent bus interface, wherein the agent bus interface communicates a command and data for processing via a backbone responsive to the backbone grant to fulfill the final grant request. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207987 | MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE CONCURRENT MODES OF EXECUTION - A multiprocessor system supports multiple concurrent modes of speculative execution. Speculation identification numbers (IDs) are allocated to speculative threads from a pool of available numbers. The pool is divided into domains, with each domain being assigned to a mode of speculation. Modes of speculation include TM, TLS, and rollback. Allocation of the IDs is carried out with respect to a central state table and using hardware pointers. The IDs are used for writing different versions of speculative results in different ways of a set in a cache memory. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207988 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURE SMI MEMORY SERVICES - In accordance with the present disclosure, a system and method are herein disclosed for providing secure SMI memory services, including the protection of SMM memory from surreptitious attacks by, for example, rootkits. Information handling systems are susceptible to attacks, especially attacks on SMM memory. In one example, an SMI handler corresponding to the SMI Driver associated with an SMI interrupt performs validation of a password. An SSMS driver allocates memory for the SMI handler to use with the validation process and also performs a secure erase of allocated memory blocks upon completion of all secure SMI Memory Services. By controlling the validation and secure erase process through the use of the SMI handler and SSMS driver, information leakage can be prevented resulting in system data integrity. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207989 | ACCESS CONTROL TO A JOINTLY EXCLUSIVELY USABLE TRANSMISSION MEDIUM - A computing system and a method are specified. The computing system has a plurality of components which are configured to use a resource exclusively jointly, an activity monitoring unit which records a number of activities of a component on the resource and an interrupting unit which is configured to interrupt access of the components for use of the resource when the number of activities of the component reaches an activity threshold, so that an assignment strategy can assign the exclusively jointly used resource to another component. | 2014-07-24 |
20140207990 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, first monitor controller of electronic circuit board recognizes free slot into which the electronic circuit board has been hot-inserted, notifies host control device of start together with slot information causes first parameter setting module to change reception parameter of first T/R circuit module. The host control device instructs switch processing board to change transmission parameter, in response to slot information and start notification. Second monitor controller of the switch processing board causes second parameter setting module to change transmission parameter of second T/R circuit module, in accordance with an instruction from the host control device. | 2014-07-24 |