07th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 60 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140047004 | Community service reconciliation system - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for providing methods and apparatus for using remote server, a Web site and information appliances to match community service organizations that are looking for volunteers to students looking for opportunities to engage in community service. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047005 | TARGETED CONTENT STREAMING BANNERS - An apparatus and method for providing a streaming banner promoting one or more items/content on mobile devices are disclosed herein. User activity information is determined based on a user interfacing with a mobile device. The user activity information is transmitted by the mobile device to a server. In response to receiving a streaming banner, the streaming banner is displayed at a pre-determined portion of a screen of the mobile device. The streaming banner recommends one or more applications that targets the user based on the user activity information and an initial application identification source. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047006 | DELIVERING ELECTRONIC CONTENT - Delivering electronic content includes providing instructions that might cause a computer to collect information including a network address and transmitting the collected information to a receiving computer. The computer that receives the transmitted information selects electronic content based on the received information and sends the selected electronic content to the network address included in the received information. Access to the electronic content might be selectively granted based on criteria. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047007 | RESILIENT MESSAGING INFRASTRUCTURE - A first message resilience client device receives from a second message resilience client device a message and a request to deliver the message to a client/server-based server application executed by a server device on behalf of a remote client/server-based client application executed by the second message resilience client device that originated the message. A determination is made as to whether a connection to the server device that executes the client/server-based server application is currently possible using at least one available connection. In response to determining that the connection to the server device that executes the client/server-based server application is not currently possible, the message is stored locally for one of later delivery to the client/server-based server application and propagation of the message to another message resilience client device on behalf of the remote client/server-based client application. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047008 | MULTILAYER NETWORK CONNECTION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SMART TERMINAL DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THERETO - A multilayer network connection communication system includes a mobile device, a smart terminal device, a service server, a first layer network, and a second layer network. The mobile device sends at least one inquiry message through the first layer network to inquire the smart terminal device whether the smart terminal device supports at least one first application. Among the at least one first application, the smart terminal device supports at least one second application including a third application. The smart terminal device requests the mobile device through the first layer network to start up the at least one second application, where the third application is started up to respond to the at least one startup message. The smart terminal device receives a user data from the mobile device through the first layer network and transmits the user data to the service server through the second layer network. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047009 | PREREADING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WEB BROWSER - The present invention relates to the field of Web browser technology, particularly to a prereading method and system for a Web browser, the method comprising: submitting, by a Web browser client, a first Web page visiting request to a target server and uploading an individual browsing record characteristic of the first Web page; forming, by a transfer server, a prereading policy according to the received individual browsing record characteristic of the first Web page and the stored at least one swarm browsing record characteristic of the first Web page; acquiring, by the transfer server, a Web page from the target server according to the prereading policy and sending the Web page to the browser client for buffering. The present invention makes it possible to preread Web pages according to individual users' visiting habits and preferences in combination with mass users' visiting history, and find out Web pages that a user is most likely to click through computational analysis of weights and preference coefficients on different page elements of Web pages, thereby realizing more precisely prereading, significantly increasing success rate of preread. Further, pages are downloaded in idle period, which advantageously saves time for users by substantially avoiding waiting. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047010 | REDISTRIBUTION OF OPERATING ENVIRONMENTS FOR THE REDEPLOYMENT OF GRID CLIENTS - A client-server network environment is temporarily transformed into a grid computing environment through the deployment of a network-booted grid operating system to each of a plurality of network clients. Each participating client operates in the client-server mode under a local operating system. At an appropriate time, a server transmits to each client a thin-client boot image (a dynamically built customized image or an image obtained from a store of predefined boot images) along with a grid application for which the thin-client has been optimized for peak performance. Each client re-boots using the thin-client image, thereby entering the grid mode and allowing substantially all of its computing resources to be dedicated to executing the grid application. At a later time, the server directs that each client terminate the grid application and re-boot in its respective local operating system, reverting again to the client-server mode. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047011 | VIRTUAL WINDOW SCREEN CAPTURE - A method and system for capturing and transmitting screen content and input/output events from a server to a client device are provided. The method includes transmitting, to the client device, a screen output rendered by the server respective of a first instance of a first application; and transmitting, to the client device, the screen output rendered by the server respective of a second instance of a second application, wherein the first instance is contained in a first securable object associated with the first application and the second instance is contained in a second securable object associated with the second application, wherein the first instance and the second instance are simultaneously executed by the server under a single logon session. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047012 | METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING A PLURALITY OF DATA PORTIONS - A method and computer system are provided for distributing a plurality of data portions from a server system to one or more client systems. The method includes receiving one or more first requests at the server, each first request being submitted by a client system and including a portion identifier, wherein a portion identifier is assigned to each data portion; in response to receiving the first request(s), transmitting a list of chunk identifiers to the requesting client systems, wherein the list of chunk identifiers specifies the data chunks whose meta-data includes the portion identifier contained in the first request; and transmitting some or all data chunks of a data chunk library to each of the requesting client systems. At the requesting client system, the client specifically selects the data chunks of the transmitted data chunks which are specified by the received list of chunk identifiers. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047013 | SYSTEM FOR USING ATTRIBUTES TO DEPLOY DEMAND RESPONSE RESOURCES - A system for using attributes to deploy demand response resources. A service provider may provide energy to customers. The provider may via interactions modify consumption of the energy by the customers. Customers that participate in these interactions may be regarded as demand response resources. Interactions may incorporate demand response signals sent to the resources at their respective facilities. Each resource may have a demand response client which has an association with a customer account in a demand response management system of the provider. The association may be regarded as a binding of the demand response client. The binding may involve inputting an attribute of the demand response client, which can be correlated to the customer account. The attribute may be, for example, a location of the demand response client. Such attribute may be used for the association of the demand response client with a proper customer account. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047014 | NETWORK ACCESS SYSTEM - Key information is held in a load balancer, an encoded server identification information which is encoded with the key information is included in an HTTP request received by the load balancer, the encoded server identification information is included in a response message from the real server to the client terminal and in a subsequent HTTP request, and access to the real server identified by decoding the server identification information using the key information is achieved when the load balancer receives the subsequent HTTP request, whereby a HTTP request can be made to the determined real server, while guaranteeing security even if access is made via a different load balancer. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047015 | WEB APPLICATION SCRIPT MIGRATION - In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided comprising: determining if a portion of a script of web application code within a web application is migratable to a remote infrastructure, wherein the portion of the script contains one or more functions; and modifying the portion of the script if the portion of the script is migratable, such that execution of the portion of the script results in the one or more functions being executed on the remote infrastructure, wherein the remote infrastructure is not restricted to the device on which the web application was designed or distributed. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047016 | SERVER INFRASTRUCTURE, MOBILE CLIENT DEVICE AND APP FOR MOBILE BLOGGING AND SHARING - A server infrastructure and a mobile client device with a mobile app that facilitates mobile blogging and controlled sharing of blog entries. The mobile client device is communicatively coupled to the server infrastructure and it comprises a registration module configured to receive a registration information from a user and a blog entry module. The mobile app facilitates mobile blogging—High school kids and other users can automatically publish their photos taken on their mobile devices along with voice comments and optional text into a personal profile/blog. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047017 | Software Platform and Method for Processing Unstructured Data - A software platform and a method for processing unstructured data are provided. The software platform includes a server and a client The client is configured to receive a predefined command from an application software, call a function which is corresponding to the predefined command and which is in the client and/or in a server through network communications with the server to perform an operation: and the server is configured to perform network communications with the client and provide the function when called by the client. According to the present invention, function loads can be distributed reasonably between the server and the client and each function module can be deployed reasonably, and thereby the working efficiency of the software platform can be improved. Meanwhile, the software platform is extended to he applied to a network, which provides a foundation and convenience for other applications based on the software platform in the network. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047018 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A NETWORK AND A NETWORK - For allowing a reliable and high performance of a network, a method for operating a network is described, wherein the network includes a server and at least one client for communication with the server, an application computation or operation will be performed by the server and the result of the application computation or operation will be displayed at the client. The method is characterized in that a network element will be provided for use by the client, wherein the network element performs at least one application computation or operation on behalf of the server. Further, a corresponding network for carrying out the above mentioned method is also disclosed. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047019 | Communication Alerts Management - A method is described for managing communication alerts on multiple remote devices that are associated with a common user and in contemporaneous communication with a server on a communication network. The method can include designating on the server one of the plurality of remote devices as being in an active state, and sending a communication from the server to the remote devices. Only the remote device designated as in the active state displays an alert announcing the incoming communication. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047020 | Handling Notifications - In particular embodiments, one or more notifications are presented on a screen of a personal computing device while the personal computing device is in a locked state. Entry of one or more user responses may be detected on the personal computing device while still in the locked state. Each user response may be associated with at least one notification. An authorization event associated with the personal computing device may be detected, thereby unlocking the personal computing device. The one or more user responses on the personal computing device may then be presented to the user for confirmation. Once user confirmation is received, confirmed user responses may then be published. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047021 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION - Certain aspects of a system and/or method for processing information may include a server computing device. The server computing device may aggregate data associated with a user received from one or more data sources. The data may depend on a pre-defined distance range from a location of the user. At least one tag value may be associated with each element of the aggregated received data. The associated at least one tag value may uniquely identify each element of the aggregated received data. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047022 | MANAGING A SHARING OF MEDIA CONTENT AMONG CIENT COMPUTERS - Technology is provided to manage sharing of media content among client computers. In one example, an application server provides at least a portion of the media content to the client computers. The application server receives a requested session event. A session event is an annotation, a comment, or a navigation request. The application server generates a formatted session event by formatting the requested session event at least according at least one option. An option defines how the application server is to modify a session event for display at the client computers. The application server provides the formatted session event to the client computers for display on user interfaces at the client computers. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047023 | Generating Guest Suggestions for Events in a Social Networking System - Social networking system users may create events where a group of other users invited to the event meet at a specified time and location. The social networking system suggests users to invite to an event based on a prediction that the users would attend the event if invited. Various factors may be used to make the prediction, such as an affinity between the inviting user and the other users, the availability of the other users at the time of the event and/or the proximity of the other users to the location of the event. An inviting user receives the suggested users and selects suggested users to invite to the event or invitations may be automatically sent to the suggested users by the social networking system. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047024 | TRANSPORTATION SHARING BASED ON USER ACTIVITIES AND STATEMENTS - In embodiments, a shared-transportation social interaction system (“STSI”) may facilitate a first user in sharing transportation to one or more locations based on the activities and/or statements of a second user. The STSI may follow one or more blogs of the second user, as well as location information, such as made available by the second user's GPS or social-networking check-ins. The STSI may also allow the first user to follow the second user and to be notified when the second user is at a location of interest. Upon determining the second user to be at a location of interest, the STSI may determine if the first user is available and may then send a notification to the first user. The STSI may then facilitate the first user in sharing transportation to the location. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047025 | Event Management/Production for an Online Event - Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for managing and/or producing an online event. One embodiment is a computer program embodied in a computer readable medium and executable by a processor for providing an online event. One such computer program comprises: logic configured to establish an audio conference between one or more speakers and a plurality of listen-only viewers; logic configured to present the audio conference to the plurality of listen-only viewers via a viewer user interface; and logic configured to present an event production user interface to an event producer, the event production user interface configured to enable the event producer to selectively control the viewer user interface presented to the listen-only viewers during the online event. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047026 | OFFENDER MESSAGE DELIVERY SYSTEM - A correctional facility communication system for sending an external message to an offender of a correctional facility is disclosed. The correctional facility communication system includes a messaging system and a correctional facility system coupled together with a wide area network. The messaging system is at a first location and the correctional facility system is at a second location, different from the first location. The messaging system authenticates a sender of the external message, receives the external message in electronic form at the first location, checks the external message against criteria specified by the correctional facility, determine a second location of the offender and a corresponding printer, and sends the external message to the second location for automatic printing with the corresponding printer. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047027 | CONTEXT BASED VIRTUAL AREA CREATION - Examples of systems and methods for context based virtual area creation are described. Some examples provide a quick and easy way for users to wrap virtual areas around contexts of interest. Examples of such contexts may be defined in terms of one or more of content, people, and real-world location. The virtual areas support realtime communications between communicants (e.g., one or more of text chat, voice, video, application sharing, and file sharing) and provide a persistent historical repository for interactions in the virtual area. Summaries of activities and other events in virtual areas typically are published in realtime so that other communicants can readily obtain a quick summary of the activities occurring in a particular context and decide whether or not to join or otherwise participate in those activities. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047028 | MULTI-APPLICATION WORKFLOW INTEGRATION - Techniques are described for managing interactions between workflows being performed by different applications, such as to enable a combination of multiple workflows in multiple applications of different types to aggregate varying capabilities available from the different types of applications. In some situations, an integrated workflow is created by separating portions of its functionality into multiple constituent workflows that is each performed by a different application and that initiate one or more inter-workflow interactions between the constituent workflows as they are performed (e.g., for one of the constituent workflows to, while it is being performed, invoke another constituent workflow in order to begin its performance). As one non-limiting example, the multiple applications of different types may include a least an enterprise business application program that provides various core business functions, and a desktop collaborative application program that provides various user activity management capabilities. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047029 | SHARING SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATON - Social network information may be shared across online service providers. Thus, one online service provider M that maintains a membership separate from a second online service provider N may nevertheless use the social network maintained by the second online service provider N to tailor content and/or services based on such social network information. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047030 | Method and Apparatus for Sending Authentication Request Message in a Social Network - The present disclosure describes a method and an apparatus for sending an authentication request message in a social network. In order to resolve the problem that there are few parameters to be relied on when a user authenticates a request seeking to establish a social network relationship with the user, the method disclosed by the present disclosure includes: a social network server that, after obtaining an authentication request message sent by a first client to a second client to request to establish a social network relationship, modifies the first client's identification information in the first authentication request message to a third client's identification information to obtain a second authentication request message. The third client has a social network relationship with the first client and also has a direct social network relationship with the second client. The second authentication request message is sent to the second client. As the third client's identification information is used as identification information of a sending party in the second authentication request message that is sent to the second client, there will be more parameters for use when the second client verifies the request to establish the social network relationship. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047031 | Multi-Network Architecture for Media Data Exchange - Some embodiments use several different types of networks to relay several different types of media content among several different computing devices. The media content of some embodiments is data that a computing device can process in order to provide a presentation of the media content to a user of the device. Examples of types of such media content include audio data, video data, text data, picture data, game data, and/or other media data. In some embodiments, two different networks relay media content of two different types among multiple computing devices. Specifically, in some embodiments, a first network routes among the computing devices one type of media data content (e.g., game data), while a second network routes among the computing devices another type of media data content (e.g., audio and/or video data of game participants). The two networks differ in some embodiments based on their topology. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047032 | USER INFORMATION PROCESSING UNIT, USER INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, TERMINAL UNIT, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION - A user information processing method, an apparatus thereof and a user information processing system in which personal information can be more effectively employed. Terminal use record information is obtained when a user employs terminal units. The profile information of the user is generated on the basis of the accumulated terminal use record information and the generated profile information is stored, so that information peculiar to the user can be provided on the basis of the stored profile information of the user. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047033 | VIDEO TAG SHARING - A tag sharing method and system. The method includes receiving by a computer processor, an audio/video data file and tag data describing different subject matter of audio/video data of the audio/video data file. The computer processor associates portions of the tag data with audio/video subsets of the audio/video data and in response the computer processor generates a modified audio/video data file including independent audio/video tags. Each audio/video tag of the independent audio/video tags includes an audio/video subset of the audio/video subsets independently stored with an associated portion of the portions of the tag data. The computer processor receives rule data comprising rules associated with allowing users of a social networking system to view each audio/video subset. The computer processor stores the modified audio/video data file and the rule data. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047034 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A PUBLIC WARNING - Various methods for providing a secure public warning related to a disaster are provided. One example method may comprise providing for transmission of a registration message. The registration message may comprise an indication of an identity and an indication of a location. The method of this example embodiment may further comprise receiving a warning message. The method of this example embodiment may further comprise authenticating the warning message. Additionally, the method of this example may further comprise providing an alert after authenticating the warning message. Similar and related example methods, example apparatuses, and example computer program products are also provided. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047035 | DISTRIBUTING COLLABORATIVE COMPUTER EDITING SYSTEM - A distributing collaborative computer editing system is provided. The computer editing system includes a storage unit, a searching unit, a splitting unit, a distributing unit and an aggregating unit. The storage unit is used for storing a multimedia provided from a host. The searching unit is used for searching a plurality of collaborators via a social network service associated with the host. The splitting unit is used for splitting the multimedia into a plurality of parts. The distributing unit is used for distributing those parts to the collaborators, such that the collaborators can edit those parts respectively. The aggregating unit is used for aggregating those edited parts. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047036 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A USER WITH CONTEMPORANEOUS STRATEGY PROVIDER INFORMATION, PREFERENCES AND DECISIONS IN A COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED PLATFORM - A method for contemporaneously displaying data on a screen; the method comprising the steps of: i. receiving a request for facilitating the selection of an executable operation from a list of possible operations ii. retrieving a first on line data related to a change in a value of the outcomes of executing said operation; iii. retrieving from a data repository a second data related to preferences, activities and performance of one or more strategy providers; and iv. contemporaneously transmitting the first data and the second data to a remote computerised device for making the first data and the second data contemporaneously available on a display of the remote computerised device. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047037 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONFIGURED WITH UNIVERSAL MESSAGING INTERFACE - An electronic device and method for sending a message is provided. The electronic device includes a network interface, an input device and a processor in communication with the network interface and the input device. The processor is configured to establish a connection with a plurality of messaging applications, select a messaging service, receive content and input via a messaging composition interface and send the message. The method involves establishing a connection with a plurality of messaging applications, selecting a messaging service, receiving content and input via a messaging composition interface, and sending the message. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047038 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENDING SCANNED DOCUMENTS TO MOBILE DEVICE USING OPERATOR'S NETWORK - The present disclosure discloses a method for utilizing a scanning device for sending scanned output to mobile devices. The method includes scanning one or more documents as input. The method further includes saving the scanned output in a pre-defined format. Thereafter, a phone number of a destination mobile device is received. Then, an operator associated with the phone number is identified. Finally, the scanned output is sent to the mobile device using the mobile device operator's network. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047039 | CONTENT BASED MESSAGE DELIVERY - Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating message sessions. In one implementation, a notification is received relating to a message submitted for delivery on behalf of a sender to a recipient. The message includes several components. At least one delivery policy is identified based on the content identified in at least one of the components. Delivery of the message is initiated according to the delivery policy. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047040 | DATA STORAGE APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE - An application programming interface for a data storage service provides a convenient mechanism for clients of the data storage service to access its various capabilities. An API call may be made to initiate a job and in response a job identifier may be provided. A separate API call specifying the job identifier may be made and a response providing information related to the job may result. Various API calls may be used to store data, retrieve data, obtain an inventory of stored data, and to obtain other information relating to stored data. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047041 | MESSAGE SUBSCRIPTION BASED ON MESSAGE AGGREGATE CHARACTERISTICS - A method for message subscription based on a message aggregate characteristic is described. The method includes receiving a message subscription from a user. The message subscription is based on the message aggregate characteristic including an aspect other than textual content and bibliographic content. The method also includes determining a published message in response to receiving the message subscription. The published message satisfies the message aggregate characteristic. The method also includes providing an indication of the published message to the user. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047042 | METHOD AND A SERVER FOR ROUTING BETWEEN DEVICES OF A COMPUTER BASED SOCIAL NETWORK - The invention concerns a method and a server for routing between devices of a computer based social network having a plurality of users, wherein upon receipt of a first message from a device ( | 2014-02-13 |
20140047043 | Disposable Email Address Generation and Mapping to a Regular Email Account - An integrated system allows easily creating and using disposable email addresses. The disposable email address is created by an email server, which manages correspondence using the disposable email address to avoid exposing the associated non-disposable email address. Context information may be associated with a disposable email address, where the context information is not visible in email sent using the disposable email address. Expiration information may also be associated with the disposable email address, where the expiration information defines conditions that cause the disposable email address to expire. Should the disposable address be misused, the associated context may allow a user to recognize what correspondent exposed the disposable address to misuse. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047044 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING SESSION THRESHOLD FOR IMS SCIM/SERVICE BROKERING - In accordance with various embodiments, systems and methods that integrate threshold management into a SCIM/Service Broker are provided. Such a system can include a plurality of applications, executing on one or more application servers. The system can also include a SCIM/Service Broker which is operable to manage a threshold set by the applications. Each application can determine an application threshold, a current threshold and a met threshold. When an application receives a message from the SCIM/Service Broker, the application can determine if the met threshold exists and, if the met threshold exists, update the application threshold accordingly. The application can also determine if the application threshold has been met, and if the application threshold has been met, execute business logic associated with the application threshold and set a new application threshold. The application sends a request to SCIM/Service Broker requesting a new current threshold value be set. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047045 | CUSTOMIZED PRESENTATION OF EVENT GUEST LISTS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A user creates an event in a social networking system specifying a location, a time, and a guest list of other users invited to the event. The social networking system generates a page associated with the event that provides information about the event and identifies whether users have responded to invitations to the event. The content of the page may be customized for the user viewing the page to encourage the viewing user to attend the event. For example, the viewing user's relationship to and/or similar characteristics with other users on the guest list is determined and used by the social networking system to identify the users whose responses to invitations are shown to the viewing user via the page. Additionally, a notification method more prominently distributes acceptances of invitations to other users to encourage attendance. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047046 | METHOD OF ADDING A POSTSCRIPT MESSAGE TO AN EMAIL - A system and method providing for appending of a note or instruction to the contents of an email such that the note or instructions is only appended to emails of selected recipients of a group of recipients, with only the email going to the other recipients of the group of recipients is provided. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047047 | MAIL TRANSIT SYSTEM AND MAIL RECYCLING CORRECTION METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a mail transit system and a mail recycling correction method. The mail transit system includes a sending-end device and a cloud transit device. The sending-end device is configured to provide a user to send a mail message via a first mail box interface. The cloud transit device is connected to the sending-end device, and configured to receive the mail message, perform address transformation, and transmit the transformed mail message to a second mail box interface. The first mail box interface is different from the second mail box interface, and when the mail message in the second mail box interface is in an unread state, the sending-end device is provided for the user to amend the mail message and send a correction command to the cloud transit device, so as to recycle or amend the mail message at the second mail box interface by the cloud transit device. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047048 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RESOURCE SHARING BETWEEN DEVICES - Electronic devices and methods communicate over a network with at least one other electronic device within a group of electronic devices. Each electronic device can transmit and/or receive resource information over the network, and the resource information includes a resource identifier for identifying a remote resource accessible through another electronic device and source information for identifying a location from which the remote resource can be obtained. An electronic device can select one of a plurality of resources including the remote resource, and in response to the remote resource being selected, requests the selected remote resource from the location identified by the source information in order to share the remote resource. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047049 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LINKING AND PRIORITIZING CHAT MESSAGES - Embodiments are directed at methods and systems for facilitating social interactions between viewers watching media inputs and interacting with each other before, during, and after the viewing process. One embodiment is directed to delivering chat messages to a user computer. The method comprises receiving a request including a user identifier from the user computer and determining a first user account associated with the user identifier. The method further comprises calculating an importance score for a plurality of chat messages. The importance score may be calculated for the first user account differently than for a second user account. The method further comprises selecting a first set of chat messages. The first set of chat messages may have a specified number of chat messages with importance scores that are highest amongst the chat messages. The method also comprises sending a response including the first set of chat messages to the user computer. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047050 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SYNCHRONIZING EMAILS - A device and method for synchronizing emails are provided. The method includes identifying configuration information for synchronizing emails, identifying email information to be provided from an email server through email synchronization based on the configuration information, and displaying the email information. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047051 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENDING PROMPT INFORMATION TO SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES COMMUNITY USERS - A method for sending prompt information to Social Networking Services (SNS) community users comprises the following steps: acquiring the inactive users in an SNS community; acquiring the friend relationship chains of the inactive users; acquiring the active users in the friend relationship chains; acquiring the writing operations of the active users; sending prompt information related to the writing operations of the active users to the inactive users. The method described above for sending prompt information to SNS community users can increase the success rate for activating the inactive users, and thus effectively reducing the loss of the SNS community users. Besides, a system for sending prompt information to SNS community users is also provided. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047052 | FACILITATING THE SENDING OF MAIL FROM A RESTRICTED COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - The sending of mail from a restricted communications network is facilitated. A communications unit external to the restricted communications network periodically pulls the mail from the restricted communications network and forwards the mail to a receiver. The receiver may be the intended recipient of the mail or an intermediary used to further send the mail to the intended recipient. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047053 | RICH PRESENCE STATUS BASED ON LOCATION, ACTIVITY, AVAILABILITY AND TRANSIT STATUS OF A USER - A method and system for determining and sharing rich presence status of a user is presented. Multiple types of presence status options are associated with user's status based on location, activity, availability, transit status, and user's text updates, which the user can selectively share on their mobile device with different groups of users, and make one or more aspects of their presence status broadly available to everyone. Also a system to determine status based on auto-updates and manual updates is presented. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047054 | Unified Message Management Method and System - The proposed Advanced Messaging Solution (AMS) provides a non-intrusive cloud-based software application infrastructure through which MSOs and Service Providers can unify Web, mobile and set-top box device technologies with Enterprise and 3 | 2014-02-13 |
20140047055 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A transmission device ( | 2014-02-13 |
20140047056 | CONNECTION ABNORMALITY DETECTION METHOD, NETWORK SYSTEM, AND MASTER DEVICE - A technique is provided for detecting a connection abnormality of a slave device, in a network system including a master device and slave devices. The technique includes a connection abnormality detection method in a network system including a master device and a plurality of slave devices. In the network system, data is transmitted from the master device and then returned to the master device through respective slave devices. Each slave device has an upstream-side port and a downstream-side port. The connection abnormality detection method includes acquiring topology information of the network system, closing or opening the port of each slave device such that a serial topology is formed to include a target slave device located on the downmost stream side, transmitting inspection data after the control of the port, and detecting a connection abnormality of the device on the basis of a status of return of the inspection data. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047057 | WIRELESS STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A wireless storage management system adapted for being used in an electronic product for wirelessly communicating with a plurality of wireless storage devices includes an identity module assigning master and slave roles to the wireless storage devices, a hard disk manage module controlling the master device to obtain disk information about the wireless storage devices and further set an archive order for the slave devices, and a file manage module managing file access according to the archive order. The electronic product is only directly connected with the master device to make the hard disk manage module and the file manage module manage the slave devices via the master device. So the electronic product can conveniently view the disk information of all of the wireless storage devices and further realize the file access to all of the devices only by being directly connected with the master device. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047058 | DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS OF REMOTE DATA - An apparatus and associated methodology providing a data storage system operably transferring data between a storage space and a remote device via a network. The data storage system includes a first storage controller having top-level control of a first data storage device and a second storage controller having top-level control of a second data storage device that is different than the first data storage device, the first and second data storage devices forming portions of the storage space. Data pathway logic resides in the first storage controller that performs a direct memory access (DMA) transfer to the second data storage device at a DMA data transfer rate in response to the first storage controller receiving, from the external device via the network, an access request for the second data storage device. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047059 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING MOBILE NETWORK PERFORMANCE VIA AD-HOC PEER-TO-PEER REQUEST PARTITIONING - Method, computer program product, and system for identifying, responsive to a request for a network resource, at least one peer device, wherein the request is made by a first device on a mobile network, the at least one peer device on a local network with the first device, the local network different than the mobile network; partitioning, based on at least one content element of the requested network resource, the request into a plurality of subrequests, each subrequest specifying to retrieve one or more content elements of the requested network resource; assigning each subrequest to one of the peer devices and the first device, wherein each peer device and the first device retrieves the content elements specified by the subrequest assigned to the respective device, wherein each peer device transmits the retrieved portion of the network resource to the first device over the local network. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047060 | REMOTE PROCESSING AND MEMORY UTILIZATION - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for operating memory includes a first node coupled to a second node by a network, the system configured to perform a method including receiving the remote transaction message from the second node in a processing element in the first node via the network, wherein the remote transaction message bypasses a main processor in the first node as it is transmitted to the processing element. In addition, the method includes accessing, by the processing element, data from a location in a memory in the first node based on the remote transaction message, and performing, by the processing element, computations based on the data and the remote transaction message. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047061 | INTER POINT OF PRESENCE SPLIT ARCHITECTURE - A system and method for accelerating web page delivery is disclosed in one embodiment. Web content requests are made to an edge server of a first point of presence (POP) of a content delivery network (CDN). The web content has embedded resource links. The first POP can rewrite the embedded resource links to route requests for the embedded resource links to any POP in the CDN or even the origin server. In some embodiments, the first POP can decide if the first POP and/or another POP referenced in a rewritten embedded resource link should cache and/or accelerate the resource referenced in the embedded resource link. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047062 | System and Method for Maintaining Solvency Within a Cache - In one embodiment, a computing system includes a cache including one or more memories and a cache manager. The cache manager is able to determine an amount of accessible data for a portion of the cache associated with the cache manager; compare the amount of accessible data to a threshold value; determine, for one or more clients associated with the cache manager, an amount of releasable data if the amount of accessible data exceeds the threshold value; communicate, to one or more clients associated with the cache manager, the amount of releasable data for the client; receive from one or more clients associated with the cache manager information associated with data released by the one or more clients; and determine an amount of data released by the one or more clients associated with the cache manager. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047063 | LOCATION-BASED PROGRAM LISTING - Disclosed are methods that aid users, especially users temporarily staying in locations remote from home, in finding and accessing media content. A program listing tailored for the user's current location, and showing only services actually available at that location, is created and presented to the user. In some embodiments, the user interacts with the listing to access available media content items. If the user has expressed specific location-based preferences, then those preferences can be taken into account when creating the listing. If a service subscribed to by the user is not available at this remote location, then an alternate provider will be searched for, and, if found, the user's favorite shows can be added to the created program listing. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047064 | REMOTE INDUSTRIAL MONITORING USING A CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE - A cloud-based infrastructure facilitates gathering, transmitting, and remote storage of control and automation data using an agent-based communication channel. The infrastructure collects the industrial data from an industrial enterprise and intelligently sorts and organizes the acquired data based on selected criteria. Message queues can be configured on the cloud platform to segregate the industrial data according to priority, data type, or other criteria. Behavior assemblies stored in customer-specific manifests on the cloud platform define customer-specific preferences for processing data stored in the respective message queues. Web-based tools can deliver automated notifications to an end user device based on analysis of the stored data, and allow the user to remotely view the stored data. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047065 | SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PUSH SERVICE USING FEEDBACK MESSAGE - Disclosed are a system for providing a push service using a feedback message including: a service providing device to transmit a push message to a client device and receive a feedback message with respect to the transmitted push message; and a push service device to receive the push message from the service providing device and transmit the push message to the client device, store the feedback message when the push message transmitted to the client device fails and a connection with the service providing device is disconnected, and transmit the stored feedback message to the service providing device. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047066 | APPLICATION WIRE - Transferring data over a network includes identifying an application flow and mapping the application flow to a network bound connection. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047067 | SHORTCUT SETS FOR CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENTS - A method and apparatus for shortcut sets to data sources, such as web sites, is disclosed. The shortcut sets may be associated with a controlled environment. A controlled environment might be a home, corporation, business, etc. As an example, an information technology (IT) manager configures shortcuts for the employees of the company. As another example, a family member configures shortcuts that are common to all family members, when at home. A user may enter a shortcut into a search box of a web browser to be directed to a data source. If the shortcut indicates a search at the data source is desired, then a search is automatically performed at the data source. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047068 | VIDEO INFORMATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - Video information, which is photographed with using a GPS built-in video camera, is inputted into a video information server. A video information correspondence table is produced, which associated photographing time of the video information inputted, data address of the video information photographed, and photographing position, and is memorized. According to a request from a display apparatus, the memorized video information correspondence table is searched, and thereby obtaining the video information having the information of time and position designated. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047069 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FEDERATED OVER-THE-TOP CONTENT DELIVERY - A method is provided for managing over-the-top delivery of content through a plurality of content delivery networks (CDN). The method provided works transparently with standard HTTP servers supporting an initial request for content from a client to a first preferred CDN. If the first CDN does not have the content, the method includes provisions for the first CDN to acquire the content from a second CDN, or for the client to request the content from a second CDN directly. A system is also specified for implementing a client and server infrastructure in accordance with the provisions of the method. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047070 | CLOUD COMUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STORING DATA FILES IN CLOUD SERVERS - In a method for storing data files to cloud servers using a cloud computing device, the cloud computing device connects to at least one terminal device through a network. The cloud computing device receives one or more data files from the terminal device, and determines a file storing mode of each of the data files. The cloud computing device generates a file information list of the data files according to the file storing modes of the data files, and search the cloud servers in the network according to the file information list. The cloud computing device divides each of the data files into data blocks according to the file information list, uploads each of the data blocks to the cloud servers according to the file storing locations, and stores the file information list in a storage device of the cloud computing device. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047071 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND NETWORK FOR TRANSMITTING MULTIMEDIA DATA TO A PLURALITY OF CLIENTS - For transmitting multimedia data to a plurality of clients over a network, wherein the multimedia data is stored in a plurality of formats of different multimedia rates, on the basis of utility information for the multimedia data, the utility information describing a relationship between multimedia quality and multimedia rate, and on the basis of a condition of the network, for each of the plurality of clients available multimedia rates for the multimedia data are determined. In response to a client request for transmitting the multimedia data with a desired multimedia rate, in accordance with the available multimedia rates determined for the requesting client, a format of the requested multimedia data is selected and the multimedia data is transmitted in the selected format to the requesting client. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047072 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTIVE MOBILE OFFER SYSTEM USING TIME AND LOCATION FOR OUT-OF-HOME DISPLAY SCREENS - Content which is related to content being displayed on an out-of-home display screen is synchronized with being shown on an out-of-home display screen. A mobile device operates to receive content which is related to the content being displayed on the out-of-home display screen. The system operates based on mobile device location, out-of-home display screen location and the time of day. Based on the time and locations, a server can determine what content is on the display screen and can therefore serve related content based on that to the mobile device. It works passively with periodic regular updates of the mobile device location or actively through the use of a button (touch screen, keyboard, etc.) on the mobile device to signal the server to check its location and therefore identifying which display screen the mobile device is near. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047073 | Platform Independent Multimedia Playback Apparatuses, Methods, and Systems - The PLATFORM INDEPENDENT MULTIMEDIA PLAYBACK APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS (“PLAYPLAT”) may be configured to enable cross-device and cross-format synchronization of media content. The PLAYPLAT may conserve bandwidth through its selection of appropriate portions of media for synchronization, such as through the use of predictive technology. The PLAYPLAT can further be configured to scan media content and create meta-data suitable for cross-format synchronization. The PLAYPLAT may also enable consumer commerce transactions based on media consumption or other factors. Additionally, the PLAYPLAT may be configured to enable account creation without registration and conduct transactions anonymously. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047074 | System And Method For Communication Of An Event Through A Call For Media - Communication about an event is achieved through a call for media, allowing diverse forms of media such as text, audio, picture, and video to be associated with the call for media for a past, present and/or future event, an event being definable by location, a set time, an object, a state of being, an individual, any combination thereof and others, etc. Calls for media need not be stated as direct requests, but may simply be an event name, to which users may respond with related media. Associating specific communication with an event allows all forms of media used or captured to be related to the event for easier tagging, cataloging, or archiving, while also creating a way to alert others that media is desired for an event and can aggregate this media from one or many users, organize and prioritize event-related media to create presentations of the event, etc. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047075 | COMPLEMENTING CONSUMPTION OF MEDIA CONTENT USING A DISPLAY DEVICE WITH A MOBILE DEVICE - Apparatuses, storage medium and methods associated with emulating a storage medium with media files to a display device are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an adapter device may include a peripheral interface to couple the adapter device to the display device emulating the storage medium. The adapter device may further include one or more logic units coupled to the peripheral interface to provide the display device with a playlist of one or more media files (established on instructions of a mobile device), and in response to a selection of one of the one or more media files by the display device, provide the display device with media content associated with the selected media file, emulating the storage medium. In embodiments, the one or more logic units may capture one or more images for the mobile device to conduct online transactions. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047076 | EUI BASED REMOTE DATABASE FOR DYNAMIC DEVICE CONTROL - Systems and methods for controlling one or more appliances are provided. One or more appliances ( | 2014-02-13 |
20140047077 | ENABLING PEER-TO-PEER CONTENT RETRIEVAL IN HTTP - Described are embodiments directed to enabling the retrieval of content from a peer-to-peer network. In embodiments, a client requesting content from a server can indicate in an HTTP request that it is capable of retrieving content from a peer-to-peer network. When the server receives the HTTP request it will recognize the indication that the client is capable of retrieving content from a peer-to-peer network and may send content information instead of sending the requested content. The content information allows the client to retrieve the content from the peer-to-peer network. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047078 | Enhanced Push Notification Services - A push notification server operates on a client device to manage push notifications that the client device receives from various push servers. In some embodiments, the push notification server may receive a notification message on behalf of an application and determine how to handle the notification message based on whether the application is operating on the client device. If the application is operating on the client device, the push notification server may deliver the notification message to the application. If the application is not operating on the client device, the push notification server may deregister the application from the push notification service, and/or display user information associated with the application in order to inform the user that the application is not operating. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047079 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMULATING A DESIRED NETWORK CONFIGURATION IN A CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a method and system for configuring a computing system, such as a cloud computing system. A method includes selecting a cluster of nodes for the computing system from a plurality of available nodes coupled to a communication network based on a comparison of a communication network configuration of an emulated node cluster and an actual communication network configuration of the plurality of available nodes. The method further includes modifying a network configuration of at least one node of a cluster of nodes to modify network performance of the at least one node on a communication network coupled to the cluster of nodes. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047080 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING RENDEZVOUS SERVER TO MAKE CONNECTIONS TO FIRE ALARM PANELS - A method and system for using a rendezvous server to make connections to fire alarm panels. In one aspect, an external computer is used to communicate with an authentication computer in a secure overlay network in order for the external computer to establish a secure connection with the secure overlay network and to communicate with a rendezvous server in order for the external computer to, in turn, communicate with the target alarm panels in the secure overlay network. In another aspect, the rendezvous server receives a communication from the electronic device, with the communication indicative of the electronic device seeking to communicate with only devices in the secure overlay network, in response to the communication, accesses information to communicate with the target fire alarm panels and uses the accessed information in order for the electronic device to communicate with the target fire alarm panels. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047081 | CLOUD-BASED VIRTUAL MACHINES AND OFFICES - Cloud-based virtual machines and offices are provided herein. Methods may include establishing a cloud-based virtual office, by providing selections, corresponding to backups of servers of a computing network, to a user interface, establishing a cloud gateway for the virtual office, virtualizing a backup for each server using a virtualization program to create the cloud-based virtual office that includes virtual server machines networked with one another via the cloud gateway, and providing a workload to the cloud-based virtual office. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047082 | PROVIDING ACCESS TO CONFIGURABLE PRIVATE COMPUTER NETWORKS - Techniques are described for providing users with access to computer networks, such as to enable users to interact with a remote configurable network service in order to create and configure computer networks that are provided by the configurable network service for use by the users. Computer networks provided by the configurable network service may be configured to be private computer networks that are accessible only by the users who create them, and may each be created and configured by a client of the configurable network service to be an extension to an existing computer network of the client, such as a private computer network extension to an existing private computer network of the client. If so, secure private access between an existing computer network and new computer network extension that is being provided may be enabled using one or more VPN connections or other private access mechanisms. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047083 | ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD, ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION GENERATION PROGRAM, AND ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE - The present invention relates to a management information generation method for a management information generation apparatus ( | 2014-02-13 |
20140047084 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING A HARDWARE CONFIGURATION OF A CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a method and system for configuring a computing system, such as a cloud computing system. A method includes determining, based on a shared execution of a workload by a cluster of nodes of the computing system, that at least one node of the cluster of nodes operated at less than a threshold operating capacity during the shared execution of the workload. The method further includes selecting a modified hardware configuration of the cluster of nodes based on the determining such that the cluster of nodes with the modified hardware configuration has at least one of a reduced computing capacity and a reduced storage capacity. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047085 | Configuration Management Repository for a Distributed Platform - Some embodiments provide a repository that manages configurations for a distributed platform and that automatedly configures servers of the distributed platform with different hierarchical sets of configurations while ensuring integrity and consistency across the servers and in the repository. In some embodiment, the repository includes a data store that stores configurations for a first set of servers that are operated by a first service provider and a second set of servers that are operated by a second service provider. The data store also identifies different sets of configurations to deploy to different sets of servers from the first and second sets of servers. The repository also includes a function processor to automatedly deploy the different sets of configurations to the different sets of servers and to perform functions for updating the configurations in a manner that ensures integrity and consistency. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047086 | Systems and Methods for Providing Hot Spare Nodes - Systems and methods for providing hot spare nodes are disclosed. For example, one disclosed method for providing hot spare nodes comprises receiving an indication of a first quantity of unallocated nodes, the first quantity greater than or equal to one; receiving a command configured to create a hot spare pool and causing the first quantity of unallocated nodes to be configured as a first quantity of configured nodes; and generating the hot spare pool, the hot spare pool comprising the first quantity of configured nodes. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047087 | DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION AMONG CUSTOMER PREMISE EQUIPMENT DEVICES - A method of initializing, provisioning, and managing a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device includes sending a customized configuration file to the cable modem. The configuration file contains service provisioning information and further includes information indicative of a device-to-device communication configuration. A message is passed from the cable modem to the customer premise equipment device indicative of the device-to-device communication configuration. The customer premise equipment device is initialized for device-to-device communication with any other customer premise equipment devices in accordance with the device-to-device communication configuration indicated in the message, which relates to physical layer and data link layer communications among customer premise equipment devices. In this way, the customer premise equipment device knows how to communicate with other customer premise equipment devices, for example, at the same subscriber location. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047088 | SERVICE MANAGEMENT ROLES OF PROCESSOR NODES IN DISTRIBUTED NODE SERVICE MANAGEMENT - A distributed node service management system utilizes multiple existing processor nodes of a distributed computing system, in support of the primary data processing functions of the distributed computing system. The distributed node service management system coordinates and manages service functions on behalf of processor nodes of the distributed computing system. Other features and aspects may be realized, depending upon the particular application. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047089 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPERVISED NETWORK CLUSTERING - A method (and system) for supervised network clustering includes receiving and reading node labels from a plurality of nodes on a network, as executed by a processor on a computer having access to the network, the network defined as a group of entities interconnected by links. The node labels are used to define densities associated with the nodes. Node components are extracted from the network, based on using thresholds on densities. Smaller components having a size below a user-defined threshold are merged. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047090 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING MEDIA RESOURCE FOR IMS SCIM/SERVICE BROKERING - In accordance with various embodiments, systems and methods that improve communication with a media server are provided. Such a system can include a plurality of applications, executing on one or more application servers. The system can also include a media server which is operable to play announcements requested by the plurality of applications to one or more parties in a call; and a SCIM. The SCIM is operable to buffer requests from the plurality of applications to play the announcements. When an application in a chain of applications requests that an announcement be played to a party, the SCIM can buffer the request, communicate with each remaining application in the chain of applications and buffer any requests to play an additional announcement to the party, open a connection to the media server, and instruct the media server to play each announcement associated with each buffered request. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047091 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPERVISED NETWORK CLUSTERING - A method (and system) for supervised network clustering includes receiving and reading node labels from a plurality of nodes on a network, as executed by a processor on a computer having access to the network, the network defined as a group of entities interconnected by links. The node labels are used to define densities associated with the nodes. Node components are extracted from the network, based on using thresholds on densities. Smaller components having a size below a user-defined threshold are merged. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047092 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TOPOLOGY-AWARE JOB SCHEDULING AND BACKFILLING IN AN HPC ENVIRONMENT - A method for job management in an HPC environment includes determining an unallocated subset from a plurality of HPC nodes, with each of the unallocated HPC nodes comprising an integrated fabric. An HPC job is selected from a job queue and executed using at least a portion of the unallocated subset of nodes. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047093 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT AND SERVICES ON A NETWORK SYSTEM - Systems and methods for managing and providing content and services on a network system. Aspects of the invention include location-based determination of network content and services that may be provided to client computers. Other aspects of the invention include authorization and authentication components that determine access rights of client computers. Additional aspects include systems and methods for redirecting client computers to different network content. The disclosed systems and methods may be used in numerous network system applications. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047094 | Method and apparatus for personal-network merging and splitting - The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose technical solutions for a method and apparatus for personal-network merging and splitting, wherein the method for personal-network merging includes that: a user, a server, a service, a personal network device, a personal network gateway or a particular event triggers a personal-network merging; a new personal network gateway is selected for a merged personal network; a personal network device is enrolled in the merged personal network; and the merged personal network is registered on a personal network server. The method for personal-network splitting includes that: a user, a server, a service, a personal network device, a personal network gateway or a particular event triggers a personal-network splitting; a new personal network gateway is selected for a personal network after the splitting; personal network devices are enrolled in personal networks after the splitting respectively; and the personal networks after the splitting are registered on a personal network server. With the method and apparatus of the present disclosure, the problem of personal area network (PN) merging and splitting and in particular merging and splitting of multiple personal networks in a PN can be solved effectively when there are a large number of PNs. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047095 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TUNING A CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a method and system for configuring a computing system, such as a cloud computing system. A method includes initiating a plurality of executions of a workload on a cluster of nodes based on a plurality of different sets of configuration parameters. The configuration parameters include at least one of an operational parameter of a workload container, a boot-time parameter of at least one node, and a hardware configuration parameter of at least one node. A set of configuration parameters is selected for the cluster of nodes from the plurality of different sets of configuration parameters based on a comparison of at least one performance characteristic of the cluster of nodes monitored during each execution of the workload and at least one desired performance characteristic. The workload is provided to the cluster of nodes for execution. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047096 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE BASELINE CALCULATION - A method includes collecting, as data points, variable data associated with a monitored parameter. The method includes determining whether one or more of a first criterion and a second criterion is satisfied. The first and second criteria are satisfied based on a first quantity of the data points and a second quantity of data points in a selective subset of the data points, respectively. The method includes estimating an approximate baseline value for the monitored parameter in a first manner by utilizing each data point of a portion of the data points in response to determining that the first criterion is satisfied and the second criterion is not satisfied, and in a second manner by determining a second baseline value utilizing each data point of a portion of the selective subset of the data points in response to determining that the first criterion and the second criterion are both satisfied. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047097 | Probabilistic Inventory System - A method stores entries including user activity information for users using computing devices and unique identifiers for computing devices as inventory information for the users. For an entry, a unique identifier for a computing device is determined based on network activity for the computing device being connected to a network and user activity information for the network activity includes user identification information determined from the computing device while the computing device is connected to the network. The method then determines multiple entries for the user including user identification information and a set of unique identifiers for a set of computing devices. The multiple entries for the user are compared against criteria to determine if the user should be assigned to a computing device based on the user activity of the user. The user is assigned to the computing device using the unique identifier if the comparison meets a threshold. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047098 | PROTOCOL FOR SUPPORTING GATEWAYS WITH REDUNDANT ROUTERS IN A SHARED DOMAIN - In an example embodiment, an apparatus with a first interface coupled to a local domain with routers that employ a redundant router protocol, such as Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) and/or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), and a second interface coupled with a shared domain, such as Virtual Private LAN (Local Area Network) Service (VPLS), and virtual bridging logic coupled with the first and second interfaces. The virtual bridging logic performs packet snooping, filtering and/or provides a proxy service so that the routers employing the redundant router protocol are localized in the local domain, and avoids the routers employing the redundant router protocol from associating with other routers employing the redundant routing protocol that are in another local domain coupled with the shared domain. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047099 | PERFORMANCE MONITOR FOR MULTIPLE CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS - A system and method for monitoring the performance of cloud computing environments. The system includes provider multi-cloud monitors configured in cloud computing environments and a consumer multi-cloud monitor configured in a cloud consumer computer. The consumer multi-cloud monitor retrieves performance data on the cloud computing environments from the provider multi-cloud monitors, converts and analyzes the cloud performance data in view of service level agreements, and presents cloud performance results to a user. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047100 | ADAPTIVE CENTRALIZED COLLECTION OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT DATA USING A METAMODEL - A method is provided for obtaining performance measurements via metamodels streamed from multiple types and models of network devices connected to a network. The method comprises installing a generic collection agent on a server connected to the network, retrieving the metamodels from the network devices by the collection agent, storing the metamodels in a collection of metamodels on the server to be accessed by the collection agent and the network devices, analyzing the metamodels to provide the network devices with addressing information, streaming the performance measurements from the network devices to the collection agent using the addressing information, and analyzing and storing the performance measurements for later use. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047101 | Method for Personalized Shopping Recommendations - A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for providing personalized recommendations based upon a user's system profile and usage. A personalized recommendation system receives a first set of input data and a second set of input data, the first set of input data comprising traditional recommendation input data and the second set of input data comprising recommendation input data associated with the profile and usage of a user's system. The first and second sets of input data are then processed to generate and provide a personalized recommendation. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047102 | NETWORK MONITORING - A system may include a monitoring engine to monitor configuration items of each layer of a multilayer network in a synchronized fashion in which each layer is monitored at a predefined time interval following monitoring of configuration items of another layer. | 2014-02-13 |
20140047103 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUBSCRIBER USER INTERFACES - Methods, apparatus, and systems manage use of shared network resources among subscribers to a data communication service. In some implementations, a first metric is computed representing a subscriber's use of the shared network resources. A second metric may also be computed that represents the amount of network congestion of the shared network resources. Data derived from the first metric and the second metric may then be presented to the subscriber. The data may be transmitted to the subscriber over a network and/or the data may be displayed to the subscriber on an electronic display. | 2014-02-13 |