09th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 45 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130054695 | Social network reporting system and method for ingestible material preparation system and method - A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically directing control at least in part of transmission to one or more computer based social network services associated with the computer based social network service identification of the information collection regarding the at least partial preparation of the one or more ingestible products and ingestion intelligence including information related to ingestion by the particular individual living being of at least one of the one or more ingestible products, the ingestion by the particular individual living being within a second vicinity of the electronically outputting of the electronically outputted one or more selection menus. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054696 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURELY AUTHORIZING VOIP INTERCONNECTIONS BETWEEN ANONYMOUS PEERS OF VOIP NETWORKS - A peering authority or settlement clearinghouse can be used to control access, collect session accounting information, and provide financial settlement of interconnect or session fees among anonymous Internet Protocol (IP) peers or networks. The addition of peering policy criteria, such as price and quality of service, to peer to peer route discovery mechanisms enable a trusted intermediary, such as the settlement clearinghouse, to authorize acceptable interconnection or peering sessions between anonymous IP peers. Any financial settlement transactions which result from the peering sessions may be subsequently executed by the settlement clearinghouse. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054697 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING CONTENT USING NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION IN A CLOUD NETWORK - A content sharing system using near field communication (NFC) in a cloud network, includes: a server to store contents; a first device having an authority to use the contents and generating first data including a list of shared contents among the contents and digital rights management (DRM) condition; and a second device to generate second data including a key value for identifying the second device and to transmit the second data to the first device when the NFC is activated for sharing the shared contents, wherein, in order to share the shared contents, the first device generates third data including the first data and second data. The contents may be encoded according to a device's performance criteria, and the sharing of the shared contents may be restricted according to location or distance. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054698 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATION-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - A method for providing a recommendation to a user, including retrieving, connection content associated with social network connections of the user; calculating, for each of the social network connections, an influence score for each of a plurality of locations; receiving a request location from a user device associated with the user; extracting a recommendation from relevant connection content, the relevant connection content being content associated with the request location and generated by at least one of the social network connections having the highest influence scores for the request location, the recommendation comprising a venue referenced within the relevant connection content; and sending the recommendation to the user device. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054699 | FILTERING SOCIAL NETWORKING CONTENT - A method for filtering social media content based on interest categories. Users of a social network can be associated with one or more interest categories. Posts or updates made in the social network by friends of a first user are associated with one or more interest categories. A social feed can be filtered based on the interested categories or the first user of the social feed and/or the interests associated with the posts or updates made by the first user's friends. In some cases, the filtered social media content is ordered based on expertise of the first user's friends in the particular interest categories of those users' posts. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054700 | MESSAGE-BASED SYSTEM FOR REMOTE CONTROL AND CONTENT SHARING BETWEEN USERS AND DEVICES - A system and method that allows a user viewing an offer to send the offer to another of the user's network enabled devices is presented. The system and method also allows the user to send the viewed offer to one or more other persons known by the user. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054701 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE PERSONAS WITHIN END USER APPLICATIONS - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for managing multiple personas within end user applications are disclosed. According to one method, a first profile definition defining a first persona through which a user accesses at least one social networking, OTT, or other hosted service and at least one trigger condition associated with the activation of the first persona is accessed. The method further includes determining a context for the user. The method further includes determining whether the context for the user satisfies the at least one trigger condition. In response to determining that the context satisfies the at least one trigger condition, the first persona is activated. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054702 | MONITORING OF REGULATED ASSOCIATES - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for monitoring regulated associates are presented. According to one or more aspects, a user command to send an electronic message using a mobile computing device may be detected. Subsequently, content of the electronic message may be analyzed to determine whether the message violates one or more policies. In response to determining that the message violates one or more policies, the message may be added to a listing of flagged messages. According to one or more additional aspects, at least one occurrence of an application installation event may be detected on a computing device. In response to detecting the at least one occurrence of the application installation event, an application corresponding to the at least one occurrence of the application installation event may be identified. Subsequently, it may be determined whether the identified application is approved for use on the computing device. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054703 | Virtual Service Delivery Platform - A system, computer-implemented method and a computer-readable medium for accessing content on a plurality of computing devices from a plurality of independent frameworks. The system includes a virtual backend service (VBS) platform. A plurality of independent frameworks hosted on the VBS platform, where each independent framework is configured to provide access to an independent set of applications that provide a service over a network. The system also includes a configuration module for configuring each computing device in the plurality of computing devices to access the set of applications particular to the independent framework, wherein the configuring dynamically switches access of each computing device between the independent frameworks, and access the service from each framework by the configured computing device. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054704 | ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MESSAGES - According to embodiments described in the specification, an electronic communication device and method for processing messages are provided. The method comprises receiving message data at a processor of the computing device, the message data comprising one or more of an address, a subject and a body; receiving a state indicator at the processor, the state indicator being an indication of a state of the message data; storing the message data and the state indicator in a memory of the computing device, the state indicator being stored in association with the message data; determining, at the processor of the computing device, if the state indicator indicates that the message data is in a draft state; and when the determination is affirmative, preventing transmission of the message data. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054705 | Tracking Desktop Application Referrals to Content Distributed Over a Network - Tracking initiation of network content requests is achieved by receiving at a network device requests from clients for network content, and tracking initiation of network content requests based upon initiator information, wherein the initiator information comprises information relating to each type of application hosted by a client that initiates the client request for network content from the network device. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054706 | Modulation of Visual Notification Parameters Based on Message Activity and Notification Value - A communications device that modulates one or more operating parameters of a visual message indicator to reflect one or more aspects of messaging activity directed or relating to a user. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054707 | ONLINE MONITORING FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE - A system can monitor online services based on conditions that can be selected by an administrator. The system can identify and select messages from within the online services. The system can then transform the selected messages into a specific format and forward the transformed messages to an agent console application. The agent console application can be located, for example, at a call center. Within the agent console application, an agent can respond to the forwarded messages using a single unified interface that an agent uses to respond to a chat session request, or telephone call, for customer service. Thus, the specific communication details of the online services can be abstracted by the system, so that the agent can respond to the forwarded messages of different online services using the single unified interface. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054708 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUGGESTING A TOPIC IN AN ONLINE GROUP - Systems and methods for suggesting a thread in an online group is disclosed. The method includes the following steps. First, the system calculates an average in-reply time to each user in the online group on history data. Second, the system calculates an average out-reply time from each user in the online group on history data. Third, the system identifies, in a computer, a root message in the thread by a first author. Fourth, the system identifies a second message in the thread that follows the root message. Fifth, the system determines an estimated growth rate of the thread based on average in-reply time and average out-reply time of the first author and a time delay between the second message and the root message. Finally, the system suggests the thread to users in the online group according to the estimated growth rate of the thread. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054709 | System and Method for Displaying a Belonging-Related Stream - A system and machine-implemented method for displaying a belonging-related stream of posts relating to belongings, including receiving a user request from a first user of one or more users of a system, the system maintaining a social graph of belongings, wherein the social graph of belongings defines an association between each of the one or more users and one or more belongings, retrieving a plurality of posts provided by the one or more users, the plurality of posts concerning the one or more belongings, identifying one or more of the plurality of posts associated with the first user and displaying a selected number of the one or more posts to the first user. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054710 | CATEGORIZING EMAIL RECIPIENTS INTO LOGICAL GROUPS WHEN SENDING A MASS EMAIL - Receiving from an email sender a plurality of recipient identifiers corresponding to recipients to whom the email is to be sent. The recipient identifiers can be grouped into a plurality of groups. A respective version of the email can be generated for each of the groups of recipient identifiers, wherein each version of the email exclusively identifies as recipients recipient identifiers for a respective group of recipients. Each version of the email can be sent to the group of recipients for whom the version of the email is generated. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054711 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFYING THE COMMUNICATION OF AN INVESTIGATED USER WITH AT LEAST ONE OTHER USER - A method and apparatus for classifying a communication of an investigated user with at least one other user has the steps of providing electronic messages exchanged by the investigated user with the at least one other user; and classifying the communication of the investigated user with the at least one other user depending on at least one calculated communication metric of the electronic messages exchanged by the investigated user with the respective at least one other user. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054712 | TRI-STATE PRESENCE INDICATOR - Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data between users of a communication system by delivering an e-mail message from a sender to at least one recipient and indicating the online state of at least one of the sender and any other recipient of the e-mail message upon opening of the e-mail message by the recipient. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054713 | FILE UPLOAD SYSTEM USING COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND METHOD THEREOF - A file upload system using a communication terminal includes a communication terminal, a mail server and a web server. The mail server receives an attached file together with an e-mail transmitted to at least one previously allocated reception-side mail account from the communication terminal and stores the received e-mail and attached file. The web server provides a webpage to which a file is to be uploaded to the communication terminal, and provides a web service through which the file is uploaded to the corresponding webpage. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054714 | Computer Implemented Methods and Apparatus for Sharing Data of an Information Feed of an Online Social Network - Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for sharing data of an online social network. In some implementations, a selection of data of an information feed is received. The information feed includes a plurality of feed items configured to be stored on one or more storage mediums and capable of being displayed in a presentation on a display device. The selected data includes at least a portion of one or more of the feed items. A first network communication including the selected data is generated. The generated first network communication is sent to a designated network address via a network. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054715 | EVENT NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A technique for user notification involves modifying a title associated with a process to include information about an event that calls for user notification. A method according to the technique may include running a process, processing an event, generating a string of characters that includes information associated with the event, and displaying the string of characters as a title associated with the process. A system constructed according to the technique may include a client, a title array, an event processing engine, and a title provisioning engine. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054716 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ABSTRACT COMMUNICATION - Systems and methods for providing communication between a user and at least one entity are disclosed. In one example, the method comprises receiving an entity selection input of the at least one entity, and a message from the user to the at least one entity, analyzing the selection input and the message to determine entity information and inquiry information associated with the message and the selection input, determining least one communication channel based on the entity information and the inquiry information, obtaining a response to the message via the at least one communication channel from the at least one entity, and transmitting the response to the user. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054717 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - If a stored electronic mail is selected, an information processing apparatus determines whether information about storage location exists in the attribute information of the electronic mail and, if the information about storage location exists in the attribute information of the electronic mail, the information processing apparatus acquires mail identification information for identifying an electronic mail from the attribute information and issues to the mail unit instructions for starting a specified electronic mail including the mail identification information and the information about storage location. The information processing apparatus searches for the electronic mail identified by the mail identification information from the storage location indicated by the information about storage location based on the information about storage location and the mail identification information included in the instructions and, if the electronic mail is found, the information processing apparatus starts the processing displaying the selected electronic mail. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054718 | CONTEXT-BASED MESSAGING SYSTEM - Socially provided context-based messaging can include receiving a message content in a messaging system from a user, wherein the content includes objects; matching one or more objects of the message content to socially provided context information, which the socially provided context information is information relevant to an object obtained from a social network to which the user belongs; and displaying the socially provided context information with the message content for a recipient user to receive. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054719 | MEDIA FILE PLAYING APPARATUS AND MEDIA FILE PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND METHODS THEREOF - A media file playing apparatus and a media file providing apparatus are provided. The media file playing apparatus includes: a communication unit which communicates with at least one media file providing apparatus which provides a media file; a media file player which plays the media file; and a controller which receives a request to play the media file from the media file providing apparatus, transmits control information about the playing of the media file to the media file providing apparatus, receives the media file and a control signal from the media file providing apparatus, and controls the media file player to play the media file in accordance with the received control signal. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054720 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING ACTIVITIES OF DEVICES - A method and system for sharing activities of devices enabling sharing of various Social Network Services (SNS) based user activities and enabling a shared activity to be directly performed by a user device by collecting, by a first device, information on activities performed by a user of the first device, providing, by the first device, the collected activity information for sharing, and performing, by a second device, an event depending on the shared activity information provided by the first device. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054721 | FUTURE MESSAGING SYSTEM - Some embodiments of the invention provide a future messaging system that can be configured to analyze data from one or more data sources in an automated manner in order to detect with a degree of accuracy the occurrence of a possible future event, which may or may not occur in the future. Upon detection of the future event, the future messaging system in some embodiments provides content to a set of one or more recipients. Alternatively, in some embodiments, the future messaging system only provides notification of the detection to the set of recipients. In some embodiments, a user provides the content for release upon the detection of the future event. Along with this content, the user in some embodiments provides a description of the event and a list of one or more recipients for receiving the content upon the detection of the event. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054722 | INTERACTION AMONG ITEMS CONNECTED TO A NETWORK - Particular embodiments provide interaction between items in a network. For example, lists of content may be shared between items connected through a network. A user may use a first item to select a second item in which content should be outputted. Instead of sending the content to the second item, the first item may generate and send a list of content to the second item. A messaging infrastructure is used to allow the items to communicate the list of content between each other. The second item can then process the list and then determine how to access the item. This allows two different items to share content without the transfer of content between them. In another example, an item may be used to interact with a user interface of a second item. For example, an input device on a first item is used to provide input to a second item. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054723 | REPRESENTATIVE DEVICE SELECTION METHOD IN COEXISTENCE SCHEME - According to one embodiment of the present invention, provided is a method in which a server enabling heterogeneous wireless devices to coexist in an equal frequency band selects a master management device among multiple management devices for coexistence. The method for selecting a master management device may include: receiving from a server a request message from a certain management device among the multiple management devices; selecting a master-candidate device among the multiple management devices in response to reception of the request message; transmitting, to the selected candidate device, a request message for requesting the selected candidate device to take charge of a master management device; receiving a response message from the selected candidate device; selecting the selected candidate device as a master management device when the response message includes an acceptance response; and transmitting an announcement message including the result of the selection to the multiple management devices. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054724 | Safe Torque Off Over Network Wiring - Systems and methods for providing Safe Torque Off signals using communication wires used for control signaling. Single channel Safe Torque Off signals can be provided as a DC voltage or AC voltage across two sets of twisted pair wires. Alternatively, two Safe Torque Off signals can be provided using both a DC voltage and an AC voltage across the two sets of twisted pair wires. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054725 | RATE ADAPTIVE AUTO-NEGOTIATION - A method to reduce link-up time between nodes in a communication system is provided. The method includes determining a node in the communication system is in a HANDSHAKE state; randomly configuring the node in one of a master mode and a slave mode based on a determination that the node is in the HANDSHAKE state; determining if the node is in a LINK-UP state with a selected node in the communication system based on the random configuring of the node; and randomly re-configuring the node in one of the master mode and the slave mode based on a negative determination that the node is in the LINK-UP state with the selected node. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054726 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDITIONAL REMOTE DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS WRITE - A method for conditional execution of a remote direct memory access (RDMA) write includes a host channel adapter receiving at least one message that includes an atomic operation and the RDMA write. The host channel adapter obtains a descriptor corresponding to the RDMA write, and determines, from the descriptor, that the RDMA write is a conditional RDMA write conditioned on a successful execution of the atomic operation. Based on determining that the RDMA write is the conditional RDMA write, the conditional RDMA write is queued to be conditionally executed based on a success indicator of the atomic operation. After queuing the RDMA write, the atomic operation is executed successfully. In response to the successful execution, the host channel adapter executes the conditional RDMA write to write to the memory location on the host. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054727 | STORAGE CONTROL METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A control unit shifts a boundary between a range of hash values allocated to a first node and a range of hash values allocated to a second node from a first hash value to a second hash value to thereby expand the range of hash values allocated to the first node. The control unit moves data which is part of data stored in the second node and in which hash values calculated from associated keys belong to a range between the first hash value and the second hash value, from the second node to the first node. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054728 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT CACHING AND DELIVERY OF ADAPTIVE BITRATE STREAMING - A non-transitory computer readable medium, a system and a method for streaming, the method may include: intercepting, by a redirector, a request from a streaming application, to receive metadata indicative of location of multiple video file segments; sending to the streaming application metadata that points to locations of cached video file segments within a single streaming cache or multiple streaming caches and points to locations outside the streaming cache of other video file segments that are not cached; receiving, by the streaming cache, a request from the streaming application to receive a cached video file segment; sending from the streaming cache the cached video file segment. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054729 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRE-FETCHING AND CACHING CONTENT - A system and method for caching and pre-fetching content is disclosed. This invention relates to mobile devices and, more particularly but not exclusively, to delivering content to a mobile device. Existing systems employ different mechanisms for delivering content such as multimedia and the like to users of mobile device. Mechanisms such as broadcast services, delivery from the interne, Wi-Fi hotspots, Bluetooth kiosks etc face problems of offering innovative services to users due to insufficient network capacity, high end costs to consumers. The disclosed system delivers contents such as multimedia, data and the like by pre-fetching and caching techniques. The contents preferred by a user is identified and pre-fetched to access points located in vicinity of the user. The user can access the contents from the access points via a short range communication means such as Bluetooth, Infrared and so on. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054730 | PORT CIRCUIT FOR HARD DISK BACKPLANE AND SERVER SYSTEM - A port circuit for a hard disk backplane of a server system includes a control microchip and at least one selecting microchip. The hard disk backplane includes a number of ports. The server system includes a number of servers connected to a portion of the ports. The at least one selecting microchip is connected to the control microchip and other portion of ports of a hard disk backplane. When the control microchip detects that one or more standby servers form part of the server system, the control microchip selects the one or more standby server to connect to the other portion of the ports. When the control microchip does not detect that the one or more standby servers form part of the server system, the control microchip selects the servers to connect to the other portion of the ports. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054731 | CUT/COPY AND PASTE FUNCTIONALITY - An apparatus including a clipboard monitor at a first device is described. The clipboard monitor is operatively coupled to a data management module. The clipboard monitor is configured to receive metadata associated with data acquired in an acquire operation at the first device. The clipboard monitor is configured to send the metadata to the data management module in response to the acquire operation. The clipboard monitor is configured to receive a request associated with a paste operation at a second device. The clipboard monitor is configured to provide the data to the second device in response to the request. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054732 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEAMLESSLY ACCESSING REMOTELY STORED FILES - A system and method by which users via programs on one computer may seamlessly access files remotely stored on other computers that run a well known file access protocol. An operating system extension and an application level network access program are provided. The operating system extension receives file system requests for remote files from the operating system that were issued according to a well known application program interface. The operating system extension forwards the remote file system request to the network access program. The network access program reformats the request according to a well known application level network protocol extension and sends it over a network to a remote computer system. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054733 | FILE TRANSFER DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR - There is provided a file transfer device in which a determining unit determines, when a first file requested by a user terminal is not cached in a file buffering unit, a second file transferred to the user terminal based on a file cache status of the file buffering unit, a transfer protocol unit reads the second file from the file buffering unit while the file buffering unit reads the first file, a transmitting unit transmits the second file to the user terminal, wherein the instructing unit determines to transfer the first file, based on a progress status of reading the first file, the transfer protocol unit suspends reading the second file and reads the first file from the file buffering unit, the transmitting unit transmits the first file read by the transfer protocol unit to the user terminal. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054734 | MIGRATION OF CLOUD APPLICATIONS BETWEEN A LOCAL COMPUTING DEVICE AND CLOUD - Architecture that facilitates seamless migration of server-hosted code to the client machine and back. Migration is of a running instance of a process by communicating only a small amount of state data, which makes this feasible over current network connection speeds. The web browsing experience for applications is retained. The migration capabilities are facilitated by an operating construction, referred to as the library OS (operating system) system in a context of state and execution migration between server and client. An application binary interface is provided that resides below the library OS to provide the state and execution mobility. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054735 | WAKE-UP SERVER - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: receiving, at a wake-up server, an indication that an agent device will be suspended, including at least one criterion for reestablishing the agent device; determining that the at least one criterion has been met; and, in response, reestablishing the agent device. Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: transmitting, by an agent device to a support server, a request message; transmitting, to a wake-up server, an indication that resources associated with the agent device will be released, including at least one criterion for reestablishing the agent device; transmitting, to the support server, an instruction to transmit a result message associated with the request message to the wake-up device; and releasing the system resources associated with the agent device. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054736 | INTERNATIONALIZATION WITH VIRTUAL STAGING AND VERSIONING - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for providing a variation of digital content that is based on a client-specified context token. Localized digital assets, e.g., graphics resources, video resource, audio resources, and text string resources, are stored as a collection of records and are dynamically linked to a assemble a software system based on the client-specified context token to generate the variation of digital content. The client receives the assembled variation of the digital content including the localized digital assets specified by the client-provided context. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054737 | System and Method for Data Acquisition in an Internet Protocol Network - A communication network system for monitoring data traffic is disclosed, in which at least one switch serving as an intermediary to a plurality of data input streams and a plurality of data output streams; a capture server in communication with the switch; and a data acquisition control engine operable to receive data acquisition instructions from a user and cause the received instructions to be implemented at the switch. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054738 | DATA COMMANDS FOR PERSONAL WIRELESS NETWORK DEVICES - Data commands for a personal wireless network device are described herein to improve usability of such devices and to enhance the overall user experience with such devices. According to one embodiment, the commands are sent from a personal computing device via a serial communications mechanism to the personal wireless network device. At least three different commands are contemplated: a Configuration Network Address Request command, a Billing Network Address Request command, and a Service Type Request command. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054739 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - A data transmission system includes a home storage device, a cloud storage device, and a portable electronic apparatus. The home storage device is in communication with a network, wherein a plurality of files and a corresponding file list are stored in the home storage device. The cloud storage device is in communication with the network for receiving the file list and a first portion of each file from the home storage device. The portable electronic apparatus is in communication with the network. After a specified file is selected from the file list provided by the cloud storage device through the portable electronic apparatus, the first portion of the selected file from the cloud storage device is received by the portable electronic apparatus, and a second portion of the selected file from the home storage device is received by the portable electronic apparatus. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054740 | Capability Discovery Optimization - Presented are methods and apparatus for optimizing access to service capabilities information for clients associated with user in a communication system. Communications requesting service capabilities information is directed through one or more capabilities application servers for inspection before forwarding the requests to their destination user's client device. If the capabilities application server has previously stored the information then the reply is generated from information stored on the capabilities application server and no request is forwarded to the user's client device, optimizing the process by reducing network communications. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054741 | PERMANENT CONNECTION ORIENTED COMMUNICATION USING PARALLEL SINGLE CONNECTION CIRCUITS - Methods, systems, and techniques for providing a pseudo permanent communications connection using temporary connection protocols are described. Example embodiments provide a Enhanced Communications Layer that provides such connections by means of a layer incorporated in the client side and server side communications stacks. The ECL maintains a pool of connections that are opened and used in a staggered fashion to reduce the amount of connection setup and teardown. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054742 | CONTENT PROCESSOR - According to one embodiment, a content processor includes: an information acquiring module; a determining module; a resume information acquiring module; a content request module; and a content acquiring module. The information acquiring module acquires, from a content sending device, command information representing a command executable by the content sending device. The determining module is configured to determine whether the content sending device is provided with a resume function for the content based on the command information. The resume information acquiring module acquires, if the determining module determines that the content sending device is provided with the resume function, resume information indicating a point where the content is stopped, from the content sending device. The content request module outputs a request for transferring the content from the point. The content acquiring module acquires, from the content sending device, the content transferred from the point. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054743 | BIDIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION ON LIVE MULTIMEDIA BROADCASTS - A bidirectional connection between a multimedia stream distribution system and a user is used to communicate operational data to and from the user. The bidirectional connection is separate from a multimedia connection that transfers a multimedia stream from the multimedia stream distribution system to the user. Providing a bidirectional connection separate from the multimedia connection is advantageous, among other reasons, because the operational data can be collected effectively at the multimedia stream distribution system independent of any limitations in the multimedia connection. To organize users and reduce processing load, the multimedia stream distribution system assigns users to user groups based on shared characteristics. Groups may be used to propagate information to the users as well as analyze information collected from the users in an efficient manner. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054744 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF GENERATING URL, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus which is capable of generating URLs for access to Web applications controlled on a port-by-port basis. The information processing apparatus includes a storage unit for storing information. The information processing apparatus controls the storage unit such that port information indicative of a port for access to a Web application is stored. The information processing apparatus acquires the port information indicative of the port for access to the Web application, and generates a URL for access to the Web application, the URL including the acquired port. The generated URL for access to the Web application is registered as a link from another Web application. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054745 | INFORMATION REPRODUCING SYSTEM USING INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - An information storage medium storing management information, wherein the management information manages a main video or an advanced application, the main video is decoded, a decoded main video is presented to a main video plane, the advanced application is presented to a graphic plane, the graphic plane is placed on or above the main video plane, and the main video plane and the graphic plane are overlaid to be displayed. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054746 | IDENTIFYING EVENTS - Events may be identified by storing information in response to activating an event stamp function. As a result of activating the event function, the information collected may immediately be compared to event information in a database. Alternatively, the information collected may later be compared to event information in a database. One or more candidates for the event of interest may be automatically or manually retrieved, and the user may decide whether a candidate event of the one or more candidates correspond to the event of interest. Alternatively, a purchase of an item related to the event may be automatically made in response to activating the event stamp. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054747 | ANTICIPATING DOMAINS USED TO LOAD A WEB PAGE - Aspects of the subject technology are related to systems and methods for anticipating content domain names to be used by a browser. A system may be configured to detect network events while one or more web pages associated with a domain name are being loaded, identify, based on the network events, one or more content domain names that are associated with the domain name, and storing, in a data repository, associations of the one or more content domain names with the domain name. The associations of the one or more content domain names in the data repository may be used to initiate a Domain Name System (DNS) request for at least one of the one or more content domain names when a subsequent web page associated with the domain name is loaded by a browser. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054748 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Receiving Security Content Utilizing a Serial Over Lan Connection - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for receiving security content utilizing a serial over LAN connection. In use, an unsuccessful attempt to connect to a network for accessing security content at a remote second device is indicated by a first device, where the unsuccessful attempt results from a malfunction at the first device. Further, the security content is received at the first device utilizing a serial over local area network (LAN) connection established with the remote second device, based on the indication. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054749 | Dialer with Real-Time Reverse Look-Up Including Social Data - Methods and systems directed to a dialer application that performs a reverse look up on an outgoing communication to determine a specific member of a social networking system associated with the outgoing communication, and, based on the social relationship between the detected member and the sender of the communication, display particular information to the sender. In this manner, a user is provided a dialer that leverages information stored remotely on a social network. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054750 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REQUESTING MEDIA COVERAGE OF AN EVENT - An internet server based computerized system and method to request media coverage of an event from smartphone (or other wireless computerized device) carrying potential event participants who are near the event's space-time location. Here event media requestors post event space-time location and media data requests on the invention's internet server database, and at various time intervals, this server in turn polls (by either a push or pull process) the position of the various potential event participants who are running the invention's application software on their smartphones. If the internet server determines that there is a match, the server transmits the event media request to the relevant potential event participants, along with additional information such as the number of requestors. Potential event participants can thus acquire the event media data, and upload or stream this media data back to the internet server, which can notify requestors when the data is available. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054751 | System and Method for Network Connection Adaptation - A computer implemented method for performing automatic latency mitigation in a remote access system comprises using a network connection between a client in remote access with a server to define a virtual channel for determining latency in the network connection, and providing a latency value for the connection. The latency value is used to determine a mitigating action for reducing the latency or the effect of latency in the connection, and the mitigating action is executed at the client. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054752 | Methods and Apparatus for Downloading Digital Content - Approaches to both pulling and pushing digital media content, such as movies, electronic books, music, games and the like, are addressed. Hybrid systems are also addressed. A mechanism for selecting particular digital media content by a user, such as a particular movie, for example, is utilized in pull approaches. A mechanism for identifying users who have opted in is employed in push approaches. Digital media content is provided by a media server to one or more high speed wireless radios which transmit that content to users' mobile devices. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054753 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DOWNLOADING CONTENT - An electronic device includes a communication unit communicate with a network, a processing unit, and a storage unit. The processing unit controls the communication unit to transmit keywords to the network in response to user input, and controls the communication unit to transmit a download request of addresses of searched content of the network to target mobile terminal(s) selected from at least one mobile terminal communicating with the communication unit. The download request searches the network for content associated with the download addresses, the searched content are downloaded to the target mobile terminal(s). | 2013-02-28 |
20130054754 | HOME NETWORK MEDIA TRANSPORT NEGOTIATION - In a first embodiment of the present invention, a method for performing home networking media transport negotiation in a home network is provided, the method comprising: issuing a browse command on a content directory service in the home network to locate a custom resource element; and issuing an action to a media renderer in the home network to set a location of a media server to serve the item, wherein the issuing includes passing item metadata stored in the custom resource element, thus enabling the media renderer to negotiate directly with the media server while conveying detailed information about capabilities of the media renderer. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054755 | IMAGE SHARING - A method, apparatus, and system for performing image sharing. A first computer is coupled to an external device capable of acquiring data. A second computer is coupled to the first computer. A direct access to data acquired by the external device is provided to the second computer. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054756 | REDIRECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD - Described embodiments are directed to methods and apparatus for redirecting a client device to a selected streaming server in response to receiving a request for content. The streaming server to which the client is redirected can be selected based on one or more criteria such as streaming server loads (e.g. connection loads and processing loads) and content storage location, using a data structure stored at the redirection server. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054757 | CONTAINERIZED SOFTWARE FOR VIRALLY COPYING FROM ONE ENDPOINT TO ANOTHER - A method, system and computer readable medium include objects with media content. The method includes receiving, at one or more servers, a request for the media content to be displayed at an endpoint. The method includes identifying information about an environment associated with the endpoint. The method includes identifying a set of objects to include in a container for the media content based on the information identified about the environment. At least one of the objects includes program code for completing a transaction during display of the media content. Additionally, the method includes sending, by one or more servers, the set of objects to the endpoint. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054758 | CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM AND PORTAL HAVING MULTI-MEDIA CAPABILITIES - A system for managing a customer engagement portal associated with a site includes a media manager associated with the site and at least one network device associated with the site. The network device and the media manager are in communication to wirelessly transfer streams of media. The network device is configured to output streams of media. The site also has a mobile device associated therewith that is configured to initiate a change in an operating condition of the at least one network device for a location remote from the site. The network device is configured to output the streams of media simultaneously with the operating condition of the network deceive being changed. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054759 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING CONTENTS ON CLOUD SYSTEM TO DEVICE CONNECTED TO DLNA - An electronic apparatus is capable of transferring contents on a cloud system to a device connected to a DLNA. In a method for operating a client on the cloud service system, a stream meta data table including information of one or more contents is received from a server. Meta data of contents selected from the contents are converted such that the meta data coincide with a format used by a device selected from one or more devices connected to a network. The selected contents are streamed from the server and transferred to the selected device. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054760 | DATA UPLOAD METHOD USING SHORTCUT - Provided is a method of uploading data to a data server with minimum manipulations and downloading or retrieving the uploaded data by using a user's mobile terminal or a user-designated recipient's mobile terminal. A data upload method used by a computer system includes: monitoring whether a data upload shortcut command is input; selecting an object to be uploaded when an input of the data upload shortcut command is sensed; and transmitting an upload file, which consists of data of the selected object, to a data server. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054761 | Implementing a 3G Packet Core in a Cloud Computer with Openflow Data and Control Planes - A method for implementing a general packet radio service (GPRS) tunnel protocol (GTP) in a packet core (PC) of a third generation (3G) network having a split architecture where a control plane of the PC of the 3G network is in a cloud computing system, the cloud computing system including a controller, the controller to execute a plurality of control plane modules, the control plane to communicate with the data plane of the PC through a control plane protocol, the data plane implemented in a plurality of network elements of the 3G network by configuring switches implementing a data plane of the SGSN and GGSN and intermediate switches to establish a first and second GTP tunnel endpoint. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054762 | DETERMINING EXPIRATION TIME OF BINDINGS FOR NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION DEVICES - Methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, are described for determining expiration time of bindings for NAT devices. A first device receives a first request including a first source IP address/port pair of a first NAT binding, and transmits a response. The first device receives a second request including a second source IP address/port pair of a second NAT binding, and transmits a response. The first device sets a refresh time T | 2013-02-28 |
20130054763 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CONFIGURE VIRTUAL PRIVATE MOBILE NETWORKS WITH VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS - Methods and apparatus to configure virtual private mobile networks with virtual private networks are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes logically provisioning, for a client, the virtual private mobile network to process wireless network communications associated with the client that correspond to a specified address space of the client, provisioning at least a portion of a server within a cloud computing data center to host resources for the client, and configuring at least a portion of an edge router of the cloud computing data center to transmit the wireless network communications between the portion of the server and the virtual private mobile network. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054764 | Registration Method of CIM Provider in CIM System and CIMOM - A registration method includes acquiring, by a second CIMOM, parameters of a CIM provider from a first CIMOM by using information of a namespace to which a device to be configured belongs or device information of the device to be configured. The second CIMOM obtains identification information of the CIM provider in the parameters of the CIM provider through matching according to the device information or model information of the device to be configured. The second CIMOM acquires the CIM provider from the first CIMOM by using the obtained identification information of the CIM provider, and registering the CIM provider. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054765 | Method for Servicing a Field Device - A method for servicing a field device of process automation technology. The data exchanged between the field device and a servicing program is by means of at least one protocol, which has basic commands, via which basic functions of the field device can be invoked. Each field device which is compatible with the protocol has these basic functions available to it, and wherein only basic commands of the protocol are used to transfer data between the servicing program and the field device. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054766 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Notifying of Enhancements to Quality of Service and Experience - Methods, systems, and products notify users when changes in a communication network improve quality of service. When a service provider changes a configuration parameter in the communications network, a change to the configuration parameter is compared to a rule. When the change to the configuration parameter results in a perceivable improvement in quality of service, a notification is sent to a user's device. The notification informs the user's device of the improvement in quality of service caused by the change to the configuration parameter. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054767 | AUTONOMOUS NETWORK DEVICE CONFIGURATION METHOD - An embodiment of the present invention comprises a method of configuring one or more target network devices for operation, that further comprises the steps of creating an object for deployment to a predetermined target network device, the object having configuration data for configuring the target network device, and at least one of identification data identifying the object, an autonomous encapsulated agent for executing necessary steps for installing the configuration data, identification data identifying the predetermined target network device, and authentication data for authenticating at least one of the predetermined target network device identification data and object identification data, transporting the object to the predetermined target network device, and the autonomous encapsulated agent begins an on-site process of installing the configuration data in the predetermined target network device. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054768 | MIGRATING DEVICE MANAGEMENT BETWEEN OBJECT MANAGERS - Object manager information is maintained for object managers in a network indicating a device type of devices in the network managed by the object managers and device information providing information on the devices in the network, wherein the object managers have access to the object manager information. A determination is made from the object manager information a second object manager comprising one of the object managers in the network managing a same device type as the devices managed by the first object manager. The first and second object managers communicate to establish a migration relationship between the first and the second object managers. In response to a migration event at the second object manager, the first object manager accesses the device information for the second object manager to manage the devices currently managed by the second object manager. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054769 | Data Feed Management - The present disclosure is directed to systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for data feed management. Data feeds can be received at one or more landing directories associated with a feed management system. The feed management system can be configured to map the data feeds in the landing directories to one or more subscribers, and the data feeds can be moved to one or more staging directories associated with the subscribers. The data feeds can be delivered to the one or more subscribers from the staging directories. Receipts indicating delivery of the data feeds can be stored by the feed management system. The feed management system can be configured to manage data feeds, landing directories, and staging directories. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054770 | SAFE SERVICES FRAMEWORK - Providing security-related services for enterprise service requests includes receiving a service request from an endpoint, determining the transaction parameter from the received service request, determining a subroutine for execution based on the transaction parameter, communicating with a data server to execute the subroutine, receiving subroutine results from the data server based on the executed subroutine, applying context-specific rules to the request based on instructive data specified in the subroutine results, determining a response based on the subroutine results and the applied context-specific rules, and communicating the response to the endpoint. Some embodiments may also include accessing transaction rules associated with the transaction parameter, determining an additional subroutine for execution based on the transaction rules, communicating with a data server to execute the additional subroutine, receiving additional subroutine results from the data server based on the executed additional subroutine, and communicating the results to the endpoint. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054771 | DEMYSTIFYING OBFUSCATED INFORMATION TRANSFER FOR PERFORMING AUTOMATED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION - Techniques for automating the administration of computer systems. In one set of embodiments, information can be received specifying one or more commands and a list of target computer systems. Upon receiving this information, the one or more commands can be automatically executed in parallel against the target computer systems. In certain embodiments, executing the one or more commands in parallel can include forking a child process for each target computer system, and executing the one or more commands against that target computer system in the context of the child process. Output and error information that is collected by each child process as a result of executing the one or more commands can be aggregated and made available to a system administrator upon completion. Further, error information that is generated as a result of the automated administration process itself can be stored and made available to the system administrator for review. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054772 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTENT MANAGEMENT USING NETWORK SERVER - A method and apparatus for content management using a network server are provided. The method for content management includes producing a basis data package, producing a modified data package, and producing a data package list. The method and apparatus set a sharing scheme adequate for the purpose of specific content and to manage content modification activities. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054773 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - A communication method, which is executed by a computer having access to a storage device having stored therein correlation relations between layer 2 addresses and layer 3 addresses set for a group of devices on a network, includes extracting from the storage device when an acquisition request for a layer 2 address is to be transmitted, a first layer 2 address that corresponds to a layer 3 address included in the acquisition request; converting the destination of the acquisition request, from a second layer 2 address representing the group of devices, to the first layer 2 address; transmitting the converted acquisition request whose destination has been converted; and updating when a response to the converted acquisition request has been received, the first layer 2 address in the storage device, to the first layer 2 address included in response. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054774 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A management server issues and stores a virtual identifier for an image forming apparatus, and manages a virtual device that includes management information about the image forming apparatus by associating the virtual device with the virtual identifier. The management server receives an acquisition request for a virtual device that includes the actual identifier for the image forming apparatus and a virtual identifier from the image forming apparatus. The management server specifies the virtual device corresponding to the virtual identifier included in the virtual device acquisition request from among the managed virtual devices. Further, the management server replaces the virtual identifier included in the specified virtual device with the actual identifier included in the virtual device acquisition request, and then returns this virtual device to the image forming apparatus. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054775 | NETWORK DEVICE AND MOBILE DEVICE WITH STATE CAPTURE SERVICES - A method and system for identifying a trigger event for capturing state information of a user device; capturing the state information upon an identified occurrence of the trigger event; storing the state information in another device; obtaining the state information by another user device; and configuring the other user device based on the state information. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054776 | AUTOMATED SCALING OF AN APPLICATION AND ITS SUPPORT COMPONENTS - An execution environment provides a plurality of components that support execution of an application, wherein the plurality of components and the application are hosted by a plurality of nodes arranged in one or more clusters. The execution environment monitors runtime behavior of the application and the plurality of components, and generates a scaling event based on a comparison of the runtime behavior to one or more scaling policies. The execution environment automatically scales at least one of the application or a component of the plurality of components if the scaling event does not violate a constraint, wherein the scaling comprises adding a new node to at least one cluster of the one or more clusters or removing a node from at least one cluster of the one or more clusters based on the scaling event. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054777 | AUTOMATED AVAILABILITY DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING FOR SYSTEM MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTS - A system and associated method for automatically monitoring and reporting availability data of at least one system management (SM) environment. A SM environment subject to monitoring is coupled to a SM portal server. The SM portal server has components of a central repository storing monitoring data, a user interface interacting with a user of the SM portal server, and a data collection module remotely controlling operations of availability module running in a monitoring server of the SM environment. The availability module gathers status of terminal systems of the SM environment by use of various SM tools and subsequently reports to the data collection module, which stores gathered data in the central repository and communicates to the user for availability analysis purposes. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054778 | SIGNALING PLANE DELAY KPI MONITORING IN LIVE NETWORK - Embodiments of the invention are directed to providing a method for measuring signaling plane delay in a communication network using a probe session indicator to trigger logging of timestamps at network elements for centralized analysis at a network monitor system. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054779 | STREAM APPLICATION PERFORMANCE MONITORING METRICS - Techniques are disclosed for calculating performance metrics associated with a data stream. A processing element configured to process data tuples flowing through a stream-based computing system receives data tuples via the data stream. Each of the one or more tuples is processed at the processing element, and each of the one or more tuples are associated with metadata that includes information related to the processing of the tuple by the processing element. Performance metrics are then calculated for the data stream based on the metadata associated with the one or more tuples. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054780 | Monitoring Geographic Location Changes of Assets in a Cloud - Despite the best intentions of a cloud service provider, digital assets of may be moved to a geographic location that deviates from a geographic preference, policy, or setting of the owner of the digital assets. A monitoring tool can monitor network location of a digital asset hosted by a cloud service provider. Movement of the digital asset from a first network location to a second network location is detected. In response to detecting that the digital asset moves, a geographic location that corresponds to the second network location is determined. It is then determined that the geographic location deviates from a geographic setting configured for the digital asset. A notification that the digital asset has been moved to the geographic location that deviates from the geographic setting is generated. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054781 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING EFFICIENCY AND/OR EFFICACY OF SWITCHOVER AND/OR FAILOVER IN PROVIDING NETWORK BASED SERVICES WITH HIGH AVAILABILITY - A system is configured to provide a suite of network-based services to users with high availability. The suite of network-based services may include browser-based collaboration functions, process management functions, index functions, search functions, help search functions, document-management functions, and/or other functions. The suite of network-based services may correspond to services provided by a server application such as Microsoft® SharePoint™ being executed on one or more processors of one or more servers. As used herein, the term “high availability” may refer a system design protocol that ensures a certain degree of operational continuity during a given measurement period. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054782 | DETERMINATION OF UNAUTHORIZED CONTENT SOURCES - A plurality of network addresses from a distributed client is obtained, at least a first portion of the obtained network addresses including resolved network address responses to distributed client requests for resolved network addresses corresponding to one or more network location indicators associated with a first web service. Test content is obtained, based on one or more of the network addresses included in the first portion. It is determined whether the obtained test content includes unauthorized content. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054783 | PASSIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE HIERARCHICAL ANOMALY DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A technique for monitoring performance in a network uses passively monitored traffic data at the server access routers. The technique aggregates performance metrics into clusters according to a spatial hierarchy in the network, and then aggregates performance metrics within spatial clusters to form time series of temporal bins. Representative values from the temporal bins are then analyzed using an enhanced Holt-Winters exponential smoothing algorithm. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054784 | Session Layer for Monitoring Utility Application Traffic - Techniques are provided to facilitate monitoring of utility application traffic streams. At a network device that routes utility application traffic for utility devices, control information is received, where the control information is configured to cause the network device to monitor utility application traffic that passes through the network device. The network device monitors a header inserted into utility application traffic messages based on the control information. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054785 | COMMUNICATIONS PATH DISCOVERY - In one implementation, a plurality of candidate output addresses are identified for an intermediate entity and a data packet is provided to a candidate output address from the plurality of candidate output addresses. The candidate output address is defined as the output address of the intermediate entity if a response to the data packet was provided from the input address of the intermediate entity. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054786 | Using eBook Reading Data To Generate Time-Based Information - Reading data from an eBook is used to generate time-based information. Timing reports are received from a plurality of clients. The timing reports describe reading time intervals for reading portions of an eBook on the clients. Timing reports from different clients describe reading time intervals for different overlapping portions of the eBook. The overlapping portions are analyzed to generate timing information. The timing information describes reading speeds for granular portions of the book that are smaller than the portions described in the reading time intervals. The timing information is stored. Timing information is provided to a client enabling the client to provide advanced features. The features include estimating a user's current reading position and providing an estimate of the time required by the user to finished reading a portion of the eBook. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054787 | System and Method for Latency Monitoring - A method for monitoring remote access connection latency between a client device and a server device comprises using a virtual channel between the client device and the server device to determine a value for the latency in a network connection therebetween. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054788 | MANAGING HOST COMPUTING DEVICES - Systems and methods are disclosed which facilitate the management of host computing devices through the utilization of a host computing device control component. The host computing device control component includes a state monitoring component that monitors operating states of the control component. Based on monitoring the operating of the control component, the state monitoring component causes the generation of one or more visual indicator indicative of the operating state of the control component. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054789 | NOTIFYING NETWORK OPERATOR WHEN VIRTUAL ADDRESSES DO NOT MATCH ON NETWORK ELEMENTS CONFIGURED FOR INTERCHASSIS REDUNDANCY - A method, in a first network element, of notifying a network operator when mismatching sets of virtual addresses are configured on first and second network elements, prior to making one of the sets of virtual addresses available for network traffic reception. The first network element is coupled with a second network element by a synchronization channel. The network elements are configured to exchange synchronization data over the synchronization channel. A second set of virtual addresses, which are configured on the second network element, are received from the second network element. It is determined that the second set of virtual addresses and a first set of virtual addresses, which are configured on the first network element, do not match. A network operator is notified responsive to determining that first and second sets of virtual addresses do not match. The method may prevent problems that occur when the virtual addresses don't match. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054790 | SERVER-TEST INTEGRATED APPARATUS FOR ONLINE GAME - Provided is a server-test integrated apparatus for online game, which performs a load test with an online game server. The server-test integrated apparatus includes a server module, a server load tester, a packet designer tool, and a metafile processor. The server module provides online service to a client over a network. The packet designer tool defines a packet protocol, and generates a header file for exchanging data between the server module and client, and at least one packet definition file for exchanging data between the server module and server load tester. The metafile processor stores the packet definition file generated by the packet designer tool. The server load tester writes a scenario with the packet definition file to test a load of the server module. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054791 | METHOD OF OUTPUTTING ESTIMATED QOES ON A TERMINAL ON AN APPLICATION BASIS - Implementations and techniques for outputting information about estimated QoEs on a terminal on which plural applications can be executed are generally disclosed. The estimated QoEs may be obtained by performing QoE estimation on an application basis. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054792 | CLOUD-BASED PERFORMANCE TESTING OF FUNCTIONALITY OF AN APPLICATION PRIOR TO COMPLETION OF DEVELOPMENT - Provided here is a computer-implemented method of performance testing functionality of a cloud-based application during development of the cloud-based application. The method obtains a defined use case from a plurality of use cases to be supported by the cloud-based application, and executed an automated performance test on the defined use case prior to completion of development of the cloud-based application. The method continues by generating an output that summarizes the performance test results. The steps of obtaining, executing, and generating can be repeated for a plurality of additional defined use cases as needed. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054793 | VIRTUAL DATACENTER PRIVATE SUBLETS FOR QUARANTINED ACCESS TO DATA - Technologies are generally described for providing a system that allows data use clients direct access to perform complex analysis on data assets without compromising the assets by sharing the data contained may set up the data assets in virtual datacenters (VDCs) within a physical datacenter and open additional resources within the VDCs to data use clients. The data use clients may be enabled to upload and execute analysis applications with access to valuable data. Data traffic exiting the VDCs through such applications, however, may be controlled by a supervisor that analyses an output and enforces limitations on content and/or volume based on a level of purchased access. | 2013-02-28 |
20130054794 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING AND MONITORING USER INTERACTIONS WITH A SERVER - A system includes multiple KVM switches, multiple user consoles and a recording system connected via a network. Each KVM switch facilitates interactions between user consoles and selected servers connected its server ports. The KVM switch transmits keyboard, mouse and video data exchanged between user consoles and servers, and administrative data, to the recording system. The recording system records the keyboard, mouse, video and administrative data, and detects trigger events based on such data. Trigger events include predefined keywords, mouse operations, video images, user IDs and server IDs, or combinations thereof. When a trigger event is detected, the recording system automatically transmits monitoring information to an administrative console via the network. The monitoring information may include combined video data containing information about keyboard and mouse actions superimposed on desktop images. The administrative console may also request specific recorded data for review. The recording system may employ a master-slave configuration. | 2013-02-28 |