10th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 83 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140067944 | GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON ANSWERED QUESTIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Based on information associated with users, a social networking system recommends one or more groups for a target user to join or to create. Characteristics of the target user, characteristics of users connected to the target user, characteristics of candidate groups in the social networking system may be used to identify groups for recommendation. The social networking system may provide questions to the target user and recommend a group to the target user based on received answers to the questions. For example, the answers to the provided question identify one or more characteristics of the target user, which are used to select a group for recommendation. Additionally, the social networking system may recommend additional users for the target user to add or invite to a group based on characteristics of the target user, the additional users, and/or the group. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067945 | Sharing Television and Video Programming Through Social Networking - In particular embodiments a social networking system captures data associated with video content provided to a first user of a social-networking system, identifies, using the captured data, the video content provided to the first user, and updates a graph of the social-networking system to associate the first user with the identified video content. The graph of the social-networking system has a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes. The nodes of the graph include user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067946 | Sharing Television and Video Programming Through Social Networking - In particular embodiments, a social networking system queries a social graph of the social-networking system for social content associated with video content provided to one or more users of the social-networking system and accesses privacy settings associated with each of the one or more users. The privacy settings indicate whether a particular user has authorized the social-networking system to share social content associated with the particular user with one or more third parties. The social networking system provides the social content associated with video content provided to the one or more users to a particular third party if the privacy settings of the one or more users indicate that the one or more users have authorized the social-networking system to share the social content with one or more third parties. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067947 | Sharing Television and Video Programming Through Social Networking - In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system identify a user viewing video content on a first display device, identify the video content being viewed on the first display device by the user, and determine a second display device associated with the identified user. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system determine an action related to the video content being viewed by the user on the first display device and provide one or more instructions to the determined second display device to display a call-to-action associated with the determined action. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067948 | Sharing Television and Video Programming Through Social Networking - In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system query a social graph of the social-networking system for social content associated with particular media content. The social graph includes nodes and edges connecting the nodes. The nodes include user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system determine a time associated with each of the social content, determine, using the determined time of each of the social content, a particular point within the particular media content that the social content was generated, and present a content visualization graph for display on a display device. The content visualization graph is a visual indication of the particular points within the particular media content that the social content was generated. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067949 | METHOD AND APPARATUS - This invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining fame. In particular, this invention relates to method and apparatus for determining fame based on data extracted from the Internet. More particularly, but not exclusively, the data extracted is based on information available on social networks on the Internet. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067950 | SOCIAL MEDIA VIEWING SYSTEM - Methods, systems and computer program products are described that facilitate enhanced interactions via social media that can be enabled, at least in-part, by using various content identification techniques. Enhanced viewing of a content can be accomplished by monitoring activities of a user related to the user's accessing of a particular content and analyzing information acquired from the monitoring in conjunction with stored data related to additional users. Next, a subset of the additional users that are associated with the user or with the particular content are identified, and enhanced viewing of the particular content is enabled amongst the user and the identified subset of the additional users. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067951 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTEXTUAL ACTIVITY STREAMS - A method and system for generating contextual activity streams are provided. The method comprises receiving unstructured data collected by an agent operable on a client node from a plurality of data sources, wherein the collected unstructured data is of a user of the client node; analyzing the collected unstructured data to identify at least one tag in the collected unstructured data; determining a context of the collected unstructured data based in part on the at least one identified tag; creating a contextual activity stream; inserting contextual data items gathered from a plurality of social networks into the created contextual activity stream, wherein the contextual data items are data items shared by connections of the user and have a substantially similar context to the determined context; and causing a display of contextual data items in the contextual activity stream over the client node. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067952 | SERVER AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COLLABORATION SERVICE, AND SOCIALITY MANAGEMENT SERVER - Disclosed herein are a server and method for providing collaboration service, and a sociality management server. The server includes a service provision unit and a space construction unit. The service provision unit sets up collaboration service corresponding to the results of combining functions of at least two collaboration terminals based on sociality values corresponding to the at least two collaboration terminals. The space construction unit constructs a service provision device space via which the collaboration service is to be provided. The service provision unit provides the collaboration service to the at least two collaboration terminals via the service provision device space. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067953 | PERSONALIZATION BASED UPON SOCIAL VALUE IN ONLINE MEDIA - Embodiments are directed towards personalizing content to be provided to a user. A recommendation score may be determined for a piece of content for a user. The recommendation score may be based on a combination of an intrinsic value and/or a social value of the content to the user. The social value may be calculated based on a combination of an individual social value for each of the user's friends, which may be determined based on the combination of a social weight, an interest probability, and a recommendation score for the friend. Online personalization of content for a user may provide the user with the tools to be a valuable, appreciated member of the user's social network. By employing embodiments, as described herein, content may be determined and provided to a user, which may help the user gain the attention of their social circles. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067954 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL MEDIA WITH AN INTELLIGENT TELEVISION - An Intelligent Television provides unique user interfaces and user interface interactions to provide social media. The interfaces and interface are intuitive and allow the user to quickly retrieve and view social media with respect to content displayed on the Intelligent Television. Further, intuitive user interface interactions are provided to allow for the quick and efficient posting of social media from the Intelligent Television to a social media site. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067955 | INSTANT MEDIA SHARING TO DEFINED GROUPS BASED ON LOCATION - Disclosed are instant media sharing platforms, systems, and software comprising: mobile modules configured to determine geolocation, capture media, and transmit captured media to a server application, each captured media associated with a capture time and a capture geolocation; a database of geolocation information, the geolocation information associated with each user of the mobile application; and server modules configured to identify recipient users for each transmitted media, a recipient user present within a radius about a capture geolocation during a time interval about a capture time; and provide a media stream to each user of the mobile application, the media stream comprising transmitted media for which a user is identified as a recipient user, the media stream provided via the mobile application. Also disclosed are networks formed by and methods of using the same. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067956 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE AND MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - An information display device includes: a position acquisition unit configured to acquire a posting relevant location associated with posted information on a posting site; and an image display unit configured to display a posting relevant image that is an image associated with the posted information on the posting site and that includes an image indicating a type of the posting site. The image display unit is configured to display the posting relevant image at a location based on a remoteness and direction of the posting relevant location with respect to a current location within a predetermined display area about a location on a display screen, corresponding to the current location. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067957 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN CONTROL PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that communicates with a terminal device using a first communication manner, the information processing apparatus includes a processor that: generates a response including first information being described in a first format in response to a request from the terminal device; converts the first information being included in the response and being described in the first format into second information described in a second format conforming to the first communication manner; and transmits the response including the second information to the terminal device in the first communication manner. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067958 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AFFILIATING USERS OF AN INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM - A system and method for supplementing a profile. Content identifying information from a first user of a first mobile device is received at a server. The content identifying information identifies content that was served to a second user of a second mobile device, but not a first mobile device. The first and second users are registered with the server and the first user is associated with a first user profile stored on the server. The first user profile is evaluated against the content identified by the content identifying information. Profile elements are identified that, if added to the first user profile, would cause the content to be delivered to the first user. The first user profile is supplemented with the identified profile elements. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067959 | Method and System for Determining and Sharing a User's Web Presence - A method and system for determining and sharing a user's web presence have been disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises providing web presence information associated with a first user from a first computer having a first software module. The web presence information is received at a second computer. The web presence information is used to dynamically inform a second user communicating with the second computer of a website that the first user is viewing. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067960 | System and Method for Determining a Presence State of a Person - A computer system is coupled to a plurality of subscribers via a network. The computer system obtains first presence information that corresponds to a first calendar of a user and obtains second presence information that corresponds to a second calendar of the user that is different from the first calendar. The computer system determines one or more presence states of the user including determining, based on presence information for the user that includes the first presence information and the second presence information, a first presence state of the user. The computer system provides the respective presence state of the user, selected from the one or more presence states of the user, to the subscribers via the network. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067961 | Sharing Television and Video Programming Through Social Networking - In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system determine available media content from one or more content sources and query a social graph of a social-networking system for social content associated with a user of the social-networking system. The social graph includes nodes and edges connecting the nodes. The nodes include user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system determine, using the social content and the available media content, a plurality of social coefficients for the user, determine, based on the determined social coefficients, recommended media content for the user, and provide the recommended media content for display in a programming guide on a display device. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067962 | DIRECT ELECTRONIC MAIL - Techniques are disclosed for enabling improved electronic mail handling in communication networks. For example, a method of handling an electronic mail message in an electronic mail system comprises the following steps. A secure connection is established between a client of a message sender and a server of a message recipient in the electronic mail system. An authentication exchange is employed to verify the identity of the message sender. The message sender deposits an electronic mail message with the server of the message recipient upon successful verification of the identity of the client of the message sender. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067963 | DYNAMIC MULTIMODAL VISUAL MESSAGE PRIORITIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Methods and systems for providing a depiction of the relative importance of messages directed to a user of a multimodal communication endpoint are provided. More particularly, message indications are placed within a schema having two or more dimensions, depending on a determined classification or importance. Accordingly, the location, and optionally other attributes, of the message indication provides distinguishing characteristics that communicate a relative importance and/or relevance of a message to a user. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067964 | TARGETED STATUS UPDATES - Techniques for designating a desired target audience to receive a message or status update are described. Consistent with some embodiments, an authorized representative of an entity or organisation represented in a social graph of a social network service is presented with a variety of member profile attributes from which to select targeting criteria for defining a desired target audience to receive a message or status update published on behalf of the entity or organization. With some embodiments, the selectable profile attributes correspond with those possessed or associated with the members of the social network service who have subscribed to receive messages or status updates published on behalf of the entity or organisation. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067965 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING DEVICE MESSAGING - The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for enhanced messaging. Specifically, methods and apparatus are presented for transmitting a communication characteristic indicator of a communication message substantially simultaneous to an input of data defining at least a portion of the communication message at the sending device. In one aspect, the communication characteristic indicator represents one or more characteristics of the data. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067966 | VIRTUAL DISCUSSION THREADS FOR ACTIVITIES IN A TRUSTED NETWORK - Managing discussion threads within an electronic communication system includes detecting that an electronic message sent from a sender to a first recipient is forwarded from the sender to a second recipient and, responsive to the detecting, identifying at least one electronic message related to the forwarded message exchanged between the sender and the second recipient as a virtual discussion thread. A client is notified of that the virtual discussion thread exists and is correlated with the electronic message from the sender. The virtual discussion thread is provided to the client of the first recipient. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067967 | RECOMMENDING GROUPS TO JOIN IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Based on information associated with users, a social networking system recommends one or more groups for a target user to join or to create. Characteristics of the target user, characteristics of users connected to the target user, characteristics of candidate groups in the social networking system may be used to identify groups for recommendation. The social networking system may provide questions to the target user and recommend a group to the target user based on received answers to the questions. For example, the answers to the provided question identify one or more characteristics of the target user, which are used to select a group for recommendation. Additionally, the social networking system may recommend additional users for the target user to add or invite to a group based on characteristics of the target user, the additional users, and/or the group. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067968 | Methods and Systems for Providing Application Level Presence Information in Wireless Communication - Methods and apparatus for determining and maintaining user presence information include capturing user presence data with an application presence server. The application presence server can be configured to update user presence data as a user initiates or exits an application. Applications associated with user presence data are configured to query an application proxy client concerning user presence data of a selected user and, based on a returned user status, deliver, discard, or redirect a message intended for the user. User presence data is stored in a user presence repository and can be provided via Internet-based or other connections to applications executed on external networks. User activity status can be used to select or update user presence data. In some examples, an application server of an external network is configured to receive user presence data from the presence server. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067969 | Sharing Television And Video Programming Through Social Networking - In particular embodiments, a social networking system identifies a user viewing video content on a first display device, identifies the video content being viewed on the first display device by the user, and determines a second display device associated with the identified user. The social networking system sends one or more instructions to the determined second display device to display one or more chat messages associated with the identified video content. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067970 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENGAGEMENT IN A POLITICAL PROCESS - Methods and related apparatus and compositions of matter for engaging a user in a political process are disclosed herein. In various aspects the methods may include the steps of notifying a verified user of an action item by electronic messaging, with the action item relating to a political issue preselected by the verified user. The methods may include the step of collecting an actual response to the action item generated by the verified user, and transmitting the actual response to a decision maker. The methods may include, in various aspects, creating a report card using a plurality of decision maker actions of the decision maker, with the report card indicative of the agreement between each decision maker action of a number of decision maker action with the corresponding actual responses of the verified user. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067971 | Method and Arrangement for Controlling Actions in a Notification Service - Method and arrangement for controlling actions in a notification server ( | 2014-03-06 |
20140067972 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus of managing a community site. Upon execution of processor-executable instructions by a processing unit, the processing unit manages the community site in accordance with management data so as to permit access to the community site by a plurality of terminal apparatuses based at least in part on terminal data from each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses. The terminal data indicates at least one of a time or a location associated with the terminal apparatus. The processing unit further stores content uploaded from at least one of the plurality of terminal apparatuses to at least one storage device, the content being accessible via the community site. In response to at least one predetermined condition relating to the usage of the community site being satisfied, the processing unit sends a signal to delete the content from the at least one storage device. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067973 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING VERTICAL SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR CLIENT ORIENTED SERVICE PROVIDERS - An apparatus, system and method for providing an advisor decision enabling tool. The apparatus, system and method includes a plurality of networked computers, wherein at least one user of each of the plurality at least electronically communicates with a plurality of clients at least partially over the network, and a first computing engine comprising at least computing code associated with at least a first processor capable of accumulating data regarding ones of the plurality if clients and actions by each of the at least one user, wherein the first computing engine accepts a plurality of tags indicative of the accumulated data, and wherein the tags are dictated by the at least one user. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067974 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DELAYED NOTIFICATIONS IN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS - Communications is the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information. However, whilst immense investments into evolving communications infrastructure supporting multiple communications channels have been made the vast majority of communications models, standards, and developments focus to the transmission of the message as a single process with other aspects of the communications channel are considered simply delays in the communications channel. However, it would be beneficial to provide enhancements to such communications channels to provide additional information to the sender with respect to the delivery to and recovery by the recipient of the message such that not only do they have the option to elect to receive a delivery notification in communications systems that today do not provide such information, but that in these systems and those supporting delivery notifications increased information is provided to the user allowing them to ascertain or estimate the recipient's absorption/reading of the message. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067975 | PROCESSING MESSAGES - A message processing method and system. According to embodiments of the present invention, the preference of a user for messages may be determined based on actions of the user regarding those messages. The message is analyzed to determine one or more categories to which content of the messages belongs to. Thus, a matching degree between the user and a corresponding category may be determined or adjusted according to the preference of the user for the messages. Such a matching degree may be then used for filtering an incoming message. According to embodiments of the present invention, for each specific user, the information that a user is not interested in may be filtered in a more accurate and adaptive manner. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067976 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSENGER SERVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - An apparatus and a method for providing a messenger service in an electronic device are provided. In the method, the messenger service with at least one counterpart electronic device is provided. First application setting information is determined during the messenger service. The first application setting information is transmitted to the at least one counterpart electronic device through the messenger service. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067977 | Systems and Methods for Uploading Media Content In An Instant Messaging Conversation - System and methods for uploading media content in an instant messaging application are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes, at a first electronic device having one or more processors and memory: obtaining a request by a first user to associate a media content item with a conversation between the first user and a second user. The conversation includes a message and one or more responses to the message. In some implementations, the method also includes, responsive to the request: (i) causing a thumbnail of the media content item to be displayed in-line in the conversation; and (ii) causing the media content item to be display to the second user, in response to a predefined user action by the second user. The thumbnail is displayed in a first resolution; and the media content item is displayed in a second resolution that is different than the first resolution. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067978 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - This invention has as its object to avoid occurrence of garble even when an e-mail message to be created includes text information described in character codes of different kinds of language. To achieve this object, a communication apparatus according to this invention includes an input unit which inputs image information, a recognition unit which extracts text information included in the image information input by the input unit, and recognizing a type of character code of the extracted text information, an embedding unit which embeds the extracted text information in a text of e-mail using character codes of the type recognized by the recognition unit, and describing the recognized type ( | 2014-03-06 |
20140067979 | SYSTEM CONTROLLING USE OF A COMMUNICATION CHANNEL - A system controlling use of a communication channel in a communication network. The system comprising a network including service nodes. The service nodes comprising one or snore sets having one or snore nodes adapted to provide service functions in response to messages in the network. At least one of the sets comprising a member node having ace for communication with a remote to final, and a user interface process coupled with the interface to include a user of the remote terminal in the network. At least one of the sets comprising a member node having an interface to the communication network, and a process coupled to the interface to control establishment of the communication channel for the user. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067980 | CONTROL FOR INVITING AN UNAYTHENTICATED USER TO GAIN ACCESS TO DISPLAY OF CONTENT THAT IS OTHERWISE ACCESSIBLE WITH AN AUTHENTICATION MECHANISM - Enabling an authenticated user to access content associated with an authenticated user as though the authenticated user had a selected user relationship with the authenticated user. The user relationship may comprise a relationship degree, a relationship category, a relationship rating, and/or the like. An invitation to join an electronic service, such as an online social network, is sent to the unauthenticated user at an address known to the authenticated user. The invitation includes a time-limited token, such as a URL, that includes an invitation identifier, which relates the invitation to the authenticated user content. The token may be encrypted in the invitation. The unauthenticated user returns the token as a request to preview the authenticated user content without first becoming an authenticated user of the electronic service. If the token is still valid, access is granted. The unauthenticated user may also request to establish a connection with the authenticated user. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067981 | Classification and Status of Users of Networking and Social Activity Systems - Classifications and statuses can be assigned to entities and devices associated with a network (e.g., users of a social activity or networking system) based on media, application, network and/or other information (e.g., purchasable product information). A status or classification can pertain to a subject matter that is, for example, associated with a media and/or applications in a very broad sense or in a specific context (e.g., category, genre, item). As such, a status or a classification can, for example, provide valuable information regarding a user to other users of a social activity system. By way of example, a user can be classified as a music expert, as a high volume application user, as an expert with respect a particular genre of music or movies, or as a novice with respect to a specific media asset, item, or event (e.g., a particular song, a movie, concert, gaming application, product). Among other things, a status or a classification can be used to manage a social activity system, as well as managing information provided by the social activity system. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067982 | DETERMINING AN ESTIMATION OF MESSAGE RESPONSE TIME - A first computer receives a first chat message from a second computer within a first chat session. The first computer determines an initial estimated response time to the first chat message, based on chat history of a user of the first computer, and sends the initial estimated response time to the second computer. The first computer then determines a subsequent estimated response time, which is based on the activity of a user of the first computer. The first computer adds the initial estimated response time and the subsequent estimated response time to determine a total estimated response time, which is then sent to the second computer. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067983 | BI-DIRECTIONAL SYNCHRONIZATION ENABLING ACTIVE-ACTIVE REDUNDANCY FOR LOAD-BALANCING SWITCHES - A network element within a data center comprises a master switch, a slave switch, a plurality of servers in communication with the master and slave switches, and an inter-switch link connected between the master switch and the slave switch. The master switch and the slave switch are configured to bi-directionally synchronize both server status and application hash table information through the inter-switch link. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067984 | Integrated Storage and Switching for Memory Systems - An integrated networked storage and switching apparatus comprises one or more flash memory controllers, a system controller, and a network switch integrated within a common chassis. The integration of storage and switching enables the components to share a common power supply and temperature regulation system, achieving efficient use of available space and power, and eliminating added complexity of external cables between the switch a storage devices. Additionally, the architecture enables substantial flexibility and optimization of network traffic policies for both network and storage-related traffic. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067985 | TECHNIQUES FOR MAPPING AND MANAGING RESOURCES - Techniques for mapping and managing resources are presented. Hardware capacity and information is collected over multiple processing environments for hardware resources. The information is mapped to logical business resources and resource pools. Capacity is rolled up and managed within logical groupings and the information gathering is managed via in-memory and on-file caching techniques. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067986 | NETWORK SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH OFF-HEAP CACHING - A method for providing data over a network using, an application server having off-heap caching includes receiving at an application server coupled to a network a request for requested data, using an key index stored on the application server to locate where the requested data is stored in oil-heap memory of the application server, retrieving the requested data from the off-heap memory of the application server, and resolving the request. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067987 | BYTE CACHING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - Various embodiments provide byte caching in wireless communication networks. In one embodiment, a plurality of data packets are received through an internet protocol (IP) data flow established between a wireless communication device and at least one server. Each of the plurality of data packets are combined into a packet bundle. A determination is made as to whether a second byte caching system is available. The packet bundle is transformed using one or more byte caching operations based on a second byte caching system being available. The transformed packet bundle is sent to the second byte caching system using an IP communication mechanism. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067988 | On-Demand Caching in a WAN Separated Distributed File System or Clustered File System Cache - A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for on-demand caching in a wide area network (WAN) separated distributed file system or clustered file system. The mechanism monitors file access by a plurality of cache sites in the WAN separated distributed file system or clustered file system. The mechanism identifies access patterns by cache sites. The mechanism shares the access patterns with the plurality of cache sites. A given cache site within the plurality of cache sites combines the access patterns with local access information and identifies files to pre-fetch based on the combined information. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067989 | CACHING PROVENANCE INFORMATION - Techniques are disclosed for caching provenance information. For example, in an information system comprising a first computing device requesting provenance data from at least a second computing device, a method for improving the delivery of provenance data to the first computing device, comprises the following steps. At least one cache is maintained for storing provenance data which the first computing device can access with less overhead than accessing the second computing device. Aggregated provenance data is produced from input provenance data. A decision whether or not to cache input provenance data is made based on a likelihood of the input provenance data being used to produce aggregated provenance data. By way of example, the first computing device may comprise a client and the second computing device may comprise a server. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067990 | METHOD FOR ACCESSING A CONTENT ITEM IN A CLOUD STORAGE SYSTEM, AND A CORRESPONDING CLOUD BROKER, CLOUD CACHE AGENT AND CLIENT APPLICATION - In a cloud storage system, an editable version of each content item is stored in a cloud data store and one or more HTML versions of content items are stored in a cloud cache store. In order to access a content item, a client application sends a request to a cloud broker, specifying a user action that is either “view” or “edit”. In case the user action is “edit”, the cloud broker sends a request for retrieving the editable version of the content item from the cloud data store. In case the user action is “view”, the cloud broker sends a request for obtaining a URL to one of the HTML versions of the content item to a cloud cache agent. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067991 | DISTRIBUTED STORAGE - Systems and methods are described for providing a distributed storage system. A distributed storage system includes a control server coupled to a network, the control server maintaining a policy, a host directory, and a file directory, and a plurality of hosts coupled to the network, each of the plurality of hosts containing a storage device and an agent configured to communicate with the control server, wherein each of the plurality of hosts is configured to contribute a portion of the storage device thereof to collectively form a distributed virtual disk configured to store files, wherein the portion of the storage device on each of the plurality of hosts is configured based on the policy, wherein the host directory contains information about the plurality of the hosts on the distributed storage system, and wherein the file directory contains information about the files stored on the distributed storage system. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067992 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, COMMUNICATION NODE, AND TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium stores a program causing a first node to execute a process including identifying among nodes in a system, a second node that has data identical to data in the first node; comparing a first effect level representing a degree to which performance of the system is affected by communication between the first node and a transmission destination node of the data, and a second effect level representing a degree to which the performance is affected by communication between the second node and the transmission destination node, by referring to a storage device that stores effect levels respectively representing a degree to which the performance of the system is affected by communication between the transmission destination node and each node among the nodes; and transmitting based on a comparison result, the data to the transmission destination node by controlling a communicating unit that communicates with the nodes. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067993 | DATA CONVERSION BASED ON A PROVIDED DICTIONARY - A computerized method for data conversion, comprising receiving a data sequence, receiving a dictionary having patterns respective to patterns in the data sequence, and converting the data sequence by substituting the patterns in the data sequence with at least one of the patterns of the dictionary respective to the patterns in the data sequence, or references to the patterns of the dictionary respective to the patterns in the data sequence, or a combination thereof, and an apparatus for performing the same. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067994 | REDUCING COSTS RELATED TO USE OF NETWORKS BASED ON PRICING HETEROGENEITY - A capability is provided for reducing the costs of data transfers for networks using pricing heterogeneity. For data to be transferred between an application of a first network and a user device, the data may be transferred directly without using a second network or indirectly using a second network including a transfer of the data between the first network and the second network. In a network-based file system, a first network is primarily used for write requests and a second network is primarily used for read requests, and a data block is transferred from the first network to the second network based on a determination that a threshold number of read requests for the data block have been received. The determination as to when to transfer data between networks may be determined based on various costs associated with the networks. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067995 | Enterprise Workspaces Externalization - The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for externalizing an enterprise workspace to business applications. One computer-implemented method includes indicating data within an application to be included in a new module, initiating a command to create the new module using the indicated data, transmitting the command to create the new module to an external server, receiving from the external server a list of available enterprise workspaces for adding the new module, selecting at least one available enterprise workspace from the list of available enterprise workspaces, transmitting the selected enterprise workspace to the external server, and receiving a confirmation of the new module creation. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067996 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING NETWORK LATENCY - Method, system, and programs for reducing network latency in a network. A first connection is established between a relay and a host in the network. The relay receives non-confidential information from the host over the first connection. A second connection is then established between the relay and a node in the network. The relay then communicates with the node, over the second connection, non-confidential information on behalf of the host based on the received non-confidential information from the host. The relay also forwards, over the first and second connections, confidential information between the node and the host. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067997 | DOWNLOADING CONTENT - Method, user device and computer program product for downloading content to the user device, wherein the user device is associated with a user. User preferences for downloading content associated with interactions between the user and other users are automatically determined based on past behaviour of the user when interacting with the other users. It is determined that more than one item of content associated with at least one interaction between the user and at least one of the other users are to be downloaded to the user device. The items of content to be downloaded to the user device are prioritized based on the automatically determined user preferences, and then at least some of the items of content are downloaded to the user device according to the prioritization of the items of content. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067998 | Sharing Television and Video Programming Through Social Networking - In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system determine a first media device of a first user of a social-networking system and determine a second media device of a second user of the social-networking system. The one or more computer systems access a social graph of the social-networking system, update the social graph based on the determined first and second media devices, and stream media from the first media device to the second media device using the updated social graph. The social graph includes nodes and edges connecting the nodes, the nodes including user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system and concept nodes that are each associated with a particular media device. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067999 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING LOAD OF VIRTUAL MACHINES - A method for a first server to manage load of virtual machines in more than one second server, the method collects resource usage rates of each second server and stores the collected resource usage rates into a preset table according to an identity (ID) of each second server. When the resource usage rates of a second server match a critical condition, the method marks the second server. A target server and one or more target virtual machines are determined and the method transfers the determined target virtual machine(s) into the target server. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068000 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING WEB CONTENT - The present invention provides a method and a system for rendering web content on a mobile computing device associated with a user over a network. The method and system includes receiving a request for web content from the mobile computing device associated with the user, detecting identification information of the requesting mobile computing device, determining display capabilities of the mobile computing device based on the detected identification information, retrieving the requested web content and a plurality of customization parameters from a content server of a plurality of content severs and customizing the retrieved web content based on the determined display capabilities of the mobile computing device and the customization parameters. The customized web content is rendered on the mobile computing device. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068001 | INTERMEDIATE PROXY SERVER, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM BASED ON HTTP MULTI-LEVEL PROXY - Various embodiments provide servers including an intermediate proxy server, communication methods, and communication systems based on HTTP multi-level proxy. An exemplary intermediate proxy server can be configured between a standard proxy server and a destination network terminal. The exemplary intermediate proxy server can be configured to receive a message forwarded by the standard proxy server. The message can include an HTTP header containing an address of the destination network terminal and an address of the intermediate proxy server. The intermediate proxy server can be connected to the destination network terminal according to the address of the destination network terminal in the HTTP header. The intermediate proxy server can be configured to send the message to the destination network terminal. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068002 | System And Method For Generating A Modified Web Page By Inline Code Insertion In Response To An Information Request From A Client Computer - Information requested by a client is intercepted by a network server, which sends the request to the requested information source. The requested information is received and examined by the server to determine if the information is HTML format. If so, the server modifies the requested information by inserting format and request instructions then sends same to the client computer. The client uses the format and request instructions to send a request for supplemental information from a supplemental information source. The associated supplemental information is sent from the supplemental information source to the network client. The format instructions cause the requested information and supplemental information to be displayed in respective first and second display areas. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068003 | TRANSACTION CORRELATION USING THREE WAY HANDSHAKE - The present technology monitors a web application provided by one or more services. A service may be provided by applications. The monitoring system provides end-to-end business transaction visibility, identifies performance issues quickly and has dynamical scaling capability across monitored systems including cloud systems, virtual systems and physical infrastructures. A method for communicating data between servers may detect by a first computer a request to a second computer. The request and a first name may be sent to the second computer by the first computer. The first name and request information may be sent to a server by the first computer. The first name and a second computer identifier may be transmitted to the server by the second computer. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068004 | Method and System for a Persistent Request Generated by a Wireless Device, Executed Remotely and Output to Configurable Local Resources - Methods and systems for a persistent request generated by a wireless device, executed remotely and output to configurable local resources are described and may include generating via a handheld wireless communication device (HWCD) a persistent request for a user that may be communicated to remote devices for execution and storage of results. The stored results may be received from local resources local which may be configured by the remote devices based on user preferences to deliver the stored results to the user. The stored results may be received by the user via the HWCD or another wireless communication device, and the identity of the user may be authenticated prior to receiving the stored results. The remote devices may discover the local resources based on the detection of the user logging into the network. User preferences may be stored in networked devices or may be stored in the HWCD. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068005 | IDENTIFICATION, CACHING, AND DISTRIBUTION OF REVISED FILES IN A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - A client computer sends a request for a web page to a web site host computer. The host returns an initial web page document that contains a listing of files needed to generate the web page and a revision identifier (RevID) for certain files. The RevID may be a checksum. The client then requests files that do not have a RevID from the host and requests files which do have a RevID from a content delivery network (CDN) server. The host sends the requested files to the client. If the CDN server has the files having the specified RevID it sends those files to the client. If the CDN server does not have a file having the specified RevID it requests that file from another CDN server or the host, which sends that file to the requesting server. The CDN server then sends that file to the client. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068006 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENT - A server and a method for providing content to client devices are provided. The server includes a network interface, a memory storage unit and a processor for carrying out the method. The method involves receiving a first request for the content, sending a first data chunk in response to the first request, receiving a marking data corresponding to a time-position of the content, receiving a second request for the content, and sending a second data chunk in response to the second request. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068007 | Sharing Audio and Video Device on a Client Endpoint Device Between Local Use and Hosted Virtual Desktop Use - A communication is established between a client device and a server device, where the server device executes one or more hosted virtual desktop (HVD) applications for the client device. A media data stream including at least one of audio content and video content is transmitted from the client device to the server device, where audio and video content of the media data stream is captured by one or more input devices at the client device and is utilized by an HVD application at the server device. In response to a request for the media data stream by a second application that is local to the client device or is operating at a remote device, transmission of the media data stream to the server device is selectively suspended or shared with the second application. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068008 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FLOW CONTROLLING - Content delivery to end user devices (EUD) is controlled by transmitting content portions at a controlled flow. The time for the EUD to process the data is used to control the flow. The first portion is transmitted to the EUD and the amount of time to process the first portion is noted. Threshold values to stop and start transmissions are examined prior to the transmission of each content portion. If the amount of data remaining to be processed by the EUD is below the stop transmission threshold, transmission continues with the next portion. If the amount of data remaining to be processed by the EUD is above the stop threshold, transmission is either stopped or retarded. When it is determined that the amount of data remaining to be processed by the EUD is above the start transmission threshold, transmission is started or continued. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068009 | PLAYING OF MULTIPLE MEDIA STREAMS IN A SINGLE-PLAYER SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems of playing multiple media streams in a single-player environment are presented. In an example, creation of a live media player associated with a first output of a media machine and creation of a non-live media player associated with a second output of the media machine are requested. The live media player and the non-live media player are presented to a resource manager of the media machine with a shared live property for assignment of separate media tuners. In response to the assignment, live playing of a first media stream using the live media player and live playing of a second media stream using the non-live media player are initiated. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068010 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND ARTICLES FOR A SERVER PROVIDING COMMUNICATIONS AND SERVICES INVOLVING AUTOMOBILE HEAD UNITS - Network communications, Web-based services and customized services using the Web-based services may be provided to drivers and users via the automobile head unit in the vehicle and via their mobile device. The automobile head unit in the vehicle and the mobile device are communicatively linked via a short range wireless connection. Also, these devices may communicate over a network such as a cellular network to a service provider that provides entertainment and informational services to the mobile device and the head unit of the vehicle. The user's profile and preferences are able to follow the user to various locations and into vehicles because this information is stored at a server accessible by the user's mobile device, and in some embodiments, also the head unit. The mobile device may provide services to the head unit if it does not have wider network connectivity over the short range wireless connection. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068011 | PREDICTING CONTENT PERFORMANCE WITH INTEREST DATA - Systems and methods for predicting content performance with interest data include receiving a content selection request that includes a client identifier. One or more topical interest categories associated with the client identifier may be used as inputs to a prediction model to predict the likelihood of an online action occurring as a result of third-party content being selected. The predicted likelihood may be used to select third-party content. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068012 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DOWNLOADING TEACHING MATERIAL - A method and a system for downloading teaching material are provided. The system for downloading teaching material includes a handheld electronic apparatus and a server. A time difference between a current time and a class time of a teaching material item is calculated when the handheld electronic apparatus desire to download the teaching material data corresponding to the teaching material item, and a loading weight is calculated according to the time difference and a weighted value of the teaching material item so as to send a loading request with the loading weight to the server, such that the server decides a transmission order of teaching material data corresponding to the teaching material item. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068013 | METHOD OF PLAYING INTERNET VIDEO AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method of playing an internet video for an electronic device is disclosed. The method includes receiving data associated with the internet video from a network, wherein the video data includes information of a highest resolution and a lowest resolution of the internet video; determining a first display resolution range according to a network bandwidth utilized by the electronic device; and selecting a first resolution for playing the internet video according to the first display resolution range and whether the electronic device has stored a complete data associated with the internet video with the highest resolution. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068014 | JUST-IN-TIME TRANSCODING OF APPLICATION CONTENT - The techniques discussed herein contemplate improved methods and systems for transcoding application content to minimize latency in just-in-time conversion of application formats. In embodiments, a target client device requests application content of a particular format from a content provider. If the content provider does not have a local copy of the requested format, the content is split to multiple segments and a first high-priority segment is identified. This first segment is converted using a dedicated high-performance computing unit and transmitted with minimal latency to the target client device for immediate rendering. Concurrently, remaining segments of the content are converted in multiple lower performance computing units and fed into the target client device. By ensuring that at least a first segment of the application is available for immediate rendering while other segments are converted, the transcoding application minimizes latency delay in rendering of the application in the target device. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068015 | DATA STORAGE METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PORTABLE TERMINAL - A data storage method and system of the portable terminal for storing data efficiently through a synchronization service are provided. The data storage method of a portable terminal includes determining whether a residual storage space of a data storage region of the portable terminal is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value, performing, when the residual storage space is equal to or less than the threshold value, a packet data protocol context activation procedure, determining whether a new data save command is detected, storing, when the new data save command is detected, the new data in the residual storage space, and increasing the residual storage space to be equal to or greater than the threshold value by at least one of deleting synchronization-complete data among synchronization-enabled data stored in the portable terminal and transferring synchronization-incomplete data to a predetermined synchronization service server. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068016 | System and Method for Web Application Acceleration - Disclosed is a method of delivering a web page to a user accessing a browser, comprising: providing requested web pages to a client for analyzing content of the pages; adding scripted language code and executing; requesting a template page from a web/application server; creating a delta by comparing content of the pages; and producing a web page based on the delta. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068017 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT GROUP OF DEVICES - A system and method of providing additional information with respect to a group of devices. A method of receiving additional information with respect to a group including first and second devices, the method performed by the first device, includes operations of receiving user-interested information from a second device; obtaining common interest information with respect to a user of the first device and a user of the second device, based on user-interested information of the first device and the user-interested information of the second device; forming a group based on the common interest information with respect to the first device and the second device; providing the common interest information and group information about the group to a server; and receiving the additional information, with respect to the common interest information, from the server. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068018 | CONTENT SYNCHRONIZATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLOUD SERVICE SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for synchronization of contents in a cloud service system for a mobile environment is provided. The synchronization method of a cloud service system includes uploading, at a device when data is changed, the changed data to a server, processing, at the server, the uploaded data, storing, at the server, the processed data along with a time change, transmitting, at the device, a synchronization request signal including a most recent server connection time at a predetermined time, downloading, at the device, a data log on data changed between the most recent server connection time and the current time, synchronizing, at the device, the data based on the data log, and updating the most recent server connection time. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068019 | TECHNIQUES AND METHODS FOR ARCHIVING AND TRANSMITTING DATA HOSTED ON A SERVER - Techniques for transmitting and archiving data hosted on a server. A collection of data is generated, in response to a request, that includes at least a first portion of user content and a second portion of metadata. The collection of data is transmitted as a file. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068020 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND/OR RECEIVING DATA - A method and an apparatus for transmitting and/or receiving data in an electronic device are provided. In the method, whether a second network is connected is detected while the electronic device cooperates with a server via a first network. When the second network is detected, whether the server is accessible via the second network is determined. When the server is accessible via the second network, the cooperation with the server via the first network is released, and the electronic device is allowed to cooperate with the server via the second network. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068021 | CONFIGURING CLIENT SERVICES - Techniques for managing content of a virtual workspace include receiving a request from a remote client for client-configuration settings, the remote client associated with a particular user; identifying a set of client-specific attributes associated with the remote client; identifying a set of user-specific attributes associated with the particular user; determining client-configuration settings for the remote client based at least in part on the identified client-specific attributes and the identified user-specific attributes; and transmitting the determined client-configuration settings to the remote client. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068022 | DEPLOYED APPLICATION FACTORY RESET - A method and apparatus for integrating a converged infrastructure platform in a data center is provided. The described apparatus configures the physical and virtual resources that run on the converged infrastructure to communicate with the rest of the data center. The described apparatus further enables a system administrator to rollback configurations of the physical and virtual resources of the converged infrastructure to restore the converged infrastructure to a factory state. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068023 | EMBEDDED THIN DHCP FOR WI-FI DIRECT TO PROVIDE AN IP ADDRESS DURING CONNECTION ESTABLISHMENT - An embedded thin DHCP mechanism may issue an IP address in one or two frames that a P2P group owner (GO) transmits to a client during connection establishment. In particular, the IP address may generally comprise an IPv4 address having four octets, wherein the first two octets are hardcoded, the third octet is derived from a physical address of the GO, and the GO passes the fourth octet to the client during connection establishment. The GO may pass the fourth octet to the client in a frame mandatory to connection establishment or include an attribute in the mandatory frame to specify a subsequent frame that will contain the fourth octet. In response to the client receiving the fourth octet, the client may then generate the complete IP address. Additionally, the embedded thin DHCP mechanism may be suitably modified for use with Internet Connection Sharing or IPv6 architectures. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068024 | Transaction Based Server Configuration Management System and Method Therefor - A request to perform a system configuration operation at an information handling system is received at a service processor included at the information handling system. The service processor determines that the configuration operation completed successfully and prepares an abstraction of the system configuration operation that can be used to replicate the system configuration operation at another information handling system. The abstraction is provided to a coordinating processor. The coordinating processor generates an identifier that uniquely identifies the abstraction and provides the identifier to the service processor. The service processor stores the identifier. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068025 | Method and Node For Automatically Exchanging Network Service Provider Information - A method is provided for automatically exchanging network service provider information between two sets of network service providers. The method comprises configuring at least one address of a proxy function of a second set of network service providers for a proxy function of a first set of network service providers; sending network service provider information of the first set of network service providers to the proxy function of the second set of network service providers with the at least one address of the proxy function of the second set of network service providers; and receiving network service provider information of the second set of network service providers from the proxy function of the second set of network service providers. The network service provider information includes information for addressing the network service provider and ID of service provided by the network service provider. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068026 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURING SERVER USING PRE-RECORDED CONFIGURATION SCRIPT AND METHOD THEREOF - A system for automatically configuring a server using a pre-recorded configuration script and a method thereof are provided. After transmitting an installation configuration frame displayed by a server from a controller to an operating device when the server configures a target program, the operating device sends interaction data corresponding to a graphic feature prerecorded in a configuration script from the operating device to the controller when the installation configuration frame matches to the graphic feature. The controller provides the interaction data to the target program being configured so that the configuration of the target program automatically enters the next stage. The system and the method can finish configuring a server automatically, and can achieve the effect of quickly configuring a lot of servers of the same type. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068027 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION BETWEEN ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Various embodiments of methods and systems for establishing communication over a wireless communication network between a master device and a partial function device. The master device and partial function device can use a separate communication channel during setup or configuration for communicating over the wireless communication network. The separate communication channel can be, for example, an audio-based channel or optical-based channel. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068028 | NETWORK CONNECTING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A first electronic device transmits first configuration information of the first electronic device collected by a tamper-resistant chip mounted thereon and approved by a third-party device to a second electronic device over a short-distance network. The second electronic device transmits second configuration information of the second electronic device collected by a tamper-resistant chip mounted thereon and approved by the third-party device to the first electronic device over the short-distance network. The first electronic device transmits the first configuration information and the second configuration information to the second electronic device over a network. The second electronic device controls connection between the first electronic device and the second electronic device over the network based on the first configuration information and the second configuration information received from the first electronic device. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068029 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION DECISION DEVICE AND IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION DECISION METHOD - An information processing system has a plurality of information processing units. The information processing system includes: an information collector configured to collect device identification information assigned to each of the information processing units; a storage configured to store history information indicating whether each piece of the device identification information collected by the information collector has been used as system identification information of the information processing system; and a decision unit configured to determine the system identification information from the device identification information collected by the information collector, according to the history information stored in the storage and the device identification information collected by the information collector. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068030 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY APPLYING ACCESS CONTROL POLICIES BASED ON DEVICE TYPES OF NETWORKED COMPUTING DEVICES - Techniques for managing access control policies are described herein. According to one embodiment, access control policies (ACPs) and access control rules (ACRs) are downloaded from a management server to a network access device (NAD) over the Internet, where the network access device is one of a plurality of network access devices managed by the management server over the Internet. In response to a request from a network client device for entering a network, a device type of the network client device is detected and an ACP identifier is determined based on the device type using the ACRs An ACP is selected from the ACPs based on the ACP identifier and enforced against the network client device. At least the selected ACP is reported to the management server to distribute the selected ACP to other network access devices. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068031 | 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. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068032 | APPLICATION DEPENDENT DATA CENTER INTEGRATION - A method and apparatus for integrating a converged infrastructure platform in a data center is provided. The described apparatus configures the physical and virtual resources that run on the converged infrastructure to communicate with the rest of the data center. The network integration process understands the data center network already in place and extends the set up into the converged infrastructure to enable communication between the converged infrastructure and the rest of the network in the data center. The apparatus uses an infrastructure template that describes the data center and that may be pre-defined for a specific application deployed within the converged infrastructure platform. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068033 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO MANAGE ALARM CONFIGURATIONS OF SERVERS - Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture to manage alarm configurations of servers are disclosed. An example system includes a processor, an alarm linkage database to store information representative of alarm configurations for a plurality of servers, and a memory comprising machine readable instructions. When executed, the instructions cause the processor to perform operations comprising accessing alarm configurations in the alarm linkage database for a subset of the plurality of servers in response to a first request, initiating a change in respective alarm configurations of the subset of the plurality of the servers, and initiating propagation of the alarm configuration to the subset of the servers, the subset including more than one server. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068034 | Open Architecture for Self-Organizing Networks - A self-organizing network (SON) with an application programming interface (API) common to multiple SON tools is described herein. Through the API, a SON tool may receive one more performance indicators associated with network information. The SON tool may then generate an updated network configuration based at least in part on the one or more performance indicators and provide, though the API, the updated network configuration to configure one or more network components. The SON tool, and other SON tools, may be executed by an SON automation engine, the SON automation engine and the API enabling additional SON tools to be added to the SON. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068035 | MANAGING NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS - Provided are systems, methods and computer program products that proactively manage configurations that enable a service. Configurations that are critical to enabling a particular service are automatically captured, for example as part of a provisioning activity, and/or tracked in association with that service. This automated, service-oriented configuration management enables improved service assurance and faster identification of problems, and mitigates the problem of errors and compromised service delivery that can arise from misconfigurations. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068036 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING AN ELECTRONIC SIGN FOR OPERATION AT AN ADVERTISING SITE - An electronic sign includes at least one display, at least one processor controlling the display, and at least one computer readable storage medium accessible to the processor and storing a preprogrammed network address of a control server. The medium is programmed with instructions to cause the processor to automatically, upon initial energization at an advertising site having plural wireless routers all on a common subnet, connect to a wireless router at the advertising site to join the common subnet. The instructions also cause the processor to access the control server using the network address of the server after joining the common subnet. Additionally, the instructions cause the processor to receive, from the control server, configuration information useful in configuring the sign for operation so that the electronic sign, after mechanical installation, does not need to be physically accessed by a technician to further configure the sign for operation. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068037 | ENHANCED REBOOT COMMAND - A method and system allows a computer system to perform a network reboot in response to an enhanced reboot command. The computer system receives a command to load an operating system and interprets the command to determine whether a physical machine or a virtual machine is to be rebooted. In response to a determination that the command indicates the use of a network option, the computer system loads the operating system from a networked server, and perform rebooting according to the interpreted command with the use of the operating system. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068038 | Maintain Persistent Connections Between Servers and Mobile Clients - In one embodiment, a method includes iteratively waiting for a time interval; sending a keep-alive message from a first computing device to a second computing device; and incrementing a current value of the time interval when the first computing device receives from the second computing device a response to a current keep-alive message sent during the current iteration, until the first computing device does not receive from the second computing device any responses to the current keep-alive message sent during the current iteration; and setting the current value of the time interval to a previous value of the time interval from an immediately-previous iteration. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068039 | INFORMATION FLOW OPTIMIZATION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Systems and methods of optimizing information flow for a plurality of users in a communication system having a plurality of forms of communication. The methods can be performed by one or more computer devices. In one method, for each form of communication of the communication system, the method includes steps of determining connection and/or communication pathways between users, applying one or more edge weights to each pathway, and calculating a centrality value for each user. The method can also include introducing information into the communication system through one or more of the users, the one or more users being selected based on the centrality values associated therewith. In one method, an overall centrality value that takes into account all of the forms of communication can be calculated for each user and information can be introduced into the communication system through one or more users having the highest calculated overall centrality values. A method of optimizing information flow for a web site structure is also included. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068040 | System for Enabling Server Maintenance Using Snapshots - In certain embodiments, a system includes a target server operable to access one or more databases. The target is further operable to run one or more processes supporting access to the one or more databases. The system also includes a management server including one or more processors. The management server is operable to receive a maintenance request. The maintenance request includes a maintenance window. The management server is further operable to generate a server state snapshot by capturing the identities and configurations of the one or more processes running on the target server. The management server is further operable to stop the one or more processes. The management server is further operable to restore, after the expiration of the maintenance window, the one or more processes based on the server state snapshot. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068041 | TEAM PROCESSING USING DYNAMIC LICENSES - Devices may be grouped into teams by a team identifier configured for each device. Within the team, one device may be selected as a control device for handling requests made to the team. A team address is assigned to the team for directing communications from the client. The control device parses messages addressed to the team address and forwards requests to slave devices in the team. The control device may perform load balancing of the slave devices when directed messages to the slave devices. Device teams may be used to assign dynamic licenses to the clients. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068042 | Method and Apparatus for Accelerated Virtual Image Provisioning in Distributed Cloud Environments - Systems, methods and/or software where a separate image repository server (IRS) is created and maintained in each and every network and/or subnet segment that includes a destination server associated with the managed pool. Also, when a given virtual image is provisioned to a given destination server then the present invention preferably ensures that the IRS used as a source of the given virtual image is an IRS located in the same subnet and same network as the given destination server. | 2014-03-06 |
20140068043 | Risk Aware Domain Name Service - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a risk aware domain name service (DNS), which includes modulating a time to live (TTL) value associated with the DNS based at least in part on one or more DNS-related metrics associated with a DNS server providing DNS resolution. | 2014-03-06 |