25th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 73 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130159481 | BEST PRACTICES ANALYSIS OF ZONES AND COMPONENTS IN A NETWORK - Provided is a method for best practices analysis of zones and components in a network. A database has information on components in the network and configuration settings for the components. Best practices rules indicate best practices configuration settings for components in the network. The database and the accessed best practices rules are processed to determine whether the configuration settings for the components in the network satisfy the best practices configuration settings for the components indicated in the best practices rules. A report is generated indicating whether the configuration settings of the components in the network satisfy the best practices configuration settings for the components indicated in the best practices rules. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159482 | DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM ADDRESS CONFIGURATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and an apparatus for configuring Domain Name System (DNS) address of a terminal are provided. The DNS address configuration method of a terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes establishing a connection with a network, requesting the network for the DNS address, determining whether the DNS address is successfully received from the network, and configuring, if the DNS address is not successfully received, the DNS address of the terminal with an auxiliary DNS address stored in the terminal. The DNS address configuration method and apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is advantageous to configure the DNS address of a terminal even if the terminal fails to receive the DNS address from the network or if the received DNS address is erroneous. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159483 | INVENTORY UPDATING OF AN INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) ALIAS WITHIN A HIGHLY AVAILABLE COMPUTING CLUSTER - A clustered computing data processing system can be configured for inventory management in a highly available cluster. The system can include a cluster of computers managed by a cluster agent and providing high availability for a hosted application in the cluster. The system also can include a systems management tool executing in memory of a host computer system and coupled to the cluster agent and maintaining an inventory of data pertaining to the computers in the cluster. The system yet further can include an Internet protocol (IP) alias discover module coupled to the tool. The module can include program code executing in the memory of the host computer system so as to receive notification from the cluster agent of a change to addressing data for the computers in the cluster and, responsive to the notification, to update the inventory to reflect the change to the addressing data. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159484 | PUBLISHING MOBILE APPLICATIONS - Systems, methods and techniques relating to publishing mobile applications are described. A described technique includes instantiating an application for one or more mobile devices, associating one or more templates with the instantiated application, where each of the one or more templates configurable to provide a functionality to the application, mapping data from a backend system to each of the associated one or more templates, and publishing the application to the one or more mobile devices. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159485 | PERFORMING OPERATIONS ON DELETED ITEMS USING DELETED PROPERTY INFORMATION - Deleted property information relating to deleting an item, such as an electronic message, is stored for later use. The stored deleted property information may relate to one or more different properties that are associated with the deletion of the item, such as: a time when the item was deleted, a device from which item was deleted, a device on which the item was stored when deleted, a location of a user where the item was deleted, an application associated with the item, and the like. The deleted property information may be used to perform various operations. For example, deleted items may be sorted using the deleted item property information (e.g. time of deletion, device, location, application), rules may be created to use the deleted property information, deleted items may be restored based on the deleted property information, and the like. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159486 | NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR MINIMALISTIC CONNECTED OBJECTS - In one embodiment, a network architecture comprises minimalistic connected objects (MCOs), distributed intelligence agents (DIAs), and central intelligence controllers (CICs). MCOs have limited intelligence sufficient to perform their respective designated task, securely join computer networks, and provide nominal state information. The MCOs are not configured to perform complex application-specific data processing, or complex networking tasks, such as making QoS decisions, participating in CAC operations, providing TE services, executing sophisticated reliability protocols, or extrapolating network management information. DIAs are configured to provide a computer network edge for the MCOs, and are responsible for intelligent networking management and for performing complex application-specific data processing for the MCOs. CICs operate within the computer network and are in communication with the DIAs to perform complex tasks for overarching control of MCO/DIA operation, and are also configured to provide one or more interfaces to receive a set of user-defined rules for MCO/DIA operation. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159487 | Migration of Virtual IP Addresses in a Failover Cluster - The movement of a Virtual IP (VIP) address from cluster node to cluster node is coordinated via a load balancer. All or a subset of the nodes in a load balancer cluster may be configured as possible hosts for the VIP. The load balancer directs VIP traffic to the Dedicated IP (DIP) address for the cluster node that responds affirmatively to periodic health probe messages. In this way, a VIP failover is executed when a first node stops responding to probe messages, and a second node starts to respond to the periodic health probe messages. In response to an affirmative probe response from a new node, the load balancer immediately directs the VIP traffic to the new node's DIP. The probe messages may be configured to identify which nodes are currently responding affirmatively to probes to assist the nodes in determining when to execute a failover. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159488 | INVENTORY UPDATING OF AN INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) ALIAS WITHIN A HIGHLY AVAILABLE COMPUTING CLUSTER - A clustered computing data processing system can be configured for inventory management in a highly available cluster. The system can include a cluster of computers managed by a cluster agent and providing high availability for a hosted application in the cluster. The system also can include a systems management tool executing in memory of a host computer system and coupled to the cluster agent and maintaining an inventory of data pertaining to the computers in the cluster. The system yet further can include an Internet protocol (IP) alias discover module coupled to the tool. The module can include program code executing in the memory of the host computer system so as to receive notification from the cluster agent of a change to addressing data for the computers in the cluster and, responsive to the notification, to update the inventory to reflect the change to the addressing data. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159489 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ETHERNET COMMUNICATION NETWORK FOR USE IN VEHICLE - A system and method for managing a vehicle Ethernet communication network are disclosed. More specifically, each unit in a vehicle Ethernet communication network is configured to initially enter a power-on (PowerOn) mode when is applied to each unit of the vehicle to initialize operational programs. Once powered on, each unit enters a normal mode in which a node for each unit participates in a network to request the network. Subsequently, each unit enters a sleep indication (SleepInd) mode where other nodes are not requested even though the network has already been requested by the other nodes. A communication mode is then terminated at each unit and each unit enters a wait bus sleep (WaitBusSleep) mode in which all nodes connected to the network are no longer in communication and are waiting to switch to sleep mode. Finally, each unit is powered off to prevent communication between units in the network. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159490 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SMART HOME SERVICE BASED ON CLOUD - Provided is a method and apparatus for a smart home service to which a virtual home gateway is applied. A server may generate a virtual smart home service apparatus through a virtualization technology, and the virtual smart home service apparatus and a gateway may divide and thereby perform a function of an existing gateway. A first terminal, the server, and the gateway may be connected to each other over a first network such as the Internet, and the gateway and a second terminal may be connected to each other over a second network such as a home network. The gateway may relay transmission and reception of data between the first network and the second network. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159491 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, NETWORK STORAGE, AND SERVER DEVICE - A communication system includes a server device that is provided on a first network and is capable of connecting to a user terminal. A network storage is included that is connected to a second network different from the first network and is capable of connecting to the server device, wherein the network storage transmits a storage request signal to the server device in response to predetermined operation, the server device transitions to a standby state in response to the storage request signal, the user terminal transmits, to the server device, a user request signal including storage identification information to identify the network storage and terminal identification information to identify the user terminal by using setup information uniquely associated with the network storage, and the server device associates the user terminal with the network storage if receiving the user request signal from the user terminal in the standby state. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159492 | 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. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159493 | PROVIDING SERVER PERFORMANCE DECISION SUPPORT - An application provides server performance decision support to end-users. The application monitors the transaction data of servers. The transaction data includes network communications as well as server specific information such as resource utilization. The application captures a sample of the transaction data. The captured sample can be random or predetermined. The sample is limited in length according to a preset time value. The application analyzes the sample to determine performance metrics for the server. The application presents the performance metrics within a business intelligence data structure to enable an end-user to data mine the performance metrics according to additional variables. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159494 | METHOD FOR STREAMLINING DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION IN SERVICE CONTROL APPLIANCES BASED ON HEURISTIC TECHNIQUES - Systems and methods for a predictive bandwidth control module comprising means for maintaining a database of currently active subscribers by receiving the subscriber's authentication events and identifying one or more classes of subscribers based upon the authentication information they provide. The current behavior of the subscribers is recorded based on the applications they launch. The current behavior of the subscribers is correlated with a history database having snapshots of subscriber level requirements for the next few seconds, wherein the correlation provides correlated snapshots values based on the history of subscriber behavior over time. The correlated snapshot values are fed to an existing bandwidth controller that operates at various levels to allocate or de-allocate bandwidth to a corresponding class of subscribers based on a predicted future behavior of the subscribers. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159495 | Controlling Bit-Rates for Media Streaming Sessions - In one embodiment, a method includes (a) discerning whether an average packet delay in a media streaming session is increasing or decreasing over a first defined time window, (b) discerning whether an average jitter in the media streaming session is increasing or decreasing over a second defined time window, (c) in response to (a) and (b), calculating a specific bit-rate quantity corresponding to a change in bit-rate, and (d) controlling a bit-rate of the media streaming session in accordance with the specific bit-rate quantity. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159496 | Normalizing Network Performance Indexes - Normalization of a network performance index is achieved. Data is stored that groups devices in a network into groups or families according to their estimated life cycles. Data is stored representing a group-specific time window based on the estimated life cycle for devices in that group. Data is stored representing a count of the number of devices in the network within each group during a given unit of time, dynamic sliding windows over successive units of time. A sliding window group count is generated that represents the number of devices within each group in the network as of a current unit of time and prior units of time within the group-specific time window. A total group count is generated by adding the dynamic sliding window group counts for each of the groups. A normalized network performance index is generated by dividing a network performance index by the total group count. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159497 | Heuristic-Based Rejection of Computing Resource Requests - A computing system includes an authentication layer, the authentication layer being programmed to receive a request for resources of the computing system and to authenticate an identity of a user requesting the resources, and a command layer, the command layer being programmed to execute one or more commands from the request for resources, wherein the command layer logs characteristics associated with one or more of the commands, wherein the computing system monitors each logged command to determine when a threshold is met, and wherein the computing system blocks a subsequent request for resources from the user when the threshold is met. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159498 | MEASURING USER QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE FOR A STREAMING MEDIA SERVICE - Techniques are disclosed for representing a user quality of experience (QoE) experienced by users of a streaming media service using a single QoE metric. The single QoE metric may be determined based on a set of empirical characteristics relating to the streaming video service such as startup latency, video quality, and the likelihood of interruptions in streaming playback. The empirical characteristics may be weighted according to how much one factor influences user quality of experience, relative to the others. Representing the QoE as a single metric may allow a streaming media service provider to improve key business measures such as subscriber retention and engagement. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159499 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY MEDIA PRESENTATION DEVICES - Systems, methods, and apparatus to identify media presentation devices are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a domain name service query from a first device at a server, the first device and a second device being associated with a same public Internet protocol address. The first device is identified as originating the domain name service query based on an identity of the server. The first device is credited with accessing content associated with a domain name identified in the domain name service query. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159500 | DISCOVERY AND MINING OF PERFORMANCE INFORMATION OF A DEVICE FOR ANTICIPATORILY SENDING UPDATES TO THE DEVICE - The subject disclosure relates to techniques for monitoring contextual and performance information of a device for anticipatorily sending update information to the device. An interface component can receive, from the client, contextual information indicating an operating environment of the client and performance information that is associated with one or more operations being performed by the client based on the operating environment, and send, based on correlation information, update information to the client. Further, a service component can to infer a relationship between the contextual information and the performance information to obtain the correlation information. In other embodiments, a client can populate a cache with portion(s) of the contextual information to obtain cached information, and send at least a portion of the cached information to a system including one or more aspects of the service component. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159501 | DYNAMIC RESOURCE ADAPTATION - A system may include determination of historical resource load information associated with an enterprise computing system, determination of resource needs of the enterprise computing system associated with a future time based on the historical resource load information, and, at the future time, automatic allocation and de-allocation of resources to the enterprise computing system based on the determined resource needs. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159502 | Methods for Monitoring Computer Resources - One embodiment of a method of the present invention for monitoring computer resources provides for retrieving a set of resource-metric records for a predetermined time interval, forming a first mathematical matrix containing metric's values arranged on date-time and resource-metric axes, creating a second mathematical matrix containing features and a third mathematical matrix containing weights, building a feature relationship tree, generating a predicted value for the resource-metric identifier, determining a variance between predicted value and metric's value, and triggering an alert if the variance exceeds a predetermined alert threshold. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159503 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING TETHERING IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for detecting a tethering function being performed by an endpoint device in a communications network are disclosed. For example, the method analyzes a data packet directed towards the endpoint device, detects a signature based upon analyzing the data packet, and identifies the endpoint device as performing the tethering function based upon detecting the signature. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159504 | Systems and Methods of Automated Event Processing - Systems and methods of automated event processing include at least one of notification extraction, development of event engineering rules, and testing. Notification extraction may include extracting notification information from the documentation. Automatic development of event engineering rules may receive and process each trap for a centralized monitoring system. An example embodiment would work with Netcool monitoring system from IBM. A set of software code or a software program may process and receive the alarms. Example embodiments of the program automate the implementation process for the code. The testing function automates the testing of the alarms. In an example embodiment, rules set parameters to test the alarms to ensure that the code processes the alarms correctly and as expected. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159505 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING PHRASES IN DIGITAL CONTENT THAT ARE TRENDING - The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods to identify trending or temporally popular phrases based on aggregating multiple users' interactions with an aggregate of content. A server may receive identification of a plurality of clicks of encoded uniform resource locator (URL) links. The server may identify, for each of the plurality of clicks, in content identified from decoding the encoded URL links, a plurality of phrases that correspond to a predetermined set of keywords. The server may determine a velocity of clicks on content corresponding to each phrase of the plurality of phrases and identify a trend in one or more phrases of the plurality of phrases based on the velocity of clicks. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159506 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRENDING AND RELEVANCE OF PHRASES FOR A USER - The present disclosure is directed to a method for identifying which phrases are trending across an aggregate of users that are relevant to a specific user. The method may include receiving, by a server, identification of a user. The server may identify a plurality of phrases that are trending upwards based on velocity of clicks to content containing, related to or associated with the plurality of phrases. The server may identify trending or temporally popular phrases based on aggregating multiple users' interactions with an aggregate of content. The server may determine a relevance score for each phrase of the plurality of phrases that are trending upwards based on identification of the user and actions of the user on content associated with each phrase, such as user clicking on content identifying or related to each phrase. The server may identify one or more phrases of the plurality of phrases based on relevance score. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159507 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFLUENCE OF A USER ON CONTENT SHARED VIA 7 ENCODED UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR (URL) LINK - The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for measuring influence of a user may identify what level of engagement the user drives to content when the user shares content with other users, such as via encoded links. A high influencer may be a user who drives a high level of engagement with content when the user shares content. A low influencer may be a user who does not drive a high level of engagement, or otherwise drives a low level of engagement with content when the user shares content. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159508 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR HARDWARE REGISTRATION IN A NETWORK DEVICE - Methods and apparatus for control of a client device (e.g., consumer premises equipment in a cable network) using applications. In one aspect, an improved hardware registry is provided within the device with which the application(s) can interface to both identify and control available hardware resources. In one exemplary embodiment, the client device comprises a digital set-top box having digital video recording (DVR) capability. An application downloaded to the device discovers the registry and software interfaces associated therewith, and then utilizes the interfaces to automatically control the requisite hardware capability. Improved client device, network and head end configurations, as well as methods of operating these systems, are also disclosed. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159509 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING DATA COMMUNICATION WITHIN A NETWORK - A method for controlling data communication within a network with multiple interconnected network elements includes: generating a representation of the network; detecting changes in the network and updating the representation of the network; receiving a request from a client network element, wherein the request comprises information which identifies a source network element and at least two destination network elements; determining for each identified destination network element, a ranking value for the communication path between the source network element and the respective identified destination network element based on the representation of the network; generating an ordered list of the identified destination network elements based on the respective ranking values; transmitting the ordered list to the client network element from the central network element; and selecting, based on the ordered list, at least one of the identified destination network elements for data communication with the source network element. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159510 | Event Correlation Between Protocol Layers in a Network Device - A system and method for correlating events between protocol layers of a protocol stack of a network device includes detecting, at a first protocol layer, an occurrence of a first event associated with one or more data units received by the network device over physical media. A first times-tamp is associated with the first event. At a second protocol layer, an occurrence of a second event associated with the one or more data units is detected The second protocol layer is at a higher protocol layer of a protocol stack than the first protocol layer. A second timestamp is associated with the second event. A determination is made whether there is a correlation between the first and second events based on the first and second timestamps. Causation of the second event at the second protocol layer may be attributable to the first event at the first protocol layer. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159511 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A REPORT TO A NETWORK OPERATOR BY DISTRIBUTING AGGREGATION OF DATA - System and method for generating a report to a network operator by distributed aggregation of data are disclosed. One embodiment includes determining, by a server-side proxy, optimization efficiency for wireless network traffic; tracking, by the server-side proxy, user-related information in the wireless network; based on the optimization efficiency and/or the user-related information, generating the report to be delivered to the network operator or queried by the network operator. In one embodiment, the server-side proxy performs functions related to traffic optimization and management in the wireless network effectuating in traffic alleviation in the wireless network measured by the optimization efficiency. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159512 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EFFICIENT UPDATING OF TIME-ALIGNED GRAPHS IN A MONITORING SYSTEM - The present invention relates to displaying data in a time-aligned fashion. A dashboard may have a defined time window and a plurality of graphs for various types of monitoring data metrics. Updates to each of the graphs may occur at different intervals while the graphs stay aligned to the same time window. The updates may be asynchronously received and displayed in the dashboard in real-time or near real-time. The graphs are aligned to the same time window in a dashboard by adding a future time buffer. When the live data reaches the end of the time window, the future time buffer allows a brief overflow period for updates to be added to the graphs while keeping all the graphs on a common time axis. Once the current time reaches the end of the future time buffer, the dashboard is then shifted forward and a future time buffer is added. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159513 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND OPERATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - An object is to prevent overload on a shared resource. In an information processing system including a resource possibly shared between a plurality of work loads, an additional load is applied to the resource while operating the work loads, and the performances of the work loads are monitored. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159514 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND REMOTE MAINTENANCE METHOD - An information processing apparatus may include a first sending unit to send, to a remote maintenance center, virtual domain configuration information indicating configurations of a plurality of virtual domains formed within the information processing apparatus, together with a virtual domain configuration event, and a second sending unit to send, to the remote maintenance center, information of a periodic connection event including a next periodic connection time of each of the plurality of virtual domains, together with a periodic connection event. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159515 | Providing a Monitoring Service in a Cloud-Based Computing Environment - Technologies are described herein for providing a monitoring service in a cloud-based computing environment. A request is received from a user to subscribe to the monitoring service. The monitor workflow may correspond to the monitoring service. A first call to a finder application is executed over a communications network to retrieve data points according to the monitor workflow. A second call to an analyzer application is executed over the communications network to identify a relevant data point in the data points. A third call to a notifier application is executed over the communications network to notify the user of the relevant data point. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159516 | MAIN ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING WITHIN A NETWORK AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A MAIN ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATING WITHIN THE NETWORK - The present invention relates to a main electronic device for communicating within a network comprising an interface for enabling communication within the network and a controller for sending polling messages via the network to logical addresses via said interface in order to request information from at least one further electronic device. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159517 | SENDING SYNCHRONOUS RESPONSES TO REQUESTS FROM FRONTEND APPLICATIONS - A system comprising includes a first node and a second node. The first node includes a first memory storing executable instructions for configuring the first node to receive a service request from a frontend application. The first node identifies a timeout required for processing the service request and sends the service request to a backend application for processing. The second node includes a second memory storing executable instructions for configuring the second node to monitor for a response regarding results of processing of the service request. In response to the timeout for the service request elapsing before receiving a backend application response to the service request, the second node sends a response informing the frontend application from which the service request was received that the backend application has not responded to the service request. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159518 | TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION RELATING TO A QUALITY OF SERVICE - Methods of transmitting information relating to a quality of service are shown, which information is to be transmitted in at least one direction between a first device | 2013-06-20 |
20130159519 | CONTENT ACCESS MANAGEMENT IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM FOR EXTERNALLY STORED CONTENT - A content access management system receives an access determination requested identifying an access rule and a requesting user. The access rule may be created in advance by the content owner at the content access management system. The access rule may allow access to content objects based on the requesting user's biographic information, geographic information, affiliation information, payment information, or any other user characteristic. The user information may be entered by the requesting user at a social networking system interface for purposes unrelated to the content object or content owner. The content access management system retrieves the identified access rule and retrieves requesting user information based on the access rule. An access determination is made based on the retrieved access rule and requesting user information, and is transmitted to the content owner. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159520 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-IMS APPLICATION SERVICE ACCESS OVER IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM - A system and method to enable mobile devices to access non-IMS application services over an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is described herein. In order to access a non-IMS application service via the IMS, messages in a format that are suitable for exchange with the non-IMS application service are encapsulated by the mobile device user agent into SIP messages. The SIP messages are then routed by the IMS to a services gateway. The services gateway extracts the application service messages from the SIP messages and provides the extracted messages to the appropriate application service. In this fashion, the mobile device is able to request services from an application service via SIP messaging, even if the requested application service does not support SIP messaging. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159521 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING GROUP EVENT NOTIFICATIONS AND PROVIDING GROUP POLICY IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A group event processing entity receives and processes a group event notification wherein a set of policy rules is determined that controls the performance of an action as relates to at least one of a member user equipment of a group session or an access network resource for the group session. Additionally, a group policy decision entity receives a request to establish a group access network resource for a group of user equipment and determines a set of applicable policy rules for establishing the group access network resource, wherein the set includes a policy rule that controls performance of an action when a base station in a wireless access network is unable to provide resources to support the requested group access network resource. The group policy decision entity provides the set of applicable policy rules to a group policy enforcement entity. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159522 | To Wireless Communication Systems and Methods - Embodiments of the invention provide methods, devices and computer programs arranged to facilitate access to device-to-device (D2D) communication services in a communication network. One embodiment includes an apparatus for use in controlling access to a D2D communication service in a communication network, the apparatus including a processing system arranged to cause the apparatus to: receive a D2D discovery signal including data indicative of said D2D communication service; determine a verification state for the D2D communication service as one of a first verification state and a second, different, verification state, on the basis of said received D2D discovery signal, the first verification state being one in which said D2D communication service can be verified by the apparatus; and in the event that said D2D communication service is determined to be in the second verification state, transmit data indicative of said D2D communication service for verification by the communication network. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159523 | SECURE LEGACY MEDIA PERIPHERAL ASSOCIATION WITH AUTHENTICATION IN A MEDIA EXCHANGE NETWORK - Aspects for secure access and communication of information in a distributed media network may include detecting when a legacy media peripheral is connected to a PC and/or a media processing system on the distributed media network. One or more identifiers associated with the legacy media peripheral may be established and utilized to facilitate communication of the legacy media peripheral over the distributed media network. At least one legacy media peripheral identifier and at least one identifier of a user utilizing the legacy media peripheral may be requested. The legacy media peripheral identifier may be a serial number of the legacy media peripheral, while the user identifier may be a user password and/or a user name. Media peripheral association software may be executed on the PC and/or the media processing system and utilized for media peripheral association and authentication in accordance with various embodiments of the invention. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159524 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND SESSION CONTROL METHOD - A communication device includes a storage device configured to store plural addresses assigned to the communication device, a user interface device, and a controller, wherein the controller executes processing that accepts an input of a user due to the user interface device, and address switching processing that causes a transmission destination address, used by an opposite device to transmit data to the communication device, to be switched to another address included in the plural addresses in accordance with the session control protocol, in response to the input. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159525 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA CONTROL METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a memory; and a processor to execute a process including: adding an identifier based on a reception order to an access request indicating a transmission request or a reception request of a block of data received from a client terminal; retrieving, from among information processing apparatus which is included in a distribution-type network which distributes transmitting and receiving processing of a data, an information of the information processing apparatus which processes an access request added with the identifier which is scheduled to be added; storing, in the memory, the information of the information processing apparatus in association with the identifier which is scheduled to be added; and replying the information, which is stored in association with the identifier in the memory when the identifier is added to an access request, to the client terminal. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159526 | Method of handling access control information and related communication device - A method of handling access control information of a management object in a device management (DM) client of a service system is disclosed. The method comprises creating a management tree for storing the access control information of the management object; arranging a first node in the management tree, for storing an identifier of the management object; arranging a second node in the management tree, for storing an identifier of a DM server of the service system; arranging a third node in the management tree, for storing a path of a node in the management object; and arranging a fourth node in the management tree, for storing access right of the DM server related to the node. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159527 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC SOCIAL NETWORKING - According to one embodiment, a system for controlling access to data on an electronic communication network is provided. The system includes at least one server connectable for communication on the network. The at least one server is configured for: receiving data from at least one user of a plurality of users, via the network; storing the received data; generating control levels corresponding to one or more portions of the stored data; receiving selected modifications to at least one of the generated control levels from the at least one user, via the network; providing controlled access to the one or more portions of the stored data according to the generated control levels and the modified at least one of the generated control levels. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159528 | FAILOVER BASED APPLICATION RESOURCE ACQUISITION - Providing access to resources to an application. A method includes receiving a request from an application for one or more resources. The method further includes determining that the one or more resources are not available at a primary or local storage. The method further includes identifying one or more alternative locations where the one or more resources are available. Transparently to the application, the one or more resources are provided from one or more of the one or more alternative locations | 2013-06-20 |
20130159529 | MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR MONITORING CLOUD COMPUTING - An application provides cloud computing master data management. The application determines a rank associated with received server information from a server. The source rank is adjusted according to evaluation of server information against naming convention standards. The source rank is used in determining a category matching the server information. An assigned category includes instructions to configure assets of a server. The application assembles configuration information from the assigned category and provides the configuration information to the server. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159530 | REPRESENTATION/INVOCATION OF ACTIONS/FUNCTIONS IN A HYPERMEDIA-DRIVEN ENVIRONMENT - The subject disclosure relates to techniques for performing an operation on a resource, based on a state of the resource, by invoking a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request on a universal resource locator (URL) indicating the operation. An interface component can receive a request including an HTTP method and a URL including a first portion indicating a resource and a second portion indicating an operation. Further, an invocation component, in response to the operation being associated with the resource, can invoke the operation on the resource utilizing the HTTP method based on a state of the resource. Other embodiments relate to conditionally returning the operation within a return payload, for example, alone or within a feed, based on an applicability of the operation according to a state of an associated resource. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159531 | BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT IN A HOME NETWORK - A node in home network serves as a coordinator to coordinate the use of bandwidth by clients that voluntarily cooperate with one another to share bandwidth on different network connections. Specifically, the coordinator maintains information for these network connections that logically represents the different connections as independent pools of usable bandwidth. This bandwidth information also indicates the amount of bandwidth available for use from each pool. The coordinator receives advertisements from clients advertising tentative use of a specified amount of bandwidth drawn from each of one or more pools. Responsive to these advertisements, the coordinator notifies clients regarding whether or not, according to the bandwidth information, the one or more pools from which their respective advertised uses would draw from each have the specified amount of bandwidth available. Finally, the coordinator independently updates each pool to indicate that any bandwidth notified as being available from that pool is now unavailable. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159532 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING RESOURCES AMONG DIFFERENT CLIENTS FOR AN EXCLUSIVE USE - A method and a system share resources of a server among different clients. The system has a server which contains a maximum number m of resources among which a predetermined number w of the resources are initializable for being kept ready for use by the clients and forming a pool. A communication system communicates with the clients. A managing device manages the resources. The managing device contains at least a processor and a memory. The managing device is able to change the status of the resource of the pool in dependence on an assignment of the resource to the client or a release of the resource at a time T | 2013-06-20 |
20130159533 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING RESOURCES ACCESSIBLE TO A MOBILE DEVICE SERVER - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium operating in a mobile device server having computer instructions to execute a web server application in the mobile device server. The web server application can be operable to detect a resource control manager while roaming in a communication zone of the resource control manager, and to transmit a pairing key to the resource control manager. The web server application can also be operable to receive from the resource control manager authorization to pair with one or more resources selected by the resource control manager according to the pairing key, and to establish communications with the one or more resources selected by the resource control manager. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159534 | PERSONAL COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR MOBILE TERMINAL USER AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A personal computer system for a mobile terminal user and an operation method thereof are provided. The personal computer system includes multiple main boards on which at least one software is run, multiple storage devices that are each configured to store at least one software to be used by a mobile terminal user allocated to the storage device, and a relay board system configured to select one main board in standby mode from among the multiple main boards and connect the selected main board to one storage device that is allocated to a mobile terminal user among the multiple storage devices in response to an access request from the mobile terminal user to run software, and to disconnect the selected main board from the allocated storage device in response to a request for termination of use of the selected main board from the mobile terminal user. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159535 | Handover Method and System of Dual-Mode Communication Terminal - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a handover method and system of a dual-mode communication terminal. A first mode and a second mode of the dual-mode communication terminal adopt a master-slave universal serial bus USB driver structure. The methods includes: A host triggers initiating of network access to a second network by the dual-mode communication terminal; the host maintains occupation of an IP address which is in a first network by the dual-mode communication terminal, and obtains an Internet protocol IP address which is of the dual-mode communication terminal and in the second network; if the IP address in the second network is the same as a current IP address which is of the dual-mode communication terminal and in the first network, the host uses, in the second network, the IP address. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159536 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing device executing a job in cooperation with a server, comprises: an external terminal connecting part for establishing connection that allows communication with an external terminal; a server connecting part for conducting a negotiation to execute the job with the server and establishing connection with the server in response to receipt of a request from the external terminal; a transmission part for sending information that is received from the external terminal and addressed to the server after rewriting a source address of the information to an address of the image processing device; a screen image control part for outputting screen image information to the external terminal in response to receipt of the screen image information from the server; and a job execution control part for starting execution of the job with the server in accordance with a control command after receiving the control command from the server. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159537 | DEVICE AND METHOD CAPABLE OF SEARCHING FOR AVAILABLE SERVICE - A method capable of searching for a surrounding device based on a desired service is provided. The method includes transmitting a service search request including information regarding a target service to nearby devices; receiving a service search response from the nearby device supporting the target service; analyzing service information of the nearby device supporting the target service, which is included in the service search response; selecting the nearby device supporting the target service based on a result of the analyzed service information; and performing the target service by establishing a session with the selected device. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159538 | Switching Between Connectivity Types to Maintain Connectivity - Techniques are provided for leveraging narrowband connectivity (such as dial-up communications or other types of low bandwidth communications) to provision or configure broadband connectivity between a broadband access provider and a broadband device, such as a DSL modem or a cable modem. Specifically, because narrowband connectivity does not require advance configuration or provisioning by the host system of connectivity parameters for an access-seeking device, a modem at an access-seeking device may be leveraged to establish a narrowband connection between that device and a host system and to enable an exchange or negotiation of connectivity parameters necessary to enable future broadband connectivity. Thus, once established, the narrowband connection may be used as a conduit for communicating required provisioning information between the broadband-enabling host and the access-seeking device to enable broadband connectivity by the device in the future. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159539 | EXCHANGING A COMPRESSED VERSION OF PREVIOUSLY COMMUNICATED SESSION INFORMATION IN A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - In an embodiment, a server exchanges session data between a group of session participants during a communication session, the exchanged session data including session media and/or session signaling information. The server stores at least a subset of the exchanged session data. Later, the server establishes a connection to a given user equipment (UE) (e.g., either after or during the communication session). The server determines a UE-defined context that is indicative of a manner by which missed session data from the communication session is to be compressed for delivery to the given UE. The server selectively compresses at least a portion of the stored subset of the exchanged session data that was missed by the given UE based on the UE-defined context, and transmits the selectively compressed portion of the stored subset of the exchanged session data to the given UE. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159540 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AGGRESSIVE WINDOW PROBING - The present application is directed towards systems and methods for aggressively probing a client side connection to determine and counteract a malicious window size attack or similar behavior from a malfunctioning client. The solution described herein detects when a connection may be under malicious attach via improper or unusual window size settings. Responsive to the detection, the solution described herein will setup probes that determine whether or not the client is malicious and does so within an aggressive time period to avoid the tying up of processing cycles, transport layer sockets and buffers, and other resources of the sender. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159541 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORING MEDIUM - A method of managing an image forming apparatus provided with a web server includes receiving a connection request for the web server, determining whether a MAC (Media Access Control) address of a user terminal device that has requested the connection is a pre-stored MAC address, and approving the connection of the user terminal device that has requested the connection to the web server if it is determined that the MAC address of the user terminal device that has requested the connection has been pre-stored. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159542 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION SESSION WITH A HOST DEVICE - The present invention describes an apparatus and method of establishing a peer-to-peer communication session between a host device and a client device. Routing information of the host device is received from a server via a wide area network, routing information of the client device is provided to the server, and authentication information is provided to the host device via the wide area network. Peer-to-peer communication is transmitted to the client device via the wide area network if the client device is authenticated for peer-to-peer communication by the host device. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159543 | FAST APPLICATION STREAMING USING ON-DEMAND STAGING - Embodiments are directed to rapidly launching a virtual software application using on-demand file staging, rapidly launching a virtual software application using on-demand registry staging and to rapidly publishing a virtual software application using on-demand staging. In one scenario, a computer system creates a high-level file listing that includes a list of specified high-level data files and directories that are part of a virtual application package. The computer system receives an indication from an application user that the virtual application is to be accessed and dynamically creates sparse data files for those data files that are to be accessed based on the received indication. Then, upon determining that the virtual application is attempting to access the sparse data files, the computer system dynamically streams the data corresponding to the sparse data files on demand from the remote data store. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159544 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTICAST DELIVERY OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ON DEMAND - A server in connection with a plurality of multimedia sources that has a plurality of clients. The server determines if at least one of the clients is requesting to receive at least one of the sources. The server then multicasts these requested sources to the requesting clients, respectively. If none of the clients is requesting a particular source, the server does not multicast that particular source. If all of the clients cease requesting a particular source that the server is currently multicasting, the server terminates the multicast of that particular source. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159545 | SYSTEM TO AUGMENT A VISUAL DATA STREAM WITH USER-SPECIFIC CONTENT - User profile information for many users may be stored in a user profile database associated with a server computer connected to a network. Based on information received from a mobile computing device, the server computer selects augment information from an augment information database coupled with the user profile database. The information received from the mobile computing device is related to frames of a video stream being captured by the mobile computing device and geographical information associated with these frames. The augment information is also selected based on the user profile associated with the mobile computing device. The augment information is to be transmitted from the server computer to the mobile computing device using wireless communication and is used by the mobile computing device to overlay the frames of the video stream being captured by the mobile computing device. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159546 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING STREAMING CONTENT - A method and apparatus for an adaptive Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) streaming service using metadata of content are provided. The metadata of the content may be efficiently divided for a purpose of use of a terminal based on general media information or specific media information, and may be transmitted to the terminal. A group may include one or more representations of content. The metadata may include a group element, and the group element may provide a summary of attributes of one or more representations included in the group. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159547 | DATA TRANSFER SYSTEM - The origin server has content in block units formed by dividing the content, and includes content processing means for providing each of the blocks with an identifier including a domain which identifies each substream including the blocks. The domain resolution server includes assignment means for determining a proxy server which should be assigned for each domain identifying the substream. When the assignment means requests a proxy server of an adjacent parent site located upstream, on a path from a site in which the origin server is disposed to an edge site accessed by the client, to resolve a domain of one substream from the proxy server of the own site, the assignment means makes a domain resolution request to a domain resolution server of the parent site for assigning a proxy server, disposed in the parent site, to each of all substreams. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159548 | ASSISTED TRAFFIC ENGINEERING FOR MINIMALISTIC CONNECTED OBJECT NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a distributed intelligence agent (DIA), hosted on a border router that provides access for a computer network to a global computer network, determines a routing topology of the computer network, and also computes a traffic matrix for the computer network based on source and destination addresses of traffic traversing the DIA, the traffic matrix providing an estimate for an amount of traffic on each link of the routing topology. Accordingly, the DIA may determine one or more portions of the routing topology for which traffic engineering (TE) should be applied based on a threshold for traffic loads on the links, and may notify one or more nodes in the computer network to change its respective current next-hop in the routing topology to an alternate next-hop based on a TE solution computed by the DIA. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159549 | DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS OVER UNNUMBERED INTERFACES - A method and a network device for enabling communication between unnumbered interfaces are provided. A device level address may be assigned to a network device. The network device may announce the assigned device level address to a neighboring network device over a link. A corresponding device level address associated with the neighboring network device may be received over the link. A route may be stored including the received device level address associated with the neighboring network device and the link. In some implementations, the announcement of the assigned device level address is performed during protocol configuration. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159550 | ASSISTED INTELLIGENT ROUTING FOR MINIMALISTIC CONNECTED OBJECT NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a distributed intelligence agent (DIA) collects local state information from a plurality of minimalistic connected objects (MCOs) in a computer network, the local state information for each MCO comprising a corresponding neighbor list and a selected next-hop for the respective MCO, where one or more of the MCOs are configured to select their next-hop without any self-optimization. The DIA may then analyze a current routing topology, which is the combined result of the selected next-hops, in comparison to a computed optimal routing topology, and (optionally) in light of required service level agreement (SLA), to determine whether to optimize the current routing topology. In response to determining that the current routing topology should be optimized, the DIA may transmit a unicast routing instruction to one or more individual MCOs to instruct those individual MCOs how to optimize the current routing topology, accordingly. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159551 | Parameter Driven Value Conversion Framework In Client/Server Architectures - A system and method for parameter-driven value conversion in a client/server architecture is presented. A request is received from a client computer for an application service. The request includes a parameter defining a data field for a conversion and a conversion ID that specifies the conversion. A lookup is performed of a converter in a conversion registry based on the conversion ID, and the converter is then called to perform the conversion of the data field defined by the parameter in the request, to generate a converted data field. Finally, the converted data field is returned to the protocol handler. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159552 | HANDLING IMPAIRED WIRELESS CONNECTION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A wireless communication system and related techniques and apparatuses are disclosed that predict future disconnections or other connection impairments with end-user portable devices in advance so that service interruptions can be handled more gracefully. The system can predict the loss of service based on user-usage information associated with the portable device, such as the current GPS location of the device, its direction and velocity of travel, a user calendar, user habits and other information, such as the time of day, weather conditions, or wireless network coverage maps. An impairment handling method is selected that alters the content presented by the portable device. The impairment handling method is executed by the system upon detecting the impairment of the wireless connection so that the content is altered during occurrence of the impairment. The alteration of the content is done to mitigate the user-perceived effect of the impairment. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159553 | Real-time single entry multiple carrier interface (semci) - A method and system for converting XML files to and from files in a data format based on hierarchies in real-time. A method for converting from XML to the data format based on hierarchies includes: applying a stylesheet to at least one XML file thereby generating at least one data record in an intermediate format and including information included in the at least one XML file; and, translating the at least one record in the intermediate format to the data format based on hierarchies. A method for converting from a data format based on hierarchies to XML includes: translating at least one record including information stored in the file format based on hierarchies to an intermediate format; and, applying a stylesheet to the at least one record in the intermediate format thereby generating at least one XML file being indicative of the information and suitable for transmission. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159554 | METHOD OF PERFORMING DISTRIBUTED SYNCHRONIZATION IN AD HOC NETWORK SYSTEM - There is provided a method of performing distributed synchronization in an Ad hoc network system. The method includes receiving a signal, including a reception time point change period, through a plurality of nodes, changing a reception time point at which the signal is received through the plurality of nodes within the reception time point change period so that the reception time point is included in a preset Cyclic Prefix (CP) period, changing a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) start time point which is a time point at which data starts being recovered based on the changed reception time point, and changing the reference point of the transmission time point of each of the plurality of nodes based on a difference value between the preset reference point of the FFT start time point and the changed FFT start time point. The method has smaller overhead. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159555 | INPUT COMMANDS - Input command techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a computing device processes one or more inputs that are received from one or more input sources to determine a command that corresponds to the one or more inputs. The command is exposed to one or more controls that are implemented as software that is executed on the computing device and that have subscribed to the command. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159556 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND COMMAND EXECUTION CONTROL METHOD - A determination unit determines the type of a command received via a communication interface. A counting unit counts, among commands received via the communication interface, the number of commands currently being executed. A control unit performs, when the number of commands currently being executed is less than or equal to a limit value corresponding to the type of a command received via the communication interface, data access to a memory device according to the received command. In addition, the control unit prevents the data access according to the received command when the number of commands currently being executed exceeds the limit value corresponding to the type of the received command. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159557 | STORAGE DEVICE, AND STORAGE DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - A storage device includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising: calculating an upper limit value of the number of input/output processings determined based on priority set to an information processing device, a port that is an interface between the information processing device and the storage device and a memory device of the storage device; scheduling an execution order of input/output processings based on the number of input/output processings received from the information processing device and the calculated upper limit value; and executing the input/output processings in the scheduled execution order. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159558 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING PHYSICAL LINKS OF A SAS EXPANDER OF THE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method to adjust physical links of serial attached small computer system interface (SAS) expanders of a computing device. The SAS expanders include a first SAS expander and one or more second SAS expanders. When data flow of the physical links of the first SAS expander for transmitting data to a second SAS expander is saturated, the method determines whether the first SAS expander has reserved physical links that can be adjusted. If the first SAS expander has reserved physical links that can be adjusted, the method generates a new firmware, and adjusts the adjusted physical link to the second SAS expander by writing the new firmware to the first SAS expander. The method also adjusts the adjusted physical link to the second SAS expander on hardware circuit. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159559 | CUSTOMIZING AND/OR MULTIPLEXING UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS PINS - A method performed in an electronic device that connects via a USB connector to an accessory that supports multiple different operating modes. The method comprises: in response to successful authentication of the accessory after an initial connection, configuring an accessory usage setting of the electronic device to correspond to the accessory's default operational mode. In response to a request to change the operational mode of the accessory to a second operational mode: communicating to the accessory, over the signal/communication lines of the USB, mode identifying information corresponding to the second operational mode; generating a voltage level change on an ID line of the USB connector to communicate to the accessory that a change in the accessory's present operational mode is being triggered, where the accessory is designed to change to the second operational mode when a pulse or voltage level change is detected on the ID line. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159560 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO MONITOR A MEDIA DEVICE VIA A USB PORT - Methods and systems are disclosed to monitor a media device via a universal serial bus (“USB”) port. An example method includes obtaining a voltage output by a UBS port of the media device and determining if the voltage exceeds a threshold. If the voltage exceeds the threshold, the example method includes determining the media device is in an on state. If the voltage does not exceed the threshold, the example method includes determining the media device is in an off state. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159561 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING HARD DISK DRIVES - A system remotely monitors a number of hard disk drives (HDDs) in groups in a server. The system includes a data-obtaining unit, a protocol-analyzing unit, a storage unit, a determination unit, and an encoding and delivering unit. The data-obtaining unit obtains a status message of each HDD in a group and forms a message package including all the status messages for the HDDs of one group. The protocol-analyzing unit decodes the message package to generate a number of status codes and obtain the count of the counter. The determination unit obtains the appropriate warning message from the storage unit according to the status code and a current group number. The encoding and delivering unit delivers the warning message and the current group number. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159562 | STORAGE SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND STORAGE SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD OF CONTROLLING STORAGE SYSTEM - A storage system includes a disk and a CM. The CM includes a main control unit and a sub control unit that distribute and execute processing in the CM. Further the CM includes a plurality of CAs that receive commands related to the input and the output of the data stored in the disk from a host computer. The main control unit requests the sub control unit to copy dump data of a first CA among the plurality of CAs when detecting abnormality of the first CA while copying dump data of a second CA among the plurality of CAs according to abnormality of the second CA. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159563 | System and Method for Transmitting Graphics Rendered on a Primary Computer to a Secondary Computer - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for transmitting data rendered on a primary computer to a secondary computer. The method includes transmitting to GPU graphics processing commands received from a graphics application, where the graphics processing commands are configured to cause the GPU to render a first set of graphics data, determining that graphics data should be collected for transmission to the secondary computer, conveying to the GPU that the first set of graphics data should be stored in a first buffer within a frame buffer memory, transmitting to the GPU graphics processing commands received from a process application executing on the primary computer, where the graphics processing commands are configured to cause the GPU to perform operations on the first set of graphics data to generate a second set of graphics data, and transmitting the second set of graphics data to the secondary computer. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159564 | DIRECT DATA TRANSFER FOR DEVICE DRIVERS - A method for performing direct memory access includes obtaining, by a application executing on a host, a kernel address space identifier of a first driver kernel memory. The application sends the kernel address space identifier to a second device driver. The second device driver obtains, using the kernel address space identifier, a cookie structure binding the first driver kernel memory to a second device driver address space for the first driver kernel memory. The application sends a request for a direct memory access operation. The request includes a location identifier of a location storing a data object in the first driver kernel memory. Based on the cookie structure, the second device driver performs, using the location identifier, the direct memory access operation to transfer the data object from the first driver kernel memory to a second driver kernel memory. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159565 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA TRANSFER OF TOUCH SCREEN EVENTS BETWEEN DEVICES - Methods of processing touch screen events include generating a touch-enabled user interface (UI) with a source device that provides a source of content for being rendered on a separate rendering device having a touch-enabled display surface. Digital data is transferred from the source device to the rendering device via a communication link, such as a HDMI cable. The data transferred includes data providing the touch-enabled UI. Information is received by the source device via the communication link concerning touch screen events occurring on the touch-enabled UI rendered on the touch-enabled display surface of the rendering device. The touch screen events that are received from the rendering device are processed by the source device. Apparatus is also disclosed. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159566 | System And Method For Accelerating Signal Transmission - A method for accelerating signal transmission in a USB network protocol architecture having a USB server, a processing device and a peripheral device connected to the USB server. The method includes: intercepting request signals sent from the processing device according to the USB network protocol; sending, by the USB server, virtual request signals to the peripheral device so as to cause the peripheral device to generate control signals corresponding to the virtual request signals; receiving, by the USB server, the control signals from the peripheral device, and transmitting, by the USB server, the control signals to the processing device; and matching, by the processing device, the control signals and the intercepted request signals so as to perform operations corresponding to the control signals. Therefore, the present invention eliminates the need to wait for the arrival of request signals before making responses, thereby accelerating the speed of signal transmission. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159567 | Method and System for Buffer State Based Low Power Operation in a MoCA Network - A first device of a Multimedia Over Coax Alliance (MoCA) network may communicate with a second device of the MoCA network to control power-save operation of the second MoCA device. The first device may control the power-save operation of the second MoCA device based on an amount of data stored in a buffer, wherein the data stored in the buffer is destined for the second device. The buffer may be in a third device which sends the data to the second device, and/or the buffer may be in the first device. The first device may be operable to buffer data destined for the second device while the second device is in a power-saving state. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159568 | Recovering dropped instructions in a network interface controller - A method for operating a peripheral device includes receiving at the peripheral device service orders, which are identified with respective service instances and are submitted to the peripheral device over the bus by software applications running on a host processor, which write copies of the service orders to a memory. The received service orders are queued for execution by the peripheral device. When one or more of the service orders have been dropped from the queue prior to execution, a recovery of a selected service instance is initiated by submitting a read request from the peripheral device to the memory over the bus to receive a copy of any unexecuted service order associated with the service instance. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159569 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SYNCHRONIZING TO A REMOTELY GENERATED TIME BASE - Devices and methods for generating timing signals at a rate that matches a rate of remotely generated timing signals are provided. In some embodiments, a host generates timing signals in accordance with a USB specification, such as keep-alives, start-of-frame packets, or ITPs. An upstream facing port transmits the timing signals over a network to a downstream facing port. The downstream facing port generates and transmits timing signals to a USB device at a predetermined rate, and alters the predetermined rate based on an analysis of the rate at which timing signals are received from the upstream facing port. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159570 | COMPUTER DATA TRANSMITTING SYSTEM AND MOTHERBOARD USING THE SAME - A computer data transmitting system includes a PCI-E interface, a CPU, a first photoelectric conversion module, and a second photoelectric conversion module. The first photoelectric conversion module is electrically connected to the PCI-E interface. The second photoelectric conversion module is electrically connected to the CPU. The first photoelectric conversion module and the second photoelectric conversion module are connected to each other by at least one optical fiber. A motherboard using the computer data transmitting system is also provided. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159571 | DISPLAY DEVICE ADAPTER WITH DIGITAL MEDIA INTERFACE - An apparatus comprises a plug to couple the apparatus to a display device, a first receptacle to receive a first media device containing image data for display on the display device and an imaging processor couple to the plug and the first receptacle. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159572 | MANAGING CONFIGURATION AND SYSTEM OPERATIONS OF A NON-SHARED VIRTUALIZED INPUT/OUTPUT ADAPTER AS VIRTUAL PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT ROOT TO MULTI-FUNCTION HIERARCHIES - A computer system includes an adapter, a processor, and a memory storing program code, the program code executable by the processor to determine the adapter is single root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV) capable, to determine that an operating system is capable of using the adapter in SR-IOV mode, to configure the adapter in SR-IOV mode by generating an SR-IOV function associated with the adapter, and to assign control of the SR-IOV function to the operating system. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159573 | CONTROL METHOD FOR A DOOR DRIVE AND DOOR DRIVE - The invention relates to a method of controlling a door drive having a plurality of components which are communicatively connected to one another via a digital bus system, wherein at least one component is a safety component which reports the occurrence of a safety-relevant event over the data bus, and wherein the bus protocol reserves a cyclic safety phase for reporting a safety-relevant event and at least one component recognizes an undefined data transmission during the safety phase as a report of a safety-relevant event. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159574 | DATA TRANSFERRING APPARATUS AND DATA TRANSFERRING METHOD - A data transferring apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a transfer request containing attribute information that indicates a type of data transfer, a buffer configured to store the transfer requests received by the receiving unit, a storing unit configured to associate the attribute information with a first identifier and store the attribute information, and a sending unit configured to preferentially transmit, out of the plurality of transfer requests stored in the buffer, a transfer request containing attribute information that corresponds to the attribute information stored in the storing unit, wherein the sending unit is configured to transmit the first identifier associated with the attribute information that corresponds to the attribute information contained in the transfer request in place of the attribute information of the transfer request. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159575 | ADAPTIVE RECOVERY FOR PARALLEL REACTIVE POWER THROTTLING - Power throttling may be used to conserve power and reduce heat in a parallel computing environment. Compute nodes in the parallel computing environment may be organized into groups based on, for example, whether they execute tasks of the same job or receive power from the same converter. Once one of compute nodes in the group detects that a parameter (i.e., temperature, current, power consumption, etc.) has exceeded a first threshold, power throttling on all the nodes in the group may be activated. However, before deactivating power throttling, a plurality of parameters associated with the group of compute nodes may be monitored to ensure they are all below a second threshold. If so, the power throttling for all of the compute nodes is deactivated. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159576 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SYSTEM INTERRUPTS - A method and apparatus are provided for controlling system management interrupts is disclosed. An interrupt filter comprises a memory, a comparator and a logic circuit. The memory is adapted to contain a list indicating one or more devices with permission associated with an interrupt signal. The comparator is adapted to receive an interrupt signal containing type information from the one or more devices. The comparator is adapted to compare the interrupt type against the list to determine if the one or more devices is permitted to send the interrupt signal. The logic circuit blocks or passes the interrupt signal in response to the result of the comparison. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159577 | SEMICONDUCTOR DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, TIME-TRIGGERED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The variation of the timing of starting interrupt processing in response to a timer interrupt request is reduced regardless of the condition of processing of other interrupts. A semiconductor data processing device incorporated in each of plural electronic control devices coupled to a network for time-triggered communication system is provided with a central processing unit, a communication control circuit and an interrupt control circuit. The communication control circuit has a local time timer for use in time-triggered communication and issues, based on time counting by the local time timer, a timer interrupt request for time-triggered communication. When a timer interrupt request for time-triggered communication is received, the interrupt control circuit performs control to cause the central processing unit to delay, by a predetermined reservation time, starting the interrupt processing to be performed in response to the timer interrupt request. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159578 | System and method for Automatic Hardware Interrupt Handling - A processing system is provided consisting of an interrupt pin, multiple registers, a stack pointer, and an automatic interrupt system. The multiple registers store a number of processor states values. When the system detects an interrupt on the interrupt pin the system prepares to enter an exception mode where the automatic interrupt system causes an interrupt vector to be fetched, the stack pointer to be updated, and the processor state values to be read in parallel from the registers and stored in memory locations based on the updated stack pointer, prior to the execution of an interrupt service routine. A method for automatic hardware interrupt handling is also presented. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159579 | VIRTUALIZING INTERRUPT PRIORITY AND DELIVERY - Embodiments of processors, methods, and systems for virtualizing interrupt prioritization and delivery are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor includes instruction hardware and execution hardware. The instruction hardware is to receive a plurality of instructions, including a first instruction to transfer the processor from a root mode to a non-root mode for executing guest software in a virtual machine, wherein the processor is to return to the root mode upon the detection of any of a plurality of virtual machine exit events. The execution hardware is to execute the first instruction, execution of the first instruction to include determining a first virtual processor-priority value and storing the first virtual processor-priority value in a virtual copy of a processor-priority field, where the virtual copy of the processor-priority field is a virtual resource corresponding to a physical resource associated with an interrupt controller. | 2013-06-20 |
20130159580 | COOPERATED INTERRUPT MODERATION FOR A VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT - Generally, this disclosure describes systems (and methods) for moderating interrupts in a virtualization environment. An overflow interrupt interval is defined. The overflow interrupt interval is used for triggering activation of an inactive guest so that the guest may respond to a critical event. The guest, including a network application, may be active for a first time interval and inactive for a second time interval. A latency interrupt interval may be defined. The latency interrupt interval is configured for interrupt moderation when the network application associated with a packet flow is active, i.e., when the guest including the network application is active on a processor. Of course, many alternatives, variations, and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment. | 2013-06-20 |