| 32nd week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
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| 20130204932 | DATA DELIVERY - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for support dependent post delivery. In one aspect, a method included generating transmission data for a web page served by a first server and rendered on the client device, the first sever belonging to a first domain; determining if the client device supports cross origin resource sharing; in response to a determination that the client device does not support cross origin resource sharing: defining an iFrame for the web page, the iFrame belonging to a second domain of a receiving server, and having a name value derived from the transmission data, receiving iFrame instructions from the receiving server and executing the iFrame instructions in the iFrame, the iFrame instruction causing the client device to: generate an HTTP POST request to the receiving server from the iFrame name value, the first HTTP POST request including the transmission data. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204933 | MULTICAST MESSAGE FILTERING IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS - Various systems, processes, and products may be used to filter multicast messages in virtual environments. In particular implementations, a system, process, and product for filtering multicast messages in virtual environments may include the ability to determine whether a multicast message has been received, examine a local filtering store for a match for the destination address of the multicast message, and send the message to a number of virtual machines if a match for the address is found. The system, process, and product may also include the ability to analyze a filtering store of at least one of the virtual machines for a match for the address if a match is not found in the local filtering store and send the message to a number of the virtual machines if a match for the address is found in a filtering store of one of the virtual machines. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204934 | EFFICIENTLY RECEIVING MESSAGES ACROSS A LARGE NUMBER OF MESSAGING ENTITIES - A messaging service is described that facilitates the efficient receipt of messages by a client from across a large number of messaging entities hosted by different messaging hosts within a distributed messaging system. A gateway in the distributed messaging system forwards a request for an available message or set of related messages from the client to each of the messaging hosts. Each messaging host provides a response to a request if a messaging entity hosted thereby includes at least one available message or set of related messages. The messaging host manages the order in which responses from different messaging entities are provided to ensure fairness. The gateway forwards a selected one of the responses to the consumer, while caching the other responses to service future requests from the consumer. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204935 | DYNAMIC SHARING OF A WEBSERVICE - An apparatus comprises a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to identify at least one visitor terminal accessing a web service and to initiate an assistance session. The apparatus further generates a visitor-specific copy of said web service and shares said visitor-specific copy between said at least one visitor terminal and an operator terminal. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204936 | Peer-To-Peer Communication of Non-Common Data - In individualized data communication of a data entity ( | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204937 | PLATFORM FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND METHOD USING SAME - A method to create a member account in a social network, comprising downloading an application programming interface from a social network server, creating a profile, creating a plurality of Identities associated with the profile, creating a different association for each Identity with one or more of a plurality of social network members and users such that all contact with a first social network member is made using exclusively a first Identity and such that all contact with a second social network member is made using exclusively a second Identity, wherein the first Identity differs from the second Identity, and uploading the profile, the plurality of Identities, and the associations of Identities, to the social network server. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204938 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING INFORMATION ABOUT USE OF CONTENT USING MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION - Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for sharing information about the use of content. The apparatus includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The first communication unit establishes communication between at least one content terminal and a first user terminal over an M2M network. The second communication unit exchanges data with a predetermined server. The storage unit receives information about the use of content being consumed in the content terminal from the content terminal via the first communication unit, and stores it. The control unit sends the received information about the use of content to a predetermined server via the second communication unit, thereby allowing the information about the use of content to be stored in the server. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204939 | CLIENT DEVICE - An information processing apparatus that stores a table associating first identification information corresponding to the information processing apparatus, second identification information corresponding to another information processing apparatus, and an image corresponding to the another information processing apparatus; captures image data; determines whether the captured image data includes the image corresponding to the another information processing apparatus; and controls a wireless interface to transmit, to the another information processing apparatus, a request for pairing with the another information processing apparatus when the determining determines that the captured image data includes the image corresponding to the another information processing apparatus. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204940 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING RELEVANCE OF SOCIAL CONTENT - A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, at a computing device, information associated with an entity from one or more social media sites. One or more attributes for the information associated with the entity is identified. A relevance profile associated with the one or more attributes is generated. A plurality of posts from the one or more social media sites is identified, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of posts includes at least a portion of the one or more attributes for the information associated with the entity. At least the portion of the plurality of posts is ordered on a display based upon, at least in part, the relevance profile associated with the one or more attributes. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204941 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING - Nodes at first, second, and third locations have the same first-axis coordinates, while nodes at the first, fourth, and fifth locations have the same second-axis coordinates. First transmission transmits data elements from the node at the first location to nodes at the second and fourth locations, as well as to the node at either the third location or the fifth location. Second transmission transmits data elements from nodes at the second locations to nodes at the first, fourth, and fifth locations. Third transmission transmits data elements from nodes at the third locations to nodes at the first, second, and fourth locations. These three transmissions are performed with each node location selected as the base point on a diagonal line. The nodes execute a data processing operation by using the data elements assigned thereto and the data elements received as a result of the first to third transmissions. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204942 | ONLINE DISTRIBUTED INTERACTION - An interaction environment for presentation of content to a population of users includes either or both of a plurality of cohort interaction environments and one or more content-linked interaction environments. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204943 | ON BOARD VEHICLE NETWORKING MODULE - The present disclosure describes a microprocessor executable social networking module operable to enable on board processing modules of different privately owned vehicles to wirelessly connect to exchange vehicle-related information. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204944 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING FOR, AND MONITORING ASSESSMENT OF, ORIGINAL CONTENT CREATORS AND THE ORIGINAL CONTENT THEREOF - System and method may use assessment information obtained by assessing original content items or creators of the original content items in accordance with a hierarchical talent assessment process, to return search results responsive to a search for talented original content creators. The assessments of the creators and the content items by talent assessors may be monitored to increase the objectivity of the search results returned responsive to a search for talented original content creators. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204945 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA - A method for transmitting data, which relates to the field of communication technologies includes displaying an icon representative of a peer device as a first state when failing to connect the peer device. A data transmission event is detecting between a local device and the peer device. A data transmission task corresponding to the detected data transmission event is created. When the local device is connected with the peer device successfully, the method includes executing the data transmission task, and displaying the icon as a second state. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204946 | EMAIL MAILBOX MANAGEMENT - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive an instruction to establish a rule to take an action on each email message received from a first email address, determine that the first email address is associated with contact data, determine that the contact data is associated with a second email address, and apply the rule to take the action on each email message received from the second email address. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204947 | AUTOMATED PARTICIPANT ACCOUNT DETERMINATION FOR A COMMUNICATION SESSION - A unified communication application can allow a user to communicate with contacts across multiple electronic communication services. When the user desires to send a message, the communication application can identify a set of candidate account addresses associated with several electronic communication services in response to receiving a partial identifier of an intended recipient. The communication application can present a list including the set of candidate account addresses to the user. In response to receiving a user selection of one of the candidate account addresses, the communication application can determine a sender account from which to send the message. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204948 | CENTRALIZED CONFIGURATION AND MONITORING OF A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING CLUSTER - Systems and methods for centralized configuration and monitoring of a distributed computing cluster are disclosed. One embodiment of the disclose technology enables deployment and central operation a complete Hadoop stack. The application automates the installation process and reduces deployment time from weeks to minutes. One embodiment further provides a cluster-wide, real time view of the services running and the status of the host machines in a cluster via a single, central place to enact configuration changes across the computing cluster which further incorporates reporting and diagnostic tools to optimize cluster performance and utilization. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204949 | METHOD FOR LAUNCHING A CONTEXTUALIZED ON-THE-FLY CONFERENCE - A method for launching a contextualized on-the-fly conference between at least two users connected to a unified communications client and whose respective email addresses are included in an email, which method includes the following steps:
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| 20130204950 | System and Method for Reducing Unsolicited E-Mails - A method for reducing unsolicited e-mails includes receiving an e-mail message from a sender, storing the e-mail message within a holding unit, and sending a confirmation response request e-mail to the sender in response to the e-mail message from the sender. The confirmation response request e-mail may include a request for at least one confirmation code from the sender according to at least one calculation type/method specified in the confirmation response request e-mail. The method may also include receiving a confirmation e-mail from the sender in response to the confirmation response request e-mail, determining whether the confirmation e-mail includes a code correctly computed according the at least one confirmation code calculation type, and performing an action with respect to the e-mail message based upon the confirmation e-mail. The sender's support of the method creates an explicit agreement regarding legal jurisdiction governing any disputes arising out of the e-mail. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204951 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING DATA - System and methods are disclosed, one method can comprise the steps of receiving a request for a diagnostic message, receiving a selection of diagnostic information, retrieving at least a portion of the selected diagnostic information, generating the requested diagnostic message, wherein the diagnostic message comprises the portion of the selected diagnostic information, and transmitting the requested diagnostic message. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204952 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC COLLABORATION - A computing device may be operable to receive a first email via a network connection. The computing device may be operable to parse a first email to extract one or more fields of the first email. The computing device may be operable to determine, based on the extracted field(s), a category of an electronic forum with which to associate the first email. The computing device may be operable to determine, based on the extracted field(s), a thread of the determined category with which to associate the first email. The computing device may be operable to associate, in a memory, the first email with the determined thread. The computing device may be operable to present content of the first email in a first post in the determined thread. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204953 | Connection Device and Protocol - A common communications protocol is described among devices in a unified communications network. Native devices receive upstream commands and forward them to downstream devices without interpreting the commands. The native devices reformat commands intended for mapped devices in the unified communications network. The common communications protocol calls for left shifting address fields for transmitted commands until the command arrives at its intended destination. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204954 | COMMUNICATING INFORMATION IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITE ABOUT ACTIVITIES FROM ANOTHER DOMAIN - A social networking website logs information about actions taken by members of the website. For a particular member of the website, the website generates socially relevant ads for the member based on the actions logged for other members on the website to whom the member is connected (i.e., the member's online friends). The advertiser associated with the social ad may compensate the social networking website for publishing the ad on the website. When presenting a member with a social ad, the website may optimize advertising revenue by selecting an ad from the received ads that will maximize the expected value of the social ad. The expected value may be computed according to a function that includes the member's affinity for the ad content and the bid amount. The technique is also applied for providing socially relevant information off the social networking website. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204955 | Computer-Implemented System and Method for Visualizing Message-Related Relationships Within a Social Network - A computer-implemented system and method for visualizing message-related relationships within a social network is provided. Entities associated with a group of messages are identified. A social network is built based on a relationship of the entities and messages by connecting those entities that share at least one of the messages from the group. A representation of the social network is generated by representing each message with a node. The nodes are organized based on at least one characteristic of the messages. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204956 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE AND RELATED PROGRAM - When a user selects an image, a control unit detects a face image from the selected image and acquires person data corresponding to the face image. Moreover, the control unit specifies address book data of the person and acquires an e-mail address from the address book data. When the user inputs an e-mail address, the control unit also has a function of detecting an image in which a person having the input e-mail address as a destination is an imaged object and creating an e-mail attached with the image. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204957 | Method, System, and Graphic User Interface for Enabling a Customer to Access a Media File - A method, system, GUI, apparatus, and computer readable media for enabling a customer to access to a media file uploaded by a user are provided. A user profile may be generated using received login and profile information. The user profile may be hosted on, for example, a web site, SMS/MMS gateway, and a WAP site. A media file may be received from the user and may be upload to the user profile. The media file may be associated with a user account. A request to access the media file may be received from a customer. An account associated with the customer may be updated to indicate their requested access to the media file. The customer may then be enabled to access the media file. The user's account may be updated to indicate the transaction. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204958 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING AND ELECTRONIC ACCOUNT TO A CUSTOMER - An electronic account is provided to a customer to enable the customer to access electronic services, such as e-mail and electronic transactions. The electronic account links an electronic address of the customer to a physical address of the customer. Using the electronic account, electronic services can be provided to the customer at either the electronic or physical address, or both. The services can be both secure and non-secure and can be provided by any service provider, such as an online merchant, a government agency, or a bank. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204959 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF REAL-TIME DATA SUBSCRIPTION AND REPORTING FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS AND DEVICES - Systems and methods of performing real-time data subscription and reporting for telecommunications systems and devices. The systems and methods employ a real-time data aggregation component that can manage subscription requests for real-time data objects stored on the telecommunications systems and devices from one or more users over a network, dynamically start and stop such subscription requests, cache the requested real-time data objects, and supply the real-time data to the respective users. By employing the real-time data aggregation component to handle such subscription requests for data from one or more users, the systems and methods can supply such data, including real-time data, to the respective users, while reducing the overhead on the telecommunications systems and devices and increasing overall system performance. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204960 | ALLOCATION AND BALANCING OF STORAGE RESOURCES - A method and technique for allocation and balancing of storage resources includes: determining, for each of a plurality of storage controllers, an input/output (I/O) latency value based on an I/O latency associated with each storage volume controlled by a respective storage controller; determining network bandwidth utilization and network latency values corresponding to each storage controller; responsive to receiving a request to allocate a new storage volume, selecting a storage controller having a desired I/O latency value; determining whether the network bandwidth utilization and network latency values for the selected storage controller are below respective network bandwidth utilization and network latency value thresholds; and responsive to determining that the network bandwidth utilization and network latency values for the selected storage controller are below the respective thresholds, allocating the new storage volume to the selected storage controller. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204961 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK SUPPORTING POPULARITY-BASED CACHING - A content delivery network may provide content items to requesting devices using a popularity-based distribution hierarchy. A central analysis system may determine popularity data for a content item stored in a first caching device. At a later time, the central analysis system may determine that a change in the popularity data is beyond a threshold value. The central analysis system may then transmit an instruction to move the content item from the first caching device to a second caching device in a different tier of caching devices than the first caching device. The central analysis system may update a content index to indicate that the content item has been moved to the second caching device. A user device may then be redirected to request the content item directly from the second caching device. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204962 | NETWORK AND PERIPHERAL INTERFACE CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES - A networking device ( | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204963 | MIGRATING DATA BETWEEN NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for predictively migrating data between network computing environments (e.g., cloud computing environments). Specifically, in a typical embodiment, data access patterns for sets of data utilized by a set of services running in a first networked computing environment may be analyzed. Based on the analysis one or more of the sets of data may be identified as candidates to be migrated from the first networked computing environment to a second networked computing environment. Then, a data migration protocol for the one or more sets of data to be migrated to the second networked computing environment may be generated based on the data access patterns and a predicted data migration time. Based on the data migration protocol, the one or more sets of data may then be migrated to the second networked computing environment. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204964 | RETRIEVING AVAILABILITY INFORMATION FROM PUBLISHED CALENDARS - An application retrieves a published calendar from an online calendar application. The application formats the published calendar according to user status states such as “free” or “busy.” The application can also alternatively assign user status information from the published calendar to users status state levels such as “free,” “tentative,” “out of office,” “busy,” and “remotely available.” The application matches calendar owner information to a contact from a contact list of the application in order to link the formatted calendar to the contact. The application presents the linked calendar for scheduling | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204965 | PACKET TRANSMISSION ON A CLIENT USING IMPLICIT ENABLING OF FEATURES BASED ON SERVICE CLASSIFICATIONS - A method implemented on a client device having a networking layer and a network driver layer for transmitting network packets comprising: receiving a packet to be transmitted from the client device to a destination over a network socket; classifying the packet according to an implicit packet service classification provided by the networking layer or a user-specific packet service classification explicitly specified by an application, the implicit classification having a default traffic classification queue and default scheduler associated therewith and the user-specified classification having a user-specified traffic classification and user-specified scheduler associated therewith; and enqueuing and scheduling the packet for transmission according to either the default or the user-specific traffic classifications. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204966 | GUIDED WORKFLOWS FOR ESTABLISHING A WEB PRESENCE - Methods and systems related to guided workflows for establishing a web presence include a customer user interface with a guided workflow layer based on a knowledge base about the customer, wherein the customer interface allows a customer to manage a customer's web presence based on operation of a logic engine that accesses information about what a customer has done and who the customer is (e.g. type of business), wherein the user interface presents a guided workflow of tasks associated with a recommended area of improvement for the customer. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204967 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEROPERABLY PERFORMING SERVICES AND SYSTEM SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method and apparatus are provided for interoperably performing a service. The method includes searching, by the portable terminal, external devices; identifying a service interoperation device corresponding to a characteristic of the service among the searched external devices; recommending the service interoperation device; and performing the service in interoperation with the recommended service interoperation device. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204968 | FILE TRANSFER APPARATUS AND FILE TRANSFER SYSTEM - A file transfer apparatus, which is connected with a first NGN (Next Generation Network), sends a sending file to a third file transfer apparatus connected with a second NGN by using a second file transfer apparatus connected with the second NGN as a relay apparatus comprises a file storage unit configured to store the sending file, a sending destination file generation unit configured to generate a sending destination file containing the third file transfer apparatus as the sending destination, a relay information generation unit configured to generate a relay information item specifying the second file transfer apparatus, a hash value calculation unit configured to calculate a hash value according to the sending file, the sending destination file and the relay information item and a sending unit configured to send the sending file, the sending destination file and the hash value to the second file transfer apparatus. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204969 | CONTENTS CONVERSION APPARATUS, CONTENTS CONVERSION METHOD, CONTENTS CONVERSION PROGRAM AND CONTENTS DELIVERY SYSTEM - Each of a dynamic image delivering server A | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204970 | Network Management - A computer program product comprises computer-readable instructions that cause a network management device (selected from one or more devices including one or more configured devices to which usage parameters necessary for using functions available via a network have already been set) to execute a process for managing the usage parameters comprising: a parameter acquisition step of acquiring one or more usage parameters already set to one of the configured devices from the configured device; and a candidate reporting step of reporting the usage parameters acquired in the parameter acquisition step as candidates for one or more usage parameters to be set to a setting target device which is connected to the network management device to be capable of data communication via a network and needing the setting of the usage parameters. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204971 | PROVIDING ACCESS TO CONFIGURABLE PRIVATE COMPUTER NETWORKS - Techniques are described for providing users with access to computer networks, such as to enable users to interact with a remote configurable network service in order to create and configure computer networks that are provided by the configurable network service for use by the users. Computer networks provided by the configurable network service may be configured to be private computer networks that are accessible only by the users who create them, and may each be created and configured by a client of the configurable network service to be an extension to an existing computer network of the client, such as a private computer network extension to an existing private computer network of the client. If so, secure private access between an existing computer network and new computer network extension that is being provided may be enabled using one or more VPN connections or other private access mechanisms. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204972 | OBSERVATION PLATFORM FOR USING STRUCTURED COMMUNICATIONS WITH CLOUD COMPUTING - Using structured communications in an observation platform with cloud computing. A signal is received from a first communication device at a second communication device associated with a first computer system. The signal is forwarded from the first computer system to a second computer system, wherein the second computer system is physically remote from the first computer system and connected via a network. Context information is derived for the signal and at least one destination for the signal based on the context information at the second computer system. The context information and the at least one destination for the signal are received at the first computer system. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204973 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A SCALABLE HTTP STREAM FOR NATURAL REPRODUCTION UPON THE OCCURRENCE OF EXPRESSION-SWITCHING DURING HTTP STREAMING - Discussed is a processing method which enables natural reproduction upon the occurrence of representation switching during the transmission of an HTTP stream. The method includes: constructing, for a first representation, a plurality of segments including base layer of scalable video coding, constructing, for a second representation with a higher resolution than the first representation, a plurality of segments including enhanced layer of scalable video coding, and transmitting at least one of at least a part of the plurality of segments for the first representation and at least a part of the plurality of segments for the second representation, when transmitting the second representation. Only base layers may be extracted from the second representation and used as a reference in decoding low bit-rate segments to be reproduced in the future, thus multimedia content can be seamlessly displayed upon the occurrence of representation-switching. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204974 | Applications and services as a bundle - A system and method are provided for managing bundles of applications and services over a network between a server system and client computers. Related applications and services are bundled together in one package so that a user is able to quickly and easily configure a computer to perform a specified task. By combining both the applications and the services in one bundle, users no longer have to search the Internet for necessary components. Furthermore, additional features that allow portability of the bundled applications and services in addition to diagnostic monitoring are included. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204975 | Applications as a service - A system and method are provided for managing applications over a network between a server system and client computers. In one example, the method involves receiving user login information from a client computer, then accessing on the server system a user profile associated with the login information. The user profile includes a user environment configuration for a client environment. Transport protocols are selected based on the user profile. The transport protocols are protocols for transporting information between the server system and the client computer. The user environment configuration stored on the server system is then synchronized with a client environment configuration on the client computer. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204976 | MEDICAL IMAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MEDICAL IMAGE MANAGEMENT DEVICE - A medical image management system includes a plurality of servers, a determination means, a forwarding-destination determination part, and a forwarding processing means. The plurality of servers each comprise a memory that stores medical images to which supplementary information is attached, and performs image processing on medical images instructed by a client. The determination means determines whether or not to forward medical images based on the free space required for the image processing and the free space in the memory of the server. The forwarding-destination determination part determines a forwarding destination server to which the medical images are forwarded. The forwarding processing means forwards the medical images used for the image processing to the server determined by the forwarding-destination determination part. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204977 | Systems and Methods for Panoramic Video Streaming of Virtual Tours - A virtual tour host server decomposes a virtual tour into a plurality of video faces which are stored. When a user desires to begin a virtual tour using a mobile device, the mobile device detects and reports a field of view to the host server. The host server then associates a subset of the plurality of video faces corresponding to the detected field of view, and sends a video stream of the virtual tour recomposed from the subset of video faces, enabling the mobile device to display the virtual tour video stream. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204978 | Data Sharing Method for Recursive DNS Servers - This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for sharing DNS answers between DNS server systems within a DNS cluster, between proxy servers, and/or between DNS server systems of different DNS clusters. When a DNS answer is obtained by a DNS server system, the answer can be shared with peer DNS server systems within a same DNS cluster or with DNS server systems having a logical relation to the first DNS server system (e.g., geographic relationship), but being in different DNS clusters. Proxy servers may also mediate communication between a client and the DNS clusters. These proxies can also include the ability to share DNS answers between each other. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204979 | DIGITAL DATA COMMERCE SYSTEM AND METHODS WITH DIGITAL MEDIA OBJECT TO CLOUD REDIRECTION - The invention provides, in some aspects, a digital commerce system that includes a first digital data device, a second digital data device and a third digital data device, each of which is connected to a network that provides at least intermittent communications coupling between the second digital data device and each of the first and second digital data devices. Redirection logic executing on at least the second digital data device effects storage on the third digital data device of a digital media object downloaded from the first digital data device to the second digital data device. The redirection logic accomplishes that in such a manner that storage of the digital media object on the third digital data device is effected before storage of that digital media object on the second digital data device—if the digital media object is stored to the second digital data device at all. In related aspects of the invention, redirection logic executing on at least the second digital data device circumvents storage of the downloaded digital media object at least until that object has been stored on the third digital data device. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204980 | System and Method for Remote Asset Management - A system for autonomously monitoring and managing consumer device assets includes a plurality of consumer device assets registered with a remote computer server platform. The remote computer server platform is configured to execute software applications for monitoring and managing the consumer device assets. The consumer device assets communicate operational status information and consumer usage information to the remote computer server platform automatically as a result of pre-programmed conditions and/or instructions received from the remote computer server platform. The remote computer server platform monitors the consumer device assets by processing the operational status information and consumer usage information automatically according to preprogrammed conditions. Based upon the results of processing at least some of the received consumer usage information, the remote computer server platform manages the consumer device assets by communicating management instructions that cause the stored data content files of one or more assets to be automatically modified. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204981 | URL RESCUE BY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION RELATED TO AN ITEM REFERENCED IN AN INVALID URL - A server system is disclosed that is capable of providing responsive content to a user when a request for an invalid URL is received. In a preferred embodiment, the server system implements multiple rescue strategies for attempting to rescue the invalid URL. One such rescue strategy involves repairing the URL by correcting for encoding errors, such as errors introduced by some web clients. Another rescue strategy involves determining that the URL contains an obsolete or outdated item identifier (e.g., product identifier) that renders the URL invalid, and returning information regarding one or more related items to the user. Another rescue strategy involves mining the invalid URL for one or more text strings reflective of the type of content desired, and then using the one or more text strings to execute a keyword search to identify content to provide to the user. The various rescue strategies may be attempted in sequence according to a hierarchy. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204982 | SERVER AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF - Methods and apparatus are provided for providing a hub service is provided. Access is provided to a user terminal device. It is determined whether the user terminal device is a pre-registered device. A service hub program set for the user terminal is transmitted from the server to the user terminal device, when the user terminal device is the pre-registered device. At least one application program corresponding to the service hub program and the user terminal device is transmitted from the server to the user terminal device. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204983 | ENHANCING INITIAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION MANAGEMENT TO PROVIDE ROBUST RECONFIGURATION - A description of a resource associated with a service of an entity can be captured. The service can be associated with one or more resources, a constraint, and a demand. The resource can be associated with one or more characteristics including a utility, a limited availability, and a consumption rate. The entity can be an organization or a system. An initial allocation problem associated with the resource can be formulated as a two phase problem. The first phase can be an optimization problem and the second phase can be a restricted allocation problem. The initial allocation problem can be associated with reconfiguring a previously established allocation of a baseline scenario. The optimization problem can be solved optimally or approximately to establish a favorable allocation. The favorable allocation can minimizes the reconfiguration cost of the reconfiguring. The baseline scenario can be a normal operation of the service. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204984 | Management Record Specification for Management of Field Replaceable Units Installed Within Computing Cabinets - A management record specification for use with a frame or other structure holding one or more field replaceable units (FRUs) such as rack-mount servers or blade enclosures that broadly allows for management of installed FRUs. The management record specification is implemented within a number of programmable read-only memory (PROM) images such as a worker PROM image stored in memory of a number of frame arms that receive or interface with respective FRUs, and a manager PROM image that is accessed by the “frame manager” of the frame. Installed FRUs access respective worker PROM images to determine their roles within the frame, physical locations, and the like. The frame manager obtains manager PROM image information to manage installed FRUs in relation to hot-swapping, firmware updates, and the like. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204985 | TRANSPARENT HETEROGENOUS LINK PAIRING - A method, system and computer program product for managing at least two physical links. A TCP/IP stack configures a first interface with attributes. The TCP/IP stack activates the first interface. The TCP/IP stack detects a channel path identifier (CHPID). The TCP/IP stack creates a second interface. The TCP/IP stack associates the second interface with the first interface. The first interface and the second interface are logically linked to exchange traffic corresponding to a single internet protocol address. The TCP/IP stack configures the second interface with at least one attribute. The TCP/IP stack activates the second interface. The two physical links may rely on two different physical link types. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204986 | Remote Configuration of Client Devices - Remote configuration ensures compliance of remote client devices. A server polls a client device for its configuration file. The server compares the configuration file to a compliance policy. If the configuration file fails the compliance policy, the server retrieves a compliant configuration file that conforms to the compliance policy. The server sends the compliant configuration file to the client device with an instruction to replace the configuration file. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204987 | HARDWARE DEVICE NAME RESOLUTION FOR DETERMINISTIC CONFIGURATION IN A NETWORK APPLIANCE - Inconsistencies between internal logical names assigned to hardware devices and physical labeling of the hardware device connectors are overcome by reassigning internal logical names in a network appliance hosting the hardware devices. The initial logical names that refer to the hardware devices are read from an operating system, along with hardware addresses for the hardware devices. The relationship between the initial logical names and the hardware device addresses is compared against a desired relationship, as may be provided in a configuration file. Undesired relationships between logical names and hardware devices are reassigned so that the logical names are consistent with the physical labeling for the hardware devices. The reassigned logical names can be committed to system resources to make the reassignment persistent. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204988 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOOPBACK PROXY - A method for managing TCP sessions with a mobile device. A loopback proxy is configured within the mobile device to re-direct HTTP requests by the mobile device to a remote server back to the mobile device. The proxy accepts the local TCP connection initiated by the mobile device, extracts address and port information for the remote server from the HTTP request, then communicates with the remote server on behalf of the mobile device in order to open a remote TCP connection. The proxy then fuses the streams of the local TCP connection with those of the remote TCP connection. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204989 | Environment manager - An environment manager includes a set of consolidated and integrated utilities which allow an administrator direct, remote access to information technology resources. The environment manager allows the administrator to control many aspects of the information technology environment including backup and archival of data systems, monitoring of systems, opening and closing of information technology systems, server fail-overs and virtual server environments, managing expert application, desktop management and security and system security. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204990 | DECOUPLING PARTITIONING FOR SCALABILITY - Systems and methods are provided that enable a general framework for partitioning application-defined computations (e.g., jobs) in a scalable environment. The general framework decouples partitioning of a computation from the other aspects of the computation. As a result, the effort required to define an application-defined job is reduced or minimized, as the user is not required to provide a partitioning algorithm. A user can optionally take advantage of a partitioning framework by providing application-defined interfaces to perform the desired job. Optionally, a user can provide additional information to allow for modification of how partitions are assigned. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204991 | DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING IN A SCALABLE ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods are provided that enable a general framework for partitioning application-defined jobs (e.g., computation) in a scalable environment. The general framework decouples partitioning of a job from the other aspects of the job. As a result, the effort required to define the application-defined computation in a scalable environment is reduced or minimized, as the user is not required to provide a partitioning algorithm. The general framework further allows a user to provide load balancing conditions to allow for modification of how partitions are assigned. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204992 | Effective Visualization of an Information Technology Environment Through Social Scoring - According to one embodiment, a method may include providing a representation of each of a plurality of nodes of an information technology (IT) environment to a plurality of administrators responsible for maintaining the IT environment. A plurality of scores for each of two or more of the plurality of nodes may be received. Each score may provide an assessment of a respective node of the plurality of nodes. One or more display characteristics may be determined for each node for which one or more scores was received. The display characteristics may comprise a size of a respective node that is based on the scores received for the respective node. The display characteristics may be provided to at least one administrator of the plurality of administrators responsible for maintaining the IT environment. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204993 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTEGRATING REMOTE SERVICES - The present invention relates to a system of integrating remote services and the method of operating said system. In a preferred embodiment, the system comprises a management system, a database with a table of users and a table of data associated with each user, a message input and recognition system for written messages, voice messages, or text messages, etc., an output system, a dialogue system, and an information exchanging system for exchanging information with remote third party services, where the information exchanging system is connected to the management system and comprises connectors suitable for each type of service such that at least one connector is suitable for performing a commercial transaction that can be requested by the user. It is particularly applicable in the field of purchasing electronic tickets or products and in the field of bank transactions from a mobile terminal. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204994 | CONSOLIDATING DISPARATE CLOUD SERVICE DATA AND BEHAVIOR BASED ON TRUST RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CLOUD SERVICES - A method for consolidating cloud service data and behaviors can begin with the compilation of user/service membership data that associates requesting entities with subscribed cloud services by a trusted cloud service consolidator. A federated trust library housing inter-service trust information for the cloud services contained in the user/service membership data can be created. In response to a service request from a requesting entity, trusted secondary cloud services can be identified for the requesting entity. Identification of the trusted secondary cloud services can be based upon trust factors synthesized from data contained in the federated trust library. Data satisfying the service request and associated behaviors from each trusted secondary cloud service can then be consolidated into a unified data structure. A behavior can be an executable action supported by a trusted secondary cloud service. The unified data structure can be conveyed to the requesting entity in a service response. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204995 | SERVER CLUSTER - A server cluster is described, which enables load balancing between servers in the cluster. At least some of the servers in the cluster are divided into a plurality of virtual servers, wherein each virtual server is associated with a neighbouring server, which neighbouring server acts as a backup for that virtual server. The neighbouring server of each virtual server of a particular server is part of a different physical server to the virtual server, such that in the event that a physical server is unavailable for use, the load of the virtual servers of that physical server is split between a number of different physical servers, thereby reducing the likelihood of overloading any particular physical server. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204996 | RELAY DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, RELAY DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A relay device identifies information acquired from an image forming apparatus (managed device) as private data to be managed in the local system and public data to be managed on a management device on a cloud, and sends the public data together with a pointer to the private data to the management device. The relay device acquires the public data from the management device and when applying the private data to the managed device together with the acquired public data, the relay device acquires the private data based on the pointer and distributes that data together with the public data to the managed device. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204997 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF CLOUD-BASED SYSTEMS - System and method for reporting usage of a network infrastructure includes obtaining a map that includes at least one flow-mapping that correlates a flow feature with a service and that correlates a flow feature with an endpoint type, wherein the endpoint types include at least a subscriber type and a service type; at a first computer, receiving flow telemetry of a network infrastructure, the flow telemetry representing at least the destination and source attributes for network traffic in the flow telemetry; categorizing the flow telemetry into at least a subscriber flow category based on the source and destination endpoint types of the traffic; for subscriber flow telemetry of a subscriber, processing the subscriber flow telemetry into at least one flow feature; identifying at least one service to attribute to at least a portion of the subscriber flow telemetry, the service identified through the processed flow feature and a flow-mapping. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204998 | MEDIATING A COMMUNICATION IN AN OBSERVATION PLATFORM - Using an observation platform for mediating a communication. A first communication is parsed with a computer system according to a policy to determine metadata associated with the first communication, wherein the metadata comprises a first set of attributes and wherein the first communication is received at the computer system from a first communication device. The first set of attributes is compared to attributes of a plurality of communication devices associated with the observation platform, the comparing performed by the computing system. At least one recipient communication device is identified from the plurality of communication devices for the first communication based on the comparing, the identifying performed by the computing system. The first communication is relayed to the at least one identified recipient communication device via the computer system. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130204999 | System and Method for Automatic Sub-Panel Creation and Management - Systems, apparatuses and methods are disclosed for creating and managing sub-panels. Device data may be received in the system from each of a plurality of user devices, wherein the device data includes device usage data, device configuration data, demographic data and the like. Data collection rules are created or loaded into a central processing apparatus, where the device data is processed in the central processing apparatus to determine if device data related to one or more user devices complies to the data collection rules. Sub-panels may be defined in accordance with the processing, wherein the sub-panel may include one or more devices determined to be compliant with the data collection rules. Modification instructions may be generated in the central processing apparatus for the sub-panel, wherein the modification instructions are configured to be transmitted to at least some of the devices in the sub-panel, and wherein the modification instructions include data enabling each device in the sub panel to modify or enable at least one of (i) data collection operations and (ii) data reporting relating to future device data. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205000 | PRIVATE NETWORK WITH ENHANCED USER EXPERIENCE - A method of managing content on a network comprising providing a network-capable device that can begin communicating with users of any given network upon arriving within the vicinity of said network; initiating the network-capable device to assume control of said network so as to inject content relevant to a public safety situation; and creating (i) a hierarchical scheme if two or more similar network-capable devices appear in the same area and (ii) a quickly-deployable ad-hoc mesh network that may be private or public. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205001 | MODIFYING APPLICATION DATA SYNCHRONIZATION BASED ON APPLICATION USAGE FREQUENCY - A method and apparatus for modifying data synchronization of an application responsive to the frequency of application usage are disclosed. Data describing a frequency with which the application is used is captured by a portable computing device. For example, data describing timestamps when the application receives input or data describing a timestamp when the application was the primary application being executed are captured. It is determined whether the frequency of interaction with which the application is used equals or exceeds a threshold value. For example, the portable computing device determines whether the application has received an input or was the primary application within a predetermined time interval from the current time. Responsive to determining the frequency of interaction with the application does not equal or exceed the threshold value, data synchronization for the application is disabled. In one embodiment, the portable computing device stops data synchronization for the application. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205002 | WIDE AREA NETWORK OPTIMIZATION - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving application traffic at a network device from one or more endpoints, measuring performance of applications at the network device, optimizing TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) applications and UDP (User Datagram Protocol) applications based on the measured performance and policy input received at the network device, queuing the application traffic at the network device such that the application traffic shares available bandwidth in accordance with the measured performance and the policy input, and transmitting the application traffic over a wide area network. An apparatus is also disclosed. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205003 | REDUCING THE SIZE OF VOLATILE MEMORY IN AN END DEVICE DESIGNED TO OPERATE WITH MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF INTERNET PROTOCOL - An end device in a network is designed to operate consistent with multiple versions of the internet protocol. The end device determines which version of the internet protocol, according to which the network is operative, by monitoring a set of packets on the network. Based on the determination of the version of internet protocol, the end device loads in an internal volatile memory only those instructions and data required for operation according to the determined version. Instructions and data required for operation according to other version(s) are not loaded into the volatile memory. Size requirements of the volatile memory are thereby reduced. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205004 | Apparatus and Method to Retrieve and Store Link Results for Later Viewing - The system, a link monitor and predictor unit, monitors the user's habits, interests, attention span, etc. and analyzes the user's interest in a continuous fashion to determine the user's profile. This occurs in the background without the user's knowledge. The system automatically scans and updates the user's recently opened websites. The profile will contain the habitual websites and/or any particular categories that the user tends to view. These are the links that the system automatically downloads when the user is active looking at another website or performing some other function. The habitual system reads the user's profile and provides background instructions to the PC to start uploading the local memory (cache) with the specified website content. Then, when the user requests one of these links, it is readily available. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205005 | ALLOCATION AND BALANCING OF STORAGE RESOURCES - A system and technique for allocating and balancing storage resources includes: a plurality of storage controllers each controlling one or more storage volumes, and a processor unit operable to execute a management application to: determine, for each controller, an input/output (I/O) latency value based on an I/O latency associated with each storage volume controlled by a respective controller; determine network bandwidth utilization and network latency values corresponding to each controller; responsive to a request to allocate a new storage volume, select a controller having a desired I/O latency value; determine whether the network bandwidth utilization and network latency values for the selected controller are below respective network bandwidth utilization and network latency value thresholds; and responsive to determining that the network bandwidth utilization and network latency values for the selected controller are below respective thresholds, allocate the new storage volume to the selected controller. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205006 | INTELLIGENT FAILOVER OR SHUTDOWN OF AN APPLICATION USING INPUT/OUTPUT SHIPPING IN RESPONSE TO LOSS OF CONNECTIVITY TO DATA STORAGE IN A CLUSTER - When a loss of connectivity between a first node in a cluster of nodes and a data store is detected, an input/output (I/O) request associated with an application that was executing on the first node is shipped to a second node in the cluster that is in communication with the data store. The application can be gracefully shut down on the first node, and the second node can execute the application and satisfy the I/O request. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205007 | SUGGESTING MIGRATION TO A CLOUD COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE - Embodiments of the present invention relate to an approach for suggesting/recommending migration of an IT environment to a cloud computing infrastructure. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, historical incident data of an information technology (IT) environment is analyzed. Based on the historical incident data, it may be determined whether a problem is recurring in the IT environment. If so, it may then be determined whether the problem can be mitigated in the cloud computing infrastructure. For example, it may be determined whether the cost of mitigating the problem by migrating to the cloud computing infrastructure is less than the cost of loss due to the problem within the current IT environment. A report particular to the IT environment that identifies a benefit of migrating the IT environment to the cloud computing infrastructure may be generated. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205008 | SELECTIVELY TRIGGERING EXECUTION OF SERVICES IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Rule-based triggering of execution of services is provided. An advisor program identifies an application attribute(s) about which data is to be obtained, based on the presence of the application attribute(s) in one or more logical expressions of one or more rules. The one or more rules are developed and managed separate from the program code of the application and use at least one identifier employed by the application in identifying application attributes. Data about the application attribute(s), for instance user behavior with respect to the application attribute(s), is obtained, and the logical expression(s) of the rule(s) are evaluated based on the obtained data to determine whether to trigger execution of one or more services specified in the rule(s). | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205009 | OVERHEAD MANAGEMENT FOR EVENT TRACING - The present invention relates to managing data generated by software transactions, such as event tracing software. In one embodiment, data generated by event tracing software is monitored. The throughput of the data generated may then be modulated based on various criteria, such as a target data rate. The throughput target may be specified on a per-system basis or individual basis. Based on the throughput, the level of detail recorded is modulated. Individual processes may determine a limit or quota depending on their contribution to the throughput. In one embodiment, the method calls for a trace are modified with different property specifications to meet a desired throughput of event tracing data. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205010 | WORKLOAD PATTERNS FOR REALISTIC LOAD RECREATION IN PERFORMANCE TESTING - Various technologies related to uniform resource locator (URL) sequence patterns are described. Such patterns can be used to determine a distribution of a mix of the URL sequence patterns occurring within given URL sequences. A production environment URL log can be analyzed using the technologies described herein to recreate a production environment load in a test environment. Transaction sequences and strongly coupled relationships can be supported. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205011 | SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM - In a system with a terminal sending a request, when a load distributing unit distributes the request to many service providing apparatuses, the load distributing unit becomes a bottleneck of performance and/or a single point of failure. When the load is distributed to the service providing apparatuses without using the load distributing unit, a particular function is required on the terminal side to appropriately select one of apparatuses. A name resolution unit including an address group management table with IP addresses to select, for a request from a terminal, an address from the table to return the address to the terminal and a plurality of service providing apparatuses to which at least zero IP address selected from the table is allocated without duplication are arranged such that each service providing apparatus is allocated with IP addresses according to processing performance thereof, thereby conducting appropriate load distribution. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205012 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING NODE DISCOVERY MESSAGES - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for transmitting Node Discovery Messages. The apparatus includes a Medium Access Control layer information collection unit, a Discovery Window Slot calculation unit, a DW size determination unit, a DWS selection unit, and an NDM processing unit. The MAC layer information collection unit collects time slot information for NDMs in a previous round. The DWS calculation unit generates information about the slots of a Discovery Window of a discovery frame in the previous round based on the time slot information. The DW size determination unit determines the size of the DW in a current round based on the information about the slots of the DW. The DWS selection unit selects Discovery Window Slots in the current round based on the size of the DW. The NDM processing unit sends the NDMs during respective times corresponding to the DWSs. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205013 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method and an apparatus discover a node in a communications network. The method and apparatus deploy a first crawler program in the network, where the first crawler program encounters a first node of the network. Network management information is collected from the first node using the first crawler program. An identity of a second node in communication with the first node is determined from the network management information using the first crawler program. The method and apparatus avoid or reduce the need for human operator involvement when the communications network is configured for the first time, or when there has been a change in the communications network such as the addition of a new node. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205014 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND RULE GENERATION METHOD - Disclosed is a computer system provided with a plurality of sensors provided in a plurality of devices to observe a predetermined amount, and a server for examining the physical amount transmitted from the sensors, wherein the plurality of devices are classified into a first device group and a plurality of second device groups, a plurality of second examination rules indicating the examination methods of the physical amount are set in the plurality of second device groups, the server calculates the similarity between the first device group and each of the second device groups, and, on the basis of the calculated similarity, a first examination rule to be set in the first device group is extracted from the plurality of second examination rules set in the plurality of second device groups. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205015 | Method and Device for Analyzing Data Intercepted on an IP Network in order to Monitor the Activity of Users on a Website - A method is provided. The method includes the steps acquiring a complete data frame from an HTTP request, selecting the data frame acquired if the binary structure thereof meets a plurality of conditions including at least one condition corresponding to the IP layer of the frame, at least one condition corresponding to the transport layer of the frame and at least one condition corresponding to the application layer of the frame, extracting data of interest from the application layer of the selected frame and recording the extracted data in a database. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205016 | REMOTE MONITORING AND CONTROLLING OF NETWORK UTILIZATION - A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by processors, cause the processors to perform: at a management computer, receiving, from a gateway located in a managed network, device information about devices in the managed network; for a particular device: determining a match between the device capabilities of the particular device and features of a particular network software application configured to control the particular device, and determining a particular protocol endpoint configured to communicate control instructions from the particular network software application to the particular device; receiving, from the gateway, aggregated data that reflects network utilization by the devices located in the managed network; for the particular device: based at least in part on the aggregated data, using the particular network software application, determining control instructions for the particular device; causing the particular protocol endpoint to transmit the control instructions for the particular device to the device. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205017 | COMPUTER FAILURE MONITORING METHOD AND DEVICE - Disclosed is a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program that causes a client device to execute a sequence of processing. The sequence of processing includes generating, by a processor, a processing request message by attaching status information including information indicating a status of a first server device stored in a storage part to a processing request addressed to the first server device, transmitting the generated processing request message to the first server device and a second server device monitoring the first server device, and receiving from the first server device a new status information of the first server device. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205018 | EXTENDING SERVICE DISCOVERY INTO CLOUD COMPUTING - Providing service discovery in a communication network comprises adding service discovery information for a first network to a domain name system (DNS). The service discovery information provides for devices to discover devices and services that the devices support. Service information is discovered from the service discovery information over the communication network. One or more services from the first network are selected from the discovered service information. One or more services are accessed over the communication network from the first local network. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205019 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING API INTERACTIONS - Systems and methods for enabling and managing API interactions through one or more location-agnostic software brokers interchangeably on premises as well as in a cloud environment are provided. These systems and methods may include a tree-based hierarchy of hypermedia components and additional metadata to enable comparisons between distinct APIs accessed via various and wide-ranging protocols. These systems and methods may provide portability across relational and non-relational data stores to support hybrid and location-specific installations of software brokers and allow users to access and leverage on-premises (e.g., private) model entities side-by-side with off-premise (e.g., public or cloud) model entities. Flexibility across model entities may provide portability and sharing across multiple environments, thereby providing a highly leveraged environment that may reduce duplication of efforts in the management of API interactions. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205020 | REAL-TIME ANALYTICS OF WEB PERFORMANCE USING ACTUAL USER MEASUREMENTS - A method for real-time capture of actual user experiences on a website, web application or mobile app includes receiving, in first servers, one or more beacons, each containing data items. Each beacon is generated in real-time from a user session. The data items are aggregated in one or more first sets of N data buckets associated with each of the first servers. Each of the first servers transmits the data items of each of the N data buckets to a second server over a network, which further aggregates the data items received in one or more sets of N data buckets corresponding to and identically configured as the data buckets of the first servers. The corresponding data contents of the one or more second sets of N data buckets is aggregated into one or more final sets of N data buckets used in generating a real-time analytic dashboard. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205021 | PRIVATE NETWORK WITH ENHANCED USER EXPERIENCE - A private network capable of locating a user through a network-enabled device, via the media access control address, while the user is in range of a halo device. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205022 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING METER INFORMATION IN A NETWORK OF INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Systems and methods are provided for managing software scripts. One system comprises one or more meters, each configured to measure parameters of a commodity. The system also comprises a server and a plurality of client devices. The server is in communication with the one or more meters by way of a communication network and is configured to receive and store the measured parameters from the one or more meters. The client devices communicate with the server via the communication network. Also, the system includes a base device in communication with the client devices. The base device is configured to store one or more functional chains, each of the one or more functional chains comprising software code defining a plurality of functional actions to be performed in a specific sequence. The base device comprises an interface that allows the plurality of client devices to reference the functional chain. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205023 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND OPTIMIZING RESOURCES OF DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM UTILIZED BY A SERVICE REQUEST - A computer-implemented method for determining resources utilized by a service request in a data processing system. The method includes determining monitored relationship types from monitoring data, determining relationship domains, determining intra-domain relationships from relationships that are internal to the relationship domains and determining cross-domain relationships from the intra-domain relationships that are linked between pairs of the relationship domains, and determining resources utilized by the service request from the intra-domain and cross-domain relationships. The domains are derived from one of the relationship types that is monitored by a single monitoring application. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205024 | SERVER SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, SERVER MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A server system ( | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205025 | Optimized Virtual Private Network Routing Through Multiple Gateways - In one embodiment, a secure communication tunnel is established between a first VPN gateway and a remote access client. The remote access client requests a resource of an enterprise network. The first VPN gateway selects a second VPN gateway based at least on a cost of communication between the requested resource and the second VPN gateway. An indication of the second VPN gateway is sent to the remote access client. The first VPN gateway maintains the first secure communication tunnel while the remote access client accesses the resource through a second secure communication tunnel established between the remote access client and the second VPN gateway. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205026 | MEDIA FILTER IN A VEHICLE INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM - The present disclosure describes a media filter for filtering and/or processing a third party sourced signal received by an onboard component of the vehicle in a manner consistent with one or more rules, the one or more rules pertaining to one or more of a whitelist, blacklist, sensed occupant context, and/or a law and/or regulation. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205027 | Automatic Cloud Provisioning Based on Related Internet News and Social Network Trends - An embodiment of the invention provides a system and method for managing computing resources in a cloud computing environment, wherein the system includes a data analysis module connected to a processor. The data analysis module predicts the demand for the computing resources, wherein the demand is predicted based on internet user activity. The internet user activity includes: the number of web pages that include at least one select term a predetermined amount of times, the number of times the web pages that include the at least one select term a predetermined amount of times are viewed, and the number of times the select term is entered into an internet search engine. The processor increases resource capacity in the cloud computing environment when the predicted demand is above a first threshold. The processor decreases resource capacity in the cloud computing environment when the predicted demand is below a second threshold. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205028 | Elastic, Massively Parallel Processing Data Warehouse - In one embodiment, an elastic, massively parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse leveraging a cloud computing system is disclosed. Queries received via one or more API endpoints are decomposed into parallelizable subqueries and executed across a heterogenous set of demand-instantiable computing units. Available computing units vary in capacity, storage, memory, bandwidth, and hardware; the specific mix of computing units instantiated is determined dynamically according to the specifics of the query. Better performance is obtained by modifying the mix of instantiated computing units according to a machine learning algorithm. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205029 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND REMEDYING TRAFFIC IMBALANCES AND INEQUITIES BETWEEN NETWORKS - Implementations described and claimed herein provide a system and methods for balancing network loads across distinct provider networks. In one implementation, a virtual network representative of at least a first provider network is established having at least one interconnection point where network traffic is exchanged between the first provider network and a second provider network and having at least one provider edge port and at least one potential interconnection point. A measurement of a bandwidth between the at least one provider edge port and the at least one interconnection point is obtained. A measurement of a distance between the at least one provider edge port and a geographically closest of the at least one potential interconnection point or the at least one interconnection point is obtained. A network load indication for the first provider network as a function of the bandwidth measurement and the distance measurement is obtained. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205030 | MANAGING RESOURCES IN RESOURCE CACHE COMPONENTS - A system, method, and computer readable medium for managing resources maintained in resource cache components are provided. A network storage provider storing one or more resources on behalf of a content provider obtains client computing device requests for content. The network storage provider provides resources that are received and maintained on resource cache components. The network storage provider either processes requests or provides notifications to the resource cache components to facilitate the management of resources that need to be updated or are otherwise treated as invalid. | 2013-08-08 |
| 20130205031 | Method, Computer Readable Medium And System For Scaling Medical Applications In A Public Cloud Data Center - A method for providing scaled applications in a cloud data center is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request from a user to use one of a plurality of applications maintained in a memory of a cloud data center. The method further includes assigning one of a plurality of instantiations of a service manager to the user and establishing, using the assigned instantiation of the service manager, a connection between the user and an instance of the requested application for a duration of a user session. | 2013-08-08 |
