35th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 54 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120221636 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING A SHARED DATA STORE FOR PEER DISCOVERY - After acquiring a network address, a computing device accesses a shared data store and writes the network address to the shared data store. The computing device additionally reads a plurality of network addresses from the shared data store, wherein the plurality of network addresses are for a plurality of nodes that are members of a peer-to-peer system. The computing device then joins the peer-to-peer system based on communicating with the plurality of nodes using the plurality of network addresses. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221637 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - State change means changes a state of an information processing apparatus between an unused state and a used state. First communication means automatically performs communication with another portable information processing apparatus. Second communication means automatically performs communication via an access point. Communication control means performs control such that the communication by the first communication means is preferentially performed when the information processing apparatus is in the unused state and the communication by the second communication means is preferentially performed when the information processing apparatus is in the used state. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221638 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVANCED COMMUNICATION THREAD ANALYSIS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for forming communication threads. A system configured to practice the method receives a first log of first communications in a first modality and receives a second log of second communications in a second modality. Then, the system analyzes the first log and the second log to determine relationships between the first communications and the second communications. The system identifies, based on the relationships, sets of communications having a relationship strength above a threshold, and can form communication threads based on the sets of communications. The system can form communication threads by adding a meta-data tag to a communication unit. Example modalities include short message service (SMS), text, instant messages, phone calls, video calls, emails, events, social networking, and voicemail. The system can further rank the importance of communications threads based on user actions, to yield an importance value. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221639 | STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION OF CONTENT FOR A USER DEVICE GROUP - Systems and methods for the storage and distribution of content for user device groups are presented. In one example, a device group including a plurality of user devices is defined based on logical relationships among the plurality of user devices. A group data structure corresponding to the device group is stored in a data storage device, the group data structure including a parent data structure. An item of content is received from a first user device of the device group and stored in the data storage device as a child data structure of the parent data structure. The item of content is transmitted to other user devices of the device group based on the item of content being stored in the group data structure. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221640 | PEER-TO-PEER LIVE STREAMING - According to a peer-to-peer protocol, a peer-to-peer network includes multiple clubs and multiple peers that receive content distributed by a source of the network. Each of the plurality of peers is part of at least two of the clubs. As content is generated, the source divides the content into multiple data blocks and assigns each data block to a club. Each data block is transmitted to peers that belong to the club assigned to the data block. When a peer in a club receives a data block assigned to that club, the peer distributes the data block to other peers in the club. Additionally, the peer transmits the data block to peers in other clubs. Also, the peer receives data blocks assigned to other clubs from peers that are not members of the club. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221641 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DIGITAL INTERACTIONS - A system for managing digital interactions comprising an identity module for creating an identity, wherein the identity includes a unique identifier associated with a first party and a plurality of proposed terms for a relationship with a second party; and a relationship module, in communication with the identity module, for receiving and evaluating the plurality of proposed terms, including accepting or rejecting the plurality of proposed terms and, if accepted, for allowing the first party to communicate with the second party in accordance with the plurality of proposed terms. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221642 | HIGH AVAILABILITY CONFERENCING - A method, system, and architecture for providing a conference system that effectively achieves high availability conferencing is provided. The conference system architecture provides a conference system that comprises a set of stateless conference servers and a shared conference store to provide highly available conferencing to its users. The conference servers serve (host) conferences (meetings) that allow users to conduct distributed conferences. Each conference server generally performs conference provisioning operations and conference control operations. The shared conference store provides for the storage of conference state information, thus allowing the conference servers in the conference server pool to be stateless by maintaining conference state information on the shared conference store. A stateless conference server may also locally maintain, for example, in cache memory, some of the conference state information that is maintained on the shared conference store. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221643 | TELEVISION AGGREGATOR - An aggregation system, process, article, and necessary intermediates, illustratively the system includes: a device capable of both networking and executing software programs, the device programmed from memory so that the aggregation apparatus: connects to a plurality of servers via the Internet, and authenticates itself with each of the plurality of servers, and retrieves information from each of the plurality of servers, and parses the information from each of the plurality of servers so as to produce an aggregation of parsed information, and renders the aggregation as output. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221644 | VIRTUAL PRIVATE MEETING ROOM - A method of establishing a multimedia conference meeting includes assigning unique user identifiers to corresponding users and corresponding persistent virtual private meeting rooms dedicated to the corresponding users. Conference sessions are established using the persistent virtual private meeting rooms in response to activation acts by the users. Resources for establishing communications among users that are logged in to the conference sessions are dynamically allocated using distributed conference bridge computers. Resources presented during the conference sessions in the persistent virtual private meeting rooms remain available in the persistent virtual private meeting rooms after the conference sessions end. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221645 | AUTOMATIC MEDIA ASSET UPDATE OVER AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - An electronic program guide is displayed where the program guide indicates the various media being consumed by a plurality of users. Such users can be linked together via a relationship from a social networking website. In addition, the grid can display broadcast channel listings. The grid optionally provides the feature of adding and removing corresponding user and channel listings. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221646 | CACHING OF DIGITAL CONTENTS IN P2P NETWORKS - A method for enabling sharing of content files among nodes of a P2P network is provided. The P2P network comprises sub-networks each including a respective plurality of nodes capable of storing content files. Each sub-network has an associated corresponding hash table for indexing the content files stored in the nodes of the sub-network. The hash table is distributed among at least some of the nodes of the sub-network. The method comprises, for each content file stored in at least one node of a sub-network, storing in the hash table associated with the sub-network a criticality index providing an indication of the degree of sharing of the content file among the nodes of the sub-network. The method causes a node to cache at least one content file for sharing with other nodes of the sub-network based on the criticality index of the at least one content file. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221647 | SHARING OF DIGITAL CONTENTS IN P2P NETWORKS EXPLOITING LOCALIZATION DATA - A method for enabling sharing of content files among nodes of a P2P network is provided. The P2P network comprises sub-networks each including a respective plurality of nodes capable of storing content files. Each sub-network has an associated corresponding hash table for indexing content files stored in the nodes. The hash table is distributed among at least some of the nodes of the sub-network. For each content file stored in at least one node, the hash table comprises a corresponding node list of the sub-network nodes which store the content file. The method comprises associating each node of the sub-network listed in the node list corresponding to a content file with localization data indicating the localization of the node within the sub-network. The localization data defines a corresponding preferential list of the nodes storing the content file for downloading the content file by a requesting node. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221648 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments of the invention comprise a method of managing access to address data that is accessible via a plurality of communication devices; the method comprising the steps of establishing at least one access rule, associated with at least one communication device of the plurality of communication devices, for influencing access to the address data; and controlling access to the address data according the at least one access rule associated with the at least one communication device. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221649 | PEER-TO-PEER COLLABORATION OF PUBLISHERS IN A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIPTION ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for an enhanced pub/sub environment whereby a peer group of publishers is defined and can collaborate to determine when to cache data being sent to a common broker or brokers. Specifically, in a typical embodiment, configuration data or the like will be read to define a peer group among the publisher systems in the pub/sub messaging environment. Once such a group has been identified, communication therebetween will be established. Once cacheable data has been identified, a unique identifier/set of cache keys will be generated corresponding thereto and associated with the set of data. A message comprising the set of data and corresponding unique identifier will then be sent to a broker system (e.g., from the publisher system(s)), which will store (or have stored) the set of data in a cache, and pass the underlying message along to applicable subscriber system(s). | 2012-08-30 |
20120221650 | BROKER FACILITATED PEER-TO-PEER PUBLISHER COLLABORATION IN A PUBLISH-SUBSCRIPTION ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for broker facilitated, publisher peer-to-peer (P | 2012-08-30 |
20120221651 | EMAIL ACCESS MANAGER FOR A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - In general, this disclosure relates to techniques for management of email access for a wireless communication device (WCD). The techniques may utilize an email access manager that selects a synchronization mode to synchronize with a remote email server and selects a transfer mode to transfer email messages with the remote email server based on context data regarding the WCD. The context data of the WCD may include one or more of quality of service (QoS) of network connections with the remote email server, battery status of the WCD, and user settings for the WCD. The email access manager monitors the context data from one or more managers, applications, and/or memory within the WCD. The techniques described herein enable an email application on a WCD to dynamically alter synchronization and transfer of email messages with a remote email server as appropriate given the context of the WCD. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221652 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A PROXY-BASED ACCESS LIST - An approach is provided for a proxy-based access list. A proxy platform receives an input for specifying access information for one or more communication endpoints accessible via a proxy server. The proxy platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of the access information to generate one or more access policies with respect to the one or more communication endpoints. Access to the one or more communication endpoints via the proxy server is provided based, at least in part, on the one or more access policies. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221653 | METHOD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR PROCESSING DATA FOR TRANSMISSION FROM THE COMMUNICATION DEVICE TO A SECOND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method and communication device for processing data for transmission from the communication device to a second communication device is provided. It is detected that the data comprises an attachment. An address of a copy of the attachment is determined, the attachment present on a storage device external to the communication devices. An address of the copy of the attachment is substituted in the data such that the copy is retrievable at the second communication device via the address. The data is then transmitted to the second communication device. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221654 | TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CLOUD SERVICE - An apparatus and a method for providing a cloud service, where the method includes storing information, generated by an input to a terminal or communication data generated between the terminal and another terminal, in a web server; and determining and providing a service based on the information or communication data. The method and apparatus allow for communication data to be shared via a private page between two terminals designated as soul mates. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221655 | System and Method for Routing Instant Messages - A system and a method for routing an instant message which can refer to a Converged IP Messaging (CPM) message are provided. The instant message, for example, CPM message and the like, is sent to a plurality of terminals having the same user identification of the same user; in the case that the receiving party uses a plurality of terminals online simultaneously, the communication system such as a CPM system routes the instant message such as CPM message to a plurality of terminals respectively. Thereby, the problem of routing when forwarding an instant message such as a ‘one number more machines” CPM message can be solved, further, the transmission of messages in the communication system such as the CPM system is realized better, and improving the user experience. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221656 | TRACKING MESSAGE TOPICS IN AN INTERACTIVE MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - A method and apparatus for tracking a topic involved in a message in an interactive messaging environment containing a plurality of messages by combining with context messages associated with the message. The method includes the steps of: selecting a message from the plurality of messages contained in the interactive messaging environment; identifying context messages associated with the selected message from the plurality of messages contained in the interactive messaging environment; and grouping the selected message into one or more topic groups based on the identified context messages. The topic tracking method and apparatus of the invention can accurately determine similarities between messages in an interactive messaging environment such as microblog to perform topic tracking. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221657 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLING WEB CONTENT WITH MOBILE DEVICES - A web-based system that may enable the use of a network-enabled mobile device to interact with and remotely control web content on a network-enabled display device. The mobile device may connect to the display device via a server. The mobile device may send communications to the display device to control an application running on the display device. In response, the display device may send communications to the mobile device to update an application running on the mobile device. The mobile device may be untethered to the display device. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221658 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE COMMUNICATION CONTROL - Computer program products, apparatus, and methods for processing digital messages to recipients at destination domains is provided. A plurality of profiles are established, each profile for handling digital to a specific domain or set of domains. A request to process a plurality of outbound digital messages is handled by, for each given digital message, processing the given digital message by (i) determining a destination domain for digital messages, (ii) reading a profile for the determined destination domain for the digital messages and (iii) based on at least one parameter set in the profile: (a) sending the given digital message to the determined destination domain in accordance with the profile when permitted by the at least one parameter set in the profile, or (b) not sending the digital message to the determined destination domain when required by the at least one parameter set in the profile. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221659 | Content Management System using Sources of Experience Data and Modules for Quantification and Visualization - A semantic note taking system and method for collecting information, enriching the information, and binding the information to services is provided. User-created notes are enriched with labels, context traits, and relevant data to minimize friction in the note-taking process. In other words, the present invention is directed to collecting unscripted data, adding more meaning and use out of the data, and binding the data to services. Mutable and late-binding to services is also provided to allow private thoughts to be published to a myriad of different applications and services in a manner compatible with how thoughts are processed in the brain. User interfaces and semantic skins are also provided to derive meaning out of notes without requiring a great deal of user input. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221660 | REPRESENTING NEW MESSAGES ON A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - There is provided a method of representing new email messages on a communication device having a display. This method comprises setting a new message flag when an email message is received by the device; and displaying a new message indicator on the display when the new message flag is set. The new message indicator can be displayed on a home screen on the display. The new message flag can be unset when a messages screen is selected on the device. A computer readable memory having recorded thereon instructions to carry out this method is also provided, as well as a device comprising such memory. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221661 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LAST MESSAGE NOTIFICATION - An agent for generating a last message notification in an asynchronous message delivery environment, wherein messages received by a messaging server are routable to a messaging client through an API binding protocol, the agent comprising: a monitoring component for monitoring a message store to determine if there is a message stored for delivery to a message listener; and a message notification component for generating a message indicating that there are no further messages in the message store for routing to the messaging listener, in response to a negative determination by the monitoring component. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221662 | Device Selection for Media Rendering - Delivery of media content ordered at a user terminal ( | 2012-08-30 |
20120221663 | METHOD OF COMPILING AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - A method of compiling an electronic message includes retrieving preferences of a recipient of the electronic message from a CRM system of the sender of the electronic message. Content matching the preferences of the recipient is inserted into the electronic message. The method includes receiving a basic electronic message at a mail server and comparing the sender's address with sender addresses in a subscriber database to determine if the sender is a subscriber. If the sender is a subscriber the recipient's address is matched to a recipient addresses in a recipient address database. The recipient's preferences are retrieved from the CRM system. Content, from a dynamic database of different content files, is matched to the recipient's preferences and inserted into the basic electronic message, thereby to compile the electronic message. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221664 | POINT-TO-POINT CHAT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A point-to-point chat system and method are provided. The system comprises a USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) signaling interface unit and a chat control unit. The USSD signaling interface unit is configured to receive a USSD chat request message of an inviting party and a USSD chat joining message of an invited party via a core network, and to forward the USSD chat request message and the USSD chat joining message to the chat control unit. The chat control unit is configured to send a chat inviting message to the invited party after receiving the USSD chat request message, to start the chat after receiving the USSD chat joining message, and to receive chat information of the inviting party or the invited party to forward to the other party of the inviting party or the invited party. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221665 | QUEUING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A portable electronic device includes a queuing system. An agent server provided by a service provider assigns a queue number to a user of the portable electronic device, generates a mobile barcode according to the queue number and a uniform resource locator (URL) of the service provider, and displays the 2D mobile barcode on an electronic display. The queuing system | 2012-08-30 |
20120221666 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A system and method of controlling access to one or more electronic devices is disclosed. The method can include the step of—out of a plurality of electronic devices—identifying a master device and a slave device. The master device can be configured to control access to at least one feature of the slave device, and the master device can be associated with a person who has supervisory authority over another person who uses the slave device. During an active session on the slave device, a pre-disablement warning can be sent to the slave device in which the pre-disablement warning can identify a first time period by which access to the feature of the slave device is to be prevented. A disablement message can be sent to the slave device, thereby preventing access to the feature of the slave device following the expiration of the first time period. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221667 | SHARED USE OF TIME SLOTS - The invention relates to a network comprising at least one first client and at least two second clients connected to the first client by a message transmission device, wherein the network is configured such that there is communication between the first client and the second clients in a communication time slot and data can be transmitted between the first client and the second clients in the communication time slot, said communication time slot having at least one first message time slot and one second message time slot, wherein the first message time slot can be used by a selected second client to transmit a message to the first client and the second message time slot can be used by a plurality of second clients to transmit a message to the first client. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221668 | CLOUD STORAGE ACCESS DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME - A cloud storage access device includes a data fetching unit, a user management unit, and a data link unit. The data fetching unit collects private data of each user of the cloud storage access device. The user management unit creates a home directory corresponding to each user in the cloud storage access device. The data link unit connects each of the home directories to both the cloud and a local storage of a network terminal, such that the cloud storage access device communicates with both the cloud and the local storage. Each user of the cloud storage access device stores data to the cloud or the local storage and accesses data stored in the cloud or the local storage through the home directory corresponding to the user. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221669 | COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR PARALLEL COMPUTING, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A communication method includes reporting information that indicates disposition of communication data in a communication buffer from a first node to second nodes by a multi-destination delivery using a barrier synchronization or a reduction to all nodes. The communication data is transferred between the first node and the second nodes by at least one of collective communication methods as a node-to-node communication method used in parallel computing. The communication method transfers the communication data by the second nodes using the information that indicates the disposition of the communication data in the communication buffer. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221670 | METHODS, CIRCUITS, DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTER EXECUTABLE CODE FOR CACHING CONTENT - Disclosed are methods, circuits, devices, systems and associated computer executable code for caching content. According to embodiments, a client device may be connected to the internet or other distributed data network through a gateway network. As initial portions of client requested content enters the gateway network, the requested content may be characterized and compared to content previously cached on a cache integral or otherwise functionally associated with the gateway network. In the event a match is found, a routing logic, mechanism, circuitry or module may replace the content source server with the cache as the source of content being routed to the client device. In the event the comparison does not produce a match, as content enters the network a caching routine running on processing circuitry associated with the gateway network may passively cache the requested content while routing the content to the client device. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221671 | Controlling Shared Memory - In view of the characteristics of distributed applications, the present invention proposes a technical solution for applying a shared memory on an NIC comprising: a shared memory configured to provide shared storage space for a task of a distributed application, and a microcontroller. Furthermore, the present invention provides a computer device that includes the above-mentioned NIC, a method for controlling a read/write operation on a shared memory of a NIC, and a method for invoking the NIC. The use of the technical solution provided in the present invention bypasses the processing of network protocol stack, avoids the time delay introduced by the network protocol stack. The present invention does not need to perform TCP/IP encapsulation on the data packet, thus greatly saving additional packet header and packet tail overheads generated from the TCP/IP layer data encapsulation. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221672 | COMMUNICATION DEVICES, METHODS AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIA - A communication device includes a memory that has a first storage area that stores an identifier of a first communication device, which is in a communication session with the communication device, and a second storage area that stores an identifier of a second communication device, which established a communication session with the communication device. The communication device performs the steps of: notifying the identifier stored in the first storage area to the first communication device, receiving an identifier stored in a first storage area of the first communication device from the first communication device, determining whether the identifier received from the first communication device is stored in the second storage area of the communication device, restricting re-establishment of the communication session with the first communication device when the identifier received from the first communication device is stored in the second storage area of the communication device. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221673 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING VIRTUALIZATION INFORMATION - Virtualization information on a first user terminal is generated and is stored in a data storage device through a mobile communication system. When a user with a second user terminal requests virtualization information while the second user terminal provides a first identification number of the first user terminal, the mobile communication system provides virtualization information corresponding to the identification number to the second user terminal. The second user terminal operates the virtualization information corresponding to the first identification number. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221674 | OBTAINING CUSTOMIZED CONTENT USING A PILOT PACKET - A system is configured to receive a request to register a user device with a network; perform an operation that registers the user device and enables the user device to obtain content from another network; generate a packet that includes information associated with the user device and information associated with the operation; output the packet to a device, where the packet enables the device to obtain information associated with usage habits corresponding to the user device; receive, from the user device, a query to obtain the content from the other network; output, to the device, a content request based on the query; receive, from the device and based on the content request, the content that is customized for the user device based on the information associated with the usage habits; and output the customized content to the user device. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221675 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INFERRING USER INTENT WITHIN A NETWORK RESOURCE - The present invention provides for a novel method and system for improving a user experience when accessing a network resource comprising execution of a software application operating within the software environment of a viewing program operating on a user computer, said viewing program capable of displaying resources available in a network (a “network resource”), said software application identifying an implicit user interaction within said network resource, wherein an implicit user interaction within said network resource causes the software application to provide elements subject to the implicit user interaction as an input value for a software application operable on the user computer or on a computer in network communication with said user computer. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221676 | SESSION MANAGEMENT USING A CUSTOMIZED PILOT PACKET FOR STATEFUL DEVICES - A system is configured to receive an indication that a user device is registered with a network; and generate, as a result of receiving the indication, one or more packets associated with one or more flows between the user device and one or more network devices, based on one or more prior flows between the user device and the network devices, where each of the packets identifies a respective period time during which each of the flows is to be valid. The system may also be configured to transmit the packets to the network devices, where transmitting the packets allows the network devices to establish the flows between the user device and the network devices, or discard or over-write information, stored in a memory, associated with the prior flows. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221677 | SERVER FOR PROVIDING TRAFFIC IMAGE TO USER DEVICE, AND THE USER DEVICE - A server for providing a traffic image to a user device includes a location information receiving unit which receives information relating to a respective location of each of a plurality of vehicles, a location management unit which receives information relating to a particular area from a user device, and which detects at least one vehicle located within the particular area based on the location information, an information sending unit which sends information relating to the at least one detected vehicle to the user device, an image requesting unit which receives information relating to a vehicle selected from among the at least one detected vehicle from the user device, and which requests, from a device installed in the selected vehicle, transmission of a traffic image of the selected vehicle, and an image providing unit which receives the image and which provides the traffic image to the user device. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221678 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD - A computer-readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process, the program includes, receiving a first request for requesting transmission of particular information from a request node belonging to a logical network to which the computer belongs, directly without depending on the topology of the logical network, or through one or more other nodes on a path that comes into a node equivalent to the computer in the topology of the logical network; selecting one or more responsible nodes relating to transmission of the particular information; correlating partial particular information that is a portion or all portions of the particular information with each of the responsible nodes; transmitting, in the event that the computer has been selected as the responsible node; and transmitting, in the event that there is a responsible child node selected as the responsible node of the one or more child nodes. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221679 | MICROCOMPUTER - Between a CPU and a communication module, a write buffer, a write control section, a read buffer and a read control section are provided. The CPU directly accesses and the write buffer and the read buffer. By periodically outputting a communication request, the read control section reads data, which the communication module received from other nodes, and transfers the data to the read buffer. The write control section transfers to the communication module the data written in the write buffer as transmission data. In addition, a bypass access control section and an access sequence control section are provided. The bypass access control section controls direct data read and data write between the CPU and the communication module. The access sequence control section controls sequence of accesses of the control sections to the communication module. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221680 | Method For The Aggregation And The Transmission of Multimedia Data - A method for data communication is provided and may include storing multimedia data in a first database, the multimedia data being associated with metadata. Enhanced metadata may be created based on user data of user profiles stored at a central management unit, associated to the multimedia data, and stored in the first database. Multimedia data may be selected from the first database based on the metadata, the enhanced metadata, and a user profile. The selected multimedia data may be modified to produce user-specific multimedia data which may be stored in a second database and may be communicated from the second database to a user terminal. An alarm to a user interface of the user terminal may be generated, if in producing the user-specific multimedia data from the profiled multimedia data, it was not possible to generate the user-specific multimedia data in conformance with the user specific hardware or network characteristics. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221681 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR HIERARCHICALLY REQUESTING CONTENTS IN A HTTP STREAMING SYSTEM - A method for hierarchically requesting contents in a HTTP streaming system is provided, which includes: receiving a service information obtaining request transmitted from a client; returning a service information obtaining request response comprising media presentation description information comprising URL corresponding to multi-level service content; receiving a service request message being a GET message transmitted from the client, wherein the service request message comprises the URL of the multi-level service content; and returning to the client a service request message response comprising the service content corresponding to the URL of the multi-level service content, so that the contents are searched for directly according to the URL, thereby improving processing efficiency. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221682 | REMOTE MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND REMOTE MOBILE COMMUNICATION METHOD - A remote mobile communication system includes: a server device that includes a virtual client unit that receives instruction information from a mobile terminal via a mobile network and, based on the instruction information, generates screen information for causing an application to perform a screen display, and an encoder unit that compression-encodes the screen information, in part or in whole, and transmits the compression-encoded screen information to the mobile network; and a mobile terminal that receives the compression-encoded screen information via the mobile network and decompresses the screen information for display. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221683 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DE-POPULATING CLOUD DATA STORE - Embodiments relate to systems and methods for de-populating a cloud data store. In aspects, data from premise or other sources can be stored in a set of host storage clouds. A network administrator, owner, or other user can initiate the extraction of the set of cloud-populated data, and migrate that data to a set of step-down data stores, such as on-premise databases, servers, and/or other stores. A staging engine hosted in a cloud data distribution service can manage the discovery, reading-out, and delivery of the set of cloud-populated data to the set of step-down data stores. The staging engine can configure high-bandwidth data connections to the distribution service from the host storage clouds, and/or to the target step-down data stores from the data distribution service. A set of de-population commands can specify the connections, target data locations, file or directory formats, and/or other parameters to be used to re-locate the cloud-populated data. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221684 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STAGED DATA MIGRATION BETWEEN DATA SOURCES AND CLOUD-BASED STORAGE NETWORK - Embodiments relate to systems and methods for staged data migration between data sources and a cloud-based storage network. In aspects, a user can maintain a user premise network including servers, clients, local area networks, data stores, and/or other network assets. An administrator or other user of the premise network may wish to extract data from the premise network and transfer that data payload to a set of host storage clouds to leverage cost, redundancy, consolidation, or other cloud advantages. A cloud data delivery (CDD) service can be established to stage the upload of the data payload to the set of host storage clouds using a set of managed or dedicated lines to the CDD service, and to the host storage clouds at network edge. The connections between the premise network/CDD service and CDD service/host storage clouds can be selected and/or optimized to provide high-bandwidth connections tailored to the schedule, cost, or other requirements of the data payload to be transported. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221685 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOADING LANDING PAGE - A Universal Serial Bus (USB) modem/Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) device is provided that when connected to a host device, presents itself as an Ethernet endpoint to the host device, without requiring additional software/drivers to be downloaded to the host device. Embedded in the USB modem/WWAN device are various modules that provide functionality allowing either automatic connection to the Internet or redirection to a local Web User Interface (UI) that a user may employ to configure the USB modem/WWAN device and/or manually connect to the Internet. Additionally, the USB modem/WWAN device employs predetermined rules to determine whether or not/how the redirection occurs, including in scenarios where wireless connectivity to the Internet is unavailable. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221686 | DATA COLLECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A data extraction module for extracting data stored in a database management system of a computer system in Internet, the database management system comprising a database and a management application for accessing the database, the data extraction module comprising: inputs for receiving a request for data stored in the database; extraction means for accessing and extracting the requested data from the database; outputs for outputting the extracted data wherein the extraction means is arranged to bypass the management application and access the database independently of the management application. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221687 | Systems, Methods and Apparatus for Providing a Geotagged Media Experience - Systems, apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture provide for providing geotagged media files to a user based on one or more preferences associated with a user (e.g., criteria derived for and/or specified by the user), at least one recommendation for the user and/or a location of the user. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221688 | METHOD OF SETTING NETWORK, SERVER APPARATUS USING THE METHOD, AND NETWORK SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SERVER APPARTUS - A method of setting a network quickly includes: storing network setting information corresponding to a network connection device included in an individual household in a database of a predetermined server apparatus; transmitting unique device information of the network connection device to the predetermined server apparatus; detecting the network setting information corresponding to the unique device information from the database and transmitting the detected network setting information to the network connection device; and performing network setting needed to form a network in the individual household by using the network setting information. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221689 | CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE CONFIGURATION - A method for controlling remote configuration includes: a configuration management terminal requesting a configuration file to be remotely configured and managed from a configuration management server; the configuration management server returning a configuration item of the configuration file to the configuration management terminal according to a configuration definition corresponding to the configuration file, with the configuration definition including the attributes of the configuration item in the corresponding configuration file; and the configuration management terminal modifying the configuration item and then submitting the modified configuration item to the configuration management server, and the configuration management terminal modifying the configuration file after modifying and verifying the submitted configuration item according to the attributes of the configuration item. A system for controlling remote configuration maintains and manages the configuration items of various configuration files according to the configuration definitions corresponding to the configuration files, so as to achieve universal management of configuration files. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221690 | Data Processing Environment Monitoring - A method, apparatus, and computer program product for monitoring operation of data processing resources in a data processing environment. A request to monitor a service instance may be received by a processor unit, wherein the service instance comprises a data processing resource provided as a service by a provider of the data processing resources. Responsive to receiving the request to monitor the service instance, the processor unit establishes communications to receive monitored data from the service instance. The processor unit receives the monitored data from the service instance and provides the monitored data to a monitoring infrastructure, wherein the monitoring infrastructure is configured to monitor operation of the data processing resources. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221691 | Network Real Estate Analysis - A method can be used to analyze the “real-estate” performance of content items within a network site. The method can comprise determining the click distance to reach each content item and determining the performance of each content item. The method can also comprise calculating a predicted value for performance based on statistical relationship between location and performance observed in a population of content items. The method can comprise comparing the predicted and actual performance. If a content item has an actual performance greater than its predicted performance, then it may be promoted to a better location in the site and the converse for poorer performing content. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221692 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCALIZATION IN PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEMS - A multi-layer peer-to-peer (P2P) capability is provided. A multi-layer P2P system includes a plurality of P2P networks associated with a plurality of hierarchical layers. For example, a first hierarchical layer may include a first P2P network including all peer nodes of the P2P system, and a second hierarchical layer may include a plurality of second P2P networks where the second P2P networks of the second hierarchical layer include respective subsets of the peer nodes of the first P2P network. The second P2P networks of the second hierarchical layer may be organized based on one or more characteristics (e.g., the geographic locations of the peer nodes, the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with which the peer nodes are associated, and the like). A node participating in the P2P system joins the first P2P network of the P2P system and one of the second P2P networks of the P2P system. The node may then interact with the first P2P network and/or the second P2P network for performing various functions within the P2P system. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221693 | TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS AND ROLLBACK - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following; receiving, at the session management node, an event notification; retrieving an object associated with the event, wherein the object includes an authorized value for a particular attribute; determining, based on the event notification, that the object should be temporarily modified; determining, based on the event notification, an adjusted value for the particular attribute; inserting the adjusted value for the particular attribute into the object without modifying the authorized value for a particular attribute; and reauthorizing at least one session based on the object. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221694 | DYNAMIC MAPPING OF IDENTIFIERS IN A MULTI-TENANT COMPUTING SYSTEM - Some embodiments of a system and a method to dynamically create mappings between tenant-specific user identifiers (IDs) and global user IDs in a multi-tenant computing system have been presented. In response to a request to map a tenant user identifier (ID) pair comprising a tenant identifier (ID) and a tenant-specific user ID, a server in a networked system creates a mapping of the tenant user ID pair to a global user ID that is not yet used. The server is communicably coupled to other servers in the networked system, and the tenant ID is associated with a tenant in the networked system. The server may immediately makes the mapping of the tenant user ID pair to the global user ID available to the other servers in the networked system. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221695 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO INTEGRATE LOGICAL AND PHYSICAL ACCESS CONTROL - Methods and apparatus to control access are described. One example method includes allowing physical access and logic access based on a credential associated with a mobile device, monitoring logical access by the mobile device, and revoking a physical access privilege based on termination of logical access by the mobile device. Other implementations are possible. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221696 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A SELECTION OF CLOUD DATA DISTRIBUTION SERVICE FROM ALTERNATIVE PROVIDERS FOR STAGING DATA TO HOST CLOUDS - Embodiments relate to systems and methods for generating a selection of cloud data distribution service from alternative providers for staging data to host clouds. In aspects, a user can maintain a user premise network including servers, clients, local area networks, data stores, and/or other network assets. An administrator or other user of the premise network may wish to extract data from the premise network and transfer that data to host storage clouds to leverage cost, redundancy, consolidation, or other cloud advantages. A set of cloud data delivery (CDD) services can be established to stage the upload of the data payload to the set of destination host storage clouds. Uploads to the one or more intermediate CDD services can be made using a set of high-bandwidth managed or dedicated lines. The user can interrogate the set of alternative CDD services accessible to the premise network, and identify CDD services capable of staging the premise data to data stores in those intermediate services. Multiple CDDs can be rated and/or selected according to cost, schedule, capacity, and/or other transport parameters, and in cases the data payload can be divided for delivery over multiple CDD services. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221697 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PROXY-BASED CONTENT DISCOVERY AND DELIVERY - An approach is provided for proxy-based content discovery and delivery. A proxy platform determines access information with respect to one or more web resources. The access information associated with a client of a proxy server. The proxy platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of the access information to determine a frequency of access of the one or more web resources via the proxy server. The proxy platform then determines to initiate a caching of at least a portion of the one or more web resources at the client based, at least in part, on the frequency of access. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221698 | System and Method for Mobility Management in a Wireless Communications System - A system and method for mobility management in a wireless communications system are provided. A method for proxy server operations includes determining if a communications device is capable of performing an operation, forwarding a transmission to a destination of the transmission if the communications device is capable of performing an operation, and responding to the transmission on behalf of the communications device if the communications device is not capable of performing an operation. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221699 | MANAGEMENT COMPUTER AND COMPUTER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management computer | 2012-08-30 |
20120221700 | System, Method and Program for Telecom Infrastructure Virtualization and Management - A virtualized telecom system and a method for managing service continuity and mobility in a virtualized telecom system. The system comprises a plurality of execution nodes each configured to execute a network function by registering; and a manager node for registering each of the plurality of execution nodes, assigning a node identifier (Node ID) to each of the plurality of execution nodes, periodically polling each of the plurality of execution nodes for a status, and issuing control instructions to each of the plurality of execution nodes based upon the status of a respective execution node. Each of the plurality of execution node responds to the polling by transmitting its status to the manager node. The status includes runtime information and pre-configuration information. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221701 | NETWORK BASED APPLICATION MANAGEMENT - An environment for facilitating the management of content for users associated with specific partner networks is provided. Users may be granted access to such specific partner networks in accordance with each user's affiliation with one or more organizations. In accordance with the above, a content management system facilitates the content/information exchange by accepting software applications from content providers. Additionally, the content management system accepts software application specifications or manifests from partner network administrators. Accordingly, the content management system can audit and recommend actions to users regarding applicable software application based one user organizational associations. Still further, the content management system can facilitate requests from affiliated users for specific types of content that can be forwarded to content providers and later made available to affiliated users. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221702 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING CONNECTION AMONG TERMINALS AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONNECTION CONTROL PROGRAM - When a request for participating in a session being performed by a plurality of participating terminals is received from a terminal that is not participated in the session, a system extracts identification information of one or more candidate terminals that are associated with the participating terminal for each one of the plurality of participating terminals, and determines whether identification information of the terminal that sends the request is included in the extracted candidate terminal identification information to generate a determination result. The determination result is used to determine whether to allow the terminal that sends the request to connect with the plurality of participating terminals to participate in the session. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221703 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA EXCHANGE BETWEEN A VEHICLE AND A SERVER - A method for data exchange between a vehicle and a server, the vehicle including a battery and a first communication unit, the server including a second communication unit. The method connects the first communication unit and the second communication unit via a connection line wherein the connection line is adapted for charging the battery via a power supply unit and exchanges data between the first communication unit and the second communication unit via the connection line. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221704 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ACCESS AMONG DEVICES - Provided are a method, system, and computer storage device for managing zone information for devices in a network. A zone group table includes entries for different pairs of zones, wherein each entry indicates whether access between a pair of the zones is permitted. An attribute zone table indicates whether devices in the zones are initiator, target and/or initiator/target. For a selected zone, indication is made of whether ports in the devices in the selected zone have an initiator, target and/or initiator/target attribute as indicated in the attribute zone table. A determination is made as to whether all the ports in the devices in the selected zone have the same attribute of initiator, target or initiator/target. If so, a division proposal is indicated for the selected zone proposing to separate devices in the selected zone into at least one new zone. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221705 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A SHARED I/O NETWORK INTERFACE CONTROLLER - A shared network interface controller (NIC) interfaces a plurality of operating system domains as part of the load-store architecture of the operating system domains. A bus interface couples the NIC to a load-store domain bus (such as PCI-Express), using header information to associate data on the bus with an originating operating system domain. Transmit/receive logic connects the NIC to the network. Association logic allows the NIC to designate, and later lookup which destination MAC address (on the Ethernet side) is associated with which operating system domain. Descriptor register files and Control Status Registers (CSR's) specific to an operating system domain are duplicated and made available for each domain. Several direct memory access (DMA) engines are provided to improve throughput. Packet replication logic, filters (perfect and hash) and VLAN tables are used for looping back packets originating from one operating system domain to another and other operations. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221706 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR NETWORK RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - Method and arrangement for network resource management in a communication network,especially related to transfer of content. A content resource broker is introduced, which dynamically manages resources based on the size of the content to be transferred. The method and arrangement involve the obtaining of information on current and future network capacity, which is available for transfer of content; the receiving of a request from a requesting entity concerning resources for transfer of a content C; and the determining of whether the available network capacity within a predetermined response time is sufficient for transferring the content C before the predetermined response time has expired. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221707 | EMERGENCY SIGNALLING IN AN IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM NETWORK - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for handling emergency signaling in an IP Multimedia Subsystem network. A Proxy-Call Session Control Function receives a message requesting set up of a session. The message is associated with an IP Multimedia Private Identity. The P-CSCF determines that the message relates to an emergency call. If an emergency override tag associated with the IMPI is provisioned or set at the P-CSCF, then the message is forwarding the SIP message to a Serving-Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) for further handling. However, if an emergency override tag associated with the IMPI is not provisioned or set at the P-CSCF, the message is forwarded to an Emergency-Call Session Control Function (E-CSCF). The P-CSCF to exercises control over the handling of emergency signaling, according to embodiments of the invention. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221708 | Distributed content popularity tracking for use in memory eviction - In one embodiment, a method includes storing at a node in a distributed network of nodes, an object associated with an object descriptor comprising popularity information for the object, each of the nodes storing a plurality of the objects and object descriptors, the node in communication with a server storing objects that are less popular than the objects stored at the nodes, and transmitting from the node to the server, one of the objects identified as less popular than one of the objects stored at the server. One of the nodes receives and stores the object from the server. An apparatus is also disclosed. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221709 | MECHANISM TO ALLOW HOSTED AND ON-SITE IMPLEMENTATIONS TO MANAGE PRODUCT ASSETS AS SPECIFIED BY A THIRD PARTY - A first server computing system receives a request from a second server computing system over a first network. The request is for product asset management data relating to an owner of product assets. The product asset management data comprises product business model data of a third party. The first computing system collects the product asset management data relating to the owner and sends the product asset management data to the second server computing system to allow the second server computing system to manage the product assets of the owner as specified by the third party via a second network. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221710 | Mechanism for Virtual Machine Resource Reduction for Live Migration Optimization - A mechanism for virtual machine resource reduction for live migration optimization is disclosed. A method of the invention includes monitoring a rate of state change of a virtual machine (VM) undergoing a live migration, determining that the rate of state change of the VM exceeds a rate of state transfer of the VM during the live migration process, and adjusting one or more resources of the VM to decrease the rate of state change of the VM to be less than the rate of state transfer of the VM. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221711 | REGULAR EXPRESSION SEARCHES UTILIZING GENERAL PURPOSE PROCESSORS ON A NETWORK INTERCONNECT - A first hardware node in a network interconnect receives a data packet from a network. The first hardware node examines the data packet for a regular expression. In response to the first hardware node failing to identify the regular expression in the data packet, the data packet is forwarded to a second hardware node in the network interconnect for further examination of the data packet in order to search for the regular expression in the data packet. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221712 | User Activity Monitoring - Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for monitoring user activity. In embodiments, a front-end component collections data that may be useful to an administrator or others in determining or inferring what a user was doing or trying to do when interacting with an application, and the front-end component communicates at least some of this data to a back-end component. In embodiments, the communication of data related to the user activity is piggy-backed with typical transmissions, such as requests and responses, to reduce the overhead of the user activity monitoring. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221713 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL HOME NETWORK SYSTEM USING UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING - The invention is related to a multifunctional home network system using ubiquitous computing. The system includes a home network equipment that communicate to a home gateway with wire/wireless inside a room, and can provide various services including security, home automation, multimedia, and medical service and transmit these information to a user located outside. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221714 | Communication Device, Communication Method, and Computer Readable Recording Medium - A communication device includes a controller configured to control the communication device to determine whether to permit measurement of a transmission channel bandwidth which is a usable bandwidth in a transmission channel to and from another communication device via a network, based on whether the other communication device satisfies a specified condition, in response to receiving an establishment request that requests establishment of a session from the other communication device, measure the transmission channel bandwidth to and from the other communication device, in response to determining that the measurement of the transmission channel bandwidth is permitted, and communicate with the other communication device using the measured transmission channel bandwidth, in response to measuring the transmission channel bandwidth and receiving a permit command that is a command to permit the establishment of the session with the other communication device. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221715 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PROCESSING LOG DATA, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING LOG DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM - An management system stores information including communication state data indicating a communication state of a terminal as raw log data, and applies format processing to the raw log data to generate formatted log data before a request for obtaining communications log information of the terminal is received. When the request is received, the management system searches the formatted log data to obtain formatted log data that matches the request. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221716 | Tracking Internet Usage In A Household - Tracking Internet usage in a home network including multiple household computing devices connectible using a consumer premises router. An agent is installable in the consumer premises router. A monitor server operatively connects to the consumer premises router. The agent is operable to: capture a request originating from at least one of the household devices and to extract data from the request. The data may include an identifier of the household device initiating the request. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221717 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR AUTOMATED REMOTE DATA COLLECTION - Methods, apparatuses, computer program products and other means are provided for systems that are configured to use remote connections to, for example, provide proactive support monitoring by running scripts (such as, e.g., diagnostic tests) and/or collecting data (such as diagnostic test result data) from one or more customer machines. The collected data can be received at a centralized location. The collected data can be analyzed by one or more other machines, used by a support team, sold to clients, and/or used in any other manner. For example, technical problems discovered from diagnostic test results data may be fixed by a support team before the symptoms of the problems are experienced by at least some of the customer's machines. Some embodiments may also be configured to perform fact based decision making. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221718 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT METHOD - An energy management system includes a controller disposed at a site. The controller is in communication with a gateway with the gateway being capable of establishing a broadband connection with a first communication network. The gateway is configured to communicate with at least one remote server for receiving energy management information located at the at least one remote server. The controller is configured to initiate communication with the at least one remote server at a first periodic interval to request receipt of the energy management information over the first communication network. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221719 | METHOD FOR SETTING DATA TRANSMISSION PARAMETERS AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method for setting data transmission parameters of a communication connection comprising exchanging interface management capabilities between a plurality of communication devices; selecting from the plurality of communication devices, an active interference manager and at least one passive interference manager; collecting information about communication connections to the active interference manager, including information messaged from the at least one passive interference manager; and setting the plurality of data transmission parameters of the communication connections based on the collected information, wherein the collected information includes database information generated through simulations or measurements and stored on the plurality of communication devices. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221720 | MONITORING DEVICE MESH NETWORK SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Methods, systems, devices, and software are described for data transmission to and from a monitored device via a mesh network. Monitoring devices report usage, status, location, and other pertinent data via a mesh network, and perhaps other networks as well. Novel data collection, transmission, and aggregation techniques are described. Data transfer may be bi-directional in order to manage and update device status and operation. The monitored device location may be tracked with the reported information. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221721 | Detecting Fraudulent Activity - Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for detecting fraudulent activity. A computing device in a second network receives a plurality of interactions between data centers in a first network and one or more devices, remote from the data centers, of a user, the interactions forming an aggregate user session representing the user's activity over a period of time with the data centers via the devices. The computing device monitors data transaction requests of the interactions and is configured to respond to each request with a response that appears as if the request was executed. If the interactions are harmful, the computing device interdicts the interactions from execution by the data centers and allows the devices to submit additional interactions. If unable to determine whether the subsequent interactions are harmful, the computing device transmits the interactions to the data centers for execution and marks the interactions. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221722 | Method and Arrangement for Handling Notifications in a Communication Network - A method can be executed at a notifier of a communication system for the purpose of handling notifications, at least partly according to a notification scheme. The basis of the method is to provisioning for a differentiated distribution rate to be applied together with the notification scheme when distributing notifications which have been received from a notification source function and which are associated with the subscriber. The provisioning is based on user traffic statistics on traffic involving a registered subscriber, and which has been generated in the communication network, and where the statistics has been acquired from a statistics server and accumulated by the notifier. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221723 | TRANSIENT SUBSCRIPTION RECORDS - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: receiving, at the session management node, an initial request message, the initial request message including at least one subscription identifier; determining that the session management node does not have access to a subscription record associated with the at least one subscription identifier; generating a transient subscription record based on the initial request message; and processing the initial request message based on the initial request message and the transient subscription record. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221724 | SMART LINK SYSTEM AND METHOD - A resource may be identified according to multiple Uniform Resource Locators (“URL”) according to systems and methods for encapsulating an alternative URL inside a primary “carrier” URL to form a compound URL or “smart link” and for processing smart links thereby formed. A preferred URL may be encapsulated into a smart link for use by client devices that support handling of the preferred URL, while other client devices may use a default or fallback URL that is also encapsulated into the smart link. The alternative URL is indicated by a pre-determined key included in the primary carrier URL. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221725 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CONTROL APPLICATION TO APPLICATION COMMUNICATION OVER A NETWORK - A method is provided to control communication between applications that communicate over a network comprising: designating a different respective application identifier (AppID) for each of a multiplicity of A2A enabled applications suitable to run on endpoint devices coupled to a network suitable for delivery of multimedia information; providing in non-transitory media a registry that indicates authorized AppIDs; receiving over the network a request originating from a first endpoint device for authorization for a media connection; wherein the authorization request includes an AppID; in response to the authorization request, determining whether the AppID within the authorization request matches an authorized AppID indicated within the registry; rejecting the authorization request in response to a determination that the AppID does not match an authorized AppID indicated within the registry. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221726 | NETWORK COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for communicating via a network may employ communication devices capable of functioning in a server mode and a client mode. Communication may begin by activating a server mode for a first communication device. The first communication device in the server mode may receive a message from a second communication device, the message comprising an identity associated with the second communication device. The first communication device may retrieve a key associated with the second communication device and verify the identity associated with the second communication device by comparing data in the message from the second communication device with data in the key. A client mode may be activated for the first communication device. The first communication device in client mode may send a message to an address associated with the second communication device, the message comprising an identity associated with the first communication device. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221727 | MANAGE A SHARED COMPUTING RESOURCE BASED ON RESOURCE USE REPORTS - Embodiments disclosed herein relate to managing a shared computing resource based on resource use reports. In one embodiment, a manager electronic device manages a shared computing resource based on resource use reports from agent electronic devices. The manager electronic device may send resource use instructions to the agent electronic devices, and the agent electronic devices may use the resource based on the instructions. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221728 | Administering Medical Digital Images With Intelligent Analytic Execution Of Workflows - Administering medical digital images including receiving a medical image business object representing a transaction carrying out a type of service request made by a health care provider; selecting, in dependence upon workflow selection rules and the attributes of the medical image business object, one or more clinical workflows to process the medical image according to the transaction; and processing the medical image of the request with the clinical workflows, thereby creating a resultant business object and resultant medical image including selecting, by the workflow dispatcher in dependence upon metadata for computational units in the distributed medical digital image computing environment, particular computational units in the distributed medical digital image computing environment to perform particular services of the one or more clinical workflows, deploying the particular services to the particular computational units, and executing the services on the computational units upon which they are deployed. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221729 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR THE COMPUTER SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - Even when a configuration in which instances of plural kinds of storage management software having equivalent functions are arranged to cooperatively manage a large-scale storage system is adopted, to prevent occurrence of a management inoperability and configuration information inconsistency and enable the same management operation and information reference as those performed when all management target objects are managed by a single instance. In the present invention, a representative management computer serving as a representative among management computers is determined. The representative management computer collects, from storage apparatuses and host computers, information concerning the management target objects and configuration summary information including a relation type among the objects and determines, on the basis of the configuration summary information, management target objects which each of the management computers should take charge of. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221730 | RESOURCE CONTROL SYSTEM AND RESOURCE CONTROL METHOD - A resource control system includes a control unit configured to control to make hardware resources which are allocated to a virtual server increase if an extent of deterioration of response characteristics to requests for processing to the virtual server becomes greater than a certain first extent, and configured to control to change the certain first extent to a smaller second extent of deterioration in accordance with an increase in frequency of access to the virtual server. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221731 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING SERVICE APPLICATIONS - A method for scheduling service applications is applied in a computing device. The method creates a software interface and sets a scheduled time and operation parameters of a service application. The software interface is called and bound to the service application. The service application is added to a scheduling queue. At the scheduled time, the service application is selected from the scheduling queue and executed according to the operation parameters of the service application. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221732 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN COMPUTERS - A method and tangible medium embodying code for allocating resource units of an allocatable resource among a plurality of clients in a computer is described. In the method, resource units are initially distributed among the clients by assigning to each of the clients a nominal share of the allocatable resource. For each client, a current allocation of resource units is determined. A metric is evaluated for each client, the metric being a function both of the nominal share and a usage-based factor, the usage-based factor being a function of a measure of resource units that the client is actively using and a measure of resource units that the client is not actively using. A resource unit can be reclaimed from a client when the metric for that client meets a predetermined criterion. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221733 | DATA CENTER BATCH JOB QUALITY OF SERVICE CONTROL - A data center management system can include a data center customer profile corresponding to a data center customer, where the data center customer profile includes a service level agreement (SLA) and a data center resource usage model. A batch job quality of service (QoS) control module can determine an immediate QoS specification for a batch job of the data center customer, and a data center resource optimization module can determine a data center resource allocation for the data center customer based on the data center customer profile and the immediate QoS specification. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221734 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A search for another information processing apparatus and a predetermined access point is automatically performed. When a result of the search is the other portable information processing apparatus, a process of automatically performing data communication with the other information processing apparatus is performed. On the other hand, when the result of the search is the access point, a process of automatically performing data communication via the access point is performed. | 2012-08-30 |
20120221735 | MULTIDEVICE SESSION ESTABLISHMENT FOR MULTIMODAL BROWSING - Systems, methods, apparatuses and computer program products for establishing a single session for processing a multimodal application with multiple devices and for distributing the multimodal application amongst the multiple devices participating in the single session based on the respective capabilities of each device are provided. A system, method and computer program product for allowing new devices operated by the same user to join in the previously established session for processing the multimodal application where the capabilities of the new device exceed that of all devices currently participating in the session are also provided. | 2012-08-30 |