39th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 69 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110238785 | MULTIMEDIA PROVIDING SERVICE - In an interval from the time an origination-side terminal ( | 2011-09-29 |
20110238786 | Using a Home-Networking Gateway to Manage Communications - Techniques are provided for managing communications from an external computer system to a gateway device on a home network. Content is downloaded to the home network, stored on the home-networking gateway and then made available to a device on the home network that is capable of using the stored content. Additionally, a home-networking gateway manages communications between external computer systems and the home network to give priority to human interactive communications over the downloading of entertainment content for future use. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238787 | Service Guide Sending Method, Service Guide Acquiring Method, Server, Terminal and System - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a Service Guide (SG) sending method, an SG acquiring method, a server, a terminal, and a system. The SG sending method includes: generating a Service Guide Delivery Descriptor (SGDD) that includes interactive SG description information as a basis for a terminal to determine whether to acquire an SG through an interactive network; and sending the SGDD to the terminal. The SG acquiring method includes: according to a received SGDD, acquiring interactive SG description information included in the SGDD; and acquiring the SG through an interactive network if the interactive SG description information fulfills preset conditions. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238788 | Time shifted transcoded streaming (TSTS) system and method - A method and system for transmitting multimedia content from a server to a client device includes a source multimedia retriever to retrieve source multimedia content data. A transcoded multimedia retriever retrieves transcoded multimedia content data, the transcoded multimedia content data being a transcoded version of the source multimedia content, and the transcoded multimedia content data being time shifted with respect to the source multimedia content data. A data packet formulator formulates a data packet comprising the source multimedia content data and the time shifted transcoded multimedia content data. A data packet transmitter transmits the data packet from the server to the client device. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238789 | ENHANCED BLOCK-REQUEST STREAMING SYSTEM USING SIGNALING OR BLOCK CREATION - A block-request streaming system provides for improvements in the user experience and bandwidth efficiency of such systems, typically using an ingestion system that generates data in a form to be served by a conventional file server (HTTP, FTP, or the like), wherein the ingestion system intakes content and prepares it as files or data elements to be served by the file server. The system might include controlling the sequence, timing and construction of block requests, time based indexing, variable block sizing, optimal block partitioning, control of random access point placement, including across multiple presentation versions, dynamically updating presentation data, and/or efficiently presenting live content and time shifting. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238790 | Auditable distribution of a data file - Auditable data distribution from a server to clients is achieved as follows. The server delivers chunks of a data file, and identifiers of the chunks, to the clients. For each chunk of the data file received by the clients, a digest is generated by the client that received the chunk, using at least a part of the chunk and further data of the client that received the chunk. The further data is known to the server. The client that received this chunk sends the digest to the server, which receives the digest. The server determines an identity of the clink that received the chunk in question, by comparing the digest to the chunks that the server has sent and to the further data known to the server. The server stores the identity of the client that received the chunk. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238791 | TECHNIQUES FOR DISTRIBUTING NETWORK PROVIDER DIGITAL CONTENT TO CUSTOMER PREMISES NODES - Techniques for distributing digital content include receiving provider content over a network connection at a customer premises node located on premises of a first customer. The provider content is offered by a network service provider different from the first customer. Provider data based on the provider content is stored in non-volatile storage on the customer premises node of the first customer. It is determined whether conditions are satisfied for sending the provider content to a second customer different from the first customer. If it is determined that such conditions are satisfied, then the provider data is retrieved from the non-volatile storage, and data based on the provider data is sent over the network connection for receipt by the second customer. Thereby a customer premises node serves as a cache of provider content for other customer premises nodes on the same last mile segment or access network. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238792 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND MAINTAINING CONSISTENCY OF A CONFIGURATION - The present application is directed towards systems and methods for monitoring and maintaining consistency of a configuration across a plurality of cores or packet engines in a multi-core system. A configuration manager handles communication of configuration commands to a plurality of cores or packet engines. If a command executes successfully on a first packet engine but fails on a second packet engine, the configuration manager may communicate an undo command to the first packet engine. Successful execution of the undo command may restore the packet engines to a consistent configuration. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238793 | MANAGING DISTRIBUTED ADDRESS POOLS WITHIN NETWORK DEVICES - In general, techniques are described for managing distributed address pools within network devices. A network device that includes a control unit and at least one interface may implement these techniques. The control unit stores data defining a network address pool shared by both the network device and another network device. The control unit includes a shared pool manager module that evaluates the data defining the network address pool to determine a block of addresses of the network address pool that is not in use by the other network device. The at least one interface transmits a request to the other network device requesting the determined block and receives a response from the other network device indicating whether one or more addresses of the requested block are available. The control unit then allocates one or more addresses from the requested block to subscriber devices based on the indication in the response. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238794 | PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK CONNECTIVITY STATUS - The embodiments disclosed herein provide a system, apparatus, and method for managing requests in a peer-to-peer network. A processor determines whether to reduce an amount of checks for connectivity for the device in the peer-to-peer network in response to a device being in the peer-to-peer network. The processor configures the device to send a message indicating a status of the device to a number of other devices in the peer-to-peer network without receiving a request for the status of the device in response to a determination to reduce the amount of checks for connectivity for the device in the peer-to-peer network. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238795 | Semantic Matching of Federation Intents and Services Capabilities in a Planning System for Automatic Service Federation - A method, device, and computer program product are provided for automatically generating connectivity configuration between domains by a device. A rule is received by the device. The rule is read by the device to determine a first domain invoking a service, a second domain having the service, and connectivity requirements for the first and second domains. A first proxy and a second proxy are automatically determined to fulfill the rule by the device. The first proxy is automatically assigned to the first domain and the second proxy is automatically assigned to the second domain. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238796 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD - According to one example of the present invention, there is provided an electronic device comprising one or more configurable features. The device comprises an interface for receiving configuration data for configuring a feature of the electronic device and a data store or memory for storing feature configuration data associated with a configurable feature. The device further comprises logic for determining whether the received configuration data is compatible with configuration data stored in the data store. If the logic determines that the received configuration data is compatible the device is configured in accordance with the received configuration data. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238797 | CLOUD-BASED SOFTWARE ECO-SYSTEM - A novel eco-system is provided which first supplies a standardized template of one or more virtual machine images for software module providers/vendors. A plurality of modules executing on the virtual machine images is selected by a user to comprise a plurality of configurations. A suitable configuration may be determined according to a metric and the determined suitable configuration of software modules is subsequently used to build an end-to-end solution. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238798 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device including a registration unit that registers an IP address of the communication device and a method information including a first method information indicating a first setting method for setting a dynamic IP address and a second method information indicating a second setting method for setting a static IP address. The registration unit includes a change unit that changes registered contents of a memory in accordance with a user's instruction. When the first method information and a first IP address are registered in the memory, the change unit does not change the method information in the memory from the first method information to the second method information in a case where a method change instruction for changing the first setting method to the second setting method is given by the user under a state where the first IP address has not been changed to another IP address. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238799 | MIGRATION OF DATA BETWEEN COMPUTERS - Techniques and mechanisms that allow configuration information, applications and/or data to be transferred between computer systems in an automated, or partially automated, manner, which may allow for more efficient transfer as compared to manual transfer. A source computer system may be coupled with a destination computer system directly via a wired or wireless communications channel. Data including, for example, user identification information, network settings, system settings, permissions and/or other data may be transferred from the source computer system to the destination computer system. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238800 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND STORING MEDIUM - A communication apparatus connected with a device via a network, the communication apparatus comprising: a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a first identification information for identifying the device, a second obtaining unit configured to obtain a current IP address set to the device, a communication unit configured to communicate with the device by using the current IP address, a generating unit configured to generate a new IP address, and a setting unit that broadcasts a setting packet to the network when a communication with the device by using the current IP address fails, wherein the setting packet contains the first identification information and the new IP address, and when a second identification information for identifying a receiving device that receives the setting packet is identical to the first identification information, the setting packet instructs the receiving device to newly set the new IP address to the receiving device. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238801 | DYNAMIC SESSION MAINTENANCE FOR MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES - A framework and method are disclosed for supporting changed addresses by mobile network nodes. Such support is provided through enhancements to the mobile network nodes and utilizes DNS servers, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and virtual private network (VPN) servers—or their functional equivalents—to dynamically assign a current network address to a mobile node, provide the current network address to an authoritative name server, and thereafter have correspondent nodes update their addresses for the mobile node based upon an address provided by the authoritative name server. A mobile node registers all of its name-to-address mappings with its authoritative DNS server using a time to live of zero. Furthermore, when a mobile node moves outside its home security domain, the mobile node initiates a virtual private network connection to a virtual private server for a security domain. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238802 | Electronic apparatus and system capable of assigning appropriate address - In order to prevent unnecessary APIPA process from being executed in a LAN environment which does not adopt APIPA, an ICMP echo request for a predetermined IP address is broadcast. Whether there are more than N apparatuses using APIPA is checked based on the replies, and if there are, IP address setting by APIPA is executed. In a LAN environment which adopts APIPA, whether the IP address to be assigned to an apparatus is already being used by another apparatus is checked. If the date and time when the other apparatus was assigned the IP address is earlier than the date and time when the apparatus was assigned the IP address, APIPA is executed to decide the IP address of the apparatus. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238803 | Administration Of Virtual Machine Affinity In A Data Center - Administration of virtual machine affinity in a data center, where the data center includes a plurality of virtual machines (‘VMs’), each VM being a module of automated computing machinery installed upon a computer in the data center and characterized by a Universally Unique Identifier (‘UUID’), at least two of the VMs having an affinity requirement to be installed on separate computers, the data center further including a data center administration server operably coupled to the VMs, including communicating, by at least one of the VMs having an affinity requirement to the data center administration server, the UUIDs of the VMs having an affinity requirement; and moving by the data center administration server the VMs having an affinity requirement to separate computers in the data center. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238804 | AGER RING OPTIMIZATION - A device provides an ager ring that ages entries associated with managed resource of a device, and determines whether a particular entry associated with a particular managed resource of the device is to be updated. The device also updates, when the particular entry is to be aged out in a particular time frame, the particular entry in the ager ring based on a bucket offset and a current time bucket associated with the particular entry and based on a current time, a refresh timeout, and a maximum timeout associated with the ager ring. The device further updates, when the particular entry is being aged during processing, the particular entry in the ager ring based on a new bucket, the current time bucket, and the bucket offset associated with the particular entry and based on the maximum timeout associated with the ager ring. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238805 | Topology Aware Smart Merge - Systems, methods, and computer readable media for managing the configuration of topologically related network devices are described. In general, devices that are “topologically related” are devices that are functionally coupled in some way (e.g., network switches sharing a common trunk line or network routers providing common router services in accordance with an established priority scheme). Specifically, techniques are disclosed for verifying or changing the configuration of a first network device based on the configuration of a second, topologically related, network device. Configuration policies (or rules) are described that are used to “bridge” the configuration of one device with that of another device. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238806 | TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING DEVICES NOT DIRECTLY ACCESSIBLE TO DEVICE MANAGEMENT SERVER - Methods and devices for managing devices not directly accessible to device management server are provided. A device for communicating a Location Update Alert message to a Device Management (DM) Server via a DM Gateway includes a memory for storing code of a DM client and a plurality of DM MOs, each of the plurality of DM MOs including one or more nodes, a processor for executing the code of the DM client stored in the memory, a communications unit for receiving and sending messages for the DM client, and the DM client for communicating a Location Update Alert message to the DM Server via the DM Gateway upon detecting a change in an address of the device, based on a LocationUpdate node of at least one of the plurality of DM MOs. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238807 | RELAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DEVICE MANAGEMENT SERVICE - A method for providing a Device Management (DM) service to various devices by a relay device is provided. In the method, the relay device registers in a DM server a relay function for providing a DM service based on the relay device to at least one device. If at least one device is discovered in a Personal Area Network (PAN) managed by the relay device, the relay device determines a relay mode with the at least one device, and provides a DM service from the DM server to the at least one device according to the determined relay mode. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238808 | PROJECTOR SYSTEM AND CONNECTION ESTABLISHMENT METHOD - A projector system includes: a plurality of computers connected to a network; and a plurality of projectors connected to the network, wherein each of the computers includes a connection request unit which gives a connection request to an arbitrary projector connected to the network, and each of the projectors includes a group information acquisition unit which acquires group information including apparatus IDs of the respective projectors of a group to which the own apparatus belongs, and a connection request unit which requests the projectors excluding the own apparatus among the projectors of the group to connection with an arbitrary computer, referring to the group information, when receiving the connection request from the arbitrary computer. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238809 | METHOD OF MANAGING SELECTION INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO MEDIA CONTENT, AND USER DEVICE, SERVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD - A method of managing selection information with respect to media content in a user device, a method of managing selection information with respect to media content in a server, the user device, a server, and a storage medium are provided. First information about at least one media content is output from the user device. A selection signal based on the first information is received at the user device. Second information about media content selected by the selection signal is transmitted from the user device to the server. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238810 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STATE MANAGEMENT BASED ON INSTANT MESSAGING PLATFORM - The present invention discloses a system and a method for state management based on an instant messaging platform. The system comprises a client, a registration application server, a PS application server, and at least one third party server. The method includes the third party server searching its database according to client login information, obtaining the group information of the client and member information of the group, and returning the group information and the member information of the group to the client; then the client sending its current state and group information to the PS application server; and the PS application server, after receiving the current state and group information, sending states of other on-line members in the group to the client, and forwarding the current state of the client to other on-line members in the group. The present invention separates user management from state management in the instant messaging; its PS application server only performs state management; group and user information are stored specifically in other third party server(s), thereby not only decreasing the load of other parts of the system but also reducing the network overhead for realizing smooth operation. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238811 | Switching States Between Two Computing Devices - A method is provided to enable the person to switch use of computing devices when working with records and/or documents. A method such as described may be implemented for an individual operating two (or more) computing devices that share and synchronize sets of records. One or more operations may be performed to update and maintain correspondence between the two sets of records. A switchover event may be detected, where the event corresponds to the individual using a second computing device while already using a first computing device. Once the switchover event is detected, state of use information may be received on the second computing device. This information indicates the state of use of one or more records on the first computing device. This information may be used to affect the state of use of corresponding records on the second computing device. In particular, the corresponding records on the second computing device may be placed in a state of use, or in a selected state for subsequent use. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238812 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE PROFILING OF APPLICATION EVENTS - A system and method for high-performance profiling of web-enabled application events are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes registering a profiler as a provider to an event tracer. Information associated with an event is captured using the profiler, the event is associated with a web-enabled application. A function token is associated with the captured information, which is communicated to the event tracer. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238813 | CONSISTENT CLUSTER OPERATIONAL DATA IN A SERVER CLUSTER USING A QUORUM OF REPLICAS - A method and system for increasing server cluster availability by requiring at a minimum only one node and a quorum replica set of replica members to form and operate a cluster. Replica members maintain cluster operational data. A cluster operates when one node possesses a majority of replica members, which ensures that any new or surviving cluster includes consistent cluster operational data via at least one replica member from the immediately prior cluster. Arbitration provides exclusive ownership by one node of the replica members, including at cluster formation, and when the owning node fails. Arbitration uses a fast mutual exclusion algorithm and a reservation mechanism to challenge for and defend the exclusive reservation of each member. A quorum replica set algorithm brings members online and offline with data consistency, including updating unreconciled replica members, and ensures consistent read and update operations. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238814 | METHOD FOR CREATING GLOBAL DISTRIBUTED NAMESPACE - One example embodiment includes a method for constructing a unified namespace carried out by a domain manager service executing on a domain node in a domain network comprised of domain nodes. The method includes establishing a single, hierarchical domain tree that encompasses digital computers in a distributed data service network, where the domain manager service sends a request to all domain member nodes requesting that each domain node export the root of its sub-domain to the domain manager. The method also includes receiving the exported sub-domain roots. The method further includes grafting onto a domain root of the domain manager service the received exported sub-domain roots. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238815 | INTERRUPTIBILITY AWARENESS SERVICE - Interruptibility awareness service enables a requestor to learn whether a requestee is interruptible, for instance, by obtaining current social interaction information of a requestee; determining whether the requestee is interruptible based on the requestee's current social interaction information; and returning a response that indicates requestee's interruptibility. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238816 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY PROVISIONING RESOURCES WITHIN A DISTRIBUTED CONTROL PLANE OF A SWITCH - In some embodiments, a network management module is operatively coupled to a set of edge devices that are coupled to a set of peripheral processing devices. The network management module can receive a signal associated with a broadcast protocol from an edge device from the set of edge devices in response to that edge device being operatively coupled to a switch fabric. The network management module can provision that edge device in response to receiving the signal. The network management module can define multiple network control entities at the set of edge devices such that each network control entity from the multiple network control entities can provide forwarding-state information associated with at least one peripheral processing device from the set of peripheral processing devices to at least one remaining network control entity from the multiple network control entities using a selective protocol. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238817 | Network Monitoring Server And Network Monitoring System - A failure factor can be promptly carved up by effectively prioritizing the ports to which MEPs are assigned in a condition where the maximum number of MEPs is limited. A network monitoring server monitors a network having plural switch devices. The plural switch devices each have a communication confirmation function using transmission and reception of a monitoring frame between ports. An upper limit is set to the number of ports to which maintenance end points (MEPs) are assignable among the respective ports of the plural switch devices. The network monitoring server calculates, for each of the plural switch devices, a monitoring priority corresponding to the probability of failures of a device connected to a network path including the port or the port, and generates data for displaying the calculated monitoring priority of each port in association with each port. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238818 | BASEBOARD MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER AND NETWORK CONFIGURATION METHOD OF THE BASEBOARD MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER - A network configuration method of a baseboard management controller (BMC) reads network port information of the BMC. The BMC connects to a network via at least one network interface device that includes more than one network port. A current active network port is determined from network ports of the at least one network interface device according to the current network port information of the BMC. If the current active network port does not works properly, a new active network port is determined from the network ports. The network port information of the BMC is updated according to the new active network port. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238819 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION ON AN OPERATIONAL STATE OF THE SAME - A communication apparatus acquires current load information including at least one current load value each indicating magnitude of a type of load that is currently imposed on the communication apparatus. A monitoring terminal transmits, to the communication apparatus, a request signal for acquiring an operational state of the communication apparatus. The communication apparatus determines a usable transmission method that is to be used for receiving the request signal and transmitting information on the operational state of the communication apparatus, based on the acquired current load information, and notifies the monitoring terminal about the determined usable transmission method. The monitoring terminal transmits the request signal to the communication apparatus using the usable transmission method notified by the communication apparatus. Then, the communication apparatus transmits information on the operational state of the communication apparatus to the monitoring terminal using the usable transmission method. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238820 | COMPUTER, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM - A physical server monitors a state of a virtual machine that runs on the server. When it is detected that the state of the virtual machine is changed, the physical server transmits information indicating the state change of the virtual machine to a physical switch accommodating the server and controlling communication between the server or the virtual machine and another device or another virtual machine. The physical switch stores configuration information of the virtual machine that runs on an information processing device accommodated by the server. When the physical switch receives the information indicating the state change of the virtual machine from the physical server, the physical switch updates the configuration information based on the received information. The physical switch controls the communication between the physical server or the virtual machine and another device or another virtual machine, based on the stored configuration information. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238821 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device in an information communications system in which a plurality of networks which are connected each other, each network including a plurality of node devices connected to the network, includes: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire an amount of data uploaded from the node device, connected to a first network of the plurality of networks, to a second network of the plurality of networks; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a total amount of uploaded data acquired by the first acquisition unit; a first determination unit configured to determine whether the total amount of uploaded data acquired by the second acquisition unit is greater than a threshold; and a control unit configured to suppress contents from being uploaded by the node device connected to the first network if the first determination unit determines that the total amount of uploaded data is greater than the threshold. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238822 | DETECTION OF THE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT FUNCTION USED BY THE NETWORK - The invention relates to a method and mobile node capable of detecting whether or not the network to which the mobile node is attached is using a network-based mobility management function for the mobile node or not. In order to enable a mobile node to detect whether the network is using a network-based mobility function for the mobile node, upon establishment of a PDN connection or IP session, the mobile node sends a probe message to the network destined to itself and determines based on the modifications of the probe message returned to the mobile node whether the network is using a network-based mobility function for the mobile node or not. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238823 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus receives and analyzes a packet transmitted via a network, and performs network setting according to data included in the packet. Further, if it is determined that the received packet is a packet addressed to the apparatus and is not a setting packet for the network setting, the apparatus is controlled not to analyze the packet. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238824 | Wireless Local Area Network Hotspot Registration - A wireless local area network ‘WLAN’ client device that has just connected to a WLAN detects that the WLAN is offered by a hotspot, where access to a public network is provided by the WLAN via a gateway. A browser application of the WLAN client device is launched, either automatically or in response to receiving an indication via a user input element of the WLAN client device to register at the hotspot. The browser application is launched with an Internet Protocol address that ought to trigger an Internet Protocol filtering rule of the gateway. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238825 | APPLICATION DATA FLOW MANAGEMENT IN AN IP NETWORK - Disclosed herein is a two-level, network-based application control (NBAC) architecture for monitoring services provided via a packet-based network. The NBAC architecture includes a Network Trigger System provided at a network level to analyze data flows relating to services to be monitored to detect occurrence of configurable events, and to generate and send event reports; and a Usage Status Engine provided at a control level to configure the Network Trigger System to detect occurrence of events of interest, and to receive and process the event reports from the Network Trigger System to monitor the services. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238826 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYSING A MOBILE OPERATOR DATA NETWORK - The present method and system relate for analyzing a mobile operator data network. The method and system dynamically collect and record information of mobile devices from Internet Protocol data sessions occurring on the mobile operator data network. The collected information is processed to detect and record at least one change in one of the mobile devices with a date of occurrence. The method and system then analyze the collected information and the recorded at least one change to generate metrics representative of evolution on the mobile operator data network. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238827 | System and method for monitoring and displaying radiology image traffic - An embodiment of the present invention includes a system and method for detecting and monitoring confidential and DICOM image traffic on a computing device in a PACS network. Embodiments of the present invention protect patient confidentiality by preventing the simultaneous display of confidential images and patient identification information when measuring and displaying the image data. The system detects and measures the transfer of confidential images and stores and displays information included in only the non-confidential headers of the images. The system monitors and warns (such as via email and/or pagers) PACS administrators of system slowdowns as a result of the data gathered. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238828 | REDIRECTING WEB CONTENT - A peer group can be established for sharing Web cache data among a set of computing devices through a peer-to-peer network. The Web cache data can be used by each of the computing devices to respond to requests issued over a client-server network from a Web browser running on that computing device. Web cache data can be exchanged among the peers of the peer group via the peer-to-peer network. A client request issued from a Web browser of one of the computing devices can be satisfied using Web cache data obtained from a different one of the computing devices in the peer group. The client request can be a request to one of the Web servers for Web content. The server associated with the request may never provide the Web content responsive to the client request, which is obtained instead from the different one of the computing devices. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238829 | ANONYMOUS AND SECURE NETWORK-BASED INTERACTION - The subject disclosure pertains to anonymous network interaction. More specifically, mechanisms are provided to ensure anonymity with respect network interaction such that third parties are unable to determine the source and/or intent of communications. Accordingly, entities may anonymize all outgoing and/or incoming data packets so as to mitigate outside entities from learning about information being sought and/or provided. For example, a user or corporation may employ an anonymizer with respect to web searching so that outside entities are not able to determine what information is attempted to be accessed and by whom. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238830 | TRUSTED INDEX STRUCTURE IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Methods and apparatuses of a trusted index structure in a network environment. In one embodiment, a data processing system includes a master device and at least one slave device to communicate with each other through a network; and a master lock status of a shared storage device to determine the master device. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238831 | STORAGE NETWORK SYSTEM, MANAGING APPARATUS, MANAGING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A management computer includes a memory storing toplogical information including identifiers of ports of computers, storage apparatuses, and switches. The management computer includes a processor, which is configured to: collect a plurality of performance information of the ports, and a plurality of access times from computer ports to the storage apparatuses; evaluate that a certain access time among the plurality of access times exceeds a predetermined allowable range; search a first access path to which the certain access time corresponds; search at least one second access path starting from a first computer port on the first access path; and search performance information of certain ports which are on the at least one second access path in order to display the searched performance information. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238832 | RESTRICTING COMMUNICATION OF SELECTED PROCESSES TO A SET OF SPECIFIC NETWORK ADDRESSES - Selected processes are associated with sets of specific network addresses, and the associations are stored. When a selected process creates a child process, an association between the child process and the set of network addresses with which the parent process is associated is stored. When a selected process is deleted, the association between the selected process and its set of network addresses is deleted. Each selected process is restricted to network address-based communication via its associated set of network addresses. Certain communication protocol subroutines associated with network address-based communication are intercepted by an interception module. The interception module detects attempts by selected processes to communicate via network addresses. If a selected process attempts to communicate via an unassociated network addresses, the attempted communication is prohibited. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238833 | Method And Apparatus For Home Network Access - A manner of extending a home network to a mobile device. An FA (foreign agent) in the mobile device registers with an HA (home agent) in the home network, preferable exchanging static UIDs (unique identifiers) and certificates. The HA creates an address for the FA and maintains a registration table listing all registered FAs. The FA registration is in most cases performed while the FA is operating non-remotely and directly connected to a component of the home network. The HA registers with an SG (signaling gateway) in a secure manner and awaits a request for access to the home network. After registration with the SG, the HA initiates a heartbeat message that is acknowledged by the SG. When an FA access request is received from the SG, the HA determines whether the FA is registered with the HA and any applicable access limitations prior to granting or rejecting access. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238834 | METHOD OF RELOCATING ACCESS SERVICE NETWORK FUNCTIONAL ENTITIES DURING MOBILITY EVENTS IN WIMAX NETWORKS - The present invention provides a method of relocating functional entities in access service networks during mobility events. One embodiment of the method includes providing context information representative of two or more functional entities from a source access service network (ASN) to a target ASN. Another embodiment of the method includes receiving context information representative of two or more functional entities at a target ASN from a source ASN. The context information for the functional entities is associated with an access terminal and is provided in response to the source ASN receiving a relocation notification from the target ASN as a result of a handoff request or a location update message. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238835 | RELAY SERVER AND RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ARRANGED TO SHARE RESOURCES BETWEEN NETWORKS - A relay server which is connected to a LAN and which can communicate with a relay server in a different LAN, includes: an account information registering unit that stores information on client terminals connected to the LAN; a relay group information registering unit that stores relay group information; a shared resource information registering unit that stores shared resource information; a check unit that checks whether the client terminals stored in the account information registering unit can be accessed; a relay group information notifying unit that updates the relay group information and transmits a change notification of the relay group information to the relevant relay server; and a shared resource information notifying unit that updates the relevant shared resource information and transmits a change notification of the shared resource information to the relevant client terminal which is stored in the account information registering unit. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238836 | NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The invention provides a system and method for a network operating system. The system includes a complex data medium that enables the continuous reconciliation of the collaborative information process and product. The system generally increases productivity by enabling a network dynamic among knowledge workers. The system unifies e-mail and shared file management, synchronous and asynchronous collaboration, serial and parallel work flow, top-down and bottom-up collaboration, and information lifecycle management. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238837 | Method and System for Providing Services - Methods and systems for providing services and/or computing resources are provided. A method may include receiving an application from an application provider. The method may further include receiving data from a data provider. The method may also include receiving a first request from the data provider to execute the application and apply the data as input to the application. Additionally, the method may include executing the application in response to receiving the first request. The method may also include storing output data resulting from execution of the application. The method may further include receiving a second request from the data provider to transmit the output data to the data provider. The method may additionally include communicating the output data to the data provider in response to the second request. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238838 | WEIGHTED REQUEST RATE LIMITING FOR RESOURCES - Methods and systems to automatically respond to consider the weight of a request when responding to requests associated with resources are described. In one embodiment, an interface module may be configured to receive a request associated with consumer identifier and a resource. A calculator module may be configured to determine a weight of the request and a usage module configured to calculate, using a processor, a usage level associated with the consumer identifier, the usage level based on a usage history associated with the consumer identifier. An enforcer module may also be configured to respond to the request based on the usage level and the weight of the request. In one embodiment, the usage module may also be configured to update the usage level associated with the consumer identifier based on the weight of the request. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238839 | NETWORK INTRUSION DETECTION APPARATUS - A method and system for distributing flows between a multiple processors. The flows can be received from an external source such as a network, by a front-end processor that recognizes the flow and the associated request, and identifies at least one internal applications processor to process the request/flow. The front-end processor utilizes a flow scheduling vector related to the identified applications processor(s), and the flow scheduling vector can be based on intrinsic data from the applications processor(s) that can include CPU utilization, memory utilization, packet loss, and queue length or buffer occupation. In some embodiments, applications processors can be understood to belong to a group, wherein applications processors within a group can be configured identically. A flow schedule vector can be computed for the different applications processor groups. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238840 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR SERVICE NEGOTIATION - The present invention discloses a service negotiation method, system and device. The service negotiation method includes: obtaining a service negotiation request that contains multiple services; obtaining a requirement processing result of the multiple services according to the service negotiation request; and selecting a target service according to the requirement processing result, generating a service negotiation result corresponding to the service negotiation request, and returning the service negotiation result. The present invention enables the service network to support service negotiation under multiple service requirements and meets the needs of service interactions and the requirements of the negotiation requester. With the present invention, the success rate of service negotiation is increased and the user satisfaction is enhanced. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238841 | RENDEZVOUSING RESOURCE REQUESTS WITH CORRESPONDING RESOURCES - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for rendezvousing resource requests with corresponding resources. Doubly linked sorted lists are traversed using modulo arithmetic in both directions. Sorted lists can be partitioned based on a multiple proximity metrics. Node routing tables provide a logarithmic index to nodes within the ID space of the federation infrastructure to facilitate more efficient routing. Messages can be routed to nodes within a ring and proximally routed to nodes in other partitioned rings. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238842 | CONSISTENT CLUSTER OPERATIONAL DATA IN A SERVER CLUSTER USING A QUORUM OF REPLICAS - A method and system for increasing server cluster availability by requiring at a minimum only one node and a quorum replica set of replica members to form and operate a cluster. Replica members maintain cluster operational data. A cluster operates when one node possesses a majority of replica members, which ensures that any new or surviving cluster includes consistent cluster operational data via at least one replica member from the immediately prior cluster. Arbitration provides exclusive ownership by one node of the replica members, including at cluster formation, and when the owning node fails. Arbitration uses a fast mutual exclusion algorithm and a reservation mechanism to challenge for and defend the exclusive reservation of each member. A quorum replica set algorithm brings members online and offline with data consistency, including updating unreconciled replica members, and ensures consistent read and update operations. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238843 | DAMPENING INTERFACE FLAPPING - A device may include a control module and a line card. The control module may be configured to run a routing protocol to obtain routing information from network devices. The line card may include a processor. The processor may be configured to establish a bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) session with a remote device, determine whether an interface associated with the BFD session is flapping, terminate the BFD session when the interface is flapping, disable the interface when the interface is flapping, re-enable the interface after a dampening recovery period elapses, reestablish the BFD session, and send a BFD packet to the remote device. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238844 | Connection Management for M2M Device in A Mobile Communication Network - There is provided a method that relates to the setting up and/or maintaining of a connection between a machine-to-machine (M2M) device and a mobile communication network. In order to be able to adapt the connection management to the requirements of the M2M device, the M2M device may transmit an indication that it is an M2M device to the mobile communication network. At least one network node of the mobile communication network controls the setting up and/or the maintaining of the connection based on the indication. The network node may route a request for setting up the connection to a further network node based on the indication. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238845 | Correlation of Sessions in Case of Session Transfer in IMS Domain - The invention relates to session control in an IMS domain of a communications network and more particularly to techniques for performing session transfer in an IMS control node (SCC AS) for controlling centralized services in an IMS domain. One embodiment of an SCC AS ( | 2011-09-29 |
20110238846 | METHOD AND MOBILE USER EQUIPMENT FOR HANDLING MEDIA TYPES OF A COMMUNICATION SESSION IN AN IMS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND AN IMS NIDE - A method of and mobile User Equipment, UE, ( | 2011-09-29 |
20110238847 | Saving a Connection Profile when Unable to Connect to a Wireless Local Area Network - Various connection parameters of a wireless local area network ‘WLAN’ may be saved in a WLAN client device in a connection profile, even if the WLAN client device is unable to connect to the WLAN. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238848 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Difficulties involved when a plurality of setting methods for setting communication parameters are usable are overcome. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238849 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTABLISHING NETWORK CONNECTION SERVICE, AND AUTOMATICALLY SWITCHED OPTICAL NETWORK - A method for establishing a network connection service includes: initiating a request for establishing a network connection service from the user side of a source end to the user side of a sink end; a network ingress node and network egress node of the network connection service communicating through message exchange to determine a network connection between the two nodes for supporting the network connection service and a protocol adaptation stack from the user side to the network side in the network connection service; and the network ingress node and the network egress node establishing the network connection supporting the network connection service and configuring the adaptation stack, so as to establish the network connection service. With the invention, no manual configuration is needed, and it is possible to reduce the time delay in the connection establishment and facilitate multi-service transport under a multi-service transport network condition. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238850 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSLATING APPLICATION PROGRAM NETWORK SERVICE REQUESTS INTO ACTIONS AND PERFORMING THOSE ACTIONS THROUGH THE MANAGEMENT AND/OR CONTROL PLANE RESPONSIVE TO PREVIOUSLY DEFINED POLICIES AND PREVIOUS REQUESTS BY THE SAME OR ANOTHER APPLICATION PROGRAM - Application program network service requests are translated into specific actions that are then performed through the management plane and/or control plane. The translations and resulting actions are responsive to previously defined policies for the communication network, and may further reflect processing of previous service requests by the same or another application program. The amount of resources available for use by a given application program may be predefined based on a globally defined network policy. Each service request obtained from an application program may be translated into multiple actions performed using various specific protocols and/or interfaces provided by either the management plane, the control plane, or both the management and control planes. Reports of network activity, status and/or faults for a requesting application program may be tailored to the requesting program's view of the network, and passed directly and exclusively to the requesting program. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238851 | Soap Client Protocol Encapsulation Based on TCP - SOAP client protocol encapsulation Based on TCP , based on the short TCP connection, SOAP client protocol encapsulation method, the client package for SOAP protocol, that is Web Services Description Language WSDL file into xml file, put to the client application's configuration file which, variable part of the SOAP protocol allows all the code from the configuration file object after conversion, and then generated after the body of SOAP protocol: 1) client load WSDL converted xml file; 2) the client application to read out the configuration file, the xml with the application to transfer data into a SOAP message body; 3) in the generated SOAP message body together with SOAP message header, turned into a complete SOAP request; 4) We will be based on TCP short connection to the complete SOAP request sent to the web services server, then receive and process about the content of web services to return, to complete a full SOAP interface calls; All the web Services client: a client using the same source, and adopt a unified approach to a request to the web service server. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238852 | TEST DRIVEN DEPLOYMENT AND MONITORING OF HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK SYSTEMS - A test system (and corresponding method and computer program product) for generating unit tests for a heterogeneous network system and validating test results to ensure that the network system functions properly is described. In one embodiment, the test system is an appliance that is capable of normalizing communication protocols supported by component systems of the network system. The test system creates objects and methods corresponding to component systems and their supported protocol commands in the network system, and generates unit test cases based on the objects, the methods, and the normalized protocols. The test system transmits the unit test cases to the component systems, receives test results, and validates the test results to ensure that the network system functions properly. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238853 | MEDIA AND DATA SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM - A method for synchronizing information includes generating media corresponding to a program. One or more media timestamps are associated with the media. Data corresponding to the program is also generated. One or more data timestamps are associated with the data. At least a portion of the media is provided for presentation on a computing device. A current media timestamp corresponding to currently playing media is received. Data having a greatest data timestamp that is less than or equal to the current media timestamp is identified based at least in part on a comparison of the current media timestamp to the one or more data timestamps. The identified data is provided for presentation on the computing device. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238854 | STREAMING DATA RELAY APPARATUS AND RELATED WIRELESS GATEWAY APPARATUS - A streaming data relay apparatus is disclosed including: an RF module for receiving streaming data transmitted in unicast format from a wireless gateway apparatus; an Ethernet connection module; and a control unit for transmitting the streaming data in unicast format to multiple client devices corresponding to a same multicast group via the Ethernet connection module; wherein when a first client device out of the multiple client devices requests to leave the multicast group, the control unit transmits the physical address of the first client device to the wireless gateway apparatus through wireless transmission via the RF module. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238855 | PROCESSING DATA FLOWS WITH A DATA FLOW PROCESSOR - An apparatus and method to distribute applications and services in and throughout a network and to secure the network includes the functionality of a switch with the ability to apply applications and services to received data according to respective subscriber profiles. Front-end processors, or Network Processor Modules (NPMs), receive and recognize data flows from subscribers, extract profile information for the respective subscribers, utilize flow scheduling techniques to forward the data to applications processors, or Flow Processor Modules (FPMs). The FPMs utilize resident applications to process data received from the NPMs. A Control Processor Module (CPM) facilitates applications processing and maintains connections to the NPMs, FPMs, local and remote storage devices, and a Management Server (MS) module that can monitor the health and maintenance of the various modules. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238856 | INFORMATIVE DATA STREAMING SERVER - A method of data streaming from an encoder to a decoder is provided. The method includes establishing a connection from said encoder to said decoder; acquiring measurements characterizing said connection; estimating transmittance variation of said connection according to said measurements; determining a permissible encoding rate of said encoder compatible with the transmittance variation; determining a set of metrics characterizing said connection; receiving, at said encoder, a signal from a source; instructing said encoder to encode said signal according to said permissible encoding rate; selecting a set of notification-display intervals each corresponding to a respective metric among said set of metrics; and superimposing on said signal, during said notification-display intervals, corresponding indications of said metrics. A corresponding system is also provided. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238857 | COMMITTED PROCESSING RATES FOR SHARED RESOURCES - Customers of a shared-resource environment can provision resources in a fine-grained manner that meets specific performance requirements. A customer can provision a data volume with a committed rate of Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) and pay only for that commitment (plus any overage), and the amount of storage requested. The customer will then at any time be able to complete at least the committed rate of IOPS. If the customer generates submissions at a rate that exceeds the committed rate, the resource can still process at the higher rate when the system is not under pressure. Even under pressure, the system will deliver at least the committed rate. Multiple customers can be provisioned on the same resource, and more than one customer can have a committed rate on that resource. Customers without committed or guaranteed rates can utilize the uncommitted portion, or committed portions that are not being used. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238858 | TRAFFIC SHAPING DEVICE - When communication traffic between communication devices is shaped by a relay device on a network, the communication speed of a transport layer is prevented from being dramatically reduced as compared to the shaped traffic on a network with a high error rate. On the basis of the SID of data received from a communication device and a data size, a relay device predicts the SID expected to be received for the next time in the same communication, compares the predicted SID with another SID included in data received for the next time, and releases the shaped traffic for the data if the received SID is smaller than the predicted SID. Further, when consecutively receiving a given number or larger of pieces of data which are larger than the predicted SID, the relay device releases the shaped traffic for the data. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238859 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT DATA PRODUCING METHOD - A document production apparatus produces document data as well as determines whether or not the size of document data exceeds a threshold value when the document production apparatus receives a document data production request and a document data upload request from the client apparatus. The document production apparatus uploads document data to a cloud platform when the size of document data is less than or equal to the threshold value. The document production apparatus provides a notification to prompt a client apparatus to download document data when the size of document data exceeds the threshold value. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238860 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING APPLICATION FUNCTIONALITY WITHIN A NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE - A system and method for implementing functionality within a network on behalf of first and second devices communicating with each other through the network. A front-end device is provided within the network that communicates data traffic with the first device. A back-end device is also implemented within the network and communicates data traffic with the second device. A communication channel couples the front-end device and the back-end device. Data traffic may be encoded into a different type or protocol for transport through the communication channel by the front-end device and back-end device. The front-end device and back-end device exchange quality of service information and may alter characteristics of the data traffic through the communication channel according to the quality of service information. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238861 | Data Communication Systems and Methods - Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for enabling software applications running on separate devices to exchange data via multiple data communication methods. In various embodiments, a data communication system is provided comprising multiple data communication devices running one or more software applications and communication manager middleware. In various embodiments, the data communication system permits the software applications to exchange data without knowledge of the actual method and/or protocol used to exchange a given set of data, and intelligently manage the exchange of data between software applications by, among other things, transmitting sets of data using a preferred communication method selected based on one or more message attributes or communication method attributes. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SESSION SWEEPING BETWEEN DEVICES - An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method enables an endpoint to sweep an ongoing communication session to another endpoint by transferring session information between the endpoints. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238863 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA EXCHANGE IN MULTIPROCESSOR COMPUTER SYSTEMS - A system for data exchange in multiprocessor computer system is disclosed. The system includes at least one processing module adapted to communicate with at least one of a plurality of routing modules or a plurality of buffer modules or both and at least one communicating interfaces to facilitate data exchange in multiprocessor computer system. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238864 | System and domain name server for ad-hoc networks - The present invention relates to a system and domain name server for ad-hoc networks. Embodiments of the present invention provide a mobile router providing connectivity to end users in an ad-hoc network. The mobile router includes a domain name server (DNS server) configured as a master DNS server at a node associated with the mobile router for end users that enter the ad-hoc network through the node. The DNS server stores records of name-address translations for the end users. A management structure of the DNS server at the node includes a domain name for the node coinciding with a domain name at a lowest level in a hierarchy of a domain name system. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238865 | TERMINAL DEVICE - According to one embodiment, the following are provided: a terminal device comprising: a first communication unit communicating with a network device connected to a network, that receives a destination address of a server accompanied with an identification information for identifying the network device, and receives transmission data of the network device to the server, the transmission data containing internal data of the network device accompanied with the identification information; a device information storage unit that stores the destination address received being associated with the identification information accompanied with the destination address; a second communication unit communicating with the server, that transmits the transmission data received from the network device to the server using such destination address that is corresponding to the identification information accompanied with the transmission data from the device information storage, and receives from the server the result of determining whether the transmission data transmitted from the second communication unit matches the transmission data that the network device transmits to the server; and a display unit that displays the result of the determination. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238866 | VARIABLE READ LATENCY ON A SERIAL MEMORY BUS - One or more embodiments provide a method and system of reading data from a variable-latency memory, via a serial input/output memory data interface. The system includes a memory having a variable-latency access time, a memory controller, and a serial data bus coupling the memory controller to the memory. The memory controller communicates a Read command to the memory and forces the serial data bus low for a limited time. The memory then forces the bus low and the memory controller then releases the bus. When the memory is ready to provide data, the memory provides a high signal on the serial data bus. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238867 | Computer Device Output Setting Indicator - A computer device comprises an output monitor configured to determine an output configuration setting for the computer device and automatically actuate an output setting indicator corresponding to the output configuration setting. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238868 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MINIMIZING WITHIN-DIE VARIATIONS IN PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS OF A PROCESSOR - Described herein are a method and an apparatus for minimizing within-die variations in performance parameters of a processor. The apparatus comprising: a reference generator to generate an adjustable compensated reference signal; a bias generator to generate a bias signal based on the adjustable compensated reference signal; a transmitter coupled with the bias generator to transmit an output signal; and a feedback mechanism to sample the output signal from the transmitter and to provide the sampled output signal to the bias generator. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238869 | Autonomous Multi-Packet Transfer for Universal Serial Bus - A USB device can be configured for multi-packet data transfer to and from endpoints with minimal software intervention. Minimal software intervention allows a Central Processing Unit (CPU) of the USB device to handle other tasks, maximizing USB bus utilization. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238870 | Memory System With Command Filtering - A memory system includes a memory controller coupled to at least one memory device via high-speed data and request links. The timing and voltage margins of the links are periodically calibrated to reduce bit error. The high-speed request links complicate calibration because commands issued over the uncalibrated request links can be erroneously interpreted by the memory device. Misinterpreted commands can disrupt the calibration procedure (e.g., a write command might be misinterpreted as a power-down command). The memory controller addresses this problem using a separate, low-speed control interface to issue a filter command that instructs the memory device to decline potentially disruptive requests when in a calibration mode. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238871 | PERFORMANCE OF A STORAGE SYSTEM - A method for operating a storage system, including storing data redundantly in the system and measuring respective queue lengths of input/output requests to operational elements of the system. The queue lengths are compared to an average queue length to determine respective performances of the operational elements of the storage system. In response to the average queue lengths and a permitted deviation from the average an under-performing operational element among the operational elements is identified. An indication of the under-performing operational element is provided to host interfaces in the storage system. One of the host interfaces receives requests for specified items of the data directed to the under-performing element, and in response to the indication, some of the requests are diverted from the under-performing operational element to one or more other operational elements of the storage system that are configured to provide the specified items of the data. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238872 | Disk Drive System On Chip With Integrated Buffer Memory and Support for Host Memory Access - A circuit for a storage device that communicates with a host device comprises a first high speed interface. A storage controller communicates with the high speed interface. A buffer communicates with the storage controller. The storage device generates storage buffer data during operation. The storage controller is adapted to selectively store the storage buffer data in at least one of the buffer and/or in the host device via the high speed interface. A bridge chip for enterprise applications couples the circuit to an enterprise device. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238873 | DOCUMENT FINISHING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING SUCH A DEVICE - A method for configuring a document finishing device, such as a folding, binding or stapling machine, includes the steps of storing data referring to the selected command on a portable data storage device, connecting the portable data storage device to the document finishing device and reading the data from the data storage device into the document finishing device and configuring a functionality of at least one key of the document finishing device, based on data read from the data storage device. A document finishing device and a portable data storage device for carrying out the method are also provided. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238874 | PERFORMANCE OF A STORAGE SYSTEM - A method for operating a storage system, including storing data redundantly in the system and measuring respective queue lengths of input/output requests to operational elements of the system. The queue lengths are compared to an average queue length to determine respective performances of the operational elements of the storage system. In response to the average queue lengths and a permitted deviation from the average an under-performing operational element among the operational elements is identified. An indication of the under-performing operational element is provided to host interfaces in the storage system. One of the host interfaces receives requests for specified items of the data directed to the under-performing element, and in response to the indication, some of the requests are diverted from the under-performing operational element to one or more other operational elements of the storage system that are configured to provide the specified items of the data. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238875 | MASTER/SLAVE DEVICE SYSTEM - A master/slave device system includes a baseboard, a master device connected to the baseboard, and at least one slave device communicatively connected to the master device. The baseboard provides a power source. A switch connects the power source and the at least one slave device. The switch is capable of being switched on when a predetermined time is reached. The at least one slave device is capable of automatically setting an address at the moment the switch is switched on. The master device is capable of identifying the at least one slave device using the address. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238876 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A BUS SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an apparatus for configuring a bus system which includes a plurality of participants as well as a bus master and a safety monitor having an input unit by means of which suitable configuration information can be entered and/or selected for the configuration of the bus system and having a configuration unit configured to configure both the bus master and also the safety monitor by means of at least a piece of identical common configuration information input or selected via the input unit. The invention further relates to a method which can be carried out by the apparatus in accordance with the invention. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238877 | Arbitration in Multiprocessor Device - An integrated circuit device ( | 2011-09-29 |
20110238878 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING AN INTERRUPT DURING TESTING OF A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - A method for handling an interrupt during testing of at least one logic block of a processor includes performing a test on at least one logic block of a processor; during the performing, receiving an interrupt; determining a progress status of the test in response to receiving the interrupt; and determining when the processor responds to an interrupt, wherein the determining when the processor responds to an interrupt is based on the progress of the test. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238879 | SORTING MOVABLE MEMORY HIERARCHIES IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM - Method and apparatus for optimally placing memory devices within a computer system. A memory controller may include circuitry configured to retrieve or one or more performance metrics a plurality of memory devices connected thereto. Based on the performance metrics and one or more predefined rules for placing memory devices, the circuitry may determine an optimal placement of the memory devices in the system. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238880 | INTERFACE CARD SYSTEM - There is provided an interface card system for SD bus control. The interface card system for SD bus control includes a CPU bus interface | 2011-09-29 |
20110238881 | DOCKABLE HANDHELD COMPUTING DEVICE WITH GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A physical docking interface facilitates co-processing with an extended processing module of an extended computer unit in a physical docked mode, when the handheld computing unit is coupled to the extended computer unit via the physical docking interface. A quasi docking interface facilitates co-processing with the extended processing module in a quasi docked mode when the handheld computing unit is coupled to the extended computer unit via the quasi docking interface. A graphical user interface presents a selectable quasi docking interface graphic for display to a user and responds to a user selection of the selectable quasi docking interface graphic by generating a quasi docking command. The quasi docking interface couples the handheld computing unit to the extended computing unit in response to the quasi docking command. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238882 | PCI EXPRESS ENHANCEMENTS AND EXTENSIONS - A method and apparatus for enhancing/extending a serial point-to-point interconnect architecture, such as Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) is herein described. Temporal and locality caching hints and prefetching hints are provided to improve system wide caching and prefetching. Message codes for atomic operations to arbitrate ownership between system devices/resources are included to allow efficient access/ownership of shared data. Loose transaction ordering provided for while maintaining corresponding transaction priority to memory locations to ensure data integrity and efficient memory access. Active power sub-states and setting thereof is included to allow for more efficient power management. And, caching of device local memory in a host address space, as well as caching of system memory in a device local memory address space is provided for to improve bandwidth and latency for memory accesses. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238883 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An information processing device is provided, in which a bit operation is performed without degradation in performance of a bus. An information processing device includes a CPU which fetches and executes an instruction, and a peripheral module which includes internally a register rewritable by the CPU, and is coupled to the CPU via a bus. The CPU has a function of issuing a bus command for commanding a bitwise write operation to the register comprised in the peripheral module, in order to execute a bit operation command fetched. When the bus command is issued, the peripheral module executes a bitwise write operation for the register. Since the CPU does not need to lock the bus after the bus command is issued, a bit operation can be performed without degradation in performance of the bus. | 2011-09-29 |
20110238884 | Memory Controller for Setting Page Length and Memory Cell Density for Semiconductor Memory - A memory controller including a type determining module and a page determining module. The type determining module is configured to determine a type of memory to which the memory controller is connected, wherein the memory includes a memory block comprising a plurality of pages, and each page includes a plurality of memory cells. The page configure module is configured to generate a memory map based on the determined type of the memory. The memory map specifies, for each page, (i) a number of memory cells for storing data, and (ii) a number of memory cells for storing overhead. The number of memory cells for storing data and the number of memory cells for storing overhead in a first page is configurable to be different from the number of memory cells for storing data and the number of memory cells for storing overhead in a second page. | 2011-09-29 |