40th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 79 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140297741 | FOLLOWING CONTENT POSTING ENTITIES - A method, system, and/or computer program product enables a user to selectively follow content postings from a content posting entity. A set of desired content posting entity traits describes traits of an ideal content posting entity that the content follower desires to follow. The set of desired content posting entity traits is compared to traits of a first candidate content posting entity. In response to the traits of the first candidate content posting entity matching the desired content posting entity traits, and in response to the first candidate content posting entity posting from a preselected location, the first candidate content posting entity is selected for future content postings to be sent to the content follower. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297742 | PEER-TO-PEER DATA STORAGE - A determination is made of users that form a group within a social network in which the users communicate with each other over a network with electronic devices in a client-server architecture. The users in the group within the social network form a peer-to-peer (P2P) storage group within a P2P storage network. In the P2P storage network, users are peers that act as a client and a server for each other. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297743 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COORDINATING TASKS AMONG A PLURALITY OF USERS - An approach is provided for efficiently coordinating one or more tasks among a plurality of users. A service provider may determine one or more contextual criteria for at least one task associated with at least one user. The service provider may further cause a selection of one or more contacts associated with the at least one user based on the one or more contextual criteria. Additionally, the service provider may cause a presentation of the at least one task to the one or more contacts. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297744 | REAL-TIME SUPPLEMENT OF SEGMENTED DATA FOR USER TARGETING - The present disclosure describes a method that includes retrieving segmented data relating to a selected factor concerning a user, retrieving real-time data relating to the selected factor, and providing a communication to the user if both the segmented data and the real-time data meet one or more preselected conditions. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297745 | PROCESSING OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR SELECTED TIME-SHIFTED MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for processing social media posts. The methods may include certain multimedia content being identified as multimedia content for which social media posts relating to a broadcast of that multimedia content are to be stored. Using this identifying information, one or more filtering criteria may be provided for use by a filtering module. The filtering module may receive (e.g., from a social networking service) a stream of social media posts, filter the received stream to extract social media posts that relate to the broadcast of the certain multimedia content, and stores the extracted social media posts. Alternatively, a storage module may store the stream of social media posts, and a filtering module may filter the stored social media posts to identify social media posts that relate to the broadcast of the certain multimedia content. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297746 | RECOMMENDING RESOURCES TO MEMBERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK - Systems and methods for presenting recommendations for resources to be used by members in learning about and/or acquiring a skill are described. In some example embodiments, the systems and methods receive information associated with a skill from a member of a social network, identify members of the social network that are associated with the skill, receive information from the identified members of the social network that identifies one or more resources associated with the skill, and generate a list of recommended resources that is based on the information received from the identified members of the social network. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297747 | METHOD FOR CONNECTING TO ONE ANOTHER COMMUNICATING OBJECTS IN WHICH USER PROFILES ARE STORED, AND COMMUNICATING OBJECT CORRESPONDING THERETO - A method for connecting to users using at least two communicating objects comprises the step of creating a user account, associating the user account to profile accounts, such as professional and/or social network accounts and/or an account memorized in a customer data base. The user accounts and the associated profile accounts of all the users are incorporated into a general data base. The detecting communication objects detects detectable communicating objects and exchanges fields of the user accounts and/or associated profile accounts, the detection keys and the search keys with each other. Common keys between the search keys of the detecting communicating object and the detection keys of a detected communicating object are identified, the user is notified, and the two communicating objects are connected to each other. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297748 | PERFORMING ACTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH POSITIVE FEEDBACK EVENTS - Systems and methods for providing behavior feedback to members of a social network service are described. In some example embodiments, the systems and methods access information associated with positive feedback events for a member of a social network service, identify activities associated with the positive feedback events that were performed by the member of the social network service, and perform an action based on the identified one or more activities performed by the member of the social network service. For example, the systems and methods may display and/or update a dashboard that tracks and provides information associated with a member's status and interactions inside and outside of the social network service, may provide recommendations to other members that identify activities determined to generate positive feedback events for the members, and so on. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297749 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING ACTIONS ON A SOCIAL NETWORK - A device, system, and method may include an electronic data storage configured to store social network data related to use of the social network by users. A processor, coupled to the electronic data storage, may be configured to determine a recommended action that a member of the social network may take to increase a likelihood of at least one of the uses of the social network to access a social network content item related to the member and determine an estimated statistical change in a rate at which the users may access the social network content item if the recommended action were implemented by the member based, at least in part, on the social network data stored in the electronic data storage | 2014-10-02 |
20140297750 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An information providing system appropriately filtering post contents posted by users is provided. An information providing system according to one embodiment of the present invention includes one or more processors executing a given program. The program includes a selecting module selecting one or more particular post contents from among a plurality of post contents posted by one or more users in association with a particular webpage on the basis of rating information for the post contents, a feed information generating module generating particular feed information including the particular post content or contents, and a feed information delivery module delivering the particular feed information. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297751 | SHARING APPLICATION OBJECTS AMONG MULTIPLE TENANTS - The present invention discloses a method and system for sharing application objects among multiple tenants, wherein the method comprises: identifying objects that can be shared by multiple tenants; merging the objects that can be shared by the multiple tenants; and updating references of the tenants to the shared objects prior to the merging so as to cause the references to point at a merged shared object. The method of the present invention enables the tenants to share application data more efficiently. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297752 | Device For Participating In A Network For Sharing Media Consumption Activity - A device and server for participating in a network for sharing media consumption activity is disclosed. For example, the device receives information identifying a media item as a result of playing the media item on a second user device associated with a friend of the plurality of friends and the friend of a plurality of friends. The device presents information identifying the media item selected for play on the second user device and the friend associated with the second user device and identifying a plurality of other media items and a subset of the plurality of friends. The device obtains a selection of a second media item for play, the second media item, and initiates play of the media item. The device provides, as a result of playing the second media item, information identifying the second media item and the user for sharing with the plurality of friends of the user. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297753 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING NETWORK EVENT PROTOCOL MESSAGES - A method for transferring network event protocol messages includes: attaching message length information to SYSLOG (network event protocol) messages; the receiver of the SYSLOG messages parses the SYSLOG messages from the received transport payload according to the message length information. By means of the method in this invention, SYSLOG messages can be rapidly parsed from the received transport payload by the receiver of the SYSLOG messages. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297754 | TARGETING QUESTIONS TO USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Users of a social networking system post questions for other users to answer. Questions are automatically tagged based on keywords extracted from text within the posted questions as well as user-selected tags. Users also browse questions asked by other users on the social networking system using an interface that displays questions by topics and sub-topics. Answers may be voted on and sorted by social information related to the browsing user. Affinities for tags are recorded based on users' interactions with the question and answer service. Affinities for tags may also be used to target questions to other users and sort answers. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297755 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN COLLABORATIVE APPLICATIONS - Systems and methods are provided for switching collaborative applications. An example method comprises executing a first communication device and a second communication device associate with at least one contact, receiving an instruction to continue the collaborative session using the selected collaborative application that is different from the first collaborative application, determining whether the at least one contact is capable of continuing the collaborative session using the selected collaborative application, and terminating the first collaborative application. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297756 | PROVIDING A MANAGED BROWSER - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing a managed browser are presented. In various embodiments, a computing device may load a managed browser. The managed browser may, for instance, be configured to provide a managed mode in which one or more policies are applied to the managed browser, and an unmanaged mode in which such policies might not be applied and/or in which the browser might not be managed by at least one device manager agent running on the computing device. Based on device state information and/or one or more policies, the managed browser may switch between the managed mode and the unmanaged mode, and the managed browser may provide various functionalities, which may include selectively providing access to enterprise resources, based on such state information and/or the one or more policies. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297757 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COORDINATING DISPLAY OF SHARED VIDEO DATA - A system and method for coordinating multiple-user edits of shared digital data. A coordinating device may receive commands to edit shared digital data from multiple independently operated user computers. The coordinating device may determine that two or more of the commands from respective user computers are mutually exclusive, redundant or otherwise conflict. The coordinating device may incorporate one of the multiple commands into a global command queue and may annul the other(s). The coordinating device may transmit the global commands to all user computers to be executed locally for implemented the same shared digital data thereon. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297758 | EVENT NOTIFICATIONS BASED ON LEARNED TRAVELING TIMES BETWEEN LOCATIONS - Example embodiments relate to event notifications based on learned traveling times between locations. In some examples, a scheduling server computing device may determining an estimated travel time between a first location and a second location based on actual travel times of client devices between the first location and the second location. A scheduling server may determine a location of an event attendee based on location information received from a client device associated with the event attendee. A scheduling server may determine a location of an event and an event time based on an event object. If the location of the attendee is approximately the same as the first location and the location of the event is approximately the same as the second location, a scheduling server may communicating an event notification to the attendee based on the event time and the estimated travel time. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297759 | CONTENT-ITEM LINKING SYSTEM FOR MESSAGING SERVICES - A client service, such as a plug-in to a browser, can alter a document retrieved from a compatible service to augment the document with services from an online content management service. When an application retrieves a compatible document, the client service can detect a document element within the document and alter the document to provide an activatable reference to the online content management service. For example, a client service can recognize an email composition webpage or an email display webpage and insert activatable references provide services from the online content management service. In email composition webpages, a reference can be a button that allows an email author to insert a link to a content item from the online content management service. In email display webpages, references can be added that allow attachments to be sent to the online content management service for storage. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297760 | MANAGING E-MAIL MESSAGES BETWEEN RELATED ACCOUNTS - In a method for managing e-mail messages between related e-mail accounts, an e-mail message is received from a first e-mail account of a user. It is determined that the e-mail message should be listed as a sent e-mail message in a second e-mail account of the user. The e-mail message is listed as a sent e-mail message in the second e-mail account. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297761 | LOCATION BASED EVENT INVITATION GENERATION - A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by at least one remote computing device, location information of one or more other computing devices. Which of the one or more other computing devices is within a pre-defined distance from an event location is identified based upon the location information. At least a portion of automatically-suggested user information associated with at least a portion of the one or more other computing devices within the pre-defined distance from the first computing device is sent to a first computing device. A selection of one or more users associated with the automatically-suggested user information sent to the first computing device is received by the at least one remote computing device from the event location. An invitation to an event at the event location is sent to at least a portion of the selected one or more users associated with the automatically-suggested user information. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297762 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TIMEZONE AWARE APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE - A method for sending a message using a platform comprises: receiving, by the platform, a request comprising at least one target, a time, and a content, the time is identifying when the message will be delivered. The method further comprises identifying a time zone of the target, calculating, by the processor, when the time will occur in the time zone of the target to determine a delay, storing the request and the delay, determining that the delay has expired, generating the message for the at least one target wherein a payload in the message is based on the content, and sending, in response to determining, the message to the target. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297763 | Method of Managing Networked Devices - A method of managing networked devices for a control point in a network system is provided. The method includes listening to a discovery message transmitted from a networked device, wherein the discovery message indicates groups corresponding to the networked device, selecting at least one networked device according to a group, and transmitting a message to the at least one networked device for instructing the at least one networked device to execute or provide its service. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297764 | AUTOMATIC NEGATIVE QUESTION HANDLING - A contact center system can receive messages from social media sites or centers. The system can review long messages by identifying content in the long message with negative sentiment. The content with negative sentiment is further analyzed to determine whether the identified content is actionable. If the identified content is actionable, the communication system can automatically routed the long message to an agent for response. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297765 | PROFILING SOCIAL TRENDSETTERS - A method and a system for profiling social trendsetters on a communications network includes monitoring social networking communications on a communications network using a program executable by a computer. The program monitors social networking communications for a topic of conversation in messages by a plurality of users. The messages are analyzed for relation to the topic of conversation and for topic information based on a specified criteria. The program determines a role for each of the plurality of users based on the topic information, and indicates the roles for each of the users, respectively, and may indicate the roles and associated people pertaining to particular topics. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297766 | NON-CLOUD BASED COMMUNICATION PLATFORM FOR AN ENVIRONMENT CONTROL SYSTEM - An environment management system includes a communication platform disposed remote from a site, and at least one client associated with the site. The communication platform includes at least one external XMPP server communicatively coupled with the at least one client via an instant message communication stream, and the at least one external XMPP server is configured to utilize an Extensible Message Presence Protocol (XMPP) standard to communicate with and alter an operating condition of said at least one client at the site. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297767 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VERIFICATION CONTROL METHOD - An information processing apparatus obtains a plurality of messages transmitted between a client and a server, each message including at least one of a plurality of parameters and a value of the parameter. The information processing apparatus detects a parameter having different values set in different messages among the obtained plurality of messages, from among the plurality of parameters. According to the detection result, the information processing apparatus determines a rewrite parameter whose value is rewritten when using the plurality of messages for verification of a server, among the plurality of parameters. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297768 | SYSTEM CAPABLE OF PROVIDING PLURALITY OF DIGITAL CONTENTS AND METHOD USING SAME - One object is to provide a system for facilitating posting for digital contents. The system according to an embodiment includes: a service control unit; an information storage unit a determination unit for determining whether a user is a fan of an artist a user information updating unit for storing a determination result by the determination unit in the information storage unit a use history information sending unit for sending reproduction history information; a posting information reception unit for receiving posting information including musical piece specifying information; a posting information registration unit for storing received posting information in the information storage unit; a posting information sending unit for sending the posting information to the terminal; a reproduction screen sending unit for sending, to the terminal, screen data of a musical piece reproduction screen; and a recommended user information sending unit for sending information on recommended users to the terminal. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297769 | RETRIEVING MESSAGES IN ORDER IN A DISTRIBUTED PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE SYSTEM - A method retrieves in order a plurality of specific topic-based messages in a distributed publish/subscribe system, the distributed publish/subscribe system comprising at least one message transit server, the method comprising: determining an order of a plurality of to-be retrieved messages; recording, in message transit server sequence information, message transit servers where the plurality of messages are located, respectively, an order of the message transit servers in the message transit server sequence information corresponding to the determined order of the plurality of messages; and retrieving in order the plurality of messages from corresponding message transit servers using the message transit server sequence information. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297770 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE SYSTEM FOR SOLICITING REPLY - An apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor may receive a user generated electronic message. The processor may also send a first electronic message to a designated receiver, where the first electronic message solicits a response from the designated receiver regarding the user generated electronic message. The processor may also send a plurality of subsequent electronic messages to the designated receiver according to a repeat-notification schedule stored in the memory until the response is received, where the plurality of subsequent electronic messages solicit the response. The repeat-notification schedule includes a first elapsed time before sending of a second electronic message occurs and a second elapsed time before sending of a third electronic message occurs, where the second elapsed time is different than the first elapsed time. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297771 | DATA SYNCHRONIZATION - The present subject matter discloses a method for application data synchronization through a communication network. The method includes receiving application data from at least one user device, formatting the application data based on at least one formatting parameter to generate a data file, where the formatting parameter is indicative of a format of the data file, and transmitting the data file to at least one target syncing device through protocols based on Push Email Synchronization. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297772 | Automated Triggering of a Broadcast - Systems and methods for using a subset of a group to determine if a given message or post is suitable for broadcast to the entire group. The method may include receiving and tabulating responses to a stimulus for a first period of time from a portion of the population. It may be determined that the tabulated responses exceed a threshold prior to expiration of a timeout period and the threshold may be based on size of the population or size of the portion of the population. In response to determining that the threshold has been exceeded, a broadcast of the stimulus to the population may be triggered. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297773 | Location-Based Notification - Location-based notification includes establishment of a rally point and subsequent notification of a user when another user enters the rally point. Senders may set up rally points at various physical locations and specify one or more target recipients that are to be notified when the sender enters the rally point. Target recipients may specify communication settings that dictate whether and/or how they wish to receive notifications under a variety of circumstances. When a sender having a computing device enters a rally point location, a notification is sent from the computing device to a location-based notification service, which notifies each of the target recipients in a manner that complies with the target recipient's individual communication settings. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297774 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING CONFIGURATION UPDATES IN CLUSTER OF COMPUTATIONAL DEVICES - A system for managing configuration updates in a cluster of computational devices that includes a master device and a set of participant devices. The master device receives a first configuration command from a user, executes it and updates a configuration version number to a current configuration version number. Thereafter, the master device transmits a multicast message including the current configuration version number to the participant devices. A first participant device sends a configuration request to the master device for transmitting the first configuration command. Thereafter, the first participant device receives the first configuration command from the master device and updates its configuration version number to the current configuration version number. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297775 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING REMOTE DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS TO VIRTUAL MACHINES - The current document is directed to methods and systems that provide remote direct memory access (“RDMA”) to applications running within execution environments provided by guest operating systems and virtual machines above a virtualization layer. In one implementation, RDMA is accessed by application programs within virtual machines through a paravirtual interface that includes a virtual RDMA driver that transmits RDMA requests through a communications interface to a virtual RDMA endpoint in the virtualization layer. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297776 | EFFICIENT STORAGE OF DATA IN A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK - A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module receiving data for storage and generating a dispersed storage network (DSN) source name for the data. The method continues with the DS processing module determining whether substantially identical data to the data has been previously stored in memory of the DSN. When the substantially identical data has been previously stored in the memory of the DSN, the method continues with the DS processing module generating an object linking file that links the data to the substantially identical data, dispersed storage error encoding the object linking file to produce a set of encoded link file slices, and outputting the set of encoded link file slices for storage in the memory of the DSN. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297777 | VARIABLE PAGE SIZING FOR IMPROVED PHYSICAL CLUSTERING - A data size characteristic of contents of a related unit of data to be written to a storage by an input/output module of a data storage application can be determined, and a storage page size consistent with the data size can be selected from a plurality of storage page sizes. The related unit of data can be assigned to a storage page having the selected storage page size, and the storage page can be passed to the input/output module so that the input/output module physically clusters the contents of the related unit of data when the input/output module writes the contents of the related unit of data to the storage. Related methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297778 | EXECUTION CONTROL METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND EXECUTION CONTROL APPARATUS - An execution control method performed by a processor includes storing a first plurality of commands executed in the first computer and a first execution order in a memory; executing the first plurality of commands according to the first execution order when executed on the third computer; storing a second plurality of commands executed in the second computer and a second execution order in the memory; executing the second plurality of commands according to the second execution order when executed on the fourth computer; storing information generated by executing a command among the first plurality of commands and the second plurality of commands in the memory as configuration information each time the command is executed; and selecting a command among a first earliest command among unexecuted commands of the first plurality of commands and a second earliest command among unexecuted commands of the first plurality of commands, and executing the command. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297779 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING INFORMATION USING SHARING CACHE BETWEEN PORTABLE TERMINALS - A method for operating a receiving portable terminal in a mobile communication system includes receiving a first packet from a sending portable terminal, determining a fingerprint overlapping a fingerprint corresponding to at least one chunk of the first packet in a fingerprint set cache, determining a fingerprint set including the most redundant fingerprints, in the fingerprint set cache, determining at least one fingerprint to send, in the determined fingerprint set, sending the at least one determined fingerprint to the sending portable terminal, and receiving a second packet from the sending portable terminal. An apparatus includes a controller configured to determine at least one redundant fingerprint overlapping a fingerprint corresponding to at least one chunk of the first packet in a fingerprint set cache, determine a fingerprint set including the most redundant fingerprint in the fingerprint set cache, and determine at least one fingerprint to send in the determined fingerprint set. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297780 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VM-GRANULAR SSD/FLASH CACHE LIVE MIGRATION - The instant disclosure describes embodiments of a system and method for migrating virtual machine (VM)-specific content cached in a solid state drive (SSD) attached to an original host. During operation, the original host receives event indicating an upcoming migration of a VM to a destination host. In response, the original host transmits a set of metadata associated with the SSD cache to the destination host. The metadata indicates a number of data blocks stored in the SSD cache, thereby allowing the destination host to pre-fetch data blocks specified in the metadata from a storage shared by the original host and the destination host. Subsequently, the original host receives a power-off event for the VM, and transmits a dirty block list to the destination. The dirty block list specifies one or more data blocks that have changed since the transmission of the metadata. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297781 | TECHNIQUES FOR EFFICIENTLY ENFORCING RESOURCE QUOTAS IN A MULTI-TENANT CLOUD STORAGE SYSTEM - A method and system for enforcing resource quotas in cloud storage systems are provided. The method comprises receiving a request to write an object to a target folder of a tenant, wherein the tenant is initially configured with a tenant quota limit and each of a plurality of folders of the tenant initially is configured with a folder quota limit, wherein the tenant quota limit is then dynamically allocated to the plurality of folders of the tenant; determining whether the folder quota limit of the target folder of the tenant is sufficient for storage of the object; upon determining that the folder quota limit of the target folder is sufficient, increasing a folder quota usage of the target folder by a delta value; and storing the object in the target folder. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297782 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY SWITCHING BETWEEN COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOLS - A method for dynamically switching between communications protocols used in communicating with each of a plurality of physical computing devices includes configuring, by a storage delivery management service, a storage system in a storage area network, to communicate, according to a first communications protocol with a first physical computing device executing a virtual machine, the storage system providing, to the virtual machine, access to a virtual storage resource. The storage delivery management service receives a request to migrate the virtual machine from the first physical computing device to a second physical computing device. The storage delivery management service configures the storage system to communicate with the second physical computing device according to a second communications protocol. The storage delivery management service transmits, to the second physical computing device, an identification of the storage system providing access to the virtual storage resource for the virtual machine. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297783 | UNDOING SENT COMMUNICATIONS - Techniques for managing objects sent in a communication system. For example, a method for managing an object in a communication system comprises the following steps. An object previously sent in the communication system is identified. A first target to which the object was sent is determined. A first agent is deployed to the first target. The first agent is configured to undo the previously sent object at the first target, and determine if the previously sent object was sent from the first target to a second target. When the previously sent object was sent from the first target to the second target, the method deploys a second agent to the second target to undo the previously sent object at the second target. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297784 | Cross Platform Application Transactions - Systems and methods are provided for cross platform application transactions according to one or more embodiments. In an embodiment, a system comprises one or more processors and one or more memories adapted to store a plurality of machine-readable instructions which when executed by the one or more processors are adapted to cause the system to: receive an input comprising selection of an application for a transaction in connection with a recipient device, wherein the application is operable on one or more application platforms; receive identifier information of the recipient device; determine an application platform associated with the recipient device based at least in part on the identifier information of the recipient device; and present the application platform associated with the recipient device. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297785 | Offload Operations for Overlay Networks - Techniques are presented herein for receipt/transmission of packets to/from a host via a connected input/output (IO) device. In general, a packet is associated with a payload, an inner packet header, and an outer overlay header. The IO device is configured to perform independent offload operations on the inner packet header and the outer overlay header. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297786 | UNDOING SENT COMMUNICATIONS - Techniques for managing objects sent in a communication system. For example, an apparatus for managing an object in a communication system is configured to identify an object previously sent in the communication system. A first target to which the object was sent is determined. A first agent is deployed to the first target. The first agent is configured to undo the previously sent object at the first target, and determine if the previously sent object was sent from the first target to a second target. When the previously sent object was sent from the first target to the second target, the apparatus deploys a second agent to the second target to undo the previously sent object at the second target. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297787 | Systems, methods, and mediums for components and applications comprising components - A computer system may include a processor and a memory configured to store a library of applications for execution by the processor. The computer system may be configured to allow users of the computer system to download one or more applications from the library of applications to communications devices. The downloaded one or more applications may be configured to connect at least one first communications device of the communications devices to at least one second communications device of the communications devices in a network. Information transfer within the network from the at least one first communications device to the at least one second communications device may be independent of the processor. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297788 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTENT DISTRIBUTION - Apparatus for content distribution includes a distribution processor configured to distribute first data to a terminal of a visitor at a first site of an event, the first data comprising first information regarding a content related to the event and a content distribution processor configured to distribute, at a second site other than the first site, the content to the terminal when second data is determined as valid in relation to the first data by the content distribution processor, the second data originating from the terminal and comprising second information. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297789 | RSS FEED GENERATION USING OBJECTS - A really simple syndication (RSS) feed generator provides a set of data related to an entity to a user in the form of a really simple syndication (RSS) feed in a manner so that the set of data includes entity information at the feed-level. A user of the RSS feed may use the feed-level entity information to consume the set of data in a number of different ways. In an embodiment, the feed-level entity information includes meta-data defining the entity such that a user may use the metadata to display the entity on the client side. The RSS feed generation system allows a user to manipulate a copy of an instance of entity data as necessary for a client. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297790 | SERVER, TERMINAL APPARATUS, SERVICE TRANSIT SERVER, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A server, a terminal apparatus, a service transit server, and a control method thereof are provided. The server includes a communicator configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus, a storage configured to store information regarding contexts collectable from the terminal apparatus, a determinator configured to, in response to an occurrence of an event to change a service provided by the server, determine whether contexts regarding the changed service are collectable from the terminal apparatus based on the information regarding contexts and a controller configured to, in response to the determinator determining that the contexts regarding the changed service are collectable, request the terminal apparatus to transmit the contexts regarding the changed service and provide the changed service based on the contexts received in response to the request. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297791 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus receives a packet, to which a sequence number is attached, from an external apparatus using UDP, determines whether or not to make a request for retransmission of a packet to the external apparatus based on the received packet, and transmits a retransmission request using TCP to the external apparatus in a case where it determines to make the request for the retransmission of the packet to the external apparatus. In a case where the apparatus transmits the retransmission request, the apparatus receives, using UDP, a packet that the external apparatus retransmitted in accordance with the retransmission request, and in a case where it is determined not to make a request for a retransmission, the apparatus transmits to the external apparatus, using TCP, a notification indicating that the packet has been normally received. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297792 | SERVER, DATA CACHING METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - It is provided are a server including: a storage module for storing original files and characteristics of the original files; an encoding module for encoding the original files stored in the storage module to generate encoded symbols; an information acquisition module for communicating with at least one transmission node and acquiring state information from the at least one transmission node; a control module for calculating a number of the encoded symbols to be sent to the at least one transmission node for caching based on the characteristics of the original files stored in the storage module and the state information of the at least one transmission node acquired by the information acquisition module; and a communication module for sending the encoded symbols to the at least one transmission node based on the number of the encoded symbols calculated by the control module. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297793 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SOUND INFORMATION IN WEB-BASED CONTROL SYSTEM - Disclosed are an apparatus and method for transmitting information in a Web-based control system. The control target device of the present invention includes a Web server module, a sound information generation module and an independent communication module. The Web server module transmits a Web page required for device control to a control device through a first communication channel. The sound information generation module generates sound information related to an event, occurring according to variation in status of the control target device. The independent communication module transmits the generated sound information to the control device through a second communication channel that is separate from the first communication channel. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297794 | METHOD OF MONITORING AND CONFIGURING - A method for managing and monitoring communication devices in a firewall/NAT protected network from a Management system outside the firewall/NAT protected network includes periodically and at predefined events opening an http connection and transmitting a request from the respective communication devices to the Management system through a firewall/NAT installation protecting the network, and when receiving said request in the management system, transmitting instructions and data to the communication devices from the management system in a http response through said http connection. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297795 | ORTHOGONAL EXPERIMENTATION IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Various embodiments include at least one of systems, methods, and software to receive input configuring tests within a computing environment to expose users to standard application or website experiences or test experiences. In some embodiments, multiple tests may be configured to run orthogonally within user experiences without affecting the results of one another. Some such embodiments preserve the ability to execute certain tests in a non-orthogonal manner while other tests are allowed to execute orthogonally. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297796 | MEDIA DELIVERY PLATFORM - A method of delivering an audio and/or visual media file including, for example, one or more of full or partial master recordings of songs, musical compositions, ringtones, videos, films, television shows, personal recordings, animation and combinations thereof, over the air wirelessly, from one or more servers to an electronic device with or without an Internet connection, said method comprising transmitting and audio and/or visual media file in compressed format to said electronic device, and wherein the electronic device is effective to receive said audio and/or visual file and playback said audio and/or visual content on demand by a user. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297797 | BROADCASTING MEDIA FROM A STATIONARY SOURCE TO MULTIPLE MOBILE DEVICES OVER WI-FI - A system for synchronized broadcast of media content across large networks, comprising a media source stored and operating on a network-connected electronic device that broadcast media content, a first media receiver stored and operating on a network-connected electronic device that receives the media content and re-broadcasts it, and a plurality of further media receivers stored and operating on network-connected electronic devices that receive the media content from the first media receiver, and a method for synchronized broadcast of media content across large networks. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297798 | INTERNET-BASED GRAPHICS APPLICATION PROFILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR UPDATING GRAPHIC APPLICATION PROFILES STORED WITHIN THE MULTI-GPU GRAPHICS RENDERING SUBSYSTEMS OF CLIENT MACHINES RUNNING GRAPHICS-BASED APPLICATIONS - An application profile server system to upload graphic application profiles (GAPs) to one or more client computing devices connected over a communications network, the system including at least one communication network server, at least one database server, and at least one application server to distribute the GAPs. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297799 | PORTING LOCALLY PROCESSED MEDIA DATA WITH LOW LATENCY TO A REMOTE CLIENT DEVICE VIA VARIOUS WIRELESS LINKS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for porting locally processed media data with low latency to a remote client device via various wireless links are provided. In one example embodiment, a transceiver module may include a local network interface and a controller that may receive a client control signal from a client device over a wireless local area network via the local network interface, transmit a media control signal based on the client control signal to a media device, receive media data based on the media control signal from the media device, and transmit to the client device over the wireless local area network via the local network interface client data based on the media data and a low-latency compression technique. The receipt of the media data and transmission of the client data may be accomplished with substantially no detectable latency. Additional embodiments are also provided. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297800 | Apparatus, Method and Computer Program for Migrating an Event Detector Process - Embodiments relate to a concept for migrating an event detector of a first node (N | 2014-10-02 |
20140297801 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY TRANSMITTING OR RECEIVING MULTIPLE MANAGED OBJECTS - The present invention relates to a method for simultaneously transmitting and receiving multiple managed objects in order to compensate for the inadeguacies of the current 3GPP TS32.607 standard, characterized in that, the method comprises: encapsulating two or more managed objects in one or more atomic transactions according to internal attributes and data processing of the managed objects, wherein each atomic transaction includes at least two managed objects; according to a pre-defined association rule, determining association relationships between managed objects in the one atomic transaction, or determining association relationships between multiple atomic transactions and association relationships between managed objects in each of the multiple atomic transactions; and transmitting one or more atomic transactions through a communication network. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297802 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATION-BASED DELIVERY OF NOTICES OF ALARMS AND EVENTS - The system and method of location-based delivery of notice of an alarm and/or event incorporates location-based information in real time to facilitate alarm and/or event handling. The system and method ranks recipients in order of proximity to an alarm and/or event location. Recipients can be workstations, devices, or operators, and can be hard-coded or updated in real-time using GPS. The system and method can also rank recipients using multiple factors to provide an alarm and/or event handling system that is more efficient and more secure. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297803 | Dynamic Medical Object Information Base - A dynamic medical object information base (DMOIB) is used with a communication protocol. A medical object information base (MOIB) may generally define rules of creation and modification of data defined for use in medical products. A dynamic version of the MOIB adapts to changing data classifications. DMOIB is preferably compatible with non-dynamic MOIB systems. DMOIB preferably reduces code space and simplifies management of software projects. DMOIB may allow for an entirely dynamic system using a discovery/negotiation process for determining full features of a device. DMOIB may also allow for generation of a dynamic interface to handle data from devices. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297804 | CONTROL OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT STREAMING THROUGH CLIENT-SERVER INTERACTIONS - A real-time server (RTS) controls on-demand, live, and real-time streaming of multimedia content from network services to a client. The RTS receives a request to stream the multimedia content to the client. In response, the RTS causes an encoder to encode successive blocks of the content to produce encoded files, upload the encoded files to a download server, and identify the uploaded files to the RTS. The RTS receives, from the client, a playlist request that relates to the content and includes encoded file selection criteria. In response, the RTS selects among the uploaded files based on the selection criteria, and sends a playlist identifying the selected files to the client. The download server services access requests from the client to download the selected files identified in the playlist. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297805 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING PRIORITY LEVELS TO STREAMS BY A NETWORK ELEMENT IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method for assigning a priority level to a stream by a network element in a communications network, where the network element has a plurality of communications ports is disclosed. The method includes monitoring at least one of the ports for at least one stream being communicated between a first user agent and a second user agent during a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communication session. The SIP communication session includes a plurality of SIP packets. The network element captures at least one SIP packet of the plurality of SIP packets and extracts information from the at least one captured SIP packet to determine a service type of the at least one stream. The network element assigns a priority level to the at least one stream based on the service type and according to a policy that defines priority levels for streams according to a plurality of service types. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297806 | MACHINE TO MACHINE SYSTEM, METHOD AND SERVER USING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - The present disclosure relates to a machine to machine (M2M) system, method and server using a Social Network Service (SNS). The M2M communication server receives control information of a first M2M apparatus from a second M2M apparatus that receives the control information through an SNS interface, converts the control information into a command that is recognizable by the first M2M apparatus, and transmits the command to the first M2M apparatus such that the second M2M apparatus receives information corresponding to the command. Accordingly, a human, as a user, communicates with an M2M apparatus, easily controls the M2M apparatus, and acquires information by use of a Social Network Service (SNS) interface that is familiar to the human. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297807 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIRTUAL SOCIAL COLOCATION - A system and method for virtual social colocation with dynamic participation and audience among users with defined relationships are disclosed. In one embodiment, bridging of digital content and audio and/or video streams originating from one of first end points and incoming audio and/or video streams from remaining first end points is enabled on the one of the first end points. Further, first integrated audio and/or video streams and a second integrated audio and/or video stream are created based on the digital content and the audio and/or video streams originating from the one of the first end points and the incoming audio and/or video streams and sent to the remaining first end points and a virtual social colocation service (VSCS), respectively, by the one of the first end points. Also, the second integrated audio and/or video stream is broadcasted to the second end points by the VSCS. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297808 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSISTING WITH PLAYBACK OF REMOTELY STORED MEDIA FILES - A software based system for facilitating streaming of media files to a device over a wide area network (WAN) includes an agent process, an authentication process, a client services process and a client process. The agent process catalogs local media files and advises the authentication process of it's availability on the WAN and the address at which it may be contacted. The client process contacts the client services process to obtain, after authenticating with it, the WAN address of the agent process and contacts the agent process to receive information or meta-data describing the media files available for streaming. The client process obtains information for forming a URI or playlist, that it then passes to a media player to request the stream over the WAN. Alternately, the client process may direct the agent process to pass the URL to another client process on, for example, the same local area network. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297809 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTIPLE OPEN APIS - A method of processing multiple Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) by an API server is provided. The method includes receiving a request message of a first API from a terminal, the request message including information on one or more second APIs associated with the first API, identifying the one or more second APIs by analyzing the information, searching for result data of the first API and the one or more second APIs in a database, storing the result data of the one or more second APIs, and transmitting a response message including the result data of the first API to the terminal. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297810 | Method For Processing Information And Server - A method for processing information applied in a server and the corresponding server is described. The method is applied in a server that stores a file set including a plurality of stream media files. The method includes obtaining a transition parameter when a first terminal apparatus accesses a file set when the first terminal apparatus accesses stream media file in the file set; making statistics of transition probability of each stream media file in the file set transiting to the respective stream media files in the file set according to the transition parameter of at least one first terminal apparatus; determining a target stream media file that the first terminal apparatus accesses most frequently in the stream media files in the file set according to the transition probability; and transmitting the target stream media file to a second terminal apparatus. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297811 | MANAGING STREAMED COMMUNICATION - Methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed for managing streamed communication (such as video, audio, or audio-visual communication) between client devices and remote devices via a digital data communication network in situations where the data communication network comprises one or more routers operable to receive streamed data from one or more client devices and/or from one or more other routers, and to forward such streamed data to one or more remote devices and/or to one or more other routers such as to enable the client device and potentially-varying subsets of the one or more remote devices to participate in a communication session. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297812 | BRIEFING-ALARM SERVICE PROVISION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method and apparatus for providing briefing information from a portable terminal to a user is provided. Briefing information is received and stored before an alarm time that is set according to a briefing alarm configuration. An alarm is output at the alarm time. The briefing information is displayed when the alarm turns off. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297813 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING THE ENCODING OF A SEGMENTED MEDIA STREAM USING SEGMENT TRANSMIT TIMES - Systems and methods are described for providing a media stream transmitted from an encoding system to a remotely-located media player that requests segments of the media stream. The media stream is encoded into segments according to an encoding parameter. Data is gathered about current conditions of the network and/or the media player, and encoding of the media stream is adjusted during operation to adapt to changing conditions. The encoding parameter is suitably adjusted in response to changes in available bandwidth and/or segment transmit time, as appropriate. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297814 | COLLABORATIVE PHONE-BASED FILE EXCHANGE - A collaborative phone-based file exchange technique that wirelessly synchronizes a user's work context with his or her mobile phone and makes this context readily available and sharable in collaborative situations. When the user is away from their desk, collaboration with others is possible by sharing/downloading between the mobile phone and a paired PC, which may be a colleague's computer or a meeting room workstation/computer. When the user returns to their office, any recently downloaded files are automatically synchronized back to their office PC. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297815 | SYNCHRONOUS PLAYBACK OF MEDIA USING A WI-FI NETWORK WITH THE MEDIA ORIGINATING FROM A BLUETOOTH SOURCE - A system for synchronized media playback to multiple mobile receiver devices, comprising a network-connected media source device that prepares media content for viewing by separating it into a plurality of media streams, a plurality of network-connected media receiver devices that each receive a plurality of media streams and synchronize their playback relative to one another, and a method for providing synchronized media playback to multiple receiver devices. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297816 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PERFORMING REMOTE COMPUTER FILE EXCHANGE - Disclosed are an apparatus and method of exchanging data between a first computing device and a second computing device using a customized data transfer protocol. One example of operation may include establishing a control channel between the first computing device and the second computing device to exchange control information, negotiating a data transfer between the first and second computing devices, establishing a data channel between the first and second computing devices to transfer data, and transferring data from the first computing device to the second computing device over the data channel in parallel with control information being transferred over the control channel. The client devices may be a client and server configuration transferring data via a point-to-point data connection. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297817 | Managing Software Operations Based Upon User Status In A Unified Communications Environment - Operation of a computing device is facilitated within a unified communications platform, where a user status designation is assigned to the computing device. A user configuration table for the computing device is established, where the user configuration table provides information relating to a plurality of user status designations associated with operation of the computing device within the unified communications platform. In response to identifying an automated software operation scheduled to be performed in association with the computing device, the user configuration table is consulted to determine a rule associated with the user status designation and the automated software operation. In response to a determination of the rule, the rule is applied that controls performance of the automated software operation at the computing device. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297818 | Parallel and Dynamic Interface Selection - Various embodiments enable parallel querying of multiple network interfaces for communication configuration information. Returned communication configuration information can be used by a client device to enable communication with another computing device. In some embodiments, multiple responses to the parallel queries are received. Alternately or additionally, a response from a network interface can be determined through expiration of a user-configured timeout and/or a protocol configured timeout. Selection of a network interface from the multiple responses can be based, at least in part, on prioritizing the responding network interfaces using an adaptive selection algorithm. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297819 | PROVIDING A MANAGED BROWSER - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing a managed browser are presented. In various embodiments, a computing device may load a managed browser. The managed browser may, for instance, be configured to provide a managed mode in which one or more policies are applied to the managed browser, and an unmanaged mode in which such policies might not be applied and/or in which the browser might not be managed by at least one device manager agent running on the computing device. Based on device state information and/or one or more policies, the managed browser may switch between the managed mode and the unmanaged mode, and the managed browser may provide various functionalities, which may include selectively providing access to enterprise resources, based on such state information and/or the one or more policies. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297820 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED PROVISIONING OF A WIRELESS DEVICE - A processor and a system for automated provisioning of one or more wireless devices are provided. The processor includes one or more processing subsystems communicably coupled to a guest network. The one or more processing subsystems receive one or more input data signals corresponding to a service request from the wireless devices to connect to a secured backend network. The input data signals include a plurality of service connection parameters associated with the wireless devices. The service connection parameters are then authenticated with pre-stored data. Thereafter the input data signals are processed upon authentication to establish a secured communication link with the wireless devices. Subsequently a plurality of output signals corresponding to the service request to the wireless devices for automated provisioning to establish a connection with the secured backend network. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297821 | SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING LEARNING CORRELATION OF EVENT DATA - Systems, methods, architectures and/or apparatus for implementing an event correlation function in which a correlation window (CW) utilized therefor is dynamically adapted in response to changes in average correlation distance (CD) as indicated by unambiguous event pair occurrences. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297822 | CONTEXT-AWARE MANAGEMENT OF APPLICATIONS AT THE EDGE OF A NETWORK - A method, system and computer program for operating and managing data and application services at an edge of a network. An example method includes executing an application on an edge node. The edge node provides services to mobile device end users on the edge of a network. The method may include identifying an operating context for executing an application on an edge node. A management step manages the operation and lifecycle of the application on the edge node in response to the identified operating context. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297823 | CLOUD BASED VIRTUAL MOBILE DEVICE - Systems and techniques for a cloud based virtual mobile device are described herein. A virtual mobile device may be initialized to correspond to a physical mobile device. The virtual mobile device may include a representation of a physical mobile device operating environment. A service request for the physical mobile device operating environment may be received. The service request may be fulfilled using the representation of the physical mobile device operating environment. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297824 | PROVIDING AN ENTERPRISE APPLICATION STORE - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing an application store are presented. In some embodiments, a request for updated policy information for at least one application may be received at an application store from a policy agent. Based on receiving the request, it may be determined, at the application store, whether one or more policies for the at least one application have been updated. Based on determining that the one or more policies for the at least one application have been updated, at least one policy update may be provided to the policy agent. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297825 | DATA MANAGEMENT FOR AN APPLICATION WITH MULTIPLE OPERATION MODES - A method and system for managing an application with multiple modes are described. A device manager that manages a mobile device may monitor the mobile device. The device manager may detect that a first type of application that runs in a managed mode (or in multiple managed modes) and an unmanaged mode is installed on the mobile device. When the application is executed on the device, the application executes in accordance with the selected application mode, e.g., based on location, user, role, industry presence, or other predefined context. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297826 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BIG DATA AGGREGATION IN SENSOR NETWORK - A system for big data aggregation in a sensor network is provided, and the system includes a sensor network which comprises two or more sensor nodes connected to each other over a wired/wireless network and is configured to transfer sensor data generated by each of the two or more sensor nodes to a big data management unit by setting a destination address in the sensor data as an address of a big data management unit; and the big data management unit configured to distribute and dispersedly store the sensor data based on the set destination address of the sensor data. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297827 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, VERIFICATION METHOD, AND VERIFICATION DEVICE - On the basis of a possible value of a variable that is specified by a conditional sentence extracted from a script that is used for the first system configuration and on the basis of a possible value of an item in configuration information on the first system configuration, a verification device creates a first association relationship that indicates the relationship between the variable and the item. On the basis of a possible value of a variable that is specified by a conditional sentence extracted from a script that is used for a second system configuration and on the basis of a possible value of an item in configuration information on the second system configuration, the verification device creates a second association relationship between the variable and the item. The verification device extracts a difference between the first association relationship and the second association relationship. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297828 | VISUALIZATION FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE IP ADDRESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - Visualization for managing multiple IP address management systems is provided. In some embodiments, visualization for managing multiple IP address management systems for an IP address management manager system includes communicating with a plurality of IP address management systems to determine IP address management information managed by each of the IP address management systems; and generating a graphical visualization of an IP address space managed by the plurality of IP address management systems based on the IP address management information managed by each of the IP address management systems, in which the graphical visualization of the IP address space managed by the plurality of IP address management systems indicates any gaps or overlaps in the IP address space managed by the plurality of IP address management systems. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297829 | Server Apparatus Program, Server Apparatus, and Communication Apparatus Program - A server apparatus performs a remote conference by a plurality of communication apparatuses. When a recording start instruction is acquired from any one of the communication apparatuses, the server apparatus specifies, based on layout information of the communication apparatuses, a display area in which layouts of two or more image information are corresponding to each other between two or more of the communication apparatuses. The server apparatus combines two or more image data corresponding respectively to the two or more image information included in the specified display area and generates one first kind record data. The first kind record data includes the two or more image information which are arranged in the layout of the two or more image information included in the specified display area. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297830 | Cloud Service Control and Management Architecture Expanded to Interface the Network Stratum - Disclosed is a method comprising: transmitting, by a cloud service control gateway (CSCG) positioned in an application stratum, a resource query to a network control gateway (NCG) positioned in a network stratum, wherein the resource query comprises a source address, a destination address list, and a network resource requirement. Also disclosed is a method comprising: receiving, by a network control gateway (NCG) positioned in a network stratum, a resource query from a cloud service control gateway (CSCG) positioned in an application stratum, wherein the resource query comprises source address, a destination address list, and a network resource requirement. Also disclosed is a method comprising: receiving, by a network control gateway (NCG) positioned in a network stratum, a resource reservation request from a cloud service control gateway (CSCG) positioned in an application stratum, wherein the resource reservation request comprises a destination address list and a first network resource requirement. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297831 | CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF GLOBAL SERVICE DELIVERY AUGMENTED WITH SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS - Improving global service delivery by augmenting with social network analysis, may comprise identifying social network metrics and key performance indicator metrics; collecting data associated with the social network metrics and the key performance indicator metrics, from on-going work performed in the global service delivery and a social network of practitioners; transforming the data into measurable metric data; determining whether a deviation exists in the measurable metric data; and generating an actionable recommendation in response to determining that the deviation exists. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297832 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BUNDLING MULTIPLE LOGGER EVENTS - A system, method, apparatus and mechanisms for detecting traps triggered by Label Switch Path (LSP) interface events, determining the corresponding event characteristics, associating the detected traps with a bitmap marker indicative of their respective event characteristics, and bundling together bitmaps having common markers to provide thereby respective bundles of common logger events adapted for bulk transmission to a management system. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297833 | Systems And Methods For Self-Adaptive Distributed Systems - Systems and methods for run-time monitoring, tuning and optimization of distributed systems are provided. In various aspects, a system or method may include measuring run-time values for one or more performance metrics of the distributed system, such as, for example, task-latencies, process-throughputs, and the degree of utilization of various physical resources of the system. The system or method may further include comparing the measured run-time values with one or more target values assigned to the performance metrics, and, based on the comparison, adjusting one or more tunable run-time control variables of the distributed system, such as the number of the tasks, processes, and nodes executing in the distributed system. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297834 | MANAGEMENT OF A PLURALITY OF SYSTEM CONTROL NETWORKS - A multiple storage control network management system includes a plurality of controllers, each coupled to a respective system control network to provide a respective controller environment. A controller manager is coupled to each of the plurality of controllers. The controller manager is operable to monitor the respective controller environment provided by each of the plurality of controllers. The controller manager is also operable to move personas between respective controller environments. The controller manager is also operable to start and stop personas across a plurality of the respective controller environments. The controller manager is also operable to receive a first change object from a first controller of the plurality of controllers, compare the first change object to a previously received change object from the first controller, determine the changes between object elements in the first change object and the previously received change object, and store the determined changes. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297835 | VISUALIZATION OF RESOURCES IN A DATA CENTER - A system and method are disclosed for monitoring usage of resources (e.g., hosts, instances, applications, etc.) in a datacenter. Customers, developers and system administrators can collect and track metrics, gain insight, and react to keep applications and businesses running smoothly by providing system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. Users can programmatically retrieve monitoring data and view heat maps to assist in troubleshooting, spotting trends, and taking automated action based on the state of a cloud environment. Users can further monitor resources in real-time, so that metrics such as CPU utilization, latency, memory usage, transaction volumes, error rates, etc. can be visualized. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297836 | TRACKING USAGE METRICS FOR A MOBILE APPLICATION - The disclosed embodiments relate to a system for obtaining usage metrics for a mobile application that operates on a mobile computing device. During operation, the system outputs page-specific tracking information when the mobile application loads a page containing user interface elements for the application, wherein loading the page causes the page to be presented to a user of the mobile device. This system also outputs action-specific tracking information when the user performs an action that causes the mobile application to load a page. In some embodiments, outputting the tracking information involves sending the tracking information from the mobile device to a server associated with the mobile application. This enables the server to aggregate the tracking information received from the mobile device along with tracking information received from other mobile devices. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297837 | CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF GLOBAL SERVICE DELIVERY AUGMENTED WITH SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS - Improving global service delivery by augmenting with social network analysis, may comprise identifying social network metrics and key performance indicator metrics; collecting data associated with the social network metrics and the key performance indicator metrics, from on-going work performed in the global service delivery and a social network of practitioners; transforming the data into measurable metric data; determining whether a deviation exists in the measurable metric data; and generating an actionable recommendation in response to determining that the deviation exists. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297838 | PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONALITIES - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing mobile device management functionalities are presented. In various embodiments, a mobile device management agent may monitor state information associated with a mobile computing device. The monitored state information may be analyzed on the mobile computing device and/or by one or more policy management servers. In some instances, the one or more policy management servers may provide management information to the mobile computing device, and the management information may include one or more commands (which may, e.g., cause the mobile computing device to enforce one or more policies) and/or one or more policy updates. Subsequently, one or more policies may be enforced on the mobile computing device based on the monitored state information and/or based on the management information. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297839 | PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONALITIES - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing mobile device management functionalities are presented. In various embodiments, a mobile device management agent may monitor state information associated with a mobile computing device. The monitored state information may be analyzed on the mobile computing device and/or by one or more policy management servers. In some instances, the one or more policy management servers may provide management information to the mobile computing device, and the management information may include one or more commands (which may, e.g., cause the mobile computing device to enforce one or more policies) and/or one or more policy updates. Subsequently, one or more policies may be enforced on the mobile computing device based on the monitored state information and/or based on the management information. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297840 | PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONALITIES - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing mobile device management functionalities are presented. In various embodiments, a mobile device management agent may monitor state information associated with a mobile computing device. The monitored state information may be analyzed on the mobile computing device and/or by one or more policy management servers. In some instances, the one or more policy management servers may provide management information to the mobile computing device, and the management information may include one or more commands (which may, e.g., cause the mobile computing device to enforce one or more policies) and/or one or more policy updates. Subsequently, one or more policies may be enforced on the mobile computing device based on the monitored state information and/or based on the management information. | 2014-10-02 |