49th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 71 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140359032 | Apparatus and Method for Maintaining a Message Thread with Opt-In Permanence for Entries - A server has a processor and a memory storing a message thread module with instructions executed by the processor to maintain a message thread between users of client devices. Message thread state changes are queued at the server. The message thread is revised based upon the message thread state changes to form shared message thread state. The shared message thread state is stored. The shared message thread state is supplied in response to a request for the message thread from a user | 2014-12-04 |
20140359033 | Device and the method for sending personalised messages - The method for sending personalised messages, characterised by comprising steps in which a carrier is tagged, then a personalised message is saved on a server and attributed to the tagged carrier, next the personalised message is sent from the server in response to and in accordance with attribution to the tagged carrier. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359034 | Methods and Systems for Automatically Making Acts of Advocacy Based on Content in Electronic Information Streams - This patent discloses inventive methods and systems for automatically monitoring an electronic information stream for the occurrence of preconfigured trigger condition, such as the presence of keywords, images, and other identifiable stream content. Upon recognition of the preconfigured trigger condition, the inventive methods and systems automatically make a donation, send a counter-statement, or take some other preconfigured advocacy action related to the stream and trigger condition. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359035 | DATA AGGREGATION - Data aggregation in an internet of things (IoT) system refers generally to collecting data such that the data can be processed in a useful manner. Existing approaches to data aggregation in IoT systems, such as a system including a network of sensors for example, often focus on network logical topology and data transmission scheduling and routing schemes. Embodiments disclosed herein include systems that can aggregate data at an application-protocol layer. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359036 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF ELASTICALLY PROCESSING MESSAGE INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES - Elastic message tracking apparatus and methods are provided that opportunistically improve on the latency of a message processing system and increase the accuracy of a consolidated message stream generated from message streams received from multiple message sources. The elastic message tracking apparatus and methods reduce that latency in situations where the actual latency of all the message streams is lower than a predetermined latency value. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359037 | CONFIGURING CHANNELS FOR SHARING MEDIA - A user interface for sharing media items with others. From a sender's perspective, embodiments of the invention allow for an easy-to-use drag-and-drop technique that is more user-friendly than conventional techniques. From the recipient's perspective, embodiments of the invention allow media items from multiple sources to be aggregated into a single viewport, providing a cohesive and unified approach to media items received from others. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359038 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR EXCHANGING ELECTRONIC BUSINESS CARD - Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose methods, apparatuses, and systems for exchanging electronic business card. One of the methods includes: receiving a first request message sent by a first terminal, wherein the first request message includes first condition information, a first electronic business card, and first location information of the first terminal; selecting a second request message from at least one request message received during a preset period of time, according to the first location information, the first condition information, and the time when the first request message was received; sending an electronic business card corresponding to the second request message to the first terminal; and sending the first electronic business card to a second terminal, wherein the second request message was sent by the second terminal. The methods, the apparatuses, and the systems can be directed to simplify the process of exchanging electronic business cards. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359039 | DIFFERENTIATION OF MESSAGES FOR RECEIVERS THEREOF - A solution for sending messages on a data-processing system is proposed. A corresponding method comprises upon a message to be sent from a sender to at least one receiver being submitted, parsing the message to identify an original expression therein matching an indication of one of a set of pre-defined concepts, determining, for the receiver, a preferred expression of the matched concept, among the corresponding original expression and a set of candidate expressions pre-defined to express the matched concept, according to a rating thereof representing an expected understanding by the receiver, processing the message for the receiver by replacing the original expression according, to the corresponding preferred expression for the receiver, and sending the processed message to the corresponding receiver. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359040 | PRIVATE MOBILE MESSAGING AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL MESSAGING - A private mobile data communications apparatus and methods of managing organizational data flow and coordinate a secure messaging infrastructure allow organizations to communicate with and monitor one or more mobile users each having at least one mobile device with which they communicate. The apparatus includes a server component, system client, a mobile client, and multiple application programming interface modules configured to manage information flow and correspond with external systems as needed. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359041 | Message Processing Method, Apparatus, and System - A message processing method, apparatus, and system are provided. The method includes: receiving a first domain name resolution request message; determining a first domain name system (DNS) server from a DNS server priority list, where the first DNS server belongs to a set of DNS servers with a highest priority in the DNS server priority list; sending a second domain name resolution request message to the first DNS server, where the second domain name resolution request message carries the domain name to be resolved as required by the host computer. According to the message processing method, apparatus, and system in the embodiments of the present invention, a DNS server is selected from a set of DNS servers with a highest priority in a DNS server priority list, which can reduce a domain name resolution time and avoid a domain name resolution failure. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359042 | Programmable Automation with the Aid of a Social Network - The present disclosure provides methods for communicating with at least one peripheral device of a user, comprising providing a computer server that is in communication with an automation controller that is operatively coupled to at least one peripheral device of the user. The computer server hosts a social network that comprises an automation application that is programmed to permit the user to access the peripheral device. Next, at the computer server through the automation controller, information is received from the peripheral device that is of or related to a state of the peripheral device. Based on the information received computer server, the user or another user selected by the user is provided an indication as to the state of the peripheral device. The indication is provided to the user or the other user through the automation application on the social network. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359043 | HIGH PERFORMANCE, DISTRIBUTED, SHARED, DATA GRID FOR DISTRIBUTED JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE RUNTIME ARTIFACTS - A server and/or a client stores a metadata hash map that includes one or more entries associated with keys for data records stored in a cache on a server, wherein the data records comprise Java Virtual Machine (JVM) artifacts or monitoring information. Each of the entries stores metadata for a corresponding data record, wherein the metadata comprises a server-side remote pointer that references the corresponding data record stored in the cache, as well as a version identifier for the key. A selected data record is accessed using a provided key by: (1) identifying potentially matching entries in the metadata hash map using the provided key; (2) accessing data records stored in the cache using the server-side remote pointers from the potentially matching entries; and (3) determining whether the accessed data records match the selected data record using the provided key and the version identifiers from the potentially matching entries. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359044 | REMOTE MEMORY ACCESS FUNCTIONALITY IN A CLUSTER OF DATA PROCESSING NODES - A server apparatus comprises a plurality of server on a chip (SoC) nodes interconnected to each other through a node interconnect fabric. Each one of the SoC nodes has respective memory resources integral therewith. Each one of the SoC nodes has information computing resources accessible by one or more data processing systems. Each one of the SoC nodes configured with memory access functionality enabling allocation of at least a portion of said memory resources thereof to one or more other ones of the SoC nodes and enabling allocation of at least a portion of said memory resources of one or more other ones of the SoC nodes thereto based on a workload thereof. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359045 | Method and Apparatus for Cached Content Delivery to Roaming Devices - In one aspect, the method and apparatus disclosed herein enable a high-quality content viewing experience for users viewing user-specific content via their mobile devices operating within a mobile communication network, based on intelligently caching the content in the network using one or more distributed caches. For example, in one or more embodiments, a cache management server dynamically manages the distribution of user-specific content to one or more of the distributed caches, based on known or expected user locations, so that the content resides in the distributed cache or caches closest to the user locations. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359046 | PRELOADING OF SHARED OBJECTS - The present disclosure describes methods comprising generating a shared object in a shared memory of an application server, wherein the shared memory is a non-persistent memory, providing an instance key of the shared object for storage in a persistent memory upon occurrence of a first trigger event, and upon occurrence of a second trigger event, re-building the shared object in the shared memory of the application server, the re-building comprising: obtaining the stored instance key of the shared object, using the instance key to identify data stored on a database server associated with the shared object, and building the shared object in the shared memory of the application server using the identified data and systems adapted to implement these methods. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359047 | SECURE DATA TRANSFER PLATFORM FOR HYBRID COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A data transfer profile defines the transfer of data among different domains. The data transfer profile is processed to generate data transfer rules. Subsets of the rules are distributed to the different domains. A rule can specify a folder in a particular domain in which files stored in the folder will be transferred to another domain. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359048 | Caching in a Telecommunication Network - A net-work node ( | 2014-12-04 |
20140359049 | System And Method For Increasing Data Availability On A Mobile Device Based On Operating Mode - A system for a mobile device to provide access to a data collection, such as a user's data collection for example, without requiring either persistent storage of the complete data collection locally on the mobile device, or network access requests for each user data request from the mobile device. In an embodiment, the system employs a data probability function to predict the probability of the mobile device accessing specific types of user data based on the operating mode of the mobile device. The system executes as a background process to provide and store locally on the mobile device, the data most probable to be accessed at the mobile device. The data most likely to be accessed via the mobile device is available locally, thereby minimizing latency issues that occur when data requests cannot be fulfilled using data stored locally in the mobile device and network requests are performed. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359050 | MODULAR ARCHITECTURE FOR EXTREME-SCALE DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a new data center architecture that provides for efficient processing in distributed analytics applications. In one embodiment, a distributed processing node is provided. The node comprises a plurality of subnodes. Each subnode includes at least one processor core operatively connected to a memory. A first interconnect operatively connects each of the plurality of subnodes within the node. A second interconnect operably connects each of the plurality of subnodes to a storage. A process runs on a first of the plurality of subnodes, the process being operative to retrieve data from the memory of the first subnode. The process interrogates the memory of the first subnode for requested data. If the requested data is not found in the memory of the first subnode, the process interrogates the memory of at least one other subnode of the plurality of subnodes via the first interconnect. If the requested data is found in the memory of the other subnode, the process copies the requested data to the memory of the first subnode. If the requested data is not found in the memory of the first subnode or the memories of at least one subnode of the plurality of subnodes, the process interrogates the storage via the second interconnect. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359051 | Service-based Backup Data Restoring to Devices - A user of a device has an account with a service that stores copies of common data that is automatically made available to any of the user's devices and also stores copies of device-specific data that is available to the user on particular user-selected devices but is not automatically made available to all of the user's devices. A set of backed up devices can be displayed to the user of a particular device with various information describing the devices to facilitate user selection of a device, such as a visual representation of the type of the device that was backed up, a visual representation of a desktop or start screen display of the device that was backed up, and so forth. The user can select one of the displayed devices, and in response have the backed up device-specific data for the selected device copied to the particular device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359052 | RESILIENT TCP SPLICING FOR PROXY SERVICES - A transparent proxy device includes an ingress, an egress, and an application proxy. The ingress and the egress operate up to a layer four communication layer. The transparent proxy device is configured to establish spliced connections in relation to end devices. The spliced connections include layer four connections between the ingress and the application proxy and the application proxy and the egress. The transparent proxy device is configured to maintain an end-to-end connection in relation to the end devices even when the application proxy fails. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359053 | Coordinating Application Migration Processes - Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for coordinating application migration processes. A method includes selecting at least one migration service for an application based on analysis of application information and information pertaining to multiple migration services, creating a migration plan to migrate the application to a target cloud based on the at least one selected migration service, and executing the migration plan, utilizing the at least one selected migration service, to migrate the application to the target cloud. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359054 | Distributed Storage Defense in a Cluster - Embodiments provide a method and system for enabling access to a storage device. Specifically, a node may request admittance to a cluster that has read and write access to a storage device. The node seeking access to the storage device must be first be approved by other nodes in the cluster. As part of the request, the node seeking access to the storage device sends a registration key to a storage device. Upon expiration of a registration timer, the node seeking access to the storage device receives a registration table from the storage device and determines whether its registration key is stored in the registration table. If the registration key is stored in the registration table the node has been accepted in the cluster and as a result, has been granted read and write access to the storage device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359055 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING IMAGES - A plurality of web requests for images are received from a web client via corresponding web request channels. A response to a first one of the web requests is suppressed until a first generated image is received by the web server. The first web request is associated to the first generated image, which is then transmitted to the web client as a response to the first web request via the corresponding web request channels. A second received generated image is transmitted to the web client via a control channel based on a detection of a triggering event. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359056 | Metered Network Synchronization - Metered network synchronization techniques are described. A current network connection of a computing device is checked as to whether the current network connection has been identified as a metered network. Access by a synchronization engine of the computing device to communicate via the current network connection to synchronize data of the computing device with another computing device is managed based at least in part on a setting associated with the metered network. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359057 | SYNCHRONIZING AN APPLICATION ON A COMPANION DEVICE - A media server machine may be configured to provide media content within a datastream. This datastream may be provided to a media device that is configured to present the media content on a display. Also, this datastream may contemporaneously contain an “app-sync indicator” for the media content. The app-sync indicator is a data structure that signals the media device to launch an application on a companion device. By providing the app-sync indicator contemporaneously with the media content in the datastream, the launching of the application on the companion device may be synchronized with the media content. The app-sync indicator may specify the application to be launched. Also, the app-sync indicator may specify supplemental content to be presented by the launched application on the companion device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359058 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MIGRATING A VIRTUAL STORAGE SYSTEM - Method and system for a non-disruptive migration of a source virtual storage system from a source cluster to a destination cluster is provided. The method includes monitoring a current transfer rate for migrating information from the source cluster to the destination cluster during a migration operation; iteratively reducing a rate at which I/O requests are processed until a transfer rate for transferring the information from the source cluster to the destination cluster within the duration is reached; and entering a cutover phase for the migration operation when the virtual storage system presented by the source cluster is taken offline for the duration and after the information is migrated to the destination cluster, the virtual storage system is presented by the destination cluster. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359059 | INFORMATION EXCHANGE IN DATA CENTER SYSTEMS - System information may be retrieved by an element manager on a device in a data center system where the element manager detects an application programming interface (API) call to the element manager from a centralized manager. The element manager establishes a two-way communication channel between the first element manager and the centralized manager according to a communications protocol. The element manager queries the centralized manager for data center system information through the two-way communication channel. The centralized manager manages a storage area network containing the device of the element manager. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359060 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATION-BASED DIGITAL GOLF MEDIA DELIVERY - According to embodiments described in the specification, systems and methods are provided for location-based digital golf media delivery. The method includes the steps of, in a user device including a processor, a display, and a sensor, sensing a code at a golf course location using the sensor, accessing a link to digital golf media from the code, wherein the link is determined based on one or more redirect parameters, and displaying the digital golf media on the display. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359061 | Method and Apparatus for Automating Access Rights Creation and Control in Machine-to-Machine Systems - In one aspect of the teachings herein, “inaugural” registrations by M2M applications are reported according to stored subscription information and the notification of an inaugural registration by a given application is used for the automatic determination of permissions for the application with respect to one or more resources stored in the M2M network. For example, a first application performs an inaugural registration with the Services Capability Layer (SCL) hosted at a first node and a corresponding inaugural registration notification is sent to the SCL at a second node, based on the second node being subscribed for notifications. Application-related identifiers in the inaugural registration notification are used at the second node to determine permissions for the first application with respect to a resource maintained at the second node. Further, ongoing registration and notification tracking prevent repeated notifications and minimize notification traffic between nodes, while still providing for automated setting of permissions. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359062 | DATA TRANSFERRING APPARATUS, DATA TRANSFERRING SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, there is provided a data transferring apparatus to communicate with a communicating apparatus through a network in accordance with a predetermined protocol, including: a writing controller and a transmission controller. The writing controller performs control of writing a first response message containing first data to a storage. The transmission controller performs control of reading the first response message from the storage and transmitting the first response message to the communicating apparatus, upon receiving a data acquisition request message for the first data from the first communicating apparatus. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359063 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, CACHE CONTROL METHOD, AND SERVER - A computer system, comprising: a server on which an application providing a service runs; and a storage system for storing data, the server including a cache device in which a server cache for temporarily storing data is set up, and an operating system for controlling the server, the operating system including a cache driver for controlling the server cache, wherein the operating system is configured to hold access information storing a frequency of reading data and a frequency of writing data, and wherein the cache driver is configured to: update the access information in a case where an I/O request; analyze access characteristics of data that is a target for the I/O request based on the access information; and determine whether to store the data that is the target for the I/O request in the server cache. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359064 | PROXY SERVER OPERATION - Data messages having secure data location addresses other than a predefined set are handled by a user terminal ( | 2014-12-04 |
20140359065 | Terminal device and user information synchronization method - A terminal device and a user information synchronization method are disclosed. A terminal device parses and analyzes a Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) packet flowing through the terminal device to detect whether Cookie information is included in the HTTP packet when a webpage is accessed, and stores relevant information into the terminal device when the Cookie information is detected; when it is detected that a user accesses the webpage again, if no Cookie information is included in an HTTP packet, the terminal device retrieves previously stored relevant Cookie information, modifies an HTTP request packet to be sent by adding the previously stored corresponding Cookie information to the HTTP request packet, so as to achieve the synchronization of the Cookie information of the user. The technical solution of the disclosure can automatically achieve the use of a data card user's Cookie information across multiple browsers and multiple Personal Computers (PCs) without installation of additional tools by the data card user on a PC, thereby effectively recording access preference and login information of the data card user, improving the usage experience of the data card user, and enhancing the overall competitiveness of driver-free data cards for a portable broadband wireless access device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359066 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OFFLINE DOWNLOADING RESOURCE AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - A seed file server for resources is set in a system for offline downloading resources. The seed file server may include a seed file access service unit, a seed file database unit and a seed crawler unit. The seed file access service unit is configured to obtain a seed file of a resource from a client, and transmit the seed file to the seed file database unit to be stored. The seed crawler unit is configured to obtain a seed file of a resource from the Internet, and store the seed file in the seed file database unit. When to download the resource, an offline download server obtains the seed file corresponding to the resource directly from the seed file database unit, and downloads the resource from the Internet based on the seed file. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359067 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING STATES BETWEEN ELECTRONIC DEVICES - In various example embodiments, a system and method for transferring the state of a first device to a second device are disclosed. An instruction to transfer a state of a first device to a second device is received. In response, information related to the state of the first device is packaged into a file. A type of connection to be used to transfer the state of the device is determined based on the connections available to the first device and the second device. The file containing the information of the state of the first device is transferred to the second device using the connection type. The file, when processed by the second device, causes the second device to reproduce the state of the first device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359068 | TRIGGER-BASED DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM - A system for collecting and communicating data associated with at least one of a plurality of machines includes a sensor. The sensor is configured to monitor an operational condition of the at least one associated machine and provide signals indicative of the operational condition. The system includes at least one local data system, including a processor, associated with the machine and configured to receive signals from the sensor, detect an event affecting the at least one machine based on the signals received from the sensor, and communicate data relevant to the detected event to a location remote from the at least one machine. A central data system including a processor and configured to receive the data relevant to the detected event and communicate with other machines of the plurality of much such that the other machines communicate data relevant to the detected event to the central data system is included. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359069 | METHOD FOR SECURELY SHARING A URL - A method is disclosed wherein a URL is associated with a resource. The URL is for use in accessing the resource. A smartphone is associated with a recipient. The URL is provided to the recipient. When the URL is accessed by a request for access to the resource relying upon the URL, transmitting from a server to the smartphone a push notification. When the push notification is responded to, allowing access to the resource via the communications network in dependence upon the response. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359070 | Systems and Methods for Critical Path Synchronization of Content Rendering - Methods and apparatus related to critical-path ordering of content, such as web pages, are disclosed. A request to transmit content is received at a critical-path server. The content includes one or more components. The one or more components of the content are received. A critical-path ordering for the one or more components is determined. The critical-path ordering can be based on device information, critical-path data, and/or one or more content rules. The critical-path data can be related to one or more preferences, such as but not limited to time-budget entries and content-priority preferences. One or more critical components of the one or more components can be determined based on the critical-path ordering. The one or more components, beginning with the one or more critical components, are transmitted in accordance with the critical-path ordering. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359071 | MAINTAINING STATE SYNCHRONIZATION OF AN APPLICATION BETWEEN COMPUTING DEVICES AS WELL AS MAINTAINING STATE SYNCHRONIZATION OF COMMON INFORMATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS WITHOUT REQUIRING PERIODIC SYNCHRONIZATION - A method, system and computer program product for maintaining state synchronization of an application between computing devices and maintaining state synchronization of common information between different applications. A server receives a request from a client device to access a shared state scope. A shared state scope is a data store that physically resides on the server, where the data store stores state information. The state information stored in these scopes can be shared among multiple instances of an application residing on multiple client devices. Furthermore, the state information may include common information that is shared among different applications. Upon the server providing access to the requested scope, the server receives an update to the state information stored within the requested scope from the requesting client device. The server then notifies other client devices regarding the update to the state information that have access to the shared state scope. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359072 | MAINTAINING STATE SYNCHRONIZATION OF AN APPLICATION BETWEEN COMPUTING DEVICES AS WELL AS MAINTAINING STATE SYNCHRONIZATION OF COMMON INFORMATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS WITHOUT REQUIRING PERIOIDIC SYNCHRONIZATION - A method, system and computer program product for maintaining state synchronization of an application between computing devices and maintaining state synchronization of common information between different applications. A server receives a request from a client device to access a shared state scope. A shared state scope is a data store that physically resides on the server, where the data store stores state information. The state information stored in these scopes can be shared among multiple instances of an application residing on multiple client devices. Furthermore, the state information may include common information that is shared among different applications. Upon the server providing access to the requested scope, the server receives an update to the state information stored within the requested scope from the requesting client device. The server then notifies other client devices regarding the update to the state information that have access to the shared state scope. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359073 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF TOKEN PIGGYBACKING - A method, system, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for generating a unified user profile. For example, a system may store, on a client device, a token under a first domain name. The token may specify state data for a communication session between the client device and a first content publisher addressed by the first domain name. The communication session utilizes a stateless communication protocol. The system may then generate a redirection resource locator. The redirection resource locator may include an identifier for a web object belonging to a second content publisher addressed by a second domain name and the token. The system then stores, on the client device, the token under the second domain name by directing the client device to send a web object request generated based at least in part on the redirection resource locator to the second content publisher. The web object request may request the web object from the second content publisher and including the token. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359074 | PRE-FETCHING RESOURCES BY PREDICTING USER ACTIONS - Pre-fetching resources by predicting user actions. Features of multiple users and of multiple client computer systems associated with the multiple users are obtained. From these features, multiple segments are generated, each including a proper subset of the multiple users. Users in the proper subset share a common feature. For a segment, resources that have at least a threshold level of likelihood of being requested by a user included in the segment are pre-fetched, i.e., obtained before the resources have been requested. A client computer system associated with the user in the included segment is identified, and the obtained resources are stored for providing to the user. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359075 | Synchronizing Multiple Over The Top Streaming Clients - Systems and methods for synchronizing the playback of OTT or other time sensitive content on multiple playback devices is disclosed. The systems and methods include receiving time information based on a network time source in the playback devices. The playback clock in each playback device is set based upon the time information. Stream initiation information derived using the time information from the network time source is received by each of the playback device from the media provider. The playback devices use the stream initiation information to adjust the presentation time stamps of the frames of the media content in the stream. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359076 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRIORITIZING ADAPTIVE BIT RATE DISTRIBUTION OF CONTENT - Systems and methods for prioritizing adaptive bit rate distribution of content are provided. In some aspects, a method includes identifying a plurality of content streams. Each of the plurality of content streams is associated with a variant feature of content to be delivered to the client device. Each variant feature of the content comprises at least one of a bit rate and a non-bit rate feature. The method also includes determining a priority of each of the plurality of content streams relative to one another based at least on the non-bit rate feature associated with each of the plurality of content streams. The method also includes providing an indication of the priority of each of the plurality of content streams to the client device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359077 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SYMBOL FILES - The present disclosure presents a method and an apparatus for transmitting symbol files. For example, the method may include storing one or more symbol files at a local server, identifying a symbol file associated with a crash dump file by parsing the crash dump file, and determining whether the identified symbol file is to be transmitted to a central symbol server. Furthermore, such an example method may include retrieving the identified symbol file from the local server based at least on the determining, and transmitting the retrieved symbol file to the central symbol file server based at least on the determining. As such, transmission of symbol files is achieved. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359078 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING MEDIA DATA BASED ON GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS - The invention discloses a method performed at a server computer for location-based media data delivering. The method includes receiving first geolocation data that identify a first geolocation of a first client device, identifying a plurality of second client devices as located within a predetermined range of the first geolocation according to their respective second geolocation data, and in response to the identifying, retrieving media file log data that record information concerning a plurality of media files that have been transmitted to the plurality of second client devices. The method further includes in response to a media content request received from the first client device for requesting interested media data: identifying, among the retrieved media file log data, one or more media files as being associated with the interested media data, and transmitting information of at least one identified media file and the interested media data to the first client device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359079 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS ON SECOND SCREEN - The present arrangement relates to a display a screen of a second device of an enriched content previously pushed by a computer server, in synchronism with the display of the content of a broadcast program reproduced by a first device. The method includes, the server pushing an item of information representative of the start (T | 2014-12-04 |
20140359080 | FILE DOWNLOAD METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTING DEVICE - In a file download method executed by a computing device, a download address for each file is generated. The addressed file is stored in a storage system connected to the computing device. In response to a download start request, an addressed file is retrieved from the storage system and transformed into a data stream. Data blocks with a specific length are read from the data stream and transmitted to the client computer. In response to a download suspend request, an offset address is recorded, and transmission of the data blocks is suspended. In response to a download resume request, data blocks of the data stream are read from the offset address and transmission of the data blocks to the client computer is resumed. In response to a download stop request, the transmission of any data block to the client computer is stopped. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359081 | CONTROLLED STREAMING OF SEGMENTED CONTENT - Methods and systems for enabling client-controlled streaming of segmented content are described. In one example, the client-controlled streaming is on the basis of a manifest file, the manifest file including one or more segment identifiers and one or more associated segment locators, In one example, a method involves: requesting the delivery of at least one segment on the basis of a first segment identifier selected from the manifest file; on the basis of the first requested segment, selecting a second at least one segment identifier from the manifest file, the second segment identifier being associated with an expected future segment request; and pre-resolving a first segment locator associated with the selected second segment identifier for obtaining network information associated with the first segment locator. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359082 | SEEDING OF A WORKSPACE TO OPTIMIZE CODEC OPERATIONS - Various embodiments are directed toward compressing and/or decompressing data communicated between one or more network devices (e.g., codec operations). In particular, embodiments are directed towards improving codec performance by seeding the computation workspace that may be used by various codec processors. The seeding data may be determined based on at least one characteristic of a particular codec and the characteristics of data that may be processed by the codec processor. Also, the codec processor may be employed to generate data for the codec workspace based on the determined seeding data. Workspace data may be generated by processing the seeding data with the same codec processor that is used for normal codec operations. The workspace generated from the seeding data may be stored for future use, such as, when a matched data stream arrives. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359083 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING FILE BASED ON AUDIO SIGNAL - A method for transmitting files based on an audio signal includes a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal receives a file identification of a target file transmitted by a server; obtains a first audio signal, hiding the file identification in the first audio signal to form a first signal, and plays the first signal; a second terminal samples at least a portion of the first signal, and gets the file identification according to the at least a portion of the first signal; transmits the file identification to the server; the server sends the target file to the second terminal according to the file identification. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359084 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND FILE TRANSFERRING METHOD - The present invention discloses an electronic device, a storage medium and a method for transferring a file. The method includes: acquiring transferring parameters of at least one file segment that is already transferred to a target device, wherein the transferring parameters include size and transferring rate; calculating a transferring rate varying index according to the transferring parameters; determining whether the transferring rate varying index is less than a predefined first threshold value, and if the transferring rate varying index is less than the first threshold value, updating a current transferring state with a different state; acquiring a coefficient corresponding to the current transferring state, and setting a size of a current file segment as a product of the coefficient and a size of a last transferred file segment; cutting out the current file segment from the file according to the set size of the current file segment for transferring. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359085 | ACCESS PERMISSIONS FOR SHARED CONTENT - Various embodiments of the disclosed technology can configure access permissions for content shared via an online content management system. In one example, a first user of the online content management system can share his directory including files with other users (“recipients”). Upon agreeing to the content sharing from the first user, the recipients can reconstruct local representations of the shared directory and any included file (i.e., local representations of shared content). Access permissions associated with the recipients' local representations of the shared content can be configured to prevent unpermitted/unauthorized modifying or deleting of the local representations by the recipients. However, the first user can maintain read and write permissions, permitting him to make modifications or deletions to the shared content. The recipients' local representations of the shared content can be updated by the online content management system to include the modifications or deletions made by the first user. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359086 | REPRESENTATION OF CONTROL SYSTEM TOPOLOGY AND HEALTH IN AN FDT FRAME APPLICATION USING DEVICE DTMS AND VIRTUAL DEVICES - Provided is a system configuration tool for execution on a computer and configured for managing physical field devices within a field device tool environment. The system configuration tool includes a communication device type manager (DTM) component and a first device DTM component configured for communicating, via the communication DTM component, with one of the physical field devices. The one physical field device has FDT capability. The system configuration tool also includes a second device DTM component configured for communicating, via the communication DTM component, with a virtual field device. The virtual field device is representative of another one of the physical field devices, the other physical field device being devoid of FDT capability. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359087 | Method and Apparatus for Clearing Configuration Command in Communication Equipment - A method and an apparatus can be used for clearing a configuration command in communication equipment effectively and rapidly. Hierarchy information of each network element and information of a configuration command deployed on each network element in communication equipment are acquired. The hierarchy information is determined as hierarchy information of the configuration command deployed on each network element. A configuration command tree is constructed in an initial status according to hierarchy information of configuration commands deployed on all network elements. A target status of the configuration command tree is obtained according to a specific configuration status that is specified by a user and the communication equipment needs to recover to. The initial status and the target status of the configuration command tree are compared and a node that needs to be cleared from the configuration command tree is determined. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359088 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOWING USER CONFIGURATION OF DYNAMIC ENDPOINT GENERATORS AND DYNAMIC REMOTE OBJECT DISCOVERY AND BROKERAGE - A method for allowing user configuration of an endpoint for consuming a business object includes: loading a definition of the business object, the definition having properties and methods; mapping the definition to endpoint-supported protocols; and allowing user configuration of the endpoint based upon at least one of: (i) services configuration, (ii) protocol configuration, or (iii) managed configuration. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359089 | NETWORK PROXY FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE, LOW-POWER DATA CENTER INTERCONNECT FABRIC - A system and method are provided for network proxying. The network proxying may occur in a node of a fabric or across nodes in the fabric. In the network proxying, the node has a processor with a low power mode and the system remaps, by a management processor of the node, a port identifier for a processor that is in a low power mode to the management processor. The management processor then processes a plurality of packets that contain the port identifier for the processor that is in the low power mode to maintain a network presence of the node. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359090 | Wi-Fi Administration Console - In one embodiment, a method includes configuring a first router of a second entity to link the first router to a communication network of the second entity. The configuration of the first router establishes router-configuration data for the communication network on a computer system of a first entity. The method also includes configuring a second router of the second entity to link the second router to the communication network using at least some of the router-configuration data for the communication network established on the computer system of the first entity. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359091 | DYNAMICALLY MIGRATING VIRTUAL MACHINES AND GATEWAYS - Improving a distributed network environment. A method includes determining physical element properties of physical elements in a virtualized network topology. The method further includes determining gateway placement on a first physical element of the virtualized network topology. The method further includes determining utilization of physical elements in the virtualized network topology. Based on the physical element properties, gateway placement, and utilization of physical elements in the virtualized network topology, the method further includes determining an improved virtualized network topology to improve use of physical elements in the virtualized network topology | 2014-12-04 |
20140359092 | Capacity Exchange for the Open Content Delivery Network - Some embodiments provide a capacity exchange whereby capacity from different content delivery networks (CDNs) can be bought, sold, and traded. The capacity exchange is part of an “Open CDN” platform. The Open CDN platform federates the independent operation of CDNs and other operators of and service providers to distributed platforms participating in the Open CDN platform so that each participant can (1) dynamically scale its capacity without incurring additional infrastructure costs, (2) expand its service into previously untapped geographic regions without physically establishing points of presence (POPs) at those geographic regions, and (3) reduce sunk costs associated with unused capacity of already deployed infrastructure by selling that unused capacity to other participants that are in need of additional capacity. The Open CDN platform includes one or more APIs for facilitating intercommunication between the federation participants by performing configuration mapping, command interoperability, traffic management, and reporting aggregation. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359093 | DETECTING AND CORRECTING NETWORK INTERRUPTIONS USING NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION - Embodiments provide a network address translation (NAT) service for network devices. A network connection from at least one private network device to the NAT service is received and a network connection from at least one remote device to the NAT service is received. The private network device is positioned within a private network and the remote device is positioned within a public network. A network availability of the remote device is determined. If the remote device is unavailable or a network configuration setting associated with the remote device changes, the private network device is notified and a connection reset message is transmitted to the private network device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359094 | Hybrid Transport - Application Network Fabric Apparatus - A hybrid routing—application network fabric apparatus is presented where a fabric apparatus has multiple apparatus components or resources that can be dedicated to one or more application topologies. The apparatus can receive a topology image definition file describing an application topology and the apparatus can dedicate its local components for use with the application topology. The apparatus can dedicate general purpose processing cores, dedicated routing cores, data channels, networking ports, memory or other local resources to the application topology. Contemplated application topologies include routing topologies, computation topologies, database topologies, storage topologies, or other types of application topologies. Furthermore, application topologies can be optimized by modeling or simulating the topologies on a network fabric. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359095 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CREATING INSTANCES FROM A CONTROL SYSTEM TOPOLOGY - Approaches for automatically creating device type manager (DTM)-compliant instances in a Field Device Tool (FDT)-compliant network are presented. Network topology information is uploaded to a user. The network topology information concerns a plurality of devices of a known type connected in a network that is located in a predefined local area. The network topology information relates to one or more of an operation of the devices or an interconnection of the plurality of devices in the network. At least one DTM-compliant software instance that implements the network topology information is automatically created. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359096 | Distributed State Model for System Configuration Synchronization - Systems and methods for configuring applications and resources on distributed nodes or machines are disclosed. A node exposes a synchronization resource that corresponds to a desired state on a remote resource. The node evaluates a state of the remote resource. A test function may be defined to check whether the remote resource is in the desired state. A set function may also be defined to set a state of the synchronization resource when the remote resource is in the desired state. The node configures the synchronization resource when the remote resource is in the desired state. The synchronization resource may be configured, for example, using a resource provider. The node may evaluate the states of a plurality remote resources. The synchronization resource may be configured when one or more of the remote resources are in the desired state or when all of the remote resources are in the desired state. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359097 | In Line Network Connection Control Device - The invention provides for an in-line network connection control device that controls the physical and logical connectivity of Ethernet attached end devices, switches or routers. The device allows two mechanisms of for controlling connectivity of Ethernet attached devices; General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) controlled, 1) latched and 2) non-latched. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359098 | DYNAMIC REGISTRATION OF AN APPLICATION WITH AN ENTERPRISE SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method for automatically registering an application with an enterprise system. The method includes, obtaining the application associated with the enterprise system, wherein the application is pre-configured for subsequent registration with the enterprise system such that the registration establishes a trust relationship between the application and the enterprise system. The method further includes installing the application on a host device, and in conjunction with installing the application, automatically requesting the registration of the application with the enterprise system. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359099 | NETWORK SYSTEM, SERVER, SWITCH, AND OPERATING METHOD OF NETWORK SYSTEM - The network system that includes a first server and a first switch is provided. The first server includes a first virtual machine. The first virtual machine (VM) is configured to provide a first VM packet including a first VM identifier (ID) to the first server. The first server is configured to acquire a tenant identifier corresponding to the first VM according to the first VM identifier, to convert the tenant identifier to a first feature data, and to encapsulate the first VM packet to generate and output a first server packet containing the first feature data. The first switch is configured to receive the first server packet, to acquire a service instance identifier (I-SID) according to the first feature data, to acquire a backbone VLAN identifier according to the I-SID, and to encapsulate the first server packet to generate and output a switch packet. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359100 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit, a first acceptance unit, a second acceptance unit, a measurement unit, a third acceptance unit, and a restriction unit. The determination unit determines whether information necessary for a meeting is to be downloaded. The first acceptance unit accepts first electric energy information indicating electric energy necessary to download the information. The second acceptance unit accepts second electric energy information indicating electric energy necessary to present the information in the meeting. The measurement unit measures remaining electric energy. The third acceptance unit accepts a result of subtraction of the electric energy indicated by the first electric energy information and the electric energy indicated by the second electric energy from the remaining electric energy. The restriction unit imposes, on the basis of the subtraction result, a restriction on a function in a first time period and in a second time period. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359101 | SECURITY SYSTEM WITH NETWORKED TOUCHSCREEN - An integrated security system integrates broadband and mobile access and control with conventional security systems and premise devices to provide a tri-mode security network that with remote connectivity and access. The integrated security system includes a touchscreen providing security keypad functionality as well as content management and presentation, and is used as a security system interface and an interface for interacting with a network. The integrated security system delivers remote premise monitoring and control functionality to conventional monitored premise protection and complements existing premise protection equipment. The integrated security system integrates into the premise network and couples wirelessly with the conventional security panel, enabling broadband access to premise security systems. Automation devices can be added, enabling users to remotely see live video or pictures and control home devices via a personal web portal, mobile phone, or other client device. Users can receive notifications of detected events via electronic message. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359102 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND TERMINAL APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to transmit an application to a terminal apparatus in accordance with information regarding a status, the information including at least one of location information of the terminal apparatus and time information, permit the terminal apparatus to execute a plurality of functions of the application, the plurality of functions including a first function and a second function when the status identified by the information regarding the status matches a first condition that specifies at least one of and a first location range a first time range, and permit the terminal apparatus to execute the first function and prohibit the terminal apparatus to execute the second function, when the status identified by the information regarding the status does not match the first condition and matches a second condition that specifies a second time range or a second location range. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359103 | Migration of Application Components - A system supervises applications executing on electronic devices connected by one or more networks. Each device comprises a local supervision entity, cooperating to control the applications. Each application comprises a set of application components, each encapsulated in a container by the supervision entity of the device hosting the component. The components are connected by connectors. The supervision entity of a source device executes, in response to receipt of a command to migrate a component to a target device: stopping the component, interrupting arrival of data in the input connectors of the component, serializing and encapsulating the properties of the component in a container of the supervision entity, dispatching a migration request message to the supervision entity of the target device, the message comprising the serialized and encapsulated component, and redirecting the connectors of the component as a function of the state of connections of each connector on the source device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359104 | GROUPING PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present disclosure provides a grouping processing method and system, the method comprises: monitoring a number of users accessing a sub-group that is corresponding to a group; and according to the number of users in the sub-group and a preset threshold of the number of users for the sub-group, adjusting the sub-group corresponding the group and/or user access which the sub-group corresponds a physical resource equipment and the physical resource equipment corresponds to more than one of sub-groups. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359105 | METHOD, CLIENT, SERVER, AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING DATA - A method for processing data is provided. In the method, the terminal device receives a blocking command to screen out a specified user identification. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359106 | NETWORK ANALYSIS DEVICE, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, NETWORK ANALYSIS METHOD AND PROGRAM - An electronic message information collector collects packets transferred on a building management system network and analysis results as first electronic message information. A storage stores the first electronic message information collected by the electronic message information collector. An electronic message information collector collects packets transferred on an equipment network and analysis results as second electronic message information. A storage stores the second electronic message information collected by the electronic message information collector. An electronic message associator associates the first electronic message information stored in the storage and the second electronic message information stored in the storage. A display displays the analysis results of the association by the electronic message associator. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359107 | CUSTOM-TAILORED WIDGET PROVIDING DEVICE - A custom-tailored widget providing device comprises a first widget management unit for receiving registration of information on various kinds of widgets and storing and managing the widget information; a first execution command registration unit for registering execution commands for executing the widgets stored through the first widget management unit; a first open page confirmation unit for selecting, if a browser is displayed on the client of a user, an execution keyword related to a web site opened in the browser; a first widget selection unit for selecting, if the execution keyword of the client is confirmed by the first open page confirmation unit, widgets having an execution command the same as the execution keyword by comparing the execution keyword of the client with the execution commands of the stored widgets; and a first widget display unit for displaying the widgets selected by the first widget selection unit at one side of the client. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359108 | XML BASED GENERIC UNIX DISCOVERY FRAMEWORK - Services that support recovery of a data center require collecting information concerning the service customer's physical and virtual infrastructure, and specifically the configuration of their operating systems such as UNIX operating systems. Here an automatic discovery tool executes within the context of a secure browser program. Once a user is authenticated, a JavaScript or HTML program seamlessly retrieves a file that is specific to the type and version of the UNIX operating system on the host; the file contains commands and parsing logic for the commands to retrieve configuration data. Once parsed, the program forwards that data to a database so that the replication service provider may then correctly provision recovery systems. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359109 | DEVICE MONITORING - Example embodiments relate to device monitoring. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computing device may include one or more processors, a memory for storing machine readable instructions, and a data store. Additionally, the computing device may include a utility device monitoring module stored in the memory and executing on at least one of the one or more processors to passively monitor network information and power information from a utility device communicatively coupled to a network and a power source. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359110 | AUTHORIZING AN ACTION REQUEST IN A NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - An approach for authorizing an action requested by a user in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment) is provided. In a typical embodiment, a request for a particular action associated with a computing resource is received. The connected systems which may be affected by the requested action are identified. The actual users of the connected systems are determined. A response from each of the actual users is requested. The responses are collected and weighted to determine if authorization for the requested action is granted. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359111 | Idle Worker-Process Page-Out - Systems and methods for handling idle websites on a Web server are disclosed. The duration between requests for a website application is monitored and compared to an idle time-out value. The idle time-out value may be a user-selected value that is the same for all website applications or an idle time-out value selected for a group of worker processes. When the idle time-out value is reached, all inactive memory allocations for the website application are paged-out. When a request for the website application is later received, memory for the website application is paged-in so that the request can be processed. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359112 | Burst Access to Memory in Optical Line Terminal - The Optical line terminal (OLT) tracks the number of data packets, bandwidth per user, and other data packet statistics. DDR (DRAM) is used to store the information tracked by the OLT. The DDR is accessed in a burst mode. In particular, the data is initially stored in an on-chip cache memory and then the data is sent periodically to the DDR in a burst mode. Leaky buckets can be used for each flow, and time stamps can be used to determine the last time the bucket was accessed. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359113 | APPLICATION LEVEL BASED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN MULTI-TENANT APPLICATIONS - A system includes multiple tenant queues, where each of the queues is associated with a single tenant is configured to queue one or more requests from its respective single tenant. One or more processing nodes have one or more shared resources for processing the requests queued in the multiple tenant queues. A first feedback loop is configured to determine a resource demand for each of the tenants. An admission controller is configured to calculate an actual utilization value of a shared resource for each of the tenants using the knowledge of resource demands for each of the tenants request from the first feedback loop and control processing of the requests from each of the tenant queues based on a reference value for each of the tenants and the actual utilization value of a shared resource for each of the tenants, where the reference value represents an allowed utilization for each of the tenants. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359114 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, USAGE MODE DATA GENERATION METHOD, AND USAGE MODE DATA GENERATION DEVICE - A computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute a usage mode data generation process. The process comprising (a) reading from a storage device association data associating each of a plurality of different expression formats of component data and a standardized expression format which can be converted to each of the plurality of different expression formats, and (b) based on the association data read at (a), generating according to the standardized expression format standardized usage mode data containing component data from first usage mode data that is usage mode data for a first virtual computer included in a plurality of virtual computers and that contains component data for the connector in a first relay device with the type of a first type expressed in a first expression format corresponding to the first relay device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359115 | METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A method of processing information includes: identifying a time span in a period of viewing a content based on detection results of the behavioral viewing states of the user viewing the content, the time span being a period, during which a behavioral viewing state of the user is not determined to be a positive state or a negative state; extracting a time period during which an index indicating one of the positive state and the negative state of the user has an unordinary value with respect to values of the other time periods in the time span; and estimating a time period, during which the user has quite possible been in at least one of the positive state and the negative state, based on the time period extracted by the extracting. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359116 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DATA TRACKING METHOD - An electronic device records operation log of an application when the application is operated by an account on the electronic device. The electronic device uploads the operation log of the application to a server connected to the electronic device. The electronic device displays the operation log of the application in a screen of the electronic device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359117 | SHARED HEARTBEAT SERVICE FOR MANAGED DEVICES - Systems, methods, and apparatuses for facilitating communication between remote services and applications installed on a device are described. In accordance with embodiments, each of a plurality of remote services generates an application-specific message intended for processing by a corresponding application installed on a device and transmits the application-specific message to a device management system (DMS) server, where it is queued. A DMS client installed on the device sends heartbeat messages to the DMS server indicating that the device is available to receive messages. In response to receiving the heartbeat messages, the DMS server transmits the application-specific messages to the DMS client. The DMS client then publishes each application-specific message to the particular application that the application-specific message was intended for. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359118 | PROCESS AUTOMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATION OF A PROCESS AUTOMATION SYSTEM - A process automation system includes at least one wireless-aware component for detection of the occurrence (e.g., start and end) of a wireless volume data transfer from at least one other component which might be a wireless-unaware component. Upon such detection, the at least one wireless-aware component requests for bandwidth on behalf of the wireless-unaware component to decrease the communication time and subsequently releases this bandwidth again. A method is provided for operation of the process automation system, in which an upload/download is generally detected by either explicit initiation of the upload/download in the wireless-aware component, or by automatic detection in the wireless-aware component. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359119 | DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM MANAGEMENT - A system for managing compositions of software components or applications is disclosed. In particular, systems in which the software components or applications communicate with one another using message-oriented middleware are considered. The system is fed by one or more data feeds, and produces a plurality of processed feeds for respective applications. The data items in the input data feeds are processed by the software components or applications which form a data feed processing graph, with each application having a processing path (or egress-rooted tree) which results in the processed feed for that application. Managing such systems is complex. This complexity is tackled by having each component processing a data feed item add an annotation to the data feed item, so that the cumulative annotation which is seen in the processed feed for an application provides a history of the processing carried out on the input data feed(s). At an egress of the processing system, this history can be compared ( | 2014-12-04 |
20140359120 | METHOD, SERVER, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING LAG OCCURRENCE ABUSING PREVENTION SERVICE USING RELAY SERVER - The method for providing lag occurrence abusing prevention service by using a relay server includes a first step for allowing a relay server to create a pattern of a network usage or a traffic by sensing a network condition of a client; a second step for allowing a game server to analyze the created pattern and, when it is resultantly analyzed that a lag for abusing is generated, to impose a penalty grade according to a corresponding lag generating frequency; and a third step for imposing a penalty on a user who manipulates the client when the penalty grade accesses a predetermined level. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359121 | Providing a Monitoring Service in a Cloud-Based Computing Environment - Technologies are described herein for providing a monitoring service in a cloud-based computing environment. A request is received from a user to subscribe to the monitoring service. The monitor workflow may correspond to the monitoring service. A first call to a finder application is executed over a communications network to retrieve data points according to the monitor workflow. A second call to an analyzer application is executed over the communications network to identify a relevant data point in the data points. A third call to a notifier application is executed over the communications network to notify the user of the relevant data point. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359122 | SESSION TERMINAL APPARATUS AND NETWORK SESSION SYSTEM - A session terminal apparatus constitutes a network session system together with another session terminal apparatus. In the session terminal apparatus, a back performance instruction part instructs reproduction of back performance information. A back performance control part transmits the back performance information, when the reproduction thereof is instructed by the back performance instruction part, to another session terminal apparatus, and controls a performance reproduction part to start reproducing the back performance information when a monitor delay time corresponding to a communication delay time between the session terminal apparatus and another session terminal apparatus has elapsed after the reproduction of the back performance information was instructed. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359123 | Efficient Resource Usage For Location Sharing In Computer Networks - A location sharing system and related processes across computer networks are provided that efficiently utilize resources by adjusting location determination techniques at client devices. A rule-based architecture including user-based heuristics facilitates location determination that is accurate while optimizing resource consumption. Current interest in or other behavior associated with a target user or requesting user can be used in selecting a location determination protocol at the client device. An accurate portrayal of a user's location can be provided efficiently by correlating interest to utilize more accurate but larger resource-intensive components when interest is higher and to utilize less accurate but lower resource-intensive components when interest is lower. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359124 | PARENTAL CONTROL SETTINGS FOR MEDIA CLIENTS - A first media client may set a parental control feature of the first media client to a first setting. The first media client may determine an occurrence of an event associated with the parental control feature. The first media client may determine a second setting of a parental control feature of a second media client. The second media client may be different from the first media client. The first media client may determine that the second setting is a more restrictive setting relative to the first setting. The first media client may set the parental control feature of the first media client to the second setting based on the occurrence of the event and based on the second setting being the more restrictive setting. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359125 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus receives a request from a Web server over a network, adds security information to the request, and determines whether to process the request, based on the security information which is added to the request. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359126 | WORKLOAD PARTITIONING AMONG HETEROGENEOUS PROCESSING NODES - A method of computing is performed in a first processing node of a plurality of processing nodes of multiple types with distinct processing capabilities. The method includes, in response to a command, partitioning data associated with the command among the plurality of processing nodes. The data is partitioned based at least in part on the distinct processing capabilities of the multiple types of processing nodes. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359127 | ZERO TOUCH DEPLOYMENT OF PRIVATE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE - Automatically provisioning computing resources based on events occurring in the computer network. The system manager defines resource configurations for computing resources in a network computing environment. The resource configurations are associated with event conditions. The event conditions cause the system manager to apply the resource configurations to the computing resources. The event conditions are also associated with various policies. The policies specify how the resource configurations are to be applied to the computing resources. The occurrence of the event conditions is ascertained. In response, workflows are automatically executed. The workflows apply the resource configurations to the computing resources in accordance with the policies. This configures the computing resources according to the resource configurations. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359128 | Coordinating Application Migration Processes - Systems and articles of manufacture for coordinating application migration processes include selecting at least one migration service for an application based on analysis of application information and information pertaining to multiple migration services, creating a migration plan to migrate the application to a target cloud based on the at least one selected migration service, and executing the migration plan, utilizing the at least one selected migration service, to migrate the application to the target cloud. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359129 | Migration Assessment for Cloud Computing Platforms - Various embodiments provide an assessment tool that enables an automated functional assessment of applications for migration to target cloud computing platforms, such as a Platform as a Service (PaaS). The technical capabilities of various types of applications in a traditional non-platform deployment are studied and support for these technical capabilities is evaluated relative to the target platform. | 2014-12-04 |
20140359130 | PROCESS MIGRATION METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM AND INTERMEDIATE COMPUTING RESOURCES - A process migration method comprising
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20140359131 | LOAD BALANCING IN THE INTERNET OF THINGS - Disclosed herein are a variety of devices, methods, and systems for load balancing in the internet of things. Devices and other entities can be grouped together in a load balancing group and traffic for such devices balanced according to load balancing criteria. Groups may be discovered, created, manipulated, and deleted by various entities. | 2014-12-04 |