07th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 55 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120042027 | NAT Traversal for Media Conferencing - Methods for establishing a direct peer-to-peer (“P2P”) connection between two computers are disclosed. In particular, the methods are designed to work in cases where one or both of the computers are connected to a private network, such private networks being interconnected via a public network, such as the Internet. The connections between the private network and the public network are facilitated by network address translation (“NAT”). | 2012-02-16 |
20120042028 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING TO DO ITEMS OR NOTES OR ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Methods and systems for managing To do items and/or notes and/or emails (or other electronic messages) are described. A record, such as a To do item, in a database maintained locally by the data processing system is encoded into metadata. The metadata is sent as a false email message by an email client application executing on the data processing system to a remote email message server. An email client application executing on a remote processing system accesses the email message server and receives the false email message containing the metadata. The remote client application then either converts the metadata back into a database record editable at the remote processing system or presents a non-editable view of the database record, for example as an incoming email message. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042029 | HIGH-AVAILABILITY REMOTE-AUTHENTICATION DIAL-IN USER SERVICE - A method may include receiving, in a first server from a second server, a request for a service of a network by a device; sending, from the first server to the second server, a response to the request for the service to permit access to the service; and sending state information about the response to a third server for storage in a database. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042030 | HIGH AVAILABILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR STATELESS COMPONENTS IN A DISTRIBUTED MASTER-SLAVE COMPONENT TOPOLOGY - Systems, methods and computer program products are disclosed for managing availability of a slave components executing in a distributed system. A master server and a heartbeat protocol may be provided. The heartbeat protocol may define state machines for the master server and/or the slave components. The master server and/or the slave components may act in accordance with the state machines to manage availability of the slave components in the distributed system. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042031 | WIRELESS NETWORK AND METHODOLOGY FOR AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE SYSTEMS - A method and apparatus are provided for forming a wireless communications network using a standard communications link between a master controller and at least one slave device. In one example, a list of available slave devices for the network is generated, valid slave devices are determined from the list of available slave devices based on an identification protocol of the standard communications link, and the at least one slave device is selected from the valid slave devices. A network identification is established between the master controller and the at least one slave device, and the network identification is used to establish a network comprising only the master controller and the at least one slave device. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042032 | Adaptive Private Network Asynchronous Distributed Shared Memory Services - A highly predicable quality shared distributed memory process is achieved using less than predicable public and private internet protocol networks as the means for communications within the processing interconnect. An adaptive private network (APN) service provides the ability for the distributed memory process to communicate data via an APN conduit service, to use high throughput paths by bandwidth allocation to higher quality paths avoiding lower quality paths, to deliver reliability via fast retransmissions on single packet loss detection, to deliver reliability and timely communication through redundancy transmissions via duplicate transmissions on high a best path and on a most independent path from the best path, to lower latency via high resolution clock synchronized path monitoring and high latency path avoidance, to monitor packet loss and provide loss prone path avoidance, and to avoid congestion by use of high resolution clock synchronized enabled congestion monitoring and avoidance. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042033 | MIGRATING VIRTUAL MACHINES ACROSS NETWORK SEPARATED DATA CENTERS - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for migrating virtual machines across network (e.g., WAN) separated data centers (e.g., storage clouds). Specifically, under embodiments of the present invention, a first storage system associated with a first data center is synchronized with a second storage system associated with a second data center via a storage system link. Then, a minimal state of a virtual machine is migrated from a first computer in the first data center to a second computer in the second data center via a WAN link. Using the minimal state, the virtual machine is stored in the second computer. Thereafter, the storage system link is terminated. In addition, as updated pages are received in memory of the first computer, they are migrated to the second computer via the WAN link. Once this migration is complete, the WAN link can be terminated. Therefore, embodiments of the present invention provide at least two forms of synchronization: computational synchronization and storage synchronization. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042034 | LIVE MIGRATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINE DURING DIRECT ACCESS TO STORAGE OVER SR IOV ADAPTER - A method is provided to migrate a virtual machine from a source computing machine to a destination computing machine comprising: suspending transmission of requests from a request queue disposed in source computing machine memory associated with the VM from the request queue to a VF; while suspending the transmission of requests, determining when no more outstanding responses to prior requests remain to be received; in response to a determination that no more outstanding responses to prior requests remain to be received, transferring state information that is indicative of locations of requests inserted to the request queue from the VF to a PF and from the PF to a memory region associated with a virtualization intermediary of the source computing machine. After transferring the state information to source computing machine memory associated with a virtualization intermediary, resuming transmission of requests from locations of the request queue indicated by the state information to the PF; and transmitting the requests from the PF to the physical storage. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042035 | SIMPLIFIED ACTIVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF WIRELESS WIDE AREA NETWORK (WWAN) ACCOUNT - A computer establishes a wireless wide area network (WWAN) account simply by entering his telephone number in a user interface (UI) which is sent to an Internet server and correlated with the user's telephone account. A utility notes when a usage limitation for a period is approaching and in response disables wireless updates and automatically executes the updates when a landline connection is sensed. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042036 | LOCATION AND CONTEXTUAL-BASED MOBILE APPLICATION PROMOTION AND DELIVERY - Apparatus and methods are disclosed for selecting one or more mobile device applications using context data describing the current environment of a mobile device and application metadata describing environment conditions where applications are more likely to be relevant, in order to improve the experience of discovering, downloading, and installing mobile device applications. According to one embodiment, a method comprises associating metadata with mobile device applications automatically receiving context data representing a current geographical location from a mobile phone, searching the metadata to determine which applications are likely of interest based on the current geographical location, and transmitting notification data to the mobile phone indicating the determined applications. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042037 | SOURCE IDENTIFICATION FOR MULTIPART CONTENT VALIDATION - A method, system, and computer usable program product for source identification for multipart content validation are provided in the illustrative embodiments. An identification information of a source server is obtained by parsing an update request, the update request being configured to request from the source server an update of a part of the multipart content. The identification information is recorded. A change in a part of the multipart content is observed. The change in the part results in an updated multipart content. A debugging directive is constructed, the debugging directive including the identification information of the source server. The debugging directive is inserted relative to the part that has changed thereby associating the source server with the part of the multipart content. The updated multipart content including the debugging directive is transmitted to a validation server executing in a second data processing system. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042038 | POINT-OF-SALE SYSTEM, WIRELESS TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD IMPLEMENTED BY THE POINT-OF-SALE SYSTEM - A point-of-sale (POS) system includes a POS host, a plurality of client devices, and a wireless transmission device. The wireless transmission device includes a host-end wireless communication module coupled to the POS host, and a plurality of client-end wireless communication modules coupled respectively to the client devices. The POS host is operable to configure the host-end wireless communication module for generating a plurality of virtual COM ports. Each of the virtual COM ports is matched with a respective one of the client-end wireless communication modules, such that the POS host is able to communicate wirelessly with the client devices through the host-end wireless communication module and the client-end wireless communication modules. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042039 | WORKFLOW AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED BI-DIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS - A system for controlling process pathways. The system includes a network, a system backend communicable with said network comprising a processor configured to generate a process pathway based on a predefined set of rules reflecting a predetermined condition, and a series of notifications corresponding to the process pathway, a mobile device communicable with said system backend via said network, the mobile device being configured to receive from said backend at least one notification, of said series of notifications, the notification defining a task of the process pathway, and upon which notification a user is authorized to act, allowing the user to modify a state of said the notification with a one-step action, the mobile device further communicating the modified state of the at least one notification to the system backend over said network and wherein said modified state of the notification causes said processor to effect a change to said process pathway. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042040 | LOCATING SERVICE ENDPOINTS FROM A SERVICE REGISTRY - A method, system and computer program product, operable by a service registry in a service orientated architecture system, for providing a service within the system. A service request is received from a service requester in the system. The status of the service is checked as registered in the service registry. In response to the service not having a registered service endpoint or a property of the service falling below a defined threshold, a request is sent to service providers or subsequent service registries to provide a new service and according to the defined threshold. In response to a service provider providing the new service according to the defined standard, the service registry is updated with the new service and responding to the service requester that the service is available. The embodiments allow both direct interaction between the requester and provider or indirect interaction via a service management layer. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042041 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing method includes collecting interest information indicating a plurality of responses to a content. The information processing method also includes analyzing the interest information to produce a plurality of groups and generating a plurality of digests of the content for the plurality of groups. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042042 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING MANAGEMENT AND EXCHANGE OF DISTRIBUTED DATA OF USER OR AN ENTITY - A method for supporting management and exchange of distributed data of a user or an entity, in particular user profile information data, is characterized in that a protocol is provided that employs SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) as bearer protocol in such a way that SAML messages function as containers for DST (Data Service Template) or DST-like messages in order to compose SAML DST messages, wherein the DST or DST-like messages include data processing information, and wherein for the DST or DST-like messages unified protocol namespaces are defined as the protocol specific namespaces. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042043 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL AND METHOD THEREOF, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - A client (such as a PC, portable telephone, PDA, electrical appliances), to which a device such as a IC card is connected, starts a handshake protocol to request a server to start communication. When communication is established via the handshake protocol, the initiative of communication is transferred to the server, and the state changes into a neutral state. In this neutral state, a control packet including a particular number of messages and a finished message is transmitted from the server to the client. If the client receives the control packet, the client performs a process according to the messages included in the control packet. This makes it possible to remotely control a device via a network in a highly reliable and efficient manner. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042044 | System and Method for Mobile Digital Media Content Delivery and Services Marketing - Techniques for delivering content to mobile communication devices. In one embodiment, a communication session involving a mobile communication device is detected. The communication session may be a voice call, mobile gaming application, website browsing application, instant messaging session, etc. Context parameters associated with the communication session are determined. Content is retrieved or generated that is related to the context parameters for the communication session. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042045 | INFORMATION TERMINAL - The present invention provides mobile terminals with various types of services such as electronic commerce service, music delivery service, and position information service. User applications required for the electronic commerce service, music delivery service, and position information service are respectively configured as service objects each having a server facility, and further a local gateway is provided, whereby various types of services can be used through a browser. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042046 | MOBILE PRIVATE ASSISTED LOCATION TRACKING - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing private location tracking. In general, a location-aware mobile device includes a location broker. Over time, as a location of the mobile device changes, the location broker generates a number of route fragments each defining the location of the mobile device over a corresponding period of time. The location broker obfuscates the route fragments and sends the obfuscated route fragments to a remote server for storage. At some point, the location broker receives a location tracking request from a requestor. In response, the location broker processes the location tracking request such that one or more obfuscated route fragments that are relevant to the location tracking request are obtained from the remote server and de-obfuscated to recover the corresponding route fragments. The recovered route fragments may then be utilized by the requestor. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042047 | System and Method For Synchronized Playback of Streaming Digital Content - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for synchronizing playback of digital content on two or more different content players. Each content player synchronizes a local time signal to a time reference signal maintained by a time server. Actions related to content playback are synchronized with respect to each local time signal for a given content player, which thereby synchronizes playback for a group of associated content players. Each content player may be advantageously configured with different playback options, allowing each user to have a better shared viewing experience than possible with prior art solutions that provide only one set of playback options. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042048 | Method and Apparatus for Scalable Compression of Video - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for producing a fully scalable compressed representation of video sequences, so that they may be transmitted over networks, such as the Internet, for example. Because the signal is scalable, users receiving the signal can obtain the signal at the appropriate resolution and quality that their system will handle or that they desire. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042049 | DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND DETERMINATION METHOD - A determination apparatus includes a processor and a storage unit. The processor acquires through a communication network a request packet transmitted from a client device to a server device group or a reply packet transmitted from the server device group to the client device. The server device group includes a first server device and one or more second server devices. The first server device is connected to the client device through the communication network. The storage unit stores configuration information for determining a source of the acquired reply packet. The processor determines whether the source of the acquired reply packet is the first server device or one of the second server devices on the basis of the configuration information stored in the storage unit. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042050 | Representation groups for network streaming of coded multimedia data - In one example, a device for receiving information for multimedia data, the device comprising one or more processors configured to analyze at least a portion of a manifest file for multimedia content, wherein the portion of the manifest file includes information indicative of sets of representations of the multimedia content and information indicative of common characteristics for each of the sets of representations, select one of the sets of representations based on the common characteristics for the one of the sets of representations, select one of the representations of the selected one of the sets of representations based on one or more coding characteristics of the one of the representations of the one of the sets, and generate a request for data of the one of the representations based on the selection. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042051 | System and Method for Monitoring and Analyzing Internet Traffic - Systems, methods and apparatus for analyzing Internet traffic. In an aspect, a method receives at a server from a client device a report request for a report related to web site traffic; in response to the report request, sends from the server web site traffic data and application code to the client device, the application code comprising instructions that cause the client device to: generate a report to display the web site traffic data, time the display of the web site traffic data, periodically request updated web site traffic data according to the time of the display, and update the report with the updated web site traffic data; and the method sends from the server to the client device the updated web site traffic data in response to the request for updated web site traffic data. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042052 | Distributed Image Processing Methods and Image Processing System - This application discloses distributed image processing methods and system with massive data flow. The image processing system can include three structures: from the top level to the lower level, a file server, a forwarding server and an image processing server. The servers are connected by Ethernet with hardware and socket interface of TCP/IP protocol. When processing a large amount of image data, many forwarding servers can be implemented for file processing in conjunction with one or more file servers. Image analysis servers and forwarding servers can be added to increase processing capacity. A high-level forwarding server can be added for receiving, formatting, transmitting, and distributing image data. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042053 | METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR DELIVERING HYBRID STATIC AND DYNAMIC CONTENT - The present invention relates generally to software functional modules and, in particular, to such modules used for delivering hybrid static and dynamic content. More particularly, there is described a computer-readable storage medium and corresponding method. The storage medium comprises: (a) a repository of static content; and (b) a program element for execution by a computing device to deliver hybrid content via a user interface. The program element comprises: (i) program code means for commanding instantiation of a functional module remote from the computing device; (ii) program code means for receiving dynamic content from the remote functional module; (iii) program code means for accessing the repository of static content; and (iv) program code means for delivering hybrid content on the basis of the static content in the repository and the dynamic content received from the remote functional module. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042054 | System and Method for Virtual Switch Architecture to Enable Heterogeneous Network Interface Cards within a Server Domain - A server includes a plurality of virtual machines partitioned on the server and a first virtual switch. The first virtual switch is in communication with the virtual machines, and is configured to detect a connection of a first converged network adapter to the server, to determine network requirements of the virtual machines, and to determine whether the first converged network adapter has a first virtual network interface card that is compatible with the network requirements of the virtual machines. If the first virtual network interface card of the first converged network adapter is compatible with the network requirements of the virtual machines, then the first virtual switch provisions the first virtual network interface card as a second virtual switch for the virtual machines, otherwise the first virtual switch provisions a software-based virtual network interface card in the first virtual switch. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042055 | END-TO-END PROVISIONING OF STORAGE CLOUDS - Embodiments discussed in this disclosure provide an integrated provisioning framework that automates the process of provisioning storage resources, end-to-end, for an enterprise storage cloud environment. Such embodiments configure and orchestrate the deployment of a user's workload and, at the same time, provide optimization across a multitude of storage cloud resources. Along these lines, input is received in the form of workload requirements and configuration information for available system resources. Based on the input, a set (at least one) of storage cloud configuration plans is developed that satisfy the workload requirements. A set of scripts is then generated that orchestrate the deployment and configuration of different software and hardware components based on the plans. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042056 | Hard Disk Drive Integrated Circuit With Integrated Gigabit Ethernet Interface Module - A system including a network interface module, a first processor, a hard disk control module, and a second processor. The network interface module is configured to communicate with a network. The first processor is configured to communicate with the network interface module and perform processing related to communication of a hard disk drive with the network via the network interface module. The hard disk control module is configured to communicate with the first processor and control operation of the hard disk drive. The second processor is configured to communicate with the hard disk control module and perform processing related to storing data on the hard disk drive. The second processor and the hard disk control module are configured to process packets communicated via the network interface module using a hyper-text transfer protocol, a peer-to-peer sharing protocol, and an Internet protocol-based small computer system interface standard. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042057 | METHOD FOR MANAGEMENT OF CUSTOMER PREMISES EQUIPMENT - A customer premises equipment (CPE) and related method uses a configuration file that updates parameters of the CPE by connecting to an operator server. A determination is made if the configuration parameters of the CPE device correspond to the configuration parameters in the operator individually, and the configuration parameter values of the operator are assigned to the configuration parameter values of the CPE when the configuration parameters of the CPE correspond to the configuration parameters in the operator. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042058 | IP POOL NAME LISTS - A method including receiving a session request associated with a user equipment (UE); selecting one or more network address pool name lists based on a type of service to be provided to the UE; selecting one or more network address pool names from the one or more network address pool name lists based on a priority associated with the one or more network address pool names; selecting one or more network addresses from the one or more network address pool names; assigning the one or more network addresses to the UE; and establishing a session with the UE. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042059 | METHOD FOR INDICATING A SERVICE PRIORITY UPDATE, SERVICE PRIORITY UPDATE METHOD AND APPARATUS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for indicating the service priority update, a service priority update method, and an apparatus. The method for indicating the service priority update includes: A priority management functional entity receives a service priority update request message sent by a user, where the update request message includes a service type identifier and a priority update indication identifier corresponding to the service type identifier; and the priority management functional entity sends a service priority update instruction message to a network side according to the update request message, where the update instruction message is used to instruct the network side to process a service corresponding to the service type identifier according to a priority level corresponding to the priority update indication identifier. In the embodiments of the present invention, priority control is exercised on all types of services of the user in an emergency. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042060 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUALITY OF SERVICE OF ICA PUBLISHED APPLICATIONS - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for providing discovery of applications for classification of a network packet for performing QoS and acceleration techniques. Remote display protocol traffic associated with a new application not previously included in a list of predetermined applications may be parsed for application information, and the new application may be added to the application list. The remote display protocol traffic may then be classified according to the new application, and network performance may be enhanced and optimized by providing QoS and acceleration engines with packet- or data-specific information corresponding to the newly identified application. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042061 | CALIBRATING CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS - In general, embodiments of present invention provide an approach for calibrating a cloud computing environment. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide an empirical approach for obtaining end-to-end performance characteristics for workloads in the cloud computing environment (hereinafter the “environment”). In a typical embodiment, different combinations of cloud server(s) and cloud storage unit(s) are determined. Then, a virtual machine is deployed to one or more of the servers within the cloud computing environment. The virtual machine is used to generate a desired workload on a set of servers within the environment. Thereafter, performance measurements for each of the different combinations under the desired workload will be taken. Among other things, the performance measurements indicate a connection quality between the set of servers and the set of storage units, and are used in calibrating the cloud computing environment to determine future workload placement. Along these lines, the performance measurements can be populated into a table or the like, and a dynamic map of a data center having the set of storage units can be generated. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042062 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PARTITIONING DIRECTORIES - A method of partitioning directory. Accesses, e.g., shared/exclusive, and/or waiting requests, e.g., shared/exclusive, to access one or more files with a directory are monitored, e.g., incrementing/decrementing respective counters. The waiting requests are queued to be granted at a later time. The directory is determined to be primed for partitioning if a number of waiting requests to access the directory is greater than a threshold value of a plurality of heuristics and optionally further based on satisfying the condition for at least a programmable time threshold period. A trigger signal is automatically generated if the directory is primed for partitioning. The trigger signal causes a file system to partition the directory. It is appreciated that the plurality of heuristics is user programmable. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042063 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINK COUNT UPDATE AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN A PARTITIONED DIRECTORY - A method of updating a link count in a partitioned directory shared by a plurality of computers within a cluster. The partitioned directory is traversed once by a first computer to obtain a link count. The link count is stored in the first computer and broadcast to a cluster of computers. A total number of allocated links is less than a maximum limit on link count minus the link count. A respective number of links is allocated to each computer within the cluster. Delta values of each computer are updated in real-time as subdirectories are created/erased. A delta value associated with each of the plurality of computers is received. A delta value represents a net number of links created or removed by each computer. The link count is updated based on the previous link count and further based on each of the delta values and further based a delta value associated with the first computer. The updated link count is stored by the first computer and broadcast to the plurality of computers. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042064 | MONITORING BASED ON CLIENT PERSPECTIVE - According to one general aspect, a method may include receiving, via a first network tap point included by a first network segment, a first portion of network communication data between a client computing device and a server computing device. The method may include receiving, via a second network tap point included by a second network segment, a second portion of network communication data between the client computing device and the server computing device. The method may include attempting to correlate each sub-portion of the first portion of network communication data to corresponding sub-portion of the second portion of network communication data. The method may also include analyzing the correlated network communication sub-portions to generate at least one set of metrics regarding the performance of the network communication between the client computing device and server computing device. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042065 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING RESOURCE ADJUSTMENT - Information relating to the state of an apparatus making processing requests regarding jobs is acquired, and resources are adjusted based on the acquired information. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042066 | Managed Network Device - A network appliance may be configured to transmit data over a multiple networks from one or more client applications, for example, enterprise business applications. The network appliance may receive and analyze information regarding the multiple different networks transmitting over different transmission media, e.g., terrestrial and wireless, and to switch a client application from a primary network to a backup network based on a detected change in network availability. For example, the determination to switch transmission networks may be based on an outage of a primary network, or based on an efficiency or cost analysis, along with other factors. The network appliance may be in communication with an appliance network server, for example, to receive and compile statistics and remotely reconfigure a plurality of network appliances installed in remote locations. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042067 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING APPLICATIONS ACCESSING HTTP BASED CONTENT IN IP DATA NETWORKS - The present relates to a method and a system for identifying applications accessing HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) based content in IP data networks. The method and system collects, by means of at least one collecting entity, real time data from IP data traffic occurring in an IP data network. The method and system extracts information from the collected real time data, the information comprising parameters related to an application accessing HTTP based content in the IP data network. And, the method and system transmits the information from the at least one collecting entity to an analytic system. The method and system further processes the information, at the analytic system. The processing comprises: analyzing the parameters related to an application accessing HTTP based content to identify the application. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042068 | COMMUNICATION PERIOD MANAGEMENT IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for communication period management in a communication system is disclosed. The method may involve determining a duration of a communication period that is scheduled between two electronic devices. The method may then involve determining whether the duration exceeds a threshold. If the duration does not exceed the threshold, the communication period may be unscheduled. Furthermore, the unscheduled time may be rescheduled with another communication period to another electronic device. The method may also involve determining whether a conflict exists between the communication period and any other communication periods that are scheduled to involve either of the electronic devices. If a conflict exists, the communication period may be unscheduled. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042069 | FAILOVER METHOD THROUGH DISK TAKEOVER AND COMPUTER SYSTEM HAVING FAILOVER FUNCTION - When a primary server executing a task fails in a computer system where a plurality of servers are connected to an external disk device via a network and the servers boot an operation system from the external disk device, task processing is taken over from the primary server to a server that is not executing a task in accordance with the following method. The method for taking over a task includes the steps of detecting that the primary server fails; searching the computer system for a server that has the same hardware configuration as that of the primary server and that is not running a task; enabling the server, searched for as a result of the search, to access the external disk device; and booting the server from the external disk device. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042070 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING AND TRACKING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG A PARTICIPATING GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS - A system and method of tracking physical activity of a person in order to help motivate that person to add more exercise to their lives. Each participant is provided a motion sensor that detects forces incurred by the participant. The motion sensor creates electronic data that corresponds to the forces detected. The data is analyzed to determine whether or not exercise has been performed. The analysis can also determine the type of exercise performed, when the exercise was performed, and the duration of the exercise performed. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042071 | LIMITING RESOURCES CONSUMED BY REJECTED SUBSCRIBER END STATIONS - A method performed in a network element coupled between a subscriber end station and an AAA server for avoiding AAA processing by at least temporarily suppressing AAA access-request messages for a rejected subscriber end station. The network element receives subscriber session-request messages from the subscriber end station. Subscriber session-request messages include information for verifying an identity that the network element transmits to the AAA server as AAA access-request messages. The network element receives AAA access-response messages corresponding to the AAA access-request messages. Responsive to an AAA access-response message, the network element determines that additional AAA access-request messages should be, at least temporarily, suppressed with regards to the subscriber end station. Responsive to determining, the network element suppresses any additional AAA access-request messages from being transmitted to the AAA server. The suppression of AAA access-request messages conserves execution resources in the network element and the AAA server. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042072 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING WITH ELECTED OFFICIALS - A system and method for communicating with elected officials and/or candidate for office is provided. One method comprises: storing, at a server operatively connected to a communication network, information associated with at least one official, wherein the information defines a constituency group for each elected official and for each candidate for election for which information is stored on the server; qualifying a user for one or more of the constituency groups when the user accesses the server through a computing device, the qualifying comprising determining which of the at least one official represents the user based on a voting based geographic parameter of the user; and providing the user access through a common portal to information associated with the at least one official for which the user is a qualified member of the respective constituency group. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042073 | Method and Nodes for Transmitting User Context between Communication Networks - A method of managing a subscription request at a originating network node of a first network operator is provided, where a subscription request originating from, or on behalf of a user being a subscriber of the first network operator is provided with user context that is specifying an agreement between the first network operator and the subscriber. The subscription request is then transmitted to a terminating network node of a second network operator, with which the first network operator has established an interoperability agreement. The described procedure enables the second network operator to authorize the subscription request taking the user context into consideration, such that the interoperability agreement between the two network operators is applied for the subscriber also by the second network operator. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042074 | HOME NETWORK, METHOD FOR SHARING DEVICE INFORMATION AMONG HOME NETWORKS AND HOME NETWORK SYSTEM - In the field of communications technologies, a home network, a method for sharing device information among home networks and a home network system are provided. The home network system includes a first home network, and a second home network having a first secure channel established with the first home network, so as to obtain an access policy and device information of the first home network through the first secure channel and provide the device information for a third home network having a second secure channel established with the second home network according to the access policy. Therefore, the device information is shared among the home networks, and the number of the secure channels to be established is reduced, and thereby the amount of information required to be stored and maintained is reduced. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042075 | ADAPTIVE SERVICES COMMAND AND CONTROL INFRASTRUCTURE - A software component that adapts resource utilization to match the needs of operational events in a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) environment such as the military tactical edge is presented. The resources can include network resources and grid computing resources. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042076 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING APPLICATION RESOURCES VIA POLICY RULES - An approach is provided for managing resources. One or more policy rules for managing one or more resources of an application executing at a device are determined. The one or more policy rules are determined to be applied for selecting the one or more resources from among a set of resources. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042077 | HANDLING FAILURE OF REQUEST MESSAGE DURING SET UP OF LABEL SWITCHED PATH - Setting up a label switched path (LSP) for traffic between nodes of a network, involves sending a request message requesting reservation of resources for the requested LSP, from an ingress node ( | 2012-02-16 |
20120042078 | EXPOSING RESOURCE CAPABILITIES TO WEB APPLICATIONS - The subject matter of this document can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes executing a web application within a web browser of a computing device. The method also includes executing a resource server with an interface for receiving HTTP messages from the web application and an interface for communicating with a system resource of the computing device. The method further includes receiving, at the web application, an input to affect an operation of the system resource. The method also includes transmitting, from the web application to the resource server, an HTTP message to affect the operation of the system resource. The method further includes processing the HTTP message into a resource control message that includes information about the operation. The method also includes transmitting the resource control message from the resource server to the system resource to affect the operation by the system resource. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042079 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROVIDING SERVICES AND ESTABLISHING PROCESSING ENVIRONMENTS - Techniques are provided for the delivery of client services and for the establishment of client processing environments. A client receives services within a processing environment which is defined by a processing container. The processing container includes one or more processing groups, and each processing group has a particular context that supports one or more applications or services which are processing within that context. The processing groups communicate with one another via connector interfaces included within the processing container. Services and processing containers can be dynamically added or removed from the processing container. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042080 | SYNCHRONIZED PROCESSING OF DATA BY NETWORKED COMPUTING RESOURCES | 2012-02-16 |
20120042081 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A MULTI-TIERED REGISTRATION SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL - A communication system for using a multi-tiered registration session initiation protocol (SIP) includes: a client, a relay server and a plurality of SIP servers. The relay server is connected with the SIP servers and the client. The relay server is configured to establish a connection with the client and register with each of the SIP servers so as to select at least one of the SIP servers for direct communication with the client, thereby solving the conventional problem of incompatibilities existing between the client and SIP servers and between the SIP servers and further saving communication costs for the client in dialing various numbers. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042082 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL IN A NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION ENVIRONMENT - A communication system for using the session initiation protocol (SIP) in a network address translation (NAT) environment is provided, which includes a client, a relay server and a SIP server. The relay server is connected to the SIP server and connected to the client through a NAT server. The relay server is configured to establish connection with the client and register with the SIP server so as to allow direct communication between the client and the SIP server, thereby conducting authentication and management of the client and further solving the conventional problem of incompatibility between the SIP server and the client. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042083 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING A LARGE MESSAGE MODE CPM MESSAGE TO GROUP - The present invention provides a method and a system for sending a large message mode converged IP messaging (CPM) message. The method is used for sending a large message mode CPM message to a target group; a sender CPM client sends a session invitation message of the large message mode CPM message; after receiving the session invitation message, a CPM controlling function entity sends the session invitation message to each receiver address in the target group; a receiver CPM client receives the session invitation message and carries out a media negotiation with the controlling function entity; the controlling function entity carries out a media negotiation with the sender CPM client to determine a media transmission link between the sender CPM client and the receiver CPM client; and the sender CPM client sends the content of the large message mode CPM message to the receiver CPM client via the media transmission link. According to the technical solutions provided in the present invention, the large message mode CPM message can be sent to the target group. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042084 | SELF-ORGANIZING IMS NETWORK AND METHOD FOR ORGANIZING AND MAINTAINING SESSIONS - A method and system for setting up and maintaining an IMS session. The method comprising transmitting an invite message from a registered user equipment, forwarding the invite message to a selected SIP proxy (P-CSCF), forwarding the invite message to a specified SIP server (S-CSCF) and relaying said invite message to a destination. The invite message contains a header and a payload. The header includes an identifier for the load balancing node. The load balancing node is assigned to the user equipment. There are at least two load balancing node, a primary and a secondary load balancing node. The identifier for the load balancing node does not change even if there is a failure of one of a primary load balancing node, the P-CSCFs or S-CSCFs. During registration, the routing information for the load balancing node is added into both via and record-route headers in a SIP registration request. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042085 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Improving Resource Reservation in Session Initiation - There are provided measures for resource reservation improvement in session initiation. Such measures for resource reservation improvement may for example comprise receiving a session initiation request of a user, determining an authentication type of the user, detecting, in the received session initiation request, an absence of authentication data required for an authentication in accordance with the determined authentication type of the user, and preventing a resource reservation for the requested session initiation. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042086 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING SECURE COMMUNICATION LINK BETWEEN COMPUTERS OF VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK - A technique is disclosed for establishing a secure communication link between a first computer and a second computer over a computer network. Initially, a secure communication mode of communication is enabled at a first computer without a user entering any cryptographic information for establishing the secure communication mode of communication. Then, a secure communication link is established between the first computer and a second computer over a computer network based on the enabled secure communication mode of communication. The secure communication link is a virtual private network communication link over the computer network in which one or more data values that vary according to a pseudo-random sequence are inserted into each data packet. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042087 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LINKING AND SHARING RESOURCES AMONGST DEVICES - A device is enabled to establish a secure and persistent pairing with one another across a communication medium, using credential information that is exchanged out-of-band. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042088 | TCP/IP Stack-Based Operating System - Systems and corresponding methods include a system having an operating system based wholly around a protocol stack, such as a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) stack. The system may include a central processing unit (CPU) including the operating system embedded therein, and a network interface coupled with a network and the CPU. The network may be the Internet. The operating system is fundamentally a state machine. The kernel of the operating system is fundamentally just a protocol stack for communicating with one or more devices of the network via the network interface. The protocol stack may be a TCP/IP protocol stack, UDP/IP stack or combinations thereof. A chip may be provided that includes the TCP/IP stack state machine-based operating system embedded in a CPU. The resultant chip may be ultra low power, miniscule in size, and IP-centric. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042089 | TRICK MODES FOR NETWORK STREAMING OF CODED MULTIMEDIA DATA - In one example, a device for retrieving multimedia data, the device comprising one or more processors configured to analyze information of a manifest file for multimedia content, wherein the information of the manifest file indicates that at least one representation of the multimedia content includes a temporal sub-sequence, determine one or more locations of data for the temporal sub-sequence, and submit one or more requests for the data for the temporal sub-sequence. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042090 | MANIFEST FILE UPDATES FOR NETWORK STREAMING OF CODED MULTIMEDIA DATA - In one example, a device for retrieving multimedia data, the device comprising one or more processors configured to retrieve data of a first segment of a representation of multimedia content in accordance with data of a copy of a manifest file stored by the device, retrieve a portion of a second segment of the representation in accordance with the manifest file, wherein the second segment occurs after the first segment in the representation, and wherein the portion of the second segment indicates that the manifest file is to be updated, update the copy of the manifest file stored by the device based on the indication that the manifest file is to be updated, and retrieve media data of the second segment in accordance with the updated manifest file. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042091 | METHOD AND APPARATUS RELATED TO VARILABLE DURATION MEDIA SEGMENTS - A method and apparatus for an adaptive bit rate system ( | 2012-02-16 |
20120042092 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AN IPTV STREAMING SERVICE BY P2P TRANSMISSION, AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING AN IPTV STREAMING SERVICE BY P2P TRANSMISSION - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for transmitting an IPTV streaming service by P2P transmission comprises the steps of collecting TS packets of n skipped units to generate an encapsulation unit for an IPTV streaming service (where n is a natural number); adding an extension header containing type information to the generated encapsulation unit (wherein, said type information is information for identifying the sequence of the encapsulation unit, which is required for decoding the IPTV streaming service); adding an IP header to the encapsulation unit to which the extension header containing the type information is added, in order to generate an IP packet; and transmitting the generated IP packet to at least one super peers. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042093 | Method for Buffer Management for Video Swarms in a Peer-to-Peer Network - A buffer for buffing multimedia content to enable reliable streaming of multimedia content in a peer-to-peer network. The buffer comprises a first section being loaded with a first portion of the multimedia content during a first time interval, wherein the first portion of the multimedia content is retrieved from at least one resource node; and a second section being loaded with a second portion of the multimedia content during a second time interval, wherein the second portion of the multimedia content is retrieved from at least one reliable node during a second time interval, wherein the buffer continuously delivers the multimedia content including the first and second portions thereof to a consumer node. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042094 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AN INTERNET RADIO CAPABLE OF OBTAINING PLAYLIST CONTENT FROM A CONTENT SERVER - A network-enabled audio device that provides a display device that allows the user to select playlists of music much like a jukebox is disclosed. The user can compose playlists from disk files, CD's, Internet streaming audio broadcasts, online music sites, and other audio sources. The user can also select a desired Web broadcast from a list of available Web broadcasts. In addition, the user can play standard audio CD's and MP3 encoded CD's and have access to local AM/FM stations. Further, the software, the user controls, and the display in the network-enabled audio device are operably configured and connected such that the user can listen to playlists that include CD's and other audio sources just as the user would choose a playlist in a jukebox. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042095 | System and Method to Create Virtual Links for End-to-End Virtualization - An information handling system includes a network switching device coupled to a network and a host processing system. The network switching device includes a physical link with an associated virtual link. The host processing system includes a virtual machine and a network interface device coupled to the physical link. The network interface device includes a virtual network interface associated with the virtual machine. The virtual link is associated with the virtual network interface such that communication between the network and the virtual machine is provided via the virtual link and the virtual network interface. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042096 | PACKET SEQUENCE NUMBER TRACKING FOR AN ANTI-REPLAY WINDOW - Described embodiments provide a network processor that includes a security sub-processor to prevent replay attacks on the network processor. A memory stores an anti-replay window corresponding to a data stream of the network processor. The anti-replay window has N bits initialized to correspond to data packet sequence numbers in the range 1 to N. The anti-replay memory is stored in a plurality of data words. A plurality of flip-flops store word valid bits corresponding to each of the data words. A multiplexer selects the word valid bit corresponding to a data word requested by the security processor, and an AND gate performs a bitwise AND operation between the selected data word and word valid bit. When the network processor receives a data packet, the security sub-processor determines a value of the received sequence number with respect to minimum and maximum values of a sequence number range of the anti-replay window. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042097 | System and Method for Advanced Interoperability - Enhanced interoperability (e.g., connectivity, communication, processing, routing, billing, etc.) capabilities are provided through an IP eXchange (IPX) facility that among other things may offer a simple, consolidated, etc. interface mechanism and which may leverage various pools of data to expeditiously process and route a quanta of data (including conventional SMS, MMS, etc. messaging; VoIP and other audio/video data streams; SIP-addressed artifacts; signaling data; voice call data; application data; etc.). | 2012-02-16 |
20120042098 | Method and Apparatus for Implementing Address Privacy in Communications Networks - Various methods for implementing address privacy in communications networks are provided. One method may include receiving a lower layer address block. The lower layer address block may include a random component and a lower layer solution component. The random component may include a random value and the lower layer solution component may be based at least in part on the random value and a shared key. The method may also include verifying the lower layer address block via the random value and the shared key. The method may further include receiving a higher layer address block. The higher layer address block may include a higher layer solution component. The higher layer solution component may be based at least in part on the random value and a shared key. The method may further include verifying the higher layer address block via the random value and the shared key. Similar apparatuses and computer program products are also provided. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042099 | SECURE EXTERNAL COMPUTER HUB - Secure external hubs for coupling peripheral devices to host computers are disclosed. Each peripheral device includes device identification (ID). Peripheral devices may be securely coupled to a host computer by designating authorized device IDs in response to an administrator input received via an administrator port of a hub, authorizing the peripheral devices connected to the hub based on the designated authorized device IDs, and enabling communication between authorized peripheral devices connected to the hub and a communication cable and preventing communication between unauthorized peripheral devices connected to the hub and the communication cable. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042100 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING MEMORY USING MULTI-STATE BUFFER REPRESENTATIONS - Disclosed herein are techniques to manage access to a memory using a buffer construct that includes state information associated with a region of the memory. The disclosed techniques facilitate access to the region of memory through a direct memory access operation while the state information of the buffer construct is in a first state. The state information can be transitioned to a second state in response to a first instruction. The disclosed techniques also facilitate access to the region of memory through a cache operation while the state information of the buffer construct is in the second state is disclosed. The state information can be transitioned to the first state in response to a second instruction. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042101 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME ROUTING OF RECEIVED COMMANDS IN A SPLIT-PATH ARCHITECTURE STORAGE CONTROLLER - Apparatus and methods for real-time routing of received frames in a split-path architecture storage controller. In one exemplary embodiment, a split-path storage controller comprises a soft-path I/O processor for processing of any received frames and comprises a fast-path I/O processor for efficient processing of common read and write command. A content parsing circuit of the storage controller parses each frame substantially concurrent with reception of the frame and selects an I/O processor for processing of an initial frame and subsequent related frames. Received frames are then routed concurrently as they are received for processing by the selected I/O processor of the multiple I/O processors of the split-path storage controller. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042102 | PORTABLE ELECTRIC DEVICE AND DISPLAY MIRRORING METHOD THEREOF - A display mirroring method of a user device simultaneously performs an operation of transmitting compressed first source files and first display information corresponding to the first source files to another user device by wireless in response to a first type display mirroring request and an operation of decoding the first source files. A decoding result of the first source files is displayed based on the first display information, and a displaying operation of the transmitted first file source is performed in the other user device. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042103 | SMART CARD WITH SELF-DETACHMENT FEATURES AND RELATED METHODS - An integrated circuit for a smart card in accordance with an exemplary embodiment includes at least one data terminal for providing communications with a host device over a system bus and a processor configured to provide an attachment signal on the at least one data terminal for recognition by the host device. Further, the processor also cooperates with the host device to perform an enumeration based upon at least one default descriptor, and receive information from the host device regarding a system event. In addition, the processor is configured to remove the attachment signal from the at least one data terminal and thereafter again provide the attachment signal on the at least one data terminal based upon the information regarding the system event, and cooperate with the host device to perform a new enumeration based upon at least one alternate descriptor. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042104 | ADJUSTABLE FINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE TRANSMITTER - Apparatus and methods are provided for generating output signals representative of bits of serial data. A transmitter comprises a plurality of delay elements, driver circuitry, and bypass logic coupled between the plurality of delay elements and the driver circuitry. The plurality of delay elements delay serialized data, resulting in delayed serialized data, and the driver circuitry generates an output signal representative of a first bit of the delayed serialized data. The bypass logic is configured to selectively bypass one or more delay elements of the plurality of delay elements to provide the first bit of the delayed serialized data to the driver circuitry. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042105 | BUS ARBITRATION APPARATUS - An arbitration circuit | 2012-02-16 |
20120042106 | STREAM PRIORITY - A system, method and apparatus for prioritizing transactions is disclosed. I/O devices may generate transactions with a stream identifier. A transaction classifier may assign a priority to a transaction based upon a stream identifier of the transaction. An arbiter may select a transaction for processing based upon priorities assigned to the transaction. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042107 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO INTERRUPT A COMPONENT OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE RESPONSIVE TO A MUTE COMMAND - A system and method to interrupt a component of a mobile communication device based on a mute command and a monitored operating condition is disclosed. In another particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a mute command at a mobile communication device while the mobile communication device is performing audio content processing. The method also includes monitoring an operating condition of the mobile communication device in response to receiving the mute command. The method includes determining whether to interrupt a component used to perform the audio content processing based on the monitored operating condition. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042108 | USB Computer - A Universal Serial Bus (USB) computer has a small form factor similar to a USB flash drive. The USB computer is connected by USB to a host computer to utilize the host computer's resources. The USB computer receives a user input provided on the host computer's input device over the USB connection, executes a local user application in response to the user input, and provides a graphical output to the host computer's output device. The USB computer includes a client application that communicates with a host application installed on the host computer. The host application causes the host computer to provide control over the host computer's resources to the USB computer. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042109 | CONNECTOR ELEMENT FOR A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION BUS SYSTEMS - A connector element for assembling a communication system, having a plurality of communication bus system contact elements for connecting to a communication bus system, a plurality of internal terminal elements and a configuration encoding unit. The connector element is designed for assembling the communication bus system. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042110 | BUS BANDWIDTH MONITORING DEVICE AND BUS BANDWIDTH MONITORING METHOD - A bus bandwidth monitoring device may include a buffer unit that is connected to a common bus, the buffer unit storing data that has been input via the common bus, a processing unit that performs predetermined processing based on the data stored in the buffer unit, and a detection unit that detects a bandwidth of data transmitted through the common bus based on a state of data transaction between the buffer unit and the processing unit. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042111 | BUS BANDWIDTH MONITORING DEVICE AND BUS BANDWIDTH MONITORING METHOD - A bus bandwidth monitoring device may include a buffer unit that is connected to a common bus, the buffer unit storing data that has been input via the common bus, a processing unit that performs predetermined processing based on the data stored in the buffer unit, and a detection unit that detects a bandwidth of the data of the common bus based on a state of storage of the data that is input to the buffer unit through the common bus. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042112 | INTERFACE ADAPTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Interface adapter systems and methods are provided. An adapter means can be provided for coupling a first interface to a second interface, the second interface configured to accommodate the coupling of a peripheral device. A detector means can be provided for detecting the peripheral device. A means can be provided for communicating a first signal to a first bus when the peripheral device is not detected. A converting means can be provided to convert a first signal to a second signal having a protocol different than the first and a communications means for communicating the second signal to a second bus can be provided when the detecting means has detected the peripheral device. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042113 | MOBILE COMPUTING APPLIANCE FOR HOSTING A PORTABLE, BOOTABLE MEDIUM - A portable computing hub appliance is configured to host a portable, bootable data storage medium, such as a USB flash, spinning device or compact disk having an operation system image saved thereupon. The appliance may not have a hard drive, operating system, or any other overhead that is typically found on a PC, Mac or tablet PC. The appliance may include the minimum components needed to host the portable, bootable medium, such as a USB flash, spinning drive, or compact disk with a Windows® or other operating system. The appliance may provide a user with the ability to boot any portable, bootable medium, such as a USB flash, spinning drive, or compact disk, eliminating security concerns caused by giving users access to the BIOS configurations or system hard drive. The appliance may include a power supply, an optional external Wi-Fi antenna port, audio input and output ports, an internal processor, an optional internal battery, an optional touchscreen, and the like. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042114 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING EXPANDED CAPACITY OF VIRTUAL VOLUMES IN A STORAGE SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus for expanded capacity virtual volumes in a virtualized storage system. A storage controller of the storage system parses a SCSI command block as it is received to generate a tag value indicating a segment of a virtual volume to which the command block is directed. The tag value is used to select one of a plurality of mapping segment objects stored in a memory of the controller. Each mapping segment objects maps logical block addresses of a corresponding segment of a corresponding virtual volume to physical storage addresses on the physical storage devices that comprise the virtual volume. An I/O processing circuit of the controller then processes the SCSI command block in accordance with the mapping information in the selected mapping segment object. In one exemplary embodiment, each segment of a virtual volume comprises 2 terabytes of storage capacity of the virtual volume. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042115 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR LOOK-AHEAD VIRTUAL VOLUME META-DATA PROCESSING IN A STORAGE CONTROLLER - Apparatus and methods for improved efficiency in accessing meta-data in a storage controller of a virtualized storage system. Features and aspects hereof walk/retrieve meta-data for one or more other I/O requests when retrieving meta-data for a first I/O request. The meta-data may include mapping information for mapping logical addresses of the virtual volume. Meta-data may also include meta-data associated with higher level, enhanced data services provide by or in conjunction with the storage system. Enhanced data services may include features for synchronous mirroring of a volume and/or management of time-based snapshots of the content of a virtual volume. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042116 | MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A memory device includes an interface unit and a memory unit. The interface unit receives a clock signal, a command signal and a data signal, internally adjusts input impedance based upon at least one of the command signal and the clock signal, and generates internal control signal of the memory device based upon the command signal and data signal. The memory unit performs read/write operations based upon the internal control signal. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042117 | BOOT SYSTEM - A boot system of an electronic device includes a central processing unit (CPU), a NAND flash, a synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), and a pulse count unit. The NAND flash and the SDRAM are electronically connected with the CPU. The pulse count unit is electronically connected with the CPU and the NAND flash. The pulse count unit may initialize and enable the NAND flash. The CPU reads a pre-boot loader stored in the NAND flash and loads the pre-boot loader in the SDRAM. The CPU executes the pre-boot loader stored in the SDRAM to boot the electronic device. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042118 | Method for Flash Memory and Associated Controller - A method is disclosed for a flash memory including a plurality of data units includes determining whether to refresh data of the data units according to number of time the data units that are being read when the flash memory is read. The present invention provides methods for flash memory devices and a specialized controller to utilize values stored in counters relating to the number of read instances of corresponding blocks of data units for the selective control of refreshing data blocks when associated counter values exceed a threshold value. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042119 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device comprises a main memory, a request issue module, a delay module, and an access module. The main memory is configured to store candidate information for determining a compaction candidate for a nonvolatile memory. The request issue module is configured to issue an access request for the candidate information in the main memory. The delay module is configured to delay the access request issued from the request issue module. The access module is configured to access the candidate information in the main memory based on an access request delayed by the delay module. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042120 | BACKWARD COMPATIBLE EXTENDED USB PLUG AND RECEPTACLE WITH DUAL PERSONALITY - An extended Universal-Serial-Bus (USB) connector plug and socket each have a pin substrate with one surface that supports the four metal contact pins for the standard USB interface. An extension of the pin substrate carries another 8 extension metal contact pins that mate when both the connector plug and socket are extended. The extension can be an increased length of the plug's and socket's pin substrate or a reverse side of the substrate. Standard USB connectors do not make contact with the extension metal contacts that are recessed, retracted by a mechanical switch, or on the extension of the socket's pin substrate that a standard USB connector cannot reach. Standard USB sockets do not make contact with the extension metal contacts because the extended connector's extension contacts are recessed, or on the extension of the connector pin substrate that does not fit inside a standard USB socket. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042121 | Scatter-Gather Intelligent Memory Architecture For Unstructured Streaming Data On Multiprocessor Systems - A scatter/gather technique optimizes unstructured streaming memory accesses, providing off-chip bandwidth efficiency by accessing only useful data at a fine granularity, and off-loading memory access overhead by supporting address calculation, data shuffling, and format conversion. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042122 | STORAGE CAPACITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN DYNAMIC AREA PROVISIONING STORAGE - Provided is a capacity monitoring method for use with a computer system including one or more application computers, one or more storage systems, and a management computer. The storage system includes a physical disk and a disk controller. In the capacity monitoring method, a storage area of the physical disk belongs to a storage pool, the storage system provides a volume, and the management computer monitors a used capacity of the storage pool, judges whether or not a storage capacity required for operating the application computer for a predetermined time period is present in the storage pool based upon an increasing speed of the used capacity of the storage pool to be monitored, and executes a predetermined process operation when the storage capacity required for operating the application computer for the predetermined time period is not present in the storage pool. Accordingly, the storage pool is properly operated and managed. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042123 | INTELLIGENT CACHE MANAGEMENT - An exemplary storage network, storage controller, and methods of operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of managing cache memory in a storage controller comprises receiving, at the storage controller, a cache hint generated by an application executing on a remote processor, wherein the cache hint identifies a memory block managed by the storage controller, and managing a cache memory operation for data associated with the memory block in response to the cache hint received by the storage controller. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042124 | MANAGEMENT METHOD AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - The present invention provides a technique to efficiently rearrange data in actual regions. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042125 | Systems and Methods for Efficient Sequential Logging on Caching-Enabled Storage Devices - A computer-implemented method for efficient sequential logging on caching-enabled storage devices may include 1) identifying a storage device with a cache, 2) allocating space on the storage device for a sequential log, 3) calculating a target size for the sequential log based at least in part on an input/output load directed to the sequential log, and then 4) restricting the sequential log to a portion of the allocated space corresponding to the target size. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. | 2012-02-16 |
20120042126 | METHOD FOR CONCURRENT FLUSH OF L1 AND L2 CACHES - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for use with a hierarchical cache system. The method may include concurrently flushing one or more first caches and a second cache of a multi-level cache. Each first cache is smaller and at a lower level in the multi-level cache than the second level cache. | 2012-02-16 |