28th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120179786 | MANAGING MEDIA CONTENT STREAMED TO USERS VIA A NETWORK - A method for managing media content streamed to users via a network includes streaming a media content file via the network to a media player for playing the media content file. When the media content file is played by a user, a media mark associated with the played media content file is created to identify a section of the played media content file which is of interest to the user. The media mark includes a start indicator, a stop indicator and a content identifier. The media mark is stored. It may be stored locally, or at a store included in the network, or at the content provider, or in any combination of these. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179787 | Systems and methods for requesting and delivering network content - A system and method for facilitating content requests while maintaining content restrictions may include a proxy server configured to filter requested content based on specified content restrictions. The proxy server may initially retrieve the requested content from an external site using unrestricted access credentials. Upon receipt of the requested content, the proxy server may filter the content to remove and/or replace portions thereof that do not comply with content restrictions. In some arrangements, filtering parameters may be user and/or device-specific. Additionally or alternatively, the proxy server may subscribe to and/or use information streams or feeds to deliver content from requested sites to a user. By delivering information streams or feeds, the potential for user transmission of data to external sites may be reduced and/or eliminated. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179788 | DYNAMIC CHUNKING FOR DELIVERY INSTANCES - Systems and methods for dynamically chunking for delivery instances are provided that automatically implement chunking strategies based on one or more chunking considerations related to a request for a media file. These systems and methods may be part of a larger media servicing network that can be used to, among other things, process uploaded media content, provide it for streaming/downloading, and collect metric information regarding the streaming/downloading. The disclosed systems and methods provide for receiving a request having a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and providing an index file to implement chunking strategies based on chunking considerations associated with the request. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179789 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PEER-TO-PEER AUTHORIZATION VIA NON-ACCESS STRATUM PROCEDURES - Peer-to-peer (P2P) authorization by a mobile entity of a wireless communications system may include receiving a P2P authorization accept message from a management entity via a non-access stratum (NAS), receiving a radio resource control (RRC) P2P configuration request from a network entity, and sending an RRC P2P configuration complete message to the network entity via an access stratum. A management entity receiving a P2P authorization request message from a mobile entity may perform a P2P authorization check based on the received P2P authorization request message, and if the mobile entity is authorized, send a P2P authorization accept message to the mobile entity via the NAS. Alternatively, P2P authorization by a mobile entity may include sending a registration message including a P2P authorization request to a core network, and receiving a registration accept message from the core network that includes an initial context setup request and a P2P authorization response. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179790 | METHOD FOR ALLOCATING AN IP ADDRESS TO MOBILE COMMUNICATION USER EQUIPMENT - Disclosed is a method of allocating an IP address in a mobile communication system. The method of allocating an IP address includes: receiving a PDN connection request message including one or more of version information indicating an IP version requested from a UE and information regarding capability of the UE; obtaining subscriber information of the UE from a subscriber information server in response to reception of the PDN connection request message; checking the IP version information included in the PDN connection request message; when an address of IPv6 is requested according to the checking of the version information, determining whether or not the UE moves frequently or substantially stationary on the basis of one or more of the subscriber information of the UE, the capability information of the UE, and a TAU (Tracking Area Update) frequency; and when the UE is substantially stationary, transmitting a request message including particular indication information indicating to maintain router information although a timer with respect to the router information expires so long as the UE belongs to a particular PDN gateway and information corresponding to an interface ID allocated for the UE, to the UE. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179791 | CONSISTENCY DOMAINS FOR REPLICATION IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING - A computing device performs an operation by a first computing device and updates a shared system state on the first computing device based on the operation. The computing device causes the shared system state to be updated on a second computing device using a strongly consistent replication mechanism, wherein the first computing device and the second computing device are members of a first consistency domain. The computing device also causes the shared system state to be updated on a third computing device using a weakly consistent replication mechanism, wherein the third computing device is a member of a second consistency domain. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179792 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING DEVICE CONNECTION, COMBINATION DEVICE AND HOST DEVICE - The embodiments of the present invention provide a method for processing device connection, a combination device and a host device. A method for processing device connection, includes: after being plugged into a host device, receiving a device descriptor modification instruction sent by the host device, modifying a device descriptor according to the device descriptor modification instruction and performing device reconnection processing, sending the modified device descriptor to the host device so that the host device establishes a new network connection according to the modified device descriptor. In the embodiments of the present invention, a user does not need to restart the host device to access the network using a RNDIS device in the combination device, which makes it convenient for the user to operate. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179793 | Resource Allocation - A method of allocating resources in a computing device where resources are allocated to clients according to requests from the clients, said allocation of resources being at least partially determined by system settings, said computing device comprising a message queue where a request from a client for a resource allocation has a corresponding message in said queue, said method comprising the step of prioritising messages in said queue. Said priorities for said messages may comprise, in descending order of priority: messages corresponding to changes which may affect existing resource allocations, messages corresponding to system related requests for resources and then messages corresponding to user related requests for resources. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179794 | WEB-BASED ASSET MANAGEMENT - The method and system of the present invention provides an improved technique for replacing, implementing and managing computer-related assets. A technician accesses the World Wide Web through a user's computer. The information resident on the computer, including information regarding the computer and the user's preferences, are downloaded to a remote storage medium through the World Wide Web. Once downloaded, all information may be removed from the user's computer. Subsequently, the technician accesses another computer such as, for example, a new computer that has been assigned to the same user. The technician accesses the World Wide Web through the new computer and downloads the information previously stored on the remote storage medium. This information can then be used to install the user's prior applications, settings and preferences on the new computer. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179795 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURING TELECOM DEVICE, AND TELECOM DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a method and a system for configuring telecom device, and telecom device. The method includes: receiving configuration data and a first confirmed-commit operation command that are sent by a user, to perform a confirmed-commit operation; cancelling the confirmed-commit operation upon receiving a cancelling command sent by the user; storing the configuration data in a candidate configuration database; and receiving modified configuration data and a second confirmed-commit operation command to perform a new confirmed-commit, where the modified configuration data and the second confirmed-commit operation command are obtained after the user modifies the candidate configuration database. In the present disclosure, by cancelling the confirmed-commit operation and reserving the configuration candidate database, a mechanism to intervene the confirmed-commit operation initiatively is provided to the user to improve configuration efficiency, and relieve data transmission pressure. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179796 | ROUTING AND SERVICE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT IN AN APPLICATION ACCELERATION ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed are a system, a method and an apparatus of reduction of routing and service performance management in an application acceleration environment. In one embodiment, a system includes a branch site that includes a branch client. In addition, the system includes a headquarters site that includes a headquarters server. The headquarters site including a headquarters server includes the branch site. The headquarters site is communicatively coupled over a link via transmission media. The link is identified through a link identifier. The headquarters site including a headquarters server also includes the branch client and the headquarters server being communicatively coupled over a network connection via the transmission media. The network connection is identified through a connection identifier. The system also includes a first point of presence (POP) communicatively coupled with the branch site over a first segment of the link. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179797 | METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING HIERARCHICAL MULTI-PATH FAULT-TOLERANT PROPAGATIVE PROVISIONING - A method for provisioning networked servers includes virtually linking networked servers in hierarchical layers to form a virtual tree structure. The virtual tree structure including a plurality of nodes corresponding to the networked servers. The plurality of nodes including a root node in a top layer and at least two nodes in a second layer. The root node linked directly or indirectly to at least two terminal nodes in one or more lower layers of the virtual tree structure in a node-to-node manner based at least on layer-to-layer linking between nodes from the top layer to the one or more lower layers. The method also including receiving a provisioning change at the root node of the virtual tree structure and propagating the provisioning change from the root node to the other nodes in a node-to-node manner based at least in part on the virtual tree structure. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179798 | AUTONOMOUS PRIMARY NODE ELECTION WITHIN A VIRTUAL INPUT/OUTPUT SERVER CLUSTER - In a data processing system having a plurality of virtual input/output servers (VIOSes) configured within a VIOS cluster, a method, data processing system and computer program product provide for autonomous election of a primary node within a virtual input/output server (VIOS) cluster. A first VIOS performs the functions of: detecting that a primary node is required for the VIOS cluster; and autonomously initiating an election process to elect a next primary node from among the VIOSes within the VIOS cluster. When the first VIOS meets the pre-established requirements for becoming a primary node, the first VIOS obtains a lock on a primary node ID field within a VIOS database (DB) and then initiates a primary node commit process to assign the first VIOS as the primary node. The first VIOS issues a notification to the VIOS cluster to notify the other VIOSes that a primary node has been elected. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179799 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SELECTION INTERFACE BY QUEUE AND WORKLOAD FOR STORAGE OPERATION - A method selects an interface in a storage subsystem for processing storage operations, each interface associated with a corresponding processor. A management server has plural providers, each for executing storage operations on one of the processors via the corresponding interface. The method comprises: collecting information on status of each of the providers; based on the status of each provider, determining an operational characteristic of operation time as a function of a number of operational units for each provider; comparing the operational characteristics of the providers; for a given number of operational units in the storage operations to be processed, selecting from among the providers one provider which has the lowest operation time for the given number of operational units; and identifying the interface based on the selected provider to be used for executing the storage operations via the identified interface on the corresponding processor. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179800 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VARIABLE-SIZE TABLE CONSTRUCTION APPLIED TO A TABLE-LOOKUP APPROACH FOR LOAD-SPREADING IN FORWARDING DATA IN A NETWORK - A network element disposed in a network, where the network element implements a process to manage load distribution across a plurality of network interfaces of the network. The network element redirects traffic flow directed toward the plurality of network interfaces in response to changes in configuration of the plurality of network interfaces, where each traffic flow is a set of protocol data units (PDUs), having an ordered delivery requirement, and where the PDUs are transmitted across the network between a source node and a destination node. The redirection process minimizes data traffic flow disruption when the load distribution is determined using a set of load distribution tables instead of a hashing algorithm. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179801 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCTION OF MOBILE NETWORK TRAFFIC USED FOR DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM (DNS) QUERIES - Systems and methods for reduction of mobile network traffic used for domain name system (DNS) queries are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method, which may be implemented on a system, includes, querying, cached DNS entries in a local cache on a mobile device for a host name associated with an outgoing DNS query from the mobile device or providing a matching cached DNS entry as a response to the outgoing DNS query without accessing the wireless network. The matching cached DNS entry can be invalidated in the local cache when a proxy remote from the mobile device detects a changed DNS response for the outgoing DNS query. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179802 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTENDING CLOUD SERVICES INTO THE CUSTOMER PREMISE - A cloud extension agent can be provided on a customer premise for interfacing, via an outbound secure connection, cloud based services. The cloud extension agent can reach the cloud based services through existing firewall infrastructure, thereby providing simple, secure deployment. Furthermore, the secure connection can enable substantially real-time communication with a cloud service to provide web-based, substantially real time control or management of resources on the customer premises via the cloud extension agent. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179803 | ENHANCING NETWORK-BASED IP MOBILITY MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL TO PROVIDE MULTIHOMING SUPPORT - In an embodiment, there is provided a method for enhancing a network-based IP mobility management protocol to provide multihoming support, said method including providing multihoming support based on multihoming group information, said information identifying a group of interfaces of a Mobile Node MN to be managed by a Local Mobility Anchor LMA on a Mobile Access Gateway MAG demand under a same mobility session. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179804 | MANAGEMENT METHOD OF COMPUTER SYSTEM, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - The system includes a PCI switch connecting a plurality of computers via a PCI interface; and a management server which controls assignment of PCI devices and computers connected to the PCI switch. The PCI switch reports an addition or change of a PCI device to the management server. The management server obtains basic information for the PCI device upon receipt of the report, determines an assignment state of the PCI device to either occupation or sharing, and instructs the PCI switch to assign the PCI device to the management server in the determined assignment state. The management server reads a driver of the PCI device connected through the PCI switch, and obtains detailed information of the PCI device through the driver. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179805 | DATA PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT CHANGE MANAGEMENT METHODS AND APPARATUSES - An apparatus is provided with a change management module adapted to manage making changes to a data processing device of a data processing environment. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179806 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT METHOD - A network management system which is capable of easily identifying devices, and enhancing the operability of a device management application used by a manager. The network management system includes devices, and a server connected to the devices via a network. The server is configured to be capable of communicating with the devices by SNMPv | 2012-07-12 |
20120179807 | Clearing SCSI Reservations for Non-Detectable Initiators for Extended Duration - A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for managing storage system resources in a storage area network (SAN). A target data storage server registers itself within a storage area network (SAN) fabric to receive a Registered State Change Notification (RSCN) should a SCSI initiator become inactive. A SCSI initiator then requests reservation of a target LUN. In response, the target data server reserves the LUN for use by the SCSI initiator. If a RSCN is received by the target data storage server, then a GID_PN server request, which comprises the unique identifier of SCSI initiator, is generated after a predetermined time interval and a SAN fabric name server. If the name server's response to the GID_PN server request is positive, then the SCSI initiator was detected as being active and the target data storage server keeps the reservation for the LUN active for the SCSI initiator. Otherwise, the reservation for the LUN is released for use by other SCSI initiators. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179808 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR APPLICATION SCOPE MANAGEMENT - An Application Scope Platform and a method for enabling communication between a Web Application, which is adapted to run on a first Processor of a User Device, and which is being accessible via a Web Client of the User Device, and an Application Scope, which is executable on the Application Scope Platform. The Application Scope Platform comprises a Process Manager, adapted to create and manage an event triggered Application Scope, a Web Server and a Communication Interface adapted to enable the Web Application to communicate with the Application Scope Platform via said Web Client. The Application Scope Platform being adapted to run on a second Processor, and to communicate with the Web Application, which is an Application Scope enabled Web Application, irrespective of the state of the Processor, the Web Client and/or said Web Application. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179809 | APPLICATION MONITORING IN A STREAM DATABASE ENVIRONMENT - Methods and systems for monitoring a stream application are disclosed. The stream application is composed from a plurality of processing elements executing on one or more compute nodes. A graphical user interface display presents a user with at least a portion of an operator graph in a running stream application. The operator graph represents the plurality of processing elements, and links between processing elements, corresponding to a flow of data tuples through the stream application. A monitoring application then monitors user interactions with the presentation of the portion of the operator graph on the graphical user interface display and identifies at least a first modification to the stream application based on a processing state of the stream application and the monitored user interactions. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179810 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING MANAGEMENT OF NETWORK RESOURCES FOR DEVICES - Methods and apparatuses are provided that facilitate selecting one or more front links or backhaul links for a device for facilitating communications with one or more service providers. A small base station can include multiple front link and backhaul link options, and one or more link options can be selected for a given device based on a utility function, one or more policies, etc., according to various parameters related to the device, to the small base station, to the service provider, and/or the like. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179811 | METHODS FOR PROVIDING PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS - In a method of providing a performance improvement recommendation for a connection between a first network node in communication with a second network node, information is transmitted from the first node to the second node to provide communication between the nodes, via a number of transmission components. An elapsed time of transmission of the information between a subset of the transmission components is measured, the aggregation of the measurements representing time elapsed for end-to-end transmission of the information that includes preparing, by the first node, the information for transmission and processing, by the second node, the information upon receipt. A determination is made that one of the measured transmission components has a performance that crosses a predetermined threshold. A recommendation is identified to improve the performance of the identified component. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179812 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PHYSICALLY DETECTING, IDENTIFYING, DIAGNOSING AND GEOLOCATING ELECTRONIC DEVICES CONNECTABLE TO A NETWORK - A system and method of detecting, locating, geolocating and providing diagnostics on electronic devices includes use of emission detection apparatus, information collected over a network and template containing emission signatures. Collected unintended emissions are compared to an emission signature in the template preferably constructed from the information collected on the network. Using the known location of the electronic device, the emissions measurement device is then used to detect and identify other devices in the vicinity of the electronic device that is connected to the network. The emission detection apparatus includes a high sensitivity receiver for receiving and analyzing electronic emissions. The network collection apparatus could be any software manifestation known in the art for collecting information about a device such as a cookie or online fingerprinting or a hardware based collection mechanism. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179813 | TRAFFIC FLOW INFERENCE BASED ON LINK LOADS AND GRAVITY MEASURES - Traffic flow between each pair of nodes in a network are determined based on loads measured at each link and based on gravity measures. The gravity measures correspond to a likelihood of the node being a source or a sink of traffic and may be assigned based on characteristics associated with each node, such as the demographics of the region in which the node is located, prior sinking and sourcing statistics, and so on. The gravity measures are used to generate an objective function for solving a system of linear equations, rather than as criteria that must be satisfied in the solution. The measured link loads are allocated among the traffic flows between nodes to at least a given allocation efficiency criteria by solving a system of linear equations with an objective of minimizing a difference between the assigned gravities and the resultant gravities corresponding to the determined flows. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179814 | Determination and use of metrics in a domain name service (DNS) system - A method for determining metrics of a content delivery and global traffic management network provides service metric probes that determine the service availability and metric measurements of types of services provided by a content delivery machine. Latency probes are also provided for determining the latency of various servers within a network. The latency probe calculates, for example, the latency from its location to a client's location using the round trip time for sending a packet to the client to obtain the latency value for that client. DNS servers use the latency test results, along with traffic weightings, to determine a server to return for a given DNS name. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179815 | STORAGE NETWORK SYSTEM, MANAGING APPARATUS, MANAGING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A management computer includes a memory storing toplogical information including identifiers of ports of computers, storage apparatuses, and switches. The management computer includes a processor, which is configured to: collect a plurality of performance information of the ports, and a plurality of access times from computer ports to the storage apparatuses; evaluate that a certain access time among the plurality of access times exceeds a predetermined allowable range; search a first access path to which the certain access time corresponds; search at least one second access path starting from a first computer port on the first access path; and search performance information of certain ports which are on the at least one second access path in order to display the searched performance information. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179816 | MANAGING CAPTURED NETWORK TRAFFIC DATA - A system and method for managing captured network traffic data is provided. The invention comprises a plurality of capture agents, each being configured to capture the network traffic associated with one or more applications. Each application is associated with one or more capture agents according to an application profile that is stored and maintained in a capture server. When analysis of an application's network traffic is required, the capture server contacts the corresponding capture agents according to the application profile. The capture server then effects the identification and archiving of the network traffic that corresponds to a user-defined capture condition. A database at the capture server maintains a record that associates the corresponding network traffic with the user-defined capture condition such that the corresponding network traffic can later be retrieved and analyzed using an analysis engine. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179817 | TECHNIQUES FOR ADDRESSING GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION ISSUES IN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS - A technique for addressing geographical location issues in a computing environment includes receiving, at a data processing system, location information indicating a permissible geographical location in which a virtual machine image for a consumer may be deployed. A request for an exception to deploy the virtual machine image outside of the permissible geographical location is issued, from the data processing system. An exception grant or an exception denial is received, at the data processing system, from the consumer in response to the request. The virtual machine image is deployed, using the data processing system, to one or more servers in the computing environment that are outside of the permissible geographical location in response to receipt of the exception grant. The virtual machine image is deployed, using the data processing system, to one or more servers in the computing environment that are within the permissible geographical location in response to receipt of the exception denial. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179818 | System and Method for Controlled Access to Up-To-Date Contact Information - A method and system for controlling a recipient's access to a user's information. The method includes receiving a plurality of contact information, registration information and access information from the user. Only person's knowing the user's registration information can update the contact and access information of the user. The contact information entered by a user is about that user. The access information defines accessible sets of contact information to be made accessible to recipients. A telephone exchange is associated with each recipient; and a local server is associated with each telephone exchange. The accessible set of information is stored in the local server for access by the recipient. The system handles updates to information on the local servers when a user updates their contact information. The system can automatically place calls for a recipient to a user that has granted the recipient access to a number for communicating with the user. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179819 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MOBILE AND OTHER INTERMITTENT CONNECTIVITY IN A COMPUTING ENVIORNMENT - Method and device for managing resource consumption in a computer network providing communication between plural devices, in which resources are provided to the plural devices. The method includes enforcing at least one of globally, per-device, per-device group, per-user group, and per-user policy management for managing consumption of the resources by the devices, distributing a task of managing of the resource consumption between the devices, and proxying in at least one proxy server communications between peers and the devices even when a device becomes temporarily disconnected from the network environment. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179820 | Providing Virtual Desktops Using Resources Accessed on Public Computer Networks - A computer system supports hosting of virtual desktops using resources available in the cloud. Connections to various resources used by a desktop configuration are made dynamically using authentication information associated with the user assigned to the desktop configuration. In addition to using file storage, directory services and user management information on private resources on a private network, these resources may also be accessed through a public network. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179821 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING TEMPORARY EXCLUSIVE BLOCKS FOR PARALLEL ACCESSES TO OPERATING MEANS - In at least one example embodiment, the invention relates to a computer-implemented method, a computer-implemented system and a computer program product for controlling the access to splittable resources in a distributed client server system operating in parallel. The resource control system is designed for a plurality of clients connected to the system and is used to maintain consistency of the data. When a client makes a first attempt to access a resource of the server, an exclusive lock for the requested resource is allocated to the accessing client, that blocks the access to the resource for other clients, said exclusive lock only being allocated for a pre-determinable period of time and then automatically discontinued. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179822 | TECHNIQUES FOR PROVISIONING CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT RESOURCES BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS - A technique for provisioning computing environment resources based on social media analysis includes monitoring, using a data processing system, references (e.g., hyperlinks) provided by a first website to detect an anticipated flash crowd for a web-accessible resource (e.g., second website). The technique also includes generating, using the data processing system, a notice to allocate resources associated with the web-accessible resource to service the anticipated flash crowd. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179823 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD OF COMPUTER RESOURCE AND PROGRAM - Servers and a management server for managing a computer resource for a providing application constructed from storage connected to the servers receive an identifier of the application and a requested resource amount to assign to the application, refer to a application profile to identify the application and a system image corresponding to the identifier, and on the basis of the identifier, refer to a application usage history database and a application data table to acquire the number of times that the application has been used and the existence or non-existence of saved application data. If the usage is a reuse and there is saved application data, storage in which the application data has been saved is acquired from the application data table, and a combination of a server and storage which satisfies the requested resource amount and can access the application data is determined by referring to a resource table. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179824 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF BROKERING CLOUD COMPUTING RESOURCES - System, method, and tangible computer-readable storage media are disclosed for providing a brokering service for compute resources. The method includes, at a brokering service, polling a group of separately administered compute environments to identify resource capabilities and information, each compute resource environment including the group of managed nodes for processing workload, receiving a request for compute resources at the brokering service system, the request for compute resources being associated with a service level agreement (SLA) and based on the resource capabilities across the group of compute resource environments, selecting compute resources in one or more of the group of compute resource environments. The brokering service system receives workload associated with the request and communicates the workload to the selected resources for processing. The brokering services system can aggregate resources for multiple cloud service providers and act as an advocate for or a guarantor of the SLA associated with the workload. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179825 | PROCESS MANAGEMENT USING REPRESENTATION STATE TRANSFER ARCHITECTURE - Process management techniques using a representation state transfer architecture that manages a given process in a data-centric manner are disclosed. By way of one example, a method of managing a given process in a data-centric manner in a client/server environment, comprising at least one client and at least one server, comprises the following steps. The server obtains from the client at least one request associated with the given process. In response to the request obtained from the client, the server generates an entity, wherein the generated entity is represented in terms of a data model and a lifecycle model associated therewith, wherein the lifecycle model comprises states and state transitions with each transition caused by one or more activities in the given process, and wherein the given process is represented as a collection of communicating entities. The server sends a response to the at least one request to the client, wherein the response is based at least in part on the generated entity. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179826 | Address Distribution Method, Device and System Thereof - An address distribution method is disclosed by the present invention, in which two Broadband Remote Access Servers (BRAS) which are mutually backup devices respectively occupy part of the address resources in a shared address pool, and the method includes: when detecting a user online, a BRAS selecting an address from the corresponding part of address resources in the shared address pool and distributing the address to the user; and the BRAS sending a notification message to the backup device, and informing the backup device of the address occupied by the user. A BRAS and an address distribution system is further disclosed by the present invention, and the problem of address collision generated when a pair of BRASs which are mutually backup devices distribute the addresses to their respective user in the dual-server hot backup scenario is solved by the method, device and system of the present invention. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179827 | ACCESS SESSION CONTROLLER, IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM AND REGISTRATION AND SESSION METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an access session controller, an IP multimedia subsystem and registration and session establishment methods thereof, where the access session controller includes a message reception module, a service trigger configuration module, a session control module and a message transmission module. The IP multimedia subsystem includes the access session controller and a network-wide home subscriber server system. The registration method includes: initiating, by the access session controller, an authentication information request to the network-wide home subscriber server system. The session establishment method includes: directly process, by the access session controller, the request message initiated from a user to establish a session. The foregoing solutions can simplify the signaling processing flow and reduce the network complexity. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179828 | SERVER APPARATUS, SESSION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, METHOD, SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM OF PROGRAM - An apparatus includes a memory and a processor to executes a procedure, the procedure including storing, in the memory of the apparatus, identification information for identifying a session used for first access made to the server apparatus, until a certain length of time elapses from access time of the first access, obtaining the time information which indicates access time of an access made to another server apparatus, and when time information, which indicates access time of second access made to the another server apparatus after the first access by using the same session as the session used for the first access, is obtained by the obtaining until the certain length of time elapses from access time of the first access, controlling the memory to store the identification information until the certain length of time further elapses from the access time indicated by the obtained time information. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179829 | System and Method for Enabling a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Connection - A system and method are provided that enable a registrar or other server or proxy device to be used to provide a path between a pair of endpoint devices for exchanging addressing information, in order to establish a direct P2P connection. Once that connection is established, the connection may be used for any P2P data communications, e.g. SIP establishment of a VoIP call, instant messaging, online gaming, file transfer, multimedia streaming, etc. In this way, each endpoint device possesses a list of candidate addresses to establish a direct P2P connection, which may then be used for any type of communication. By relying on a registrar or other server to enable the candidate lists to be exchanged, control can still be maintained if necessary, since the candidate lists can be modified, e.g. to enable a transparent interception, to impose or remove security restrictions, etc. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179830 | ADAPTIVE NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION BINDING FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - The binding of addresses and port ranges is performed by a device, based on network usage conditions. The device may determine a port block size, indicating a quantity of ports, to allocate to client devices. The device may transmit a message including an Internet Protocol (IP) address and a port range. The message may indicate that the IP address and port range is to be allocated to the one of the client devices based on an order of a first port value and a second port value in the port range, where the port range covers a quantity of ports corresponding to the port block size. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179831 | ENCRYPTED VPN CONNECTION - A method, apparatus, and system are described that provides fully automated network access to remote networked devices. The device and system permits the remote access of a local network without any pre-configuration or administrative burden at the local network. Embodiments as described herein provide a “plug and play” option to insert a device into the local network and provide access to select target devices on the network, even non-routable devices, without first requiring dedicated host software or other administrative privileges or configurations be set at the local network. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179832 | MINIMIZING BANDWIDTH USAGE IN MULTIMEDIA STREAMING - A system and associated method for minimizing network traffic in playing a media stream with a media module running in a client computer system. The media stream is stored in a media content server. A video file of the media stream is processed to generate an audio file corresponding to the video file, such that the media module downloads and plays the audio file when the media module is invisible on a computer screen of the client computer system. When the media module becomes visible, the media module switches back to downloading and playing the video file. A current location is tracked by a location sync file stored in the media content server to synchronize the video file and the audio file. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179833 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTING MEDIA - A method and apparatus for adapting media is provided. The method includes receiving a request for a first media stream and a second media stream at different media times. The method further includes processing a source media stream to produce a first portion media stream and a second portion media stream using a media processing element. A method for processing media comprises creating a first media processing element and a second media processing element. The method further includes processing a first media stream using the first media processing element to produce assistance information. Further, the method includes processing a second media stream using the second media processing element wherein the second media processing element utilizes the assistance information. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179834 | Systems and Methods for Performing Adaptive Bitrate Streaming Based Upon the Delay of Each Stream and the Channel Rate - Systems and methods for adaptive bitrate streaming in which playback devices select streams based upon stream delay and channel rate in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment is configured to select a first video stream from a set of alternative streams, where at least a plurality of the alternative streams are encoded to have an upper bound seek delay that is equal to or less than the upper bound seek delay of streams in the set of alternative streams that are encoded at a higher maximum bitrate, request chunks of the first video stream and store the requested chunks in the buffer, playback the buffered chunks, measure the channel data rate, and select a second video stream from the set of alternative streams, where the second video stream has a maximum bitrate that is less than the measured channel data rate. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179835 | Optimal Routing of Audio, Video, and Control Data Through Heterogeneous Networks - Effecting the transmission of video data across a network of resources that includes incompatible resources is disclosed. Information indicating a source device and a destination device is received. The source device originates the video data and the destination device is to receive the video data. A plurality of paths between the source device and the destination device is identified. Each path is defined by a set of resources, the set of resources including resources needed to transmit the video data across any incompatible resources in the path. From the plurality of paths, a best path for transmission of the video data is determined based on the set of resources for that path, a distance between the source device and the destination device along that path, and a quality of the video data maintained by that path. The transmission of the video data is then effected across the determined best path. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179836 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING, ASSIGNING, AND DISTRIBUTING ELECTRONIC REQUESTS - A system and method for processing and managing electronic requests is disclosed. The system may comprise an input module configured to receive a plurality of electronic requests associated with at least one of a product, service, order, and status. The system may comprise a classification module configured to assign each electronic request with at least one category. The system may comprise a transformation module configured to convert the plurality of electronic requests into a format compatible with one or more downstream systems. The system may comprise a distribution module configured to distribute the plurality of electronic requests based on routing rules to one or more downstream systems, wherein the one or more downstream systems responds to the at least one request. The system may comprise a management module configured to manage the plurality of electronic requests, wherein managing the plurality of electronic requests comprises receiving status notifications associated with the at least request from the one or more downstream systems. The system may also comprise a monitoring module configured to present, via a graphical user interface, information associated with at least one of the plurality of electronic requests to a user. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179837 | COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL FOR VIRTUAL INPUT/OUTPUT SERVER (VIOS) CLUSTER COMMUNICATION - A first Virtual Input/Output Server (VIOS) of a VIOS cluster performs the functions of: generating, at a sending daemon of the first VIOS, a send message that is to be transmitted to a receiving daemon at a second VIOS; in response to completion of the generating of the send message, forwarding the send message to a sending virtual small computer systems interface (vscsi) kernel extension (VKE) via a system call interface; and in response to the sending VKE receiving the send message from the sending daemon, forwarding the send message to one or more second VIOSes within the VIOS cluster utilizing a kcluster interface. The sending VKE parses at least one of a message header and a sub-header of the send message; and responsive to detection of a broadcast setting for the send message, the VKE forwards the send message to all nodes within the cluster via a cluster broadcast. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179838 | RELAY SERVER AND RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A virtual network is dynamically created to construct a relay communication system. Between a first relay server and a second relay server, a VLAN device information sharing unit shares VLAN device information including interface information of client terminals capable of functioning as VLAN devices in a relay group. A VLAN group information creation unit edits the VLAN device information, thereby creating VLAN group information formed by grouping the client terminals indicated in the VLAN device information. A VLAN group information sharing unit shares the VLAN group information among the first relay server, the second relay server, the client terminal connected to the first relay server, and the client terminal connected to the second relay server. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179839 | DOMAIN NAME SERVICE RESOLVER - A domain name service (DNS) resolver for returning Internet protocol (IP) addresses is provided in some embodiments of the invention. The DNS resolver includes a connection with an Internet application or device, wherein the connection receives domain name resolution requests that originates outside of the Internet. The DNS resolver also includes a direct DNS resolver that processes domain name resolutions without referring to the Internet after receiving a domain name resolution request and a recursing DNS resolver, wherein IP addresses are found by querying one or more DNS servers on the Internet after receiving domain name resolution requests. The DNS resolver includes an address store having a predetermined list of domain names and corresponding IP addresses that are specified from a point remote to the DNS resolver. The DNS resolver process the domain name resolutions for the predetermined list of domain names differently than other domain name resolutions. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179840 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED CONTENT TRANSFORMATION - A distributed transformation network provides delivery of content from a content publisher to a content recipient. Content from the content publisher is received at an entry node of the distributed transformation network and transmitted to a transformation node in the distributed transformation network. The content is transformed according to publisher, recipient or network administrator specifications and transmitting to delivery nodes which deliver the transformed content to the content recipient. The published content may be in an XML-based format and transformed into an XML-related format or any other structured language format as desired in the provided specification. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179841 | Adaptable Management In Sync Engines - Synchronization of two or more items can be optimized through the use of parallel execution of synchronization tasks and adaptable processing that monitors and adjusts for system loading. Two or more synchronization tasks required to be performed for an item can, if not inherently serial in nature, be performed in parallel, optimizing synchronization of the item. Even if multiple synchronization tasks required for one item must be serially executed, e.g., download the item prior to translating the item, these synchronization tasks can be executed in parallel for different items, optimizing a download request involving two or more items. Moreover, multiple threads for one or more synchronization tasks can be concurrently executed when supportable by the current operating system resources. Rules can be established to ensure synchronization activity is not degraded by the overextension of system resources. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179842 | Querying A Device For Information - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving in a processor complex a first write request from a peripheral device, obtaining information of the processor complex responsive to the first write request, and transmitting a second write request from the processor complex to the peripheral device including the information. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179843 | Management of a Configuration of a USB Device - The present invention generally relates to the management of a configuration of a first device. The first device includes a control unit and an interface unit managing a communication interface. The communication interface comprises at least one resistive line having a resistance value. The resistance value allows the interface unit to identify a configuration for at least one second device adapted to be linked to the first device via the communication interface. The interface unit: /a/ detects a change of the resistance value on the resistive line corresponding to a configuration of said second device; /b/ processes said change of the resistance value to adapt the configuration of the first device according to the configuration of said second device. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179844 | DYNAMICALLY ASSIGNING VIRTUAL FUNCTIONS TO CLIENT APPLICATIONS - A computer-implemented method may include determining a number of virtual functions that each port of a hardware input/output adapter is capable of supporting. The computer-implemented method may include assigning a first portion of internal resources of the hardware input/output adapter to each port of the hardware input/output adapter. The computer-implemented method may also include, for a particular port of the hardware input/output adapter, assigning a second portion of the internal resources to each virtual function that the particular port is capable of supporting. The second portion of the internal resources may be a subset of the first portion of the internal resources. The computer-implemented method may further include configuring a virtual function prior to a runtime to use the assigned second portion of the internal resources. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179845 | METHOD FOR SWITCHING WORKING MODE, USB DEVICE, AND HOST DEVICE - The embodiments of the present invention provide a method for switching a working mode, a USB device, and a host device. The method for switching a working mode includes: determining, according to the osvc key value in the registry of a host device, that a driver for a second working mode is installed on the host device, after the USB device is connected to the host device; and switching the current working state of the USB device from a first working mode to the second working mode. In the embodiments of the present invention, neither special auxiliary program nor additional driver needs to be developed. Therefore, the solution is easy to implement and a problem of incompatibility will not occur. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179846 | INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O) PATH SELECTION BASED ON WORKLOAD TYPES - Various embodiments for an Input/Output (I/O) path selection based on workload types are provided. A port workload controller is adapted to control the workload types of ports for accessing a storage device. A storage access command is received by the port workload controller from an application being executed on a virtual server on a physical server. The workload types related to the storage access command are determined. Storage access paths between the application and the storage device having the same workload types as the determined workload types related to the storage access command are determined. Storage access paths mapping data that is controlled by the port workload controller is used. A selected storage access path is selected out of the determined storage access paths having the least utilization. The storage device is accessed via the selected one of the plurality of storage access paths. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179847 | Method and System for Implementing Bus Operations with Precise Timing - The present disclosure describes a system and method for implementing bus operations with precise timing. The system includes a trigger descriptor register for a bus operation. The trigger descriptor register includes a bus definition field, which further includes data and address fields for providing data and address information for the bus operation. The trigger descriptor register may also include a holdoff time field to store a time value and includes an event select field to select a trigger for the bus operation. A processor configures the trigger descriptor register. A counter may count based on a time period such that at the end of the counting, the bus operation is performed based on the data and address fields. The time period is derived from one or more of the holdoff field or an external timer. The disclosed method and system employ hardware assist for maintaining precise timing while performing bus operations. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179848 | Electrical Circuit For Transmitting Signals Between Two Masters And One Or More Slaves - An electrical circuit for transmitting signals between two masters and one or more slaves is described. The two masters and the slave or slaves are connected to one another via a bus system. At least one master data signal can be generated by each of the two masters, which signal can be received by the slave or slaves. A three-state gate is present at each of the outputs of the two masters at which the respective master data signal is present. The three-state gates are effective either as closed or as open switches. The three-state gates are activated in such a way that the three-state gate associated with the one of the two masters acts as a closed switch, and the three-state gate associated with the other of the two masters acts as an open switch. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179849 | PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLER - A programmable controller includes a master unit and a plurality of slave units connected to a system bus in a daisy chain. The master unit transmits a batch of transmission frames addressed to different slave units consecutively a predetermined plurality of times, without waiting to receive the response from the slave units. Thus, the transmission frames can be transmitted reliably. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179850 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ARBITRATION ON A DATA BUS - A method and apparatus for arbitrating on a high performance serial bus is disclosed. The invention provides for a plurality of arbitration phases and an arbitration advancing means. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179851 | Computer System Interrupt Handling - A system, method and article of manufacture for an accelerated processing device (APD) to request a central processing unit (CPU) to process a task, comprising enqueuing a plurality of tasks on a queue using the APD, generating a user-level interrupt and transmitting to the CPU the plurality of tasks in the queue using an interrupt handler associated with a CPU thread. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179852 | ONE-WAY BUS BRIDGE - A one-way bus bridge pair that transfers secure data in one direction, the bus bridge pair including a transmitting bus bridge, a receiving bus bridge, and a link. The link can connect the transmitting bus bridge and receiving bus bridge. The transmitting bus bridge may be arranged not to receive any data from the receiving bus bridge, and the receiving bus bridge may be arranged not to send any data to the transmitting bus bridge. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179853 | MEMORY ADDRESS TRANSLATION - The present disclosure includes devices, systems, and methods for memory address translation. One or more embodiments include a memory array and a controller coupled to the array. The array includes a first table having a number of records, wherein each record includes a number of entries, wherein each entry includes a physical address corresponding to a data segment stored in the array and a logical address. The controller includes a second table having a number of records, wherein each record includes a number of entries, wherein each entry includes a physical address corresponding to a record in the first table and a logical address. The controller also includes a third table having a number of records, wherein each record includes a number of entries, wherein each entry includes a physical address corresponding to a record in the second table and a logical address. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179854 | Systems, Methods, and Devices for Configuring a Device - Disclosed are methods and devices, among which is a method for configuring an electronic device. In one embodiment, an electronic device may include one or more memory locations having stored values representative of the capabilities of the device. According to an example configuration method, a configuring system may access the device capabilities from the one or more memory locations and configure the device based on the accessed device capabilities. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179855 | Mechanism for Memory Change Tracking During Migration of Virtual Machine (VM) with VM-Controlled Assigned Peripherals - A mechanism for memory change tracking during migration of a virtual machine (VM) with VM-controlled assigned peripherals is disclosed. A method of the invention includes informing a write tracking module of an interest by a hypervisor of a host machine in a specific memory location associated with a peripheral device that is controlled by a VM managed by the hypervisor, receiving notification from the write tracking module that the identified specific memory location has been modified by the peripheral device, and marking a memory page of the specific identified memory location as dirty in order for the migration of the memory page to be repeated as part of a migration process of the VM to a destination host machine. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179856 | E-medstick, e-medstick, e-medstick EMR - A device stores a patient's medical records to solve the problems of incompatibility of electronic medical record systems, no patient information available at emergencies, lack of information sharing among physicians, and health care fraud. The device includes a flash drive configured to connect to a USB port and be read by a computer, a record of emergency patient data photo stored on the flash drive and displayed immediately by the computer when the flash drive is inserted into the USB port, and a record of detailed data stored on the flash drive and displayed upon entry of a correct password and identification. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179857 | TECHNIQUES TO TRUNCATE DATA FILES IN NONVOLATILE MEMORY - Various embodiments for performing truncate operations in nonvolatile memory are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may include a nonvolatile memory to perform one or more truncate operations on a data file written to the nonvolatile memory and a volatile memory to track a truncate operation performed in the nonvolatile memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179858 | MEMORY DEVICE - A memory card of the present embodiment includes a memory section configured to have a non-volatile semiconductor memory cell, an erasure setting section whose physical state changes irreversibly and a memory controller configured to perform total erasure processing of erasing all data stored in the memory section according to the physical state of the erasure setting section. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179859 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY APPARATUS PERFORMING FTL FUNCTION AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A nonvolatile memory apparatus includes: a memory controller coupled; and a memory area comprising a plurality of memory blocks controlled by the memory controller. The memory controller sets a plurality of physical blocks corresponding to the plurality of memory blocks, and sets a plurality of logical blocks which are mapping targets of the physical blocks such that a size of the logical blocks and a size of the physical blocks are asymmetrical. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179860 | SUSPENSION OF MEMORY OPERATIONS FOR REDUCED READ LATENCY IN MEMORY ARRAYS - Read latencies in a memory array can be reduced by suspending write operations. In one example, a process includes, writing a first data set into a memory, interrupting a second memory write operation, and reading the first data set from the memory after interrupting the second memory write operation. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179861 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY SYSTEM HAVING A SNAPSHOT FUNCTION - In a semiconductor memory computer equipped with a flash memory, use of backed-up data is enabled. The semiconductor memory computer includes an address conversion table for detecting physical addresses of at least two pages storing data by designating a logical address from one of logical addresses to be designated by a reading request. The semiconductor memory computer includes a page status register for detecting one page status allocated to each page, and page statuses to be detected include the at least following four statuses: (1) a latest data storage status, (2) a not latest data storage status, (3) an invalid data storage status, and (4) an unwritten status. By using the address conversion table and the page status register, at least two data (latest data and past data) can be read for one designated logical address from a host computer. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179862 | System For Accessing Non-Volatile Memory - Accessing a non-volatile memory array is described, including receiving a first data and a memory address associated with the first data, writing the first data to the non-volatile memory array at the memory address of the first data without erasing a second data stored in the non-volatile memory array at the memory address of the first data before writing the first data. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179863 | MEMORY SYSTEM - A memory system includes a plurality of storage groups, each of which includes a nonvolatile first storing unit and a second storing unit as a buffer memory of the first storing unit and is capable of performing data transfer between the first storing unit and the second storing unit, and a plurality of MPUs. A first control for data transfer between the host device and the first storing unit via the second storing unit for one of the storage groups and a second control including a control for maintenance of the first storing unit for other storage groups are allocated to the MPUs to be performed independently by the MPUs. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179864 | METRICS AND MANAGEMENT FOR FLASH MEMORY STORAGE LIFE - According to one aspect of the invention, a method of evaluating reliability of flash memory media comprises managing a flash memory remaining life for each disk of a plurality of flash memory media disks provided in one or more flash memory media groups each of which has a configuration and a relationship between said each flash memory media group and the flash memory media disks in said each flash memory media group, wherein each flash memory media group is one of a RAID group or a thin provisioning pool; and calculating to obtain information of each flash memory media group based on the measured flash memory remaining life for each disk in said each flash memory media group, the configuration of said each flash memory media group, and the relationship between said each flash memory media group and the flash memory media disks in said each flash memory media group. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179865 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY SYSTEM, AND DATA READ/WRITE METHOD FOR NONVOLATILE MEMORY SYSTEM - A nonvolatile memory system comprises a nonvolatile memory having a plurality of data areas; and a memory controller operative to control read and write operations to the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller successively executes read/write operations to plural sectors within a selected data area in the nonvolatile memory in accordance with a command and a sector count and sector address fed from a host device. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179866 | Memory Component Having Write Operation with Multiple Time Periods - A method for storing data in a memory chip that includes a memory core having dynamic random access memory cells, is performed by a memory controller chip. The method includes sending a write command to a first interface of the memory chip, wherein the write command specifies a write operation. After sending the write command, the memory controller chip waits for a first time period corresponding to a time period during which the write command is stored by the memory chip, and sends data associated with the write operation to a second interface of the memory chip, wherein the sending of the data occurs after a second time period transpires, the second time period following the first time period, such that sending the write command and sending the data are separated by a first predetermined delay time that includes both the first time period and the second time period. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179867 | TAPE DATA MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for managing data with respect to tape storage are provided. The system includes a data manager for receiving metadata related to content and for generating a proxy file system which mirrors the data structure of the content data. The system further includes a server coupled to a tape device, the server receiving the content data directly from a data source and providing the content data the tape device for storage on a formatted tape media. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179868 | AUTONOMIC RECLAMATION PROCESSING FOR TAPES - Various embodiments for autonomic reclamation processing for tapes are provided. Instructions are received to perform reclamation processing on the formatted tape. Formatted tape is loaded into a tape drive for buffering active data during reclamation processing and consolidating all of the active data in capacity optimized manner on the same formatted tape. The formatted tape comprises metadata denoting active and inactive data blocks for files. The meta data of the formatted tape is read into a reclamation memory. The table is sorted and a starting block address is sorted. All active files ordered in the table starting at the starting block address are read into the reclamation memory. The files are written from the reclamation memory to the formatted tape from the starting block address and updating the table with new block addresses of the files. The meta data is updated with the updated table. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179869 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DATA STORAGE USING PROGRESSIVE RAID - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for data storage with progressive redundant array of independent drives (“RAID”). A storage request receiver module, a striping module, a parity-mirror module, and a parity progression module are included. The storage request receiver module receives a request to store data of a file or of an object. The striping module calculates a stripe pattern for the data. The stripe pattern includes one or more stripes, and each stripe includes a set of N data segments. The striping module writes the N data segments to N storage devices. Each data segment is written to a separate storage device within a set of storage devices assigned to the stripe. The parity-mirror module writes a set of N data segments to one or more parity-mirror storage devices within the set of storage devices. The parity progression module calculates a parity data segment on each parity-mirror device in response to a storage consolidation operation, and stores the parity data segments. The storage consolidation operation is conducted to recover storage space and/or data on a parity-mirror storage device. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179870 | Data Storage Method with (D,K) Moore Graph-Based Network Storage Structure - A data storing method of a (d, k) Moore graph-based network storage structure is provided. The method arranges a number of formula(I) storing nodes in a wide area network (WAN) environment in accordance with a (d, k) Moore graph to form a strongly regular network structure, and utilizes implementation methods of different separate redundant array of independent disks (RAID) techniques of multiple degrees of reliability, thereby enabling data storing supported by network-RAIDs (NRAID) of multiple degrees of reliability in a network environment; said network structure of a strongly regular graph makes an arbitrarily accessed storing node as a controlling node, and uses other d+d(d−1) storing nodes as neighboring nodes of the controlling node, wherein d is the number of one-hop neighboring nodes; and d(d−1) are the number of two-hop neighboring nodes; the controlling node stores metadata of stored data, and sends information of accessing data; the neighboring nodes provide data storing services. The present invention combines the special characteristics of a (d, k) Moore graph with RAID technology, thereby enhancing the reliability of data storing in a network environment. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179871 | MEMORY SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF INITIALLIZING THE SAME - A memory system is provided includes a host processor, and a plurality of cascade connected memory cards connected to the host processor. Each of the memory cards stores a same default relative card address (RCA) prior to initialization of the memory system. The host processor is configured to sequentially access each memory card using the default RCA, and to change the default RCA to a unique RCA upon each sequential access. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179872 | GLOBAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPIRAL CACHE MANAGEMENT - A method of operation of a pipelined cache memory supports global operations within the cache. The cache may be a spiral cache, with a move-to-front M2F network for moving values from a backing store to a front-most tile coupled to a processor or lower-order level of a memory hierarchy and a spiral push-back network for pushing out modified values to the backing-store. The cache controller manages application of global commands by propagating individual commands to the tiles. The global commands may provide zeroing, flushing and reconciling of the given tiles. Commands for interrupting and resuming interrupted global commands may be implemented, to reduce halting or slowing of processing while other global operations are in process. A line detector within each tile supports reconcile and flush operations, and a line patcher in the controller provides for initializing address ranges with no processor intervention. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179873 | Performance of Emerging Applications in a Virtualized Environment Using Transient Instruction Streams - A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for managing transient instruction streams. Transient flags are defined in Branch-and-Link (BRL) instructions that are known to be infrequently executed. A bit is likewise set in a Special Purpose Register (SPR) of the hardware (e.g., a core) that is executing an instruction request thread. Subsequent fetches or prefetches in the request thread are treated as transient and are not written to lower-level caches. If an instruction is non-transient, and if a lower-level cache is non-inclusive of the L1 instruction cache, a fetch or prefetch miss that is obtained from memory may be written in both the L1 and the lower-level cache. If it is not inclusive, a cast-out from the L1 instruction cache may be written in the lower-level cache. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179874 | SCALABLE CLOUD STORAGE ARCHITECTURE - a virtual storage module operable to run in a virtual machine monitor may include a wait-queue operable to store incoming block-level data requests from one or more virtual machines. In-memory metadata may store information associated with data stored in local persistent storage that is local to a host computer hosting the virtual machines. The data stored in local persistent storage replicates a subset of data in one or more virtual disks provided to the virtual machines. The virtual disks are mapped to remote storage accessible via a network connecting the virtual machines and the remote storage. A cache handling logic may be operable to handle the block-level data requests by obtaining the information in the in-memory metadata and making I/O re-quests to the local persistent storage or the remote storage or combination of the local persistent storage and the remote storage to service the block-level data requests. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179875 | USING EPHEMERAL STORES FOR FINE-GRAINED CONFLICT DETECTION IN A HARDWARE ACCELERATED STM - A method and apparatus for fine-grained filtering in a hardware accelerated software transactional memory system is herein described. A data object, which may have an arbitrary size, is associated with a filter word. The filter word is in a first default state when no access, such as a read, from the data object has occurred during a pendancy of a transaction. Upon encountering a first access, such as a first read, from the data object, access barrier operations including an ephemeral/private store operation to set the filter word to a second state are performed. Upon a subsequent/redundant access, such as a second read, the access barrier operations are elided to accelerate the subsequent access, based on the filter word being set to the second state to indicate a previous access occurred. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179876 | Cache-Based Speculation of Stores Following Synchronizing Operations - A method of processing store requests in a data processing system includes enqueuing a store request in a store queue of a cache memory of the data processing system. The store request identifies a target memory block by a target address and specifies store data. While the store request and a barrier request older than the store request are enqueued in the store queue, a read-claim machine of the cache memory is dispatched to acquire coherence ownership of target memory block of the store request. After coherence ownership of the target memory block is acquired and the barrier request has been retired from the store queue, a cache array of the cache memory is updated with the store data. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179877 | MECHANISM TO SUPPORT FLEXIBLE DECOUPLED TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY - The present invention employs three decoupled hardware mechanisms: read and write signatures, which summarize per-thread access sets; per-thread conflict summary tables, which identify the threads with which conflicts have occurred; and a lazy versioning mechanism, which maintains the speculative updates in the local cache and employs a thread-private buffer (in virtual memory) only in the rare event of an overflow. The conflict summary tables allow lazy conflict management to occur locally, with no global arbitration (they also support eager management). All three mechanisms are kept software-accessible, to enable virtualization and to support transactions of arbitrary length. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179878 | Forming Multiprocessor Systems Using Dual Processors - In one embodiment, link logic of a multi-chip processor (MCP) formed using multiple processors may interface with a first point-to-point (PtP) link coupled between the MCP and an off-package agent and another PtP link coupled between first and second processors of the MCP, where the on-package PtP link operates at a greater bandwidth than the first PtP link. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179879 | MECHANISMS FOR EFFICIENT INTRA-DIE/INTRA-CHIP COLLECTIVE MESSAGING - Mechanism of efficient intra-die collective processing across the nodelets with separate shared memory coherency domains is provided. An integrated circuit die may include a hardware collective unit implemented on the integrated circuit die. A plurality of cores on the integrated circuit die is grouped into a plurality of shared memory coherence domains. Each of the plurality of shared memory coherence domains is connected to the collective unit for performing collective operations between the plurality of shared memory coherence domains. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179880 | SHARED ACCESS MEMORY SCHEME - A memory device loops back control information from one interface to another interface to facilitate sharing of the memory device by multiple devices. In some aspects, a memory controller sends control and address information to one interface of a memory device when accessing the memory device. The memory device may then loop back this control and address information to another interface that is used by another memory controller to access the memory device. The other memory controller may then use this information to determine how to access the memory device. In some aspects a memory device loops back arbitration information from one interface to another interface thereby enabling controller devices that are coupled to the memory device to control (e.g., schedule) accesses of the memory device. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179881 | Performing An Allreduce Operation Using Shared Memory - Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for performing an allreduce operation using shared memory that include: receiving, by at least one of a plurality of processing cores on a compute node, an instruction to perform an allreduce operation; establishing, by the core that received the instruction, a job status object for specifying a plurality of shared memory allreduce work units, the plurality of shared memory allreduce work units together performing the allreduce operation on the compute node; determining, by an available core on the compute node, a next shared memory allreduce work unit in the job status object; and performing, by that available core on the compute node, that next shared memory allreduce work unit. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179882 | COOPERATIVE MEMORY MANAGEMENT - A method and an apparatus for selecting one or more applications running in a data processing system to reduce memory usage according to information received from the applications are described. Notifications specifying the information including application specific memory management capabilities may be received from the applications. A status of memory usage indicating lack of available memory may be determined to notify the selected applications. Accordingly, the notified applications may perform operations for application specific memory management to increase available memory. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179883 | System and method for dynamically adjusting memory performance - According to an exemplary embodiment, a method for dynamically adjusting memory performance includes detecting a bandwidth of a data transfer. Detecting the bandwidth can comprise measuring a data stream of the data transfer and determining the bandwidth based on the measuring. The method further includes selecting a subset of a plurality of interleaved memory units based on the bandwidth. A device performing the data transfer can comprise a power supply and the selecting can be based on a power level of the power supply. The selecting can also be based on a temperature of the device performing the data transfer. The method also includes performing a data access for the data transfer using the subset of the plurality of interleaved memory units. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179884 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Prior to performing download play, it is determined whether or not a slave apparatus program has been already stored in an internal memory of a slave apparatus. When not stored yet, the slave apparatus program is transmitted from a master apparatus to the slave apparatus, and stored in the internal memory of the slave apparatus. When already stored, the slave apparatus program is not transmitted from the master apparatus to the slave apparatus. Then, multiplay is performed by performing mutual communication between the master apparatus operating in accordance with a master apparatus game program and the slave apparatus operating in accordance with a slave apparatus game program. Thus, time and effort for receiving the same application program more than once are omitted, and it is possible to efficiently start a communication process. | 2012-07-12 |
20120179885 | WRITE CONTROL SYSTEM - Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for writing a plurality of data blocks to from a primary source volume to a primary target volume. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving an instruction to write a plurality of data blocks from a primary source volume to a primary target volume and identifying in the data blocks occurrences of allocated data blocks and unallocated data blocks. The method further provides writing the allocated data blocks to the primary target volume and preventing writing of at least a portion of the unallocated data blocks to the primary target volume. | 2012-07-12 |