40th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 76 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120254300 | LOAD BALANCING UTILIZING ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING - Methods and systems for processing data requests in a client-server computing environment, such as the Web, are disclosed. A client device initially transmits a data request to a randomly selected first server device. The first server device may reject the data request if its request queue threshold is exceeded. The client device retransmits the data request, including the request queue threshold, to a randomly selected second server device. The second server device may reject the data request if the request queue threshold of the first server device is smaller than a request queue threshold of the second server device. The client device transmits the data request back to the first server device, including the request queue threshold of the second server device. The first server device processes the data request and adjusts its request queue threshold based on the request queue thresholds of the first and second server devices. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254301 | Broadcast Network Platform System - A commercial search engine for searchmercials. The system manages and searches advertising media video and audio files and associating the media with one or more calls to action. The system contains Metadata utilized for various queries including search, channels of distribution and account information. The system uses a manually data entry interface or a custom retrieval system to selectively update media files and Metadata from Meta tags or feeds on a scheduled basis automatically without having to manually update this data in the system. The system spiders these custom Meta tags or feeds for new Metadata on a scheduled basis to automate the submission and programming of the searchmercials content over the search engine. The system provides videos tailored for search in the results list in order to better inform users as to the contents of a link URL. The system can also provide users with other call to action options such as click to call, literature, order forms, etc. The system can schedule searchmercials to target users by time of day, location, device, and other parameters to offer a call to action to different audiences. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254302 | System and Method for Resource Locking - A server system includes a processor and a data structure having an entry for a resource, the entry including a first sequence number. The server has communication procedures for receiving a request from a client to access the resource, where the request includes a second sequence number obtained from a service, and a resource request handling program. Upon receiving the request, the resource request handling program determines whether the server has any record of having previously received a request to access the resource. If not, the server returns a provisional rejection to the client, requiring the client to verify that it holds a lock on the specified resource. A provisional bit in the entry is initially set to indicate that the resource has not been accessed since the system was last initialized. The provisional bit is reset when a request to access the resource is granted. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254303 | Mediated Lending of Digital Items - Digital items may be lent from one user to another. A lending system may facilitate matching users that have a digital item to lend with users that wish to borrow a digital item. Each user may have a reputation associated with his or her lending behavior that is represented as a lending metric. The lending metric may show whether a given user is primarily a lender or borrower of digital items. Heavy borrowers that do not engage in commensurate lending may be penalized. Multiple users that lend and borrow digital items from one another may be connected in a social network. The nature of a relationship in the social network may and the lending metrics of users are factors used to make lending decisions. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254304 | Lending Digital Items to Identified Recipients - Digital items may be lent from one user to another. A lending system may facilitate matching users that have a digital item to lend with users that wish to borrow a digital item. Each user may have a reputation associated with his or her lending behavior that is represented as a lending metric. The lending metric may show whether a given user is primarily a lender or borrower of digital items. Heavy borrowers that do not engage in commensurate lending may be penalized. Multiple users that lend and borrow digital items from one another may be connected in a social network. The nature of a relationship in the social network may and the lending metrics of users are factors used to make lending decisions. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254305 | FACILITATING MEETING INVITATION EXTENSION - Enabling meeting extensions using an electronic meeting scheduling system may include enabling a second user invited to a meeting by a first user via an electronic meeting scheduling system to invite one or more third users to the meeting; and applying one or more meeting attributes set by the second user to said one or more third users. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254306 | SCREEN SHARING METHOD, SCREEN SHARING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A method of sharing a screen, performed by a computer, has drawing on a screen an image on predetermined information stored in an information storage unit and recording, in a range storage unit, range information indicating a range of the image on the screen, replacing the range indicated by the range information stored in the range storage unit with a predetermined image in the image on the screen to be transferred to a sharing destination of the screen, and transferring the image on the screen having the range replaced with the predetermined image to an apparatus of the sharing destination of the screen. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254307 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING TIME MACHINE SERVICE BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - Disclosed are a method for providing a time machine service based on an SNS (social network service), including: extracting keywords based on SNS information input by SNS users and collecting rich contents relating to the SNS information based on the keywords; dividing points of past, present, and future, based on a predetermined present time period and classifying the rich contents into any one of past information, present information, and future information, based on the division result; and providing the classified rich contents to the SNS users. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254308 | Apparatus and Method for Augmenting Digital Educational Content with Social Learning Tools - A non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to display electronic content, associate a subset of the electronic content with a comment from a user and submit the subset of the electronic content and the comment to a forum accessible by a plurality of users. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254309 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND LOG COLLECTION SYSTEM - Methods and apparatus for instructing changes relating to log data collection via a network associated with a plurality of terminals. One exemplary embodiment is directed to an apparatus comprising a communication unit, at least one memory to store processor-executable instructions, and a processing unit communicatively coupled to the communication unit and the at least one memory. Upon execution of the processor-executable instructions by the processing unit, the processing unit determines that a parameter setting for log data collection should be changed for a first terminal of the plurality of terminals. In response to receiving a signal from the first terminal at the communication unit, the processing unit controls the communication unit to transmit instruction data to the first terminal to change the parameter setting for log data collection. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254310 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION DEVICE, RECOMMENDED CONTENT SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a device that generates a first feature based on information of a first type included in first content selected by a target user in past, generates a second feature based on information of a second type included in second content selected by the target user after selecting the first contest, generates a relational feature showing a relationship between the first content and the second content, based on the first feature and the second feature, and searches for content to be recommended to the target user by using the information of the first type included in content newly selected by the target user and the relational feature. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254311 | METHOD FOR DELIVERING CPM MESSAGE AND SERVER THEREOF - A method that includes receiving a message generated by a source terminal of a requestor; if there are one or more target terminals capable of receiving the message, among plural target terminals of a recipient, transmitting the message to the one or more target terminals, respectively; and transmitting a response message to the source terminal. Also is a method that includes: receiving, from a server, a message generated by a target terminal of a requestor; transmitting, from the mobile terminal to the server, a response message in response to the received message; generating, by the mobile terminal, a reply message in response to the message received from target terminal; transmitting the generated replay message to the server; and synchronizing with the server to receive another message, the another message having been generated by another terminal owned by a same user and intended to be transmitted to the target terminal. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254312 | Methods and Systems for Incentivizing, Exchanging, and Tracking Expressions of Gratitude Within a Network - A method includes receiving, by a first computing device, from a second computing device associated with a first user, a first expression of gratitude for at least one of a good and a service provided by a second user. The method includes receiving, by the first computing device, from the second computing device, a second expression of gratitude for a second at least one of a good and a service provided by a third user. The method includes providing, by the first computing device, to a third computing device associated with a fourth user, the first expression of gratitude and the second expression of gratitude for display to the fourth user. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254313 | Multiple Destinations for Mainframe Event Monitoring - Methods, systems, and devices are described for managing mainframe events. In the methods, systems, and devices of the present disclosure, at least one mainframe event is received at a mainframe event server module communicatively coupled with a mainframe. The received at least one mainframe event may be converted to an open format. A destination Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) application may be selected for the received at least one mainframe event based on a set of rules, and a format associated with the selected destination SIEM application may be identified. The at least one mainframe event may then be transmitted in the identified format from the mainframe event server module to the selected destination SIEM application. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254314 | Controlling the Presence Information of Activity Participants - Techniques for relaying presence information of one or more entities, wherein the one or more entities are participants in a scheduled activity, are provided. A status of the scheduled activity is obtained from a first entity via an application loaded on a device of the first entity. The presence information of the first entity and/or a second entity is updated in accordance with the status of the scheduled activity. The updated presence information of the first entity and/or the second entity is published. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254315 | CACHING INFRASTRUCTURE - Example systems and methods are directed at maintaining and retrieving presence metadata. One example method includes receiving a request from a first client to edit a document file, and sending short-term check out metadata to the first client to begin an editing session. The method also includes writing the transition ID to a transition table stored in a cache, wherein the presence of another transition ID in the cache indicates that a document has switched from a single-client mode to a multi-client mode. An example system includes a processing unit operative to receive a document, the document including short-term check out metadata indicating an editing session has begun, ping a cache to determine if another transition ID is stored in the cache, and send a transition ID to a transition table stored in a cache to switch from a single-client mode to a multi-client mode. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254316 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM INCLUDING TRUSTED SERVER TO VERIFY A REDIRECTION REQUEST AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A communications system includes a mobile wireless communications device, a trusted server, and a plurality of host servers. A given one of the host servers is in communication with the mobile wireless communications device. The given host server is configured to generate and send a redirection request to the mobile wireless communications device, the redirection request requesting the mobile wireless communications device to communicate with an other one of the host servers. The mobile wireless communications device is configured to send the redirection request to the trusted server, and the trusted server configured to send the redirection request to the mobile wireless communications device based upon verification of the redirection request. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254317 | Transmitting Messages Between Internationalized Email Systems and Non-Internationalized Email Systems - A method is provided for transmitting an email message from a sender to a selected recipient, the selected recipient capable of receiving only email messages compliant with American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII). However, one or more of the sender or other recipients have a non-ASCII email address. Accordingly, mapped ASCII email addresses are created for each of the non-ASCII email addresses as follows. A username is generated as a mapping of the non-ASCII email address using a predefined mapping algorithm. A domain name is selected from one or more predefined domain names, each of the domain names configured to resolve to a predefined gateway server. The username is concatenated with the domain name to create the mapped ASCII email address. Then, the non-ASCII email addresses is replaced with the mapped ASCII email address and the email message is sent to the selected recipient. A gateway server and computer-readable medium configured to implement the method described above are also provided. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254318 | PHRASE-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A client device, such as a digital video recorder, provides a phrase-based communication system in which users are presented with a dynamic messaging interface of selectable phrases and other elements. At least some of the phrases may be selected using algorithms that identify phrases that are likely to be useful to the particular user and/or the context in which the user is creating a message. In this manner, a user is able to generate useful messages quickly, without being limited to stale and fixed canned messages. Popular phrases may be identified by, for example, a server that relays based on messages exchanged between users. These popular phrases may then be harvested for use in the dynamic messaging interface. Moreover, context-sensitive metadata elements may be added to the dynamic messaging interface based on, for example, content that the user is currently viewing or about which the user is currently accessing information. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254319 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NETWORKED APPLICATIONS - During communication of a large data message from a client application to a server application, requirements to communicate smaller control messages can arise. To facilitate timely communication of control messages, a client application may include a chunking module that divides a data message into chunks that can be sent as a sequence of individual data message packets. When a control message needs to be sent, the sequence of data message packets can be interrupted to send a control message packet. At the server application, the sequence of message packets is processed so that data message packets are appended to a data message and control messages are extracted for immediate processing. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254320 | DISTRIBUTING COLLECTED INFORMATION TO DATA CONSUMERS BASED ON GLOBAL USER CONSENT INFORMATION - An information management system is described herein which maintains collected information that pertains to users, received from one or more data sources. The information management system also maintains a store of consent information. The consent information describes, for each user, at least one permission rule (established by the user) which enables at least one data consumer to receive at least part of the collected information for that user. Upon the occurrence of a triggering event, an information distribution module operates by distributing identified part(s) of the collected information to appropriate data consumer(s), as governed by the consent information. In this manner of operation, the consent information functions as global metadata which, from a centralized platform, governs the dissemination of the collected information to any data consumer in an application-agnostic manner. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254321 | PROVIDING ADDITIONAL EMAIL CONTENT IN AN EMAIL CLIENT - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing additional content in an email. An email service can receive the email at an email server. Prior to the email being sent to an email client, metadata for a parameter used to retrieve the additional content is identified and collected. The collected metadata is sent to the email client used by the intended recipient of the email (e.g., on a smart phone). When the user attempts to access the email, the email server can respond by sending script code to the email client, which, in combination with locally stored metadata retrieved from the email, provides the additional content in the email. In this manner, an email regarding a package, for example, can include not only a tracking number but also a status of the delivery of the package, where the status may be different/updated each time the email is accessed. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254322 | Priority of outbound messages communicated among end user communication devices - An exemplary method implemented by a first end-user communication device originates an electronic communication. User input is received to create information to be conveyed by the transmission of a digital packet having a header segment and a user data segment. The user data segment contains a user message and a priority value where the priority value conveys a corresponding message priority to a recipient device. The priority value and the user message are determined by the user of the first end-user communication device. Under the control of a first module of an enhanced services application program, a composition screen is displayed by which the user input including the user message is entered. Visual indicia indicative of a current message priority to be assigned to the user message is displayed on the composition. The first module causes insertion of the priority value corresponding to the current message priority in a priority field in the user data segment prior to transmission of the digital packet. The digital packet is transmitted with the user data segment that contains the user message and the priority value. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254323 | Priority of received messages communicated among end user communication devices - An exemplary method implemented by a first end-user communication device receives an electronic communication of a digital packet having a header segment and a user data segment, the user data segment containing a user message and a priority value A first message priority is determined by a first module of a enhanced services application program. The first message priority is based on the received priority value that defines first visual indicia representing a first priority for the user message, a plurality of different message priorities with associated different visual indicia being defined by corresponding priority values. Under the control of the first module, the user message concurrent with the first visual indicia are displayed on a screen segment of the first end-user's communication device so that the first priority assigned to the received user message is visually conveyed to the first end-user. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254324 | Automatic expiration of messages communicated among end user communication devices - An exemplary method is implemented by a first end-user communication device for processing a received electronic communication that includes a digital packet having a header segment and a user data segment. The user data segment contains a first command and a user message, where the first command contains a first parameter representing automatic expiration and an associated first value representing how long the user message will be available for display by the first end-user communication device. Under the control of an enhanced services application program, the user message in clear text format is generated for display on a screen of the first end-user communication device. A determination is made of the expiration of the time set by the first value, and upon the expiration, the clear text user message is thereafter prevented from being accessed by the first end-user communication device. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254325 | Automatic expiration of messages communicated to an end user communication device - An exemplary method is implemented by an electronic device for transmitting a data message to at least a first end-user communication device. Data that forms a user message for conveyance to a first end-user communication device and a first value are received under the control of an enhanced services application program. A digital packet is formed with a header segment and a user data segment. The user data segment is formed under the control of the enhanced services application program and contains a first command and the user message, the first command representing that the user message is to be automatically deleted by the recipient first end-user communication device. The first command includes the first value that represents how long until the user message will be automatically deleted by the first end-user communication device. The digital packet is transmitted to the first end-user communication device. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254326 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADVANCED ALIAS DOMAIN ROUTING - A method and system for advanced alias domain routing are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises receiving an incoming message from a first unified communications server, the incoming message comprising source address data, destination address data, and digital content. A real address of a destination address is computed by using the source address data, and an alias address of a source address is computed by using the destination address data. The incoming message is processed, wherein processing the incoming message includes enforcing policies. An outgoing message is generated comprising the digital content, the real address and the alias address. The outgoing message is transmitted to a second unified communications server. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254327 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR BANDWIDTH SAVING AND ON-DEMAND DATA DELIVERY FOR A MOBILE DEVICE - A method for reducing data bandwidth usage in wireless communication comprises receiving a request from the a mobile device to provide the an e-mail message; sending a request to the an e-mail server for delivery of the e-mail message; analyzing the e-mail message delivered from the e-mail server to determine if a size of the e-mail message is above a threshold value, and if not expanding the e-mail content to be above the threshold value; acknowledging to the mobile device the existence of the e-mail message and its respective size; and delivering to the mobile device header content of the e-mail content, thereby only a small fraction of the data corresponding to the e-mail message is actually delivered to the mobile device. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254328 | WITHIN-A-RADIUS CHATTING SYSTEM AND SERVICE METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses a within-a-radius chatting system and a service method thereof, which can perform chatting with a user of a mobile terminal positioned within a certain radius and meeting a search condition set by the user. The within-a-radius chatting system comprises: an application transmission unit; a member join/authentication unit; a storage unit; a radius information receiving unit; a position information receiving unit; a member search unit; and a chatting relay unit. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254329 | SELECTABLE ACTIVATION/DEACTIVATION OF FEATURES OF APPLICATIONS ON END USER COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Control of access to sets of features implemented by an enhanced services program operating on a first end-user communication device is provided. Predetermined access commands are stored in memory of the end-user communication device where each command has associated stored data that determines a corresponding set of features of the first enhanced services program to which the user is permitted access. On receipt of such a command, first stored data corresponding to the command is identified where the first stored data identifies a first set of features of the enhanced services program to which the user is provided access. The determination of whether to permit user access to a certain feature of the first enhanced services program is based on whether the certain feature is part of the first set of features. Generation of the access command by a server is another embodiment. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254330 | OPERATION METHOD APPLICABLE TO ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH OPERATION SYSTEM - Provided is an operation method applicable to sender device having a screen and a currently opened file displayed on the screen. When the sender device identifies a user gesture matching a predefined send command, the sender device performing following steps: (1) setting the currently opened file as a to-be-sent file when the sender device knows a file name of the currently opened file; otherwise capturing a current screen display on the screen as the to-be-sent file when the sender device does not know the file name of the currently opened file; (2) sending a sending request to a receiver device; and (3) sending the to-be-sent file to the receiver device when the sender device receives a response from the receiver device. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254331 | System and Method for Dynamic Throttling During Bulk Message Delivery - An flexible, extensible, and dynamically configurable intelligent throttling capability that among other things can support the bulk processing of a wide range of information (including inter alia Short Message Service, Multimedia Message Service, IP Multimedia Subsystem, etc. messages; E-Mail messages; Instant Messaging communications; Session Initiation Protocol-addressed artifacts; signaling, command-and-control, application, etc. data; etc.) that may result following for example service interruptions, system outages, bursts of traffic (for example in response to a tele-voting initiative, from a mass broadcast of alert or information messages in response to a news item or an emergency situation, etc.), equipment failures, etc. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254332 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPORTING MEDIA FILE EMAIL ATTACHMENTS - The invention provides systems and methods for importing media files from emails. A method for importing media files includes searching email accounts for media files attached to or embedded in emails, and importing any media files found in the search from the emails accounts into an electronic storage unit. The media files in some cases can be processed, such as by converting the media files from one format to another. A harvested media file ready for use can be committed for use with broadcast content. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254333 | AUTOMATED DETECTION OF DECEPTION IN SHORT AND MULTILINGUAL ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A method and apparatus for automatically identifying harmful electronic messages, such as those presented in emails, on Craigslist or on Twitter, Facebook and other social media websites, features methodology for discriminating unwanted garbage communications (spam) and unwanted deceptive messages (scam) from wanted, truthful communications based upon patterns discernable from samples of each type of electronic communication. Methods are proposed that enable discrimination of wanted from unwanted communications in short electronic messages, such as on Twitter and for multilingual application. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254334 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF REMOTE DIAGNOSTIC, CONTROL AND INFORMATION COLLECTION USING A DYNAMIC LINKED LIBRARY OF MULTIPLE FORMATS AND MULTIPLE PROTOCOLS WITH RESTRICTION ON PROTOCOL - A method, system and computer program product for (1) collecting information from a remote application unit and/or (2) diagnosing or controlling the remote application unit. By utilizing a shareable computer code device (e.g., a dynamic linked library), a new application can utilize tested, proven code without having to reproduce existing functionality. Moreover, by supporting multiple data formats and/or multiple communication protocols, a computer code device increases the likelihood that a supported format and/or protocol will be either receivable or understandable by a receiver. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254335 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING VARIABLE SIZE MESSAGES BASED ON SPAM PROBABILITY - There is disclosed a system and method for delivering a message to a communication device. In an embodiment, the method comprises obtaining a probability that the message is spam; in dependence upon the probability that the message is spam, determining a variable message size; and sending the message to the communication device in dependence upon the determined variable message size. In an embodiment, the method further comprises receiving a user response whether the message is spam; and if the message is verified as being spam, then filtering the message from the communication device. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254336 | PRESERVING A MESSAGING SERVICE IN A HIGHLY AVAILABLE ENVIRONMENT - A system receives an identifier for a temporary destination in response to messaging software at a client requesting that a messaging server create the temporary destination. The messaging software uses the identifier to indicate the temporary destination as a destination for responses to messages from the messaging software. The identifier is logged. A disconnection from the messaging server is detected. A second request for a temporary destination is created. The identifier is indicated in the second request. The second request indicating the identifier is transmitted to the messaging server to preserve a messaging service in a highly available environment. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254337 | Mainframe Management Console Monitoring - Methods, systems, and devices are described for monitoring and managing mainframe events. In the methods, systems, and devices of the present disclosure, a stream of messages at a mainframe management console may be monitored to detect mainframe events. The mainframe events may be filtered according to at least one predetermined filtering criterion to identify a plurality of selected mainframe events. The selected mainframe events may then be converted from a character encoding specific to the mainframe to a generic character encoding, and routed to at least one destination Security Information Event Manager (SIEM) application. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254338 | DISTRIBUTED CONTROL TECHNIQUE FOR RPL TOPOLOGY - In one embodiment, a distributed control technique may enable management of a monolithic routing topology of nodes in a computer network by apportioning the monolithic routing topology into a plurality of regional routing topology domains, each represented by a directed acyclic graph (DAG). The regional topology domains may include a super topology domain that is established as a super-DAG of intermediate nodes interconnected with leaf nodes and rooted by a master node of the computer network. The regional topology domains may further include at least one local topology domain that is established as a local-DAG of intermediate nodes interconnected with leaf nodes and rooted by a local root node of the computer network. Notably, a super node of the computer network may be configured to participate in both the super topology domain as an intermediate node of the super-DAG and the local topology domain as the local root node of the local-DAG. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254339 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO TRANSMIT DEVICE DESCRIPTION FILES TO A HOST - Example methods and apparatus to transmit device description files to a host are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes communicatively coupling a field device to the host to provision the field device within a process control system, receiving an indication that the host does not include a version of a device description file that corresponds to a version of the field device, accessing the device description file from a memory of the field device, and transmitting the device description file from the field device to the host. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254340 | Local Storage Linked to Networked Storage System - Disclosed are various embodiments for storage of files. A portable memory device is configured to couple to a computing device, and a storage management application is stored in the portable memory device, the storage management application being executable by a processor circuit. The storage management application is configured to send a plurality of files for storage in a networked storage system, the networked storage system being remote to the computing device. The storage management system caches a subset of the files on the portable memory device and maintains a local file directory in the portable memory device. The local file directory lists the files stored in the networked storage system in association with an account linked to the portable memory device. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254341 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC DISTRIBUTED DATA CACHING - A method and system for dynamic distributed data caching is presented. The system includes one or more peer members and a master member. The master member and the one or more peer members form cache community for data storage. The master member is operable to select one of the one or more peer members to become a new master member. The master member is operable to update a peer list for the cache community by removing itself from the peer list. The master member is operable to send a nominate master message and an updated peer list to a peer member selected by the master member to become the new master member. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254342 | Method for Providing Access to Data Items from a Distributed Storage System - A method for providing access to data items from a distributed storage system is provided. Each data item is replicated across a plurality of storage nodes. Data items are read from the distributed storage system by selecting between a first reading mode, comprising attempting to read the data item from a set of the storage nodes to check for data item consistency across at least a quorum of the set of nodes, and a second reading mode, comprising reading the data item from at least one of the storage nodes. The reading mode is selected according to at least one detected characteristic of system status of the distributed storage system. The second reading mode is selected when the detected characteristic indicates a higher likelihood of data item consistency, and the first reading mode is selected when the detected characteristic indicates a lower likelihood of data item consistency. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254343 | CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK CACHE GROUPING - Content delivery networks (CDNs) deliver content objects for others is disclosed. End user computers are directed to an edge server for delivery of a requested content object by a universal resource indicator (URI). When an edge server does not have a copy of the content object from the URI, information is successively passed to ancestor servers within a hierarchy until the content object is found. There can be different hierarchies designated for different URIs or times at which requests are received. Once the content object is located in the hierarchical chain, the content object is passed back down the chain to the edge server for delivery. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254344 | Endpoint-Based Parallel Data Processing In A Parallel Active Messaging Interface Of A Parallel Computer - Endpoint-based parallel data processing in a parallel active messaging interface (‘PAMI’) of a parallel computer, the PAMI composed of data communications endpoints, each endpoint including a specification of data communications parameters for a thread of execution on a compute node, including specifications of a client, a context, and a task, the compute nodes coupled for data communications through the PAMI, including establishing a data communications geometry, the geometry specifying, for tasks representing processes of execution of the parallel application, a set of endpoints that are used in collective operations of the PAMI including a plurality of endpoints for one of the tasks; receiving in endpoints of the geometry an instruction for a collective operation; and executing the instruction for a collective operation through the endpoints in dependence upon the geometry, including dividing data communications operations among the plurality of endpoints for one of the tasks. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254345 | REMOTE DEVICE DIAGNOSTIC AND REPAIR APPARATUS AND METHODS - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for servicing a target device with a remote access device. The target device has a target-device input/output interface and the remote access device has a remote-access-device input/output interface that are operatively coupled at the hardware level. A wireless communication link is established between the remote access device and a communications network to establish a communication link between a computer remote from the target device and from the remote access device. Service instructions are received from the computer at the remote access device over the communication link The received service instructions are transmitted through the coupled input/output interfaces to service the target device. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254346 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING A SERVICE FLOW CLASSIFIER TO A DEVICE - A system and method for assigning a service flow classifier to a device. A MAC address of a device is extracted from a DHCP discover message. A DHCP server constructs a key from the device MAC address and an IP address assigned by the DHCP server. The key identifies a record of attributes of the device. A configuration server uses the key to access the attribute record and to generate a boot file for the device. The boot file includes one or more service flow classifiers that determine a service flow for packets destined for the device. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254347 | PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH AN INFORMATION DEVICE - A system and method for providing supplemental content associated with an information device includes a user device detecting ( | 2012-10-04 |
20120254348 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING UNSUPPORTED DOCUMENT TYPES BETWEEN COMMUNICATION DEVICES - An improved system and method are disclosed for sharing a document between two communication devices that do not have an application that can display the document. In one example, the document is sent by the communication device that is sharing the document to a document server for processing into pages of one or more different document types, and both communication devices retrieve the stored pages as needed for display. The sharing communication device updates the other communication device when a new page is to be retrieved from the document server. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254349 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING SERVICE REQUESTS - An example approach is provided for managing service requests. An input, from a device of a user, for a service request associated with a specified service and/or a product is processed. A determination is made regarding a transmission of the service request and contextual information associated with the specified service and/or product to at least one service provider for responding to the service request | 2012-10-04 |
20120254350 | REMOTE INFORMATION COLLECTING DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A building-facility information storage stores data sizes of process data to be collected from building-side communicating devices. A schedule generating unit generates a collection schedule of the process data from the building-side communicating devices so that, in a collection period including a plurality of unit periods continuous in terms of time, a first communication load representing a total data volume received from the building-side communicating devices per unit period and second communication loads each representing a data volume transmitted from each of the building-side communicating devices per unit period are balanced among the unit periods. A network communicating unit collects the process data from the building-side communicating devices in accordance with the collection schedule. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254351 | Method and system for publishing digital content for passive consumption on mobile and portable devices - Web content is predominantly text and graphics oriented needing visual attention. The majority of web sites publish their content catering to such interactive consumption model. As an alternative to the interactive consumption, one can think of a minimally interactive passive mode of consumption where the user can listen to text spoken as audio. The proposed invention—is about multi-tier content adaptation and publishing architecture transforming existing content into a form amenable to minimally interactive usage and wider reach. The adaption of content would benefit both the publishers and the consumers. The invention outlines a multi-tier framework that adapts the content through various optional building blocks. The multiple tiers include, content adaption, augmentation and transformation into passive and minimally interactive audio form through a plurality of techniques. A consumer friendly content presentation enables the client to access this information in a seamless manner. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254352 | APPLICATION PROVIDING SYSTEM AND APPLICATION PROVIDING METHOD - A communication terminal and a web server that provides a resource of a web application to the communication terminal are provided. The web server includes a storing control unit that stores, when a content edited by a web application that is executed by the communication terminal is detected, the edited content in the resource of the web application. Furthermore, the web server includes an application providing unit that provides, when an application request for the web application is detected from the communication terminal, the resource of the web application to the communication terminal that executes the application request. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254353 | NETWORK SYSTEM, MACHINE ALLOCATION DEVICE AND MACHINE ALLOCATION METHOD - There is provided a load distribution function that enables an application of a user to be freely allocated to a machine even if an address of a terminal or the application used by the user is duplicated between VPNs for each user. An access detector of a machine allocation device detects a start packet from received communication packets, and determines the type of the start packet and the type of the application used by the terminal. A machine allocation manager determines a machine on which the determined application operates, and operates the machine. A network manager configures a user virtual network on a second virtual network between the determined machine and the machine allocation device. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254354 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - There is provided a communication device including a communication unit configured to receive communication data transmitted/received between a transmitting device and a receiving device that is a transmission target of transmission data transmitted by the transmitting device by unicast, a data determination unit configured to determine data to be used for a process from among the received communication data, and a processing unit configured to process the data determined to be used for the process. The processing unit, in processing the determined data, prevents the communication unit from responding to the transmitting device or the receiving device. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254355 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MIGRATING AN APPLICATION - A terminal and a server are each provided with identification information identifying a variable referencing a fixed resource that is referenced by an application when the application is executed. The terminal sets a predetermined value to a variable that is included in variables used by the application and identified by the identification information, and releases the fixed resource by setting a predetermined value to the variable identified by the identification information. The terminal extracts an execution state of the application, and transmits the execution state to the server. The server extracts a variable identified by the identification information from among variables used by the application, sets a value of the extracted variable to a corresponding variable of an instance generated based on the received execution state, and restarts the application stopped by the terminal, by activating the instance to which the value of the extracted variable was set. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254356 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a reception section which receives unique identification information which is identification information uniquely assigned to a first communication device, and user information regarding a user using the first communication device, from the first communication device, and a client information providing section which transmits client information in which the unique identification information and the user information received by the reception section are associated with each other, to a second communication device. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254357 | SERVER, REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCTION SYSTEM - A link server according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a service data obtaining unit that obtains first data having a first format, from an external service server that provides data stored in a database, through an electric telecommunication line; a data converting unit that converts the first data into second data having a second format available to a program that operates on a reproduction apparatus; and a communication control unit that transmits the second data resulting from the conversion performed by the data converting unit, to the program that operates on the reproduction apparatus. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254358 | METHOD FOR CREATING AND PROVIDING LAYERED SYNDICATED DATA FOR MULTIMEDIA CONTENT TO USERS - A layered syndicated feed or content is provided having layers defined according to a media type (e.g., text, graphic, audio, or video) wherein each layer has a plurality of levels such that each level provides either inclusive or exclusive content of the layer's media type in varying degrees of detail or depth. Furthermore, a system is provided for requesting and storing user and mobile device profiles indicative of the syndicated content layers and levels that the user is interested in receiving and that the user's mobile device is capable of receiving. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254359 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, SERVER APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION CONNECTING METHOD - A communication terminal includes a communication unit configured to carry out communications with a communication terminal of an intended counterparty; a detector configured to detect information reflecting a status of a user of the own communication terminal; a condition checker configured to check whether a predetermined condition is satisfied by comparing information reflecting a status of a user of the communication terminal of the counterparty, received via the communication unit, with the information detected by the detector; and a controller configured to exercise control so that a communication circuit is established with the communication terminal of the counterparty via the communication unit when it is determined by the condition checker that the condition is satisfied. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254360 | ENABLING SOCIAL INTERACTIVE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A transfer system from transferring a media file includes a vehicle media system and a wireless mobile device. The vehicle media system includes a wireless receiver, a security measure, and a processor configured to wirelessly detect the wireless mobile device, and receive, using the wireless receiver, the media file from the wireless mobile device. The wireless mobile device includes a wireless transmitter, and a processor configured to wirelessly detect the vehicle media system, and transmit, using the wireless receiver, the media file from the wireless mobile device. At least one of the wireless mobile device and vehicle media system is configured to create a wireless connection between the vehicle media system and the wireless mobile device, and the wireless connection does not include the security measure. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254361 | RANDOM FILE REQUEST FOR SOFTWARE ATTESTATION - Technologies pertaining to attesting to computer-executable code residing on a robot are described herein. An attestation server includes a database that comprises file paths that correspond to files on the robot at a time of manufacture of the robot. The database also includes file digests that are indicative of content of the files on the robot. The attestation server randomly selects a file path and transmits the file path to the robot. The robot accesses the file at the file path and computes a file digest for that file. The robot then transmits the file digest to the attestation server, which compares the file digest from the robot with the file digest in the database. If the file digests match, then the attestation server attests to the computer-executable code on the robot. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254362 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO TRANSPORT HTPP OVER XMPP - Method to transport HTPP over XMPP, including: forming a first two-level URI template to identify web resources accessible by use of HTTP in an XMPP network, wherein a first level is XMPP-formatted and a second level is HTTP-formatted; binding HTTP to XMPP and stanzas; transmitting the HTTP messages in those stanzas; receiving a HTTP messages in those stanzas; and a XMPP mechanism to discover if an XMPP entity supports transporting HTTP over XMPP. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254363 | Multimedia Analysis and Recommendation Generation - A computer program product, tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium, includes instructions, which when executed by a data processor of a multimedia player, cause the data processor to determine first media content characteristics that characterize a user-specific collection of media content; compare the first media content characteristics with second media content characteristics that characterize a first set of external media content channels; and based on the results of the comparison, present identifiers of a subset of the first set of external media content channels on an interface of the multimedia player. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254364 | REALTIME STREAMING OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT FROM SECONDARY STORAGE DEVICES - A method and system for streaming media to a client from a media server is described. In some examples, the system utilizes a virtualization layer to generate a virtual computing environment, or virtual machine, at a UPnP server, which is configured to receive requests for media, identify locations for the media within the secondary storage devices, access the media, and present the media to a client computing device associated with the media requests | 2012-10-04 |
20120254365 | DELIVERY OF STREAMING MEDIA CONTENT - A device includes a communication interface and one or more processors. The communication interface may receive media guide data, from a media guide server via a network, including information relating to a number of available media items and playlist information relating to at least one available playlist file associated with a particular media item. The one or more processors may receive a user selection of the particular media item and may request the playlist file from a playlist server via the network based on the playlist information via the interface. The interface may receive the playlist file from the playlist server, the playlist file including locations of stream segments corresponding to the selected playlist. The one or more processors may request the stream segments from a content server via the network based on the received playlist file. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254366 | Systems and Methods for Collecting and Storing Network Traffic Data - Systems and methods are disclosed for collecting network traffic logs from a plurality of network servers, such as DNS name servers, and storing extracted data from the logs in a central repository. In one implementation, a system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions that cause the processor to retrieve PCAP files from a plurality of servers and extract data from the PCAP files. The data comprises header data and digest data. The processor stores the header data and the digest data in a header/digest pair. In another aspect, the processor retrieves a sample of the PCAP files from each of the plurality of servers rather than retrieving all PCAP files. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254367 | TRANSCODELESS ON-THE-FLY AD INSERTION - Systems and methods for enabling dynamic advertisement insertion into media files without transcoding are disclosed. The techniques disclosed involve retrieving files of the media and advertisement(s) and converting the files to an MPEG-2 transport stream (MPEG-2 TS) format. The MPEG-2 TS streams are then joined to insert the advertisement at a desired point in the media file. The resulting MPEG-2 TS stream is then converted back to a media file, which can be provided for downloading, or optionally reindexed. Because it does not require transcoding, this process can be performed on-the-fly to provide dynamic insertion of advertisements into media files. Other media file manipulation, including the insertion of non-advertisement media, is contemplated. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254368 | RELAY APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR RELAY APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A relay apparatus configured to communicate with a server which transmits contents corresponding to identification information received by the server, and a terminal which acquires the contents corresponding to the identification information, the relay apparatus comprises: a communication unit configured to communicate with the server and the terminal; and a processor configured to: receive first identification information from the server through the communication unit; determine whether first contents corresponding to the received first identification information complies with a first format or a second format; transmit the first identification information to the terminal through the communication unit if the processor determines that the first contents complies with the first format; and transmits, to the terminal through the communication unit, second identification information corresponding to second contents which is acquired by converting the first contents if the processor determines that the first contents complies with the second format. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254369 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - A method of viewing a highlight package on a client device, comprising at the client device: receiving a video stream comprising a plurality of frames, receiving field of view information from a server, the field of view information identifying, for a frame in the received video stream, positional information defining a segment of the frame, and displaying the defined segment to a user. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254370 | METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING A PLURALITY OF DATA PORTIONS - A method and computer system are provided for distributing a plurality of data portions from a server system to one or more client systems. The method includes receiving one or more first requests at the server, each first request being submitted by a client system and including a portion identifier, wherein a portion identifier is assigned to each data portion; in response to receiving the first request(s), transmitting a list of chunk identifiers to the requesting client systems, wherein the list of chunk identifiers specifies the data chunks whose meta-data includes the portion identifier contained in the first request; and transmitting some or all data chunks of a data chunk library to each of the requesting client systems. At the requesting client system, the client specifically selects the data chunks of the transmitted data chunks which are specified by the received list of chunk identifiers. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254371 | Requesting offline profile data for online use in a privacy-sensitive manner - A method, performed using one or more servers under the control of an ISP, comprises: (a) receiving an electronic transmission from a requesting server of an IP address and a time and date; (b) automatically determining to which subscriber of the ISP the received IP address was allocated at the received time and date; and (c) automatically transmitting an electronic communication that causes delivery to the requesting server of offline data originating from an offline data provider. The delivered offline data concern the subscriber determined to have been allocated the received IP address at the received time and date. The communication does not convey to the offline data provider the subscriber's history of online activity, and the delivery does not convey to the requesting server a personal identity of the subscriber. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254372 | DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION OF A CLIENT-SERVER RELATIONSHIP - A network client may retrieve a unique ID for the network client and a first server identifier from within the network client. The network client may send the unique ID to a first server identified by the first server identifier. The first server may look up a second server identifier using the unique ID as a key in a database query and return the second server identifier to the network client. The network client may send data to a second server identified by the second server identifier | 2012-10-04 |
20120254373 | HUB BASED CLEARING HOUSE FOR INTEROPERABILITY OF DISTINCT UNIFIED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A hub-based clearing house for interoperability of distinct unified communication systems is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a system comprises a database that stores configuration information for the system; an administrator module that maintains the configuration information; a federation server that is connected to a first unified communications system and a second unified communications system. The federation server comprises a first translator that translates a first formatted message received from the first unified communications system into a common language formatted message, a second translator that translates the common language formatted message into a second formatted message, and a routing engine that routes the second formatted message to the second unified communications system. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254374 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROXY ADDRESS NEUTRALITY - To provide proxy address neutrality, in particular for mobile server devices, a server application can register its network address with a discovery application. Whenever the server application acquires a new network address, the server application updates the discovery application. A client application providing proxy services for the server application can invoke calls to the server client using the network address for the server application that is currently stored in the client device. If the current network address is invalid, the client application obtains an updated network address from the discovery application. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254375 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONNECTION EFFICIENCY - In a distributed object computing system, a server application may create multiple, uniquely identified, server contexts that each provide one or more services to a service consumer (client). Instead of creating a connection to a client for each server context, a single connection can be used. A service request handler may be configured to handle service requests for each server context. Service requests may be generated in the client with a service context identity. When a service request is received by the server application, the service request handler resolves the service context identity and forwards the service request to the appropriate server context. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254376 | END-TO-END PROVISIONING OF ETHERNET VIRTUAL CIRCUITS - Methods and systems are disclosed for providing a signaling protocol to enable a bi-directional point-to-point Ethernet Virtual Circuits (EVC) to be configured between any two network elements, as part of a network infrastructure. The bi-directional EVC is established by configuration of a source network element and a destination network element, and defines a bi-directional data path across the network infrastructure therebetween. The EVC may include one or more network elements over which the data path may traverse. The methods and systems disclosed may be applied to linear, ring and mesh network topologies. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254377 | Redundant Automation System - A method for redundantly operating an automation system comprising one or more user computers, at least two gateway computers and a plurality of programmable logic controllers, the user computers and the gateway computers being connected to a first bus system of a first type and the gateway computers and the programmable logic controllers being connected to a second bus system of a second type, as a result of which the programmable logic controllers can be controlled and/or monitored by the user computers via one of the gateway computers, wherein to set up a communication link between one of the user computers and one or more of the programmable logic controllers, the user computer contacts a virtual gateway computer having a virtual identifier for all gateway computers of the automation system, which virtual gateway computer establishes a physical communication link to a selected one of the gateway computers. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254378 | STORAGE AREA NETWORK CONFIGURATION - For storage area network configuration across redundant fabrics, a set of redundant fabrics is defined. A fabric is a network between devices of a storage area network. A first fabric communicates with the other fabrics in a set of redundant fabrics to send configuration information. Each redundant fabric examines the first fabric's configuration information for devices to which the redundant fabric is also connected and resolves ports for devices to which the first fabric and the redundant fabric are connected to provide ports on the redundant fabric equivalent to the ports on the first fabric. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254379 | TECHNIQUES ENABLING EFFICIENT SYNCHRONIZED AUTHENTICATED NETWORK ACCESS - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of accelerating a network connection to a wireless network and avoiding unnecessary wait intervals, comprising synchronizing DHCP discover or request packets with an authentication mechanism utilized by the wireless network. In an embodiment of the present invention the wireless network may conform to Institute for Electrical and Engineers (IEEE) 802.1x standards and specific 802.1x states may trigger a DHCP request to ensure a DHCP process will start in a synchronized way, on-time when needed and capable to provide network access. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254380 | Enabling Selective Policy Driven Propagation of Configuration Elements Between and Among a Host and a Plurality of Guests - Configuration elements are selectively propagated between a host and multiple guests, based on a policy. Configuration elements of the host and guests are monitored. Changes made to monitored configuration elements are detected. It is determined whether to propagate changed configuration elements between operating system environments based on the policy. It can be determined to propagate changed configuration element(s) from a source to one or more destinations in response to factors such as the identity and/or classification of the source, or the type, attribute(s), content and/or identity of the changed configuration element(s). The creation of new guests is detected. In response, at least one configuration element from at least one source is automatically propagated to a newly created guest. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254381 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF CAPTURING A SCREEN IMAGE OF A REMOTELY MANAGED MACHINE - Disclosed are an apparatus and method of remotely communicating with a managed machine. One example method may include identifying the managed machine operating in a communication network, transmitting a connection establishment message to the managed machine over the communication network, and receiving an acceptance message from the managed machine. The method may also include requesting a screen capture of present operating conditions of the managed machine, and receiving the screen capture formatted in a compressed format. The administrator may be able to receive and view the screen capture via a compressed thumbnail format. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254382 | MOBILE DEVICE CONFIGURATION BASED ON STATUS AND LOCATION - A computing device's settings, specifically audio or video settings are adjusted based on a status and/or location of an event participant carrying the device. An event coordination service or an application on the computing device may match the participant's status and location to event location information. Upon matching either status or location, the computing device's settings may be modified to prevent audio feedback by any audio equipment at the event location or similar video interference. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254383 | MANAGEMENT OF DATA NODES IN AN APPLICATION SERVER - Described herein are systems and methods for managing nodes in a data grid from within an application server. The system includes an application server having an administrative user interface, and a data grid including a plurality of nodes operating as a cluster, wherein each node in the data grid has node attributes that define node functionality. A configuration repository provided by the application server is accessible to the administrative user interface, and stores configuration information used by the administrative user interface to directly manage the plurality of nodes in the data grid. Upon receiving interpreted configuration information from the application server at a node manager client on the application server, the node manager client modifies the operation of the plurality of nodes in the data grid by overriding node attributes according to the interpreted configuration information, wherein the plurality of nodes thereafter operate according to the configuration information. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254384 | SCTP ENDPOINT MIGRATION - An application is seamlessly migrated from one SCTP endpoint to another SCTP endpoint by determining if the application is to be migrated from a first SCTP endpoint associated with a second SCTP endpoint to a third SCTP endpoint, and migrating the application from the first SCTP endpoint to the third SCTP endpoint at the SCTP layer without packet loss occurring as a result of the migration. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254385 | Method and Apparatus for Passive Neighbor Unreachability Detection - A method and apparatus of a device that determines if an address is reachable based on the time the device has received a packet with the address of another device is described. The device receives a packet for transmission to the other device, where the packet includes an address of the second device. The device determines if that address is reachable based on a time that the device receives another packet from the second device. The device further receives another packet from the second device and stores the time the device received the other packet in a reachability record corresponding to that address. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254386 | Transfer of DNSSEC Domains - Systems and methods of transferring a DNSSEC enabled domain from a losing hosting provider to a gaining hosting provider are described in which the transfer of the domain may be achieved without disruption to a DNSSEC validation of the domain. Systems and methods, such as those directed to registry and/or registrar servers, may include transferring a DNSKEY or Delegation Signer (DS) record from a gaining hosting provider to a losing hosting provider prior to transferring the domain from the losing hosting provider to the gaining hosting provider. A gaining hosting provider may sign DNS records of the domain with the gaining hosting provider DNSKEY prior to transferring the domain from the losing hosting provider to the gaining hosting provider. Additionally, a registry server, or similar device, may be configured to act as an intermediary between the losing hosting provider and the gaining hosting provider during the transfer process. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254387 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING CONTROLLERS - A method and a system for managing controllers suitable for searching and managing controllers of a plurality of servers on a network segment are provided. One of the servers is taken as a searching engine, and an account and a password of each controller is set therein. The searching engine is used for searching the controllers in the network segment, and using the account and the password of each of the controllers to login the controller for obtaining server information of the server where the controller is belonged. Accordingly, when a searching instruction is received from a client apparatus by the searching engine, the server information of the servers assigned by the searching instruction is provided to the client apparatus. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254388 | Method and apparatus for communications analysis - A method of grouping communication sessions, the method comprising: selecting a plurality of communications sessions from a data stream; determining which data structures, of said communication sessions, occur more frequently than chance; and sorting the communication sessions into groups, wherein communication sessions which have similar data structures, determined to occur more frequently than chance, are sorted into the same group. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254389 | RELAY DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING RELAY PROGRAM, AND RELAY METHOD - A relay device, when receiving response information for initial request information, extracts, from the received response information, first session identification information for identifying a session established between an information processing terminal having transmitted the request information and an information processing device having received the request information, transmits the response information to the information processing terminal, transmits the response information to the information processing terminal, transmits session supporting address information to another relay device, extracts second session identification information from request information for the second time or later received from the information processing terminal, and queries the relay device to which the session supporting address information has already been transmitted, for the session supporting address information corresponding to the extracted second session identification information. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254390 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING PUSH NOTIFICATION MESSAGE - Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting a push notification message. To this end, connection is performed with a mobile terminal, and if a push notification message is received from a push notification service providing server, the received push notification message is transmitted to the mobile terminal, and when disconnected from the mobile terminal, a push notification message received after the disconnection is stored, such that transmission of the push notification message can be guaranteed. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254391 | INTER-CLUSTER COMMUNICATIONS TECHNIQUE FOR EVENT AND HEALTH STATUS COMMUNICATIONS - Communication between clusters of processing nodes is initiated by designating a link layer address and a target node name in a remote cluster. The link layer address is transmitted to the target node via a regular network transmission. The link layer address is stored locally in each cluster and the nodes in each cluster are signaled that a configuration change has been made, so that gateway nodes in the clusters can obtain the link layer address to use for subsequent communications with the other cluster, such as event notifications of node status changes. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254392 | SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE - A Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Communication Model (CM) allows a service producer to seek out service consumer types and to send them information. The consumer, actively or passively, is also configured to “advertise.” The information that is advertised could come (passively) from information already in a system, such as an application architecture, comprising the roles and attributes in a consumer's security certificate(s). The information could come (actively) from a registry of users with a system-user ontology that is created especially for this purpose and otherwise is not already in the system. This approach will allow a producer to initiate sending information to a consumer. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254393 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD, DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A Device Management (DM) method, a DM apparatus and a DM system are provided. The DM method includes: receiving a DM instruction; parsing the DM instruction to be used for managing at least two terminal devices, in which management data, used for managing the at least two terminal devices, indicated in the DM instruction is the same; obtaining the management data indicated in the DM instruction only once; and delivering the obtained management data to the at least two terminal devices so that the at least two terminal devices perform DM according to the management data. The utilization of an external interface of a gateway device may be improved by adopting the DM method, the DM apparatus and the DM system. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254394 | METHOD OF PERSONALIZING AN APPLICATION EMBEDDED IN A SECURED ELECTRONIC TOKEN - The invention is a method of personalizing an application embedded in a secured electronic token which is able to manage first and second channels that allow to convey personalization data exchanged with a distant machine. Said first and second channels are of different types. The application is of Javacard™ type and comprises at least a function which is invoked when personalization data is received from the distant machine regardless of the channel used for conveying the personalization data. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254395 | REDUCING IMPACT OF RESOURCE DOWNTIME - Systems and methods of reducing impact of resource downtime. In an example, a method includes monitoring user access to the resource. The method also includes identifying baseline patterns in the monitored user access to the resource. The method also includes defining downtime for the resource based on the baseline patterns and expected time for taking the resource down. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254396 | PROVIDING A WITNESS SERVICE - Described are embodiments directed at providing a witness service that sends notifications with a resource state to clients. Embodiments provide a protocol that includes various messages for registering and receiving notifications regarding the state of a resource. The protocol may include a message for requesting node information from a first node in a cluster. The node information identifies nodes in the cluster that provide a witness service, which monitors a resource. The protocol includes a message that is used to register with the witness service for notifications regarding a state, or state change, of a network or cluster resource. The protocol also includes messages for sending notifications with state information of the resource. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254397 | Method and System for Frame Discard on Switchover of Traffic Manager Resources - In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a method may include receiving a plurality of frames in a flow from a plurality of traffic managers, determining whether a traffic manager from which a frame in the flow was sent is a primary traffic manager for the flow or a secondary traffic manager for the flow based on a class marker for the frame, switching the frame if the frame is from the primary traffic manager for the flow, and discarding the frame if the frame is from the secondary traffic manager for the flow. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254398 | Traffic Like NXDomains - Methods and systems for analyzing network traffic related to domain names, including Non-Existent Domain names, comprise: storing network traffic data associated with DNS requests for NXDs; receiving an analysis request associated with a domain name; creating, based on the stored network traffic data, an NXD list comprising NXDs that received at least one DNS request during a specified time period; computing, based on the stored network traffic data, a similarity metric for each NXD listed in the NXD list; and providing an analysis report identifying potentially valuable NXDs based on the computed similarity metrics. | 2012-10-04 |
20120254399 | COMPUTING-DEVICE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, COMPUTING-DEVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTING-DEVICE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A computing-device management device capable of easily carrying out load distribution is provided. The computing-device management device has: a future load prediction unit that calculates a load prediction value, which is a value of a future load in each of computing devices, on the basis of load information of the computing device informed by the computing device and that determines whether the load prediction value exceeds a predetermined threshold value or not; a software allocation unit that detects, as a target computing device to be in an overloaded state in future, the computing device determined by the future load prediction unit to have the load prediction value exceeding the predetermined threshold value and that determines which computing device is to be an allocation destination of at least one software component operating in the target computing device on the basis of a CPU load, a memory used volume, and a data communication volume of the computing device; and an informing unit that informs the target computing device and the allocation-destination computing device of information of the allocated software component. | 2012-10-04 |