Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080215922 | Method and System for Diagnosing an Application - A system, method and program enabling users to diagnose applications easily without affecting the operating performance of the application server, optimizing the log mechanism based on the integrated development environment. The method includes running the application in a main running environment and at least one shadow environment, the shadow environment obtained by duplicating the main running environment; and the main running environment interacting with the shadow environment with respect to the fault of the application. The method includes performing the steps of the main running environment: monitoring the exceptions in the system and sending system exception information to the shadow environment in the event of finding exceptions in the system. The shadow environment: receives the system exception information, opens diagnostic log/trace functions to obtain diagnosis log/trace files related to the system exceptions, and analyzes the diagnosis result based on the obtained diagnosis log/trace files. | 09-04-2008 |
20080222057 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FUSING CONTEXT DATA - A system and method for fusing context data for use by context aware applications. The method includes the steps of receiving context data from a plurality of information sources; computing a quality measure for each input context value; organizing context values into one or more clusters, and assigning a single context value and a single quality measure to each cluster; and, selecting one or more clusters according to one or more criteria and aggregating the context values and quality measures of selected clusters to generate a single context value and quality single measure. The single context value and single quality measure are usable by a context aware application to avoid conflict and ambiguity among different information sources providing the context data. | 09-11-2008 |
20080250310 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING AND DIFFERENTIATING WEB PAGE BROWSING - An apparatus and method for customizing a web page comprising components and steps for analyzing a template of the web page to obtain block elements constituting the web page template, selecting a block element to be customized, and setting an optimization and/or differentiating policy for the selected block element, thus customizing the selected block element, and storing the customized policy correlated to a selector. The invention also provides an apparatus for optimizing and/or differentiating a web page based on customized policies, which are stored correlated to selectors and web page templates, comprising a web page object selector for comparing the visited original web page and the selectors associated with the customized policies to determine the portion in the web page matched with a selector; and a policy enforcer for enforcing a corresponding policy on said matched portion, thus displaying an optimized and differentiated web page. | 10-09-2008 |
20080270515 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MIGRATING THE SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT ON WHICH THE APPLICATIONS DEPEND - The present invention provides an effective method for migrating the system services on which applications depend, rather than all of the system services, from a source OS platform to a target platform, in order to provide a suitable and consistent environment for the applications, while reducing the cost of the migration. The migration method further classifies the configurations of system services on different platforms into common configurations and specific configurations to accelerate the determination of the source of a migration error. | 10-30-2008 |
20090016447 | Method and Apparatus for Packet Loss Detection and Virtual Packet Generation at SVC Decoders - Packetized video data with a base-layer and at least one enhancement-layer organized in a GOP structure may contain packet loss errors. A method for detecting such errors comprises the steps of reading header information relating to a layer, generating a scheme or selecting a predefined scheme according to said header information, the scheme comprising display order number, number of reference frames and temporal level for the frames of the respective layer, extracting from received video data frames display order number, number of reference frames and temporal level parameters, and detecting that one or more frames or packets are missing, wherein the received parameters are compared with the parameters of expected frames according to said scheme and a missing packet or frame is determined by a mismatch between received and expected parameters. | 01-15-2009 |
20090022130 | Switching between two communicaiton modes in a WLAN - Method and system for switching a network application operating in a first communication mode to a second mode within a wireless local area network, comprising: judging whether mobile nodes are neighboring according to location information; when nodes are neighboring inquiring whether mobile nodes want to switch to second mode to run network applications; when all mobile nodes agree to switch to second mode, downloading and installing network application provided by the application server to one of the mobile nodes; configuring each of the mobile nodes with the communication parameters under the second mode; and switching all mobile nodes to the second communication mode to continue the previous network application. The invention dynamically switches between Infrastructure mode and Ad-hoc mode to balance system resources, improve QoS, reduce the communication traffic, waiting time and the cost of the users, and increase the income of the provider of the network service. | 01-22-2009 |
20090041121 | Method and apparatus for encoding video data, and method and apparatus for decoding video data - Scalable video coding based on H.264/AVC uses motion compensation, which results in motion vectors and residual pictures. To optimize the encoding of the residual pictures of the enhancement-layer, they can be predicted from the base-layer. This requires complex encoders and decoders. Simplified residual prediction techniques are provided that focus on reducing the encoding and decoding complexity of the spatial scalable enhancement-layer with optimized coding efficiency. The method for encoding video data containing high-pass frames and low-pass frames comprises the steps of encoding the low-pass frames, wherein residual prediction may be used, splitting the high-pass frames into two interleaving frame groups, encoding the frames of the first of said frame groups, wherein residual prediction may be used, and encoding the frames of the second of the frame groups using an encoding method without residual prediction. | 02-12-2009 |
20090043710 | Enabling a software service provider to automatically obtain software service - Methods, and apparatus, enabling an originating service provider to automatically obtain from a 3 | 02-12-2009 |
20090100172 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING WEB SERVICES RESOURCE UTILIZATION - A method for dynamically adjusting resources among a plurality of co-existing applications comprises the steps of: building a relation model between a request number and resource consumption of said plurality of applications; obtaining at multiple sampling moments a request number and resource consumption of each of said plurality of applications; calculating resource consumption ratio of each of said plurality of applications; and analyzing resource consumption of a plurality of currently co-existing applications. | 04-16-2009 |
20090106350 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC WEB SERVICE CLIENT APPLICATION UPDATE - A method for managing a web service client update without recompiling or redeploying of the client code includes the following steps or acts of: receiving a request for the web service from a subscribed client; transmitting the request to the web service; receiving notification of the web service update from a service provider or registry or some other means; parsing the notification and retrieving parameters describing the web service update; marshalling the parameters; determining whether the new web service update is compatible with the current web service invoked by the client application; updating the local service proxy instance with the marshaled parameters if the new web service update is compatible with the current web service invoked by the client application; and transmitting a notification if the web service update is not compatible with the current web service invoked by the client application. | 04-23-2009 |
20090119158 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRACING AND LOCATING WEB SERVICES CHANGES DURING UPDATING PROCESS - A method and device for tracing and locating web service changes during client web service application updating process. The method and device of the present invention could be implemented in a client application development platform of the web service, or in a server of the web service provider, or in a third party independent of the web service user and provider. The present invention locally customizes release notes or online API update guides for each user. A change history of a target web service concerned by user could be locally traced and locally stored, thus users can easily use said change history to update its codes locally. | 05-07-2009 |
20090178054 | CONCOMITANCE SCHEDULING COMMENSAL THREADS IN A MULTI-THREADING COMPUTER SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for concomitance scheduling a work thread and assistant threads associated with the work thread in a multi-threading processor system. The method includes: searching one or more assistant threads associated with the running of the work thread when preparing to run/schedule the work thread; running the one or more assistant threads that are searched; and running the work thread after all of the one or more assistant threads associated with the running of the work thread have run. | 07-09-2009 |
20090193064 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESS-RATE-BASED STORAGE MANAGEMENT OF CONTINUOUSLY STORED DATA - A method and system for access-rate-based storage management of continuously stored data are provided, the method comprising the steps of: deciding an access weight dependent on an access rate for a data snapshot at a time point in continuously stored data stored in a storage system; determining whether the access weight reaches a first threshold and whether a full copy of the data snapshot at the time point is present in the storage system; and, storing a full copy of the data snapshot at the time point into the storage system when the access weight reaches the first threshold and a full copy of the data snapshot at the time point is absent from the storage system. | 07-30-2009 |
20090198766 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATING RESOURCES ACROSS MULTIPLE VIRTUAL MACHINES - An apparatus and method for dynamically allocating resources across multiple virtual machines. The method monitors the activities of the applications in each virtual machine running on a hosting server, determines the activities of the applications in each virtual machine based on the activities of the monitored applications, prioritizes each virtual machine based on the determined priorities of the applications in each virtual machine, and dynamically adjusts the resource allocation of each virtual machine on the hosting server based on the priority of each virtual machine. The resources of the hosting server can be dynamically allocated to each virtual machine according to the real-time resource requirement of the active applications, and the applications of different virtual machines can negotiate the resource allocation on the hosting server. | 08-06-2009 |
20090234957 | MANAGING DATABASE CONNECTIONS - The present invention provides a method for managing a database connection, comprising the steps of: in responsive to a connection request of a first application, allocating an available connection for the first application; if there is no available connection, selecting a held connection being used by a second application; backing up connection context of the held connection; releasing the held connection; and allocating the held connection for the first application. Since connection context of the application has been restorably backed up, a connection of the application can be cut off and the connection re-scheduled when necessary. As a result, the connection utilization rate is enhanced. The present invention further provides a device and system that can manage a database connection based on the technology of connection pools. | 09-17-2009 |
20090254894 | Method and Apparatus for Workflow Based High Availability Analysis - Techniques are disclosed for workflow based high availability analysis in computing systems. For example, a computer-implemented method for analyzing an information network infrastructure to identify one or more availability weak points includes the following steps. A workflow specification is provided based on one or more user-visible processes and an application topology. Service workflows associated with the specification are mapped from the application topology to the infrastructure to generate a workflow data structure. An availability weak point analysis is performed in accordance with the workflow data structure to determine one or more optimal high availability parameters for one or more deployed components of the infrastructure. The one or more optimal high availability parameters are applied in the infrastructure so as to substantially eliminate the one or more availability weak points. | 10-08-2009 |
20090285283 | Method and apparatus for encoding video color enhancement data, and method and apparatus for decoding video color enhancement data - A highly accurate reproduction of visual intensity and contrast rather than the conventional 8-bit color depth is more and more used, motivating the development of an enhanced dynamic range called high bit-depth. A method for encoding a first, low bit-depth image of M bit RGB pixels and a second, high bit-depth video image of N bit RGB pixels, M11-19-2009 | |
20090285299 | Method and Apparatus for Encoding Enhancement Layer Video Data - A method for improving the performance of the BLSkip mode in SVC includes the steps of upsampling the motion field of the base layer, interpolating the motion vectors for the intra MBs, interpolating the 8×8 block motion field to a 4×4 block motion field, and generating a MV predictor for a 4×4 block in BLSkip mode using neighbor candidates. | 11-19-2009 |
20090300166 | MECHANISM FOR ADAPTIVE PROFILING FOR PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS - Adaptive profiling for performance analysis of a computer system controls one or more agents to monitor a plurality of events occurring in a target computer system based on an adaptive logic. Collected data may be filtered and analyzed to determine one or more contributor events that attribute to performance of the target computer system. One or more patterns are observed or detected in said collected data, behavior of said one or more agents are adjusted based on said detected one or more patterns. The adaptive logic may be further reconfigured based on said detected one or more patterns. | 12-03-2009 |
20090328007 | MEMORY LEAK DIAGNOSIS - A method and an apparatus for diagnosing memory leak. The method includes: tracing the allocation of objects; recording allocation paths and allocation time of each object; giving to each object one unique identifier (ID) corresponding to an allocation path; determining the allocation path to which each object belongs; organizing the objects which are allocated but still not collected, and counting the age generations of the objects of the similar type according to the allocation time of each object; ranking the allocation paths according to the age generations of the surviving objects; and analyzing the ranking of the allocation paths, in which the allocation path with higher rank is more probable to introduce memory leaks. Thus, the suspicious allocation path possibly incurring memory leaks is selected and reported to the user for analysis. | 12-31-2009 |
20100099833 | MAGNESIUM HALIDE COMPLEXES, CATALYST COMPONENTS AND CATALYSTS FOR OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION PREPARED THEREFROM - The component of magnesium halide adduct is represented by MgX | 04-22-2010 |
20110246596 | LOAD-AWARE METHOD OF OPTIMIZING COMMAND EXECUTION IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT - A command controlling method and a command controller for controlling execution of a plurality of commands on a remote machine are provided. The command controlling method includes determining a priority of each of the plurality of commands according to predetermined properties of the command, determining command package maximum total execution time according to a current workload of the remote machine, packaging the plurality of commands into one or more command packages in a descending order of priority according to the maximum total execution time, and sending the one or more command packages to the remote machine. By means of the command controlling method and the command controller, execution of commands in a cloud environment may be optimized to improve performance of the cloud environment. | 10-06-2011 |
20110265087 | Apparatus, method, and computer program product for solution provisioning - In one embodiment, an apparatus for solution provisioning includes a task manager configured to, establish a provisioning task and obtain a provisioning image for the provisioning task in response to a request, and a provisioning implementer configured to execute and monitor the provisioning task established by the task manager. The task manager configures and launches the provisioning implementer based on the provisioning image obtained, and the provisioning image includes configuration information and scripts used for executing installation, and information for mapping the configuration information to the scripts. In another embodiment, a method includes establishing a provisioning task in response to a received solution provisioning request, obtaining a provisioning image for the provisioning task, configuring and launching a provisioning implementer based on the obtained provisioning image, and executing and monitoring the provisioning task using the provisioning implementer. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described according to other embodiments. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270899 | Efficient Garbage Collection in Virtualization Environment - A method and system for garbage collection in a virtualization environment. The virtualization environment includes a virtual machine hypervisor, at least one guest operating system, and at least one application program that runs on each guest operating system. The application program performs memory management using a garbage collection mechanism. The method includes, in response to an operating environment of the application program initiating garbage collection, the garbage collector requesting the guest operating system to assign a memory space and in response, the guest operating system assigns the memory space to the garbage collector. Then garbage collector marks live objects in an original memory space of the application program, and replicates the marked live objects to the assigned memory space. Finally, the garbage collector releases the original memory space of the application program to the guest operating system. | 11-03-2011 |
20120084583 | DATA TRANSFORM METHOD AND DATA TRANSFORMER - A data transform method and a data transformer. The method includes: importing a data transform rule; acquiring from the data transform rule a source data definition, a destination data definition and a data transform rule definition; predicting resource energy consumption parameters of a data transform node server according to the source data definition, the destination data definition and the data transform rule definition; and deploying a resource energy consumption optimization policy of the data transform node server according to the predicted resource energy consumption parameters of the data transform node server. | 04-05-2012 |
20120184694 | SPHERICAL MAGNESIUM HALIDE ADDUCT, A CATALYST COMPONENT AND A CATALYST FOR OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION PREPARED THEREFROM - A magnesium halide adduct represented by the formula (I): MgX | 07-19-2012 |
20120221671 | Controlling Shared Memory - In view of the characteristics of distributed applications, the present invention proposes a technical solution for applying a shared memory on an NIC comprising: a shared memory configured to provide shared storage space for a task of a distributed application, and a microcontroller. Furthermore, the present invention provides a computer device that includes the above-mentioned NIC, a method for controlling a read/write operation on a shared memory of a NIC, and a method for invoking the NIC. The use of the technical solution provided in the present invention bypasses the processing of network protocol stack, avoids the time delay introduced by the network protocol stack. The present invention does not need to perform TCP/IP encapsulation on the data packet, thus greatly saving additional packet header and packet tail overheads generated from the TCP/IP layer data encapsulation. | 08-30-2012 |
20120296585 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING VIRTUAL MACHINE ENERGY CONSUMPTION - A method and apparatus for estimating virtual machine energy consumption, and in particular, a method and apparatus for estimating virtual machine energy consumption in a computer system. The method includes: obtaining system energy consumption of the system hardware resources; obtaining event information of a plurality of functional units into which the system hardware resources are divided, and mapping the event information to the respective virtual machines; and calculating energy consumption of the virtual machines according to a plurality of energy consumption coefficients corresponding to the plurality of functional units and according to the event information mapped to the functional units of the respective virtual machines. | 11-22-2012 |
20120297377 | METHOD, SERVER AND SYSTEM FOR CONVERGING DESKTOP APPLICATION AND WEB APPLICATION - A method, Web server and computer system are provided for converging a desktop application and a Web application. The method includes in response to a request from a client user for using a target desktop application, starting a desktop application initialization process on the Web server and determining an appropriate corresponding hosting server for the user; preparing and provisioning desktop application environment on the corresponding hosting server and starting the target desktop application; transmitting the corresponding hosting server's address to the client so as to make desktop application interaction between the client and the corresponding hosting server; and in response to the completion of the desktop application interaction, stopping and exiting the target desktop application on the corresponding hosting server. The client user is provided with a unified Web console for accessing desktop applications and Web applications, and Web files are shared between the desktop applications and the Web applications. | 11-22-2012 |
20120302157 | PROVIDING LOCATION-BASED TRAFFIC INFORMATION SERVICE - A method, apparatus, and service station for providing a location-based transportation information service. The method for providing a location-based traffic information service includes receiving a traffic message indicating a traffic condition, determining a traffic information service station matching the traffic message in terms of location, and dispatching the traffic message to the matched traffic information service station such that the traffic message is broadcasted within the service range of the matched traffic information service station. Corresponding apparatus and traffic information service station are also disclosed. According to embodiments of the present invention, a location-specific real-time traffic information service can be provided. | 11-29-2012 |
20120323509 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING VIRTUAL MACHINE ENERGY CONSUMPTION - A method and apparatus for estimating virtual machine energy consumption, and in particular, a method and apparatus for estimating virtual machine energy consumption in a computer system. The method includes: obtaining system energy consumption of the system hardware resources; obtaining event information of a plurality of functional units into which the system hardware resources are divided, and mapping the event information to the respective virtual machines; and calculating energy consumption of the virtual machines according to a plurality of energy consumption coefficients corresponding to the plurality of functional units and according to the event information mapped to the functional units of the respective virtual machines. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324038 | Controlling Shared Memory - In view of the characteristics of distributed applications, the present invention proposes a technical solution for applying a shared memory on an NIC comprising: a shared memory configured to provide shared storage space for a task of a distributed application, and a microcontroller. Furthermore, the present invention provides a computer device that includes the above-mentioned NIC, a method for controlling a read/write operation on a shared memory of a NIC, and a method for invoking the NIC. The use of the technical solution provided in the present invention bypasses the processing of network protocol stack, avoids the time delay introduced by the network protocol stack. The present invention does not need to perform TCP/IP encapsulation on the data packet, thus greatly saving additional packet header and packet tail overheads generated from the TCP/IP layer data encapsulation. | 12-20-2012 |
20120326896 | PROVIDING LOCATION-BASED TRAFFIC INFORMATION SERVICE - A method, apparatus, and service station for providing a location-based transportation information service. The method for providing a location-based traffic information service includes receiving a traffic message indicating a traffic condition, determining a traffic information service station matching the traffic message in terms of location, and dispatching the traffic message to the matched traffic information service station such that the traffic message is broadcasted within the service range of the matched traffic information service station. Corresponding apparatus and traffic information service station are also disclosed. According to embodiments of the present invention, a location-specific real-time traffic information service can be provided. | 12-27-2012 |
20120331455 | DETERMINING BEST PRACTICES FOR APPLYING COMPUTER SOFTWARE PATCHES - In a method for making a recommendation for installing a software patch on a target computer, a computer identifies a first and a second set of computers from a group of computers. Each computer in the first set has hardware and software components, which are identical to each other or differ from each other by less than a predetermined measure. Each computer in the second set has hardware and software components, which are identical to each other or differ from each other by less than a predetermined measure. The computer selects one of the first and the second sets of computers such that the selected set of computers includes a higher number of computers with the software patch already installed. | 12-27-2012 |
20130002450 | TRAFFIC SIGNAL BROADCASTING, REPRODUCING - Reducing traffic signal obstruction, through reproducing the contents of traffic signals, so the driver of a small vehicle blocked by a big vehicle also can be aware of the contents of traffic signals indicated by an obstructed traffic signal indicator. The system of reproducing traffic signals on a vehicle includes: a signal receiver, configured to receive the contents of traffic signals, wherein the contents of traffic signals is indicated by at least one traffic signal indicator; a signal processer, configured to determine whether to reproduce the received contents of traffic signals; and a reproducer, configured to reproduce the contents of traffic signals if it is determined to do so by the signal processor. | 01-03-2013 |
20130002451 | TRAFFIC SIGNAL BROADCASTING, REPRODUCING - Reducing traffic signal obstruction, through reproducing the contents of traffic signals, so the driver of a small vehicle blocked by a big vehicle also can be aware of the contents of traffic signals indicated by an obstructed traffic signal indicator. The system of reproducing traffic signals on a vehicle includes: a signal receiver, configured to receive the contents of traffic signals, wherein the contents of traffic signals is indicated by at least one traffic signal indicator; a signal processer, configured to determine whether to reproduce the received contents of traffic signals; and a reproducer, configured to reproduce the contents of traffic signals if it is determined to do so by the signal processor. | 01-03-2013 |
20140082018 | Device and Method for Obtaining Shared Object Related to Real Scene - An object of the present invention is to provide a method and device for obtaining a shared object associated with a real scene. A network device obtains an access respect sent by a user through user equipment based on the scene image corresponding to the real scene; performs match query in a shared object repository based on the scene image so as to obtain one or more shared objects corresponding to the access request; and provides said one or more shared objects to the user equipment. Compared with the prior art, through performing match query based on a scene image, the present invention provides a shared object associated with a real scene, which not only facilitates people to obtain information related to the scene, but also supports object sharing based on the same scene between different users, such that it is more convenient for people to obtain information and communicate with one another; besides, it also enhances use experience of users. | 03-20-2014 |