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20160120277 | SWIVEL UMBRELLA SHEATHING HANDLE - The present invention is related to road accessories, in particular, to umbrellas and especially to the folding ones. The proposed umbrella has a sheath connected by a joint, with a fixing device, to a shaft connected to a system of ribs and a canopy. | 05-05-2016 |
20160120278 | DEFORMABLE HANDLE-CASE FOR UMBRELLA - The present invention is a collapsible umbrella housed in a handle. The handle has a separately selected surface that has a non-depressed and a depressed positions. The handle with the surface in non-depressed position has inside volume large enough to accommodate the folded umbrella. The handle with the surface in depressed position has reduced cross section which makes it comfortable to hold the umbrella. The separately selected surface is connected to the handle via a hinge in some embodiments. | 05-05-2016 |
20160135557 | COLLAPSIBLE UMBRELLA CASE - The collapsible case of the present invention may be used for umbrellas, glasses, electronic gadgets and devices, cosmetic bags, men's and women's bags, for the storage of keys, and other uses. The case has flexible part that can extend increasing the inside volume of the case and can collapse thus reducing the volume, which makes it convenient to keep the case. A special design of the flexible portions is described. | 05-19-2016 |
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20110137923 | XBRL DATA MAPPING BUILDER - A method and computer program for automatic mapping of Extensible Business Reports Language (XBRL) Data to corresponding locations in an initial business document. The program takes XBRL filing, together with text of the initial report, and starts a data mapping engine based on Evolutionary Optimization. The engine searches for the most plausible locations in the document for every data item. After the data locations have been identified, the program tags them in the document and creates visualization forms so a user could easily see and verify correspondence between 2 formats of the same data: saved in XBRL filing and presented in the document. | 06-09-2011 |
20110231384 | EVOLUTIONARY TAGGER - The invention is a process, system, workflow system for data retrieval processes, software, Web Site, service and SaaS (Software as a Service) created to support a data retrieval process from various document types to custom or preset retrieval data structures. The program supports manual, automatic and semiautomatic data retrieval using its internal features or external add-ons. It links data points in the structure to the corresponding data points in the document, stores documents, structures and links between them and outputs results in various formats. Links between a document and a retrieval data structure are established either automatically or manually by the user. After all required links are set, results can be retrieved from the program as an XML (Extensible Markup Language) structure with required data or as a PDF (Portable Document Format) or HTML (Hypertext Format Language), in MS Office formats and others containing a/the retrieval data structure, the original document or both with links between corresponding data points. | 09-22-2011 |
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20080239992 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING CHANNEL TREE OPERATIONS - Methods and apparatus for performing channel tree operations in a communication system are disclosed that order a channel tree to effect improved computation speed for channel tree operations for scheduling channel resources in the communication system. The disclosed methods include mapping each of one or more node identifiers of real nodes of a channel tree to corresponding virtual node identifiers based on a prescribed ordering scheme. After mapping, the methods include performing one or more operations on one or more of the real nodes of the channel tree using the virtual node identifiers. Corresponding apparatus configured to execute the disclosed methods are also disclosed. | 10-02-2008 |
20110103316 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING OF QUALITY OF SERVICE (QoS) TRANSMISSIONS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Scheduling real-time Quality of Service (QoS) data flows in a large-scale wireless communications system uses credit allocation to active QoS flows based on quality-of-service weights, and the credits are measured in dimensionless units of air interface slot capacity. Scheduling addresses inactive QoS flows with no data pending for transmission that may accumulate up to a burst credits limit based upon a fair share of all credits that would be allocated in a 100% busy system. Intermittent flows such as echo requests or keyboard input can thereby get immediate service by using their burst credits. The flow with the highest credit accumulation is serviced first and may use up to a full time slot (or system quanta) of air interface time reducing header encapsulation overhead when payload sizes (and spectral efficiency) are low. Additive and multiplicative aspects age the negative credits back to zero whenever a flow overspends its credit allocation. | 05-05-2011 |
20140126462 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS FOR RANGE EXTENSION OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Systems, methods, and devices for communicating data in a wireless communications network are described herein. In some aspects, a relay may associate with an access point and then clone the access point by transmitting the service set identifier of the access point. An association between a wireless node and a relay may be formed such that the relay provides relay services for wireless network communication between the access point and the wireless node. In some aspects, the relay may generate messages which communicate its available capacity so that downstream nodes may determine from which relays service may be available. In addition, each node may generate messages for upstream relays which communicate the load an association with the node would cause. Through such communication between relays, admission control may be used to minimize associations being dropped because of insufficient available capacity. | 05-08-2014 |
20140334438 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WLAN ROAMING - Systems and methods are provided to improve roaming performance and to minimize disruptions in connectivity. When roaming between a source AP and a target AP, the device determines whether the APs employ different gateways, such as through an ARP exchange. If the source and target APs have different gateways, a DHCP exchange is used to renew the IP address of the device to restore network connectivity. | 11-13-2014 |
20150138991 | RELAY CAPABLE WIRELESS APPARATUSES - Apparatuses and methods for wireless communications are disclosed. An apparatus includes a processing system configured to associate with a first remote apparatus, monitor a wireless medium for a request from a second remote apparatus, and determine whether to enable an interface between the first and second remote apparatuses in response to the request. | 05-21-2015 |
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20120141014 | COLOR BALANCING FOR PARTIALLY OVERLAPPING IMAGES - When photographs are to be combined into a single image, haze correction and/or color balancing may be performed. The photographs may be analyzed and left-clipped in order to darken the photographs and to increase the density of pixels in the low-luminosity region, thereby decreasing the perception of haze. When the photographs are combined into one continuous image, tie points are selected that lie in regions where the photographs overlap. The tie points may be selected based on visual similarity of the photographs in the region around the tie point, using a variety of algorithms. Functions are then chosen to generate saturation and luminosity values that minimize, at the tie points, the cost of using the generated values as opposed to the actual saturation and luminosity values. These functions are then used to generate saturation and luminosity values for the full image. | 06-07-2012 |
20130163885 | INTERPOLATING SUB-PIXEL INFORMATION TO MITIGATE STAIRCASING - A surface model may be created from aerial photographs, while mitigating the staircase effect, by interpolating sub-pixel values in the photographs and using those sub-pixel values to calculate the offset between overlapping photographs. Aerial photographs are taken, which include overlapping regions. For a pair of photographs, the photographs are rectified to create coordinate systems in which the photographs have x-axes that coincide and y-axes that are parallel to each other, so that overlapping regions in one photograph are a fixed offset along the x-axis from the other photograph. Analytic functions are used to interpolate values between pixels, and the offset distance is calculated by finding the offset that maximizes a similarity function over the analytically interpolated values. The calculated offset may then be used to calculate the height of a point on the photographed surface. A surface model may be built by calculating the heights of many points. | 06-27-2013 |
20130194486 | IMAGE BLUR DETECTION - Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for quantifying blur of an image. Blur may result due to motion of a camera while the image is captured. Accordingly, motion measurement data corresponding to motion of the camera during an exposure event may be used to create a camera rotation matrix. A camera intrinsic matrix may be obtained based upon a focal length and principle point of the camera. A transformation matrix may be estimated based upon the camera rotation matrix and/or the camera intrinsic matrix. The transformation matrix may be applied to pixels within the image to determine a blur metric for the image. In this way, blur of an image may be quantified offline and/or in real-time during operation of the camera (e.g., so that the image may be re-acquired (e.g., on the fly) if the image is regarded as being overly blurry). | 08-01-2013 |
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20120011239 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT - Methods and apparatus for automated management of workflow that allows for the automatic creation, organization, and updating of workflows upon the receipt or designation of one or more messages. | 01-12-2012 |
20140081714 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF REWARDING USERS IN AN ON-DEMAND SYSTEM - The technology disclosed relates to tracking performance and initiatives of employees and providing real-time recognition for their successes and contributions through customizable recognition awards. In particular, it relates to automatically awarding recognition awards to an employee by evaluating the employee's current performance against progress features and exception features. The progress features indicate a progression of an individual across a work cycle and exception features indicate high performance of the individual during the work cycle. Thus the recognition awards are automatically awarded when the current performance of the employee evidences accomplishment of milestones or high performance. | 03-20-2014 |
20140082107 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING OBJECTIVES IN AN ORGANIZATION IN A SOCIAL NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for managing objectives in an organization in a social network environment. A server may receive objective data and task data associated with the objective. A message associated with the objective may be published on a social network feed. | 03-20-2014 |
20140288985 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING OBJECTIVES ASSOCIATED WITH AN ORGANIZATION - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for managing objectives in an organization. A server may receive an objective at a first level of an objective hierarchy. The objective may be associated with a completion indicator providing progress towards completing the objective. Other objectives at a lower level of the objective hierarchy may be determined. The other objectives may also include completion indicators. The progress of the completion indicator of the objective at the first level of the objective hierarchy may be based on the completion indicators of the objectives at the lower level of the objective hierarchy. | 09-25-2014 |
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20120131203 | Processor Allocation for Multi-Core Architectures - Methods, computing devices, and computer readable storage media for testing network connections are disclosed. A first processor of a plurality of processors may define a new TCP connection. The first processor may apply a hash function to determine an appropriate one of the plurality of processors to open the new TCP connection. The first processor may write data defining the new TCP connection to a queue associated with the appropriate processor. The appropriate processor may retrieve the data defining the new TCP connection from the queue and open the new TCP connection. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131205 | Predetermined Ports for Multi-Core Architectures - Methods, computing devices, and computer readable storage media to test network connections using a port unit having a plurality of processors. A plurality of transmission control protocol (TCP) connections to be initiated by the port unit during a test session may be defined. For each processor, an associated set of predetermined source port numbers corresponding to the plurality of TCP connections may be determined. A first processor of the plurality of processors may open TCP connections, via the network, from the defined plurality of TCP connections, wherein each TCP connection may be opened using the corresponding source port number from the set of source port numbers associated with the first processor. | 05-24-2012 |
20120182884 | Fast SSL Testing Using Precalculated Cryptographyc Data - Methods and computer readable storage media to test secure network connections. One or more pre-calculated encryption data (PCCD) sets may be defined in accordance with a secure communications protocol. The one or more PCCD sets may be stored in a first PCCD memory and a second PCCD memory located respectively within a first port unit and a second port unit of a plurality of port units. Each PCCD set may include at least a first parameter and a second parameter generated by encrypting the first parameter. A simulated secure connection between the first port unit and the second port unit via a network under test may be opened using a selected PCCD set from the one or more PCCD sets without performing decryption processing. | 07-19-2012 |
20120230208 | Metadata Capture for Testing TCP Connections - Methods, port units, and computer readable storage media for testing network connections are disclosed. A plurality of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections with one or remote devices may be established via a network. Metadata may be extracted from TCP packets transmitted via the plurality of TCP connections and TCP packets received via the plurality of TCP connections. The extracted metadata may be stored in a memory. | 09-13-2012 |
20140036700 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR CONTROLLING TX AND RX THROUGHPUT OVER TCP - A first node that transmits TCP packets to and receives TCP packets from a second node splits a target TCP packet throughput across multiple consecutive time slots, each slot having a target throughput value. If a current slot's achieved throughput value does not match the current slot's target throughput value, the target throughput value for the current slot and/or a subsequent slot is adjusted. Transmit throughput from the first node to the second node is controlled by transmitting TCP packets from the first node to the second node according to a target throughput value for the current slot. Receive throughput from the second node to the first node is controlled by dynamically calculating an advertised receive window size according to a target throughput value for the current slot and communicating the advertised receive window size to the second node. | 02-06-2014 |
20140359142 | PROCESSOR ALLOCATION FOR MULTI-CORE ARCHITECTURES - Methods, computing devices, and computer readable storage media for testing network connections are disclosed. A first processor of a plurality of processors may define a new TCP connection to be opened. The first processor may apply a hash function to determine a second processor of the plurality of processors to open the new TCP connection. The first processor may provide data defining the new TCP connection to the second processor. The second processor may open the new TCP connection in accordance with the data provided by the first processor. | 12-04-2014 |
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20140122695 | DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR NETWORK CONTENT DELIVERY - Providing for dynamic allocation of network resources for delivery of network content is described herein. By way of example, network resources can be correlated with real-time network conditions, and monitoring of the network conditions can be employed to track availability of subsets of network resources. Where a subset of network resources allocated to support a particular application is available, the subset of resources can be allocated to one or more client devices, on demand. Where insufficient resource availability exists, resources can be freed up from other subsets of network resources to bolster availability of requested resources to support an application, or a demand for resources can be rejected. Billing for network resources can be in part or in total based on resources consumed, among other dynamic factors, in addition to or in lieu of static factors. | 05-01-2014 |
20150103754 | BASE STATION CONDITIONS RESOURCE ADAPTATION - Monitoring client traffic at frequencies suitable to infer playback information of applications executing at the client device is described herein. By way of example, network traffic transmitted to a client application can be analyzed to determine an amount of traffic consumed by the client. Based on the amount of traffic and optionally network conditions observed by the client, a suitable resource level can be determined for conveying the traffic to the client. Adjustments to allocated resources can be made, where requested, to improve consumption rates of allocated resources. The resource level can be determined at a frequency suitable to identify changes in playback state of the client application, to provide changes in allocated resource that closely respond to changes in traffic demand. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106502 | DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT OF CONNECTION PRIORITIES FOR APPLICATIONS OPERATING ON A CLIENT DEVICE - Providing for prioritization of applications operating on a client device with respect to access to online content or services is described herein. By way of example, the prioritizing can be correlated with allocation of network resources for respective applications. An application having higher priority can be allocated a larger amount of resources, a guaranteed amount of resources, a guaranteed quality of service, first access to resources, or the like. Likewise, an application with lower priority can be allocated a lower amount of resources, have best effort resources, access to residual resources, and so forth. In various embodiments, applications can be prioritized based on a status of the application with respect to the client device. As one illustrative example, applications actively receiving content, responding to user commands, or maximized or displayed on a graphic display can be afforded higher priority, whereas inactive or minimized applications can be afforded a lower priority. | 04-16-2015 |
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20080215718 | Policy-based content delivery network selection - In a framework wherein resources of a content provider may be delivered to clients from different domains, a method distributes the requests based on content-provider policies. In some cases, the domains include at least two distinct content delivery network (CDN) domains. The domains may include a content provider domain. Responsive to a request, either the content provider domain or one of the two CDN domains is selected, the selection being based at least in part on one or more policies set by the content provider. | 09-04-2008 |
20090276842 | Load-Balancing Cluster - A load-balancing cluster includes a switch having a plurality of ports; and a plurality of servers connected to at least some of the plurality of ports of the switch. Each server is addressable by the same virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) address. Each server in the cluster has a mechanism constructed and adapted to respond to connection requests at the VIP by selecting one of the plurality of servers to handle that connection, wherein the selecting is based, at least in part, on a given function of information used to request the connection; and a firewall mechanism constructed and adapted to accept all requests for the VIP address for a particular connection only on the server that has been selected to handle that particular connection. The selected server determines whether it is responsible for the request and may hand it off to another cluster member. | 11-05-2009 |
20100332664 | LOAD-BALANCING CLUSTER - A load-balancing cluster includes a switch having a plurality of ports; and a plurality of servers connected to at least some of the plurality of ports of the switch. Each server is addressable by the same virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) address. Each server in the cluster has a mechanism constructed and adapted to respond to connection requests at the VIP by selecting one of the plurality of servers to handle that connection, wherein the selecting is based, at least in part, on a given function of information used to request the connection; and a firewall mechanism constructed and adapted to accept all requests for the VIP address for a particular connection only on the server that has been selected to handle that particular connection. The selected server determines whether it is responsible for the request and may hand it off to another cluster member. | 12-30-2010 |
20110145386 | Policy-Based Content Delivery Network Selection - In a framework wherein resources of a content provider may be delivered to clients from different domains, a method distributes the requests based on content-provider policies. In some cases, the domains include at least two distinct content delivery network (CDN) domains. The domains may include a content provider domain. Responsive to a request, either the content provider domain or one of the two CDN domains is selected, the selection being based at least in part on one or more policies set by the content provider. | 06-16-2011 |
20120072525 | Extending Caching Network Functionality To An Existing Streaming Media Server - A content delivery network (CDN) includes multiple cluster sites, including sites with streaming media servers, caching servers and storage devices accessible to the caching servers for storing streaming content. Interface software is configured to initiate retrieval, by a caching server, of electronic streaming resources from the one or more storage devices in response to requests for the electronic streaming resource received by the streaming media server. | 03-22-2012 |
20130159472 | CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - A content delivery network (CDN) includes a control core; and a plurality of caches, each of said caches constructed and adapted to: upon joining the CDN, obtain global configuration data from the control core; and obtain data from other caches. Each of the caches is further constructed and adapted to, having joined the CDN, upon receipt of a request for a particular resource: obtain updated global configuration data, if needed; obtain a customer configuration script (CCS) associated with the particular resource; and serve the particular resource in accordance with the CCS. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159473 | CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK - A device is operable in a content delivery network (CDN). The device has a cache server mechanism constructed and adapted to: upon joining the CDN, obtain global configuration data from a control core of the CDN; and, having joined the CDN, obtain updated global configuration data, if needed; and obtain customer configuration information associated with at least one customer of the CDN. The device serves a particular resource associated with a particular customer of the CDN in accordance with (i) the global configuration data, and (ii) customer configuration information obtained in and associated with the particular customer. | 06-20-2013 |
20130173806 | LOAD-BALANCING CLUSTER - A load-balancing cluster includes a switch having ports; and servers connected to at least some of the ports. The servers are each addressable by the same virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) address. A first server of the plurality of servers establishing a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection with a client computer, and, in response to a resource request received by the first server from the client computer for a particular resource, if the first server does not have a copy of the particular resource it queries one or more peers regarding the particular resource. Based at least in part on responses from the peers, the first server either: obtains the particular resource from a peer; or migrates the TCP connection to a peer; or serves the particular resource to the client request through a second server. | 07-04-2013 |
20130174177 | LOAD-AWARE LOAD-BALANCING CLUSTER - A load-aware load-balancing cluster includes a switch having a plurality of ports; and a plurality of servers connected to at least some of the plurality of ports of the switch. Each server is addressable by the same virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) address. Each server in the cluster has a mechanism constructed and adapted to respond to determine the particular server's own measured load; convert the particular server's own measured load to a corresponding own particular load category of a plurality of load categories; provide the particular server's own particular load category to other servers of the plurality of servers; obtain load category information from other servers of the plurality of servers; and maintain, as an indication of server load of each of the plurality of servers, the particular server's own particular load category and the load category information from the other servers. | 07-04-2013 |
20130332613 | LOAD-BALANCING CLUSTER - A load-balancing cluster includes a switch having a plurality of ports; and a plurality of servers connected to at least some of the plurality of ports of the switch. Each server is addressable by the same virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) address. Each server in the cluster has a mechanism constructed and adapted to respond to connection requests at the VIP by selecting one of the plurality of servers to handle that connection, wherein the selecting is based, at least in part, on a given function of information used to request the connection; and a firewall mechanism constructed and adapted to accept all requests for the VIP address for a particular connection only on the server that has been selected to handle that particular connection. The selected server determines whether it is responsible for the request and may hand it off to another cluster member. | 12-12-2013 |
20140372588 | Request-Response Processing in a Content Delivery Network - A computer-implemented method in a content delivery network (CDN) includes, responsive to a request, determining a particular sequencer to handle the request, the particular sequencer includes a sequence of one or more handlers. The request is processed in accordance with the particular sequencer by invoking the one or more handlers. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372589 | Customer-Specific Request-Response Processing in a Content Delivery Network - A computer-implemented method in a content delivery network (CDN) includes, at a mechanism in said CDN: responsive to a request, determining a particular sequencer to handle the request, the particular sequencer comprising a sequence of one or more handlers, wherein the request is associated with a particular customer of said CDN and wherein a first at least some of the one or more handlers in the particular sequence are determined based on the particular customer; and processing the request in accordance with the particular sequencer by invoking the one or more handlers. | 12-18-2014 |
20150142943 | LOAD-BALANCING CLUSTER - A load-balancing cluster includes a switch having a plurality of ports; and a plurality of servers connected to at least some of the plurality of ports of the switch. Each server is addressable by the same virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) address. Each server in the cluster has a mechanism constructed and adapted to respond to connection requests at the VIP by selecting one of the plurality of servers to handle that connection, wherein the selecting is based, at least in part, on a given function of information used to request the connection; and a firewall mechanism constructed and adapted to accept all requests for the VIP address for a particular connection only on the server that has been selected to handle that particular connection. The selected server determines whether it is responsible for the request and may hand it off to another cluster member. | 05-21-2015 |