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20110119330 | SELECTIVE CONTENT LOADING BASED ON COMPLEXITY - Selective content loading based on complexity is provided by a method of selectively loading content which includes receiving markup data at a client computing device and determining a markup weight for the markup data at the client computing device. The method further includes determining if the markup weight is less than a threshold value at the client computing device. The method further includes, if the markup weight is less than the threshold value, loading the markup data at the client computing device, and if the markup weight is not less than the threshold value, not allowing the markup data to load at the client computing device. | 05-19-2011 |
20120063649 | USER-SPECIFIC ATTRIBUTE CUSTOMIZATION - User-specific attribute customization is provided by an entertainment system including a user identification module to identify one or more users within an operative range of the entertainment system, and a dominant attribute module to automatically express exclusive user-specific attributes of a dominant user when the dominant user is one of two or more identified users within the operative range of the entertainment system. The entertainment system further includes a cooperative attribute module to automatically express merged user-specific attributes of a first user and a second user when the first user and the second user are two of two or more identified users within the operative range of the entertainment system. | 03-15-2012 |
20120084452 | REMOTE CONTROL COMMAND TRANSLATION - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to translating remote control commands. One embodiment provides a remote control command translation device comprising a network receiver configured to receive one or more metacommands via a first protocol and a transmitter configured to output one or more translated commands via a unidirectional protocol, wherein the unidirectional protocol is different than the first protocol. The remote control command translation device further comprises a logic subsystem configured to execute instructions and a data-holding subsystem comprising mass storage containing translation information and instructions executable by the logic subsystem to receive, via the network receiver, a metacommand from a remote device via the first protocol, to translate the metacommand into a translated command based on the translation information, and to transmit, via the transmitter, the translated command corresponding to the metacommand via the unidirectional protocol. | 04-05-2012 |
20120089923 | DYNAMIC COMPANION DEVICE USER INTERFACE - A method of dynamically changing a user interface of a companion device configured to remotely control an entertainment system is provided. The method includes establishing two-way communication with the entertainment system, and registering one or more trigger events with the entertainment system. The method further includes, upon occurrence of a trigger event, receiving a notification of the trigger event from the entertainment system, and dynamically changing the user interface of the companion device responsive to the notification. | 04-12-2012 |
20130022235 | INTERACTIVE SECRET SHARING - Interactive secret sharing includes receiving video data from a source and interpreting the video data to track an observed path of a device. In addition, position information is received from the device, and the position information is interpreted to track a self-reported path of the device. If the observed path is within a threshold tolerance of the self-reported path, access is provided to a restricted resource. | 01-24-2013 |
20150324841 | CONTEXT-SENSITIVE ADVERTISING FOR INTERNET PROTOCOL TELEVISION - A method in a server device for context-sensitive advertising is described. The method includes receiving a first request for an advertisement from a first client device. The method further includes determining, based upon the first request, an account associated with a second client device. The method further includes transmitting a message to the first client device to cause the first request for the advertisement to be fulfilled with a targeted advertisement that is selected based on a media program played by the second client device. | 11-12-2015 |
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20150016469 | Maintaining Data Stored with a Packet - Some embodiments provide a method for a managed forwarding element that operates on a host machine to process packets for at least one logical network. The method receives a packet that includes a particular piece of data to maintain with the packet. The particular piece of data is not stored in a payload of the packet and is not protocol-specific data. The method stores the particular piece of data in a register while processing the packet. The method identifies a next destination of the packet that operates on the host machine. The method generates an object to represent the packet for the identified destination. The particular piece of data is stored in a field of the generated object. | 01-15-2015 |
20150081833 | Dynamically Generating Flows with Wildcard Fields - Some embodiments of the invention provide a switching element that receives a packet and processes the packet by dynamically generating a flow entry with a set of wildcard fields. The switching element then caches the flow entry and processes any subsequent packets that have header values that match the flow entry's non-wildcard match fields. In generating the flow, the switching element initially wildcards some of all of match fields and generates a new flow entry by un-wildcarding each match field that was consulted or examined to generate the flow entry. | 03-19-2015 |
20150100560 | Network Controller for Managing Software and Hardware Forwarding Elements - Some embodiments provide a set of one or more network controllers that communicates with a wide range of devices, ranging from switches to appliances such as firewalls, load balancers, etc. The set of network controllers communicates with such devices to connect them to its managed virtual networks. The set of network controllers can define each virtual network through software switches and/or software appliances. To extend the control beyond software network elements, some embodiments implement a database server on each dedicated hardware. The set of network controllers accesses the database server to send management data. The hardware then translates the management data to connect to a managed virtual network. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100675 | Database Protocol for Exchanging Forwarding State with Hardware Switches - Some embodiments provide a set of one or more network controllers that communicates with a wide range of devices, ranging from switches to appliances such as firewalls, load balancers, etc. The set of network controllers communicates with such devices to connect them to its managed virtual networks. The set of network controllers can define each virtual network through software switches and/or software appliances. To extend the control beyond software network elements, some embodiments implement a database server on each dedicated hardware. The set of network controllers accesses the database server to send management data. The hardware then translates the management data to connect to a managed virtual network. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100704 | Managing Software and Hardware Forwarding Elements to Define Virtual Networks - Some embodiments provide a set of one or more network controllers that communicates with a wide range of devices, ranging from switches to appliances such as firewalls, load balancers, etc. The set of network controllers communicates with such devices to connect them to its managed virtual networks. The set of network controllers can define each virtual network through software switches and/or software appliances. To extend the control beyond software network elements, some embodiments implement a database server on each dedicated hardware. The set of network controllers accesses the database server to send management data. The hardware then translates the management data to connect to a managed virtual network. | 04-09-2015 |
20150163117 | Inspecting Operations of a Machine to Detect Elephant Flows - Some embodiments provide a system that detects whether a data flow is an elephant flow; and if so, the system treats it differently than a mouse flow. The system of some embodiments detects an elephant flow by examining, among other items, the operations of a machine. In detecting, the system identifies an initiation of a new data flow associated with the machine. The new data flow can be an outbound data flow or an inbound data flow. The system then determines, based on the amount of data being sent or received, if the data flow is an elephant flow. The system of some embodiments identifies the initiation of a new data flow by intercepting a socket call or request to transfer a file. | 06-11-2015 |
20150163142 | DETECTING AN ELEPHANT FLOW BASED ON THE SIZE OF A PACKET - Some embodiments provide a forwarding element that inspects the size of each of several packets in a data flow to determine whether the data flow is an elephant flow. The forwarding element inspects the size because, in order for the packet to be of a certain size, the data flow had to already have gone through a slow start in which smaller packets are transferred and by definition be an elephant flow. When the forwarding element receives a packet in a data flow, the forwarding element identifies the size of the packet. The forwarding element then determines if the size of the packet is greater than a threshold size. If the size is greater, the forwarding element specifies that the packet's data flow is an elephant flow. | 06-11-2015 |
20150163144 | DETECTING AND HANDLING ELEPHANT FLOWS - Some embodiments provide a forwarding element that detects and handles elephant flows. In detecting, the forwarding element of some embodiments monitors statistics or measurements relating to a data flow. In handling, the forwarding element marks each packet associated with a detected elephant flow in some manner to differentiate it from a packet associated with a mouse flow. Alternatively, the forwarding element of break elephant flows into a number mouse flow by facilitating in sending packets associated with the detected elephant flow along different paths. | 06-11-2015 |
20150163145 | REPORTING ELEPHANT FLOWS TO A NETWORK CONTROLLER - Some embodiments provide a system that detects whether a flow is an elephant flow; and if so, the system treats it differently than a mouse flow. The system of some embodiment detect elephants based on one or more of the following: statistics associated with a flow, packet segment size, and invoked system calls. Also, some embodiments use one or more various methods to handle elephant flows. Examples of such methods include marking each packet belonging to an elephant with a particular marking, breaking the elephants into mice, reporting the elephant to a network controller, and selectively choosing a route for each packet belonging to the elephant. | 06-11-2015 |
20150180801 | Method and Apparatus for Implementing and Managing Virtual Switches - In general, the present invention relates to a virtual platform in which one or more distributed virtual switches can be created for use in virtual networking. According to some aspects, the distributed virtual switch according to the invention provides the ability for virtual and physical machines to more readily, securely, and efficiently communicate with each other even if they are not located on the same physical host and/or in the same subnet or VLAN. According other aspects, the distributed virtual switches of the invention can support integration with traditional IP networks and support sophisticated IP technologies including NAT functionality, stateful firewalling, and notifying the IP network of workload migration. According to further aspects, the virtual platform of the invention creates one or more distributed virtual switches which may be allocated to a tenant, application, or other entity requiring isolation and/or independent configuration state. According to still further aspects, the virtual platform of the invention manages and/or uses VLAN or tunnels (e.g, GRE) to create a distributed virtual switch for a network while working with existing switches and routers in the network. The present invention finds utility in both enterprise networks, datacenters and other facilities. | 06-25-2015 |
20150281098 | Flow Cache Hierarchy - Some embodiments provide a managed forwarding element (MFE that includes a set of flow tables including a first set of flow entries for processing packets received by the MFE. The MFE includes an aggregate cache including a second set of flow entries for processing packets received by the MFE. Each of the flow entries of the second set is for processing packets of multiple data flows. At least a subset of packet header fields of the packets of the multiple data flows have a same set of packet header field values, and a same set of operations is applied to said packets. The MFE includes an exact-match cache including a third set of flow entries for processing packets received by the MFE. Each of the flow entries of the third set is for processing packets for a single data flow having a unique set of packet header field values. | 10-01-2015 |
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20090202146 | Assigning region attributes in a drawing - Techniques for assigning a region attribute to a region in a drawing are disclosed. One technique includes editing the drawing to define a current region, associating the current region with a previous region having a previous region attribute, and assigning the previous region attribute to the current region. Another technique includes deriving a previous path attribute and a relation for a previous path, editing the drawing to define a current set of paths having current regions, and assigning the previous path attribute to at least one current region based on the relation of the previous path. | 08-13-2009 |
20120007879 | COLOR SELECTION INTERFACE - Displaying colors in a color selection interface is disclosed. Displaying includes identifying a first plurality of colors associated with a color selection interface, mapping each color in the first plurality of colors to an allowed color in an allowed color set of one or more colors to obtain a second plurality of colors, wherein mapping is performed based at least in part on a color lookup table, and visually displaying the second plurality of colors in the color selection interface, wherein the color selection interface is configured to receive a color selection from the second plurality of colors. | 01-12-2012 |
20120127195 | COMBINED COLOR HARMONY GENERATION AND ARTWORK RECOLORING MECHANISM - Obtaining an original set of two or more original colors associated with an artwork is disclosed. An input set of one or more user selected colors is received. For each original color in the original set, a mapping from the original color to one of a plurality of derived colors is determined. The plurality of derived colors is derived based at least in part on one or more user selected colors. The artwork is colored with at least two of the plurality of derived colors using the mapping. | 05-24-2012 |