| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080270971 | APPLICATION-REQUIREMENT BASED CONFIGURATION DESIGNER FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS - Techniques for automatically designing an application-requirement based configuration for a distributed computing system are provided. One or more application-level templates are obtained, wherein the one or more templates are representative of one or more requirements associated with one or more applications. Using the one or more application-level templates, one or more logical flows are created. The one or more logical flows are then used to generate one or more system-level configuration plans of the distributed computing system. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090049485 | Method For Context-Based Channel Switching in Bandwidth Limited Television Systems - A method for switching channels on a video playback device, the device receiving content from a plurality of channels transmitted by a digital video distribution network, the method including establishing a context for selecting additional channels; receiving a selection for another channel; updating the context with the selection; and transmitting the selection to the device and providing the additional channels for fast channel switching. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090210286 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC OPTIMIZED PRICE DISPLAY - A method of updating prices, includes automatically and continually adjusting prices of goods and services provided by a company through local outlets located across a geographic area, including activating trigger sources, the trigger sources including static and dynamic causes, inputting additional parameters, the parameters including a competitor's name, location, price of an item, a time and date, and an observed popularity of an item, storing the additional parameters in a historical database, making dynamic decisions for adjusting the prices across the local outlets based on the trigger sources and the additional parameters, the making dynamic decisions being based on the trigger sources, the additional parameters, and company selected criteria, which includes revenue targets, market conditions, market forecasts, and historical data, automatically adjusting a price of goods and services provided by the company. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090276469 | METHOD FOR TRANSACTIONAL BEHAVIOR EXTACTION IN DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS - A method of analyzing log data related to a software application includes: selectively collecting data log entries that are related to the application; agnostically categorizing the data log entries; and associating the categories of the data log entries with one or more operational states of a model. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100098078 | FORWARDING GROUPS OF MULTICAST FLOWS - A routing element and method for forwarding multicast traffic in a network includes grouping a collection of path-related multicast information flows from a source and associating each information flow of the collection with a multicast address from a set of multicast addresses. Forwarding information is placed in routers within the network between the sources and destinations wherein the forwarding information includes a single entry in a forwarding table using an identifier, e.g., a representative address, for the collection. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100318648 | Selective Instrumentation of Distributed Applications for Transaction Monitoring - Systems and methods provide a selective instrumentation strategy for monitoring the progress of transactions in a distributed computing system. The monitoring of the transactive processing of jobs is considered through a collection of computer operating stages in a distributed system, using limited information. The monitoring is performed by observing log records (or footprints) produced during each stage of processing in the system. The footprints lack unique transaction identifiers resulting in uncertainties in monitoring transaction instances. The processing stages are selective instrumented to reduce monitoring uncertainty under the given constraints such as limited budget for instrumentation cost. | 12-16-2010 |