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| 20080209047 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTED POLICY EVALUATION - In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for distributed policy evaluation. One embodiment of a method for evaluating a systems management policy, where the policy includes a condition and an action to be taken when the condition evaluates to TRUE, includes forwarding the policy, by a first autonomic manager, to at least a second autonomic manager and receiving at least partial evaluation results for the policy from at least the second autonomic manager. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080240381 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Contextual Information with Telephone Calls - The present invention is directed to a method for propagating contextual data in an audio communication by storing the contextual data obtained from a calling party in an extensible mark-up language formatted text document. A telephone call between a first party and a second party is converted to a session initiation protocol based voice over internet protocol communication, and the stored text document is attached to session initiation protocol messages that control the voice over internet protocol communication. The document is attached to the signaling messages by embedding the text document in a session description payload associated with the session initiation protocol message. The attached document is propagated with the audio communication, including when the signaling messages are used to transfer the audio communication from the second party to a third party or to add one or more addition parties to the audio communication. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080263194 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMAL BINDING SELECTION FOR SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES - A method for selecting a best performing binding for a server and a client in a service-oriented architecture includes: discovering configuration information about the service and the operating environment of the server and the client; selecting the best performing binding between the client and the server based on the discovered information; enabling the selected binding in a binding proxy for communication between the client and the server. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080266145 | MULTI-LINGUAL TEXT ENTRY USING A DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE KEYBOARD - The invention is directed to user-friendly multi-lingual text entry using a dynamically reconfigurable keyboard. A method for dynamically reconfiguring a keyboard according to an embodiment of the invention includes: displaying a first set of characters on the keyboard; providing language settings to an upper level system manager of a keyboard driver; communicating reconfiguration information corresponding to the language settings from the upper level system manager of the keyboard driver to a lower level device driver of the keyboard driver; and dynamically reconfiguring the keyboard to display a second set of characters. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080275933 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STORAGE AREA NETWORK DESIGN - Systems and methods for designing storage area network fabric. Preferably included are an arrangement for collecting user requirements on data flows to be supported by the fabric, an arrangement for grouping the data flows into flow groups according to at least one physical location parameter, an arrangement for designing components of fabric for the flow groups, the components being associated with at least one geographical region, and an arrangement for obtaining fabric by joining the fabric components via interconnection fabric, whereby flow groups over a plurality of geographical regions are supported. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080275934 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STORAGE AREA NETWORK DESIGN - Systems and methods for designing storage area network fabric. Preferably included are an arrangement for collecting user requirements on data flows to be supported by the fabric, an arrangement for grouping the data flows into flow groups according to at least one physical location parameter, an arrangement for designing components of fabric for the flow groups, the components being associated with at least one geographical region, and an arrangement for obtaining fabric by joining the fabric components via interconnection fabric, whereby flow groups over a plurality of geographical regions are supported. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20090049546 | Method and Apparatus for Detection of Malicious Behavior in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks - Systems and methods are provided for detecting malicious behavior in mobile ad-hoc wireless networks. The mobile ad-hoc network contains a plurality of actual nodes and a plurality of decoys that are derived from the actual nodes using duplicate instances of the operational software of the actual nodes in combination with a virtual interconnection topology created to make the decoys appear as actual nodes within the mobile ad-hoc network. The interconnection topology includes routing characteristics indicating that the most efficient path of communication to any given decoy is through at least one actual node in the network. The decoys are used to identify malicious behavior in the network and in particular to identify attempt to communicate directly with decoys in contradiction to the created interconnection topology. When the malicious behavior is associated with an identifiable node, corrective action is taken that includes quarantining that node from the other nodes in the network. | 02-19-2009 |
| 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 |
| 20100023604 | Method and system for providing operator guidance in network and systems management - An operator guidance system is provided for an administrator managing a computer network such as a distributed computer system. Fault events reported by a fault management system in the network are enhanced to include topology information about other nodes (such as neighbor nodes, path nodes and/or service nodes) that may have been responsible for the fault. The enhanced events are correlated with configuration commands used in the past to correct faults. A set of guidance rules are developed based on the actions that were taken by the operator in handling previous faults of a similar nature. The guidance rules can be displayed to the administrator to facilitate network fault resolution. Using a set of predefined policies, some of the corrective actions can be performed automatically. | 01-28-2010 |
